Per capita, Australia is doing something like thirty times better than us in caseload. I mean, they’re having issues with vaccination, but in terms of the deathtoll/cases they aren’t even close to as bad as we are right now, much less back during peak.

Sounds an awful lot like my... well, you get the idea.

Yeah, this has been a concern with my new system. It’s not particularly hot computer wise, but my system has good cooling, so on top of 80F degree days, I’m venting 70C degree air into a room with no AC.

I’ve got to be honest, my reaction to this is basically, “surprise?”, because it was dead obvious when she was hired. Then even more so from her reaction. If you weren’t expecting a response that blows past tonedeaf to unambiguously disgusting, you weren’t paying attention at this point.

Honestly, I personally like the appearance of PS1 boxes, the larger more typical game boxes we see these days bug me. They’re needlessly drawn out and flimsy.

I can respect that response, they identified a problem and fixed it before it could become more of one. Honestly compared to how most devs handle this kind of thing, it’s outright refreshing as a response.

Yeah, no. While I’m pissed at quite a few people for this because it was eminently preventable (there was some deliberate underestimates for cost cutting on launch demand) the shortage itself isn’t from AIBs at all anyways and most of the bad behavior lies elsewhere. The creation of new fabs is incredibly slow (the…

Ignoring that much backstory to make that? Clearly creative. Making a story that toes the line of coherence just enough to keep reminding you of how bad it was took work too!

Honestly, I haven’t played in ages (last time, I had a few items left to cap, but at that point one required extensive repeated buying from a merchant), but I’ve got to comment on how Warframe stands head and shoulders above other MMOs in both gameplay and time to cap. It’s crazy how much is there.

None. The answer is none. Frankly I think they may have confused the purpose of cord cutting. Further, while sale prices have absolutely skyrocketed, it’s still a better bargain to buy on sale anyways.

Yeah, this was my reaction too - remember by the time Persona 5 was announced, people thought it’d been so long they were nervous. This would actually be somewhat slow, even for a AAA.

I actually have a copy of that, nice to know it’s that valuable, I didn’t actually think of my PS2 collection. Honestly I mostly tend to think of my PS1 games as the valuable ones.

Was going to say that contrastingly the price of my JRPG collection had gone down, then I went and checked Suikoden II prices and apparently they’re back up around where they were again. Honestly, I don’t have much in packaging or the like, but I do have quite a few rare games. None of the ultra rare stuff, but a lot…

I’m dubious on this. Total home energy use only supposedly accounts for 10.9% of carbon emissions, and video gaming supposedly only accounts for 2.5% of that (from OurWorldInData and a study on video game carbon footprints that’s paywall locked supposedly from The Computer Games Journal). What you’re talking about is…

Healthcare is languishing because of a combination of lack of incentives for R&D, and lack of federal investment - albeit that’s mostly a comment on one issue rather than the broader ones that prevent both public and private efforts to fix the industry. I suppose reasonably we’d have to discuss the middleman problem,…

Don’t like TKL, prefer ergonomics, and want macro keys. Definitely not up my alley. Nonetheless, good for you if you’re into this kind of thing. Personally, I don’t mind clicky blues, so I can get boards as is (though the move away from macro keys has annoyed me).

This. A new way to do this doesn’t change the fundamental nature of the field, which much like other related areas is in a constant state of flux. While it doesn’t please me as a player, I am if anything a little bit impressed how much more rapidly these fields move compared to dead major fields which could very much…

I’m going to go one further on this - basically noone needs 2160p right now. Presently, with the best GPU on the market, there are still games that will have FPS problems at 2160p. You can’t buy a beefy enough system (even if everything was in stock) to run 2160p consistently at high settings/FPS.

What I feel like deserves more emphasis here is how categorically useless critic reviews have become. If you bother to scroll down a metacritic list of critic scores, particularly on a major game you not only likely won’t recognize most of them, but if you actually click through you may very well find the review to be…

It’s owned by Rupert Murdoch, and its own (conservative) political writers quit after being ordered to mislead the public. What exactly were you expecting from them? Lionizing scalpers is basically right up their alley unfortunately.