It’s been almost 40 years; with the emergence of electronic warfare, it’s become priority to harden robots and drones against as many forms of radiation as possible. However, the Chernobyl “roof situation” was quite unique and a product of Soviet plant design. The problem was the graphite-tipped control rods that took…

The A-10s cannon is destructive for sure, but it isn’t exactly accurate, which kind of offsets its rate of fire in the efficiency realm. The Bushmaster is much better in that regard. Our allies in various theaters have not been quite as gung-ho about CAS being delivered by A-10s as one might think, especially if the…

Another SLUFF bites the dust...heartbreaking. 😥

Stefan? I'm headed to the Big Apple soon, and I need a classic New York experience for my family. 

It’s far from a pretty console, but my Saturn has held up quite well. I can’t believe that ancient disc drive still works. Just have to replace the ROM battery and touch up the mod chip soldering every now and then. I need to get a CRT TV so I can break out the light guns and play Virtua Cops 1&2 and HoTD with the…

Free Bloodborne! 

Yeah, it’s new engine time for From. Elden Ring looks good, but it could have looked much better, and, crucially, performed better. I started it on a GTX 970 and had to pin it to 900p for any hope of playability. Recently got a 3050, and, damn a solid 60fps makes a huge difference with this game. Tried the RT, but,…

Spiderman on PC uses a pretty simple implementation, so simple my 3050 handled it with ease (admittedly with DLSS). You don’t notice when RT is on until you turn it off. Whole blocks of the city go dark at night because they are no longer reflecting/refracting ambient lights. Window reflections are also greatly…

On PC, it was the little things I noticed in Spiderman. Without Ray-Tracing the reflections when near a window are quite blurry and really only show the player character. With RT, that same window adds pretty hi-def reflections from other buildings and the general environment. It also cool how buildings that were…

One reason I love my 2020 Veloster. The screen is awesome for Android Auto stuff, but everything else is physically controlled and located just where you’d expect it to be if you've driven a car in the last 30 years. 

I only used the Wii I was gifted for emulation. Now that I’ve got a Steam Deck, not to mention a custom loaded SNES mini, it sits in its box. The Saturn gets broken out more often than the Wii. 

Im with you. I like the games, particularly 0 and Y:LaD, but they aren’t full-price purchases for me. I usually have had my fill at 20 hours or so, though the RPG nature of LaD, which I played on Game Pass, kept me around much longer. Thankfully, they also go on deep sales often enough that I don’t feel bad grabbing…

I neeeed to feel big.

XCloud works great on the Deck.

Musk's fall from grace has given me some great material when teaching Macbeth. 

Same, except I owned a 2014. Other than the transmission, it was a great car. But, alas, when Ford finally brought the "good Focus" to America, they just had to screw it up. I think I had mine calibrated six times in 6 years and replaced at least once. By the end, the ball bearings were worn at 80k...maybe it wasn't…

That was my first thought on omissions as well. It seems opinions have warmed on OwlBoy, so I might give it a shot.

These requirements aren’t so much ridiculous for the moment as they are nonsensical. A Ryzen 5 1600 at 3.7ghz? The boost mode only goes to 3.6, and 1st gen Ryzens aren’t known for generosity when it comes to overclocking. Further, will 500mHz from a CPU really make any performance difference? If so, then...

It absolutely is as bad as he makes it out to be, and it’s not only a problem at big schools. At smaller schools, especially small, private (often rural) liberal arts universities with little in the way of endowment, the situation might be even worse. To stay alive, many of these schools have no choice but to accept…

It’s the ideal single-finger portrait mode game.