And that’s the problem with US consumerism. Other people give them a sense of an inflated budget and then they go out and maximize their spendings. If I were, for example, eligible for a $50K car loan, should I go out and buy a $50K out-the-door car? No.

Things like “underhanded tactics” to make their hardware look better and stuff. People are still reeling from NVIDIA’s GTX 970 gaffe, even though the reviews showed exactly what you’d get.

But I bet a lot of people buy a faster version because they like spec

But it’s a weak argument at best. I can do all of my streaming on my PS3, so why’d I buy a Roku? Because it doesn’t make sense to me to fire up a beast of a “do everything” machine when I can use a simpler machine that has one job to do and it does it well.

But in my experience on console gaming forums, a lot of them don’t care about the specs beyond the “how much better this is compared to the last thing.” If anyone starts claiming the one side is “superior” to another because one can do 1080p and the other at 900p, they’re quickly ridiculed for being anal about such…

The problem though is that a lot of PC gamers aren’t PC enthusiasts. They don’t care about how their computer works, how to upgrade, or how to fix problems. Chances are they keep their PCs for several years, then buy a new one outright. I know lots of PC gamers, but the amount that know their way in and out of a…

If I go to a random PC hardware forum, I can win every time if I bet there will be a legion of AMD fanboys trying to make AMD look like a god among PC hardware manufacturers.

I find exclusivity a good thing because it gives a reason to buy a product over something else. Imagine if Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Video all had the same content. All other things equal, choice would merely be an illusion.

Oh gawd, if anything I find the PC hardware wars worse. At least with consoles, the “underdog” isn’t trying to fight tooth and nail to put every win on a gleaming pedestal while grossly inflating the flaws of its rivals. Consoles still have an air that it’s about the games and the software, not the hardware. Those…

I like the middle seat for the driver idea, like how McLaren did the F1 Makes me wonder why nobody else has done something simlar for a production vehicle.

The Okinawa prefecture is pretty much like Japan’s version of Hawaii. It’s part of Japan but it has its distinct culture that rather different (but in a good way).

So when Lifehacker or Kotaku posts a random car article (which they have from Jalopnik), should I go complain?

I would sign up, but I’m on the opposite side of the country and most of my musings are about video game culture and speculation on how the industry and the software itself works.

Is there a pattern to the freezing? Like when you do something? Or does it happen just because?

I’m glad they finally found a use for that dead space in the original Xbox One.

Every time there’s some sort of “exclusive” or limited quantity, it seems to drive the worst in people who never get it. Have they missed an opportunity of a life time? Sure, but they’ve probably missed a million other “opportunities of a life time” they never got.

How about buying stuff because you’ve sufficiently deduced it’ll actually give you a better experience?

Linux feeds off of the community and for the professional versions (mostly RedHat), you must pay a license for support. You can still use it, but you won’t get any updates and you can’t use their yum repositories.

Not only oversaturated, but some places are seeing less need for cars.

Niantic found their Hydra. (Hail Hydra!)