“Dive slow”

Pickup trucks in snow is suicide. People buy behemoth overpowered pickup trucks because they think they are tough and handle everything, but they are awful vehicles in snow. Unladen they just spin out, laden they just sink and get stuck.

Solution to understeer with AWD or FWD: hit the gas pointing the tires in the direction you want, serious. You never ever loose ALL friction, just most of it when you understeer. While slamming the brakes in an undeesteer guarantees only going the direction inertia determines, you can choose not to hit that pile in…

Lets be real, we only hate crypto because they steal our video cards, not because of anything dubious or environmental.

The argument is that it doesn’t even try, in that it offers no moral value, just empty calories. Now whether moral lessons are a requirement or not in a game is another argument, but where people get frustrated with the FC series is that it was actually done really well in FC3 in dealing with a psychopath villain and…

Sometimes games just need to be time wasters, and the FC series sets that minimum goal and exceeds at not trying to be anything more.

Most reviewers seem tired of all the borrowed unoriginal gameplay techniques, but it’s kind of why I like it. It looks beautiful and runs like it is really well optimized, so having familiar combat and platforming makes this game comfort food. I’m glad I’m not a reviewer who’s played too much of the same thing too…

As a gamer, I am more embarrassed to be represented by an anthropomorphic cartoon cat than would’ve been by the typical gamer stereotype. I don’t know how this was successful as a story other than the male reporter voiceover doing the actual heavy lifting of explaining everything. The expression at the end by the…

Toolate. Levar is too good for Jeopardy now.

They could totally give away McDonald’s branded controllers all they want, they just can’t advertise they are doing it to make money of a promotion.

Matters how they made that money. Some people are rich because they are extremely frugal. Others were risk takers just in the right place in the right time.

I’ll just wait till they sell the Steam Deck for $5 three years from now.

There is little point of the Steam Deck. You can make one already with a small Android tablet and telescoping Android game controllers. Use Steam’s streaming or the underepresented Moonlight with an Nvidia card, and you turn any tablet into something that can stream low latency from your much more capable dedicated…

Yep, the good ‘ol human me first. It’s not that the bridge doesn’t protect you from hail. It’s that since only a half dozen cars can fit under a bridge, something it’s not designed to provide shelter for, you’ll get a half dozen people who have no idea that an entire species exists driving on the road behind them and…

The Forest Service is part of the USDA. Just came full circle.

Gaffers tape is great as long as it stays dry. Its designed to carry a lot of weight like stage lighting and speakers, but it absorbs moisture which loosens the adhesive. Getting wet is usually not a problem on dark sound stages. My favorite duct tape replacement has been Gorilla tape. Its essentially heavy duty duct…

Huh, when I was eight years old and saw this film I thought nothing of his character being Indian or much less a bad stereotypical portrayal of an Indian. He was just a goofy scientist with a silly accent. He could have been Belgian or Turkish for all my young mind knew, and I don’t think it ever colored Indians as…

“although it should really be performing better than it is on a lot of PC hardware”

This has gotten better with HDR, and I hope even more so with ray tracing, allowing shadows to be dark, but still have detail in them istead of falling off quickly into pitch black several shades above true black.8

I’d be disappointed if it didn’t have rust, although aluminum and plastic are certainly more timefall resistant than steel.