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Advertising is also heavily to blame for the polarization that has developed in the last 10-15 years because everything became "engagement" driven, which is just marketing speak for rewarding whatever content gets the most eyeballs on those ads. It's a race to the bottom because it rewards the...

That BBQ pizza was really good and it was a staple of many of my family's trips to the US in the early 90s when Pizza Hut didn't really have much of a presence in Europe, we'd get one 2-3 times every vacation. Still remember the red frosted plastic cups too. Haven't been inside a Pizza Hut...

Bethesda game 101 is for a first playthrough, go in without mods or maybe the unofficial patch at most. Starting off with a bunch of mod spaghetti is just going to break stuff and leave you with the video game equivalent of the Star Wars special editions, i.e. a bunch of out of place crap added...

Steam sale running on the Fallout franchise, 75% off most titles. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/falloutfranchise2024?l=english

I'd do 3, then New Vegas. NV broadens the game substantially and dong it the other way around will feel restrictive. Some people don't like 3 much but I like 3's world building, got some nice locations and I think it captures the "lone wanderer in an empty post-apocalyptic wasteland" atmosphere...

Being in Europe I never watched any football, just knew him from the movies. Duke Nukem 3D came out around the time of the trial and it had his chase showing on TVs in-game, and a few "he's guilty" texts hidden around the game. Probably wouldn't fly today when everyone is pussyfooting around...

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Strictly speaking, the best fps/dollar measure usually ends up favoring lower end cards. For usable 4k gaming, I suggest you buy the most expensive card that you feel comfortable spending the money on.

I posted this back in 2019, just after the last season ended: Think it's been proven true, there just isn't any interest left in it. Looking at google trends, S7 already killed most of the off-season interest and after S8 is over it just drops to zero instantly.

I didn't play on Mischief for long but it was definitely fun for a bit, so many items I'd never seen before even if they had been in the game since 1999 because they normally drop off some random bear in West Karana that no one ever farms. I don't recall if you can get Kunark stuff off classic...

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I'd advise against a razor, slip and you could cut a trace or a cap on the board and ruin it. I always used a bread clip to scrape off old goo and spread out new paste. Works well in a tight spot and you can just throw em out after. Actually saved a few plastic ones just for that purpose since...

325i or 330i in E46 or E93 guise? E46 been going up in value for a few years now, E90s are probably at the bottom of the curve now. I like the E46 more mechanically, less complicated. E93 has a metal folding roof which is a lot quieter at speed. Skip 335i or M3 for GT usage imo, too much risk...

One of the original viral YT vids turns old enough to vote next week

I watched the whole thing and I don't think he talked about jobs anywhere.

I think VR is only really interesting if you do it roomscale so you can look around freely and use your hands. SkyrimVR works pretty well for it once modded to remove some of the console-itis (VRIK player avatar that lets you actually sheathe a sword at your hip instead of just pushing some...

NVidia introduced the new Blackwell GPU yesterday, which will give a massive boost to training AI models, making it faster and/or cheaper. They're also working on simulated worlds, so that AI's trained in them can build a world model. Yann LeCun mentioned this as a required step in the recent...

Need 300GB of GPU RAM if I'm reading it correctly so no chance of running this on a home PC.

I used the granny charger for the first few days, it was doable but it's really slow. I typically drive the car about 70 miles but it took like 14 hours getting that range back off a wall socket. If you don't drive too many miles and can leave it plugged in all evening+night, it might be enough...

My real world usage after 6 months in an i3 is around 20kwh/100km, and that's driving it just the same as I would any other car, no hyper-miling shenanigans. I'm probably on the high end of average since I don't live in a city so my driving is almost all at interstate speeds. You have to add...

There's definite growth potential in energy storage (either using a Powerwall type device or vehicle-to-grid). Consumer-level hourly pricing is available in some places already and it makes it interesting to move your usage (or supply if you have solar panels/batteries) around during the day. I...

Does the persona thing lead to people hoovering up any and all loot to use on their alts? How are guilds managing this?

Yeah it definitely wasn't common and I only saw it on days where I had a 6AM start time. Never had to deal with later during the day. And yea, not thick ice either, thin enough that I just used a credit card to scrape it off. Was just a student in a $400 car, I didn't own an actual scraper :)

I spent two winters in Florida, I had to scrape ice from my windscreen maybe three times in Orlando and never in Fort Lauderdale. One advantage of being so far south is that even in the winter the sun still has a lot of power so days that start out cold still tend to see highs in the 60s or 70s...

Looked about normal to me, it needs very little fuel for the landing since at that point it has burned almost all of the fuel mass. The booster weights 3600 tons at launch and only 200 of that is the vehicle, the rest is all fuel/oxygen. Basically just an empty barrel falling from the sky, the...

Yea I used melody, I can't even imagine how people played one before that. Had a bunch of macros for solo travel, group buffs etc. It's mostly the constant switching, interrupting and recasting that's annoying to me. Lot of work just to do your basic job. The massive aggro on inc if you forget...

Tried a bard main on the last TLP but I couldn't really get into it. Everything taking 3 sec to cast, having to restart songs all the time. Keeping two mobs mezzed on a bard is so much work compared to doing it on an enc. I can see the appeal in versatility but I tapped out by level 40. Maybe...

Wasn't aware of that because it's not like that here. Looks like it depends on your state/country. Some places (like California) you pay full amount regardless. Generally with those types of incentives, the dealer knows this and will pocket it one way or another. There's a €3k government grant...

Don't put a penny into fixing that seat and door panel if you're going to sell it to a company, it won't make any difference because they will just give you whatever number their system spits out and some minor wear and tear is priced into that. The only thing that's going to really ding the...

Red Bull built a super fast drone that can keep up with an F1 car around a track. The chase cam footage is spectacular and I don't say that lightly.

Mained paladin for two years on earlier TLP, you're definitely useful on raids but an SK is a far more capable solo/box farm character so on the whole an SK is probably the more useful class to main. You'll be competing for the same loot 95% of the time anyway. Grouping is a wash really, if...

I've bought almost nothing but BMWs for the past 20 years but I'm not sure I'll keep doing so. With the move to EVs, the advantage of power and smoothness of a 6 cylinder is gone, many EVs are rear wheel drive so that advantage is gone too. So it either has to look really good or be a real step...

Some good news in the fight against touchscreens https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/consumer-news/362499/touchscreen-backlash-euro-ncap-says-physical-buttons-will-be-incentivised-car

Last time I went to Florida I stayed at this resort. They do long stays for spending the winter but they also sell the houses and then take care of renting it to tourists for you during the summer. Kissimmee area so far enough from the ocean for hurricanes to not be much of a threat and close to...

The one in the McLaren video was a dedicated recovery truck, the flatbeds used for building supplies in Europe don't have a sliding bed but they do have sides that fold up. Police would have told the recovery company that they needed to bring one with a crane on it. The scoop style tow truck...

It's in the Netherlands so it's all regulated to hell and back. Towing/Recovery is covered under your legal minimum insurance here, so the police just calls an approved towing company and they bill the insurance company directly. I broke down in the middle of the night once, got towed and never...

Yeah that's exactly what it is, used to happen quite a bit on earlier midjourney versions but it's gotten better. Stock image websites are probably on the way out since it's now trivial to create the sort of images they have for free.

People in subways in the 1970s.

Depending on who you get on board it might draw in a good number of new players, at least for a while. Makes a lot more business sense than a PVP server.