Good point! I wonder how hard it would be to get the same pressure as Earth and in the space station?

Strange. Thanks for the heads up. It looked to be working on my end using the Sync app, but I’ve heard Sync isn’t getting any regular updates anymore. Either Sync broke something, or I did!

Love the idea, but (spoiler for the end of Portal 2) >!isn’t that kind of what Chell did at the end of Portal 2 to defeat GlaDOS? The portal on the Moon causes the portal on Earth to suction everything out into space.!<

I agree. We’re not the first ones to point it out, but theres a strong argument to be made for graphical style over graphical fidelity. Working to achieve a particular stylised choice tends to give a visual medium greater longevity.

There’s a reason why people remember details about Jurassic Park over something like Avatar; or Star Fox over the latest Call of Duty.

Technology has made some things look better over the years, but the things that really get remembered visually are the style choices.

Just because one game takes up a quarter of your hard drive doesn’t make it more impressive than a sub 1 GB game.

Lurkers unite!

At the back of the community.

Where we watch and only occasionally post the odd comment… When we feel like it. Maybe tomorrow.

What is in the deer’s eye in the last panel? A reflection? An alternative that never was?

Patient gamers unite! I wait until that game I want hits AT LEAST -75% off.

The only exception I’ve had for that rule for myself in recent memory is for Monsterhunter games.

You look hard enough (or maybe not very hard at all) and you can see which developers and companies can’t do launch days very well, or release too early. Blizzard/Activision, CDProject Red, Ubisoft, and Microsoft come to mind.

It’s the smaller to mid-size companies that have something to prove that release something more polished. Not always the case, but you’ve gotta stand out somehow.

I’m still rocking my Zotac 1060. I might as well ride that thing into the ground at this point.

I’m getting strong “blue steel” vibes.

Great. Now you’re just making me rewatch allinall’s animated video of Pelinal’s slaughter for the 30th time: https://youtu.be/E5ix0_W-ouI?si=-2mGt8TDnU5wbwGO

That’s a good point about the “AI as a service” model that is emerging.

I was reading that NaNoWriMo has had a significant turnover on their board die to the backlash against their pro-AI stance: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/nanowrimo-ai-controversty-1.7314090

Yes, you’re right everything can cause serious harm or kill, but certain things are designed to harm or kill, or designed to look like something that could harm or kill.

Context is a big factor here. A person holding a 6 inch knife in a kitchen? No one is going to bat an eye. They’re probably using that knife to prep vegetables. Same knife, same person but they are walking around a market/playground/movie theatre? Suddenly it’s a very different situation and context.

Is that stranger with the knife safe? I don’t know, but I do know that I don’t have anything to defend myself aside from what is around me if they ARE NOT a safe person.

Agreed. It was great game because the story, but I can barely remember anything about the gameplay aside from the interactions with Elizabeth. Sadly, my final moments were destroyed by a visual bug - right at the climax of the story near the end of the game Elizabeth’s hair inexplicably stopped rendering… She was as bald as Sinead O’Connor. It kinda killed the vibe.

Oh hey, hay čxʷ q̓ə for the reply! That’s good to know what the equivalent quality is. I juuuust discovered a good, high quality instant coffee that is decent. It’s called Davidoff. Pricey at anywhere from $15 - $20(!) CAD for 100g.

I’m trying to avoid Nestle products on principle, and I find the Tim Horton’s original blend way too high acidity/bitterness but it’s okay in a pinch.

I’ll take a look at more of the big box stores you mentioned.

Ah yes, Steven Colbert’s “truthiness” still holds true in 2023.

You’re right, I can’t even access the site outside of Australia. However, if I’m ever in Australia - I’ll look it up!

“Text message”? What are we - barbarians?

Seriously though, using text messages these days means that inevitably you will encounter the green vs blue issue. Android and Apple phones don’t play nice with their text messages. Gods help you if you ever get into a group text message thread with multiple Android and Apple phones. Anytime an Apple user reacts to a message it’s sent as a separate text message, “John 🤣 to ‘Check out this meme’”

At least with WhatsApp it puts everyone in the same texting playground.

I’m not the person you’re responding to, but the post looks sarcastic to me. Have a good day!