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Old man yells at cloud

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Post by goosedragons »

brigade wrote: post #230
goosedragons wrote: post #207

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Uh no. I'm not talking about updates. I'm talking about the game medium literally not containing the entire game because the publisher is too fucking cheap to spring for extra discs or a bigger cart. Some examples include L.A Noire, Spyro Trilogy, GTA trilogy, Tony Hawk 1+2 on Switch, PC games like Doom 2016 or MGSV or CoD:MW II on Series X.

LA Noire is an excellent example of my point - people just assumed the disc didn't have the game because the day-one patch was 3/4 of the installed size, but no, the delta update from the GM version on disc was just that bad.

I'm talking L.A Noire ON SWITCH. Even the box tells you it needs an extra download to be usable.

https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/354397-la-noire-switch-d...

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Post by bitexploder »

Kon-Peki wrote: post #221
bitexploder wrote: post #123

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Relative to the market it is still a good deal, especially if you actually off road and camp with it. There is a reason there are so many here in Colorado.

> it is still a good deal In my mind that is debatable, unless you sell it after a few years to take advantage of the market price for used ones. There is no doubt at all that it is a durable and dependable vehicle. But you're discounting how good everything else has become, with lower operating and repair costs. My parents used to be die-hard Camry fans and just wouldn't consider anything else. I totally understand…

If you actually use it for its intended purpose and not a grocery getter it will withstand more abuse than virtually anything else on the market. We do have 91 octane... and our 4runner is supercharged to compensate for the only real failing of the vehicle (power plant output). For the $$ into it you still won't find a more capable vehicle for its intended purpose. Every Jeep I know about destroys its axles with even moderate duty off roading (part of this is self inflicted, they almost always oversize the tires because they have the space for it, but don't upgrade other components). I went pretty deep down this rabbit hole and could not find a less costly alternative in the new car market (right before supply crunch became really deep). On the other hand, if you are just fetching groceries and need something with AWD, sure, go find some market alternative. I am not a price sensitive shopper so it is just below my threshold of caring.

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Post by bitexploder »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #183
bitexploder wrote: post #123

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Relative to the market it is still a good deal, especially if you actually off road and camp with it. There is a reason there are so many here in Colorado.

Probably a better choice than a bronco for just a few more years as ford irons out the kinks

Reviews and personal experience with new Bronco (not sport) are overwhelmingly positive, though. No real issues. Let's see how the power plants hold up.

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Post by Kon-Peki »

bitexploder wrote: post #232
Kon-Peki wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it is still a good deal In my mind that is debatable, unless you sell it after a few years to take advantage of the market price for used ones. There is no doubt at all that it is a durable and dependable vehicle. But you're discounting how good everything else has become, with lower operating and repair costs. My parents used to be die-hard Camry fans and just wouldn't consider anything else. I totally understand…

If you actually use it for its intended purpose and not a grocery getter it will withstand more abuse than virtually anything else on the market. We do have 91 octane... and our 4runner is supercharged to compensate for the only real failing of the vehicle (power plant output). For the $$ into it you still won't find a more capable vehicle for its intended purpose. Every Jeep I know about destroys its axles with even…

See, that's the thing! The Sequoia has the same twin turbo V6 and 10-speed transmission as the J300 Land Cruiser (reliability already established as it's been in the Lexus LS500 for 5 years now) but with the addition of a hybrid system. For $60k, you get a much larger vehicle with more power and better fuel economy!

Take that already-in-mass-production drivetrain (or ideally something a little smaller) and put it into a 4Runner type vehicle and you have something absolutely amazing. For the same cost. That's my beef with Toyota.

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Post by jonas21 »

greatgib wrote: post #227
jonas21 wrote: post #32

If you showed someone from 30 years ago a modern video game, a Tesla, or even TikTok, it would absolutely blow their mind. So the author comes up with some nitpicks and declares "technology has gotten objectively worse". I guess the title checks out.

I don't see exactly what will blow their mind about TikTok.

On one hand, it provides an unlimited stream of video that's tailored to your interests that you can consume any time you want from practically anywhere.

And on the other hand, it's a platform where anyone can create something and have it reach over a billion people around the world, with the amount of exposure you get determined by how much people engage with your content.

Contrast that to 30 years ago where you might get 10 TV channels (or 50 if you paid for cable), shows come on only at specific times, you have to be sitting in front of a TV set to watch them, and all of that content is chosen by a handful of guys in suits.

When I was a kid, my friends and I used to make videos on a camcorder. Of course nobody watched these except us - because how would they? The thought of sharing these with the world and have them compete on their merits to gain an audience would have been completely insane.

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Post by winrid »

winrid wrote: post #170
superasn wrote: post #93

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I guess it's the glass half full or empty type situation 1. You can watch your favorite movie sitting on a bus stop 2. sure but i can listen to any song i like those that aren't on my playlist thanks to 4g instead of hearing annoying radio ads. i can frickin see the tyre pressure of each individual tyre fwiw. 3. yes but again i can watch anything i like as compared to having a tivo or even before that when you missed…

2. You don't need to replace all the important knobs with a screen to do this. Also, even my truck without a touchscreen shows the individual tire pressures, so...

(oh and my fancy GTI with a touch screen doesn't, funny enough)

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Post by greedo »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #228
greedo wrote: post #224

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Yeah, but the Mac Pro was designed around huge fans. I think there were two huge 120mm fans in the front blowing through it.

I still suspect that the fan curve written into OSX still prioritized silence/efficiency over cooling performance. No amount of fans can overcome a setting that refuses to spin them up.

My guess is that the fan spin-up/speed was based on the CPU temperature or the case temp, not necessarily the GPU temp. The GPU had its own puny fan, but I don't know if GPU temp was even the core issue, though likely.

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Post by justinlloyd »

k_sze wrote: post #195
subradios wrote: post #142

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There's an element that all the silliness of the LAN party was technically necessary for the production, and as a grassroots thing the hardship added to the buyin and culture.

Part of the reason this was all acceptable in the LAN party era was that you were having fun together with friends while dealing with the annoyances. You could curse, you could laugh, and you could eat pizza together while you were wrestling with the faulty ethernet hub (remember those?) or whatnot. I remember I once accidentally blew a transformer at my friend's home while getting set up, and we all had a good laugh…

Prior to the pandemic we would play Diablo 3 in my home office with four people once a week, all night. Takeout food. Six plus hours of gaming after work. It's an "online" game, but we're effectively just playing a LAN game with friends. Since the pandemic we're down to three people in the home office, with desks and big monitors setup, but we still get together and play regularly.

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Post by grugagag »

jonas21 wrote: post #32

If you showed someone from 30 years ago a modern video game, a Tesla, or even TikTok, it would absolutely blow their mind. So the author comes up with some nitpicks and declares "technology has gotten objectively worse". I guess the title checks out.

That’s like saying any UX mistakes should be ignored because the technology powering it is ubercool. I don’t see it like that. Technology is a layer below UX and in the end we should be able to compare with past UX and at least match up if not exceed.
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