I upgraded my pc a few weeks ago and chose asus tuf x570 gaming line.. happy with the choice except for the no usb in front side. ( I chose the one without wifi)...if I may make sure u forget about harddisks on new pc, buy 2 M2s.. case is soooo much cleaner and they are fast.

hmm.. people in the official forums at inxile dont seem too happy with release state of the game, might be worth waiting a few weeks for bugfixes etc.

7 grand actually..

in the article she says she didnt want to end up with het teeth knocked out, like that other guy.. with same airline... and that she spoke to a flight attendant who just walked away... lolz on customer service. wonder if she could sue

RIP, Vir.
feel a need to dust off the old dvds and watch a few episodes/re read a book or 2. and yes, everyone remembers that particular scene, and its followup, 2 years or so later, when he did wave

nostalgia... fun times the wing commander series..
star citizen.. *shrug* will see it when it comes out.. hope its good though not feeling any hype atm.

fxk kotor.. reboot the jedi academy series..

avatar 2.. 3?? 4 !!! and.. 5 ??? really? I d love a 2, as I like the tech demo, but 3 and further parts of dances w. wolves in space ? I wish cameron would pick another movie for his life´s work..

prometheus.. that brings memories
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matrix.. we´ll see. whats with the reboot things? those arent even sequels.. move on to new things people.

long wait till its here .. we ll see. hope for the best, but ... even if they botch it it will keep the franchise alive.

they finally realised putting entry barriers to future devs is a bad business decision, or they milked the early adopters already. 3K is a significant hurdle for small devs thinking of maybe trying this out. Hell, they should give the courses for free & give free doritos if they want this to succeed.

wow, nice discussion, shame i missed it
just like to add two little things on the faith vs belief.. the VAST majority of people do not understand science, and have a rather intense "belief" structure in science, its kind of a religion for most people, and feel personally attacked if anything in there is questioned, when that is supposed to be the basis of science. scientists are often guilty of this as well, even automatically disregarding fellow scientists when their views differ from " the established"

A little imho on this comment " this chart looks like C# code to me. It is incredibly organized into "namespaces" and "classes" that can be mixed and matched to get different results. How is that not made? I would never think a programming language like C# just came about by chance. "
.. I would say remember you are not looking at reality, you are looking at our (mathematical) interpretation of it, devised to make sense to us, of course it is going to be organised, because otherwise the model would be useless to us.
to make my point here is an example: everyone knows the planets orbit around the sun right? and this is so elegant and nice.

now think about two balls , one orbiting the other, look at it from the point of view of the other and you will see who orbits who depends on which point you choose to observe from. same applies when there are more balls present.
therefore you can say the center of the solar system is the earth of even the moon if you like, for "reality" it is irrelevant if the centre of the solar system is a dot somewhere inside the sun or inside the earth or wherever and it is just as true. however the guy calculating planetary positions is left with weird intersecting ellipses instead of almost circles and has a lot more work so why not think of it as a circle with the sun at its centre?
so we CHOOSE to see it as a circle ( ellipsoid) because then we can use easier math this way.
does it mean in reality the orbits are designed thus? the question is meaningless.

we choose the formulas we use, because we can easily use them to build things/test theorems etc that is one of the cornerstones of science. it deals with the "how" of things, not the " why".
seeing patterns in the rules and models we choose to apply can be indicative of hidden patterns in reality but this does not have to be the case.

a purely personal point of view is that evidence of planning/system in creation is often seen in living beings.. with critters like bombardeer beetles the evolutive advantage of having half the system seems null and the chances of this defense evolving in one purely random mutation stretches belief imho.

generally not illegal.. but you need to buy it. laws against "copied" content seem to be rather strict.

loved gw2, played it to death, but unsure if this is worth going back.. has anyone played heart of thorns and if so do u recommend it? as in, is it something worth going back to gw2 for if you have already done everything up to and including building legendary?

I couldnt stop from reading it... trying VERY hard to forget...there is a video but couldnt watch it.
.. end remark for the second case (first in india second in washington) "consider sleeping with your hat on"

not sure if this will be of help since I live in Europe, but I had a similar problem. satellite internet is crap, and has awful pings as well ( that pesky light speed barrier..), and noone is putting cable to an isolated house. In my case I found a rural wireless provider... , these are smallish companies that set repeater stations in the countryside and then an antenna on your roof pointing towards their antenna, it doesnt compare to fibre but you can get pretty decent internet that way IF it is available in your area. I googled " rural internet florida" & rural internet lake city and found a few promising hits... hope you find something decent there.

not sure where all this doom and gloom comes from. lots of companies throwing money at vr.. for board room/meeting systems, medical training, engineering has been using VR forever, some companies selling houses have vr tours, etc etc.. all niche areas but lots of them, I even saw a working demo of a system to treat people having anxiety disorders. gaming is slowly picking up too, with consoles having VR..its just new.
It is expensive though so you wont have one in every home for a while, but like tv`s it will get there..just give it a year or 2 to reach large numbers. it wont die out as its not just gaming driving its development.

? I buy lots of games from steam and never had an activation key tell me the location was banned.. or does this only affect poland/czech republic? in any case yay for removing all forms of geo-location blocking..

has a lot of potential .. if they can tweak it just right

great vid on the construction failures, especially the last one