eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 25, 2019, 06:27:
Does Nasa not run proper background inspections anymore? How the fuck is a scorned lover, shared bank accounts and a fight over ownership of their SON not a red flag? IN fact, why is NASA not monitoring the internet on the ISS?

RedEye9 wrote on Dec 28, 2017, 21:23:
I'm enjoying MindHunter on Netflix.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 20:29:
Do I get to play Cyberpunk 2077? Yes? No fucks given about what storefront it comes through.

Slick wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 18:53:
"GOG.com exclusivity for Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales has them thinking this type of deal doesn't work for them"

Pretty sad day when a developer can't release a product on their own established non-hated storefront because people will only buy from Steam.

Remind me why Steam is the only place people shop again? Oh right, it was all predicated on the exclusivity of Half-Life 2. Even if you bought a physical copy in a brick-and-mortar store, you had to install and launch through steam to play the game.

We can't have a world where a new burger shop could become "The home of the Whopper" like Burger King, because everyone has already decided they only buy food from McDonalds. The best they can hope to do is sell the Whopper through McDonalds, cook it, market it, wrap it, deal with customer issues, pay the farmers, pay the transport, pay for everything, then McDonalds provides that touch-screen computer for you to pay and takes a fat 30%.

NKD wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 17:54:

Simon Says wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 15:09:

But ask the question this way instead: "Do you prefer to have a headphone jack or not?"

And the "yes" percentage will be way higher than 1%.

Well yeah, which is why surveys designed to gauge the importance of features to consumers aren't supposed to ask questions like that. "Do you prefer a headphone jack or not?" is a bad question because you're asking a feature-hungry consumer to choose whether they want one more feature or not.

It's like if someone asked me if I wanted free sushi or not. I don't feel like eating sushi right now. It might just sit in the fridge and go bad. But if you force me to make a choice, I'm going to choose to take the sushi. It doesn't mean I wouldn't prefer something else if given the choice, and it sure doesn't make it my favorite food.

You could ask if they wanted an RJ-11 jack on there and get much higher than 1%.

The Half Elf wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 16:33:
Look who's been going at the exclusives. Generally smaller indie devs who need that Epic Money to keep developing the exclusive game. Bandai, and CDPR already have a solid base and don't need/require the exclusivity money.

'A deadly outbreak of multi-drug resistant Salmonella ... may have been spurred by a sharp rise in the use of certain antibiotics in cows a year earlier, ..."

Simon Says wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 15:09:
Trying to draw a conclusion that removing headphone jacks are no big deal based on a survey that wasn't intended to know if people prefer to have one or not.

How many other things are higher in priority? A crapload.

But ask the question this way instead: "Do you prefer to have a headphone jack or not?"

And the "yes" percentage will be way higher than 1%.

This is pure misleading horseshit, I'm surprised it was even posted here.

Blue, your standards are slipping :P.

jdreyer wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 14:50:
The Mandalorian looks better than expected.

Drath71 wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 14:53:

Nullity wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 10:50:

Mr. Tact wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 10:15:

1badmf wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 04:39:
i like to think of it this way - trump lost by 3 million votes at the height of his popularity. now that everyone except his fanatical base hates his guts he can't possibly get lucky enough to win juuuuust enough votes in key swing states to skate by again. can he?!?!?

And I think of it this way: Nearly everyone said he wouldn't win the primary. He did. Nearly everyone said he wouldn't win the election. He did. The American electorate isn't exactly known for its vast participation or for paying close attention to the candidates. And I'll guarantee you 45% of the people who vote in the 2020 presidential election will vote for Trump, at a minimum. While I might agree it seems unlikely he can be re-elected, I thought it was unlikely he would ever be elected. So that kind of "logic" does not comfort me in the least.

While you're not wrong, that's also only part of it. The Republicans have spent decades painstakingly rigging the system in their favor. They literally cheat, and it's the only way they can win. Unfortunately, that same system makes it very difficult to fix itself.

Right, because the Democrats don't don't do the same darn thing.
Trump didn't win because the system was rigged, he want because most people preferred him over Shrillary. But if you're one of those people that call UNFAIR every time someone else wins instead, well no amount of logic will shine through here.
A balanced system means our guy wins sometimes, sometimes the other guys win. Obama had two pretty good terms, but now a republican wins and OMG UNACCEPTABLE.

OpticNerve wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 13:16:
The Mandalorian trailer: https://youtu.be/aOC8E8z_ifw

Also, Ewan McGregor's returning as Obi-Wan in a Disney+ show.

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 13:16:

jdreyer wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 02:58:
My three and a half year old phone is getting really slow, but I think that's more about it needing to be defragmented than anything else.

Uh, what? Do you have some obscure model of phone that has a disk-based hard drive for storage?

jdreyer wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 03:00:
I got NordVPN. You should too.

jdreyer wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 03:41:

RedEye9 wrote on Aug 23, 2019, 15:51:
This would be a great game for Team Epic to partner with and add to their shiny new storefront.

Okay, now you're just trolling.