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7 hours ago, bleedblue said:

IIRC emulation is against policy.

7 hours ago, dieegoperi said:

Hmmm more or less:

Emulation has always been a bit of a grey area legally. In general we have no issue with discussion of game emulation, provided the discussion doesn't touch on how to illegally obtain copies of the game software or the console BIOS etc.

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1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

It is a kids cartoon, yeah. The fanbase is mostly 6 year old girls and 18-20 year old guys.

 

I honestly don't know why it's such a big deal, but it's definitely a great show.

People love to find something to fixate on, to generalise and hate the fans of. Because of there being a small number of MLP fans they find weird or disturbing they extrapolate that to paint an inaccurate picture of the entire fanbase. It's the same thing with just about anything that's popular, though the MLP thing has gained particular notoriety for some reason..

I've tried watching the show myself. I can't say I'm a fan but I can definitely see why people can enjoy it, regardless of age. It's bright and colourful and has a lot of positivity in its story, characters and dialogue. And a lot of the underlying themes are relevant for people of all ages, more so than most cartoons aimed at the <10 year olds demographic.

Or almost any other Belgian beer really. Westvleteren 12, Duvel, Orval, Chimay Blue, Gulden Draak, St Bernardus Abt 12, and so on and on...

Favourite non-alcohol is probably earl grey tea for a hot drink and Coca-Cola for cold drink.

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This article really is bordering on insanity.

Real-time raytracing in a video game is impressive for sure, and I'm excited to see it adopted and improved upon over time. But that's the kicker; even if performance with RTX enabled is impressive it's ultimately meaningless if developers don't implement support for it in their games. And in spite of NVIDIA's boisterous claims that it "just works" it definitely requires the not inconsiderable effort of the game's development team to implement. I think that even if we're thinking of an ideal scenario, the first-gen RTX release is never going to have instant and widespread adoption - it will take time for developers to gauge their interest in it, let alone test and implement it. By the time developer adoption becomes more widespread the first gen lineup will probably be borderline antiquated. I entirely agree with Linus' comments on last night's WAN show here.

The biggest concern for RTX in my view is the technology that'll go into the next-gen consoles. It's unlikely they'll feature an NVIDIA GPU and so far AMD haven't announced (or even been rumoured to have) a competing real-time raytracing implementation (Radeon Rays isn't the same thing). If all they have is support for software-implemented raytracing then it's very possible that developer adoption of RTX could suffer strongly as a result for the vast majority of multi-platform games.

2 minutes ago, Swatson said:

But the P20 looks more similar to the P30. We're clearly not gonna agree because opinions

I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree then.

2 minutes ago, Swatson said:

but man, I would hate to have your visual processing

I'm quite fond of it, personally.

4 minutes ago, Swatson said:

So you're telling me that motorola not putting a fingeprint sensor on the front makes it more similar to the iphone even though the iphone couldn't fit one at all? Where as motorola filled the space with their logo... I dont follow your logic with the sensor

I'm saying that the marked difference in the style of the notch and consequently drastically different screen size in combination with the difference in fingerprint sensor location makes the Motorola P30 much closer in design to the iPhone X than it does the Huawei P20 in my opinion, yes.

We're talking about how similar the phones look - you can't just say "but if it wasn't different in these ways it would look just like this phone"; those differences exist, and as a result the phone appears noticeably different. Again with the colour scheme aside however this is not so when comparing it to the iPhone X. I do agree that the colour scheme is incredibly close to that of the P20.

1 minute ago, Swatson said:

Can you see the fingerprint sensor? lmfao

You can see it in the very image of the P20 that you just linked.

3 minutes ago, Swatson said:

Up close the phone is almost indistinguishable from the P20...

They moved the flash into the middle of the P20's module, and extended the notch wider....

Presumably then the P20 is also indistinguishable from the iPhone X?

The differences you point out are differences which (in isolation at least) copy specific iPhone X design traits. Yes there are similarities to the P20 - but the silhouette of the phone is somewhat different whereas it's practically indistinguishable from the iPhone. It also lacks the fingerprint sensor beneath the display which makes for quite a drastic difference in design between the two.

Just now, Swatson said:

Same button layout on the side as the P20, camera module is similar to both other than the flash being closer to iphone X, name is super misleading P20 vs P30, plus yes the paint job looks the same but upside down. The notch isn't the only design feature of a phone. The screen being similar is because there's pretty much 2 companies that make phone oleds and they all want the same design

I'd say in almost every regard besides the side buttons and colour scheme the P30 is much more similar to the iPhone X than it is the Huawei P20.

The notch is a very important design detail and for better or worse it is a distinctive design trait of the iPhone X. Most phones introducing a notch have managed to differentiate themselves from the X - this is an almost direct clone however. As a result the phone from a distance appears pretty much indistinguishable from the iPhone X - and I'd argue that for anyone but the most avid techie out there, even up close (from the front) it would be difficult to see a difference, colour scheme aside.

2 minutes ago, Swatson said:

Personally it looks a more like the Huawei P20. Like, seriously...

-snip-

Colour wise perhaps. Design wise? Definitely not. The P20 is quite distinct from the iPhone X, this new Motorola phone is an almost 1:1 clone.

The OnePlus 5 was widely criticised for how incredibly similar it was to the iPhone 7 Plus in design. This is much more similar to the X, comparatively.

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16 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Also, status update material.

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1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

I have around 50 as it stands. I used to work in a tattoo studio.

While I am not in any hurry, I know what I want the meaning to be "vengeful spirit", I just need something to match that

Ah, fair enough then.

If you don't know exactly what you want as a tattoo, I'd suggest you're not ready for one yet.

Once you have it you have it forever. Removal rarely works perfectly.

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5 minutes ago, PianoPlayer88Key said:

So how much longer until ?, ?➡️?️?

3 minutes, it turns out.

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The last time I heard this rumoured we ended up with the Nexus Q... I'm remaining pretty sceptical for now.