Monkey Dust

It's a trailer for a game that is at least 13 months off release, probably more like 18–22 months. The hype train has only just started boarding, it will be a while before it pulls out of the station. Personally, I'm a bit disappointed about it being set in Vice City/Miami, as the terrain is going to be very flat. I like a bit of gradient action in my environments. But on the upside, airboats?

I think the time to upgrade is when you can't run a game, that you really enjoy, as well as you'd like. Or sooner, if you just fancy spending some money.

Could be interesting depending on the contract between manufacturer and operator. Sounds like someone is in breach of contract, and the covert nature makes me think it's the manufacturer. Seems like a short-sighted move. It's not like the car market, you only have a limited pool of potential clients.

It's releasing on current gen consoles, so min spec is unlikely to be far north of min specs of new AAA games now. Sure, if you have the latest 7090ti Super, it may look extra shiny and run at 200fps, but it won't be required. Also, 2025 release on consoles. We probably won't get it until 2026 at the earliest, way too far away to start seriously thinking about specs.

I'd probably be looking at some used parts at that budget. I'd also go AMD too, as it leaves the option to pick up a 5800X3D later.

If you want to go team red, XFX cards look nicely understated. They don't have the cool industrial vibes of the Radeon VII, but they look pretty good. Though as a member of the solid side panel brotherhood, I don't care my card is a horrific gamer looking monstrosity

Are you sure you soldered it on correctly? No shorts? Are the batteries all from the same source? Could be defective batteries.

Depends on what you are playing, but for the price of RAM these days (unless you're buying a Mac...) I'd definitely recommend 32GB.

We collect your data, so we can sell it to the companies we asked to delete your data! Sweet business model, until your users realize.

It's good, but would have been better if it were 30 min shorter. Felt like the story was stretched to meet the runtime.

Yeah, super confusing in English-speaking counties where accents aren't a thing, as we often leave them off words. The bags are Hermès, the delivery service, Hermes. Hermes, apparently being the Greek god of claiming to have delivered your package, but actually left it at a house 2 miles away.

You can get messenger bags with padded laptop compartments. I have a blue canvas one, but there is lots of choice on Etsy & Amazon.

I'd argue a different, and captive, audience to CoD. Some people buy consoles solely for FIFA. FIFA (or whatever it is they are calling it now for licencing reasons) doesn't have a competitor. EA can, and do, whatever the fuck they like, without much risk of driving customers away. COD is not the only FPS out there, and there isn't licencing problems with a competitor releasing a similar game.

Delivery services suck the world over. I guess because it's so price focused.

As one of this forum's grumpy old men, it is my duty to point out that you young'uns don't know how easy you have it. When I was a lad, we had to make PCs out of coal and our own tears... A lot of the complaints centred around aesthetics. Firstly that's optional. Secondly, if you do decide to pursue it will cost time and money, as it does with cars, clothes, houses and loads of other things. Cable management is easier than ever. Look at old case reviews, cable management was an afterthought, or really old, it was non-existent (anyone else remember tucking IDE ribbon cables behind the motherboard?). Plus no more cables for optical drives, and for a quite a lot of us now, no cables for SSDs either. Faults occur less than in the past, things setup themselves. Overclocking and fine-tuning gives such tiny gains these days, it's entirely optional. I will concede GPU price inflation, that has been brutal over the past 4 years. Other than that, I's say it's no harder than 10 years ago, and a lot easier than 20 years ago.

I wouldn't count on MS joining a V2 fork. They are pivoting to a 'harvest all your data' & sell advertising space business model. Hopefully it drives a revival of Firefox. Having so much of the browser market being Chrome, and Chrome in disguise, is really not a great place to be.

Yeah, the 'they've bought it before, they'll buy it again' philosophy has its limits. I wonder how many more years before the execs realize this?

That's disappointing, but I have heard before that Keychron customer support is rubbish. I ordered my K6 Pro from Amazon for this very reason, so I wouldn't have to deal with Keychron support if there was a problem. The trouble is there isn't much choice in enthusiast keyboards if you want the ISO layout.

Getting him out of the way before Microsoft buys the whole company?

I wonder if these site check the IDs? One on hand checking these IDs with the different issuing bodies around the world would extremely difficult. On the other hand, legally have they sufficiently covered themselves in case an underage person signs up with a fake ID?

There are lots of graphics card brands that are sold in East Asia, but don't come to Europe & North America. It is probably legit, but like a dodgy Amazon listing, you don't really know what you are getting. And if it fails, you're also probably out of luck getting support. For 4070ti money, I wouldn't touch it with a 60-foot pole.

If you think about all the fungal spores and bacterial clouds being released into the air from your dirty floor and assorted 'cleaning' implements, I'd say the razor is the least of your concerns. Clean up your mess and then buy a new razor & ball shaver.

Yeah, nothing brings my typing speed to zero like spelling certain words. I'm not sure typing speed is as important as it used to be. Both speech to text & image to text is getting better. ChatGPT can generate large chucks of text quickly, and is really good at generic corporate fluff. Fast typing is going to become an increasingly obsolete skill, IMO.

Pedestrian safety regulation will prevent it being sold in many markets. Trucks will never be great for ped safety, but in Europe, and I also imagine markets like Japan, you at least have to try with no sharp edges and plastic bumpers.

But Tesla, or I guess more specifically Musk, has a long inglorious history of exaggeration and flat out lying. None of the orders taken from outside North America will ever be fulfilled, I'm not sure what percentage of the 1 million that is?