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Road trips in cars are extremely common in the U.S., I’ve driven over 800 miles in a day many times. I have been on the TGV a long time ago, I like train travel, but high-speed rail is unrealistic in the U.S. We do have long-distance trains here, but the tickets are expensive and it’s slow, they also have to use the freight line tracks so the travel stops are not always great.

I didn’t claim you said it, you quoted my response to someone else; They said they played one game Bethesda made and that made them hate all of their games. You inserted yourself into a conversation and then wondered why the discussion wasn’t about you.

And I don’t know what you expect from an open-world game with a large map, you will have to walk around in it, but that doesn’t make a game a “walking simulator” as there’s plenty to do. Perhaps open-world adventure games just are not a genre you enjoy.
 
Ozzy Osborne has one of the longest careers in music, whatever memo he could get about his comedy chops is surely irrelevant to him, and the people that listen to his music. 
 
 

Two people’s negative takes on a massively popular game series, are not going to change all the tens of millions of players opinions on it. I’ve never modded any Fallout or Elder Scrolls game, and I’ve played a lot of them. I understand there’s some subjective opinions about games, but someone calling-out a whole studio after only playing one game in one of a few massively popular series they’ve made is just ridiculous.
 
Also, Ozzy Osborne is a musician and not a comedian that has to be funny, so I’m not sure what is “cringe” about that. Again there are subjective takes on music but he is one of the more popular musicians.

Two people’s negative takes on a massively popular game series, are not going to change all the tens of millions of players opinions on it. I’ve never modded any Fallout or Elder Scrolls game, and I’ve played a lot of them. I understand there’s some subjective opinions about games, but someone calling-out a whole studio after only playing one game in one of a few massively popular series they’ve made is just ridiculous.
 
Also, Ozzy Osborne is a musician and not a comedian that has to be funny, so I’m not sure what is “cringe” about that. Again there are subjective takes on music but he is one of the more popular musicians.

There are DOT requirements here in the U.S., technically a lot of these conversions are not road-legal, but it’s not at all enforced. If the conversion assembly is DOT-certified then it will be close to a factory vehicle if aimed correctly.

The state I live in is supposed to check for DOT compliance for headlights, but I’ve been running LED replacements for a few years on two of my vehicles and no one ever checks it during the yearly inspection. Now, my housings are new and clear, and the pattern is good (also I aimed them correctly), so if you didn’t know the car shipped with halogen bulbs you’d never guess.
 

There are DOT requirements here in the U.S., technically a lot of these conversions are not road-legal, but it’s not at all enforced. If the conversion assembly is DOT-certified then it will be close to a factory vehicle if aimed correctly.

The state I live in is supposed to check for DOT compliance for headlights, but I’ve been running LED replacements for a few years on two of my vehicles and no one ever checks it during the yearly inspection. Now, my housings are new and clear, and the pattern is good (also I aimed them correctly), so if you didn’t know the car shipped with halogen bulbs you’d never guess.
 

You're basing your entire viewpoint of a game studio on one game? Fallout 4 isn't the strongest in the series, but 'utter piece of crap' is such a bad take. You're seemingly ignoring the entire Elder Scrolls series too, which has several incredibly popular titles; Skyrim is one of the most successful games of all time, over 60 million copies have been sold.
 
Also, who genuinely thinks Ozzy and his other associated acts suck? Wtf?

It can be really difficult, I have problems throwing things out or giving them away, because I rationalize keeping things like old computers because 'what if' there's a time I need it. Case in point: The server at my office nosedived some years back and I had to get something back in service over a weekend, and I had all the parts at home to make it happen. It's probably just reinforcing bad habits, but the way I see things is it saved my bacon many times, so in the back of my mind I always wonder if tossing something will put me in a jam later. It doesn't help that I'm the repair guy in my immediate family and for many of my friends in terms of computers, cars, motorcycles, and even bicycles, so I've accumulated so much stuff over the years it's ridiculous.
 
So the answer to the question of which stuff do I keep? Seemingly everything, haha.

Wait, Perri-Air is a real thing now?
 
 

My brother ran an MSI RX 480 for a long time, it was not a bad card performance-wise, but the cooler was extremely cheap-ish feeling. It wasn't high up their product stack so I guess that can be forgiven, but he moved to a rather basic MSI RTX 3050 and that card is so much 'cleaner' and feels much higher quality.
 
 

None of the above:  Spend 15-20 bucks on a 250gb SATA SSD, replace the hdd, and get 1000x better performance.

You're too far gone into the void dude, and not listening to important things like, 'game developers should not be required to release multiplayer code for old games as they may continue to use parts of it in the future.' If you put money into digital items there's a huge risk you will lose them in the future, but they're not your property and you're not owed a refund for digital subscriptions or items under any laws that exist or likely will exist, because companies are not going to zero-out their finances when they stop supporting a game.
 
I'm out.

Yeah, a lot of people want a lot of things that are not attainable. Questioning whether I 'understand' some completely unattainable utopia where game developers just hand you your subscription money back and refund you for stuff you willingly bought in-game, is honestly wild; You seemingly do not understand that developers don't have and should not have a responsibility to give you money back that they used for operating/payroll/marketing costs, nor do they have any compulsion to release the code to run servers when they deprecate an old game, especially when they may be using aspects of that programming in future titles.
 
I used to play on Quake III servers back in the day, and I even ran my own Minecraft server a few years back for some of my friends and family, I'm aware that private servers for certain games have existed. That doesn't mean every game is built that way or could run on consumer hardware, something like an MMORPG is going to be very expensive to upkeep, just one example like GTA V doesn't describe all online games.

I’d eat ramen for a month for that, that’s freaking nice. I’ve been running an older 1080p 240hz Dell monitor for a few years, it’s great. I have had such good luck with Dell monitors over the years I probably wouldn’t buy anything else.

Priciest PC component I've ever bought. But it's good.
Have to live off noodles for a few months I think. Just to recuperate.

I have replaced my own disposal and I wouldn’t try to give a flat price for it. Too many variables, especially on an older house where the drain trap might be installed in an unconventional way, or the electrical hookup is funky. Rolling a diagnostic fee into labor is really common, if for no other reason than it sweetens the deal with a perceived discount at time of the work being completed.

Jay’s video is illuminating; EK pre-paying for content and basically ghosting creators is crazy stuff. EK clearly mismanages funds.
 
Edit: To be clear it’s much worse that they are currently not paying invoices and employees they owe, though that is a much more common scenario. They’re seemingly unreliable in all aspects of business relations.

Sounds like having many dozens of bespoke designs for custom supplier GPUs and high-end motherboards, things that will be low-volume sales, yet EK has to have larger production runs of each SKU made to keep production costs down, is an unsustainable practice.

My late-2008-vintage, head-bunting, household deity. His favorite activities include lording over everyone, reminding us he deserves cheese, and weighting-down laps for extended periods of time. He had to go get his vaccinations this last weekend, and has finally forgiven me.

My late-2008-vintage, head-bunting, household deity. His favorite activities include lording over everyone, reminding us he deserves cheese, and weighting-down laps for extended periods of time. He had to go get his vaccinations this last weekend, and has finally forgiven me.

‘It will keep you safe because if it’s broken you cannot drive’
 
Well, that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve read in a long time. My entire point is that mirrors work fine, are simple thus more reliable, and BETTER as a safety device because their spontaneous failure rate is an incredibly small fraction of an electronic system. There just isn’t a reasonable argument you or anyone else could make, that validates replacing a mirror with a bunch of electronics.
 
Car parts are not sold at a component level, go to the dealership and try to buy a replacement button for the factory radio in your car, or try to buy a replacement stepper motor for one of the gauges in your dash; You can’t. Those are sold as a complete unit, just like the cameras and whatever body part or display and whatever dash trim part they’re a part of; You’re incredibly naive to think manufacturers have any motivation to make these parts separate, they don’t in all other systems so this one would be no different.
 
I do work on cars and understand how even moderately complex car parts are sold as assemblies, you very clearly don’t know this. You’re just arguing to argue.

This was a fun video to watch, and Jessica is hilarious; LTT has so many genuinely funny people working there, it’s awesome.

A lot of brisket really is overrated, but good brisket is on another level. Also, the ends are the best part as far as I’m concerned and quite a bit drier than the middle, I tend to ask for the ends when I have the option.

There wasn’t any hardware upgrades, I’m talking about upgrading an existing system with Windows 10 directly. I even installed Windows 10 on a machine and then upgraded it to Windows 11 two months later; No bloat on there, it’s actually a faster OS. 
 
I understand why people are annoyed their builds from 2016 cannot be upgraded, the hardware security is what it is, but Windows 11 is not a huge resource hog.
 
 

A Sony STR-DH190 stereo receiver was my last recent tech purchase.
 
After owning it personally since about 2005, and being originally manufactured in 1986, my ADCOM stereo preamp finally had a problem cleaning the potentiometers and re-seating components couldn’t fix. This made me a bit sad because it is really difficult to find new (affordable) equipment with a phono stage these days, but an extremely budget-friendly Sony option exists.
 
It doesn’t offer all the options my ADCOM did, but works with the common type of turntable cartridges, and has the added benefit of remote control, and Bluetooth pairing for my music library on my phone; All the options.
 
Specs claim it has 100w continuous per channel even at an 8ohm load, potent enough for the small room I’m in, and more than enough to drive the Paradigm Titan V4 speakers I use. I don’t know if my old preamp had degraded some even before the problems, but the clarity is admirable for something this value-conscious.
 
For $149 US it was hard to beat. Not sure if anyone will buy my old power amp, but I gave the ADCOM to someone that works on stereos to see if they can fix it, and if so can sell it.