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I couldn't be assed to google it. I know the Mondeo is a Ford but it was close enough. I honestly don't even know what Dacia is otherwise.

Yep, sounds like I'm not logging to YT anymore.

Good news! The Dacia Sandero is now back on sale! This was my exact reaction to Facebook being down.

No, he's a dummy. He might have said consoles are more fun rather than specifically controller, but both of my brothers say KBM is too hard to learn and ignore me when I say that PC games also with a controller. It's not a subjective thing, it's a dummy thing. Of course racing games are better with a controller than a keyboard. Which is why every racing game allows for a controller. Well that's just not true. At any point on a controller you're using the two thumbsticks and the two triggers and that's it. Unless you're one of those freaky controller claw people. That means any time you want to hit a face button of D-pad you're either not looking around or not moving in FPS. On PC you're doing movement, sprinting, crouching, jumping, and RMB/LMB without losing control of movement or aiming at all. Considering most people move forward or backwards while doing other things, you can also reload, lean left/right, swap weapons, throw grenades, etc. without losing basic movement and aiming. I've never had to remove all my fingers from WASD unless I'm opening (I)nventory or something.

It was how I got The Crew and some other games during a big free giveaway they did back then.

The biggest benefit to PC is the fact that I can still play games from 1995 on the same system. My buddy has gone from 360/PS3 to Xbone/PS4 and now a PS5 and the biggest draw to him for PC is being able to play something like Driver 1 in 4k60 with surround sound as opposed to having to plug in his PSX to play with 240i maybe? and unstable framerate that constantly slows the game down over lossy analog signals. Don't have to buy the game again for the new console. And whatever doesn't have a PC port there's emulators for. Outside that, unless you have a really beefy system and/or ultrawide/multi-monitors you're probably playing at similar settings to console anyway. The KBM/controller debate is pretty useless. Sure, mouse is more accurate, but everyone on console is used to controller, has auto aim, and are all using the same input device. Console people bitch about kbm, pc people bitch about controller. My brother, who's a dummy, says that controller is just more fun than kbm.

Change the topic. It's not a good topic. I know someone who back in the day did a high school paper about how doing cocaine was a good thing. Having only used a PC for about 7 years, I will never understand why people think games on PC is cheaper when it just flat out isn't. Games still start at the same price, hold the same price, and have the same price drop as console's digital and physical sales. The only "reasoning" for this is periodic sales on random titles which a stupid metric to go by, and both physical and digital console stores do the same thing.

That free game section has been there for 3 or 4 years. At least.

Okay, that's weird. If you go to your game library and look in "Free Games" Ghost Recon is also there, and it actually works through that link. Very bizarre.

Mine wouldn't appear to need the "Japan trick." Though it seems like as per usual, the store is broken. I can't redeem either.

The problem is in the US the inner city transport still is suckass outside NY and Chicago. I don't know about elsewhere, but here the bus is the only public transport and there's literally stops about every 500 feet, not to mention the usual traffic and lights. We're not a big city, but LA is, and also has dogshit public transport. So even large cities in the US still need personal transport, and this is the only reason self driving cars make any sense if they aren't go to rip up roads and do a better public transit system.

If I take a bus from the downtown station to the nearest stop by my house, which is like 2 miles away, it takes 2-3 hours. I can drive there in 20 minutes. Hell, even my school bus still got me home in 40 minutes and I was the last stop. Trains would be cool, but no way in hell is that being set up when we can't even drive across town effectively. The only rail line we have is cargo and it's 100 feet away from the freeway the entire line.

Even one singular period would make this infinitely more legible. I tried to do this, but when each dvd only has 4 episodes out of 16 on the season and I had to manually name them all I realized it was significantly easier, faster, and used less space to just download them. Movies? Sure, that's just one file and I can also do the subtitles, 5.1, commentary, etc. But TV shows are just a pain.

Without reading all of this, I'm not sure how the RMA works when it's bought secondhand. There's a possibility they won't accept it from the buyer. I would think in that case you could initiate the RMA and just have him ship it to them, then they can ship it back to him.

I've never used one. The only thing I was told by my dad when he taught me in the early 2000's was to just rest an arm on the case which you almost always do naturally anyways. Modern component almost always have ESD protection the older ones didn't. The only component to be careful with is cpu pins, but you don't touch those normally anyway.

Too much of a word block to try and read, but HDMI is a digital signal. I've only read about it having problems after 50 feet. I suppose it's possible but I don't know why it being 4k or Atmos would change that.

I don't have that app. Would it be any different to any other game or program? Maybe I could borrow a buddy's controller and see if it works. I have a DS4 that seems to work properly. If my buddy's works it might just be time to get a new one. It's old and the sticks are all worn down anyways.

That doesn't make sense. Why would a hardware fault change how it's detected and not just not detected at all?

No, it's an xbox controller. How would a hardware fault make the controller detected and functional by windows but not by games?

I've tried restarting and different usb ports. The only thing I could think to check it with is PCSX2's lilypad plugin. It seems to be registering as a DX Controller (Whatever that is) and not the xinput it's supposed to be. Was working a few days ago, not sure what changed.

No, it doesn't. Again, let's look at it like individual songs in an album. In your suggestion, I would need to individually go through each song up front and assign the track title, number, album, album artist, and year before I could reasonably find it in your system. Ignoring auto-tagging of course. Without doing all of that up front for each individual track, there's no way for your system to reasonably find the file. I literally just went through this, iTunes fucked up my music and duplicated a bunch of stuff and had other stuff not named. I had to sort through 1.5tb of music and clean it up to 500gb with correct folder structure, names, duplicates removed, metadata, etc. In the traditional system, it makes zero difference for the computer and is far easier for human interface. You make folders, name it once, then can put in 1000 files into that folder without having to tag each file with the "folder" name. To continue the example, in the standard hierarchal structure, this is what a Black Keys album would look like: Music > The Black Keys > Attack and Release (2008) > 1. All you ever wanted (through to) 11. Things aint like they used to be I would only have to "tag" The Black Keys once for every album, and album name/year only once per album. The only thing I would have to do, without repeating anything, is the individual file names. In your system I would have to individually go through every single file and name it/fill in metadata like this: music.theblackkeys.attackandrelease.2008.1.allyoueverwanted.mp3 music.theblackkeys.attackandrelease.2008.11.thingsaintliketheyusedtobe.mp3 How is that possibly easier? And again, the files themselves can still have that metadata, just like your system, so there's literally no way it could have more than a folder system. Windows literally has your metadata system built into windows explorer. Not to mention the search function will search through known file types for your search terms. There's legitimately zero logical reason to use your system and the only reason iTunes did it is to lock people into their ecosystem and store. Well no shit. But who would make a file and just name it ahjfsjho[aghapr and leave that somewhere on their system?

I tried moving some photos I scanned from my PC to my brothers iPad and it was the most infuriating experience I've had in a long time. Why the actual fuck does the iPad not just have a file browser? It only has this weird garbage make believe system. Trying to get my photos to be recognized by the damn iPad in the photos app so I can edit them was a lesson in futility. Why couldn't I just direct the damn app to the photos? Why aren't they automatically scanned in? How does anyone find that user friendly? How do these kids have a laptop without knowing what files are? 2 problems, iTunes is garbage, and you can assign metadata to files making both your cases moot. You can also just do a directory search and have the computer find the file for you, especially if you only have one drive. The iTunes system is designed to be less friendly for actual directory browsing because Apple wants you to fuck off. There's no difference in computational speed for having a cleaner typical music directory while also being more beneficial to us humans browsing through it. Apple did that entirely as a proprietary system to lock people into it and "prevent piracy." There's no end user benefit for that. Meanwhile over in logical land, my 500gb of music is neatly arranged in a legible way for literally anybody to browse through on the drive, and Musicbee uses tags embedded in the files to do everything you mentioned while skipping all the bullshit. I can even plug my android into it and drag n drop/sync my music with my phone. Your theoretical system also relies entirely on metadata, which is an awful way to go. It forces everyone to manually set up metadata that's descriptive enough to find it amongst everything else rather than just giving it a simple file name and doing "receipts/July2020/shopify.csv" If you don't set that metadata it's just lost in the mass sea of crap.

How nice for you. We don't have a cap, but if you exceed your limit you're charged. And our internet isn't cheap. Even being moderately fast it's still faster installing from disc than downloading. People that are in the midwest especially have shit internet. Really? I've had hard drives go bad, meanwhile our DVD's from 2000 (Including Shrek which we watched every night for at least a year) still functions perfectly. It's not hard to not fuck up your discs. Yo, NFS3. It gets forgotten. Need to try High Stakes. I've never heard anyone say that. I don't know why they would, it makes no sense. It's a physical digital media read by a laser, not a vinyl record getting scratched by a needle. They must've just been scratching the shit out of their discs or something. It's a polymer plastic, dish soap won't hurt it. I've been using soap for years to clean discs and glasses and never had a problem with it. Pretty sure CDs still read in a spiral like vinyl. Maybe concentric circles. I just get the water stream to laminar flow and run it through sideways, usually the tension will keep it together, rinse it off, and leave no water behind. Microfiber cloths have always left smudges.

It's superior to storing everything on a hard drive that can fail. Otherwise you can bypass the need to download gigs of data if you have it on a disc. Hey, Freespace. Great game. Wish it was still around. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is the closest thing to it since FS2 in 98. Everything else is too focused on being a super boring space trucking sim with spacecraft that fly like WW2 planes. Installing from optical is still typically faster than installing from network. That's the biggest plus consoles have with blu-ray. At least they can house ~50gb of data that you won't need to slowly download and hit data caps.

I just use regular dish soap. Wet it, add a drop of soap, smear it around with your finger, rinse it off.