Have you ever seen coal in real life?
I just realised that I have never seen or used it, neither crude oil of course, but there are more variants of it than this natural mineral that powers a lot of the world....
Dune and Jack Reacher shows whats wrong with Foundation
Recurring characters....
Question about First Law series
Hi, I am on a driving trip and downloaded a recommended books, “Best Served Cold” and then the reviews say read the original trilogy first. After several hours of “The Blade Itself” there is no sense of a plot or where the characters are going, they are just meeting up....
TIL that a billionaire bought Lonely Planet and put an inexperienced 24 year old wedding photographer in charge (www.nbcnews.com)
Have you had a "Walter Mitty" moment?
There’s this Ben Stiller movie where he gets pushed to travel the world alone and find himself.
Engineering feels more like being Tony Stark while Programming seems more like Dr Strange
Am a civil engineer working in tech now. I never felt like engineering was magical, we studied materials and stresses and tested stuff and built things....
Were Arkane, Bioware, Rocksteady and Naughty Dog done in by live service strategies?
4 top tier single player games developers tasked to build live service games....
Pedro Pascal and Norman Reedus now have 2 IPs where they travel with a kid in tow
Cant really get into Mihoyo games on my commute
Been playing mostly Marvel Snap and Match 3....
Old articles are clogging up search engines
The internet used to be where you found the latest information. But it’s old enough that you could easily find info on 10-20 year old articles that are out of date and irrelevant
Does anyone else hear the JoyCon 'snap' in the main themes for ToTK and Mario Wonder?
It’s more of a percussion slap in totk though
This console generation seems skippable
I’ve never skipped a console gen starting from Super NES, PS1 through 4 plus the Switch Oled 5 years after launch of the OG Switch...
Is computer science lightning or rock magic?
Or both? You’re basically running electricity through silicon to control satellites, rockets and the cash register in a subway.
Heres an idea, Fromsoft should make the Soul Reaver sequel
They had GRRM write Elden Ring. They can get Amy Henning to write SR before she retires...
If Skull and Bones came out and was a 10/10 what would your user review look like?
I haven’t seen any trailers and things have changed in a decade and Ubisoft haven’t made a universally acclaimed game in a long time....
Is PC Dead Space and Jedi Survivor abandoned by EA?
The stutter issues in Dead Space and bugs in JS. They are basically unplayable on PC right?
What random good thing happened to you this year?
Whats with the sudden indie output from South Korea?
Usually known for their internal online and mobile games. In 2023 we get Dave the Diver and Lies of P which are non mobile single player games....
'Great' games I didn't play this year due to requirements
Currently running a Ryzen 2600 and AMD 6700XT, older cpu with mid tier gpu. This is my round up of 2023 gaming...
What should be the price difference for a 7800x3d build vs a 7600
Would I need a better mobo for the 7800x3d? More expensive ram?
Coffee is a mana potion and Cough Syrup is a health potion
Applicants probably spend more time skimming job openings than Managers spend skimming through CVs
Much easier to reject bad CVs. On the other hand every job post is the same and you have to check Glassdoor and Crunchbase before applying to a potential bad company
Gangsters have gone out of style because its safer and easier to be a white collar criminal
Playing through the latest Yazuka game about the death of the Yakuza, similar to the last of the outlaws in RDR2....
2 weeks out of warranty Dell monitor starts blinking on and off
The timing is either amazing or the electrical storm this afternoon fried something. I have the 2721dgf now it turns black for 2 seconds before resuming randomly. My other 4k dell monitor is fine...