Probably, but there was a time when you could easily make your old car feel new just by adding an aftermarket stereo with bluetooth (and mic compatibility) and a USB port and an aux-in port.
My car's 6-cd changer (which could play MP3 CD's) broke so I replaced it with one of a new one with all those features and it almost felt brand new. I could connect my phone to it, take calls via bluetooth, change all sorts of settings including balance and equalization, it was actually a revelation.
It was so good that I had my sister get the same thing, because while her radio worked, her CD player did not, and it was also very useful for her as well.
I actually got the idea because of all the features that my mother's (then new) 2013 Kia Soul had with its bluetooth and mic equipped stereo. Nowadays I think most new cars have a pretty decent entertainment setup with an integrated back up camera, so it's no longer necessary to get something aftermarket.
That said, there was a time where aftermarket was remarkably better than factory stock.
Au contraire, I think more rich people should take risks like this. It shows how macho and ahead of the curve and disruptive they are. All those other rich people that aren't willing to get into an experimental vehicle with risk of catastrophic failure and even death are just crybaby namby pamby cucks who aren't living their best lives!
Just buy ride it! If you were on your deathbead, and you looked back, wouldn't you regret not having tried it while you still could've?
For now. Trump did a hell of a lot of damage even though he was that stupid. If someone smarter than him who's not totally uncharismatic like Ron Desantis actually gets elected in 2028 or later on, particularly with a Red House / Senate, some really bad things could happen.
We'll probably be okay in 2024 (so long as Democrats don't blow it by resting on their laurels) but every election including midterms and state / local elections are going matter a lot going forward.
In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters, and the publisher's home.
You're right, but the problem we have right now is that the entire law enforcement structure, top to bottom is almost entirely made up of conservatives right now. Plus, they do their damnedest to keep smart, educated, and principled people out of the force too.
Not something easily fixable without a lot of popular support and funding, and there'd be a big backlash against it too. For starters, we'd need to move non-conservatives out of big cities and states and into purple and red states, and I don't see that happening soon. We'd also need to redistribute income and even provide citizenry with lawyers, media attention, and even weaponry to fight back if the cops decided to break the law and start acting even more fascist.
I'm a Democrat, but don't believe in stuff like banning all AR-15's or semi-autos because I can credibly see a future in which we'll be forced to have gunfights with the police, who would be backed up by civilian militias who have a bunch of pre-ban weapons and large capacity magazines that we couldn't buy new anymore.
Depends on how well written the evil route is. I think most people don't like evil routes where you're just a mustache twirling murderer, slaver, torturer, etc.
But if it's written more like Breaking Bad where you're doing desperate things for desperate reasons, and /or because of relatable character flaws, then they're more into it. It's rare that games actually have a story as deep and well written as Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, where if you stop and think about it, the Protagonists are obviously the villains of the story, but nuanced portrayals of villainy are what work better, imo.
Someone mentioned Tyranny in this thread (which is basically Pillars of Eternity 1.5 in terms of gameplay) and while it's not as compelling or as well written as Breaking Bad, it does have a story where you're the "bad guy" but you don't really have a choice in the matter. You're doing bad things to prevent worse things from happening, and you have to do them or else worse things will happen to you.
What I like better than the "evil" route are where people do "good" things but it leads to a bad result, like in Fallout 3, where spoiler alert:
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You can negotiate to let Ghouls into Tenpenny Tower, only for the Ghouls to turn around and kill all the humans in there, because it turns out the Ghouls were racist against humans, and were total hypocrites.
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Similar to a news story in real life I read recently, where a Taco Bell manager with a heart of gold hired the homeless guy sleeping behind the store, and allowed him to sleep in his house, only for the guy to constantly blow up and threaten his co-workers and then "repay" that act of kindness by shooting that manager dead. No good deed goes unpunished, as they say. It's why I'm careful with my charity nowadays and prefer to let organized groups do it rather than reaching out directly. This is not the only story like this I've heard or read about.
Nemesis, Goddess of Retribution, is out of control. She is corrupting the Threads of Fate and punishing all those who oppose her. Take up your weapon, fight alongside gods, and change fate itself in Titan Quest 2, an action RPG inspired by Greek mythology.
Hope it's better than the first one. It was too repetitive for me and the pacing was too slow. It spent too much time in Greece, and took way to long to get to Babylon and China Had some serious balance issues as well, to the point where I actually wondered why they allowed certain "class" combinations at all.
I hope this new game doesn't force you to distribute stat points 1 at a time (almost no one wants to do that) and also allows for cheap or free respecs at any time. It gets boring using the same abilities all the time, no matter how optimal they are. Swapping builds and powers on the fly helps you feel like you're playing a brand new game.
It's a lesson that Blizzard learned with Diablo 3 and 4 and even World of Warcraft, which is why those games don't force you to look up a guide before spending every single stat point, and also allow you to respec easily to try something new and keep you engaged.
Very true. And if you stop and think about it, 2033's only 10 years away. Maybe Metro.co.uk could post a followup to this story then. Just for that "Yo dawg, I herd u like 2033" meme potential.
Very true. I also find that that group B also includes many people who think violence in general is fine. Physical violence, social violence, even sexual violence. Abuse messes people up.
Definitely true. It's kind of like any physically intensive job that you can only keep up for so long before your body gets messed up to the point where you have to quit early. That "big money" isn't forever, it has to be saved up while it's earned for retirement later, which might be sooner rather than later due to physical disability.
Plus there's the lack of holidays, and in fact crazier work hours with fewer breaks and no days off during the holidays, because that's when there's the most shipping going on. Much harder than coding or other tech work in air conditioned rooms and breaks during holidays, etc.
I remember reading about how Kodak tried to block digital cameras (even its own) so as not to compromise their own film business, only to be caught unprepared later on when the digital camera revolution came anyway and then took massive losses.
The company will roll out tactics to mitigate password sharing in 2024. While Iger said Disney should see some effects from the rollout in 2024, the initiatives to prevent password sharing won’t be completed next year.
Republicans don't want small government, they want a fascist police state and a corrupt military industrial complex to oppress people around the world to steal their shit while funding profitable wars for their contractors.
I think the last 2 people who wanted small government and balanced budgets were like John McCain (dead) and John Kasich (retired, but endorsed Joe Biden in 2020) and they're no longer relevant.
Honestly, as a party, they need to go. I want an opposition party to the Democrats, but they're not it. Hell, America really needs ranked choice voting and more open primaries, and probably 4 major political parties.
Rise from the dust and glide the sands of a timeless land, filled with ancient dangers, mysteries and fragments of the past. Hunt legendary monsters with powerful sand-infused weapons and abilities in spectacular, super-powered combat.
I saw some trailers for this. The "sand surfing" movement looked interesting, but everything else looked just okay to me. If fun traversal is all this has, I'm not sure how well it'll do. It also seemed like most of the environments were just deserts, and that can get old fast too.
Don't get me wrong, I sure hope it does well and I'd love to be proven wrong, I'm just skeptical of a lot of new game releases nowadays.
Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 is poised to be one of the biggest cinematic role-playing games in years & many devs are criticizing the scale/scope of it!...
Nobody really expects RPG's to be as big and deep as BG3, they just want a complete game that works without shitty microtransactions everywhere and always online for no reason. Plus, having interesting characters and storylines, quests that can be solved in more than one way, and gameplay that's actually formed by taking player feedback and listening to it is what people reacted well to, among other things. Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't even have Denuvo!
If there's one thing that I hope competitors learn from Larian and BG3, it's that respecting your players and giving them what they want leads to success. Similar to Elden Ring and from software, like that video mentioned. Now compare BG3 to Diablo 4 and Immortal, or the upcoming Starfield and you'll see why people love it. It's not about specs or scope, it's about designing a game to be actually FUN.
Having received Kingmaker for free and tried it on a supposedly "normal" difficulty, I totally understand why people save scummed and did it myself, because the game balance is so poor in the early sections that if you don't save scum, progressing was often literally impossible.
And then later on, if you got some really bad rolls, particularly when travelling or making camp, even if you could progress, you'd have used so many resources that it wasn't worth it. The worst part was that certain class combos were overpowered and others were really horrible too. That game was just all over the place, and I eventually stopped playing it not because I couldn't handle the difficulty, but because it was a chore to play and unfun.
Very clunky all around, and it got repetitive too and had many work-like elements. I hear the sequel is much better, so I may try that instead later, or the upcoming 40k RPG from Owlcat.
I don't think there's ever been a save scum debate. Most people just do it, especially the game is unreasonable or has easily missable / permanently locked content that you lose out on forever after dozen or hundreds of hours of playtime unless you save scum.
It's more like most people do it without shame because they have lives, jobs, families, and limited time and energy to play, and a vocal minority of tryhards and internet trolls (who also save scum but lie about it) who try to force their twisted values on the majority for no other reason than to try to control everyone because of some personal dysfunction.
Not quite. When Putin switched Russia from communism to crony capitalism, inequality increased for the average person, and people were surprised how things got worse. Add to that how western corporation set up shop in Russia just to exploit everyone and screw things up, and the population went from being cautiously optimistic about US businesses setting up shop to actively hating the west.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this. There are definitely big differences, but in some surprising ways, Japan always struck me as being like the England of the east.
Yep, the people who marketed Katanas and Samurai were straight up liars. It was eye-opening to see how much they were shilling. It was the old equivalent of "clickbait" back then, and definitely fake news. I remember reading that they only folded the metal something like 10 times usually because folding it too much would just make the sword brittle.
I was also surprised that Katanas weren't that strong and couldn't really be used to block and might snap if used against bone too many times. And could be stopped by stuff like thick wooden armor. It's why Samurai didn't carry handheld shields. Since Katanas couldn't penetrate their armor, they just used parts of the armor to block.
Then again, most swords weren't useful against strong armor. That's what spears and hammers / maces were for. The more I learn, the more I realize medieval fantasy (and historical fiction) tropes are so incredibly wrong.
Going day to day, dd/mm/yyyy works, but for archival purposes and looking up stuff in the past, mm/dd/yyyy works better, imo. Like when you need to go through a physical file cabinet, or an electronic database.
Or you're the type of person who's zoned out all the time and don't even know what month it is until you look at a clock or calendar.
I'd read that. Because the honest title, and I'd be curious as to why they're doing it, and if there might be a niche way to actually make it worth it one day.
To be honest, Dark Eldar society is so cutthroat, I can't imagine anyone being able to stop or relax to enjoy themselves, as it'd leave them vulnerable to capture and / or death. It's one of the societies it'd probably best not to be a part of, even if you're at the "top". Because all being at the top means is that everyone is your enemy. Only reason the people up top don't get overthrown all the time is because GW doesn't want to write the lore for that, or make new characters all the time.
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Iraq bans the word "homosexual" on all media platforms and offers an alternative (www.cbsnews.com)
Police stage 'chilling' raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones - Kansas Reflector (kansasreflector.com)
In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters, and the publisher's home.
I can't believe 35% of Baldur's Gate 3 players already took the evil route (www.pcgamer.com)
Is it just me, or is that a lot of evil players?
Titan Quest II announced for PC (store.steampowered.com)
Nemesis, Goddess of Retribution, is out of control. She is corrupting the Threads of Fate and punishing all those who oppose her. Take up your weapon, fight alongside gods, and change fate itself in Titan Quest 2, an action RPG inspired by Greek mythology.
Metro 2033 creator Dmitry Glukhovsky faces eight-year jail sentence if he returns to Russia (metro.co.uk)
The writer of the Metro novels and video games has been handed an eight-year prison sentence, for his opposition to the Ukraine war.
In over 15 states, schools can still paddle students as punishment (www.washingtonpost.com)
Corporal punishment remains legal, especially in the South. It still has its defenders. But the costs can be steep.
Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000-a-year package with a mixture of anger and admiration (www.businessinsider.com)
Some tech workers questioned whether UPS drivers deserved high pay — others jumped in to note the importance of the jobs and harsh working conditions.
The first ever digital camera, built in 1975 by Eastman Kodak engineer Steve Sasson. It weighed 8 pounds (~3.6kg) and recorded 100x100 pixel photos to a cassette tape. (static01.nyt.com)
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Disney says it will crack down on password sharing, following Netflix’s lead (www.cnbc.com)
The company will roll out tactics to mitigate password sharing in 2024. While Iger said Disney should see some effects from the rollout in 2024, the initiatives to prevent password sharing won’t be completed next year.
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Insomniac, Blizzard, Obsidian Devs Attack Baldur's Gate 3 Scope, Call it "Rockstar-Like Nonsense"... (www.youtube.com)
Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 is poised to be one of the biggest cinematic role-playing games in years & many devs are criticizing the scale/scope of it!...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Reignites Age-Old Save Scumming Debate - IGN (www.ign.com)
Baldur's Gate 3's huge launch has reignited the age-old debate about save scumming.
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