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The Wine is too strong, it cannot be contained!

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OK, I've been wondering about the basic thing of this game. I mean, this is painfully obvious so I'm ashamed to ask, but . . . normal Russian Roulette is with a revolver, OK. So, the point is that if you put one bullet in the revolve-y thing, and the other five places are empty, and then you spin the revolve-y thing, then there is a one in six chance that when you pull the trigger it will hit an empty one, which is to say if you put the gun to your head, a five in six chance that you will actually survive. So, foolish and insanely dangerous, but there is this random factor. But with a shotgun, there is no revolve-y thing. If there's a bullet at all, and the gun is to your head, you die. This seems kind of anticlimactic and lacking in suspense. So like, what's the dodge? Seems a game with one move where you just die wouldn't be as popular as this is.

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Hmmm . . . I wonder about the card thing in nautical combat. I'm not sure I want my tactical options restricted by what cards I pull. It feels weird. Like, I can't maneuver unless I draw a card that says I can, seems kind of immersion-breaking.

Mind you, I don't think I've ever seen a nautical game where I thought the combat had that, you know, Horatio Hornblower/Master and Commander feel that I was looking for. So maybe I'm just picky.

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Quoting: doragasuSure it's going well for them: Denuvo even on small, cheap, old indie titles like Scott Pilgrim vs The World (so they don't lose a penny from piracy) and no unfair Steam cut, so they must be doing piles of money!

What? They are almost bankrupt? Unimaginable!

Inconceivable!

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It was impressive watching the seagull who stole my wife's donut hastily swallowing it whole to stop the other seagulls from getting it. Which seems kind of jerky given that they'd been acting as a distraction while it did a steep dive from behind.

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This definitely looks like my kind of thing. Wishlisted.

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Quoting: Beamboomit caused a serious hog on my system resources.

I am now imagining this pig with a deep frown of concentration running diagnostics on your system.

LOL but isn't that what it's called, resource hog?

Oh yes. I just suddenly was thinking of the hog being serious.

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Mm, put that way I can see Valve's point. What if you had a stack of different ones interacting weirdly, making Steam look bad and massively complicating support?

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Quoting: NibelheimCheck networth and how AMD is crushing Intel since 2022. Sales don't mean anything.

I would want to claim that sales do in fact mean something, and indeed that things like stock market valuation can often be deeply misleading, especially these days when it can often reflect cannibalizing the firm by using all the profits for share buybacks instead of investing in the firm. Boeing's net worth was sky-high until certain unfortunate incidents revealed they no longer have the ability to build decent planes.

If a company is in the selling chips business, and it is selling chips, you should have a lot more confidence in it than if it is not selling chips.

This is not to say that I have a ton of faith in Intel right now in particular. Just, in your haste to rubbish them don't create a bad rule of thumb that will mislead you.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI never really understood why people shell out massive amounts of money for a laptop that's heavy enough not really to be a mobile device anymore, when they could get a desktop PC with similar specs for half the price.

I generally agree. But, 5 and a half pounds . . . I could sling that in my backpack and not really notice it. So still moderately mobile if you're a backpack person.

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