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Quoting: BlackBloodRumWhy does everyone write this?
X (formerly Twitter)

I mean.. who doesn't know this at this point?

Why, anyone in today's 10,000 [External Link], of course.

Sheesh. Because of you I just spent five minutes reading about the Yellowstone supervolcano . . . probably for the second time.

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I had no idea I needed that. I wonder if you can export pictures of castles you come up with.

. . . You can pat the sheep!

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I've been playing "Endless Legend" and "Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War", both due to a tipoff from GoL that they (a) existed and (b) were currently free. Having fun with both.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumWhy does everyone write this?
X (formerly Twitter)

I mean.. who doesn't know this at this point? Why not just write "on X"?

Well, X could mean various other things, and the domain name is still twitter.com, and most people think calling it "X" was really stupid. So saying something like "X (formerly Twitter)" is kind of a way of saying "I don't care what that idiot changed the name to I'm going to use the name that's not ambiguous".

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Quoting: DrMcCoyHmm, since I already have a 7950X, upgrading to a 9950X doesn't sound worth it.

But, but you get 2000 more whatever-it-is!!!

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Cute trailer. I may well get this.

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Quoting: Mountain ManToo many companies making the mistake of trying to use Windows as a mobile operating system. :neutral:

They should be using WinCE! :woot:

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Some potential. The thing about comedy, though, is that it's hard. You can't just do a genre and say you're being funny with it, you have to actually be funny. What We Do in the Shadows wasn't funny because it was vampire humour. It was funny because it was really, really funny. So is this funny? I'm not really sure from the trailer.

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Quoting: PenglingThat potential was what grabbed me; I'd been waiting for Linux laptop support to get to where I wanted it to be (I dropped Windows in 2004 and moved to Mac OS X until 2007 while I waited for that), and the original Asus Eee PC proved that it was. Moreover, it was an ideal portable writing tool for me, and there really hasn't been anything else like it since.

I've noticed a lot of people these days in effect create improvised netbooks by taking a tablet and combining it with a little keyboard-and-stand setup. And I'm like, wouldn't it be better just to have the thing you want as a whole thing?

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This seems lousy. But the basic idea of rapid version release isn't so dumb for minor players like this. The idea of slow version release is all about the relationship the hardware has with software makers like game developers and with consumers. But for a small outfit, that relationship is different. If you're Sony, game developers are making games for your machine. They will want to make the games for the next machine; ideally that won't be in three months. Consumers may well intend to buy each version of the Playstation--they bought the Playstation N, and they want a good deal of enjoyment out of it before they have to shell out for the Playstation N+1.

But if you're a minor player, none of the game developers give a damn about your machine; things will run on it or they won't. Consumers buy one of your machines if they happen to see an ad and think huh, maybe I'll get that. They don't have a long-running relationship with your brand. In that situation, you might as well keep iterating to the latest hardware so at least you get an advantage in specs over the big players.

The Steam Deck is somewhere in between those extremes, so it might be that the optimum strategy is slightly faster release cycle than someone like Sony.

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