Naw, I disagree. The shooters tend to be marketed to high end rings only, but there are a lot of games I like that work on my system great. The gamergodz will diasgree but I am not playing in their silly world. Fallout 4 does not need a high end rig, neither does Skyrim, the new Thief reboot, Tomb Raider reboot, all worked great for me. I was not getting 100fps but 30 is good enough to enjoy games if you're not constantly twitching.
At a certain point your average PC with 8GB and a $100 graphics card became good enough. You no longer needed to upgrade to top end hardware just to play the latest fad. And the game makers like this because the market is so much larger if it's not restricted to only the elites. Don't get the largest resolution monitor you can because that will hurt the performance, and I think this is the primary reason why top end games keep wanting the bigger and badder gfx cards because they want that 4K video.
And don't play the latest games, they're all crap anyway. Play a 3 to 5 year old game instead, the prices will have dropped.
Plenty of games that don't need reflexes still. The whole twitch style of gaming never appealed to me anyway. A lot of games make it easier because they're ports from consoles where you can't do twitch play anyway because of the ungainly controllers. And FPS tend to dominate which means huge budgets with little room for actual game play or bug fixing, with lots of fans who will mercilessly mock your $2000 gaming rig for being a beginner's set up. You really don't need the fast reflexes except for player vs player stuff (teabag parties).
But MMOs are indeed good because they usually set up your skills on a timer so that they can sync up with the servers and that no one gets disadvantaged because they're on a slower network or computer, and you don't get the one-shot kill from the enemy if you were a little too slow. But MMOs are very repetitive, so it has to be a good game with players that you like. And don't pick an MMO dominated by hardcore trolls, pick one for fun instead of competition.
Or just play Skyrim again. You don't need fast reactions on that. Then try Fallout 3 and 4. Replay old games. Try Portal 2.
Portal 2 is great. Portal 1 feels like it was just a demo or proof of concept for Portal 2.
I liked Half Life 1 and all its variants. Half Life 2 annoyed me; I waited until it was cheap since I hated the new DRM crap it had, then was disappointed that the game suddenly finished without resolving any storylines or saving the day, and you have to buy "chapter 2" to continue (screw that).
I was going to suggest Wasteland 2, because an old school gamer that liked Wasteland, or even Fallout 1, would like it. There are a lot of games in this vein, like Tides of Numenera or Pillars of Eternity. But after seeing "Quake" I don't know. That's a shooter, and not an old one. So now I don't know, I don't play shooters much, did he like Quake because he could shoot things, or because it was a gore fest, or because the brown on brown color scheme appealed to him?
Making errors does not make one a troll. Comments should never be marked as "troll" merely because someone disagrees with its views.
A university does have the right to control when certain facilities are used by others. The buildings are not open for anyone to walk in at any time of the day. If you want to reserve the use of a building for a special purpose then you need to arrange this with the university. The university can refuse this on several grounds, but cannot refuse it on the basis of the nature of the speech you intend to give. Ie, they can refuse it as being irrelevant to the purpose of the university and unrelated to any on campus student groups. There are significant costs to the university for any event that is held, even if the event is free the university still ends footing the bill.
This is similar to wanting to hold a rally on the steps of the US capitol. Despite being a clear and obvious part of the US government, you cannot hold that rally without permission.
The courts have also decided that some speech is not protected under the first amendment.
They don't really go away though. The KKK has not quite died down, despite being so old and archaic. There's a backchannel that keep these groups alive. They talk with each other and recruit without needing to have big rallies to do so.
The neo nazis won't dry up and die by being ignored anymore than ISIS will vanish by being ignored. Of course, giving them free press coverage will just encourage their growth.
However access to the university is not necessarily open to the public. You cannot just walk into any classroom and start talking. A university is not a public square. If you want to give a speech in a classroom then you need to get permission. If you want to stand on an outside corner on campus commons area and give an extemporaneous speech then you can do so. Most universities are well known for the bizarre people who put up a milk crate and start talking.
The HDMI connector is not expensive and likely to work better than a simple header connector. If a TV were to do anything here, it would be best to just make sure there is space on the back of the TV to insert streaming sticks easily, as some of them make it difficult to use a streaming stick without a cable. Additionally I wouldn't mind a nice caddy to hold the streaming box (roku, apple, firetv, all about the same size); I don't do it but I know people who velcro their tiny box to the back of the TV to hide it and the cables.
These days, serial is faster than parallel for buses except with short traces, and so ports now are very often bundles of serial pairs. Ie, this is the reason that hard drives have gone serial. So you don't lose anything wth an HDMI port. i believe that HDMI already has capability of doing remote control functions (ie, your streaming stick would potentially be able to be used as a remote control as well).
They have Roku TVs now. TV made by a normal TV manufacturer (as normal as they can be these days), but with Roku built-in as the smarts. So you get best of class streaming instead of the typical crap.
That said, I think it's still smarter to get a dumb TV + Roku, for flexibility.
Actually the dumb TVs are not always less expensive. The "smart" part of the TV is dirt cheap and they're not using quality design. In a brick and mortar store the vast majority of TVs will be smart TV, to get a dumb TV you may need to do the searching online.
Yes, the Ruby language is pretty decent. It's essentially Smalltalk in a textual form, with fewer pimples than a lot of other scripting languages. Ruby on Rails was the hype train, and when it comes to web programming there have been many hype trains.
Ruby is a real language (ignoring the "rails" thing). JavaScript is a hack. Using it on the server seems bizarre, unless your only devs only know javascript?
Every country is also unique in its political history, and those histories greatly affect modern views. For example, in the US politics has evolved through the original divides of the north and the south. Primarily the key issue was slavery but also as the north become more industrialized there were fundamental differences between industrial vs agrarian values. The slave issue creted idea of states' rights and that concept is still a politial hot button even today. Another key factor in the US were struggles over international trade issues, whereas in Europe such ideas were less vital because borders were very fluid and trade with other regions as vital to survival. US had gold versus silver fights, arising because of regional issues, and today the arguments about having a gold standard are driven more by constitutional issues rather than economic ones, thus being a uniquely American struggle.
You're probably confused because you can only see "left" and "right" with no subtleties. Strong central governments have been used in both traditionally leftist governments as well as traditionally rightist governments. A libertarian leaning is neither left nor right, and an authoritarian leaning is also neither left nor right.
Example: the Pinochet government of Chile. Very right wing, as trade unions were banned and many state institutions were privatized, while also have a pervasive surveillance with secret police.
The issue I think is that when people self identify as left or right that they do not want to believe that people with similar views can be bad. So, any dictator must be from the opposite side of the political spectrum, any political stance they disagree with must also be from the opposite side, and so on. That's why there's a current ongoing revisionist history to start labeling fascist governments as being socialist despite clear evidence to the contrary.
Of there are only two political sides, then we're much better off even then in throwing out the idea of one being good and the other must then be evil. Instead try to see it as two different views on how to improve life's situations and that cooperation is much more effective than demonization in getting good things accomplished.
Mine did. But it may have been optional, I don't remember now. I just entered the CC number thinking I might want a pay per view movie someday, but so far I haven't bought anything.
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I rarely used the power armor for that reason. When I play it again I'll get or build a mod that lets you run in power armor for free.
Naw, I disagree. The shooters tend to be marketed to high end rings only, but there are a lot of games I like that work on my system great. The gamergodz will diasgree but I am not playing in their silly world. Fallout 4 does not need a high end rig, neither does Skyrim, the new Thief reboot, Tomb Raider reboot, all worked great for me. I was not getting 100fps but 30 is good enough to enjoy games if you're not constantly twitching.
At a certain point your average PC with 8GB and a $100 graphics card became good enough. You no longer needed to upgrade to top end hardware just to play the latest fad. And the game makers like this because the market is so much larger if it's not restricted to only the elites. Don't get the largest resolution monitor you can because that will hurt the performance, and I think this is the primary reason why top end games keep wanting the bigger and badder gfx cards because they want that 4K video.
And don't play the latest games, they're all crap anyway. Play a 3 to 5 year old game instead, the prices will have dropped.
Plenty of games that don't need reflexes still. The whole twitch style of gaming never appealed to me anyway. A lot of games make it easier because they're ports from consoles where you can't do twitch play anyway because of the ungainly controllers. And FPS tend to dominate which means huge budgets with little room for actual game play or bug fixing, with lots of fans who will mercilessly mock your $2000 gaming rig for being a beginner's set up. You really don't need the fast reflexes except for player vs player stuff (teabag parties).
But MMOs are indeed good because they usually set up your skills on a timer so that they can sync up with the servers and that no one gets disadvantaged because they're on a slower network or computer, and you don't get the one-shot kill from the enemy if you were a little too slow. But MMOs are very repetitive, so it has to be a good game with players that you like. And don't pick an MMO dominated by hardcore trolls, pick one for fun instead of competition.
Or just play Skyrim again. You don't need fast reactions on that. Then try Fallout 3 and 4. Replay old games. Try Portal 2.
Portal 2 is great. Portal 1 feels like it was just a demo or proof of concept for Portal 2.
I liked Half Life 1 and all its variants. Half Life 2 annoyed me; I waited until it was cheap since I hated the new DRM crap it had, then was disappointed that the game suddenly finished without resolving any storylines or saving the day, and you have to buy "chapter 2" to continue (screw that).
I was going to suggest Wasteland 2, because an old school gamer that liked Wasteland, or even Fallout 1, would like it. There are a lot of games in this vein, like Tides of Numenera or Pillars of Eternity. But after seeing "Quake" I don't know. That's a shooter, and not an old one. So now I don't know, I don't play shooters much, did he like Quake because he could shoot things, or because it was a gore fest, or because the brown on brown color scheme appealed to him?
I seem to recall that all of those games were identical, only with slightly different skins.
Making errors does not make one a troll. Comments should never be marked as "troll" merely because someone disagrees with its views.
A university does have the right to control when certain facilities are used by others. The buildings are not open for anyone to walk in at any time of the day. If you want to reserve the use of a building for a special purpose then you need to arrange this with the university. The university can refuse this on several grounds, but cannot refuse it on the basis of the nature of the speech you intend to give. Ie, they can refuse it as being irrelevant to the purpose of the university and unrelated to any on campus student groups. There are significant costs to the university for any event that is held, even if the event is free the university still ends footing the bill.
This is similar to wanting to hold a rally on the steps of the US capitol. Despite being a clear and obvious part of the US government, you cannot hold that rally without permission.
The courts have also decided that some speech is not protected under the first amendment.
They don't really go away though. The KKK has not quite died down, despite being so old and archaic. There's a backchannel that keep these groups alive. They talk with each other and recruit without needing to have big rallies to do so.
The neo nazis won't dry up and die by being ignored anymore than ISIS will vanish by being ignored. Of course, giving them free press coverage will just encourage their growth.
However access to the university is not necessarily open to the public. You cannot just walk into any classroom and start talking. A university is not a public square. If you want to give a speech in a classroom then you need to get permission. If you want to stand on an outside corner on campus commons area and give an extemporaneous speech then you can do so. Most universities are well known for the bizarre people who put up a milk crate and start talking.
So try duckduckgo or other anonymizers.
Naw, in a fascist state you would be required to register on Facebook.
It does ask if you want to upload, and then you can say "NO!"
Political thought bubbles maintain their structural integrity by the constant repeating of the mantra, "the other guys are biased".
My mother has AT&T internet, and the fastest she could get is 1Mbps. I expected at least 1.5Mbps but they said it wasn't available.
The HDMI connector is not expensive and likely to work better than a simple header connector. If a TV were to do anything here, it would be best to just make sure there is space on the back of the TV to insert streaming sticks easily, as some of them make it difficult to use a streaming stick without a cable. Additionally I wouldn't mind a nice caddy to hold the streaming box (roku, apple, firetv, all about the same size); I don't do it but I know people who velcro their tiny box to the back of the TV to hide it and the cables.
These days, serial is faster than parallel for buses except with short traces, and so ports now are very often bundles of serial pairs. Ie, this is the reason that hard drives have gone serial. So you don't lose anything wth an HDMI port. i believe that HDMI already has capability of doing remote control functions (ie, your streaming stick would potentially be able to be used as a remote control as well).
They have Roku TVs now. TV made by a normal TV manufacturer (as normal as they can be these days), but with Roku built-in as the smarts. So you get best of class streaming instead of the typical crap.
That said, I think it's still smarter to get a dumb TV + Roku, for flexibility.
Actually the dumb TVs are not always less expensive. The "smart" part of the TV is dirt cheap and they're not using quality design. In a brick and mortar store the vast majority of TVs will be smart TV, to get a dumb TV you may need to do the searching online.
Yup, brands are bought and sold. That BigNameCo television is probably made by a commodity manufacturer in China that is licensing the name.
Because they add more value than an expensive CEO or CTO?
Yes, the Ruby language is pretty decent. It's essentially Smalltalk in a textual form, with fewer pimples than a lot of other scripting languages. Ruby on Rails was the hype train, and when it comes to web programming there have been many hype trains.
Ruby is a real language (ignoring the "rails" thing). JavaScript is a hack. Using it on the server seems bizarre, unless your only devs only know javascript?
Every country is also unique in its political history, and those histories greatly affect modern views. For example, in the US politics has evolved through the original divides of the north and the south. Primarily the key issue was slavery but also as the north become more industrialized there were fundamental differences between industrial vs agrarian values. The slave issue creted idea of states' rights and that concept is still a politial hot button even today. Another key factor in the US were struggles over international trade issues, whereas in Europe such ideas were less vital because borders were very fluid and trade with other regions as vital to survival. US had gold versus silver fights, arising because of regional issues, and today the arguments about having a gold standard are driven more by constitutional issues rather than economic ones, thus being a uniquely American struggle.
You're probably confused because you can only see "left" and "right" with no subtleties. Strong central governments have been used in both traditionally leftist governments as well as traditionally rightist governments. A libertarian leaning is neither left nor right, and an authoritarian leaning is also neither left nor right.
Example: the Pinochet government of Chile. Very right wing, as trade unions were banned and many state institutions were privatized, while also have a pervasive surveillance with secret police.
The issue I think is that when people self identify as left or right that they do not want to believe that people with similar views can be bad. So, any dictator must be from the opposite side of the political spectrum, any political stance they disagree with must also be from the opposite side, and so on. That's why there's a current ongoing revisionist history to start labeling fascist governments as being socialist despite clear evidence to the contrary.
Of there are only two political sides, then we're much better off even then in throwing out the idea of one being good and the other must then be evil. Instead try to see it as two different views on how to improve life's situations and that cooperation is much more effective than demonization in getting good things accomplished.
Mine did. But it may have been optional, I don't remember now. I just entered the CC number thinking I might want a pay per view movie someday, but so far I haven't bought anything.