If your character is drunk, drugged, or otherwise impaired, yeah load up the motion blur.

Besides that, I don’t get why it’s there. Stuff just kinda naturally blurs when you turn fast if your eyes can’t keep up. If your eyes can keep up, why would you want it blurry?

They switched from the console itself being a loss leader like they did in previous generations to actually trying to profit off of them. Because they decided selling games and online subscription to use them isn’t enough anymore.

So yes, the PS6 will be just as bad, if not worse. Look at prices of PS5’s right now. I know it’s because of the ai bubble, but we don’t know how long it’s going to last.

Also the “easy” major gains in performance are gone. Making computers faster used to be a manufacturing problem, now it’s a physics problem. Don’t expect major gains per die size or power consumption anytime soon. The next gen will obviously be faster than the current gen, but I’d expect an even smaller generational leap than from ps4 to ps5, and that additional performance won’t be free.

I’ll add that even in the US, it’s somewhat common for mountain roads to periodically have an extra passing lane, pull-off points, or an extra wide shoulder so motorists can get around slower traffic.

So there’s really no excuse for not adding a bike lane on uphill portions in cycling heavy areas whenever those roads need to be repaved.
…so maybe we’ll see some of that in the next 50 years…

I don’t think it would really be any louder than a normal water cooling setup, since you need fans on your radiators anyway. It would just be hideously inefficient compared to radiators, so higher temps. It would be adding like at least 4 thermal transfer boundaries, and heat pipes don’t really work until they get to their operating temperature. So best case scenario, it would probably run a couple degrees warmer than just regular air cooling.

Interesting to hear about how the DS was perceived in china, and how much more popular the PSP was. Also DQ9 is a great game, very cool how much effort was put into the Chinese translation.

Closest thing I have to an interesting DS story was when I took my DSi apart to paint it like the new 3DS Ambassador consoles. I killed the top screen at some point in the process, so had to get a replacement and disassemble the console and feed the ribbon cable through again. Quite the pain, but it worked and I enjoyed the finished product. But less than a year after that I just bought the new 3DS in white and got knockoff ambassador faceplates. Love the look of that system. So the DSi has been collecting dust, but I’ve been regularly using that 3DS ever since.

No idea what he’s on about, but now I’m imagining a loop running to like four NHD-15’s bolted to the top of a case. Like using those with waterblocks mounted to them instead of normal radiators.

Why? Fuck if I know, but it’d be funny

What flag is that? Somehow I can’t find a match?

That’s badass

Deka and Hecto are the metric system’s unloved children

Wonder if some of this is people not playing their steam decks as much anymore? I remember there being a surprisingly significant bump in Linux useage when that released. A lot of handhelds kind of have a honeymoon phase before collecting dust on a shelf, and maybe getting picked up again if you have a long flight or something, and then returning to the shelf.

I’m leaning slightly towards the normal Duo, for versatility. I’m starting a new job soon which will require a lot of sitting in airports and planes, so a lot of time to try out different games.

But I’ll probably wait for a review on the Duo first, even if it means taking a while to get one. My new 3DS is still holding in there for now lol. But thanks for the input!

This seems like a great chassis, with a woefully underpowered SOC. That said, it has me excited for the non-lite and the lite plus.

I’m still torn between those two tbh. On one hand I’m drawn to the flat back of the lite plus, on the other the oled screens of the non-lite. For the vast majority of games I play on handhelds I really don’t need analog triggers, but idk, maybe it would be fun to play some old racing games? But the vast, vast majority of what I play is jrpg’s, mostly turn based. So for that, the analog triggers don’t matter at all. Decisions

Can’t wait for the New Switch 3DS XL

Should’ve called the Switch Lite the Switch Pocket, and the Switch 2 the Switch Advance

I only get that after a night of binge drinking. So for better or for worse, like maybe twice a year. But that’s definitely chemical assistance lol

Losing EVGA was a sign of the times ahead.

Not that the times then were much good either

Back in like 2010 one of my friends bought a Cessna for $50k pretty much right after graduating high school. I wonder if prices have really gone up that much, or if he got a sweet deal back then.

Granted his dad was also a pilot and they shared a grass strip with some neighbors way out in the country, and had their own hangar. So besides the plane, there wasn’t really any additional cost for him.

But he did buy it himself. Dude was a hustler, buying, fixing, and flipping go karts, boats, motorcycles, cars, etc since he was like 13. So makes sense planes were next on that list.

100% expected, now go buy a 6000lb pickup truck that gets 15mpg for $100k like a good American

Affordable environmentally conscious transportation? Not in trumps America

Whenever oil producers and auto manufacturers can’t pay off politicians anymore

But more seriously, more money goes into road maintenance than rail maintenance even in the EU, which has way more rail than the US. And while I’m a big fan of trains for transportation, cars still make a lot of sense for a lot of people across the US. Trains are great for connecting population dense areas to each other. The US has a heck of a lot of “middle of nowhere”, that’s way too far from urban areas for it to be reasonable to build rail to, to be reasonable to ride a bike to the nearest town that has a station, or even have a bus route that would be going by.

In my dream world we would convert pretty much all the 4-lane roads in the US into 2 lanes of car traffic on the inside, with narrower lanes on the outside for bikes and scooters and whatever other small slow things on wheels, and light rail either on one side or what is now the median. I figure if it’s worth having 4 lanes, it’s probably worth having light rail.

Good to know. I do remember dropping it because it felt like I could watch 10 episodes and nothing happened. And sometimes I would just scrub through an episode to see if it’s still the same fight and pretty much just skip it.

When they weren’t fighting for 20 episodes at a time it was a fun show, but ehh idk if I’ll ever get back into it