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The idea that being nearby competitors with comparable services equals competition is laughable. I'm actually sympathetic to the court that they don't want to tell the FCC what evidence they can and can't consider, and the FCC should be the experts in their area, so it makes sense that they should have a pretty wide latitude in what they want to consider. Still, this seems so over the line that it ventures into parody. I'd like to see the actual data behind their "evidence," because I'm dubious to say the least. As someone who has spent a decade finding ISPs for business locations, my experience is that your neighbors' service is rarely representative of yours, especially if you're on the border of an ISP's territory. One location struggled with poor internet service for years, but when another ISP came in and started competing, we magically got much faster and cheaper service than before. It's almost as if a competitive market drives better outcomes.

Damien Chazelle's Neil Armstrong biopic has a new trailer, has gotten a warm reception at its opening, and done well with early reviews. I'm quite excited. Chazelle's first two films were excellent, and I have a huge soft spot for everything Apollo related. First Man opens on October 12. I also saw a preview of First Man in front of Mission Impossible Fallout in IMAX. I'll put a spoiler tag around my impressions just because.

I doubt I'd be able to come up with documents like that. If you've had a passport and a birth certificate, I can't imagine thinking you'd need anything else to prove citizenship. Citizenship now relies on your mother being a packrat for 30 year old expenditures?

If I'm going to do this thing that I think is a waste of money, I'm going to waste more money than you can imagine!

The Verge on where that 96% figure came from: I know that Trump's talk about how "this is a very serious situation-will be addressed!" is the empty threat of a early morning Twitter troll, but let's for a brief moment consider what kind of action could actually be taken here. Do these conservatives really want the US government to go to a private company and force them to change results based on some kind of political fairness algorithm. Setting aside the impossibility of pleasing anyone with such an algorithm, it would be an unprecedented (I hope) and obviously unconstitutional example of governmental overreach. I know it's all bluster, but even the most cursory thought to the potential policy behind his specious reasoning can't possibly pass muster.

I think that first person shooting is often difficult to parse in video. When people talk about a shooter like Destiny just feeling right, it's not something that I think is particularly well conveyed in video. It's the little things, the feel or the texture of the combat that differentiate excellent shooters from more generic ones. If there was anything in the video (at least what I watched of it) that felt bland it was the default pistol. I think a fully automatic weapon like that can easily feel more boring than things like the shotgun that we saw later.

I don't really follow these stories very closely, so I suppose it's old news, but 52 rapes over 4 years by 31 different people? Talk about rape culture. Burn it down. Burn it all down.

It looks a lot like Deus Ex, and I think that's a good thing. I imagine we'll see plenty of people that complain about the shooting being generic even though the game allows you to play in any number of ways

They're playing with an Oculus Rift but they didn't use Touch? Touch makes the game much more natural to play, not that it seemed to be a barrier. Still, that was a fun watch.

I started this one recently and I've been enjoying it well enough. My biggest impression is that it's not quite yet living up to its potential. It's an easy enough show to watch without focusing on it too much, so I'll finish the 10 episodes.

I think the combat looked about like I might expect. Nothing particularly different or exciting, but nothing that looked bad. Overall the game looks very solid.

I don't care that Trump being a dick, breaking norms, or hating McCain isn't new information, I want people to be constantly reminded he's doing those things, even as it's increasingly the status quo.

So Nikon finally announced their new full frame mirrorless cameras and I'm considering if this is where I finally go full frame. Of the Nikon FX lineup, the D850 is the only "modern" camera there, and I can't justify the price. The Z6 would be $2700 with the adapter and lens, and I feel like it's more future proof than buying a (significantly cheaper) four year old D750 or 6 year old D600. I could still use most of my old lenses (I do have some DX glass), including my more expensive pieces. It's a good deal more than I've spent on a camera before, but I've been wanting to make the jump to a nicer camera for a while, so I'm trying to figure out if I'm overspending out of gear lust or I'd be better off spending less for a less exciting gizmo.

As long as the Broccolis are so opinionated in the making of these films, I don't think we'll see anyone with too much style take the reins on a Bond film. I'd love to see a Bond movie where Nolan had complete creative control. Edgar Wright would be a great choice, though I'd like to see him get a new lead. Make Bond fun and campy again. More Marvel than DC. Again, that would probably only work if he had real control over the project, otherwise we'd end up in another Ant-Man situation.

So the Switch continues to succeed and GTA V is a freaking beast.

I'm excited for anything from Jeremy Saulnier. How many films do you end up seeing over the duration?

Last March Putin unveiled Russia's nuclear powered missiles, boasting of their unlimited range and ability to avoid countermeasures. Apparently they've been testing them in the Barents Sea to the north of Russia, but all four tests have quickly ended in failure. In contrast to their purported unlimited range, the longest flight achieved so far lasted all but two minutes. US intelligence experts think that Moscow has recovered three of the missiles, but cannot locate the last one. The missiles did not have nuclear warheads, but obviously the nuclear material powering the reactor is still a concern.

I would argue that this is one of those areas where it's clearly not both sides doing this. Under Obama the democrats had sufficient majorities to push through all sorts of procedural changes that would have made pushing their agenda far easier. They largely didn't. It took relatively minor, and largely self inflicted roadblocks for the GOP to start tearing down norms.

I mostly agree with this sentiment, but purely as a consumer and early adopter of tech, I'd caution against buying into the first generation, which this effectively is. I want to see it succeed, and I want to see ray tracing become the norm, but I think there is enough industry incentive to make that happen. It's a differentiating feature unlike anything we've re seen in graphics tech in recent memory, making it an obvious profit incentive for nvidia. It should simplify lighting models for game creators, giving them an unusual incentive for adoption (at least compared to other high end features), especially once incorporated into the standard game engines out there. The only issue facing it's eventual adoption is how far behind AMD is. If this is something AMD can compete at in relatively short order (a couple years at most), I can't think of a reason it won't become standard.

Puzzle mode is pretty fun. The first few sections are really easy, but the fourth level of each type can be pretty challenging.

The one for the Wii U will still work with the Switch, right?

Strange that they're releasing 3, which came out in 2011, rather than 4 which came out in 2013, unless they're going to release both.

Spider Man RDR2 Smash Fallout 76 Tomb Raider I'm debating Odyssey. Between Spider Man and RDR I don't feel like I'll have enough time or the excitement for another open world game.

Infinity War is a film that is completely inextricable from the meta narrative in a way that I don't think any other movie ever has been. It's something that I really like about it. It's audacious in the many ways that it doesn't care if you understand everything about the MCU or not. You can pick up from context who the good guys are, and the bad guy's entire arc is pretty much contained in this one film, but largely this is a movie that expects a lot from the audience. That means some people won't understand the context of it, and many more will not understand certain points, but by and large this is a movie that exists entirely in the larger canvas of the MCU. Characters are introduced to each other in only the most brief and cursory ways, motivations, powers, relationships, running jokes, character arcs; all can only be gleaned from a context outside of this one film. It's in that way that the ending serves as a cliffhanger. The language of the film is not. The language of the film purposefully functions as an end to this story. Thanos got all the stones, he snapped his fingers, the good guys lost, the end. Within the singular context of the film, that is the end of the story, and I like that about it. Still, it's a cliffhanger in the context that they expect the film to be viewed, that is, in the context as a culmination of the MCU. If you have the context to not question why Hulk and Thor start on a ruined spaceship, you have the context to understand there will be another chapter.

Annoyingly they're also making changes to Twitch. Twitch Prime won't include ad free viewing anymore as of October. You'll have to subscribe to Twitch Turbo for $9/month to get rid of ads.