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Maybe it's intentional, to have you feel less safe when fiddling with your equipment.

I mean, you can always just show them the shit the South was writing at the time. No debate needed. For cause and comrades : why men fought in the Civil War : McPherson, James M : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive ARCHIVE.ORG Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-232) and index There are no secrets here. It was obvious, and it was yelled from the fucking rooftops.

The victim complex needs to be burned out of these morons, not fueled with yet more capitulation.

Valhalla leans more into video game fun than pure immersion, so I don't think it'll immerse you like RDR2.

You might want to wear a seat belt, it's gonna be whiplash-inducing going from a game like RDR2 to one where moving the control stick visibly moves the character on-screen at the same time.

30 FPS has been jarring to me for well over a decade so I'm certainly not gonna start choosing it willingly now!

Beat Astro's Playroom, or at least saw credits. Not sure if I'll go back and get all the artifacts and puzzle pieces. Was a fun little semi-tech demo, but wasn't exactly mind-blowing like some people were talking about. I guess it's because for me none of these features on the controller are exactly new. The adaptive triggers just reminded me of a slightly more advanced version of old racing wheels that could provide resistance and even move themselves, the "super omega HD rumble" feels exactly like the haptics that the Steam Controller has been using for 5 years now, and otherwise it's just kind of a nice, normal controller. Not that any of those are bad things, mind you, putting them all into one modern controller (as opposed to the Steam controller that no one uses) makes for some very cool possibilities (almost undoubtedly for first-party exclusives only unless MS adopts them for a mid-gen controller refresh) but each individual feature wasn't very new to me. The most memorable part for me wasn't any of the controller stuff, it was the dumb GPU-themed song which I found very amusing, if for no other reason than someone wrote a song about the concept of a GPU. Demon's Souls has been pretty fun. The fast loads feel really impressive, but when I sat down and thought about it, it didn't make any sense. From my memory, it didn't load any faster than I remember Souls games on PC loading. But it felt... different. So I loaded up Dark Souls 2 on PC (I didn't have 3 installed and didn't feel like installing it just to test this, but I remember its load times being very similar if not identical) and lo and behold, loading into the game, teleporting between bonfires was just as quick, quicker even as you don't have to wait for an animation to play out. Then it hit me, it was the animation that made it feel different. Because these consoles will have real SSDs, games will have to take that account when dealing with loading. On PC we've had super fast loading for what feels like an eternity, but it's always jarring because the games aren't designed around it. So you get a cut to black, or a split second of a loading screen filled with text meant to entertain some poor sap who has to start at it for 45+ seconds if they've got nothing else going on. The animation of you turning into ectoplasm or whatever and the fog rolling in and then the animation completing on the other side makes it feel like a smooth transition, rather than a hard cut. I can't wait for those kinds of animations to come to multiplatform games because it will be a nice change of pace from me desperately trying to read the first sentence of 4 paragraphs in a loading screen, or critical hints/tips being only shown in said screen. I'm installing Spider-Man now, I can finally get around to it now that it's 60 FPS. It just felt bad to me in 30. I've also got Sackboy ready to go, but I'm not sure if I care to try it any time soon. Mostly got it because there wasn't much else to get. I also plan to check out Ghosts of Tsushima sometime after I'm done with AC: Valhalla. Don't want to overload on open world games, but I'm also interested in it now that it's also at 60. Might wait for a sale, though. Still pretty expensive. And I still have Cold Steel 4 to play through. Juggling way too many games right now. All in all while my mind hasn't been blown, it's been WAY better than the PS4 at whatever point I got it (shortly after Bloodborne launch) at least in terms of the console itself and new features. It doesn't feel like an underpowered laptop like the old consoles did at launch and it's bringing some genuinely new and neat stuff to the table. I hope this generation proves fruitful.

I can confirm that the PS5 looks fucking stupid. I can appreciate that, as I like consoles the dumber they look (still waiting for a donut shaped console) but it's hardly cool or sleek. Neither is the Series X, but it's more... "stately" is really overselling it, but it's like a fat guy wearing a nice suit, whereas the PS5 is like the annoying 8 foot tall hipster, and in the case of my non-digital version, he's also got a weird hunchback.

And why not? You kill #2, now #3 is #2!

Yeah but what about not inviting the pedophile. I mean, you give me a list, A, B, C, D, I'm gonna pick the one that excludes the dude who shows his cock to kids.

Imagine rescheduling at something that will be a meme and make you look like a fucking moron forever instead of just uninviting pedophiles and sex offenders.

God, I find the use of emojis by adults to be unbelievably infantile and obnoxious. At least for serious shit like reporting on an election.

Found a lil town celebrating Halloween!

Ubisoft having to specifically design several settings lower than PC's lowest is... a little worrying. On the other hand, Legion runs like shit no matter your machine. You can only get it running "acceptably," even with RT off completely. It's not a good gauge of anything.

Frivolous litigation? Vexatious litigation? Aren't their laws/rules against jamming up the court system with the same thing over and over?

I can see the difference on a 27" monitor because I'm 2 feet from it... but the difference between 1440p to 4k and a much higher FPS is continually not worth it for me. That buttery smoothness is so much more noticeable and enjoyable for me. Temporal resolution > regular resolution

I have yet to find a single scenario where the bump to 4k is worth the loss of frames unless you're getting so many frames to begin with that you're still at 100+ in 4k.

Well if you want 4k visualls, 120 FPS, and ultra-fast load times on PC, you're going to have to boot up the game.

They will after we take turns sucking them clean. So that the world might be mended.

This would be an easier thing to accept if I saw anything resembling that actually coming from these people. My father-in-law is one of these types. Went from a relatively "normal" (i.e. Obama is Muslim and therefore we should be scared for some reason) right-leaning dingus several years ago to a full on Trump-worshiper today. Loves talking about his "black friend" who says that things were easier back with segregation and even slavery because it kept things simple and people knew their place. The difference between that and someone who arches an eyebrow at the things I'm saying but votes pedal-to-the-medal Trump and his types is... a distinction without a difference. At this point I'm not convinced you can even be a good person while still voting for this bullshit. "He's a good person except for his hatred of the negro" means he's not a good fucking person.

Pompeo lookin' to get his ass beat.

In before Microsoft swoops in and buys them, and then From Software, and then forces Bluepoint to remake Bloodborne exclusively for the Series X, with a weird Switch port a year later.

Not if we kill them all first!

Yes, it would be super unstable vertically without the stand. The bottom isn't very flat.

Jesus Christ this thing is way too tall. It's at least 85% as tall as my PC tower, except I'm worried it'll fall over. And it's too long to lay flat where I have it. Gonna have to tape it to my desk for stability.