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@skillzdadirecta I guess if there's a silver lining, you can finally hear people say "economic anxiety" and agree with it!

Sounds about right. And the ones with health insurance tied to their jobs, yeesh, the stress of that. =\

Some developer reactions. Developer on Reset: "What John is saying sounds pretty right to me! I don't want to down play GPU power, but I promise everybody that you will be absolutely blown away by visuals on both consoles. However, the SSDs are the big difference when coming into this gen. We're not talking about "load times" in the classic sense. That's an antiquated way of thinking about data coming from your hard drive. For the last 10+ years we've been streaming worlds on the fly. The problem is that our assets are absolutely huge now, as are our draw distances, and our hard drives can't keep up. It means that as you move through the world we're trying to detect and even predict what assets need loading. Tons of constraints get put into place due to this streaming speed. An ultra fast drive like the one in PS5 means you could be load in the highest level LOD asset for your models way further than you could before and make worlds any way you want without worry of it streaming in fast enough. The PS5 drive is so fast I imagine you could load up entire neighborhoods in a city with all of their maps at super high resolution in a blink of an eye. It's exciting. People don't realize that this will also affect visuals in a big way. If we can stream in bigger worlds and stream in the highest detail texture maps available, it will just look so much better. I think the Xbox drive is also good! The PS5 drive is just "dream level" architecture though."

The difference between young and old people's risk of serious illness is pretty big. West Virginia is at the highest risk for adults in general.

Yes, they are in office. Democratic leaders have also said to hold Democrats accountable once they're voted in; ignoring it or changing the argument means they can do whatever they want, even if it's bad policy (see: Iraq War). The vote really doesn't make much sense unless they actually believe this, and in Sinema's case, I highly doubt it.

I've no idea how reliable the source is, but I know one of Kinda Funny's hosts said Spidey 2 is coming way sooner than we'd think (it was some episode from the second half of 2019, I forget which). So it wouldn't surprise me regardless if this is a 2021 game.

That really has nothing to do with holding them accountable.

Too late.

I'm gonna have to think about whether or not to forgive you. Or maybe let @Keyser_Soze be the judge of whether I should.

Even though I watched both last year, I'm probably going to go into the Frasier/Seinfeld well again because they're big feel-good shows for me. I've been thinking of subscribing to HBO Go at some point (have some movies on the backlog to watch with the lady) to watch Veep. I watched two seasons that were available on Amazon Prime and loved it, but I need to watch the rest!

I dunno; Shinobi on Reset (pretty reliable insider) said people would get excited to see the price once all the details have emerged. I don't think that means it's like the PS3 which was technically a good deal for the 599 US Dollars but required people to get 17.3 jobs.

In addition to this, I feel most games targeting 30fps have been vastly more consistent this generation than last. Compare the Uncharted games to Uncharted 4 and Lost Legacy; besides the final chapter of Lost Legacy, these games were far more consistent beauties than their PS3 counterparts at the time despite the size/complexities of the set pieces. Horizon Zero Dawn doesn't seem like a game that could have ran as seamlessly as it did had it been released last gen.

Agreed on the last part, but I get what b_m is saying. With the amount of people unemployed and and GOP Senators in Utah and Alaska voting yes, I don't see anything they had to lose. I really don't think rural dudes in WV oppose paid sick leave after they're unemployed. Trump's signing the bills: I don't think they have to protect themselves in Trump Country from voting for something Trump signed.

While it stunk to hear that it's in Congress, I feel like it was an inevitability considering how the building/seats are set up. I've actually been very happy to see even guys I dislike -- Ted Cruz, for example -- self-quarantining.

On drives:

Shinobi on Reset: "I get there's disappointment in some of the details today (backwards compatibility) and some weaker aspects compared to Series X, but I'm positive once the public starts seeing things like price, the physical system itself, launch titles and other games coming to the platform and how great they look, this will all be a fleeting memory. It's just a waiting game now." "I'm positive once the public starts seeing things like price," "price"

I just don't think it matters for us what strategy they're employing. Especially with so many of us changing what we're doing and being overwhelmed with all the COVID news, I'm just psyched we're getting next-gen info dumps, even if consoles could be delayed into next year.

IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY AND STEEL BEAMS!

Florida peeps: Publix is changing its hours more. It opens at 8a, from 7a before, so employees have more time to stock shelves and do more sanitation. Having worked for Publix back in HS and college, this is probably a very good idea. It's gotta suck for customers who arrives at 7/7:30 and can't find anything. People get in as early as 4, sometimes 2, so they'll be able to get tons of product out on shelves.

Just read that Trump says he and Tredeau will close the US-Canada border.