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Keep moving through Hogwart's Legacy -- I'm guessing I'm about 2/3rds through. Will start Aliens: Dark Descent tonight.

The Democrats would be considered fiscally conservative in most of the rest of the western world.

It's not. Liberalism fundamentally believes in the rights of the individual, rather than the rights of groups of people. What many people call liberalism in the US is not what has generally been accepted as the definition of that word for hundreds of years (and still is outside of the US -- and increasingly Canada). In fact, in many cases it is the antithesis of that. US conservatism is also not classically liberal. As mentioned above, liberalism believes in the rights of the individual, equality of the individual before the law, liberty, etc. Modern US progressivism is decidedly not liberal.

Fiscally conservative and Socially Liberal is what most of the world calls "liberal" -- except the US of course.

There are some people who want to live in the city, others who prefer small towns, country living or suburbia. It's amazing how different people have different preferences.

I do a little bit of both. I tend to do most "story" side quests, but only a few "collectible" side quests if that makes any sense.

Review embargo has been reported as 2:30PM EST on Monday. One person claiming to be doing a review suggests it is running fine on Steam Deck.

Either way, neither TLoU, nor Horizon: ZD were among the "better" ports to PC.

Yes. They are great spectacles. Yes they are good action movies. Yes they also have much better stories/characters than most action movies. Yes. They are best to see in a theatre. Yes, if you have a decent home theatre setup, they are also awesome at home.

Microsoft - yes. Sony - no.

Afterwards, yes. But the "console exclusive" wording is really just Microsoft (and now) Sony marketing speak. Using it is akin to saying you drink Budweiser because it is the "king of beers".

There actually used to be a LOT of exclusives, where a significant portion of games were only available on one console. Once PC started to be larger than either the Xbox or Playstation platforms in terms of revenue, most publishers found it hard to ignore PC. And last gen, with MS's share collapsing (particularly outside the anglosphere), they found it harder and harder to sign deals with publishers to make a game an "Xbox exclusive", so their solution was to agree to pay publishers NOT to publish on Playstation and coin the term "console exclusive". The console exclusive term was originally Microsoft marketing-speak, and since most of the games enthusiast media exists to publish press releases and call them stories, that term got used extensively in the games enthusiast media. In terms of "Ecosystem", most of the money made by platform holders is made either through the 30% fee retained by the storefront, or through subscriptions. The MS store (and gamepass) are MS's ecosystem. Steam is Valve's.

I think these may surprise you (they are James Cameron movies after all). If you like his older stuff, there is a good chance you'll like this.

If you like action movies, they are both pretty solid.

There is a lot of personal preference in this. I like to have much of my peripheral vision filled in, so I prefer to sit closer than they suggest. My wife doesn't. As well, you also have to ask yourself, how big a TV fits in the space?

So, today. You slept in, then played video games?

I think you might be making assumptions about how the mode will work without seeing it in action. If anything, Forza Motorsports has always had relatively balanced racing (where your opponents cars scaled to yours). I can't imagine we're going to have a scenario where they throw you into a situation where you can't compete in a race. [Can I see a situation where they force you to practice and get some successful "hot laps" in? Sure.]

That would be a very valid way of having a racing game. I just don't think that is the type of racing game they're trying to make. The way they described the process of approaching a track/car, sounded very much like my perception of how real race drivers/teams approach a race weekend. Will that approach make a fun game that will attract a lot of people? Dunno.

Finally watched the video. IMHO, Forza Motorsport is going "all in" on sim racing, this Builder's Cup looks like it is forcing you to build your "sim racing" skills. This new proposed gameplay loop looks interesting, but until I play it, it's impossible to say how fun it will actually be.

Alienware 34 inch Ultrawide OLED. After gaming on a high refresh rate Ultrawide monitor, I don't think I could go back to gaming on a TV.

Progression in the career mode requires a persistent online connection.

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