radix
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- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 1 day ago:
Hopefully the story or progression is engaging enough to keep my interest.
The devs have promised that the story and progression will be getting a change from previous entries. The past few have gotten some flack for just throwing all the currency and all the cars at you without much challenge to it. Recent editions are bordering on being a car-collector-simulator as much as a racing game.
Personally, I’ve loved them all for just messing around and driving hundreds of different cars, but a bit of change in formula would be welcome, if they can pull it off.
- Comment on why does almost nobody live here? 2 days ago:
Other comments give a good tl;dw already, but in case anyone wants a video with pictures and examples, Geography By Geoff has done this topic a few times. Here’s one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqyM54CNSsY
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 2 weeks ago:
I only get to the theater maybe 5-6 times per year, and that’s almost always with my spouse, so the movie is secondary to the experience.
I do watch a lot on streaming, and between the summary, genre, actors, director, and reviews, both professional and word-of-mouth…I can usually pick out what I will enjoy. If it turns out bad, it’s one button to turn it off.
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 2 weeks ago:
I will watch good movies, and skip terrible movies. Whether they are in a franchise or not has no bearing on it, for me.
So go ahead and make more. I may see it. I may not. But I’m not going to begrudge anyone who wants to see more of that character no matter what.
- Comment on get zapped, idiot 2 weeks ago:
That never happens to Thor-opods.
- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 2 weeks ago:
Your link doesn’t mention Clinton at all, but starts with this:
Federal law does not allow national referendums in the United States where the general population gets to vote on an issue.
It happens at the State level regularly (in states where it’s used), but it’s not something a President can initiate.
- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 2 weeks ago:
Can you be more specific? The US doesn’t have any mechanism for a national referendum on a specific issue. Usually when people use that term, they’re talking about mid-term elections (and reelection bids) being a “referendum” on a President’s total popularity.
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 2 weeks ago:
Our family computer at the time was well below the minimum specs, so i played for the first year or two at like 5 fps. Good game, not good as a slideshow. lol
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 2 weeks ago:
First game I specifically asked for from my parents: Stunt Driver. Must have been in the first half of 1990.
First game I saved up for and bought myself: Super Mario Bros 3. Much of the money I saved came in the summer of 1990, so that would have been in late summer of that year.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 3 weeks ago:
This satan guy sounds like a hoot. I want to see more of that.
- Comment on Would submitting a criminal complaint against Trump and his administration too the ICC for war crimes be a waste of time? 3 weeks ago:
Neither is Russia, but the ICC still issued warrants for the arrest of several leaders after they invaded Ukraine.
en.wikipedia.org/…/International_Criminal_Court_a…
I’d love to see the next Democratic administration just let them take him and all his cronies.
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 3 weeks ago:
Terrible name for a Jedi.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 3 weeks ago:
If food were just about cold, hard, logical choices based on nutrition alone, we’d all just eat Soylent Red and Yellow.
People trade long-term detriment for short-term enjoyment all the time.
- Comment on Anon the explorer 4 weeks ago:
Steam tag: “choices matter”
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 4 weeks ago:
Yep. People tend to think of the big 5-10 names that are on every corner, but the FDIC insures over 4,000 banks in the US.
PDF warning: fdic.gov/…/fdic-latest-industry-trends-december-2…
- Comment on Anon uses his computer 4 weeks ago:
This is why Windows peaked with version 2000.
- Comment on Stardock announce an expansion into indie game publishing 4 weeks ago:
They had some cool software like 20 years ago. Then they doubled down on the subscription model, and I haven’t thought about them much since then.
Hopefully they don’t lean into live service games or DLC traps.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I have a not-that-old work laptop with a single usb-c charge port (for the dock) and the connection sucks. Thankfully that one also has a barrel port for power only.
I hate that my new one is usb-c only. I’m moving between locations often enough that long-term durability is a concern having to plug/unplug that one all the time. I’d much rather it was an extra few mm thicker and have a charge port I’ll never have to worry about.
- Comment on Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that 1 month ago:
Have you ever magnetically levitated a cow? If not, then however magnetic they are, it’s less magnetic than frogs.
- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 1 month ago:
She’s hot, but there’s just too much pressure to make it work.
- Comment on A Utah city is removing raised traffic-calming measures on a busy road after backlash from residents 1 month ago:
Citation? All I can find is that they ended mandates in April 2021, but nothing about a ban.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 1 month ago:
This article should be Exhibit A in any class on “correlation does not imply causation.”
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Gambling was made more accessible in the US because of a SCOTUS case in 2018. Starting later that year, Delaware became the 2nd state to allow sports betting (after Nevada). The list of states allowing access to online sports betting keeps growing, with Missouri the latest to join less than 3 months ago. 39 states now have gambling in some form, with 7 more considering legislation in the next year or two.
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Gaming revenue took off in 2020-2021 because more people were spending all day at home. It has since flattened, or slightly declined as a) pandemic-era games that were written and designed in those tough circumstances turned out poorly. b) gaming company execs thought the gravy train would never end, so set projections too high. c) acquisitions and mergers due to a combination of a) and b) meant massive layoffs and low-effort slop. d) VCs bought up the shells of former successes and accelerated c). Oh look:
A new report by Epyllion, a gaming industry advisory company headed by venture capitalist and market guru
These two things have nothing to do with one another, besides coincidentally happening at roughly the same time.
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- Comment on Multiplayer car games? 1 month ago:
Wreckfest 2 is in early access, if that counts as upcoming. Same developer as Flatout 2, so it should feel similar, just more modern.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 2 months ago:
Remember a few years back when all new companies were just normal words with (all/most of) the vowels removed?
It’s all fads. Creativity requires more risk than the current environment is willing to accept. So you just do whatever everyone else is doing and call it revolutionary anyway.
- Comment on Overbearing datetime pickers 2 months ago:
And they always include the newest year, just in case a 5-week-old is using the website.
- Comment on Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026 2 months ago:
The original Japanese release of The Legend of Zelda was February 21, 1986, making it 40 in just under three weeks.
North American and European releases were in the summer and fall of 1987, though.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 2 months ago:
I did a pretty extreme weight loss a few years back, and in two months, I lost 20 pounds.
Even that was a bit more than is recommended without strict medical supervision. Two pounds per week is kind of the upper bound of “normal” weight loss. Don’t attempt more without a very, very good reason, and an even better doctor.
- Comment on What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent? 2 months ago:
Whatever I would do, I most certainly wouldn’t post it on the internet.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 2 months ago:
You can’t attach it to the floor, but can you use some good double-sided tape or super glue to attach small steel weights to the underside of the corners?
Any home improvement store should have some flat bar. 1/8" or about 3mm should be flat enough to avoid a tripping hazard, but check local regs for commercial properties.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 months ago:
There is no market Microsoft won’t half-ass* their way into.
* Purely as an expression. Teams is nowhere near usable enough to give it that much credit.