For all the problems the game has, the major thing they get right is the environment.

Almost every area looks more than great, some are industrial, luxurious, barren, creepy, outright hostile, or cozy, but they are usually always gorgeous.

The environments are what pushed me to keep giving the game a chance after the initial shock of not having a cohesive overworld.

If you have a good unit then most of the military experience is hanging out with your friends all the time.

Except for the 5am PT every morning, and at 7am when you've got to get your truck ready at the motor pool, or 8am when you've got special duty to set up the range, or 9am when there's a 2 hour briefing about keeping your hands to yourself and having a designated driver.

Lunch at 11am is usually alright, except the base you're at has the worst DFAC you've ever seen.

That range you helped set up? It's at 12am, and it's fun to blast away at targets thinking about how much weapon cleaning you're going to do tonight.

There's a lot of leftover ammo, but you only had to shoot 2 magazines, so your rifle isn't going to be that hard to clean. (Any vets know what's coming next?)

First Sergeant says we can't waste ammo, if we don't use the 10,000 rounds they give us, they will only give us 5 rounds next time.

So the next several hours is spent in the sun, loading more rounds to mindless blast in the general direction of targets on the range.

7pm rolls around, it's quitting time. Just kidding, night land nav, time to stumble around around in the dark with shitty NVGs and try to find all the points scattered throughout 2 miles, using nothing but a compass and a map.

Except nobody ever gets all the points, so everyone gets together at the end to share the points they found.

10pm, now it's quitting time, except wait, some moron has lost their night vision goggles, so instead of going back to the barracks, everyone is going to spend the night on the land nav course until it's found. In the morning it's found right next to one of the vehicle tires.

Those are the general events of a somewhat easy day in a combat unit. A day without overnight watch, hours of formations and drill ceremony, 30km ruck marches, endless briefings, flipping landscaping rocks because first sergeant doesn't like the side you flipped everything to last month, etc etc etc.

Plex shares (I actually use an Emby share) are what streaming should have been after cable.

It's the perfect service, everything all in one spot for a reasonable fee.

I'd pay up to $100 a month for that legally, but instead the studios want to bleed me dry.

So they get nothing.

You're getting heavily downvoted by people who obviously don't understand how RAM works. Or how computers work?

Guys, Apple is shitty, we all know this, but onboard RAM is the least of their anti-consumer practices.

The problem with socketed RAM is the length of the traces going back to the CPU. That 100% reduces performance (and battery life) by a significant amount. Especially when using that socketed RAM as iGPU VRAM.

Dell's CAMM standard reduces the latency compared to SODIMM, for socketed RAM, but what we really need is for someone like Apple to invest R&D into really tiny RAM sockets that are super close to the CPU, instead of researching ways to lock users out.

Sure it does.

It makes teachers wonder why, yet again, they're being forced to bear the brunt of the culture war, and they're going to eventually quit.

Then the schools won't be able to find good teachers, the education system will be further deteriorated, and private schools will become the only schools worth attending, further eroding the future prospects of working-class Floridian children and America as a whole.

I don't think that's the grand strategy at play, I just think the people in charge don't care if it happens, as long as they get enough praise from their voters.

sheds a single tear as I unzip my trousers

I hate to ever give law enforcement any leeway as abuse is so common, but if someone is hurting children I don't care how you stop it.

Is this satire? Because that's exactly the excuse government has been giving for hundreds of years, to take your freedoms away.

It's never about the children. The Catholic church operating with near total immunity, after all these millennia of abuse, is proof of that.

All Google domains are transferring to SquareSpace, and you get 1 renewal at the old rate before SquareSpace can charge you whatever they want.

I thought it was insane that they take apart a fully built laptop to sell the diy version.

It's way more work for Framework, but they charge less for the diy model.

I wonder if user comfort with modifying internals on the diy model creates more sales in the long run, because customers can visualize what they'd be doing when installing an upgrade.

A mobile only platform is pretty much destined to be the lowest quality social media site around.

Just having a keyboard and mouse makes thoughtful expression so much easier.

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It also disables a lot of analytics, so you get a better experience than the paying customers, for free.

Why do I need port-forwarding for torrents?

Torrenting happily on Mullvad right now.