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[–] scops@reddthat.com 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The PS3 also had damn few games to play at launch. If it wasn't for Sony's decision to ship it with a BD-ROM drive it probably would have been a total flop. Home theater nerds saved the PS3.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No, but I remember buying my first smartphone (SymbianOS) without a data plan and being terrified that using the GPS function with pre-downloaded maps would accidentally run up a thousand dollar phone bill.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 29 points 10 hours ago

So his concern is having a potential partner that he couldn't physically outmatch? Can't think of why a guy like that might be single

[–] scops@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago

I like this. I'm not stealing it, just copying it for personal use.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No it can't wait until Monday at 9am, no there will not be a staged roll out and multiple rounds of testing.

I hope you're doing internal product development. Otherwise, name and shame so I can stay the hell away from your product. This is a post-Crowdstrike world.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I spent a weekend helping my buddy who graduated magna cum laude with an Electrical and Computer Engineering degree build a PC. Given a breadboard and some schematics, he could probably have created working prototypes of half of the components, but figuring out where to put the screw risers under the motherboard? Forget about it.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago

It's not so bad. I hope he stays on the ballot for his shellacking in November, then goes down with his wife (ayy) when they get arrested for the $130k they appear to have misused from the DHHS

[–] scops@reddthat.com 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

On a walk through the woods, would you rather encounter a strange man, a bear, or twice-impeached former president Donald J. Trump?

[–] scops@reddthat.com 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm sad Jackson got redistricted out of his seat, but hopefully he will win his State Attorney General race and be well positioned to take a US senate position or maybe even run for governor down the line.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago

I'm almost tempted to turn off 2fa on my account and give it a weak password just to see what its next life becomes.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Also keep in mind, due to the vagaries of the Electoral College, a candidate can win with as little as 23% of the vote.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 20 points 1 week ago

Not to mention the Republican candidate called trans people filth, demonized abortion after his wife had one, and was known to spend multiple nights per week at the local adult arcade

 

It’s time to talk about something Star Wars has been avoiding for some time: recasting its original trilogy characters. There have long been calls for the likes of Luke Skywalker to be portrayed by new actors (Sebastian Stan, anyone?) but it has, by and large, been something that the franchise hasn’t needed to properly confront – until now.

 

From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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