Oh please, plenty of games push my top tier hardware to its limits!

It’s just that they do it by not bothering to optimize their software.

Exactly, the small form factor is a huge draw. I’ve built as-small-as-possible cheap gaming PCs before and never gotten close to this size.

I currently use one with no video card that just streams my main PC, but the streaming sucks.

I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy like the guy you replied to, but it’s generally considered correct to include 0 on graphs like this to show proper scale. If I had submitted a paper with this graph in grad school, all of my reviewers would have kicked it back.

I played it a few weeks after launch on a high end pc and it was so unacceptably buggy I had to stop playing after ten hours or so. I think you might have gotten lucky.

That said, the game as it currently stands is one of my favorites of all time. I felt a noticeable lack when it was over. I’d buy their next game even if the reviews were awful.

One of my teachers enthusiastically told me about the new particle they discovered “morons” in elementary school. I had supreme trust in adults, and he didn’t let on that he was joking, and I hadn’t really heard “moron” much, so I believed him. I went home and excitedly told my mom about it, and she has held it over me for decades. Told absolutely everyone who has ever known me.

Ah, the billionaires again.

The second it even started doing rounds in the news, I started getting spam popups asking for me to prove my ID while appearing legitimate. No way am I doing that.

A few months back I was visiting my retired parents, and I wanted to break the routine a bit and decided to sit at a lakeside table we never used because it was redundant.

As I walked up to the table and sat my stuff down, I heard a “FWOMP” followed by a sound I can only describe as “chitinous rubbing”. I slowly checked my surroundings until I noticed an almost basketball sized mass of wasps waking up that had fallen with part of a hive underneath the table. In a moment of extreme calculation I decided the only one of six things on the table worth risking stings for was the tablet, and I sprinted for the first time in years to get away.

So, I guess thanks to the wasps for the fun new core memory.

The reason I stopped going there was their terrible app shunting my order to a location 10 miles away from the one I was standing in, the new one which I had never eaten at, then telling me in the help documentation that they offer the helpful solution of allowing me to fix it myself by putting in a whole new order at full cost. They didn’t even start making the food until I said I was there, so there’s no reason they couldn’t transfer or cancel the order. The audacity to pitch “just give us even more money” as a solution was more than I was willing to accept for all time. I drove my ass the ten miles while fuming, and never went back.

Also they cancelled the snack wrap.

Every time I’ve seen them in the news in the last ten years has just made me more secure in my decision to boycott. It’s like they find the food purchasing customers inconvenient to their real estate business.

Personally I’d rather they keep the same number of employees and just work less hard. Fast food workers seem to have way too much to do for their pay scale. They should take the pay from the absurdly overpaid upper management, though.

I’ve been calorie counting for a while now, and one of the things I’ve found is that if you get one average burger and medium fries, the fries are often more calories. A medium fry at the place I ate yesterday is 560 kcal. Personally, I’d rather get a second sandwich.

Loved this game when I was younger.

I wish Vangelis’ other music had been like their Blade Runner music.

You don’t see how the premise of Supraland closely mirrors this?

You know, I always loved Supraland and I never hear people talk about it. The gameplay is a little like Zelda in concept, but the puzzles are a lot more satisfying and it’s essentially set in the Lego movie.

Time to set up a Linux stream box that does support it (and whatever else I want).

This is the way. I made a tiny PC to use with my dumb TV, and I can’t understand why anyone would do anything else (except for laziness, I understand that).

I plan on replacing it with the steam box, if it turns out to be functional for streaming.

Honestly games focus so much on unimportant nonsense to keep the feeling of realism, then you clip through a wall and see your character’s teeth from the inside.

I remember the grocery store I worked at started posting the rate for each cashier of items scanned per minute logged into a register. They didn’t say anything about it, but I now realize they were probably leading into using that data as justification for something.

My dumbass 16 year old self thought “I’m going to get that number so high it breaks the system.” I would lock my station after the previous customer, and take a little time to face all of the UPC codes and look up produce codes and make a general strategy. Then, I would unlock the register, scan like a madman, then lock it and casually start bagging. The customers would get concerned they needed to hurry up based on my fervor, so I would tell them “Take all the time you need, see that show yesterday?”

Next time they posted the rankings, my number was 20x as high as second place. After a few weeks of getting my number a little higher each time, my boss’ boss came by and told me to knock it off since I was polluting their metrics. Next week no new rankings.

I like to think I inadvertently helped prevent KPI nonsense.

I think if I had to choose a hand I would choose the right, just because we write left to right and I wouldn’t want to track my hand through fresh pencil and pen marks.

My friend in highschool was left handed and his left hand was always completely covered in graphite.