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    Metro Exodus Is Now Being Review Bombed on Metacritic

    Doesn't beat the fact that the retail copy of some PC games are just download codes in a DVD case. :-O
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    Yes, Rian Johnson Is Still Working on His "Star Wars" Trilogy

    I won't condemn a whole universe of movies just because of one (or a few) bad experience. I hated episode VIII... it all started with Luke, chucking his father's lightsaber over his shoulder and was cemented with the "crank call" scene with the command deck at the beginning of the movie and...
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    EA "Respawns": Company Up 16% as Apex Legends Reverses Entire Loss

    But sometimes you get Daikatana when you give a successful developer all the leeway they want. ;-) Even the best need some oversight... but the problem is what is the right amount of oversight... it definitely is different for each studio. But everybody can agree that EA has definitely driven a...
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    Dead or Alive 6 Hasn't Toned Down the Sexualization, It's Just Tucked It Away

    Yeah, cause third party mods at an obscure site for a moddable game are 100% under the control of Bethesda. :rolleyes: It's exactly like how the skimpy outfits and unrealistic physics are implemented by the developer in the DoA series of games. /s
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    Picard Will Lead "Radically Altered" Life in New Star Trek Series

    I see it this way: Orville is the spiritual successor to ST:TNG. It's a bit more campy and has more juvenile humour (Seth is Seth, you can't avoid the immature jokes). It has the same straightforward plots with a moral point that are aimed and a younger audience and Family Guy fans. It's...
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    Overwatch Team Discovers Female Player Was a Male Imposter

    So what. Danica Patrick already proved this point. As a woman, different rules apply. Unfortunately that means that it's harder to get started because of bullying/preconceptions, but once one makes it into the upper realms, it also means (if you're also reasonably attractive) more income...
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    Huawei P20 Pro Cheats in Geekbench

    Those "rogue" VW Engineers are now working for Huawei. ;-) They'll blame it on a worker bee leaving a debug-only "optimization" in.
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    VR Shipments Decreased 33% Due to a Lack of Bundling and Discounts in 2018

    When the general public discovers VR Pron sales will surge. Edit: mispelled "public" as "pubic"... subliminal slip? Who knows?
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    Tech Enthusiasts Create a Guide to AMD FreeSync Working with Nvidia GPUs

    No kidding. This is nVidia you're talking about. They TAKE NO PRISONERS when it comes to business decisions. They'll probably do an out-of-band driver release just to fix this. You're such a dreamer to even mention this: "they [nVidia] may let it slide." ;-)
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    3 dead in high-speed suicide collision caused by CS:GO YouTuber McSkillet

    Actually, it's pretty easy to get on the HOV lane going in the wrong direction for this particular location (one just has to turn into the lane immediately to the left of the correct lane.) I have personally driven up this particular HOV direct access on/off ramp (on the correct side). At...
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    18-Year-Old YouTube Star, “McSkillet,” Kills Mother, Daughter in Fiery Crash

    I get your point. But you've made your argument much weaker because you tried to push the comparison too far to IMHO unreasonable levels. McSkillet a) Lost everything in his STEAM account (worth 100k to 200k) because what he did was against the terms of service of STEAM. (He broke the rules...
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    Arm Wants to Power Your Next Laptop

    Wow, 7nm process based unreleased ARM processors faster than 14nm process based released Intel processors. Who da thunk? Technically, the simpler and more modern ARM instruction set based processors can scale to faster speeds than the more complex and saddled with 1980's backwards...
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    Arm Wants to Power Your Next Laptop

    Really? Have you not seen all the articles throughout 2017 about Windows 10 running on Snapdragon 835 processors? You can even go out and BUY your very own Windows 10 "Always Connected PC" running on an ARM processor...
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    New MacBook Pro i9 Slower than the old MacBook Pro i7

    You've pretty much described EVERY high end smartphone released. They won't run at 100% load for very long without throttling due to lack of heat dissipation.
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    Apple: 2018 MacBook Pro Throttling Is a Bug, Fix Now Available

    Enough with the speculating what the root cause is... So... does the updated firmware "fix" the problem? Enquiring minds want to know.
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    Sony Reinvigorates the Megapixel Race With IMX586 Image Sensor Announcement

    That's only if one can get a lens of high enough quality to properly resolve 48Mpx of data on a sensor that small. I had an Experia Z1 Compact phone with a 20Mpx sensor and the general consensus with the users was that setting the resolution past 12Mpx would result in no improvement in detail...
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    How Much Have You Spent on Steam?

    Geek FIght! ;-)
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    How Much Have You Spent on Steam?

    Total Spend: ~$700 Old Spend: ~$575 First Purchase: Audiosurf $4.99 50% off Aug 2008 First Use of Steam: Forced to make a steam account to play Half Life 2 For some odd reason steam has my license registration date for Half Life 2 as Mar 2006 and has it as "complimentary", which is about a year...
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    Amazon Transitions its Prime Pantry Service to a Monthly Membership

    I order from Prime Pantry when I need a super stiff box to hold the stuff I have to bring to my parents' place to install. (I'm their Tech Support.) It's much stiffer than their normal boxes and survives the gentle treatment of airport workers. The regular pantry prices are usually way more...
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    Bird Hunting is the new Pokemon Go for Fun and Profit

    Probably not, this is some start up that rushed things to market as quick as possible. You actually think they put any effort into engineering anything? Anyways even *if* they did, just the Lithium Ion cells in the battery pack would be worth quite a bit and there's no way they're going to...
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    Samsung S9 and S9+ Really Are Faster

    But, but it's got more 4x more MIMO's !!!! ;-) Yep, technically faster, but not in a way that any average user or even most enthusiasts would ever notice. It's just an e-penis measurement contest. Similar to how car manufacturers produce cars that their owners never take to the drag...
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    Intel Ousts its Chief Marketing Officer

    Yeah, but a successful Marketing / Advertising department can sell a Turd on Stick and you'll thank them for the opportunity to buy it. For example, both nVidia and ATI have both "upgraded" GPUs by just changing the name and incrementing a digit or two, so marketing the "same old" as something...
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    Using AI to Create Infinite Number of Doom levels

    The AI knew enough to *not* include any Monster Closets that open up right behind the character... something that the human Doom 3 Level designers didn't. ;-) https://www.giantbomb.com/monster-closet/3015-1205/ Apparently the AI thinks that players like triangular "bowling pin configuration"...
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    "High Definition Vinyl" Coming as Early As Next Year

    It'd be much cooler if you whipped out your Red-Blue cardboard 3-D glasses. ;-) Oh, and the HD Vinyl guys forgot that if you use a green marker and coat the edge of the record with it, the sound quality goes up exponentially http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/49381-6-green-tweak I have no doubt...
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    Tesla Autopilot Nearly Recreates Fatal Crash

    Yep the time before a super disgusting, cannot ignore alarm triggers should be speed dependent and if there's a vehicle in front of you within radar/sonar distance going at approximately the same speed that the autopilot can follow. (Of course if the car in front of you is also a Tesla on...
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    TRUE Surround Sound Headphones Are Finally Here

    I only have two ears, so how many independent drivers does it take to replicate positional audio with headphones? I doubt it's 7. Edit: Oh, and the D.O.T. approved helmet isn't D.O.T. approved anymore *after* all the stuff is attached to it, even if holes weren't drilled in to mount all the...
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    PC Building Simulator Out Now

    Does it... Simulate blood oozing out of the cut you sustain when you accidentally bump into the super sharp copper cooling fins on your CPU heat sink while trying to screw a cooling fan in place? Simulate dropping a screw while trying to install a hard drive and have it fall into some...
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    First Rule of GPP: Don't Talk About GPP

    Yep, I've been a long time Red Team fan, and once I got a 4K monitor and started looking for video cards that could handle it. Guess what the 1080ti was the best one for reasonable $$$ and reasonable frame rates / visual quality. Heck, I even waited for ATI's VEGA release to see if they would...
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    Galaxy S9 Will Have a Camera with an Adjustable Aperture

    Yeah, because the smart photographers are women that use their skill to create good photographs and if a smartphone is the only camera available to them, they'll create great photographs using the smartphone. /s ;-) Sure, a professional won't take a smartphone out on a paid photoshoot as their...
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    Galaxy S9 Will Have a Camera with an Adjustable Aperture

    It's probably the same camera module that's in their "just announced" W2018 super high end flip phone for Asia: https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/01/samsung-w2018-flip-phone-variable-aperture-china/ It's variable aperture in the least possible way to fulfill that moniker: It supports 2 aperture...
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    Google Pixel 2 XL Display Issues

    Yeah, I have a LG G Flex 2 which was LG's previous attempt at a phone with one of their P-OLED screens prior to the V30. It was unusable for google cardboard because of that grainy uneven texture... when the scene scrolled or rotated, the "dirty screen bits" didn't. So it was looking out a...
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    Japan Made a Headless Robotic Cat Pillow

    I fear that the natural progression of this product in Japan will be the "human butt" with a robotic cat tail pillow. :-O
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    What Really Happened with Apple’s Face ID “Fail” Onstage

    Nope. "You're holding it correctly, but your face is wrong. Replace with an Apple MFi certified face and try again." ;-)
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    LG Unveils V30 Flagship Smartphone with FullVision P-OLED Display

    Dunno why I'd choose this over a Samsung S8 or S8+ that came out about 1/2 a year ago, especially if it's in the same price range. The camera is the only major difference... I don't care about the IR Blaster since it only works with LG's IR app which is a PoS. The P-OLED screen is no advantage...
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    Germans Lead Autonomous Driving Race

    But, but, Tesla! ;-) Serously, Tesla must have some patents. (Musk is a smart businessman and wouldn't leave his company's research unprotected.) Why aren't they on the list at all? Edit: Also Uber and Apple, they're both shoving tons of money into autonomous driving R&D.
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    GM Notifies Early Chevy Bolt Owners of Potential Battery Failure

    WTH is "Fewer than a couple hundred"? 1 < Fewer than a couple hundred < 999? Because 999 is the largest number that I'd ever consider to be a "couple hundred"? They mind as well have said "a smidgen's worth" of the total population... as it would be about as specific. Meh... Marketing...
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    GPU Buyers Prepare Get Out Your Wallet and Submit to Credit Check

    VGA RAM? VGA graphics cards? I think Digitimes needs to spend more money on somebody who actually knows what terms are used in Engrish for VRAM and Video Cards. Edit: Also memory is its own plural, so RAM is the plural of RAM.
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    Game of Thrones Stars' Personal Details Leaked as HBO Hackers Demand Ransom

    Yeah, why would HBO care if the season was released? The people who will illegally obtain the season will just get it earlier, and the ones that pay for monthly subscriptions will keep their subscriptions because HBO is more than just GoT. However, there will be a really small segment that...
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    Robots are Going to Kill Us All...but NOT this One

    Yeah, but that thing could be programmed to fall "on me" therefore pinning me down, so its compatriots can finish me off.
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    Intel to Discontinue First-Generation Thunderbolt 3 Controllers

    I'm surprised that Intel could even sell components with lead in them in Europe. The EU has its RoHS rules barring lead in electronics (with exceptions in certain cases) since 2006. So I don't know of any company that would introduce a chip in 2015 that had lead in it. Remember the Xbox 360...
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