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I took advantage of this deal (just once) along with another deal for a Google Show from a while back. I'm going to be doing a lot of driving over the next few weeks so super cheap Spotify premium is welcome. I was switching from one privacy invasive platform (Amazon Echo) to another invasive...

Why wait five years for your dollar to be worth crap when you can wait just a few months for your crypto to be worth crap? Now that's progress.

It is a multiplayer-centric game, so you will hit a wall sooner rather than later, however the single player campaign is pretty lengthy. There are lots of stuff to do if you are a "solo" multiplayer gamer though. It's really only the top end raid stuff that you need to coordinate with clans.

It's been over a year and two DLC's since release so no, even if it did bomb (it didn't, kind of surprisingly), it wasn't quickly. But it's basically what others have said: just a way to get people hooked so they buy the new expansion (not DLC), which is the price of a new game. It's basically...

News flash: you just deployed your reality distortion bubble. If you somehow don't believe quarterly reports from Apple about increasing margins (with no mention of decreasing overhead, because they actually increased, which means they simply charge more for everything) that they just had today...

I feel like years and years ago, someone told the industrial designer at Noctua, "PCs will be mostly black. Black goes with anything," and he just replied, "Challenge accepted." I actually like the old beige/brown color scheme when looked at in a vacuum, but when put in any case I have ever...

Not enough FALD TVs out there. :( I am still baffled with LG insists on edge lit local dimming when IPS needs that FALD more than any other panel type. Coming out with a really good FALD solution could make their 8500/9500 series not junk.

A lot of you are equating higher PPI to UI real estate. It's not. The discussion should be in two categories: 1) Why are all desktop OSes shit at higher PPI in one way or another (especially Windows, and yes, even OSX)? 2) At what point is higher PPI simply not going to affect viewing...

Nothing could be further from the truth. Best Buy is doing quite well. It is one of the biggest "success" stories of a traditional B&M company battling against the onslaught that is Amazon. Their revenue and stock price has been on a pretty crazy upward trend since 2012. Don't ask me how they...

Found the disconnect. The issue is that Andromeda cost more and took longer than any other Mass Effect game yet was worse than any previous game on nearly every level. When you have character animations that look worse (or at best, about the same) today than a previous game in the franchise ten...

The convenience of wireless charging is kind of difficult to convey to people who haven't experienced it, especially since most are super close-minded to it for completely irrational reasons (e.g. the iPhone hasn't had it for years therefore it's useless). It's like trying to convince someone...

LG G6 warranty is two years as long as you register the product (which is free). G6 specifically though. I don't think even the slightly newer V30 has a two year offer yet.

I did a test drive last year and they did offer me coffee. Let's do a write-up on it. You can share the by-line.

All of you sound like cranky old men. Did we get a refund for betamax or HD-DVD? Or a more direct comparison, Virtual Boy? So unfortunately not. What would be really cool is if studios offered a heavily discounted conversion of 3D discs to HDR streaming options, somewhat similar to how we...

In strictly Tesla terms, the AWD Teslas do go faster than the RWD Teslas, just not for the reasons he thinks. The reason the AWD Teslas go faster is because they have an entire second engine powering the two front wheels. For instance, about 470 HP vs 691 HP for the P85 vs P85D, respectively...

This is a great way to run any business into the ground or set yourself up for a huge scandal of playing hide the debt. One really important thing I have learned in the many hats I have worn over the years is that the people/companies that get myopic trying to "win" at something are the first...

I'm not at all concerned with Hardy playing any number of muscular villains or heroes for that matter. I am very, very concerned with Sony continuing to make comic book movies. If they can't get A-list, really high profile comic properties to last more than one or two movies without a reboot...

On the one hand, she isn't some bum looking for a giant handout, and it would have been a gazillion times cheaper for Apple to have just reimbursed her the stuff than have had even one of their lawyers take the time to type up the announcement. On the other hand, it would set a precedent that...

Because you're still looking at it through YOUR point of view. It is not YOUR coupon. It is their's. It is an example of how many people of this forum have this ridiculous notion that everything is all-or-nothing. Just because they cannot exert more control over your PC does not mean...

Lots of companies do not have an all-or-nothing approach. If they can exert more control over one aspect of their business, in this case mobile, then they will, even if they cannot exert more control over all aspects. Think of it this way: you're buying toilet paper and paper towels from the...

I believe the HDR spec requires local dimming; but it doesn't matter. Even if it had natively good contrast ratio, which it doesn't as IPS doesn't pretty much ever compared to the world of TVs, LG for some reason loves edge-lit displays even on their highest-end LCDs, so the local dimming...

If it's anything like their TVs, the HDR isn't going to do much due to the mediocre max brightness, mediocre black point, the backlight bleed, the uniformity issues, and, worst of all, the edge lit backlight. I do own and actually like their UH8500, but yeah, the HDR10/Dolby Vision on it is not...

My office has a wide array of Steelcase and Herman Miller among other stuff, so I've tried practically everything, HOWEVER, it's really hard to say what I prefer, because I just can't say I trust a chair with my ass for certainty without putting some serious hours into it. I've sat in a chair...

Seriously. And they've had a chance to revise the old design multiple times now. Compounded with less value with each major wave of full size Echos, it's like Amazon is trying to kill it's own product. (First wave of Echos had a remote + magnetic dock, second wave had a magnetic dock but no...

This "elsewhere emissions" hypothesis is a myth. If you think your diesel engine vehicle is more efficient than a coal or oil plant + distribution requirements of an electric car, you are misinformed. Car/truck engines are extremely inefficient for actually moving the vehicle. Even Diesel...

So you would consider HBO a monopoly on Game of Thrones or any of their other dozens of original series? Both Netflix and HBO original series also eventually get Bluray releases, so you could get it from other places, if you are really patient.

According to the video, 100m = 360 feet, heh.

I feel like all that extra junk is going to increase the car's drag coefficient for no benefit (certainly isn't for cooling the break pads and doubtful it'd do much for down force). Seems entirely form over function.

Yeah but the Firefly was purposely an ugly/plain ship (due to being a smuggling ship). I don't think this ship is ugly on purpose, just lack of time/effort (which kind of makes me worry about just how much time/effort they're putting into important things like concept and script and casting and...

CGI from Enterprise was way above this teaser.

The problem is this is what AMD has been doing in the CPU segment for years. Can't go after the high end so they sell ten CPUs at $200 instead of 2 CPUs at $300 (or scale to however you see fit). Hasn't been working out too well for the past what? Near decade? The least worst route is the...

There was also a smaller gap between introductions of the new gen. SDR to DDR, DDR to DDR2, DDR2 to DDR3, the time between any of those was what? A bit less than four years? But DDR3 to DDR4, the former was available 2007, the latter just 2014.

I recently bought the Gigabyte version of this card (really is there a difference with all these reference cards anyway?) along with a significant portion of my sig from Jet. Packaging was pretty beat up when it got here, but I kind of ship the blame more onto Newegg, as that was the name...

Math doesn't lie, but myopic opinions are just as bad. What if Dell were to advertise the "best gaming computer evar!!!11one" because it has a 4.0 GHz CPU (a.k.a. a 6700k). Anyone who has been on this site for more than 0.2 seconds would immediately point out that a good CPU isn't the only...

Me too... me too.... It's like some people forgot to have fun.

I like how the vast majority of the posters in this thread obviously not only did not read the article, but didn't even read the entire news blurb. They just saw the words "Apple" and "headphones" and "lightning connector."

In terms of Japanese RPGs, it tended to be on the larger side. As other people have said, art assets, but also just gameplay length was quite long. A casual player tended to take around 60 hours to complete it, a more experienced player could take 40 hours. Doing the bonus end-game...

Definitely. Blizzard put a lot of effort into the single player mode. Whereas Starcraft I and Brood War was more or less just a collection of 60 custom maps, HOTS changes a lot of the actual gameplay for single player vs. multiplayer. Plus it's about as long as both SC + BW combined.

Obviously, the solution is to have (at least) one of each. :)

A few reasons: 1) 4K monitors are hard to drive for gamers at native resolution, and sometimes even for non-gamers for everyday tasks for el cheapo PCs. You have to have a powerful enough GPU plus the right connectors, especially if you want 60Hz. Sure you could scale, but, why have a 4K...