Play them back to back! It offers a really nice juxtaposition. I did a whole half life playthrough with all the mainline games + VR and HL + BM :)

Black mesa is so insanely good.

Judging by all the shark card crap they jammed into the last GTA, I fully expect them to shovel a bunch of crap in to make more money: $70 base games, deluxe editions, DLC, micro transactions, social club integration, required internet connections, all of it.

I miss the old GTAs before they got greedy.

Damn, I didn’t know Gaetz was into older women.

A lot of the top movies got mixed reviews from friends and family. I saw some that were meh. Hope next year has some better ones.

This is giving me PTSD over my Comcast router/modem combo. It had no venting, so it suffered from overheating problems, despite having a fan (it would cause the internet performance to degrade dramatically). Eventually I just shucked the entire thing and ran it without it’s plastic chassis. It ran perfectly after that.

https://corporate.comcast.com/media/img/1000w/2021/12/corporate_comcast-wifi-6e-gateway-press.jpg

I also said half life. Doom was a leap forward, but Half life actually set a technological and story telling bar, on a budget, in 1998. Many videogames drew inspiration from its innovations, storytelling or themes.

There was a less than flattering YouTube video comparing the two. Valve put a ton of engineering behind the game that was apparently quite difficult to emulate. The results appeared half-baked when compared side by side.

I would love a l4d3 though!

I believe cancer can evolve to kill other cancers. A sort of anti cancer, I believe.

It’s stuff like food and medicine, things to combat the spread of HIV and other communicable diseases, poverty, and malnutrition.

USAID, for example

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development

One of my friends blew his nose into some money once. I wouldn’t snort drugs off money. Seems like a great way to get a weird nasal infection.

I should set one up. Is it a huge pain in the ass?

Black Mesa, if you are playing through the half life franchise. Also, probably one of the best remakes ever. I can’t think of a remake better than the original, and I played HL and Black Mesa back to back to be sure.

I feel like Nvidia is really hitting a wall, and has mostly just been upping the power limits and using software tweaks and higher core counts to eke out more performance since the 10 series. I could be wrong, but each GPU release seems more incremental than the last.

I like the one that sells your data about your sexual orientation, lol. It’s just so beyond the pale these days.

Bumble used to be different back in the day. I tried it when it was going down the tubes.

I think part of the problem is that the matching is fairly superficial, so while you know a little about the person, most of the details amount to their face, 1-3 hobbies, and their ass.

The women I matched with that I went out with were awkward and felt forced. In the end, I ended up falling in love with a close guy friend that I had known for years.

If bumble wants success, they should allow for much deeper Q&A, longer response times, a tweaked algorithm that matches people based off hobbies and passions, and an AD section that allows people to privately put in stuff that they like after dark. Info that isn’t shared with their matches, but helps make people match better with people like them.

As for straight dating though, idk. I feel like people should probably be avoiding apps and meeting organically through stuff like biking groups, climbing groups, skiing events, big dance venues, etc. it fosters much more organic connections.

I don’t participate in bar culture that much, but the difference between the gay bars I’ve gone to and the straighter college-y bars feels immense. The former is much more social with a pinch of kink, the latter is where people are getting absolutely blitzed without much dialogue over loud music. It’s an extremely small sample size, but I can’t help but wonder if it’s part of a larger trend when it comes to meeting people and how portions of society meet and date. Perhaps there are bars where single straight men and women meet over 1-2 drinks and talk, but I haven’t seen any so far.

Overall, I think the Internet and cars (decreasing population density and increasing the space between third places) has had a dramatically negative impact on love and friendships in places like the US.

I was surprised that it wasn’t the fifth circuit, then my shock faded: the sixth administers Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as Michigan.

A second vote for Black Mesa. I played HL1 and Black Mesa back to back, and BM was way more enjoyable!

Lots of good indie stuff, not much from AAA. My recommendation: try new single player or co op stuff. Stop recycling content.

Three years isn’t nearly long enough. Chrome needs to go, as does their dominance in search, android, YouTube and email. That cannot all be one company, under a giant advertising umbrella. Split them up into three companies. Chrome and advertising cannot stay together.