It literally took me months to get through the character creator in MH World. Even that was so dense that I would get bored before finishing.

I think it's probably safe to say that they're not games for ADHD individuals.

Ooooh this sounds like my sort of game. I love visual novels and things like that, I really enjoyed GTA V because of the story (the dialogs are downright hilarious). I might give DS a try then.

I hope AMD keep pushing to do things well, because right now the value proposition of anything with an Intel processor is more ridiculous than when Apple charges $300 for an extra 8GB of RAM. Their $600 processors currently offer performance on par with the entry-level Apple Silicon M4. Which is great news for Apple, but not for anyone who wants to use Linux or "the other Mainstream OS".

Something I find incredibly weird about US company culture is how they talk about overtime like it's a good thing.

"Our employees worked weekends, days and nights to make this happen! We wouldn't have succeeded without people who are willing to give up their personal lives!"

I hope they not only succeed but get shares. Doing weekends or nights for a company you don't (partially) own feels like a con.

Interesting. They are not that weird. In the north of Spain they are considered a delicacy, and a somewhat typical meal for Christmas. They're absolutely delicious. 😋

Agreed. It probably doesn't help that Britain as a country actively tries to get erased from Europe's mind, through Brexit, preventing immigration and trade, acting against tourism...

Probably it's not the majority of the country anymore that is pro-brexit anymore, but hey ho, we had a vote and this is where we are now. Trying to have the UK as its own little separate entity that doesn't participate in the world economy or culture.

I don't think our marriage would be of the kind they approve in Alabama, if you catch my drift

I'm Spanish (we don't change names after marriage there), and my (British) partner wants to take my name. Rationally I know that's typical in the UK. But subconsciously, I feel like the people who share last names are siblings. I don't want to feel like my partner and I are siblings, that's so weird!!

In my opinion as a "foreigner" living in the UK the biggest problem with the British cuisine is marketing.

You have all the pies which are awesome, steak and ale, kidney pie, Toad in the hole, beef wellington, the Cornish pasties...

Then cottage and shepherd's pie which are not in the same category even though they share name, because they're not bread pies but a "potato mash lasagne".

There's the Sunday roast, and all things game are excellent - this country has a longstanding tradition of game and you often see in pubs things like venison wellington, especially in the countryside.

Also fish and chips has the reputation of being fast food, but a proper one from a pub rather than a chippie is usually excellent.

If we think about snacks, there's many really nice things typical from the UK, that we routinely dismiss because we don't think of a homemade version but what you can get from a supermarket. Sausage rolls, scotch eggs, things like that.

And desserts - this country has a sweet tooth. Trifles, anything with rhubarb in it (rhubarb is quite rare in Mediterranean countries), sticky toffee pudding, Eton mess, rice pudding, crumble...

I have missed many things like the ploughman's, all of the cheeses, or the haggis which is hated almost exclusively by people who've never tried it before.

Yet all of this gets routinely reduced to "fish and chips". It's like saying Italian cuisine is only pasta or all Spanish can make is paella. I find quite sad that Brits don't do a better job at marketing their cuisine.

If they keep duplicating the ask, soon they'll be asking for a googol from Google. Hehe.

I'm not sure I'm following, it says developers can opt out!

I don't think anything with the word "intel" can be taken seriously in value comparisons...

When I got my last laptop I ended up with a MBP because there were no high end options for Linux laptops with AMD. Now the options are better, but back then, the only realistic alternative to a MacBook Pro would have had a third of the real-world battery life if not less, even if I decided to spend £3k. That didn't seem like an acceptable compromise so there were virtually no laptops in existence that could compete with an M2 MBP.

16 GB of RAM are kinda meh, but I can't think of many $600 devices that can run three 6K monitors simultaneously at 60 Hz, plus then one at a lower res but still 60 Hz.

I would say that's what many urban roads (35 mph / 60 km/h) look like in the US.

How do people have the time to organise vigils and get into "coalitions" and politics in the workplace?

Granted I don't work at Microsoft, but I feel me and everyone around me is overworked enough that when we have the time to stop working... We head home (or close the laptop if WFH) and rest, not engage in additional activities in the workplace.

Yeah, this sounds like a problem for only the 5% of the world who live in a specific country.

Well it might have been 3 years or might have been 7, I don't remember exactly. 5 was my best guess!

Oh, there's a Lawnchair legacy! It makes more sense now, but they could have changed the icon of this one to make it less confusing.

We really need to think about a better name than "Early access". At this point I think I've used Lawnchair for about 5 years, 5 years after the initial event is only "early" in the context of geological eras.

It's not a waste of resources if you learn something. Think of this as research rather than product development. You can try many things (from VR, to miniaturised computers, to cloud gaming, controllers with wonky form factors...) to see what results in a good experience. You don't need to get anywhere near a full fledged product to understand those things, so the waste of resources isn't massive anyway.

I'd bet at the moment people decided "this is useful, I even want this for me, so let's turn it into a product" the steam deck looked more like a screen, a gamepad and a raspberry pi all taped together or jammed into a 3d printed prototype chassis.

If people have spare capacity to work on these projects, the material cost at such a point can be under <5k which is peanuts for a company like Valve.