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oh, you're meaning the way it's forced to use webkit.
that part's still true, yeah, but the functionality of the browser will still exist. specifically for Brave, it will block ads by default and if you set it to aggressive you shouldn't see any.

foolm0r0n posted...

All browsers on ios technically use safari, by force. Although maybe the EU has changed that with a new law now?

you can pick your default browser in ios now.
have been able to since 2020, ios 14 update.

that's really cool of an addition.
...but bullshit that they released an expansion pack with no backwards compatibility.

but hey, at least it'll be on P-- wait Denuvo. okay, "PC."

right, that's literally what Maniax version was to SMT3. the version we got was already the enhanced one which had the amala network and new ending to it. unless i'm confusing something and this separate campaign is like playing as a new character or something - i skipped 5 because i expected something to happen. this one i'll play. though uh, on "enhanced" hardware let's call it.

4A i mean was different because it was just straight up a different game. entirely new storyline with different protagonist set in the same universe at the same time. the two games are essentially two halves to be complete. you can still go back to 4 and it'd hold value as a game because it's not made obsolete, though here uh... well, what's the point.

Logan Paul is going to make the United States Great Again.

decriminalizing drugs is a weird one. last i remember Oregon tried it only to double back on it. there's probably a way to do it right that would be a net positive for society, reduce prison rates, etc but it's gonna be more complicated than a flat legal/not legal kind of thing.

it is rather interesting how SMT games consistently are a case of first you get the beta version, then the full completed one. couple oddball exceptions exist, 4 in particular stands out there since 4 and Apocalypse were essentially a 2 part story, and i was kinda hoping Vengeance would be the same way. but if this is just a straight up enhanced version of the original i see it's taking after SMT3 in the worst way.

sports betting is just part of a bigger pool of issues of gambling.
rules should be the same for both.

this may or may not be the way to fuck over lootboxes forever.

Brave browser should exist on ios, use that over safari.

you absolutely cannot. Watch Dogs and Cyberpunk for two high profile cases i remember off the top of my head of "the gameplay trailers looked nice but"

MacArrowny posted...

What are you getting at? Trailers for both games looked bad, so the final products will be good?

no, it's don't have hope because of a trailer featuring gameplay was shown.
start having hope after a public demo is out.

looking at the rest of the ios updates, does look pretty cool that they basically figured out that customization wasn't just a meme but a legit reason why people preferred android. lots of tweaks that have been there for like 5+ years but hey, at least it's on ios now.

do like the heavy, heavy focus on privacy they mentioned on all AI related stuff and the cloud. always a good thing to see. this though just pushes things further to a case where the two will be virtually indistinguishable.

i thought we learned by now to never trust any trailers or gameplay demos meant for a major conference. it's never the final product.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

I don't understand why it's so difficult to be a Christian and realize that just because you believe some things doesn't mean the country you live in should also be based on those same things.

of the big 3, Judaism is extremely secular, Islam is extremely religious, and Christianity generally falls more with Judaism of the two because of Protestants and some Catholics, which by and large make up the majority.

but power hungry people want power and there's some denominations that are more extreme in their religious practices, like Evangelicals. they're not to the extreme of a fundamentalist but certainly closer to them than the more secular branches (see: greater belief that religion and state should be intertwined but not to the point where physical violence is acceptable).

Obsidian is way more reliable as a dev than Bioware of the past decade.
the only question is whether it's a 2024 or a 2025 game.

Mario vs Rabbids is basically watered down XCOM and it's actually pretty good.
price stays low because it's an Ubisoft game, not a Nintendo one.

most companies are better with upgrades but it's still a work in progress. wasn't that long ago, i think maybe 2 years, when google said the pixel line will get 7 upgrades instead of 3. ASUS and Sony are 2 years, OnePlus and Samsung are dependent on model/series but up to 4 upgrades.

realistically if you're still using it after that, want newer features, and your phone isn't some obscure device? just go to XDA and use custom roms.

Cosby and Weinstein were both cases where the judge and trial was prejudiced too much against them. in the case of Cosby, he was uniquely situated where the prosecutor fucked up and it was the only case that could be brought against him. Weinstein meanwhile, still in jail because he was previously convicted by state courts.

and the only piece of shit bigger than amber heard in that case is the one she left in the bed. the only injustice there was 1, no criminal charges filed against her, and 2, depp needing to technically pay anything, even if she paid a ton more.

that's not surprising considering samsung and apple are both heavily overpriced with the flagships. google too.

i mean generally i haven't paid much attention because it's felt like a bunch of sequels and major game announcements to things we know or, in Ubisoft's case, know will be rather mediocre.

trump's stream of conscious ramblings are part of his appeal among his fanbase so no, this doesn't hurt anything. just says he's still trump.

i mean the whole fight with Tony is just kinda fighting in the weeds a bit.
US soldiers wouldn't be used in an operation because that would be incredibly dumb politically. that does not mean US soldiers, intelligence, military, or contracted soldiers were not aiding in some way or another to have said operation occur.

a "combined force" is typically meant as boots on the ground. that part's wrong. but if you want to argue the spirit of it in that it's a combination of intelligence/military-that-isn't-military whatever. propaganda will absolutely make the implication that you had the marines run in or something when it's more likely just shared intelligence (which may well be air force).

probably the most believable unconfirmed part of is the pier bit, though that's largely because the pier being used for anything but totally-not-military (pinky promise!) action was a laughable claim in the first place.

there's a fine line between paying attention to stupid things people are saying/doing and paying attention to motivations that cause them to vote the way they do. trump fanatics grasping at straws for the trial is the former, the absurd amount of donations and uptick of support is in the latter. you can try to figure it why they're looking for ways to make him innocent but ultimately it doesn't even matter because the viewpoint will go "they're all guilty" and a sex scandal of him literally paying off porn stars frankly isn't going to make people like him less, even if it's wrapped up with an election.

what's in neither is that the news cycle is dominated by trump so we're back in that win/win pattern the two had back in 2016.

whenever you're done i'll highly recommend playing the Divinity Original Sin games too.
same engine, same dev team, but you can see how they got to BG3 from it.

though those are also with a twist in that, though perfectly fine single player, you can have a friend drop in to play another character. i think the multiplayer was 2 in Original Sin, 4 in Original Sin 2.

i mean any prebuild will essentially come down to a manual check afterwards if possible. 1) check the screws for what might be loose, 2) check what stickers are still left on, and 3) do a benchmark for temperature checks as that'll show potential fan issues.

like a lot of hardware has stickers already there naturally and that's fine but sometimes it's one that shouldn't be there and is just a silly mistake. but worth a check as it can be potential damage in the future if on a part that's going to get really, really hot.

to that in ibp will be "okay."
but they have had a lot of prebuilds in the past couple years known to be awful. example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sDRiakWcIM&ab_channel=GamersNexus

GN is as usual the go-to for companies on this as their secret shopper goes really in depth. but that video is 3 years ago, on a significantly cheaper machine, and isn't from a big box store. which is a big deal, if a product isn't being shipped to you there's a way better chance that these in shipment damages which may happen will happen less.

Micro Center if you got one relatively close is still the best bang for buck option and no damage expected since it's all pickup. downside is if you don't, it's all pickup so just move on.

yeah if you want gaming then the X3D chips will all be better. but that can be a change you do down the road as the AM5 chipset will stay around for a long time. that's why i asked what you wanted, if you wanted to stick with the peak of now last gen, AM4 builds are like half the price and equally powerful. CPU won't be the bottleneck for a long time, GPU is easy to upgrade.

Hyte Y60 is the case on that one. but hard to tell power supply.

KamikazePotato posted...

Nothing compares to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Korean_political_scandal

American politics wish it could be as absurd as 'the President was essentially a puppet of a shaman cult'.

that's the same eight heavenly goddess saga i was talking about~

i think the best public coverage on it was, strangely, from the Financial Times.
wikipedia doesn't cover how wild it was but that's to be expected as it's wikipedia.

there's so much to that story we still don't know like who the shadow cabal had in control, the 8 goddesses/fairies (have seen both translations, though fairy is most common and it's that they're viewed as goddesses because they're heavenly fairies), what power did they retain, how did they get all the power they did exactly. and the darker side of what crimes were committed, who did they kill or traffick.

quick check on the GN channel:

Starforge was "overall, pretty good."
Maingear was "I don't have any major complaints."

both of those were 1700+ so uh...

PowerSpec is Micro Center. downsides will include that you may need to pick this up. upside is that can get different form factors, including smaller machines, and it should be way cheaper because it's a PC hardware store's in-house machines.

they had an issue with cooling due to a mix of the fan used and the case used. brand-wise the company that makes the case is among the best regarded and they fixed the problem with a $20 cooler. but if you don't get a smaller form factor, that won't be a concern i imagine.

avoid anything Dell.
don't trust ASUS right now.
realistically even if you do get a pre-build i'd recommend double checking a bit of the work. some issues are silly ones, like literally leaving a sticker on, some issues are notable, like loose screws or a cable that got pulled out in shipping or something.

for CPU, AMD is king right now.
for GPU, NVIDIA is better but AMD is still good. the market is just flooded and as long as you aren't trying to play things immediately on launch you should be fine - the consoles use it anyway so it doesn't take long or much. i think FF14 also prefers NVIDIA, if that matters.

first major question is what kind of system do you want: one that performs at the top of the level right now but doesn't have much room for upgrades for CPU or RAM, or one that performs at a similar level, does have room for upgrades, but will cost significantly more.

second is how big a computer do you want it to be.

third is are you trying to do 1080p, 1440p, or 4k.

you want prebuilds so uh... gamersnexus tends to have a couple of those run.

yeah take as long a break as needed. it's B8, come and go as you want.

south korea's a magical country politically and i hope the eight heavenly faries saga gets a sequel revealing even more of the shadow cabal.

supposedly Gable's contract is ending too, which is strange timing for the story. could be extended or could have him written off in the finish.

i didn't even notice they got rid of the tag.
whoops that was backwards.

live event i guess is for... Nintendo Direct maybe? stuff like that?
i mean come election day this topic can technically be that too.

soundtrack is the same. it's just taking the ROM, changing the code from C to C++, and having Windows/Linux run the program. all essentially seemless. was a topic on this a few weeks ago but i think it purged. fortunately Digital Foundry covered it really well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1wlTOvn2y0&ab_channel=DigitalFoundry

far as i'm concerned this is straight up black magic.

Bitto posted...

For a mostly 1:1 remake with updated graphics, music, and QOL, the N64 Zeldas seems like the best options.

the funny thing about that is we're basically right in the middle of having that right now, same for MM.
native resolution, widescreen, ray tracing, 60 FPS, mod support, everything, all for PC.

so we can technically see what that could turn into but we also don't need it anymore because N64 games are getting recompiled to work on Windows anyway. that's the biggest reason i just ignored the N64 answers in full, the games are already remade, just not by Nintendo.

i mean it's a good model that works. sure there's the oddball event that happens which is so big it's not "politics" but just outright general news but still. or of course, things that intertwine with politics like, say, the primary business model of gaming when companies like Ubisoft are playing up the "you will own nothing and be happy" dystopia and countries with different laws and regulations are a necessary component of that discussion.

and i wonder if that means there's gonna be an upcoming poll regarding Trump.

i mean we had these just last month, hell they all came in the last 2 weeks:

05/27/2024 10 years from now, what do you think the primary business model for video games will be?
05/21/2024 Have you ever sent your DNA off to a testing site to find out more about your ancestry?
05/20/2024 Would you be willing to implant cybernetic augmentations into your body?

primary business model?
DNA and ancestry?
cybernetic implants?

all 3 are actual political topics, especially the one directly talking business as those two are intertwined.

whoa was this a full on rule change or just an exception?
cool either way.

i'm amused that you hated FF13 so much you not only skipped it but skipped its sequels too.

technically there's also Crisis Core, which is pretty good too!
but i'm just plain impressed that you did as many as you did, especially the MMOs. 11 is essentially gated for anybody trying to get into the series, even if it's understood that 14 is just plain better these days.

4 is, however, worth watching Culken talk about in the earlier redlettermedia video.

all i know about home alone 4 can be found in this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_FURNuBeQg&ab_channel=RedLetterMedia

cyko posted...

Not a single vote for FF Tactics OR Secret of Mana?! I'm a little surprised. They might not have been the first multi-player rpg and tactical rpg, but they sure were the first to make both types of RPGs popular and really pushed two sub-genres of rpgs forward..

the SRPG category was already well determined by then between Fire Emblem, Shining Force, and Tactics Ogre. hell, the last one is essentially FFT's father so it's not that unique. main thing to it is that it at least came out in the US whereas the others were largely Japan focused. at least until LUCT got ported to the PS1 and released in the US (purposefully delayed to not overlap with FFT) and Fire Emblem 7.

Final Fantasy VII
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Quest III
Final Fantasy XIV

the first 3 are locks, representing different eras and different series.
the last slot is more of a floater and of them i think FF14's gotta get the nod. to start with you got the flop that went from 2010 to 2013 at which point it relaunched with A Realm Reborn and its been 11 years since then with people not just playing it, not just looking forward to its expansions, but subscribing to it all this time. like this game just got an official release date for Xbox and it's older than the last gen; an expansion is coming out in a few weeks and i'm sure all the viewing numbers will spike once it's out. there's something to be said for an 11+ year game that's still very, very active and has become the de facto king of its genre, even if that's partially because everyone else collapsed (looking at you WoW).

there's something that has to be said for its terrible launch being turned around into what it is now. it's a difference that's impacted Square in a very direct way too, considering he was so successful he became the director and producer for FF16 as well. this one game has mattered more to Square Enix than pretty much anything outside of FF7 so that has to get the 4th.

on on mobile brave is leagues ahead of chrome. that's half the motivation to using it in browser too, since it's still chromium based you can have access to tabs from other devices, which was the biggest thing keeping me in chrome for the longest time. but the built in ad blocking just makes things so much better on everything. news sites or searches for recipes or whatever else are actually usable again.

switched to Brave a couple months ago almost completely and its been a better experience all around. the only areas where Chrome wins are the google heavy stuff like maps but i like the delisted search better 90% of the time.

good price for the current market. congrats.

Generations has a pretty legit claim for importance considering without it you don't get Mania. it combined 2D and 3D Sonic in a way people didn't expect, gave us the return of that round belly black eyed Sonic, and was a nice love letter to the series.

only after that success did Sega find out what they could milk. and i mean, they tried with Forces and World after only to have them both get panned to Mania.

Xtlm posted...

Also, I initially thought this was for soundtracks lol but my vote will still stand.

if it was Sonic soundtracks that would make Sonic 3D Blast actually be on a Rushmore, the PC/Saturn version of it legit has an all time great soundtrack.