If you enjoyed The Haunting of Hill House, there’s also The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass (plus American Horror Story).
Completely different genres, but Chernobyl is a brilliant limited series; I also enjoyed The Last Dance (about Jordan’s last Championship year at the Chicago Bulls), and there’s also Tiger King - which was a cultural touchstone in the midst of the ‘Rona Lockdowns.
I don’t miss those loading times though; for better or worse, SSDs have changed the game (no pun intended).
This is awesome; I’m too tired to do it right now - but I’d I remember I’d really like to normalise this against country populations to see what percent of a nation is a Reddit user.
At a glance, I’m pretty sure Australia is punching well above its weight - if nothing else.
Heh, glad you mentioned Xbox - they’re a perfect example of consistent inconsistency! 🤣
Nintendo has been staunchly anti-emulation since even before the N64 launched, and it hasn’t hurt them yet.
I’m a proud Steam Deck owner, and I’ll be the first to admit that I predominantly use it to emulate my old games collection (PS1-3 & PSP), plus SNES out of sheer spite at Nintendo.
However, my relatively tech-savvy relatives (even those in their 20s), baulk at something as complex as SteamOS.
I think Nintendo’s safe for at least one more console generation, before the normies get on the portable-PC wagon.
This is ridiculous, absolute insanity - and I’m totally here for it. Great work!
Some analysts are morons. The reason the Wii U failed was because it wasn’t clear that it was a successor console, and not just a weird add-on.
People have been conditioned to understand numerical console increases for over two decades now thanks to the PlayStation.
Edit: As an aside, are there any console manufacturers besides Sony who have had sequential model numbers consistently? I’ve been mulling this under the last couple of hours and nothing comes to mind!
Republicans care more about Trump’s feelings than they do about their constituents, let alone the homeless and unhoused.
After all - according to the gospel of prosperity, Jesus said “fuck them poors!”.
I’d sincerely like to think so; between Mario Bros., Hook and Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Bob Hoskins is a foundational part of my childhood..
I mean, Bing has proven itself to the the best search engine for porn - so it kinda stands to reason that their AI model would have a particular knack for generating even more of the stuff!
Pretty sure that’s an intentional evolutionary trait. Fathers are less likely to question paternity if a baby looks like them, helping to form emotional bongs early.
Nah, probably just some homeless guy on a bike with a blowtorch..
DuckDuckGo for day-to-day stuff, Bing for naughty content.
Part of the article describing what made this sole-surviving house special:
Greg Chasen’s house in Pacific Palisades, which he built in 2024, still stands while the neighboring homes burned down. The house on Iliff Street is the “single one” that “remains intact,” Mansion Global reported.
“If it weren’t for several fire-resilient design strategies, the home would have been destroyed,” Bloomberg reported.
Chasen, an architect who designed the house, said the home he built “for a dear friend” boasts several fire-proofing features. Several of these follow the principles of passive home design.
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To reduce or even eliminate the need for heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer, a passive house is built airtight, using strong exterior insulation, triple-pane windows, and construction methods that ensure no heat is transferred across the exterior of the building. No outdoor air seeps in, and no indoor air escapes.
This airtight construction is one of the reasons the house could withstand a blaze.
As Bloomberg reported, the house does not have eaves, overhangs, or attic vents “to allow sparks to get inside the roof, which is metal, with a fire-resistant underlayment.”
In addition, Chasen’s fire-proofing choices include “a protected area free of vegetation, fenced off by cast-in-place concrete garden walls.”
I assume it would be using renewable, non-carbon producing forms of energy to power this; ie. geothermal, solar, wind, heck - even nuclear would be a good power source for this sort of machinery (with a consistent power requirement).
The more pertinent question IMO is, how many of these machines would be need to first bring global net-Carbon emissions to 0 - and the. How many more would we need to reverse the last century+ of CO2 pollution and bring air quality back to pre-industrial revolution levels?
It’s funny in a way, seeing as how Gabe Newell was at Microsoft from ~’83 until ‘96, working on the early versions of Windows.
Makes sense though - to see what subsequent teams have done to your original project, and feel the need to ‘right those wrongs’.
As long as the Dems keep glossing over the worsening K-shaped economy, and talking past the pain that the majority of middle-America is feeling - they’re going to continue to lose the working class to apathy and the GOP.
It doesn’t matter if wages nationally ‘went up” $1b, if it all went to like 3 people, and everyone else’s wages stagnated or went down.
Todd in particular deserves a lot more attention/subscribers/success given how long he’s been around, and just how much content he’s released.