The funny thing about religion is that, not only do people only subscribe to various fractions of the theology, if you don’t believe it all then by some degree you aren’t a true follower.

So you end up with a spectrum of believers where any one individual will claim that that who don’t believe enough aren’t true followers, but those who believe too much are extremists.

It seems to me that if you don’t fully believe the theology you shouldn’t be a follower. And if you do believe all of it you need psychiatric help.

More than that, if the legal age of consent was 40, then 41 would be “barely legal”. Why do people use the term negatively (or positively for that matter). It’s just so arbitrary.

“I love you [Phillip J Fry]”

I have to disagree with you on the Cisco stuff. It absolutely teaches you foundation networking.

“barely legal” is such a disingenuous attack.

Is it legal? Yes. What’s the problem? Something will always be “barely legal”. Even if we decide that it’s immoral and make it illegal, something else will still always be “barely legal”.

If you think something is immoral, then just say so. If a bunch of consenting adults do something that doesn’t harm anyone, mind your own business.

Invisible war is way worse.

Did they turn HR into a 3rd person shooter? Yes. There are some bosses that you just have to outgun, but I’m sure the original did that as well.

But it still had all the weird multiple entries in every building. Non lethal options, etc.

Parasite Eve 3, or should I say 3rd Birthday.

The first 2 games were sequels to a sci fi horror novel. The title doesn’t actually have “parasite Eve” in it because the rumour is they lost the rights to the book and any references to ideas from the book. So they couldn’t mention the titular Eve or mitochondria.

Instead they made a story about time travel and mysterious unrelated monsters.

No idea why they bothered making it.

I think you should read your link again. It clearly says 720 is “HD”.

“HD Ready” was a marketing term that was sometimes used for things that were both 720 and close to 720.

Honestly, I stopped trying to understand them after 1080.

I’ve worked on broadcast for over a decade and up until recently is been almost exclusively 1080i that I’ve dealt with.

Chef John is purely videos of recipes. He never did 40 minute episodes about which salt is the best.

It still is.

720 = HD 1080 = Full HD

Then I think there’s UHD, before they start labelling them as shortened numbers like 8k

Here’s a crazy idea: we don’t need cereal with crazy colours. “Froot Loops” could be the colour of grains and no one would suffer because of it.

I think the joke is that alchemists believe they could turn lead into gold and a primary ingredient was urine.

In fact, a lot of Alchemy involved using piss for things.

Anyone who yearns for their life as child has developmental issues. I’m not trying to say that as a sick burn, I think it’s honestly sad and source of suffering for some people.

Stable vs unstable just means if there are changes happening or if it’s a static version. It doesn’t mean unstable as in wobbly or about to fall over. It’s a poor choice of a term, but that’s what developers use now.

This is a tricky one, though, isn’t it?

The end price of the console is ultimately set by the retailer. The retailer will typically make that price higher than they got it from the manufacturer. Some of that cost was paid by the retailer as tariffs, maybe some extra manufacturing costs were higher because of tariffs.

Who is getting the refund? A Japanese company? Or the Americans who had to pay tariffs? Either way, Sony don’t sell directly to the consumer, so the retailers would have to be gifted a refund by Sony, and then choose to trace and refund their customers.

I’m I completely wrong about this? How should this work?

So, about that asshole thing…

To clarify on this, there is no possessive apostrophe with ‘it’ like their is with nouns. “Its” is a possessive pronoun like “his” or “hers”.

There are plenty of people who worry about being an asshole and end up never standing up for themselves. I don’t think it’s as simple as “if you’re worried you’re the asshole, you probably are”.

Not that is should be a valid response, but you can jail break PlayStations to play whatever game you have a “back up” copy of. That tends to be my method of playing legacy PS games because it’s easier than dealing with discs.

At the end of the day, console gaming is a different product to PC gaming. That’s more obvious with Nintendo, but overall expectations should be different.