I would hazard a guess that this was brough up in reference to a meme on this board showing a close up of someone snorting a line of white powder. I can completely understand why that might not be considered suitable for all places and audiences.
The Other Guys. At first glance, it's a buddy cop comedy that harkens back to Lethal Weapon, but with humor typical to ~2010. But, the more you watch it, the more Zucker brothers esque, 1980s surrealist comedy influences you notice. One of the most subtly weird and funny movies to me, I've probably seen it, no lie, 10 or 15 times.
The PS3 fat could only read PS2 disks because it had stripped down PS2 hardware included. It was effectively a PS2/3 combined. This was part of what drove the cost up, so they gutted that hardware from the slim.
PS4s can't read PS3 disks because the PS3 used a bespoke PowerPC based chipset that was a colossal pain in the ass to develop for. So for the PS4 to have backwards compatibility, they would have had to either A, include PS3 hardware in the PS4 (expensive) or B, create an efficient software translation layer/built in emulator (see "pain in the ass").
From what I have heard, they smartened up with the PS5. It's basically just a faster PS4. At it's core, it's based on very similar hardware, so it's easy to make PS4 games run without issue, but the boost in performance allows games designed specifically to take advantage of it.
No. I daily a Galaxy S23. I really like it except for all of Samsungs preinstalled apps that can't be deleted.
A couple months back, I bought a refurbished OnePlus 6T (2018) to mess around with Linux and de-Googled Android, and guess what, my phone which is 5 years newer feels virtually no different. It does have a better camera, granted, but personally that doesn't effect me as I do any serious photography with a proper camera anyway (also, I have to acknowledge that the 6T is slower as it's not really a flagship phone like the S23, but the 6T feels comparable quality and performance wise to some mid range 2024 phones I've used).
Bottom line, unless we see more Apple M-style chipsets in phones, imo, we're at a plateau. You could get a $200 5 year old phone and be fine.
Mazda. Reliable, reasonably priced, good performance, an option for every type of driver (from RWD roadster to full sized SUV), gorgeous design language. I think people are going to look back on the current Mazdas and think they aged like fine wine. They're also one of the only brands I can think of that have a truly unified design language across all models (besides maybe Audi and Mercedes)
I remember reading this series years ago, it was pretty darn good, loved the bio-punk theme. Totally forgot it existed till now, glad it's getting an adaptation.
I'm biased towards AMD in general, I just find them to be a slightly better value, but Intel CPUs are great too, and I don't think they have any noticable issus on Linux.
As for other hardware, it depends. Just make sure to do a bit of research and compare multiple options, especially for something like the storage, motherboard, RAM, or power supply. It's usually pretty easy to sus out which brands are trying to catch your eye with low prices and tons of RGB, and which brands are offering a great product (I will suggest Seasonic for a power supply. They aren't the cheapest but the build quality is excellent).
Oh 100% agreed. I think it was the Song of Susanahh especially that I thought could have been cut down by about 50%.
And yeah, it would definitely be nice for him to see his work faithfully adapted. I do selfishly hope he takes a backseat creatively though. He's a phenomenal writer but a terrible filmmaker (imo).
Thank you, and yeah I've struggled with shinsplints on and off in the past so going slow really helped (and finding decent shoes).
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