There’s an alternate reality where everyone is basically certain Trump is the reason the Jets are terrible.

That’s a really weirdly passive aggressive way to respond. I don’t want either of these devices, but you posted a shit article about nothing.

two gaming handhelds both released in 2025 have comparable performance? The hell you say

So, she should quit first?

I am old enough that the term would make me uncomfortable to use, yeah. Imagine my surprise when all the Linux vids use it.

I’m just trying to kill it. As a person in my 40s, it’s the only power I have. No cap.

Based take

wait is there a month old sack of cat turds that is running? I would be interested in seeing some literature please

I literally just got added to the Super Secret military stuff group chat

omg no more late night show for you

Yeah, I don’t think he knew his name was in there, but this appears to be correspondence about him, not a detailed log of him coming and going or fifteen ways to get in touch with him or tons of video of them chumming it up or sending a wink wink little birthday card. I read the headline yesterday and my BS detector went off because he wouldn’t have said Trump was in the Epstein files if he was also in the Epstein files (in that way).

I remember waiting like 10 minutes with a loading window for Monster Hunter Rise to compile shaders at one point a while back and I had no idea what that meant then… (but yeah obviously most games do it more elegantly)

I only know this because I recently started doing some game development (as opposed to just being a gamer for 30 years); Shaders are little programs that run directly on your graphics card. They’re all over the place in games, doing stuff like making objects glow, morphing/transforming objects, and in 3D games, they’re also doing a lot of the work of lighting effects and details that you would want to see in order to actually see the game’s final product. When you start a game it will (either in the foreground or background) compile (build for your computer) all of the shaders designed in the game, but I guess this needs to happen on each computer. If they re-coded some of the shaders in the game to be more efficient/use fewer resources and ultimately make the game run faster, the ones in the previous release would need to be completely recompiled.

(I’m sure someone will be along to correct any inaccuracies in that.)

What I think is odd though is that game companies are throwing that around like anyone has any idea what they’re talking about though.

This doesn’t super solve your immediate problem, but it might help you keep progress on your game:

Remember — it’s a game. Maybe yes, you could calculate the area of the polygon you drew, and then you’d have it working like that for good. But then what happens if you want to fudge a number, like the area calculates that 2 troops can fit in France but for balance you really want 3? At that point you’re going to need to fudge the calculation, add another factor or redraw your polygon (the latter which might not be possible).

An alternative way to solve this is you can look up on wikipedia the different areas of these countries. You can assign a factor for each one (like Risk does) based on various factors - area, population, etc, but ultimately balance, that allows you to set whatever you want on each country. Not that the math isn’t exciting, but you’re probably going to end up doing this anyway after you figure the math out.

politics? Not here in politics town, says politics man.

all hail saint charleton of kirk

I seem to recall him meeting with convoy leaders during that whole shitstorm. Way to “de-escalate”.

Sic semper Nazis.

This comic is routinely terrible trash.

Makes sense. You quoted earlier:

We’ve finally reached a point where buying Zen 5 makes sense financially, but it’s still far from an exciting upgrade.

And this advice makes sense in its context but also is very much like “An iphone 17 isn’t a meaningful enough upgrade over an iphone 16” and not really like “an iphone 16 probably isn’t worth buying anymore if you want something with long term support, but if you have a 16, the 17 isn’t really worth it for you; if you are upgrading from a 12, you might as well go 17 for <benefits>.”