How do parents know what a baby is saying? They don’t. They spend enough time learning what sounds and movements or facial positions mean to speculate what is being communicated.

Artoo speaks with whistles and beeps and he moves. I’m betting that in the time they spent together, Luke had a vague understanding of the general gist of what Artoo was trying to communicate.

Droids personalities also expand as time goes on and they learn, which is why wiping their memory often is something that happens in Star Wars. R2 and 3PO both skirt memory wiping many times.

I worked in science, pre-clinical pharma, for 11 years before switching careers. I can fucking assure you that scientists and people really are THAT stupid about shit. Complacency from routines or experience is real as fuck.

Well, I like peanut butter and that’s how it’s pronounced. I guess I’m part of the quarter gang.

So what you’re saying is that just like articles—THEY DIDN’T READ. Then they perpetuated fake news until it was accepted by half the audience.

Well now I feel like an idiot because I thought they were actually two different file types with some stupid rule like how many pixels they could display. 😂

I had to look it up and find out it changed because of operating systems and what they could handle for naming conventions.

like that one dinosaurs tail

Ankylosaurus

don’t by knock off brands and you’re safe

That is exactly how I interpreted their comment. If they meant something else, some major clarification needs to happen that specifically enriches what their actual point is. Otherwise, how I interpreted it is likely how most everyone is comprehending their argument when reading it at face value.

I scowl and scoff at randos that park on my street or longer in front of my house.

Tools and furniture are exciting!

The limit is skill and discipline.

Most people can’t even drive a car that is held on the ground by gravity. You want them to…fly?

In 1998 no less. Also, he plummeted 16 feet! Bah God!

Assassin’s Creed

I think when I tried it originally I wasn’t into the controls and how they felt. I’m more forgiving these days so I wonder if I’d enjoy the series now? I love a good story.

Yeah, the first ME you need to really just get in the right mind-frame that it’s old and the controls are clunky. I loved 2 and haven’t played 3.

You have to treat Horizon like a mystery and you’re a detective. I had a hard time getting into it and then I started to try and give a shit about why the world is the way it is and really listening to the logs I found. I finally got very invested and beat both games and loved them.

It won’t be for everybody though. I definitely wouldn’t play Forbidden West without knowing the first game’s story.

The first time I played Borderlands 1, I didn’t understand what it was going for and I didn’t like it. I picked it up years later and blasted through the entire series. It was a riot! I’m older, so all of the stupid references are fucking hilarious to me like the ninja turtles, Star Wars, Frankenstein, Godzilla, Lord of the Rings, Moby Dick, etc.

I appreciate this response. As I said in another post, the Steam Deck is intriguing! I wouldn’t mind one myself.

I do want to say that part of why a laptop is “needed” here is because he does record and edit YouTube videos of his gaming, so a Steam Deck wouldn’t allow him to do that unfortunately.

Oof, yeah, they shouldn’t need the shitty proprietary software when Windows is already installed!

Dude, I’m not getting a Dell! 😉

Good to know. Thank you! I’m in the US, just for reference.

Well damn. That’s was a great watch.

My son’s laptop worked for a year. Just a couple of weeks ago, he started to get the screen going black but you could hear the sounds. A restart would fix it. Then one day it didn’t. I thought maybe it was a dust issue causing overheating and the screen to shut off so I opened it up and blew out dust with compressed air, but it honestly wasn’t bad at all. So I pulled it into a different monitor and it would show up on that monitor, but the one on the device didn’t work so I thought maybe it was driver issues. I updated drivers, I updated Windows, then did a restart. Same thing.

After that, I tried to boot it into safe mode and then it just wouldn’t start up windows at all. Even plugged into a different monitor, I didn’t see the BIOS appear and the light would slowly flash white or green (can’t remember), but it would never get anywhere. Razer support made me prove it over a video call with several tech levels and then they told me I needed to go with my Razer Care.

Been a week and today they called me to say that they couldn’t replace my part so they settled and were cutting me a check for the price of my laptop. Now here I am and I am probably considering a Lenovo Legion or ASUS ROG now.

My hope is that this lasts my son long enough that he would rather have a desktop and that will give me the go ahead to just rebuild my old desktop with all new everything. 😂

I’m in the middle of a master’s program and career switch so I’m not keen on spending more than I have to.

Potentially. We have Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, PS5, my desktop, and he wants the laptop to take to other houses and play on occasion as well.