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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Yep. Came here to say;
"So...are you Chinese or Japanese?"
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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/gordon-ramsay-says-families-who-eat-in-front-of-the-television-are-gross/news-story/d20f6ed314f035b3d0371257e309f6a6

The Michelin-starred celebrity chef, 50, says he likes to “eat properly” and chat to his wife Tana, 42, and their four kids during dinner time.

When asked if his family watch TV while they dine, Gordon said: “No, that’s pretty gross. Also the sofa is off-white, which is bad enough with the dog on there, so no food.

“I like to eat properly, hold conversations, divide and conquer, find out who’s doing what, who’s fallen behind at parents’ evening, and then retire to the sofa, with a drink.”

The Scot, who added a “glass of Rioja” was his preferred couch tipple, was also asked if he ever eats in bed, telling the Radio Times: “Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. No.”

It comes as Gordon said he won’t be leaving his massive fortune to his children as he fears it will “ruin them”.

It means that Megan, 18, Matilda, 15 and Jack and Holly, both 17, will receive little of his net worth, believed to be around £113 million ($A187 million).

“It’s definitely not going to them, and that’s not in a mean way; it’s to not spoil them,” he said.

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It's overall a good game but it has a lot of issues. If you're a big Mass Effect fan you should go for it.
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https://youtu.be/qmw5yZJnTdg?t=18s
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No idea why gamers care so much but I doubt Sony and Microsoft will move away from them thanks to the cost.

Only thing that could change is if they follow the lead of the Switch and make a portable Xbox/PlayStation that can share games with a console.
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I Like Toast posted...

Darmik posted...

Why can't optional content be fun as well?

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Sudoku is fantastic

I Like Toast posted...

it is entertaining, sudoku is fun. it's skippable to people who don't find it fun.

So you want it in all future Mass Effect games? Would you say it's a positive gameplay mechanic added to Andromeda?
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I Like Toast posted...

Why would I make an excuse for something that is 100% skippable?

Why can't optional content be fun as well? I think they could have done a better job at making solving Remnant puzzles more satisfying. It's meant to be a major accomplishment in the game. What's so bad about that?
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I4NRulez posted...

Dude there's like maybe what 12 of them in the game? It took me maybe 20 mins in the 80 hours i put into the game to solve it. Its not a big deal.

I played through the Havarl and Voeld vaults in the last couple of days so I got quite a few of them in a pretty small period. I'm hoping I've done most of them now.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Every moment spent waxing eloquent about this nonexistent problem is a moment that you could have spent farming Gold/Zero/Outlaws like God intended. You should be ashamed.

Wow farming for resources. Another great feature added to the story focused Mass Effect franchise.

And nah I'm at work so I can't play Andromeda at the moment. Instead I talk about video games on a video game message board to pass the time.
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I Like Toast posted...

Darmik posted...

You need to have the foresight to have bought them

Your attention span is why Sam has to remind you that you're in a mining zone or the temperature changed.

"I used my last key I guess I should do nothing about it but cry on gamefaqs about it" ~ Darmik

You're not even trying to make an excuse for it anymore. It has nothing to do with attention span. It's a lame puzzle sprinkled through the game to waste your time. Either by making sure you bought enough keys from specific stores or by taking the time to do a random puzzle found in a newspaper.

It's there to be a hindrance. It's there to be filler. Nobody will care that they're gone in the next game. Nobody will look back fondly on Andromeda because of Remnant puzzles. The most positive thing said about them is "they're not a big deal because you can spend game money to skip them"

They're a dated concept that have no reason to be in video games like this anymore. No one is playing Mass Effect to solve Sudoku puzzles to save planets. Which is literally what the game asks you to do. So why is it there? What makes it good game design?
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I Like Toast posted...

Because you defended the one that is both less fun but also not skippable.

I barely defended it. I just said they didn't personally bother me compared to Remnant puzzles. It's just a convoluted way to find a password for the computer. I wouldn't care at all if they got removed. They probably should be.

Besides didn't you need to level up your computer skills to hack? If you didn't you'd only ever get the easy 4 word ones that can be done in a few seconds. Maybe I didn't care about it because of the many other issues I had with Fallout 4. Why do we need this crap in games? Who finds them fun? I can sort of understand lockpicks since they want that as a resource and they don't want lockpicks breaking to be left to random chance. Even that sorta seems like a stretch. Locked doors are already gated by your skills.

I Like Toast posted...

it is entertaining, sudoku is fun. it's skippable to people who don't find it fun.

You need to have the foresight to have bought them. Otherwise you need to backtrack through several loading screens to go and buy one and a long trek back. It's pretty lame to punish players this way to let them skip it anyway. Why not just replace it with an optional combat sequence instead? Why do we need to calculate this crap when we have an AI with us? It barely even fits the story they're trying to tell. It's lazy filler in every single way.
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AlternativeFAQS posted...

MEA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> FO4

lol is this supposed to be an accomplishment? It repeats a lot of mistakes that Fallout 4 made with the dated mechanics, presentation and focusing on the wrong things.

I was hoping that it would be an improvement on the previous trilogy. It would have come close if they removed or fixed a lot of the annoying issues the game has.
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I Like Toast posted...

Darmik posted...

Aww poor baby can't handle someone criticizing a game.

Like you with FO4? where you tried to defend literal word search. literally word search.

Damn I never thought anyone would accuse me of defending Fallout 4. I never even said it was good. I just said I didn't find it as bad.

How is deflecting to another game wasting your time with a lame and not fun minigame a defense for this crap anyway? That's admitting it's pointless.
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Atralis posted...

The patch basically also took out 2/3 of the sudoku puzzles and expanded the easiest third to be ALL of the puzzles in the game.

A big issue was that they seemed to have just thrown random sudoku puzzles into the game and some of that shit is designed around people that spend years doing it as a hobby. You can't do that. You can't have some random trivial puzzle in a game be some 1 hour horrifying puzzle with a massive board that has a single unique solution and a million possibile failures designed to challenge those dudes that have solved literally a thousand puzzles and have a mindset built for solving sudoku.

The smaller boards that were left in the game are fine.

I didn't know this. Clearly shows how thrown in it actually was. They probably got a bunch of them online, changed the numbers to the symbols and called it a day.

It's another sad bit of wasted potential. It feels so 'mid 2000's video game' to me. I remember having to press random buttons to unlock containers in ME1. No idea why they keep doing stuff like this.
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I Like Toast posted...

you've now officially spent more time crying about them then you actually spend solving them across the 80 hours of gameplay to beat the game with all the non task completed.

Aww poor baby can't handle someone criticizing a game.
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Bioware have often thrown in a random ass puzzle which has nothing to do with the rest of the game. Usually it's a tower of Hanoi puzzle.

But here they're spread over several times throughout the game. It just feels like lazy design. Like they want to have some sort of puzzle at the end of a vault. But instead of thinking of anything unique or creative they're just gonna throw in a bunch of Sudoku puzzles and if you dislike it you can waste money to skip it. If you want to save a planet you're gonna have to deal with them.

Hopefully they don't go digging into magazines to figure out which puzzle to use to unlock chests in the next Dragon Age game.

It's not even comparable to a side card/sport game either. This is their 'lockpicking/hacking' mechanic and it's usually paired with a snore-inducing task of scanning my environment to look for glowing things that let me play the dumb Sudoku game. They don't even let you skip it by playing the game in another way like through a wave of combat.
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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

They don't seem frequent enough to be much of an issue.

It's not a huge issue. It just feels like this game can't go an hour without having some sort of hindrance or annoyance to my enjoyment.

I mean sure I could skip it with a remnant key. But I didn't buy them in time. So I'd need to waste time and waste money travelling to the shop to buy them. You usually get a bunch in a row too. It doesn't add anything interesting to the game at all.
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Gwent is actually good and you're not punished at all if you don't decide to play it. It's basically an entire optional side game.

Remnant puzzles add nothing.
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I Like Toast posted...

Sudoku is fun, the worst minigames is FO4 hacking.

Like it's not even close. I also personally hate lock picking in most games as well, since it's basically extremely annoying for the first couple hours when your stats suck and you don't have many lock picks. than a trivial annoyance the rest of the game.

I never had much of an issue with those because they at least felt like they fit the lore of what I was doing.

I Like Toast posted...

it is entertaining, sudoku is fun. it's skippable to people who don't find it fun.

People bought an epic space RPG to play a puzzle found in a newspaper?
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Mernardi posted...

They're not too bad once you realize there's a pattern besides just the rows and columns. Makes it so much easier.

I just don't understand why they're even here. They add nothing to the game. It doesn't feel like I'm encoding some mysterious alien language. They don't use any interesting gameplay mechanics. They just halt the game and make you play Sudoku. On top of this you have to waste some time unlocking them by scanning some stupid symbols in the room.

Like at some point someone should have really stepped in to ask if this stuff is actually entertaining. The rest of the remnant vaults are fun. They should have just stuck with environmental and platforming puzzles.
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They're basically just Sudoku puzzles.

Why are they even in here? Who had the bright idea to put this crap in there? They must know it sucks considering the first patch lowers the price for keys that let you skip them.

I remember this sort of crap used to be common back in the day. Dumb time wasters that just exist to kill time.
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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/lobster-was-not-overcooked-billskippers-restaurant-fights-back/news-story/50d3332379fe78ef715f816178f0e76c

They released the bill. $390 for two lobsters? Damn.

Dining alone, Peck allegedly consumed two whole lobsters, six oysters, four Coronas and a baby octopus. He also ordered 21 oyster shooters, a vodka cocktail similar to a bloody mary.

But he only consumed 15 manager Robert Rank reassured news.com.au when we contacted him.

This may go some way to explaining Peck subsequent alleged decision to run from the restaurant and swim 50 metres into the ocean off Main Beach, where he hid underwater for a time before being fished out by police on a jetski.

Peck faced Southport Magistrates Court this morning on two counts of obstructing police and one count of stealing. Informed of what he had eaten, Magistrate Joan White responded: Oh God, by himself?

Outside the court, Peck said he had run to the aid of a female friend who was about to have a baby on the beach but had mysteriously disappeared. He also said he was attempting to have a rap battle with Eminem but so far the US rapper had declined his invitations.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/04/09/an-11-year-old-boy-killed-himself-after-his-girlfriend-faked-her-death-shes-now-facing-charges/?utm_term=.3a05adaf1f3d

Tysen Benz was in his room when he read text messages saying someone he knew had committed suicide.

Shortly after, the 11-year-old boy from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula hanged himself.

Now, a 13-year-old girl is facing criminal charges in connection to his death. Marquette County Prosecuting Attorney Matt Wiese said the girl posed as someone else when she faked her own death during a text conversation with Tysen. And the boy, for reasons still unclear, believed it and killed himself within two hours of receiving the messages, Wiese said.

Wiese said he could not confirm the relationship between Tysen and the girl, but media reports say she was his girlfriend.

“The impact that it had on the boy — there’s a logical connection,” Wiese told The Washington Post. “He did this within hours of the conversation happening via text.”

The girl, whose name was not released, has been charged with malicious use of telecommunication service, punishable by up to six months in juvenile detention; and using a computer to commit a crime, which carries up to a year in punishment. Both are misdemeanor charges.

The incident happened on March 14. Nothing seemed amiss when he came home from school earlier that day, said the boy’s mother, Katrina Goss, of Marquette, Mich. He seemed happy and was proud that he had gone to his tutoring session without being reminded, Goss told The Washington Post. She baked him some treats as a reward. After dinner, Tysen went up to his room.

Shortly after 10 p.m., Goss went to each of her three sons’ rooms to tuck them in. Tysen’s door was locked, but she was able to open it with her key. At first, she thought her middle son was hiding or playing a trick because he wasn’t in his bed.

“I went in and I thought he was being silly,” Goss told The Post. “I ended up finding him in the closet . … I tried to hurry up and lift him up. I was screaming. I told my oldest son to call 911. My littlest one was bawling.”

Goss said the paramedics were able to revive Tysen. The boy was hospitalized for three weeks before he died on Tuesday.

Goss said her son often used Snapchat. The night he died, she said he was texting and talking on Snapchat with the 13-year-old girl, who was using someone else’s account when she told Tysen that his girlfriend had died. No one warned her son that it was all a prank, Goss said.

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SMAP- posted...

If it says PS4 exclusive on the cover art like it does, it's exclusive

Does it though? All the images I've seen of the cover doesn't have it. It's just appearing on additional marketing materials. Which makes sense for a timed exclusive.
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Iodine posted...

Darmik posted...

https://twitter.com/PlayStationIE/status/834336383112212480

inb4 correction

4:37 AM - 22 Feb 2017

I know.

The point is that it has been 'confirmed' before. Before it was corrected.

Sony or Activision haven't outright stated officially that it's a permanent PlayStation exclusive. We know at the very least it's timed. That's enough for marketing such as this.
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https://twitter.com/PlayStationIE/status/834336383112212480

inb4 correction
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Axiom posted...

This post reminds me about how the fact he was suddenly grown in the next one and she still looked the same bothered me. Yeah I know suspension of belief and all that but I was still like >_>

Natalie Portman still looked the same like a decade later to be fair <_<
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The more I think about it the more I don't think it's a good idea to remake/reboot;
- Star Wars canon makes the story and characters less interesting
- Bioware game expectations are vastly different. You only have one straight romance per gender. Combat wasn't action based. Some of the squad don't have much dialogue like T3 and Zalbaar and that's part of their character
- Combining these two things the game would either be too similar and disliked or too different and disliked

May as well just make a new Stars Wars RPG.
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I've flown in Australia lots of times (most flights are full) and I've never heard of this overbooking thing. Maybe it's different because the fare restrictions on these are quite strict and you need to pay more to have the right to cancel with a full refund.
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I don't really the think the relationship between Revan and Bastila is the same without the lore of Jedi love being forbidden. Same with the character development of Jolee.

I guess that's the one downside of having a strict canon. The side stuff will never feel as epic or as good.
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Peter_Griffin33 posted...

Darmik posted...

Bioware Austin are already dedicated to Star Wars The Old Republic aren't they? Is it possible this 'insider' misunderstood? Would an MMO studio have the same layout for a game like this?

It's possible but I'm just making sure!

Its probably a KOTOR HD remake or just more TOR content.

They've already released HD versions of KOTOR on mobile. I doubt Bioware would bother with that.
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DarthAragorn posted...

Yeah BioWare Austin is the SWTOR team

They still seem to be developing active content for it which is why I'm not sure if I can completely believe the rumor.

I feel like EA is the kind of studio that will want both a Star Wars MMO (which can always be rebooted to a new one) and a single player Star Wars game. In which case the MMO would be with Austin and the single player game with Edmonton (which would mean the new IP is cancelled since Dragon Age would be way under development now) or Montreal (who are just finishing up Mass Effect Andromeda).

Of course if EA are happy to ditch the MMO or increasing the size of Austin to handle two games then it's feasible.
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Bioware Austin are already dedicated to Star Wars The Old Republic aren't they? Is it possible this 'insider' misunderstood? Would an MMO studio have the same layout for a game like this?

It's possible but I'm just making sure!
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thepope_3290 posted...

Is 5 even any fun single player? Or is it like Left 4 Dead where it was clearly meant to be enjoyed with friends?

It's okay in single player. It is better in coop but it's not as bad as Left 4 Dead. RE4 is a lot better.
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This story made the news last night. They even filmed him being arrested.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/04/10/13/42/man-runs-into-surf-during-alleged-dine-and-dash-on-the-gold-coast

The rapper claims he left the restaurant to help his friend, who was having a baby.

When Mr Peck couldn’t find his friend in labour, he said he went for a swim and lost his wallet in the waves.

The unemployed parolee said Omeros Brothers should apologise to him for “overpriced and overcooked” seafood.

Mr Peck since been charged with stealing and two counts of serious assault of a police officer.

lmao
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REmake. If you like that style of game then you can give RE2 and 3 a try.

If you really are hungry for more Code Veronica X is in the same style. I didn't like Resident Evil 0 personally.

Then you can move onto the modern stuff.

If you're worried about storyline I wouldn't concern yourself too much. The overall storyline is pretty nonsense. I haven't played RE7 but they all pretty much can stand on their own.
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They're probably making an assumption after hearing that the female lions are the hunters.
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Past Nintendo hardware did not go for specs alone, but placed an importance on balancing it along with new gameplay methods. Have you taken into account the performance of competing companies’ gaming hardware and PCs this time?

Takahashi: Our main focus was with the implementation of the Switch’s core concept: how it would %u200Bswitch%u200B from playing in TV Mode, to Tabletop Mode, to Handheld Mode. It had to be graphically capable enough in TV Mode, but it had to be capable of playing in handheld mode for long enough as well. We made it an important goal of ours to find a good balance between those two aspects, so I think our team had a much different mindset than that of other companies.

It certainly seems so. A console focused entirely on maximizing its graphics would probably only last 30 minutes on the go.

Takahashi: If it even lasted that long (laughs).

And could you tell us about how the Switch got its name, despite the Wii being followed by the Wii U? I imagine there was a lot of heated debate regarding it during your development discussions.

Takahashi: We had numerous discussions about it.

Koizumi: The late president Iwata initially asked us to “Do something new”, so we had it in our heads from the start that we had to move away from older names like the Wii and Wii U, or the DS and 3DS. Our line of thinking was that all aspects of the system must be drastically different from past hardware, even down to the name.

Takahashi: And that went for the software development side as well.

Koizumi: Yes. In that sense, we would be changing many different things. For example, we were always thinking about how we could revise the development environment, the way development teams were structured, and even the mindset of the developers themselves. This had more of a connotation of “change”, but we decided it would be more appropriate to call it the “Switch”, as that had the nuance of a replacement. So we chose that name out of all of the various candidates.

Takahashi: And there was no shortage of name candidates. We must have had thousands.

Thousands! Did the ideas come from many different people?

Koizumi: We told everyone what the new hardware would be like, and asked them to come up with names that would fit well and be easy for people to understand. And we ended up with thousands of potential names.

Takahashi: We ended choosing “switch”, a word that means something. It’s not a made-up word like the “Wii”, so it was also a 'switch' away from that (laughs).

Was decision on the final name made unanimously?

Takahashi: There were a lot of different reactions to it

Koizumi: When we explained it, they went “you took all this time to come up with?”

Takahashi: But in the end, we made sure it felt right to the overseas staff. We decided to use it because it would convey new changes from new hardware, and a 'switch' in gameplay.

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http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-talks-switch-origins-creation-going-with-one-screen-name-online-play-january-event-much-more/

Can you tell us how you both were involved with the Nintendo Switch, and how the development started?

Takahashi: When development for the Switch began, it didn’t even have the codename “NX.” But at that time, there were discussions taking place between the late president Iwata (Satoru Iwata, former president of Nintendo), Takeda (Genyo Takeda, Nintendo’s “Technology Fellow”), Miyamoto (Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s “Creative Fellow”), and myself. The four of us began by looking at the entirety of our new hardware plans. When the discussion turned towards who should be at the center of the project, we decided to call in Koizumi.

Around what time were these discussions taking place?

Takahashi: That was about 3 years ago. You tend to discuss what sort of hardware you want to create whenever you’re on the verge of moving into something new, but Nintendo is always coming up with new ideas, so we had numerous materials and concepts already prepared. We decided the direction we wanted to go with these materials and the person we wanted to lead everything around the same time.

And that’s when Mr. Koizumi joined.

Koizumi: I was on the Tokyo production team at the time, but one day they suddenly told me I was to come to Kyoto. There, the late president Iwata told me to “create a tag team with Kawamoto” (Kouichi Kawamoto, the Nintendo Switch’s general director). I still clearly remember what he said back then, “I’ve chosen the most un-Nintendo-like people”. (laughs)

There's a lot more behind the link. The interview is very in-depth.
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Being banged by two guys because you're too nice to use your safe word is rather funny.
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TheVipaGTS posted...

Darmik posted...

The menu is pretty expensive. $28 for Spaghetti Bolognese?

regardless...when you go in and look at those prices and realize you can't pay it...you get up and leave, not say "its ok....I'll just escape into the ocean after dinner".....

But then you have to leave after you sat down. How embarrassing!
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The menu is pretty expensive. $28 for Spaghetti Bolognese?
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It's kinda weird seeing a King Kong story where him climbing the Empire State Building and 'beauty killed the beast' isn't a thing. He'll be way too big by now lol. I'm surprised they didn't even have it as a backstory for Skull Island or something.
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Apocalyptic Flintstones is easy. They live with dinosaurs after all.
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pkmnlord posted...

Who just goes to a restaurant knowing they can't afford it with the intention to run after eating however much you desire?

Wannabe rappers
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You can get a legit 1070 in a laptop these days. It's really not that crazy.

Something like the PS5 will probably have a few models and form factors. If it's easy to scale games across several configurations (which both Sony and Microsoft are already doing this generation) then the next obvious thing is to make a tablet/portable version of it. I'd say the biggest issue right now is balancing cheap physical media (which might be a non-factor if more and more people do digital) and storage.
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If Sony could cram a PS4 into a tablet form factor it would be released tomorrow. Eventually this stuff will be feasible. Kinda like how laptops overtook gaming PC's.
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