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Even with the teething troubles it's a compelling option for some uses and extremely competitive on price performance with Intel options. The current weaknesses are with very top end gaming where price performance isn't really a factor, the general teething troubles- which are rather less serious than some Intel has suffered- and not having any budget chips for the next two weeks. The last one is definitely being fixed in the next two weeks though.

Does anyone know where that $40 million figure comes from? 40 million seems to be inordinately low for ~5 years even excluding marketing and quite possibly also excluding external costs like any time DICE spent on engine customisation, texture farming from EA Low Wage Country etc, and tax breaks from the Quebec govt. I still reckon that MEA looks like a badly managed project rather than a badly funded one.

I'd definitely add K** L*** to the list of bad bits of ME3. Just dreadfully executed. I can see what they were thinking but just chucking that character out there and saying "he's cool! and dangerous!! and he'll kill a tier 2 friend who'd already dying then later beat you in a cutscene no matter how badly you're roflstomping him" is pretty indicative of the worst aspects of Bioware's storytelling. Much as with the catalyst, and the ending, if you've set them up over the course of the three games per Rannoch and Tuchanka then you can end up with a good pay off- or at least an understandable one- instead of having them all pulled from the posterior in the last game. The ending is, basically, the ending to Deus Ex after all, and they had a prime opportunity to introduce the concept of the catalyst in the first game when you meet that Prothean encyclopaedia. Or any time at all in ME2. Pretty pointless criticising it anyway, it is what it is; it's just more annoying than if it were wholesale rubbish because those mistakes were easy to avoid and it should have been better. Gues it's a bit more constructive than complaining about dlc costs at least.

I have a code too, 50% off. Haven't actually played Tyranny yet but since the code is Steam only I won't be using it when I do buy and someone else might as well get the benefit.

Yeah, nah. ME3 costs $25 here, and the Origin dlc costs... $24. At least you can buy the proper amount of krazee kurrencee through the Origin app now rather than having to spend $32 buying more than you need. If they sold an ME3: Ultimate GOTY Collection Enhanced Edition it would have been on special for less than the individual DLC by now, DAI is more recent and its Ultimate Edition has been less than $25 already. The Origin DLC sounds like something I'd like- plus I liked ME3 well enough anyay- but their pricing and lack of discounts on it is just mickey taking at this point.

It would definitely be nice to know what the premium speed wise is for the increased price and how it balances out for timings and frequency, so more testing of that aspect would be very welcome once they've worked the kinks out. I'd be confident buying 3200Mhz RAM that it will consistently work as stated, eventually, but I can get 3600 or even 3733 Mhz for not that much more- less than it would cost to get a cooler for a 7700k- and if that ends up adding, say, 5% performance it would be worth the premium for sure. Plus it would be better if I need to add RAM in the future, current computer uses downclocked RAM since I couldn't find any RAM slow enough (!) to match what it already had once I wanted to upgrade. I've got probably a month further for things to settle down before buying anyway, since at this point I'll definitely be waiting for the R5 (just about certain to get a 1700 though) and 5 series graphics cards. Probably too soon for revised MBs, but hopefully the BIOS revisions and updates will have largely been rolled out by then.

Shame that fast RAM is so expensive (and here pretty unavailable, I can't source any 3200MHz CL14 from reputable sources at all) and anything 3200+ isn't officially supported, and it's still a bit random as to whether it will actually work at rated frequency. Being faster than a 7700k at games, albeit marginally overall and dependent on the game, is one of the last tick box Ryzen needs to fill.

Not really, the point of a fact check is to be factual; a fact check that isn't factual is just a polemic wearing authoritative clothes. It's pointing out that some of the trees in the forest are actually plywood cut outs. And the forest is there, there's no need for fakery. I don't really care who did the fact checking (ironically, last Time article I read was the 'Total Meltdown' one on Trump per election), that's the least important aspect. I don't need to be convinced that Trump lies. For a 'fact check' the target audience has to be those who believe Trump- proving to them that he lies. Instead, practically, the target is people who already believe Trump lies and who want that belief reinforced, for anyone else that fact check is counter productive. Indeed, the effect it had was such that I didn't even notice that the author had doubled down on #6 with #14 as I'd been turned off completely. Worse, the quote in #14 even has Trump mention the internet edition specifically. You'd have been far better off without the graphic.

Was a reference to an actor addressing UK parliament about needing more muslims on TV otherwise they will join ISIS or something. Yeah, it's a pretty stupid complaint, that's all. I'm not even in the UK and I can think of more muslims on TV there than people I'm sure are christians. Albeit that's because in dramas their characters tend to be labelled as 'muslim' and have it as part of their character more, plus I can recognise typically muslim 'asian' (subcontinental) names easily. If you're looking for an english source and find The Daily Stormer keep looking. The label 'nazi' is thrown around rather, heh, liberally but that website is literally named after Julius Streicher's infamous jew baiting nazi paper 'Die Sturmer'. They'd blame immigrants, muslims, lefties and non whites for literally anything and everything.

If they could get the facts right then there'd be no issue. Writing an article about someone else lying while effectively lying yourself in an absolutely identical way is at very, very best counter productive, if your aim is to convince anyone not already convinced. Because simply put, any Trump supporter who sees that will instantly decide the rest of the article is rubbish at that point, same as any anti Trumper will decide that lying in your article about lying is a 'technicality', or some weird Putin conspiracy. It isn't a technicality and it isn't even a genuine msitake, it was clearly done with absolute intent. Someone sat down and wrote that reasoning deliberately in an attempt to justify Trump being wrong. In that case he wasn't wrong. Did the NYT change their headline? Yes they did. Therefore on that Trump is correct. The correct response is therefore to have an article with 13 lies from Trump or find a 14th (shouldn't be hard), not try and weasel a truth into a lie. Well yeah, he's a politician. And all the media needs to do is illustrate that without lying themselves. They don't get a pass just because they're media, and every time they do it their reputation drops a little more.

There actually are plenty of muslims on TV in the UK. Way more than in the US, where they do rather tend to be trotted out as the terrorist-du-jour.

At this point it's pretty much an absolute rule that any complaints about factual accuracy (from 'MSM' in particular) have to themselves contain factual inaccuracies.

Nah, don't. After all, he does think that Origin established the Jane's IP- which would involve time travelling back to 1898. It's as much a licensed product as an NBA game. Most of the rest is just standard industry practice, crappy maybe but everyone does it.

The attack took place near the Houses of Parliament which, I believe, have had those countermeasures in place for most of the duration of the War on Terror (possibly since the 7/7 bombings?). Moreover I'd imagine there are few places in the UK with faster armed response times, which may be why the attack was stopped relatively quickly. Some of the counter measures, especially in really prominent targets like the PoW, date back as far as The Troubles as a way to stop IRA car bombs. Parliament would have pretty close to instant response times as there are armed police stationed there on a permanent basis. For a Nice style attack it's actually a poor area to target for that reason.

same as Clintons Clinton's had business that took money from foreign powers when Bill was president? Both the Bushes did as well. W especially also got funding after leaving the presidency in nearly the exact same style as Hillary/ Bill did, though I'm pretty sure he actually wound up his charity once his library was built instead of keeping it going. W's VP was also infamous for his intricate relationship with Halbech Halliburton-Bechtel. In any case, Trump is not special in that regard. Don't think Obama did though*, but then Obama was (perhaps consequentially) intensely disliked by the usual suspects of Saudi, Israel, other Gulf states etc; and he was not a businessman before politics. *except the still hilarious Nobel Prize money from well known bribery black hole Norway; and that went to charity.

Can you provide a link to a US sized UHC? Id be interested to read up on this. No, but then there aren't any 300 million population countries except the US since the closest in population is Indonesia, an entire UK population away. There are plenty of countries with similar or lower GDP/c to the US with UHC though, and the limiting factor ought to be available cash, not size. UHC seems to work fine for countries from the size of, say, Japan to Luxembourg- about a 250 fold population range- and gives a qualitatively better (to population as a whole) and cheaper result so I'd suggest that any argument that the US is a special case due to its size would require evidence of why its size specifically makes it a special case. Obviously the US is a special case relative to UHC countries, due to it having a significantly different and established system, the question is more whether it has to have that system as UHC wouldn't work there or whether the US system evolved to be inefficient/ 'broken'. The size argument is certainly general case, but there's no evidence of larger socialised health care systems being less efficient than small ones right up to Japan's size, rather the reverse since despite having an aged population Japan's system is cheaper per capita than most others.

I can't help but get some slight goosebumps every time I think about the game, love it. Have you tried Call of Chernobyl? I haven't had the time yet so I can't vouch for the quality myself, read about it in the Swedish PCGamer a little while ago, and it looks promising. To be honest I've barely played with any mods, except for AMK (and real weapon names for the later ones). Up until mid late 2015 I literally didn't have the bandwidth for most mods, this year I've mostly been catching up on games I couldn't download previously. A properly modded Stalker run is certainly on the list though.

That's what I used to think, but then I found out we are actually paying more than all of those countries in taxes towards healthcare costs. About 70% more in total costs as proportion of GDP/c than the EU as a whole, and even more than that as an absolute value (well, absolute value normalised via PPP). The economic/ tax raising argument doesn't really hold water as the costs aren't even close, and the quality of healthcare provided- as a whole, since if money's no concern healthcare can be superb quality in the US- is also inferior for that extra cost. Size arguments also don't hold much water, generally the larger the system the more efficient it is rather than the reverse. The fundamental problem is that profit motive doesn't work for healthcare, because the minimum cost model for a health company is to simply not treat as many sick people as possible.

Why do you want me to feel old now, instead of next year? Of that list the only one I personally would take as significant would be Fallout, and I played that a year or so after release since I actually played F2 first (I also preferred F2). The other games I either played or liked on that list such as DK/ TA/ AoE I simply wouldn't consider important enough, to me, to remember their release date. (I didn't like Diablo much, though I'll freely admit it is a significant game in general)

There have now been 10 years of cheeki breekis and getting out of there Stalker since Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl is now 10 years old. Still has the best atmosphere in any game I've played, and the best 'dungeons'. Even worse for making me feel old, Baldur's Gate will be 20 (!) years old next year.

Medical insurance itself is perfectly fine both theoretically and practically. The US system is... non optimal, I think everyone would agree, but that is due to more reasons than it being primarily based on medical insurance. There are efficient healthcare systems based on medical insurance, albeit most have a compulsory element to them and more regulation than the US likes.

Another game sponsored by nVidia with massive and utterly pointless amounts of tesselation specifically to asterisk with AMD cards? OK, that's about as surprising as an AMD sponsored game with huge amounts of async compute to asterisk with nVidia cards but I do wonder if the money is worth it just to annoy x% of your user base. Titanfall 2 reviewed fine, its problem was being released within weeks of another MP focussed game from the same company (Battlefield 1) and since it is primarily a MP game it needs to have a decent playerbase to promote further sales; hence the discounts. Pretty much everything I've heard on Titanfall2 has it as being a good game. There's a bit of a difference though between lo-fi graphics and 'bad' graphics. Something like Stardew Valley has a graphic style from the early 90s, but it is a consistent style that works with the game and game play. System Shock 2 has shonky animation married to basic models, but is also 17 years old and has good gameplay and atmosphere. Certainly the problem with MEA looks to be that it's way, way down the uncanny valley with some people (not universally/ mostly women, to be fair) who look like they were extruded from plastic and faces with completely unconnected muscles/ expression sets. It's also the 4th game in the series, you'd expect improvement. Plus also also it will, whether fairly or not, be compared to the best games out there for animation and models. It certainly doesn't look like it compares favourably to, say, TWitcher 2 in that regard, let alone its sequel. (And no, I have no idea how Bethesda gets away with ocean wide, puddle deep games that have deep technical flaws because they're still using the same basic engine as Oblivion did 11 years ago and won't or can't fix their issues. It's inconsistent but in the end massive sales numbers have a quality all of their own)

It is a newish studio doing their first game as well as being a major release from a big publisher. I'd say there have definitely been production issues there. It looks like the animations just plain weren't ready when the rest of the game was and the choice was to wait for the animations or ship the game as is and they went for the latter. That's definitely a production issue where a Producer didn't do their job properly- make sure others did their jobs properly and stuck to deadlines. It's even possible, though unlikely, that the problem is not the animations themselves but the rigging of the models. I think I said a few pages back that perhaps they outsourced to aliens who'd only had humans described to them rather than seen them. After seeing a few videos I'm not absolutely sure that isn't exactly what happened. And to be fair to the animators/ modellers even the voice acting seems to be, uh, off shall we say. Even when Bioware's writing has been shaky to shonky the voice acting has been generally good to excellent despite it. I've only seen videos, but their voice direction seems to have largely deserted them as well.

The chip structure is not really a problem per se, it's pretty much an inevitable consequence of how they are manufactured, and communication within a 'node' (ccx) will be faster than between different ones. It is able to be improved by better scheduling from OS and/or per program basis, there certainly seems to be an issue where it is detected as having 16 physical cores rather than 8/8. Though AMD has rather equivocated on whether it is/ isn't working as intended it certainly isn't working optimally; the equivocation may be to stop rabid fanboys annoying MS to 'fix' their scheduler to take Ryzen into account. Base RAM speed determines the speed of the inter core communication so yeah, going from 2400 to 3200Mhz will make a huge difference. If you were unlucky enough to have a MB/ RAM combo that didn't like each other or wanted to use 4 sticks of RAM then there will be a large performance increase at some point when the MB/ BIOS revisions are released. Most of the ASRock and Gigabyte MBs seem to already be capable of getting decent quality RAM to 3200Mhz (in 2 stick set ups, 4 are still at 2400 max so far as I know), the ASUS and MSI ones were lagging.