I'm late to the party, but just wanted to say that your list of purchases and recommended to purchase are just monumental lists of games. So many amazing choices.
I want to add two more if you have room.
Psychonauts and Psychonauts 2. They won't get you as much in the way of epic set pieces, but they are dripping with charm and very well crafted games with some of the most interesting levels I've seen.
I'm playing with an R7 5700x and a 3060ti. NVMe SSD storage, 32gb RAM. Ultra settings at 1440p on an ultra wide monitor. I don't understand the fuss, it is completely playable for me. I guess my standards are just lower? I don't know. It's seriously fine. I try not to get wrapped up in actual numbers, I'm more concerned about how it looks and feels to my actual eyes. Not the prettiest game I've ever seen but it looks alright to me and it feels smooth to me.
This feels like a very natural progression to me, I really don't see a problem with it as long as they continue to make sure their games are the core of the model and use other media as supplemental ways to build up brand and character awareness. I think anyone would agree that some types of stories are better told via games and others via movies, shows, or books. Broadening their scope allows for more stories to be told.
And theme parks or things of that nature are just cool ways for people to tangibly experience Nintendo IP.
Not sure if you're looking for an honest answer but the funniest/dumbest thing about this picture is that no, the "rules" are that anyone can baptize someone else. So it definitely doesn't need to be a priest. This entire scenario is completely unnecessary.
No not perfect, certainly. And cars are definitely complex, and recalls are a normal and expected component of car ownership for most people. Watch for them, get them rectified.
To be clear though, recalls are sort of outside what we are talking about when we are talking about reliable and long lasting cars. A recall is a known issue that the company addresses. It doesn't mean the car won't last.
Toyota and Honda, while they have the normal minor issues any car might have, are absolutely head and shoulders over other makers when it comes to their cars simply lasting longer with less maintenance.
Consumer reports is good for identifying which older models or vehicle have stood the test of time. I'm not sure it's as useful for newer vehicles since it's very hard to assess longevity of new models before there is data.
Your indignation at someone calling out the beanery of your post is somehow even funnier than the serendipitous inclusion of beans in the post. All around A+, bravo.
I think it'd make sense to offer a refreshed device that is either smaller, has better cooling, or both. And maybe an upper tier device with a better screen.
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic (and no offense taken if you are lol). But I think if you turn it into a home brewed version of Chopped meets Guy's Grocery Games, you can have a lot of fun with it.
Lol my wife and I absolutely used to go to 24 hour grocery stores at like midnight on weekends back before we had kids. We both love cooking so it was fun to slowly peruse the aisles looking for random things we hadn't noticed before and coming up with ways to use them.
Lame I guess, but neither of us likes bars that much and we couldn't afford to go out that often anyway.
Different strokes for different folks, and all that :)
I think people's impression of things is skewed because overall cars are much more reliable than they used to be. When I was a kid a car over 10 years old was something you expected to have issues, and certainly wanted to avoid buying. That's not the case these days, and the huge numbers of functional older cars on the roads make us not realize just how many old vehicles are out there because they're normalized.
My car is 15 years old, my wife's is 9. They're both perfectly fine and they don't feel old to us.
Toyota Camry or Corolla. If you just need transportation that you can rely on to start every morning without requiring major repairs all the time, these are your best options. Honda Accord or civic if you just like Honda better
If those are too boring buy something else from either Toyota or Honda.
I have personally seen double digit numbers of these vehicles go north of 200k miles and multiple over 300k miles with little more than basic maintenance. Some of them were outright abused with maintenance not done, driven with no oil, in accidents, etc. They just keep on ticking. These are individual anecdotes that should be taken as such but I encourage you to read others' accounts as well. My experience is not unique at all. I'm convinced you have to actively kill these cars. I live in the rust belt and I am quite sure that the bodies of our Toyotas will completely disintegrate before the engines give out. All I do is follow the maintenance plan in the manuals.
This is not to say you don't get small issues, or maintenance items. You still have to replace brakes, tires, etc. We had random minor issues with the interiors. But they always started and did their best to get us from point A to point B.
But the answer to this question is extremely well known across the internet and every thread that comes up will eventually boil down to the same two responses: Toyota and Honda as 1 and 1a.
There isn't some secret answer to find, those are just the answers. People will definitely come up with anecdotes supporting various other cars, but as these threads hit a certain mass of replies they invariably boil down to those two choices.
They are not the flashiest cars, nor the most feature rich, nor the most efficient or most powerful. But if you want to buy a car that will just keep on running after years of minimal maintenance, often even after being abused during that time, a Toyota or Honda is what you should buy.
I don't care about Bethesda. As I said I didn't even buy or play this game. Sorry about the wording.
I just feel like it's asinine to say things like "is this the best they can do?" when literally no company puts out their best. And it's asinine to say things like "but they own id software" when id isn't the developer making this game. And it's asinine to expect a company whose games have made gobs of money and sold tens of millions of copies not being a graphical showcase having above average graphics, because why would they suddenly spend time and effort on something they haven't had to do before and still had success?
Focusing on wording is nitpicking. I'm quite sure you understood my point.
12k is upgrades is both enough to potentially have the landlord owe additional taxes if they are assessed and not enough to be able to increase amenities enough to meaningfully raise rent.
The real issue here though is that you don't go altering someone's property without their consent. I don't know how that isn't the obvious answer here. The amount spent doesn't even really matter (although I'd argue more spent is even worse, considering it implies greater alterations without consent).
Landlords can be and very often are terrible. But on a base level if I own a piece of property for which I am ultimately responsible, I see no justification for being ok with someone else making thousands of dollars of changes to that property without getting my ok first. It seems incredibly basic that I as owner should have a say in it.
No it is not the best they can do. I haven't played starfield yet, but it should be obvious that no company with shareholders to whom they need to answer is ever going to do "the best they can do".
That isn't even their target, at least not overall. Their target is maximum profitability. Putting forth maximum effort for the best graphics is not going to result in max profits, so they were never going to do that.
And that's to say nothing of the fact that graphical showcases just aren't what Bethesda does in the first place. No one should have expected that. This isn't an id game.
For my part I took Spanish from 2nd or 3rd grade all through college. I basically knew enough to be dangerous and it was occasionally useful in online chat where my broken Spanish was marginally better than some people's non-existent English. But honestly the biggest strength was that I knew enough to be able to tell when Google translate did a bad job conveying my meaning.
Nowadays I'm several years removed from the last opportunity to use it at all and I hardly remember anything. It's definitely a "use it or lose it" thing.
I'm late to the party, but just wanted to say that your list of purchases and recommended to purchase are just monumental lists of games. So many amazing choices.
I want to add two more if you have room.
Psychonauts and Psychonauts 2. They won't get you as much in the way of epic set pieces, but they are dripping with charm and very well crafted games with some of the most interesting levels I've seen.