Mario kart is still a thing. I absolutely hate the not actually random item drops, though. Getting punished for being in the lead is lame.

GT3 had the right amount of advanced and customization without going overboard or being too realistic. It was my sweet spot.

Don’t worry, OP. Samsung makes absolute dog shit appliances, so you’ll be replacing that dishwasher sometime in the next 2 years anyways.

Yes, but no one dies if they get pushed back 2 weeks. Also, the cosmetic surgeries are first on the chopping block.

And again, it’s supply and demand. The hospitals want the profit. They don’t want to pay any overhead for the product.

Blood is just as bad, but yes, the markup is insane in the US, compared to the machinery and time to collect plasma.

Blood, for instance gets sold by the red cross to hospitals for around $215 per unit. Hospitals in turn will charge anywhere from $580 to $3,000 for it.

Also, most blood is used for elective surgeries that are not life critical. Any time you hear about their being a blood shortage that could effect what hospitals can give, what they actually mean is that there’s plenty for emergency and necessary use, but they may have to postpone elective and cosmetic surgeries.

Obviously, the issue would be solved easily by paying people enough to be worth it to donate. People would be lining up if they got something like $100 to donate a pint. Something that only takes about 30 minutes to do.

You can, but it’s a lot of number crunching time to convert a bunch of files like that, as opposed to just using a different player.

Thankfully, vlc’s audio offset function is very easy to quickly adjust and save. As long as the audio delay is consistent you can adjust it pretty quickly.

That’s the reported inflation by the government markers, but be realistic with yourself.

Since 2017 food prices have gone up more like 65%, houses have gone up 50% (doubled since 2010), mortgage apr rates have tripled, rent has gone up 74%, and gas has gone up by 35%. Used cars and new cars have gone up 40% to 80% as well.

Tying “inflation” to those government markers and claiming that it keeps you at even pace (I’m not accusing you of this) with living is asinine. If you want to buy a house and a car today, you pretty much need to double what you were making in 2017.

They’re preoccupied trying to figure out how to get their population to stop disappearing.

The touch pads on the steam deck are freaky like this. I thought my left one was broken until I used it in a game compared to the os menu.

Also, motion controls are wicked awesome in shooting games.

They make you have an internet connection for the pc port of the original ff7…

I was all set to re purchase the original ff7 on steam to play it again on my steam deck. Then I seen that the assholes require an internet connection to run it. My playstation sure as hell didn’t have an internet connection. Yo ho ho ho

We live in an oligarchy. As long as plastic is cheaper and gets sales, it will keep being used unless a law bans it. I lived in a time when soda was canned or in glass bottles. The stuff tasted better bottled in glass. Plastic was lighter and cheaper, so it got switched.

Some stuff can’t really be made very well without plastic. It can vastly be cut down, for certain. But it isn’t yet realistic to eliminate yet. We need replacement materials and ways to eliminate what is already here.

“Sure”.

As windows sucks more, Linux gets easier, and gaming gets way easier, this trend won’t stop any time soon, but I am curious about how big a chunk of that percentage is steam OS/steam decks.

My state (US) finally just got rid of the law against switch blades/automatics. Mainly because it became a defunct/useless law that was made back when other knives were hard to open or took two hands to open. But in today’s world of flippers and spydercos and spring assist and all of those that are every bit as quick and easy to open, banning an otf or switch blade just didn’t make any sense.

It’s at least mostly going away nowadays, but…pulling a fire alarm will not make your school fire sprinklers go off. Getting one sprinkler to go off is just that. One sprinkler. None of the rest will go off.

Also, fires in a building are never a spot here, a spot there, over there a spot, and just randomly burning patches all over the place. It just grows out and up from its origin point, for the most part. It doesn’t magically plant little patches all over the place. It’s also often times so smoky and so thick with smoke that you quite literally couldn’t see a big portion of fire if it were ten feet in front of you. You feel the heat and maybe see a faint bit of orange glow. Sometimes you don’t even get to see that.