Or how the “Chat Button” is pay gated after the first year…

https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch-2/553458/switch-2-nintendo-confirms-c-button-price

“This is the stuffed crust… filled with cheese and pepperoni. It’s like calzone in a bread stick form factor!”

You expect Nintendo to do MULTITASKING? ;)

I mean, it’s right there a few paragraphs in:

“Kei trucks do not meet the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, or FMVSS — the highly specific rules cars US-market new cars must meet.”

They skirt this by not being new cars, you import 25 year old cars instead, but that doesn’t change the fact that they don’t meet standards.

It’s kind of like the Valve demo that’s free on the Steam Deck to go through all the features on the machine, except not as interesting.

Fortunately, my company seems mostly immune to the news… because we’re fully capable of tanking our own stock price, thank you very much!

Less the naked part and more the neighbors don’t need to see my growing collection of scar tissue. :( Shit, I don’t need to see that!

Then the fix should be simple… you set up a privacy screen.

Screen up:

Screen down:

Bonus signs:

Not a sauna guy, I’m a hot tub guy, but I’d think clothing in the sauna would trap heat and sweat and be less healthy?

As a rule, we don’t handle the unexpected well. When my grandfather died from lung cancer, it was a long, protracted ordeal involving hospice care. Everyone was prepared, nobody was surprised.

When my dad died from a massive heart attack in the middle of nowhere in Nevada, a month after retiring, it was a shock, nobody saw it coming. He didn’t make it long enough for the life flight helicopter to get there. Reportedly his last words were “Oh no.”

It’s one thing to plan for a death, it’s another to be slapped in the head with one.

There was a bullshit explanation, that as time went on proved to be a lie, yeah.

Not in Europe, so I can’t help you there.

But I’d like to add, it’s not JUST about disabling games.

Bungie released Destiny 2 in 2017, in 2020 they started “vaulting” content, locking it away from people who had paid for it.

This included ALL of the story missions, essentially rendering the game plot-less.

Half of the original planet locations in the base $60 game, and the entirety of the first two paid expansions.

It’s literally impossible to play the game as launched even though, technically, it was never disabled and is still online.

The content has never been restored and cannot be accessed, even for a court case, Bungie had to rely on YouTube recordings of the removed content:

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/bungies-lawyers-have-to-use-fan-videos-of-old-destiny-2-content-in-court-because-well-it-doesnt-exist-in-game-anymore/

I find it the other way around. I can’t play Vampire Survivors because of Robotron/Smash TV/Geometry Wars.

Plus $95 for a “physical edition” with no disc. :(

I was willing to buy the game… for $60. But not a digital code. I get that they want to push people to Gamepass, but $60 is 3 months and at the end I actually own nothing?

The writing was kind of on the wall for Avowed when they announced they were dumping it after the holidays.

I was like “Oh, like Forspoken? Good luck!”

See my “set 2” links above. (at the time) $3,200 8K television, “If you want the brightest image possible, use the default Dynamic Mode settings with Local Dimming set to ‘High’, as we were able to get 1666 nits in the 10% peak window test.”

HDR still trash.

Yup, yup. Highly rated when I bought them, but in actual usage? Not so much.

I WISH it was the default settings. I went through every calibration and firmware update I could find. Even the model specific calibrations on rtings.com. Nothing made a difference.

It appears to just be a flaw in Samsung’s implementation. After going through all the Samsung forum information, the only suggestion that’s guaranteed to work is “turn it off”.

Set #1:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8000

Calibration:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8000/settings

Set #2:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q800t-8k-qled

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q800t-8k-qled/settings

I’ve been told HDR is not for bright rooms, you have to make everything dark…

Yeah…

“Even playing in HDR…”

Maybe that’s part of the problem? HDR implementation on my Samsung sets is garbage, I have to disable it to watch anything. Too bad too, because the picture is gorgeous without it.

HDR On:

HDR Off: