I’d disagree on Pedro Pascal"s performance. I thought he did an excellent job as Joel. He was nominated across multiple awards for that role.

As for the movie/character you mentioned, I had never heard of it but will check it out. I’m assuming you mean the 1984 version which seems to have better audience reviews than the 2024 Netflix TV series adaptation.

Fair. I’d say the bond between Joel and Ellie is wholesome in a world that everything and everyone is out to get them.

Wrote this in another thread but I love the found family trope and Spy x Family totally fits that bill. I wrote a few other examples below.

Movies

• Logan
• Ice Age
• Wild Robot
• Up
• Despicable Me

Shows

• The Last of Us
• The Mandalorian
• The Witcher
• Daddy Buddy (this one is an anime on Crunchyroll. I highly recommend this if you liked Spy x Family. Revolves around 2 assassins who accidentally wind up with a 4 year old)

Helps to wave your arms back and forth while saying it

She has to be the most quotable video game character ever.

How are you holding up? BECAUSE I’M A POTATO. clap clap clap Oh good. My slow clap processor made it into this thing. So we have that

If you become light headed from thirst, feel free to pass out.

Here come the test results: You are a horrible person. We weren’t even testing for that

Protagonist has got to be Bayonetta (though it’s based only on the first game). Her character growth in the first game was so good, even if the plot was a little convoluted. Never finished the second one since I didn’t like playing on the Switch and never played the third one. Hope her character is still good though.

Honorable mentions are Kassandra from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite, and Stelle from Honkai Star Rail (though this one is mostly for the absolutely ridiculous dialogue options we get to choose).

Favorite female antagonist is hands down GLaDOS. Such a fun, sarcastic, and likeable villain.

Woman on the right is Alice Weidel. According to Wikipedia, she’s “a German far-right politician who has been serving as co-chairwoman of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party alongside Tino Chrupalla since June 2022. Since October 2017, she has held the position of leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag.” She admires former conservative British PM Margaret Thatcher and has worked with Hungary’s far-right PM Victor Orban. She is staunchly against asylum seekers stating that they should not receive health insurance and has been in favor fo burqa, niqab, and headscarf bans. Although she herself is a lesbian, she only supports civil partnerships for gay couples and opposes same-sex marriage and early sexualization education.

Sanae Takaichi, the likely next PM of Japan, is an ultra-conservative politician who, like Weidel,also admires Margaret Thatcher. According to PBS, “Takaichi supports the imperial family’s male-only succession, opposes same-sex marriage and…is a wartime history revisionist and China hawk.” Though it seems like she does have some policies that would benefit women, experts fear she’ll actually set women back because she needs to show loyalty to the male heavyweights in order to keep her position.

Yeah I replied to another comment saying I’m surprised how cheap lower capacity SSDs have become. It was only like $100 more than a comparable HDD.

It’s been a long time since I’ve upgraded the storage on my PC so I am surprised at how much cheaper SSDs have gotten. The fact that a 4TB WD Black SSD is only $100 more than the HDD one is pretty crazy to me. With that in mind, if OP is willing to spend more money, than the SSD is definitely the way to go.

One thing to note, however, is that Option 1 only has expansions for 3.5" storage (i.e. HDDs). So if OP does decide to go with Option 1, they’ll have to take the 1TB SSD it comes with and replace it with whatever they buy, rather than adding additional storage. Option 2, however, only has m.2 expandable storage so using only SSDs for that computer would be a lot easier.

I guess 2 TB is also relatively small. However, considering that OP only mentioned one specific game their child wanted to play, I think it’s not an unreasonable amount of storage.

If their kid also wants to do things like download/edit movies, graphic arts, or other storage heavy activities then of course they could go for a larger storage. It all depends on their needs and budget.

Option 1 will work for a while. The only thing you will need for the near-ish future is larger storage. Games nowadays take up so much space and 1 TB won’t last long. Would recommend buying a 2-3TB HDD while you’re at Microcenter. They may even be able to install it for you

Dear video game developers,

There are too many video games nowadays. Please eliminate three.

I am not a crackpot.

The joke works because intelligence tests follow a normal bell curve. Therefore, approximately half of the population would actually fall below average.

I’d argue people who lack critical thinking skills are more likely to be scared and/or angry than they are to be happy.

They’re told that people like immigrants, the LGBT community, the poor etc are trying to take valuable resources away and force their culture/agenda. That these groups are dangerous, inferior, and deserve harsher treatment.

They’re told that we need to give up personal liberties in the name of security. That sites requiring ID to confirm your age is a good thing to protect the children.

They’re told that climate change is a hoax created by liberals to take away their right to use gas cars and funnel money into renewable energy.

I’m sure there are other talking points but I got tired just thinking about it.

It’s all equally exhausting if you ask me.

I checked them and GoHarddrive but they usually only have enterprise hard drives and like I said in my post, those would be too loud to sit right next to me.

Thanks to everyone who replied. Majority of the responses were to buy now if in US (which I am). So I bit the bullet and just bought them.

Yeah that’s odd that the description lists them as noise canceling. They are definitely not.

Are you an alt account for the OP? I see you responding to nearly every comment.

As another comment wrote, seems like your best option would be to buy whatever IEMs you like and then buy a USB C cable for it. Just make sure the pins match your IEMs.

The AKG Samsung earphones are decent, especially for the price.

Oh right, my bad. Good correction

Context: CEO’s wife and another man were caught in their affair at a Coldplay concert during the kisscam portion of the concert