I think GP's point is that a chromebook is a perfectly cromulent apternative to windows, running normal ChromeOS, for users looking for a simple web/docs/email machine.

It doesn't have the haptic trackpad and I feel liek that's a dealbreaker.

For you maybe but seems a reasonable compromise to hit the price point and I bet you’d miss it less than you think

He had is own line of denims, with extra stretchy crotches. Makes roundhouse kicking baddies in the face easier.

Huuuuuuuuge in South Africa.

Any person from South Africa from that era will have a certain tv announcement permanently etched in their memories. It goes something like:

"Friday night is action night with Walker Texas Ranger"

Chuck Norris made a Chuck Norris joke in one of the Expendable movies, and for that I'm willing to forgive all his indiscretions.

That is hands down one of my ATF scenes in any movie. Expendables 2 was IMO just about the most "fun" movie I've ever seen as well. It wasn't great cinema, or a specific classic.. but it was fun. I have similar feelings about Gremlins 2 as well. We need more fun movies, but too many people seem to have not been issued a sense of humor these days.

X1 is also great imo. Just the perfect blend of action, self awareness and cheese.

Absolutely.. loved X1, I just think X2 was just a bit more fun... X3 was a bit of a backslide though.

Maybe https://youtu.be/OBGtINJmFto?t=79

Yep, this is the one

I printed out all the jokes on my dad's home office printer and sold copies at school. This was pre smartphones.

Guidance is by a huge margin more important. The best engine and warhead is meaningless without a means of hitting your target.

I disagree. A missile without guidance is a rocket which definitely has its uses on the battlefield.

A missile without propulsion is at best a bomb which doesn't do much good without an aircraft to drop it from

That entire channel is a goldmine of prescient industry humour. I don't know where he gets all of his material from to be honest.

There is this general vibe online that the newer generation xboxen are either bad, worse than playstation, or a straight up failure.

My series x, combined with gamepass, is by a very large margin the most at-home-entertainment bang I have gotten for my buck.

Before then I had what could be regarded as a "vintage" gaming PC: 1st gen i7 (nehalem?), a gts 450 and some amount of ram. An upgrade (read: full replacement) was desperately needed. This was in the middle of the crypto gpu boom, so a decent GPU alone would've wiped my budget. I settled for an xbox as it was cheaper than a ps5.

I've always seen myself as part of the pc master race, and thought consoles to be very limited. But man, it just worked, the games just worked, and gamepass made it all a total steal.

Even now, when our 3 month old baby is settled for the night, me and my wife's preferred entertainment is a session of bg3 over watching tv.

> gamepass made it all a total steal

Doing the math i can't find this to be true. As some one that has honed my taste in games, and have a large steam library, I don't spend as much money on games as game pass cost.

With the recent price changes the calculus changes for sure. Even though I live in Europe now, my subscription is stil set up in South Africa. So I used to pay the equivalent of €10 per month for Ultimate, now it's €18/mo.

I think if I were forced to relocate my subscription and pay the full real price (€30/mo), I will probably cancel and buy a €90 game evey quarter or something.

I ended up cancelling gamepass after the subscription increase. I already own most of the games they offer, so it was really the odd AAA or indie release I'd play on it.

Indie games are cheap and most AAA titles go on sale within six months, which is fine because I usually don't play them day of launch.

Then there's the issue with gamepass games not working on my system. It's the only platform where I've had consistent issues getting games to run. Even free games like fortnite, were bundled with the wrong anticheat.

Series X is a premium experience. Walmart delivered one for $350 at 4am with Diablo 4. Still feels like robbery a couple of years later.

> when our 3 month old baby is settled for the night

Seemed a credible comment till that point! (/s)

Congrats :-)

Thanks, we are definitely in the 'if it's this easy we should have another one!'. She's been a treat so far and from what I've heard from other parents, very easy.