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by Raid
Thu Aug 21, 2025 12:46 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange
Replies: 2415
Views: 550466

Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

I think you have too high an expectation of character assassination. These people have no shame, no morals, and at this stage in the presidency, the ability to just say "that's fake news" and then throw 15 other news stories at the press to be able to just move on as if nothing happened. Hegseth and...
by Raid
Wed Aug 20, 2025 12:50 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: General TV News
Replies: 435
Views: 90984

Re: General TV News

Yup, excited for that. I may end up giving the first season a second watch before season 2 starts.
by Raid
Tue Aug 19, 2025 12:41 pm
Forum: PC Gaming
Topic: Battlefield 6
Replies: 114
Views: 35348

Re: Battlefield 6

My opinion on it did waver quite a bit over the two weekends, but really the negatives were more about my feelings towards the genre as a whole than the game itself. I think they have a really solid game; great player movement, animations, incredible audio, visuals, the level destruction is fantasti...
by Raid
Thu Aug 14, 2025 5:09 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
Replies: 2220
Views: 567789

Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

I don't need to have a conversation with AI, not when this latest stage of "technology" has ridiculous power demands to serve it, at the expense of the population as a whole. Indeed. Just imagine the energy requirement of AI analysing the screen contents of millions of machines constantly. Data cen...
by Raid
Thu Aug 14, 2025 3:08 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
Replies: 2220
Views: 567789

Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Pat of me thinks "ambient" in this context is just marketing speak trying to avoid the inevitable furore over privacy concerns. I am not installing an OS that is constantly analysing everything on my screen because there is no way it's doing that locally. I'm not sure I'd trust them even if they wer...
by Raid
Thu Aug 14, 2025 12:45 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
Replies: 2220
Views: 567789

Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Does anyone actually understand what any of this means ? https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-teases-windows-12-next-version-os-agentic-ai-ambient-computing-copilot Davuluri confirms that in the wake of AI, Windows is going to change significantly. The OS is going to become ...
by Raid
Sat Aug 09, 2025 7:06 pm
Forum: PC Gaming
Topic: Battlefield 6
Replies: 114
Views: 35348

Re: Battlefield 6

It's good, probably more enjoyable than I was expecting given my usual dislike of this type of game. The maps are well designed to promote more close-medium range encounters, and the health regen mechanic makes sniping far less worthwhile unless you're particularly accurate. I just wish it was a lit...
by Raid
Thu Aug 07, 2025 5:08 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: General Gaming News
Replies: 1232
Views: 222018

Re: General Gaming News

Called it. Got back home, Dave had grabbed me a beta key. Booted up, got straight into a game with no queue whatsoever. Then proceeded to have an absolutely miserable ten minute game where I had to catch myself from uninstalling it, and giving it another try when more prepared to actually play inste...
by Raid
Thu Aug 07, 2025 12:19 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: General Gaming News
Replies: 1232
Views: 222018

Re: General Gaming News

Part of me suspects this is a planned marketing tactic. They know how many people would be logging in over today and tomorrow because beta access is restricted to those who have a code for it, and therefore they'll know exactly how many accounts would have access and they can assume that most of tho...
by Raid
Sat Aug 02, 2025 12:06 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange
Replies: 2415
Views: 550466

Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

I don't think I was even more than dimly aware of Epstein before his death, but we're now talking about a direct link between him and the President of the United States that's been front-page news for weeks. If she dies, the suspicious is absolutely going to be on Trump, whereas with Epstein it was ...
by Raid
Sat Aug 02, 2025 11:45 am
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange
Replies: 2415
Views: 550466

Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Given that it's a story that refuses to go away, possibly the *only* story about Trump that's refused to go away, even I'd be surprised if they offed her at this stage because of how blatantly obvious it'd be. At the same time, I don't think they can offer a pardon either because of how blatantly ob...
by Raid
Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:26 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange
Replies: 2415
Views: 550466

Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Is it too much of a stretch to imagine that because trying to explain the economy and the job market to Trump is a painful and fruitless task, his advisors just bring him big colourful charts with all the lines going up, and that's why he thinks he's doing so well? I'm afraid that in the case of "l...
by Raid
Thu Jul 31, 2025 12:06 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange
Replies: 2415
Views: 550466

Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

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I think we just need to start referring to the US Government as the "US Protection Racket". He may as well have said "nice trade surplus you've got there, it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it."
by Raid
Wed Jul 30, 2025 6:33 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: General Film News
Replies: 843
Views: 267583

Re: General Film News

True. I genuinely don't remember the last proper comedy film I watched. There are plenty of light-hearted films that might fit the bill (Deadpool and Wolverine's probably the closest), but they probably all list comedy second and action / adventure first.
by Raid
Wed Jul 30, 2025 5:01 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: General Film News
Replies: 843
Views: 267583

Re: General Film News

Part of me wonders whether the jokes in the trailer were the only ones they could put in there, as all of the others are run-on, referential jokes (as that first review alludes to) that don't really work in a trailer format. With the exception of the Nordberg gag, everything in the trailers fell fla...