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@isomeri said:

It charges several devices of mine, and given the room layout it's easier this way.

All sorts of stuff happens in the background at 3am.

It's easier to see if someone really needed to contact me while I was out.

It acts as a heater in the winter.

Also, it makes ambient noise that actually helps me to sleep (I might be messed in the head idk).

I've got lights up the ass. My PC is within a custom drawer that has red LEDs around the perimeter. The fans on the outside are all red as well. The glass on the top really lights up the room, but I don't mind. I can find ways to sleep regardless of the light levels.

Between this and the undisclosed CS:GO betting sites, gaming information on Youtube is looking less trustworthy. Let's not forget that not only did PewDiePie and others not disclose that they took money to give positive reviews, but also that Warner Bros. didn't disclose that it paid Youtubers to do so. A bunch of shady shit on both sides. Tell us what you're doing at least!

It's still important to track. Even if most of us here at Giantbomb have grown up looking at traditional game sites for game coverage, knowing what's going on at Youtube is very important for the later millenials and Generation Z that rely on it for theirs, and by that extension for understanding the future of the industry. The sooner we get this shit right, the less problems we'll face in later years.

I hope that JFK quote doesn't ever become trite because the middle of this decade is a really good time for people to it in mind. It's truly sad that both sides had to resort to incredulous fearmongering to get their messages across, and I'm sure this won't be the last time it happens. History is full of examples where excessive fear lead to even worse catastrophes that the fear aimed to stop in the first place.

As a freshman I had a junior classmate that sat next to me in high school Algebra II. We only saw each other in class, but we would make small talk before and after the lesson.

He had cancer and went through a fuck ton of chemo, no hair on him and everything. Next year, I found out that cancer took him at 17. It was the first time someone of my age I was familiar with had exited this world, and it disturbed me.

Fuck cancer.

A 4K monitor is a reasonable idea... if you're not going to play video games. 4K is good for productivity, but if you want 4K for the video games and want them to run well you'll need a bajillion dollars.

Higher refresh rates are great. You can definitely notice the difference when moving the mouse pointer around. It's so smooth.

The Americans were pretty much only involved in the Western Front, same as France. If they're going to include the Americans but not the French, then they'll really have to stretch to make a scenario where the Americans themselves fight the Germans seem interesting and believable. I suppose it could be done, but I remain skeptical.

Also, since most people will just play the multiplayer over and over and over again, I bet it will eventually become jarring to not see two of the top tier countries involved in WWI. If enough people feel like France and Russia should be included, EA and DICE will hear their words, and it would be disappointing for them to not respond.

I imagine the barriers of entry would be very high for a native-born Chinese person to become a fan of this site. China has a much lower internet penetration rate, so that balances out the 1.4 billion population aspect. There's likely a cultural gap between Western and Chinese values, as well as the kinds of video games that both groups play that's required to cross to get the full enjoyment out of the site because Giant Bomb primarily deals with console and PC games while Chinese gamers, from what I've heard, are mostly playing free-to-play stuff due to the console market there not being around for very long. Also, most Chinese aren't fluent in English (though that will change very quickly).

Also, do you have to do any sort of magic with your Internet to be able to access the site? That might also be a factor limiting other Chinese users. I wouldn't be surprised if you were the only one, and I'm actually kind of surprised that there is at least one!

Super "dumb" attitude. Set in San Francisco. Drones lifting mainframe computers. Topical on-the-nose character motivations. Rebels that "just wanna have fun." If this turns out good, sign me up! This looks like Watch Dogs will have fun with itself instead of trying to be overly serious. Hopefully, they'll do enough to liven up the stale Ubisoft formula.

It depends on how perfect you want the simulation. Generally, it's easier for a computer to randomly build larger worlds than more detailed ones. With math, we can build an entire universe in seconds, but to procedurally generate a city and have it look good we need more time than that.

Take a perfect simulation as an extreme example. Once we turn the Moon into a computer, perhaps we will be able to simulate everything down to the microscopic and up to the universal levels. For now, however, we have to accept limits. Want something that simulate the entire universe with less detailed planets? There's Space Engine. Want a more detailed planet, but there's only one of them? There's Outerra. Wanna simulate geological processes, geomorphological processes, evolutionary biology, ocean wave and currents, erosion, atmospheric processes and weather, planet and star movement, advanced intelligent beings? Is the resolution of your world measured in inches, feet, nanometers, Planck length? Basically, do you want The Matrix?

The answer to your question is yes, depending on the detail and accuracy of your simulation. You can simulate a single-color Earth-sized ball and get a billion frames per second, with procedural generation choosing the color of the ball. If you want a perfect simulation, however, it will take a long, long, long time for our technology to reach a point where we can procedurally generate and simulate the entire world, perhaps a thousand years. My guess is it will take about 100 years just to have a perfect simulation of the human body, let alone an entire planet. We will all be super dead by then.

As for the actual shape and makeup of Earth, it may be possible to randomly arrive at such a result, but there would be so many factors to weigh in that the odds would be lower than what's imaginable.