Halo was very much like this. The overshield and cloaking power ups were so sparingly used in the early games. Did you enjoy Halo as well?

That Target's entry into the Canadian market was designed to fail from the start so that Walmart could swoop in, take over the entire logistics chain and ensure people get to keep their jobs to quell the concerns about Walmart becoming a monopoly in Canada.

Target failed so spectacularly that from my perspective on the inside it had to be by design. When the stores first ooened there was no stock available because we were shipping goods on trailers with no skids, packed floor to ceiling at random then expecting some poor souls in the back rooms of Target stores everywhere (likely with no previous logistics experience) to unload, organize the product into categories on skids and then take them out to the aisles to be put on shelves. We should have been building skids in the warehouses for months until demand settled and could be fulfilled by maximizing trailer efficiency with floor to ceiling loads.

There were an unbelievable amount of blatant inefficiencies and Inventory Control was deliberately understaffed so we ended up with a warehouse with thousands of open rack slots but the system thought the warehouse was full. Multiple layers of this kind of shit were going on and every time we voiced concern about it, management told us to just keep our heads down.

I swear some execs with nice golden parachutes conspired to ensure Target failed so Walmart could swoop in and save the day, breaking through the public concern about monopolization.

Man, you're a real insufferable cunt. Lambasting the "high road" while parking your ass firmly in the middle of it. Unreal.

[Edit] Isn't it funny when people act like asshokes on the internet, get rebuked for it and then delete their comments?

If you weren't willing to stand behind your comments why did you post them in the first place? This is some weak ass revisionist behaviour.

Y'know this guy seems intelligent enough to come up with this scheme, but not intelligent enough to keep a low profile. I honestly don't understand that.

Personally, I'd do the math to pay myself a living wage with this so that my actual work salary is nothing but a cherry on top; manage it so it seems like hype is ebbing and flowing in a natural way. If you ever figure out a way to break the system like this, you should never act in a way that draws attention to yourself.

If you remember the VCR days, imagine your hard drive is a copy of Bambi. You, in preparation for a family event need a tape to store footage of the event on. You decided that you haven't watched or wanted to watch Bambi in a long time so you designate that tape as the one you're gonna use when the party day comes.

At this point your hard drive (the copy of Bambi) has been designated as useable space for new data to be written in the future.

Bambi is not lost yet and wont be until you write to that tape, therefore if you wanted to you could watch Bambi in the time between now and the party even though you plan to overwrite it. Once Bambi is overwritten, its no longer recoverable but the interim between now when you designate it as useable space and when the space is used, the data persists.

I 100% agree. Every element of the physics engine felt like it actually had weight to it. The driving physics were predictable, especially if you have any experience with sim driving/racing titles. It wasn't a simulation, but the cause and effect aspects were as good as we'll probably ever get in a game like GTA. Passenger cars drove like barges, sports cars were agile and snappy. It wasn't some canned effect, it was actually down to approximations of a tire model and suspension dynamics.

GTA V feels like every car is the same baseline slot car with tweaked effects to try and provided some level of difference between vehicles. The inertia is bad. Accidents have minor consequences compared to GTA IV. The damage model in IV is vastly superior as well.

This is definitely scaffolding erected to facilitate repairs. Of all use cases for advertising, I cannot possibly complain about this one as it seems to be funding the repairs and the ugly scaffolding is being camouflaged by the dressing that mimics the underlying surface. Yeah, its always gonna suck to a certain degree to see ads plastered on a landmark like this, but if it's only temporary during repairs and helps maintain the building then I'm all for it.

Ultimate-Guitar has a massive library of free tabs. You don't need their Pro subscription.

If this annoys you, try QKSMS instead. Go another step further and flash GrapheneOS onto your Pixel. It's worth it for the peace of mind.

This was literally my internal monologue coming into this comment section. I love Technology Connections!

“Justin Trudeau does not have a right to impose his radical gender ideology on our kids and on our schools,” Poilievre says in the video.

Unfortunately, this ain't shit. This video will have zero effect on his election chances. If you weren't already assuming this of his politics, you're not paying attention. This is not unexpected and if this video does anything it will embolden his supporters more than it will his detractors. It's really unfortunate but it's just the truth of the situation.

Call me when he's caught actually saying the quiet part out loud and then maybe I'll make some popcorn to watch him squirm.

That was wild. I'd love to hear the accessibility cues he's hearing for some perspective.