The limit for him was 412.

The new X will be an everything app, yes.

The problem is it'll have everything except users and advertisers. That second one wouldn't be so bad, but I guarantee Xitter will lean hard into a subscription model when advertising really stops paying; they're already testing it out with paid verification.

100 Grand! Underrated candy bar.

Reports say they're working toward a Footlose-inspired technocracy.

My top artist was Tenacious D, and my top song was Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai.

It'd be more news-worthy if Bethesda released a game that DIDN'T start crashing more the longer you played. I remember dealing with this in Fallout 3. Here we are, 15 years later...

You've answered your own question. You like 3rd-person shooter platformers, a genre which isn't as prevalent as it was in the 6th generation of consoles. Not as many games are coming out that fit your tastes. You're also nostalgic, which is perfectly fine, but you have to take off the goggles sometimes. I like Mario Sunshine better than a lot of modern 3D platformers, because I've been playing it for years and it was a big part of my childhood. But just because I love revisiting that game more than playing a new game sometimes, that doesn't mean modern games aren't reiterating and improving upon the things that made it great. A Hat in Time, Psychonauts 2, The Cosmic Shake, Spark the Electric Jester, Orbo's Odyssey, SEUM, Frogun, New Super Lucky's Tale, Supraland, Crash 4. So many great 3D platformers in recent years, with a ton of improvements to quality of life and control compared to where we were back in the day, as well as many new concepts.

Also, claiming that PS2 platformers as a whole look better than modern platformers as a whole is ridiculous, and you're also giving no examples of either case.

GTA: San Andreas, OG Loc mission. I'm much better at it after all these years, but I still run into at least 5 walls and fall off my bike every time. It's way harder than the train mission.

Not scifi or fantasy, but have you heard of Pentiment? It's by Josh Sawyer, lead designer of New Vegas. You're an artist in 1518 Bavaria completing your masterpiece at a monastery, when someone gets killed and you must collect evidence. There's much more to it than that, of which I can't speak without giving anything away. However, I can tell you that the game has no combat, it's just exploration and dialogue. The whole game looks like an illuminated manuscript, and you walk around engaging in some of the most captivating conversations ever to be in a video game. The character creation is extremely unique; in the beginning, you pick where you spent your year abroad, what you do in your free time, what you got your Master's degree in, and what your favorite subject was at university. All of these determine your attitude on and knowledge of pretty much every subject in the game. It has one of the most unique speech check systems in any RPG, with entire conversations counting toward convincing someone, showing you what you said right and wrong at the very end. Masterpiece.

Return of the Obra Dinn. The 2nd game from the maker of Papers, Please. You're trying to solve the murders or disappearances of 60 people on a ship, using a watch that can view their moment of death. Insanely unique game, and it's hard to replicate that feeling of all the pieces of the puzzle falling into place that this game fosters.

If you need an office suite, you can use LibreOffice/OnlyOffice as a full MS Office replacement. OnlyOffice is basically identical to MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, and LibreOffice replaces the rest. With MS fonts installed, you should have no trouble writing a .wordx document in Times New Roman.

Goddang liberals wanna take God out of school and replace him with gay math

Bleach is awesome! Mix it with some water, use a rag or sponge and scrub. DO NOT mix anything else with the bleach. Bleach is basic, and a lot of other cleaning products are acidic. Mix a strong enough acid with a strong enough base and you get mustard gas. It doesn't smell too great, on top of other issues. If you want to clean with bleach plus something, be safe and buy premade cleaner with bleach.

EDIT: I should also say you can't use bleach on everything, it can damage some things. Always test a small, hard to see area before you clean a surface with bleach. For the stuff that you can't get bleach on, you can use white vinegar or all-purpose cleaner.

The evidence is so blatant, in fact, that listening to him talk about his record feels more like listening to a 4 year old talk about how they didn't take a cookie from the cookie jar while covered in crumbs and chocolate.

Neversoft, Rareware, Sega, Activision, EA, and Bethesda created a lot of great memories from my childhood. Neversoft is defunct, Sega still makes some decent stuff but nowhere near what they did in the 90s, EA is EA, and the rest are now owned by Microsoft... so...

Man, I just reinstalled this suite :/

"Don't bat at the trigger unless you intend to kill."

I remember when Greg had Jirard take all the old videos with him in it down. At the time, I believed he was kinda being a dick. Now I'm starting to believe (especially because we can see him in photos at the Open Hand golf tournament) he had an inkling of a suspicion that shady stuff was going on, and wanted to distance himself. I don't think Greg has anything to do with what Jirard is being accused of, but I remember him having issues with how little he was compensated for the videos he was in, and it seems likely that he would have noticed some odd money-handling behaviors from his friend and decided it would be best to get the fuck outta Dodge.

EDIT: This comment did not present itself as I intended. Please read ThunderingJerboa's response to this, as well as mine.

Neither did Miyamoto though?

E.T. is decent at best. I wanted to watch it as a young kid, but wasn't allowed. By the time I finally watched it, I found it fell short of my expectations and I found it quite dull. Super 8 was also a middling film, but I thought it was slightly better than E.T.

Fallout: New Vegas, GTA: San Andreas, and Half-Life. All three masterpieces in their own right.

"Don't bat at the trigger unless you intend to kill."

I'd say there are more people willing to call bullshit on a spokesperson for a large company than to believe them. There are people who are good at calling out bullshit, and people who aren't, but I think that only comes into play if there truly is a mind-numbingly, obviously nefarious goal such as the example you've given; at the end of the day, it comes down to what you want to believe and where you place your trust. You use X as an example, a company in which you clearly have no trust (wise). But, if a company you believed to have a clean track record and whose products you trusted made statements about their product, then you'd be more inclined to take it at face value than to look into it more. Furthermore, just because someone is trying to sell to you doesn't mean they have to lie to you to do it, choosing to believe their pitch should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

And if people see two statements that are that contradictory, yet refuse to research the matter and just believe what they hear?

Then yeah, they're just gullible.

You're absolutely right. However, it was not my intention to imply that Greg actually knew about the alleged fraud. Rather, I meant that because it seems Greg got fucked by Jirard in the money department, he would be more likely to suspect it was happening to others. Because of that, I wondered if it played a part in his decision making. The detail about the Open Hand photos adds more of a conspiratorial twist to this message than I meant. I was surprised that Open Hand was old enough to be around the same time as Greg, and only included that to point out this fact. Upon rereading it, I do realize that my comment takes a very matter-of-fact tone, and I appreciate your measured response counteracting that. I agree that it's totally pointless to speculate without an official testimony and with an obvious answer already present, and will try to refrain from doing so in the future.

I think that a fart is specifically gas passing out of your intestines. Until it does that, it's just gas.

Small misconception, PvZ was created by PopCap. WildTangent was just a service on which to play games. I remember so fondly using my limited free tokens to play Polar Bowling; it really was just the best.

THPS1 and THPS3 are untouchable masterpieces. The Tony Hawk license never faltered when they were in charge.

Funnily enough, that was my most listened song from them! I got to see them do it live during the Spicy Meatball Tour, and his voice is fucking (fucking) POWERFUL!!!

Don't know if you're aware, but FATE is available on Steam. Relive those memories, boss.

Check out OnlyOffice. It's a fork of LibreOffice that's almost an exact clone of MS Office. It's a fantastic program that should be familiar to anyone coming from Windows.

Since you're just using a VM, you should try out some other distros and then pick one to install on your machine. Linux Mint is great for new users just switching from Windows. I personally find the KDE Plasma DE to be the best replacement for the Windows 10 GUI, so I'd recommend you check out Kubuntu or KDE Neon.

I've been using Pop!_OS recently, and it's amazing. Everything works out of the box with no need to tweak anything, and I love the workflow features like autotiling and the launcher. The Pop! Shop is also something I'm appreciating more. It's an excellent place for new users to look for software, and the flatpak support really makes it perfect for me. I've been using flatpaks instead of official repositories as much as I can recently, and it's been a long time since anything I have installed has caused me issues.

Barbara Walters definitely was...

This is so douchey. Why not just give that money to Wikipedia? Or even a smaller amount? As the largest free information resource in the world, Wikipedia is an invaluable asset for humanity as a whole. Just feels weird to say, "I'll give you money, but do a trick first," to anyone, let alone the holders of a free, worldwide encyclopedia.

Wikipedia is a useful tool, Elon is a major tool.

If you're a gamer, I recommend Pop!_OS. Everything works out of the box, plus extra compatibility for Nvidia cards. It took me a second to get used to the UI, but now I can't go back.

Rod Serling