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The other problem is they'll also charge more for sets that have more original, will never be used in another set, pieces. That affects licensed sets more than architectural set #7592.

No. 5-10 minutes, nothing more than that. Even then 10 minutes is way too long unless you have some wildly cold eggs. 5 minutes for soft boiled, 10 for a hard, and whatever for in between. Take the eggs out of your fridge and allow them to come up to room temp while you grab a pot and bring the water to a boil. Eggs aren't sweet potatoes where you toss them in the oven and have to wait until the following week to eat them.

Nintendo handling save scumming with a sledge hammer. They could have also like just only allowed one recover from the cloud with a call required for additional recoveries. I'm more concerned with my Switch dying than being able to move around my save like a crazy person.

He confirmed that he offered Assange a pardon over a statement that Russia had nothing to do with the hacks, but not that Trump was involved in any of that.

Just in case, figured I'd share today's Woot: https://computers.woot.com/offers/netgear-orbi-wifi-system-3-pack-6

Pretty much this. This is Nintendo literally choosing to go this way with Animal Crossing out of fear of people save scumming an almost exclusively single player game. I mean, sure, there are multiplayer aspects, but running around a town with friends and trading items barely counts. Save scumming wouldn't really hurt anybody there. They could have gone with an occasional online sanity check, so test for save scumming, but that would have been more work. From the sounds of it, that's the path they're going in, but the implementation isn't ready yet.

Being able to make changes to the island, itself, is perfect. That was always one of my biggest problems with previous entries,

People need to stop harping on the players needing to be punished. The worst they'd ever get are a bunch of fines. It's the Astros that should have been hit with harsher punishments.

Correction, Detective Pikachu is the best videogame movie of all time. Mostly, because it's perfectly happy with being based on a videogame franchise. That's also not an unpopular opinion, the movie has a 69% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Probably because 2TB SSDs still aren't THAT cheap. I mean, a standard SATA SSD at that size is like $100 at retail and NVMe drives are twice that. That's got to be a sizable chunk of your budget when the aim is to sell a console for less than $500.

I tested my 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe at 5GB/s. That seems to be about normal for Gen4 NVMe drives these days. I'm sure the drives set to come out later this year will be a little quicker.

I personally am quite happy with Netgear's Orbi mesh network. The big thing it did for me is that I like that each full sized satellite has 4 Ethernet ports. Previously, I had to have an extra little hub hooked up to them. That might not actually be necessary for most people. However, it is a really nice option to have.

Cool. I'll give it a shot. One thing I noticed after using this phone for a day compared to reviews is that it reminded me of how tech reviewers are really weird people. I think I've said this before here, but any review of a Wear OS watch is bizarre. I have an Armani Connect. It's one of Fossil's Gen2 Wear OS watches. it looks nice, it's thin, the battery lasts like 24 hours, it gives me alerts, and let's me answer short messages from whatever chat/SMS app I have installs on the phone. Most reviews, however, decry Wear OS as this awful and weird thing that gives everyone cancer and I can't, for the life of me, figure out what people are doing on their watches that I'm obviously not doing to face those frustrations. The bumpy screen on the razr is one of those things. It's only noticeable if you're really pressing hard on the screen. It doesn't exist for any real world use. Even then, the bump in the middle of the display and I only scroll my finger over it while scrolling through something, so why does it matter? The keyboard is nowhere near it and that's the only thing that might be an issue. I'm pretty sure it's a gaming thing. I don't know how much people are gaming on their phones. Maybe I'm just a minority here along with those folks that don't install apps on their smart watches and only use them as fashion accessories and for checking notifications without pulling out your phone.

Make sure that whatever laptop you get has Thunderbolt 3. That does give you some upgrade path in the future if you're up for trying an external GPU.

So here are my after 24 hours impression of the razr. It's nice. It's not the fastest phone, so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that games on their phones. It doesn't have the best camera, so I wouldn't recommend it for anyone that takes serious photos for Instagram or whatever. If you mainly use your phone for browsing the web, watching videos, reading comics, email, and texts, and calls it's more than quick enough for any of that. I think people's impression that the phone feels all lumpy and weird are wildly overblown. How hard are people pressing on their phones when scrolling and typing? Even on my primary phone, the S10, I barely touch screen with any pressure at all. I guess if you're playing Fortnite on your phone, you're putting more pressure on the screen than any time I ever would. I just don't find phones very good platforms for gaming outside of adventure and puzzle games or even Fire Emblem Heroes-like games. I mean, you can see the crease of the bend at certain angles, but I also pretty much exclusively look at my phone headon, so I don't know why that would at all matter. The camera is also perfectly adequate, but then again, I usually only use my camera for grabbing blurry pics of toddlers that refuse to sit still. In my case, it's mostly for taking pictures of servers, so I can remember a serial number when I get back to my desk. In that case, it works perfectly. That whole screen lifting away from the body thing seems crazy to be concerned about. The phone closes flat and opens flat. There's zero reason this phone ever needs to be halfway open for anything longer than the half second it takes to open and close it. Even then, it only lifts away for a very small fraction of the half second it takes to open the phone. I mean, sure, it can stay like that if you purposefully hold it like that, but then you're working against the hinge. It only really want to be open or closed. That motion, itself, is very satisfying. It does creak when you open it, but that seems to be from the sound of the plastic bending. I don't know how big of a deal that is. This phone is also heavy. Like, it has a noticeable amount of heft to it. Motorola tried to balance the weight of the phone, but I'm not sure they really succeeded here. I mean, it is perfectly balanced at the hinge. The hinge is just not in the middle of the phone. The phone is top heavy from the actual middle of the phone. It doesn't really affect your use of the phone since it's so narrow that you'll get a good grip, regardless of anything else. It just reminds you of how heavy the phone really is. The plastic back lightens the phone and does mess with the balance in this regard, but I'm also not sure coming with full aluminum here would have been wise. The phone is already some 25% heavier than my S10. Oh yeah, and anyone complaining about the size of the power button on this thing needs to stop. There is zero reason to ever press the power button. I don't even know why Motorola bothered. The fingerprint sensor can turn on and shut off your phone. There is literally zero reason for it other than to look at the time on the outside screen without unlocking it. However, even then, the outside display automatically turns on when the phone is moved so...still unnecessary. The volume rocker is too little. I would have rather they dropped the power button and just gone with a larger volume rocker. It's really expensive, so it's really only for people that like the form factor or were eligible for a steep corporate discount. The screen seems like it won't like abuse, so don't let kids play with it. It seems like it should be fine in the hands of any responsible adult that can actually appreciate that it isn't a cheap phone. I guess that rules this phone out for a large number of people, right there. I don't think I'd make this my primary phone, either. That has less to do with how much I care about this phone's shortcomings compared to my S10 versus the fact that I sometimes give my phone over to my kids to watch a video on at like, say, their doctors office. I'll be upgrading my S10 to the S20 when that one comes out.

How about this? https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/18/tcl-prototype-phone-slide-out-display/ So there's a working version of this somewhere. I'm curious. Is this a folding display that rolls up in the phone or is it two sheets of glass that just sit side by side?

But they do. The only reason Trump's executive orders haven't all been overturned is because Republicans in Congress won't back any legislation to overturn them. So again, which Democrats in Congress are going to allow any racist executive orders to continue unchallenged?

Trump has the alt-right firmly in his pocket and a large number of them are gamergate idiots. Those folks are completely convinced that all the racist shit Trump says and everytime he looks or sounds stupid is because he's just trolling people.

And all I'm wondering is which Democrats are going to back him on these terrible policies. Trump can do all the racist shit he wants because the GOP gives him the cover he needs. Which Democrats are going to fall in line to make a Trump-like Bloomberg presidency possible?

I'm curious which one will last longer then. Samsung's fake glass with a gap or Motorola's plastic, flat fold.

Nobody here wants Bloomberg. We all pretty much unanimously hate him. Most of us are just saying we hate him less than Trump and that anything is better than Trump. Trump is a really terrible president in new ways that were only previously theoretical.

At least they'll all be in your same place at the same time.

Imagine Trump without having to worry about upsetting his base because he's not looking to be reelected. Imagine a scenario where Trump says fuck it, I'm running for a third term. Who stops that from happening when RBG is out and he wanted to put Ivanka on the SCOTUS because he's not a misogynist willing to replace a woman with the best and most capable woman in all the land? I'm exaggerating here, but also not really. He's already planting the seed that he should get a do over thanks to the whole impeachment.

I actually don't have a problem with the gun or any of that. However, if it means we have to watch Batman's parents be killed again for the upteenth time, I will flip a table.

Again, even if he was Trump without the crime, I'd take that over Trump with crimes on crimes on crimes. There is zero reason to choose Trump over Bloomberg, unless you've actually liked his presidency thus far. You think Republicans will just support any his policies in Congress? Their number one policy would be to regain the White House, so they're automatically going to oppose everything he wants. Who is going to help Bloomberg pass all these awful laws and give him the political cover he needs to wipe his ass with political norms?