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@Thenomain

On a wider scale, "overpriced" is determined by the market, and I'd like to see someone conclusively prove that Apple computers are priced higher than the market is willing to pay.

That is... not at all true. What? People are willing to pay for all sorts of overpriced shit, which is one of the reasons why things get overpriced so readily in the first place. Until people aren't willing to pay for it, there's little incentive to drop prices, and when you're effectively offering something people can't really get elsewhere, you're free to overprice your shit as much as you like until you find a breaking point.

If you really want an apple instead of an orange, and I'm the only guy who can sell you an apple, the fact that your craving for apples leads you to pay a 300% markup doesn't mean I'm not selling you some wildly overpriced shit. It just means you were really in the mood for an apple so were willing to put up with my bullshit to get one.

Hell, sometimes overpricing something is a goddamn business strategy. Convince enough people that something is way more awesome than it is and jack up the price according to your expectations of how gullible they are.

@The-Tree-of-Woe
Reason #8135 to use Classic Shell.

I'd heard about the disappearing start menu during the Tech preview, but thought it got fixed after one of the later builds.

If you're comfortable with regedit, try this:

• Launch the Registry Editor (hit the Windows key and R, type regedit, and then press Enter) and then navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ ImmersiveShell\Launcher
• Click Edit > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value, and name it UseExperience.
• Double-click the newly created item and set the value to 0.
• Click OK, close the Registry Editor and then restart your computer — or just restart Explorer. (If you can still right-click on your start button, you can use Task Manager to restart Explorer.)

If that doesn't work, first go back in and delete the registry key above, then do this:

• Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
• Right click on powershell.exe and run as administrator.
  • This is not the Command Prompt, please note.
• Paste the following: Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
• Wait for PowerShell to execute and complete the command. Ignore the few errors (in red color) that may pop up.
• When it's finished, try hitting start, or restart your computer and try hitting start.

Obviously mucking around in regedit and with powershell shit isn't for the faint of heart, so unless you're super attached to the windows 10 start menu as it is, my initial suggestion stands:

• Download Classic Shell and use the Win7 (or whatever) start menu replacement.

As a note for anybody using Classic Shell who wants the old start orb back, I've got a bunch of image files that can be used for the custom icon for it.

It's cool, @Olsson. Thanks @Luna.

@ThatGuyThere said:

During the original run of DBZ, I used to joke that one third of every episode of recap, one third in the middle new stuff and one third next time peviews.
It drove fans of the show crazy because is was so close to true.

Only stupid fans, because the rest of us made the same joke pretty frequently.

@Wizz

The best part is all the muscles in his face look like they're perpetually sphinctering shut to prevent any more bullshit from squirting out.

AND YET...

^______________________^

@Arkandel said:

This could be great if done right.

The Jessica Jones TV series premiere date is announced

Would have watched anyway, but knowing Chloe from Don't Trust The Bitch In Apartment 23 is playing the part, absolutely watching. >_>

Have now finished all three DLC, ending with Tresspasser, obviously.

Holy fuckballs. O___________O

I do think I got the best (or at least most positive) possible endings for all my people, though, which made me happy. Apparently it's possible to get some truly dark shit for many of them. ;D

@Cobaltasaurus , go watch Dusk Maiden of Amnesia.

@Luna , that's like being disappointed a motorcycle isn't the replacement you wanted for your exercise bike. O_O

@Thenomain

I'm also one of the few people who thought the original endings for ME3 was the right ending. I destroyed all galactic society everywhere. No wussing out. No "oh, but we'll be fine soon" back-peddling. BOOM. Galactic civilization set back a thousand years; that's my legacy. It made that decision weigh so much heavier, and feel that much more tangible. I'm not a hater, I'm just particular.

Finishing out a more or less epic space opera with a multiple choice question whose answer took virtually nothing across three whole games into account was still kind of ass, though.

Yeah, playing the earlier games is probably kind of mandatory for real investment in DA:I. I did say kind of, so anybody furiously typing about how it's totally not necessary is invited to shut right the fuck up.

@Ganymede said:

I really don't give two shits about my Inquisitor. She has no backstory.

This wasn't really an issue for me. Perhaps it's because I'm so used to that being more or less the norm for a lot of games I play. I barely cared about my character's history prior to the game in DA:O. I cared in DA:2 because I played through elements of it early on, I suppose.

Whatever a game has to say about my character's backstory, I make my decisions based on the character I want to be playing, as much as the game will allow.

And who am I supposed to feel for among the Inquisitor's compatriots?

This I don't really get. I had a pretty easy time feeling for almost all of the companions at one point or another. They all had pretty personal, humanizing stories across the length of the game, and their banter while in the party revealed a lot of stuff about them, as did conversations in Skyhold. What else did you want out of them?

Re: Paper

Anybody who thinks paper isn't going the way of the dodo is deluding themselves. Shit, our exterminator had to tell us that they're in transition to switch to a paperless format, and they're hardly at the vanguard of progress. More and more often even if you do deal in paper, whatever business you're dealing with is just scanning or entering the data into a computer somewhere and probably disposing of the hard copy. Whether or not that's wise is really besides the point: Paper takes up space. Lots of space, in the case of many businesses. A digital record can be stored in multiple places for redundancy, but entire paper filing systems have been destroyed by weather or disaster.

As for reading, books were awesome when I was growing up. I loved having books. Now, though? Fuck no. I could line the walls of my house top to bottom with all the books I've owned, and would probably still own, and would still not have anywhere enough room. Meanwhile I can carry virtually that entire amount around on my kindle. A device which has a reading texture almost identical to a book, but can adjust lighting, font size, and more on the fly to accommodate my eyes or environment.

Seriously, fuck paper. Now if they'd just start making a pen tip stylus that didn't cost an arm and a leg.

@Usekh

You likely shouldn't be drinking diet sodas even if you are diabetic; studies suggest that consuming diet sodas may increase insulin resistance.

Which studies? Do you have any links? I've heard this before but the sum total of wading through the studies I have found come down to: Drinking diet soda frequently seems to lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and dietary decisions that contribute to blah blah blah.

Like so.

Essentially:

Despite accumulating evidence of the existence of these associations , we are cautious not to conclude causality between diet soda and the diabetic or pre-diabetic condition. The possibility of confounding by other dietary and lifestyle/behavioral factors cannot be excluded from these observational studies.

Sorry, I'd just grabbed the quote and forgot who it was from, apparently. Whups.

Association and causality are pretty far apart from one another, so that's what I was really curious about.

The number of claims about artificial sweeteners over the years (ZOMG CANCER!) based on wild speculation or misunderstandings has led me to err on the side of caution when new claims come up. Then again, I drink a lot of coke zero, so it's possible the mind control drugs they lace it with are simply having their intended effect.

That's just a whole pile of reasons why I'm glad I never got involve with twitter. Dray's a crazy bitch, but fuck those people.

@Luna

It doesn't make me better than you, no.

You could always write apple and ask them to undo years of marketing that shoves PEOPLE WHO USE APPLE PRODUCTS ARE BETTER THAN YOU IN EVERY WAY down everyone else's throat. That might be the only way.

Pretty sure that's a feature, not a bug. It adds to the WTF factor of what's going on.

You're both monsters, it's okay.

Yeah, seriously. Dislike whoever you want as an actor but trying to bolster that opinion by claiming they're ' a disgusting human being' because of barely more than a half-remembered vague ass claim they might, maybe have once said something homophobic? C'mon.

@Ganymede said:

Help me. What's a fatkini?

I'm assuming it's one of those 'bikinis' that have enough material to cover the lower belly as well? Apparently it's some social media shit as well, but I'm too wary to go look.