People are being entitled taint-lickers. It does suck that its optimization is poor, but I’m on a 4 year-old PC build and my CPU was not top-end even then, with a 3070 and I have had zero issues running it. The space travel should be more interesting, they really fucked up by making space piracy basically impossible, so you can’t ever profit by taking the ships of people who actively try to murder you. There’s a lot that could be more engaging, but also the reviews of Elex are mostly positive and it’s one of the worst, most quest-bugged half finished pieces of shit I’ve ever played, with basically nothing going for it beside decent art and a unique story. The game is trash and I wasted way too much time on it. Starfield is vastly better. Not amazing, but solidly OK. Without the social-media circle-jerk, there is no way the reviews would continue to get worse as they continue to address performance issues and fix bugs.

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They do wear out eventually, but the end of their useful life is a whole crapload of rounds if they’re well-made, and most good guns can have parts replaced either by the user or by a smith, so you can keep them running a long time if you oil them and keep them relatively rust-free. If a gun is so messed up it can’t fire or if it fails catastrophically and blows up, if it’s truly and permanently at the end of its life, I think most folks do indeed throw them in the trash, assuming they have no historical value. Maybe disassemble them or cut them up with a hacksaw first. Once it stops being able to be a gun anymore, it’s just junk.

Yarp, secret service used to get Uzis

It helps to not be a loser right now. Elon is in his 50s and still acts like a childish, insecure douchebag. The fact that you are able to acknowledge your previous loserdom makes you already less lame than Elon. No amount of money can make him cool because he completely refuses to ever work on himself.

No, why would they? We don’t like tired eyes or tired batteries

If it’s not responding when plugged in correctly, you are almost certainly fucked. I have never seen this level of physical damage to a CPU and had it still be functional. This is severely bent for a PCB, it has a visible crease in it, which means a break. You have likely broken circuit traces and/or solder connections between the silicon and the PCB. I doubt you’ll be able to return it with this level of damage, so I guess you might as well try bending it back, but you will probably just break it further. The bend is preventing the contact points in the ball grid array from touching the corresponding contacts on the motherboard, so there is a very slight chance that if you bend them back so they all touch when you clamp it down, it could work, but I would keep my expectations low.

It’s a shitty way to learn the lesson about taking your time and paying close attention when assembling your computer, but hey, now you know and hopefully won’t do it again. All PC components are made to fit only in the correct orientation, and forcing them to fit in the wrong orientation will usually destroy the component, the motherboard or both.

A dagger does d4 damage. A dagger is not a small knife, it’s like 8 inches of blade. Compared to that, a human bite should be like a d2 on the high side.

If you’re on a VPN, it reloads about every minute, meaning you can’t even scroll through your game library, or read the summary or watch a video for a game you’re considering buying. Their shoddy, clueless coding literally makes it impossible to shop in their store without disconnecting from my VPN, which is not happening.

Do you know any Linux users that aren’t IT professionals? If I know any, it’s because they’re the children of IT professionals

No, not at all. Games used to have demos and trial versions, like basically all games, but game studios used to have to actually finish making a game before they shipped it. Trying before you bought was the business model of the whole industry. Now so many games are shipped in such bad condition they wouldn’t dare let you try it first. Trying before you buy is just prudent, as long as you actually buy the ones you like enough to play through.

“No, don’t [do that]” is not a double negative, it’s just two independent negatives in a row, they don’t affect each other. A double negative would be like “don’t not do that” which will mean “do not fail to do that” to most people.

It wasn’t flight-worthy, it just hadn’t crashed yet. If your jet stopped properly responding to controls and you had the opportunity to eject and probably not die rather than crash and almost certainly die, what do you think you would do? Also if it lost power, it would still fly for a bit because momentum and airfoils and physics and such, but not be transmitting its position because no power, which makes it kinda hard to track because like, y’know, stealth aircraft