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QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 11:42 AM) First impressions of Civ 6 (from a Prince difficulty Civ player) - Production is SLOW. Feels like it takes forever to make buildings/districts/wonders. I think they're trying to make you move away from all your cities having all the things. You really have to specialize and pick only those districts and buildings you really want. Unit production isn't so bad. - On the other hand, research and civics (now basically a second research tree) go quite fast. The Active Research system, which allows you to get techs faster based on what you do (eg found a coastal city causes Sailing to research in half the time as usual), is cool though. - AI is way more aggressive. I'm on one of the lower difficulties to feel things out and my nearest neighbor China attacked me with 6 warriors before I had even expanded. China and Kongo declared war on Russia soon after. Your cities don't even start with ranged attacks. - The new art style is pretty but the fog of war is horrifically bad. Areas you haven't explored are 100% opaque brown. Areas you have explored but aren't currently in...are 90% opaque brown. After about 3 hours over the weekend, that's a good reflection of my thoughts as well. Took me until about mid-game to realize I can't cram every building and every district type and have a mad race to build world wonders in every city. Hopefully it doesn't get too cookie cutter with "this is my science city, this is my economy city, this is my military city,etc." but it seems like a good way to introduce some new gameplay on the surface.

Oh man totally surprised that yet another O'Keefe BOMBSHELL turned out to be nothing. "Clinton wanted people dressed up as Donald duck!" Stop the presses, this is an election changer. oh my god, Clinton had been planing this brutal political assassination for decades.

quote: “They just stood by and said nothing, and their base actually began to believe this crazy stuff,” Mr. Obama said. “Donald Trump didn’t start this. He just did what he always does, which is slap his name on it, take credit for it and promote it.”

Key and peele were the only ones to really figure it out

Hey everyone I was super confident thanks to the nyt the upshot poll compilation showing Clinton with a 93%+ chance of winning, or about the same likelihood that an NFL kicker makes a 30 yard field goal. Then last night's game happened.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 10:15 AM) I just did a terrible job redoing the silicon caulk around the shower tub. Gonna be staring at that for a while. Painters tape and soapy water. Lay the tape down with a gap as wide as you want that caulk to be. Apply caulk, run your finger down the middle smoothing it out, pull tape, admire perfect caulk line

Bring them to a legit electronics recycling center rather than just tossing them, there's hazardous materials that break down

Unemployment figures track underemployment.

There's all kinds of shady debt collection stuff out there, might not even be legitimate.

Welp there goes the swing state of Washington

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 09:30 AM) Their integration with Sonos is whats going to carry the torch there. Yeah but sonos is then $$$$ more money

Lol

I think the models are the echo and the dot, right? I have the full size echo. One thing I was disappointed to learn last weekend is that they won't sync playing the same music on multiple devices on the same network.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5808dfa2e4b0dd54ce389b61?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 01:14 AM) Hillary probably didn't write her speech, but it was pretty funny. Oh most definitely not, but she also didn't get booed out of a charity event.

Trump managed to lose the al smith dinner, goes historic 0-4 in a best of three series.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 07:53 PM) Edison? Living the dream never-ending hell

lol how are the bears winning right now, what is wrong with GB

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 08:01 PM) If they're going to lose -- and I hope they do -- at least Cutler makes the games interesting. Hoyer-ball is f***ing excruciating. careful what you wish for...

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 07:07 PM) I love mine, use it daily for music/podcasts, news/weather, control my Philips Hue lights and it's the best alarm clock you can own. Only problem is these f***ing Echo commercials they're running on the TNF Twitter broadcast keep triggering it. hahaha I was wondering if it'd do that

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 07:44 PM) Where in Cali? Rosemead

Technology just really isn't that reliable at this point, unfortunately. I don't deal with moving vehicle self-control or whatever you want to call "autopilot," but I do deal with video analytics and other integrated sensor systems so I've got at least somewhat of a related background. Generally speaking, recognizing fast-changing surroundings through a variety of sensors in a safe and extremely reliable and quick manner is a very, very difficult engineering challenge. They've already had one fatal accident due to a misidentification of a truck. It's exactly those sorts of challenges that are difficult to find and identify on paper/whiteboard before you start doing real-world tests, and that's really what I'm saying about traditional auto versus the new tech-based auto manufacturers--the tech guys are coming for a world where it's perfectly normal and expected for the end-users to be essentially beta testing the product, and that could lead to some dangerous scenarios.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 09:42 AM) This is all coming much faster than I think anyone anticipated...it will be interesting to see how this does on the market. The safety is the obvious selling point, along with the convenience, but some people, like myself, truly enjoy driving. I suspect there would be times when I would appreciate not having to actually drive, but for the most part, I find driving to be quite an enjoyable experience and a break from the other stressful parts of my day. This is something they made a point about in some NPR show I caught on the road the other week. In the traditional automotive world, features like this are tested and tested again before they're rolled out. In the tech world, new software and features are often released into the public and then tweaked and updated as time goes on, bugs are discovered, etc. That mindset seems to be bleeding over into the more tech-minded automotive companies with Tesla being the obvious poster boy for it. Case in point. Something like this is realistically at least a couple of decades away most likely, but Tesla is going to aggressively push this new tech out.

I have no idea what point wikileaks thinks it's making here