@gawkerfools: Ever heard the saying a tax never dies, they always find a reason to keep it going.
I could less about this or that politician.
But you cannot just get rid of a tariff once it is put into place, easily. When you blindly put in a tariff for no reason other then a political statement, China put in aggressive counter tariffs that same day on everything from soy, bourbon, john deer trackers. If we would remove that tariff, would China do the same, probably not since the tariff or tax on the consumer, is already baked into the system. Removing a tariff after another nation has put in counter tariffs, could devastate many domestic industries. Removing a tariff is a sausage making endeavor, that requires cooperation by not just two nations, but a multinational endeavor.
When I hear people going on that biden didn't get rid of trumps tariffs, I laugh.
Also, before blaming the dollar has fallen by America printing more. I would remind that the globe went into a world wide inflation post pandemic. How could it not, you had so many deaths world wide, as well as economic shutdown worldwide. Of all the countries America has come out faster, better, and with less unemployment after world wide inflation. As well as faster wage gains then any other nation, by a lot. Things could be better for sure, but looking around... it could have been a lot worse.
@keetus: Well that is true for those large corporations, but ultimately those tariffs trickled down throughout the tech sector or any industry, raising costs of production for everything eventually. Even the cost of international shipping, raw goods, and r&d development. After all, when a blind tariff/ tax hits one sector, it will effect the whole industry.
example- if screens are taxed more for a political statement, but Apple is exempt... those people creating, buying, day to day labor will have to take on those expenses, meaning creators pay and labor will increase in one way or another. And those costs will effect even those exempt, ...eventually, and those prices will be passed on to the consumers. But at least those tariffs and taxes, will bring in money to give the very very rich, a tax break. hurray!
The tariffs from the first term never went away, the price increases never went away, just like taxes never go away. Over what we consider normal inflation increases.
Targeted tariffs for protections, are just fine but tariffs as a political statement or a just to pay for tax cuts for the very wealthy, always hurts the consumers and is never a good idea.
@tommytong: Nah too cinematic, combat is first person, some over the shoulder. No massive world building blown out like a civ games, or total war, or flight etc. But yeah, specs are about like most AAA games out today.
Unless you are wanting to run this game at 240hz+++ at 1080p, it will most likely use more GPU or GPU bound then cpu.
This game is out in five days, and I doubt there is some kind of crazy spoilers in a Indiana Jones movie prequel.... when will consumers get a review of this game. Come on gamespot.
It is still a wildly huge industry that is larger then the movies, music, and books combined -- yet so few players competing worldwide as compared to other mass media corporations.
With the tech bust and investment funding drying up for publishers, they now have to show an actual profit. AI may help get games, out the door, but it will be the talent that determines what games the consumer is willing to pay for -- which is often time dumb games- and what games they are not willing to pay. No matter what people are suggesting, AI will do nothing to change the mass consumers tastes or minds about a game, it may help it look pretty or faster development, gamers are fickle.
@girlusocrazy: I will agree with this comment, there were several version of the xbox 360 cables that came out early on. Much of it depended on the cable plug and the contacts of what the console knew to output to. Which results in what you are seeing way more then the cable.
I would often break the gray input cable plug (og cable with launch console) going inside the xbox 360, in order to solder a s-video connection (loved it) and after that a vga blue monitor cable with separate stereo audio. Easy enough, and you save $30, instead of having to buy a cable, which allowed 720p. To a computer monitor.... heaven. The pins were all there, instead of analogue, it had the capability of much more, built right in.
Eventually, they released a component cable, blue red green, which connected to different contacts around the plug areas. 32 in all, including a couple of grounds, and a couple of low voltage security pins.
So basically, the data that component gives is not better then HDMI, just how the console handles it, and lets it know what to give the tv.
There is a $750 HDMI console upscaler/ modifier (retrotink) that makes old consoles still look great today on new HDMI 4k TVs. I would love to own this! But there are also great little upscalers starting around $40-70 that do an amazing job, also. Read reviews, make sure it works with your version consoles.
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