Wait, no they both do. Normal warp does. FTL as a concept does.
Hey, props to them for embracing it immediately and doing time travel nonsense right away.
MudMan
joined 1 year ago
Yeah, the guy is a fan of historical fiction. More Ben-Hur than... eh... I don't know, I'd bring up one of Spielberg's but I'm not sure how much better they are.
Point is, he makes movies and he clearly prefers to dramatize over sticking to historical fact. That's valid.
Still missed that mark, famously. The "nobody was there how do you know" quote about Gladiator was specifically about the costumes, if I recall correctly.
Also, absolutely it claimed to depict the lives of historical figures. Marcus Aurelius and Commodus are people who lived. Important people, too. The entire movie is a bit of a alt-history take on the relatively anecdotal detail that Commodus was assassinated by a gladiator and that he used to fight in the arena himself.
Again, haven't seen Napoleon, but I'm gonna say I can see someone fictionalizing the life of a guy who has become shorthand for having an inflated ego and a whole bunch of jokey pop culture anecdotes. Is the bar meant to be different here? There was fictionalized apocrypha about Napoleon (and the rest of the Bonapartes, while we're at it) while they were alive and in charge. I think the statute of limitations is up on that one.
It's so bad for Widnows handhelds, laptops and tablets I've resorted to re-enabling hybernation and using that instead.
Which I'm sure will be disabled as an option at some random point in time with no warning.
Yeah, right. Like Riker hadn't tried that already on the first day he got access to a holodeck.
I mean... sure, it's not named after him, but Marcus Aurelius is in that movie. They still have a column in his memory in Rome today.
On the minus side, he's in the movie just for a little bit and you can't really prove that he wasn't murdered by Commodus in a fit of jealous rage. On the plus column, Napoleon is already one of the most misrepresented historical figures, so... call it a tie?
He made the same arguments about Gladiator back in the day, pretty much word for word.
Thing is, it works for Gladiator. I have no idea how well it works here.
That article is... very confusingly written. Anybody got another source with a direct, full quote?
Nope. Honestly, I stopped tinkering with that stuff altogether ages ago. It's a candybar that gives me text messages and takes photos, I don't need to make it my own.
I have a Xperia 1.
It has a flagship SoC, but it also has a SD card slot, a headphone jack, no notch or cutout, front firing stereo speakers and a nice blocky look without a massive camera bump.
The downside is software support can be a bit spotty and the cameras are made for manual use, as opposed to being AI-driven point-and-shoot things. That last one could be a positive depending on your preference, though.
But overall? I'm very satisfied, and I went there specifically because I was tired of the ongoing Apple-ification of Samsung in the first place. You may want to consider coming to the dark side and incentivizing Sony to keep making a phone with a feature set, instead of copy-pasting Apple's or Samsung's playbook.
I miss that small time window where maxing out games and not having to tweak and tune was a thing.
Is 4K60 the goal? Because I have a bunch of 120Hz displays, so... 4K60? Or what about 1440p120? Or maybe you can split the difference and try to get 90-ish at upscaled 4K and the VRR will eat the difference. And of course I have handhelds so those are a separate performance target altogether.
These days you are tuning everything no matter what unless you're running... well, a game from that era when 1080p60 was the only option.
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