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It says they use vanilla beans, but the ingredients list only says “natural flavor,” and vanilla is not listed in the ingredients.

Vanillin is the same chemical in both artificial vanilla flavorings and actual vanilla, so that definitely tastes the same.

Most people don’t have the palate trained to really distinguish the subtle differences brought on by those other components and will probably appreciate both equally. I’m sure I couldn’t tell both apart unless I was comparing them 1-to-1.

The real issue for many people is lead. Lots of houses built between WWII and the 1970’s will have lead pipes as steel was reserved for military purposes in many places.

Billionaires would be cooler if their obsession was the bettering of mankind

Farming vials was not a fun mechanic, IMO. It’s also part of what made Demon’s Souls tedious at times, running out of healing and having to run back to your favorite farming route just to get more. It kills the flow of the game and is frustrating when you’re just trying to get past a hard boss.

I’ve played through most of the major Soulslikes out there, but have bounced off Bloodborne several times.

I suggest starting with Dark Souls 1 and playing them in order. DS1 is slower and clunkier than the sequels, but will introduce you to the mechanics and playstyle of the series. That clunkiness is especially obvious after playing the sequels. DS2 is the one most people like the least, but it’s still pretty decent, and plays somewhat faster than the first. DS3 is the smoothest experience, and probably hardest of the three.

Bloodborne is a more action-oriented experience, definitely a faster pace than the Souls games, and arguably harder because of it.

If you still want more, check out Demon’s Souls. Some of the mechanics are tedious and can easily be ignored, others are main parts of the game and have been simplified somewhat in the later games. I haven’t played the remake, but apparently it’s as close as possible to the original experience, only with upgraded graphics and sound. I read that even the game’s timings are exactly replicated.

Mickey Mouse bashing all the franchises that Disney bought is a pretty good gag

The “normal” Windows shutdown is not a real shutdown. I don’t know if it will change anything for your situation, but for a full power off, you have to hold left shift while you click shutdown from the start menu, otherwise it is basically just hibernating.

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But how many of them are upset at Canada?

I don’t and won’t play games with in-game ads. No matter how good they apparently are otherwise, I’ll never know.

I know it’s available, but it doesn’t pop up on its own unless you’re loading multiple files.

I don’t remember VLC’s playlist showing up at all unless you open multiple files at once

That’s why I always set my presence to offline. Nobody needs to know what I’m playing right this moment.

Failure to protect a trademark can cause the trademark to become genericized. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t apply to everything. Velcro fights hard for people to call their product “hook and loop fasteners” because they don’t want other companies to sell their products as Velcro, and it’s also why Nintendo was fighting for people to stop calling other consoles Nintendos in the 80’s and 90’s.

I don’t think you can genericize Mega Man, for example. Nobody’s going to call other types of games Mega Mans. In this case, it’s a copyright infringement, whether sanctioned or not. They’re not going to lose their trademark over Mega Man for this.

It’s not that you will necessarily perceive that latency in any meaningful way, but in a competitive gaming setting, a few ms of latency means you react a few ms later, which means your opponents get a few extra ms.

I mean 3ms is very good, and nothing to worry about IMO. Pretty sure Windows isn’t any better either. Either way, in a competitive setting, every ms counts.

640k ought to be enough for anyone.

It always is. Even if you’re actually calling for help, you need to basically trick them into helping you these days.

By the time the PS1 came out, lots of people already had CD players though. They weren’t cheap, but they weren’t crazy expensive either. DVD and Blu-Ray were in their infancy as the consoles were released, and they were the cheapest options available for playing them.

That’s a pretty big boost for console ownership.