Comparing genders is like comparing Coca-Cola to Pepsi. They're slightly different from each other, but they're both bad for you, as they're exactly the same thing.

Women are better at appearing kind and restraining externally speaking words they may regret, regardless of their true intentions. I theorize the reason for such self control is because fluctuating hormones due to puberty and pregnancy have made them used to such changes and have learned how to still function normally when dealing with these moments. They also know common ways to tell someone things if they feel being direct will lead to an unfavorable outcome. I.E. "I have a boyfriend," instead of "I'm not interested in you, sorry." I've had women say the boyfriend line when I invited them to a birthday bash with Mario Party and pizza, even if their interests aligned with mine - the line is not used exclusively for dissuading romantic persuers.

Men, in general, I've noticed more commonly say exactly what they mean and are less likely to change their mind in as quickly of a time span if they agree to commit to something, be it a friendship, a hangout, being at your wedding, or helping you move. But if they ever feel a moment of frustration or anger, they often let it explode quicker, as unless they've had training in a stressful work environment, they are not as well versed as keeping focused and keeping the negative emotions buried beneath the surface.

Women are only objectively better than men at one thing in life - bending over a chair in a leg-locked L shape and standing up with the chair in hand without moving their lower body. This is because female humans have an extra muscle in the abdomen that men do not have that allows them to stand back up from that position.

When it comes to emotions, honesty, and general human integrity, men and women are just as bad, and just as good as each other. Even if I've known more male friends who have been completely honest and reliable to me than female friends (but I still know a couple,) I'm smart enough to know my experience does not speak for the objective truth. I mean, just because I've never seen a million dollars doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

@mrbojangles25: I apologize if this reply is considered reviving a dead thread. I haven't had a reliable home for several months and couldn't log on until now.

No, I don't think the big publishers like EA, Ubisoft, not even Rockstar care enough to allow devs to add those options in. But if we can convince CD Projekt Red, DoubleFine, and maybe Bethesda to test the waters this way, others may follow.

I wanted to ask if anyone knows of an existing still screenshot comparison, or wouldn't mind quickly slapping one together, of the Medium, High, and Ultra texture settings after the recent patch noted to have increased the image quality of said textures. I would appreciate it.

I'd normally download the game to see for myself, but due to an unrelated COVID woe-is-me story too long to get into, I'm technically homeless, just in a very temporary shelter, 1600 miles away from my home state. The internet just isn't reliable enough here to download a 150gb game quickly, and I should be focused on other things than actually playing for hours. I hope someone out here is okay with helping me out, screenshot wise.

@pyro1245: Hey, Pyro. I didn't want to resurrect an old thread when we were talking about our i7-6700 machines, but did you ever get around to doing that Ryzen build you talked of back then? How did that come along?

@Bond007uk: This is partially the case, but not entirely. While textures make up a good chunk of any game's disc usage, it's also become increasingly desired to have uncompressed, high fidelity surround sound audio as well. The best way I believe there is to combat this, is to take a retrospective look into some older unofficial practices in gaming and actually make them options on the download servers.

1. Use pre-rendered cinematics as little as possible. This both decreases filesize and preserves the intended quality once the jump to higher resolution screens inevitably occurs.

2. Offer an option on the download page for compressed audio/textures, or uncompressed. Maybe even let the user choose which specific quality they want for their audio/visuals if they're savvy enough to do so. Not everyone is an Ultra-or-bust audiophile.

3. Strip any unnecessary features from the initial download and make them optional. If a player wants a game just for the campaign, make the multiplayer an optional download. If the player only wants to download a single language for the game, allow the player to download only that language and keep the others on the store servers - off the player's hard drive.

I'm sure a lot of us remember a time where every gaming magazine for any system came bundled with a Demo disc to lure in a purchase. Whether you had a Playstation, Dreamcast, even up to the XBOX 360, this was a common marketing practice for over a decade and a half. Regardless of how many there are though, if you had to pick one, and only one disc, that had what you consider to be your personal favorite library of bite-sized gameplay, which specific disc would you choose?

Clarification: One disc per console. If you owned multiple consoles during this era, you aren't limited to one pick for your entire console library.

@speeny: I definitely feel this with SQUARESOFT/SQUARE-ENIX RPGs, most prominently in Chrono Trigger, which to be honest, I've never gotten very far in. I've always feared of accidentally doing something stupid leading to a premature ending (taken to court for eating someone else's food, for example), and I'm kind of looking for a list of consequential vs inconsequential actions you can take in the game, just do I don't accidentally mess up my playthough going forward.

Now, not everything has to be that perfect blend of happiness and despair that Majora's Mask was over 20 years ago, but in your years of playing games, what are some that you've played that on the surface seem very happy and kid friendly, but you just can't shake some unsettling feeling that there's still something... wrong within the game's world? To clarify, I'm asking for your own experiences within the game itself, not influenced by already existing creepypastas before you felt something was off.

@Starshine_M2A2: Now demo discs ARE something I miss, even if it was rare to get a single disc without any duds. That did seem to happen more frequently on the PS2 though, with the Jampack collections. Very rarely was there something uninteresting on them.

@Black_Knight_00: It seems that link is hidden from me, as according to gamespot, you only accept private messages from people you follow. Ah well. ^^