Something like the Small Form Factor Optiplex computers fits nicely into any old home entertainment or stereo setup, but I suppose we already have about a thousand machines that will fit that slot and people that wanted to do that probably already did.
You could probably build a comparable machine for $800 or so today, but from that perspective you are paying a couple hundred bucks for the form factor and the convenience of not having to source all the parts.
Or people that just don’t want to bother with building another machine to put downstairs in the livingroom or whatever. There are a lot of middle aged people who have been PC gaming for decades, are perfectly happy to build their primary gaming machine, and have hundreds of games in their library, and the means to consider the couple hundred dollar price difference between $1000 and whatever they could spend to build a machine to be worth the convenience of not having to do it.
They won’t get more investor money if they aren’t building shit.
Can’t wait to find out that this somehow cost us taxpayers like a hundred million dollars.
Right, but the fact that this is obvious means that anyone who DOES release a console in this time period is going to be able to capture a lot of market share since they have little to no competition.
The more interesting tidbit is that this is actually pretty common. The prop house using real skeletons was actually pretty common and not unique to this production. The notable thing about this film was the sheer number of skeletons that they used, so they basically scooped up everything that was out there, and how much the live actors actually interacted with the skeletons. It wasn’t particularly unusual for skeletons to be used as props.
Really, just about any time you saw a skeleton on screen before the 90s or so, it was probably real. A lot of real world props and decorations also used real skeletons, sometimes to the surprise of the people using them. For example, if you rode the original Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney Land, you saw real human skeletons.
I read this when it came out and even then my first thought was that someone got paid to write this shit.
I love it when assholes torment each other and I get to just watch and hope they both somehow manage to lose.
Exactly. Same reason the UAE pulled out of OPEC.
The resource and ideological wars are already under way and countries with the means to do so are taking their positions to take the best advantage they can.
Ok. How about this. Since its really hard to prove a negative, how about we lower the bar for you to make this REALLY easy. Post 5 cases of a person whose ONLY offense was public urination that resulted in them being put on the sex offender registry. That is it. I don’t need you to prove that there are THOUSANDS. Just give me FIVE. that should be easy since there ARE thousands of registered sex offenders out there and if this happens THOUSANDS of times then it should be real easy to tease out a couple real world examples. Go for it.
That is it. Show me just FIVE cases out of the literally millions of people that have been put on the sex offender registry and I will concede that it could indeed be THOUSANDS.
If you cannot find even FIVE people this has actually happened to, then you have to concede that it is a made up bullshit argument.
How about that?
You claim there are THOUSANDS of not-really-sex offenders that are registered sex offenders. Why you are so interested in propagating that myth, I can only guess, but you have not actually provided a single source that actually says that.
Strange, I thought we were talking about registered sex offenders. Did you forget or just realize that you pulled that number directly from your ass?
If you want to make rules for this discussion, how about we start with you agreeing to stop making shit up?
And your “1% of people on the sex offender register are not actually guilty” number comes from…?
And you believe that this supports your statement that there are
“l thousands of people who are sex offenders for merely urinating in public”
?
No there aren’t.
I am always fascinated by people who put a lot of energy into pretending that sex crimes aren’t a big deal and that a lot of registered sex offenders really didn’t do anything.
It is objectively untrue, and any amount of research will demonstrate that.
So what is the deal? Why are doing it?
Its a thing that has happened like once or twice but every sex offender pretends it was them that it happened to and lots of people like to perpetuate the myth.
“why didn’t you do them?”
“That is a good question and it merits further explanation. When you made your originally inquiry I determined that the answer you wanted to hear was “yes.” so that is the answer that I provided. Upon further reflection it is clear that your question required a more thoughtful answer. If you would like me to provide more truthful answers in the future, please amend your queries with “no cap” and I will do my best to remember that preference.”
I think it depends on how much time and effort you are willing to put into sourcing and building everything and how important the form factor is. Lots of guys build pretty capable livingroom computers out of old Small Form Factor business computers, but once you have it all together its not a LOT cheaper than this.
It really comes down to how you value your time. You could beat this price, but if you value your time in doing so (i.e. if its not something you think is fun on its own) its probably not worth the effort.