BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic The Ton is Calling, and It Wants Your Credit Card Number Oh, look. Another day, another The Sims 4 expansion pack designed to suck the remaining life out of your hard drive and the remaining balance out of your bank account. This time, EA has looked at the Netflix charts, seen that people are still obsessed with corsets and repressed yearning, and decided to drop the Royalty & Legacy expansion. And because subtlety is a dead language at Maxis HQ, there is a glaringly obvious Bridgerton reference tucked inside. Because of course there is. If you’ve ever wanted to live out your Lady Whistledown fantasies without the effort of actually writing a coherent plot, this is for you. But for the rest of us? It’s just another Tuesday in the land of overpriced DLC. Secrets as Trading Cards? Groundbreaking. The core 'innovation' here—an...
BREAKING NEWS 💀 Rogue The Skeptic The Ghost of Storage Past Returns Look at you. You were just about to click 'checkout' on that 4TB NVMe drive, weren't you? And then Western Digital (WD) comes sliding into your feed like a desperate ex, whispering sweet nothings about 'flash-like' performance on a mechanical hard drive. If you actually believe that a spinning platter of rust is going to keep pace with NAND flash, I have a pre-order for Starfield 2: The Search for More Loading Screens to sell you. We’ve been here before, kids. Every few years, the HDD industry panics because SSDs are eating their lunch, so they sprinkle some 'magic' tech on a brick and call it a revolution. The 'Magic' Tech Under the Hood So, what’s the big deal this time? WD is touting a new architecture that supposedly bridges the gap between the dinosaur age of spi...