GrindingGears

I'm so over this AI nonsense. I use AI as a barometer at work, in that the more they talk about AI, the more I know they are adding fuck all to the organization and aren't actually doing any work.

My answer would be no. I did that one time, to an entry level full suspension bike. Absolutely ate crow when it came time to sell, at the end of it all I was out a pile of money and the bike was still pretty mediocre. Save your money for a more complete package. This bike will still do you just fine for quite a while yet I imagine too.

Heck all of the MTV Unplugged shows were great. This one especially though

She said see you later boi

The bottom paragraph especially. It's a terrible idea honestly. It's better to learn how the bike should run, and what to watch for, before you need to actually watch for it and wrestle with it.

This is kind of screaming Honda CRF300LS. Low seat, it's super easy to ride, great learners bike. Throw a set of wrap around handguards on there when you buy it, and you can drop it all day without really much consequence. They aren't all that expensive, and pretty low maintenance. Dual sports make great learning bikes too, they are super approachable, let you make all the mistakes with lower consequences, and you can literally take that bike just about anywhere. It'll do 55mph no prob, I'm pretty sure you can get those things going 70-80mph. They ain't built for highway comfort, but they make a great around town bike. You can even get a little rack for the back.

Take a course, it's invaluable, especially when you are learning. Otherwise you'll spend the first year struggling.

So is AMD with their availability of literally three video cards in stock for all of North America at launch. Which in turn just fuels the scalpers. Downvote this all you want guys, AMD is just as complicit in all of this, they've fuelled this bullshit just as much.

I showed my son that chase the other day, and lol he was like why is everyone driving so slow, is that because they are old cars?

If you could happen to fall into a 5800x or a 5800x3d for a decent price (getting harder to find I'm sure), I'd skip the upgrades and AM5. It doesn't look like it's going to go the distance like AM4 did, there's already AM6 talk going on for 2027. There's very little real world actual advantage to AM5 vs 4, it's just largely more anti-consumer behaviour and marketing from PC chipmakers.

Maybe to their inventory department too, because let's be frank, that's what AMDs downfall really will be. Every product launch for them is now a faux launch, because no one can get their hands on the hardware. It's not quite as bad for the processors, but their GPUs? Forgeddaboutit.

That last one is especially horrifying. You don't own games when you cloud game, you simply lease them. We all know what that's done for the preservation of games. Not to mention encouraging the massive amounts of shovel ware that we get flooded with.

Problem is preordering has been normalized, as has releasing games in pre-alpha state.