ChairmanMeow

There's a nasty server desync issue on Bedrock that they haven't managed to squash yet. It means that you're not seeing what is really happening, and can suddenly die as a result.

There's a reason Bedrock's nickname is "Bugrock".

Personally, I find Java + Fabulously Optimised modpack to be smooth enough.

Yes, that's not in dispute?

If you click through on the source on commerce sanctions (which is what would apply to possible tariffable goods) then you will find that the BIS oversees that. Not the taskforce going after Russian oligarchs, who have a different set of sanctions apply to them.

Again, there's already a high level of tariffs on Russian trade, and they don't have a "most favored trade nation" status anymore:

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told lawmakers there is “no effort to reinvigorate trade with Russia,” pushing back on Democrats who suspected Mr. Trump was cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid negotiations to reignite economic relations or end the war in Ukraine.

President Biden signed bills and issued decrees in 2022 that sanctioned Russia and Belarus and increased tariffs on things such as steel and aluminum, minerals and chemicals.

“They already have these high tariffs, they don’t have permanent normal trade relations,” Mr. Greer told the House Ways and Means Committee.

Sanctioned oligarchs have completely different sanctions than trade sanctions that apply to countries. Apples and oranges.

One is a sanction lifting on a fairly unimportant woman, true. Two are about "plans" a month ago (nothing was put in practice). Last one is tangentially related. But none are really about lifting sanctions on the country.

Trump hasn't lifted any sanctions on Russia yet. He prolonged them for a year in February, and has been trying to offer the perspective of lifting them in exchange for peace negotiations. But since Putin hasn't started negotiating in earnest yet, no sanctions have been lifted as far as I know.

They're on a different list that allows limited trade afaik.

Yeah but that's out of incompetence, not malice. You're in most cases not allowed to trade with Russia due to sanctions, so what is there to tariff?

Russia is already on its own "special list" of countries that have very heavy trade restrictions. Like North Korea.

I don't think tariffs would've made a difference there.

Screen size, resolution, the APU, storage size, controller connector, buttons, the lot. They did state that they worked on the stick drift issue and found ways to mitigate it, but they weren't specific unfortunately.

It's so weird, I was actually kinda hyped seeing they improved almost everything on the original Switch. Hardware-wise it seems good. But the software after really just became this turn-off? The Mario Kart gimmick of riding between tracks looks dull, the 24 players is cool but offset with the wider tracks it seems less impactful, and then all the prices...

I'm holding off I think. Maybe when there's better games out it becomes a better deal. Or when Nintendo does an OLED refresh (if we don't have a Steam Deck 2 by then that is).

Probably part of some base template Microsoft uses.