I learned how to drive in the snow because I grew up in the foothills, the boonies. Snow and inclines, flash floods, windstorms take down so many trees that all the routes to … fucking anywhere are blocked for days to a week, along with the power grid.

I, foolishly, expected that that was normal, that everybody learned how treacherous weather can be on driving.

All these damn city slickers just be fucking playing bumper cars, watchin their tiktoks, gorramit!

Ptooie!

Its not small pp shit, its intentionally being a troll and watching what bites, ahahahah!

Yeah, obviously I didn’t build the mountains, I don’t care about this that much, ahahah!

Its just funny watching people get mad over stupid shit.

Should we do sportsball next?

Ahahhah!

Man, I saw a single post from Rimu some months ago and pegged them as a scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, censorious control freak totalitarian, months ago, blocked em.

Is this person like… actually important in some way, or do they just… loudly think that about themself?

They’re a piefed dev/contributor or something?

Lol at all the East Coasters in this thread.

Our mountains are old, show some respect!

Our mountains are haunted, oooo scaaaarrrry!!!

Hahahahah!

Nah, nah.

Scary is a semi truck with failed brakes barreling down a 14 degree grade with a 1000ft drop awaiting it if it can’t maintain control untill it hits a designated crash zone 5 miles away.

Scary is a literal fucking volcano exploding with the force of many nuclear weapons.

Scary is whenever the Cascadia superquake hits and maybe also triggers the San Andreas fault at the same time, and turns the West Coast into an actual 90s/00s disaster movie.

Seattle, just the city limits of Seattle, has hills taller than things I’ve heard people in the midwest call mountains.

That being said, yeah, you are absolutely correct that almost fucking nobody in the PNW knows jack shit about driving in the snow.

They also know jack shit about driving in the rain, which is… baffling for hopefully obvious reasons.

So… it has less effective mass than it otherwise should?

Then it has less contact surface area with the ground… it has less mass pressing down on that less surface area, and thus has less traction and control.

This is an unavoidable physics problem.

Like, technically, Superman has a magic ability to alter the surface tension / tensile strength of large objects he lifts… because if he did not, he would simply puncture them, or they would collapse around where he is lifting them.

You’re gonna need better defined magic.

Hahaha do people still use this spyware?

Ahahahahah!

‘This Computer’ would like to know your location.

… the trunk is bigger on the inside.

Slightly hovers would not be a smooth ride, in the car driving sense.

It would be like piloting a hovercraft, driving on black ice, everywhere.

You’d be playing bumper cars with everything, have little to no steering control or braking ability… you’d probably die or be maimed if you exceed ~45 mph for any reason.

Also… weather forcefield?

Depending on how you define ‘weather’ and ‘forcefield’ … this could potentially amount to a weapon of mass destruction.

I’d say an ass crack with some kind of nasty rash.

Decade that a county peaked in population:

So thats a pretty good correllation, eyeballing it, its basically the areas that haven’t had any real economic growth in decades, and are overwhelming populated by old people, and of course generally de facto have low populations.

If a population peaked in decade x, well, its been shrinking since then.

They are the past, lashing out violently as the light dims… they were never able to figure out why everything sucks for them now.

I’d bet you could make this a better corellation if you did ‘decade that white population peaked’.

And then even better if you also did ‘decade that white, non college educated population peaked.’

Dumb, dying, racist failures.

… chaos is a ladder.

It is occasionally necessary to fire the customer.

A lot of people who go into psychology do so because they know they are themselves fucked in the head, and are also basically fundamentally arrogant yet also insecure enough to think they can become an ‘expert’ on themself, and thus by proxy, everyone else.

A kind of psuedo self aware, authoritarian narcissism.

This kind of thing happens because the indie or AA devs traverse the dunning kruger curve, as they develop the game.

They often initially think things will be easier than they actually are. Then, the reality of the complexities of game dev hits them in the mouth. After that… they become more measured in their public promises.

Better to underpromise and overdeliver, than to overpromise and underdeliver.

Whereas AAA/corpo games… the entire plan the whole time is to bait and switch you, if they don’t become astoundingly successful basically instantly.

See, they have a marketing budget and the salaries of a bloated management hierarchy they need to cost justify, quickly, because line must go up.

I can’t speak to Terraria specifically, but just with most games in general?

An actual bugfix often means you changed the underlying guts of some system, some system that had appeared to work, but actually, had a fundamental flaw, even if minor.

With that kind of a fix… well, often mods essentially work by creating their own uses of, or work-arounds for the old buggy system.

So, when that system is reworked, to remove the bug… well now some of the guts of the mod may need to be reworked as well.

An extreme example of this would be the FO4 ‘update’.

Not really much in the way of new content… but they reworked a bunch of the guts. Which broke just most mods that did anything beyond something entirely simplistic and superficial.

Good!

Then you’re not going back to Twitter, so you’re not part of that category.

Honestly I personally, selfishly, hope Lemmy never gets anywhere near Facebook or Twitter huge.

Most people are fucking boring idiot assholes, full of actually boring and stupid ideas and opinions they only think are clever or notable because them and their social circle are broadly ignorant and hypnotized by marketing.

I prefer a smaller community where people at least tend toward not being idiots, and not being boring.

I don’t want to hear from a celebrity, as their celebrity self.

I don’t want advertising to be viable.

You are right; most people do not care about things that they should, if they actually believed half the things they say they do. Most people are enormously massive hypocrites about most things, whether theyre aware of that or not.

I am under no illusion that people, broadly, when freely handed the solution to a large chunk of their problems, will use it, if it means they suffer any kind of inconvenience whatsoever.

I am under no illusion that most people want what they claim they want; they just want to be popular, or be where the most other people are.

If Bluesky dies and the users go back to Twitter, they never believed in anything more than ‘I want to be part of the herd.’

What you identify as a lack of water, I see as a functioning primary filtration system that prevents microplastic infected water from coming in to the system.

Keep Lemmy Weird.

I also find it odd that you would likely describe all that as anti-social.

… having preferences for the kind of people you enjoy socializing with… is not anti social. You seem to be functionally saying that not starting a massive marketing drive, that in itself is anti social.

This to me is either completely insane, or you don’t understand what ‘anti-social’ means.

The corporate paradigm for social media… that is anti-social. ‘Demonstrates a chronic pattern of disregarding the rights and well-bring of others.’ They literally act as fine-tuned personalized, digital drugs to manipulate your thoughts and emotions, by exploiting your weaknesses.

This has been fucking obvious for at least 2 years, more like 4, really.

What this has been the whole time is naked power grab to establish a technate, a techno-oligarchy.

When, not if, this fully fucking detonates the West’s finances and economies, most of these people will still be very wealthy, most of our 401k/pensions/net worth will mostly no longer exist, and we will end up with a society of all but formal aristocracy, vs us ‘low income worker’ peasants.

That is their plan. They have been open about that for 20-30 years; they despise democracy, they think the world should be hard deliniated into haves and have-nots.

It doesn’t matter if the tech works or is profitable.

What matters is who will be on top when the dust settles.