… ask him if he needs any covfefe?

I mean we literally had people losing fingers to Elon’s ‘obstruction detecting’ frunks in the cybertruck, this basically isn’t even hyperbole.

‘having a normal one’

…but with this most expensive and dangerous set of toys that have ever existed.

Inshallah, there will be a fatwa against every existing ‘Live Laugh Love’ piece of art, and they will be mandated to be replaced with this.

I have a … theroetical AI data center under construction.

On the other hand, if your dad actually does work for Nintendo, you may in fact be quite fucked.

Oh my fucking god.

He must have fired Noem because some part of him was afraid of being Ole Yeller’d.

There has never before in history been such a grandpa who really needed to just go to bed now.

I’ve been using Bazzite for almost 2 years now, and my… personal experience + amalgamation of all the various benchmarks of linux distros vs windows that I have seen is that basically, its variable per certain games, but generally, Cachy and Bazzite both beat Windows by roughly 5-15%, over a broad selection of games, and Cachy sometimes has a slight edge over Bazzite, and maybe works with brand spanking new games a bit earlier.

So basically maybe slight edge to Cachy, in terms of overall performance, but… its not exactly super clear.

Wow, its that bad these days?

That’s basically 4chan.

Christ.

I have not played in a while, but the last time I did play, Squad is essentially a milsim-lite, and it has an actually decent community.

Though I may be biased, as I was an early tester for Project Reality, way back in the day.

To make a long story very short, basically, a good chunk of the original PR dev team founded Offworld Studios, and basicslly just remade the same concept of a game, in Unreal 4, and more recently they apparently switched over to UE5.

I can at least guarantee that an average Squad playing experience is not going to be as suicidal ideation inducing as an average CoD playing experience.

I recently watched a youtube video that explains, and I am oversimplifying here, but essentially…

They managed to reinvent a new kind of Russian Bias, by way of primarily two things.

1. They apparently do not actually model the amount of time it takes, with an autoloader, to actually switch over to a different ammo carrousel, so switching ammo types and just reloading in general is far too quick

2. The physics model for shell penetration/internal damage is basically broken in specific situations + several high end Russian vehicles are incorrectly internally modelled, so this results in many high end Russian vehicles being far, far more resiliant than they actually should be.

At this point, I only keep up with warthunder at all for the shenanigans.

It is truly masterful how they’ve designed the points and gold and combat systems to essentially constantly gaslight you into playing and/ot spending more, despite the actual gameplay basicslly being a bunch of rabid racists doing the opposite of anything resembling teamwork.

I can’t say I am aware of a comparable aerial combat game, but, if you’re interested in tanks, I have heard good things about Gunner Heat PC! (GHPC).

I mean, with the amount of dark patterns, micro transactions… that we now have words for those concepts…

A lot of games literally are designed, at the fundamental gameplay level, to wave a theoretical victory/payoff in your face, and give you ladders to climb, that make you feel like you are achieving something…

But it ultimately still ends up being inconsistent operant conditioning, which fundamentally is the same pattern that is at play in behavioral addictions like gambling.

So yeah, a whole lot more things either basically are, or literally are addictive, in the same ways that things that are broadly recognized by society addictive are.

Good on you for being aware of yourself!

Yeah I guess that is actually what is happening… combined with… 99% of pictures people see these days are taken with phones or webcams, with different methods of doing color balancing, and different standards for lighting and color grading.

Whereas it used to be, in the before days, in the last century… you’d probably most often see a person pictured in either a school photo, a mugshot, a portrait done for some other occasion, or basically a polaroid, which would be recognizabley differently exposed/styled (basically) from the rest.

Huh.

To me it looks like an actually very well colorbalanced photo… maybe something to do with image formats, different kinds of viewing devices, some kind of HDR process working oddly?

EDIT:

Also, the background, the backdrop, its … the actual pattern of the material is that its lighter and more colorful in the center, and then does a kind of noisy circular taper to black, toward the edges.

Thats not an exposure or contrast error, its an intentional choice, meant to emphasis the center of the image, but also allow the well lit people on the edges to be clearly discernable, in detail.

Its a fairly common practice in more traditional portrait photography.

wdym?

Astronauts are following the same photo format as they’ve always done, and the penguin is wearing a tuxedo.

Gotta have a healthy relationship with a hobby.

Its one thing for it to be an important part of your life and you as a person… its another thing when it becomes your entire life, when you start throwing away other things, opportunities, relationships, finances, etc, to keep being intensely dedicated to it.

I was just gonna say “LoL players tend to be fucking awful people”, but, seeing that there are many recovered addicts in this thread…

…unironically challenges my assumptions and gives me hope that people in general can change.

Now we just need to make Warthunder not work on linux…

The funnier part is the idea that you could just… report a well established and ingrained element of a society… to that society’s ‘police’… and thinking that they would do anything other than laugh at you.

It is really funny to me that, in general, medical professionals in the US still think people do or should broadly respect them.

… Why?

Nobody cares that you’re just following orders, that’s not a very good excuse.

Nobody cares that you have a boatload of debt you need to pay off… most people do these days.

None of that gives ya’ll societal permission to engage in possibly the most elaborate gaslighting fraud system that humanity has ever produced.

Ya’ll are supposed to have ethics, ‘first, do no harm’, yet you violate this routinely as a matter of course, “professionally”.

With few exceptions, you’re all hypocritical liars with God complexes.

You should know, better than most, that your intentions do not matter at all, outcomes do.

They are legitimate military targets, they are acting as comms relay servers for military strikes/operations against Iran, and are very likely also being used to do threat analysis / kill chain assignment tasks.

This is what you get for becoming part of the military industrial complex, tech bros.