jdreyer wrote on Oct 12, 2019, 03:01:

Scheherazade wrote on Oct 12, 2019, 02:37:

jdreyer wrote on Oct 11, 2019, 16:24:

Creston wrote on Oct 11, 2019, 12:01:
Also, if you're worried about your kids surviving, maybe don't buy them a car that accelerates like a fucking rocket.

Is 0-60 in 4.0 seconds fast? A McLaren can do it in 3.

My friend has a Tesla, and I've ridden in it. The acceleration is incredible. I was afraid to drive it actually.

I daily drove a 3 second 0-60 car for 8 years.

Flooring it at every red light, from 0-speed limit.

Not even a week and I was so used to it that it felt mundane. Just the new normal.

The only thing it did was to alter my perspective on what feels slow. A 90's accord, or a modern mustang, I didn't really distinguish anymore. They were both just different flavors of slow. (only tuner cars with engines loaded up with upgrades costing more than the average car actually felt fast anymore - and I suspect only because I didn't have one of my own to get used to)

It made me think of how an 80's Ferrari has the same 0-60 as a modern minivan. In the 80's people would say 'who needs to go this fast?' about the Ferrari, but today nobody even notices the minivan. I'm basically in the same zone with the ~3 ish second stuff. After everything gets quicker and everyone gets used to it, it will just be the sort of normal that nobody even notices. I suspect electrification will be sooner than people expect, and I suspect this sort of acceleration will just come along with it.

Actually, I've kinda stopped caring about 0-60 as much as I used to. Now I just want 'quick enough', while also being small, light, manual transmission, no frills, older, a bit loud, a bit rough around the edges... basically fun.

-scheherazade

What did you drive that did 0-60 in 3 seconds?

jdreyer wrote on Oct 11, 2019, 16:24:

Creston wrote on Oct 11, 2019, 12:01:
Also, if you're worried about your kids surviving, maybe don't buy them a car that accelerates like a fucking rocket.

Is 0-60 in 4.0 seconds fast? A McLaren can do it in 3.

My friend has a Tesla, and I've ridden in it. The acceleration is incredible. I was afraid to drive it actually.

Primalchrome wrote on Oct 11, 2019, 12:23:
Who pays for CBS All Access, anyway? I know one person that did when Star Trek originally released but he let it lapse after the first season...

The user comments on the Tesla death story are hilarious. "That dad and his son must be liberals" is the consistent sentiment. I'm not sure political affiliation has anything to do with trying to game our Torts system.

Bodolza wrote on Aug 8, 2019, 20:01:

Scheherazade wrote on Aug 8, 2019, 19:15:
Your game is ignoring the line right after the one you quoted

The line after you wrote

To which the news coverage was : "Trump said 'send them back'".

was

The trump social media summit, where a cnn reporter was going around to reporters who were invited saying shit like 'fight me bro'.

I didn't ignore your next line, but it has no bearing on the line I did quote, so I didn't include it. I only include the quotes I'm commenting on directly to keep it clear what my comments are about.

~Nowhere says [something like] : Trump said "go back to where you came from".

So by your own admission, you know your statement wasn't true. Who's the one playing games?

a selective out of context summary designed to mislead.

Which is your opinion. If you read the first NPR article you linked to you'd understand why telling someone to "go back..from which they came" has a racist meaning to a lot of Americans.

If you let people consider the entire paragraph it's extracted from, it goes from offensive to mundane.

No, it really doesn't. The paragraph starts off with "originally came from countries" when most were born in the USA. That's already problematic, especially when targeted only at people of color.

Trump's supporters clearly understood his meaning since they started chanting "Send her back" during his rally.

Beamer wrote on Aug 8, 2019, 13:30:
There's too much incorrect fear-mongering there to even attempt to rebut. Let's start with Brian Karem being the Playboy White House Correspondent, not CNN (he is often on CNN, but they're not the ones that send him to the White House), and that Gorka isn't "some Gorka guy." And Karem wasn't going around to other reporters, it was solely Gorka.

It's a weird way to miscategorize the whole thing. Based, likely, on angry and misleading YouTube videos instead of actual fact.

Bodolza wrote on Aug 8, 2019, 13:05:

Scheherazade wrote on Aug 8, 2019, 11:11:
Between leaks from management inside social media companies all
To which the news coverage was : "Trump said 'send them back'".

And can you find me a single reputable news organization that quoted Trump saying this?

ldonyo wrote on Aug 8, 2019, 13:18:

Scheherazade wrote on Aug 8, 2019, 09:55:
The reason for rejecting is not senseless.

The hack requires local configuration changes, presumably to be made by a complicit/malicious process already on the box.

If there is a malicious process already on the box, then this vulnerability is just another straw on a pile of hay.

I would have accepted it as a low pri, deferred till later, rather than rejected.

-scheherazade

Reread the article, this hack requires nothing of the sort.

Saboth wrote on Jun 11, 2019, 14:16:
"result clearly represents a strategic victory for Alex Jones." How does using someone else's copyright without permission then losing in court represent any kind of win? Then again, this is the alt-right, where up is down and black is white, real news is fake, so I guess yeah...in their minds it must be a major victory.

VaranDragon wrote on Jun 7, 2019, 03:55:
Ok, anyone here with an RTX card trying to play this?

I could really use some help with eliminatng the input lag (VSYNC is OFF)

It's terrible, and makes the game almost unplayable. With that said, it really looks and runs nice.

pacbowl wrote on May 27, 2019, 22:01:
Hell yeah, hopefully Zoids, Expert or LMCTF will be compatible.

wtf_man wrote on May 24, 2019, 12:40:

What it aims to do is prohibit specifically “pay-to-play microtransactions” and “loot boxes.” It’s how these terms are defined, however, that will cause game developers and players the most headache. It would limit, for instance, the types of rewards that can be offered when players purchase “Collector’s Editions” of video games. Expansion packs that, aside from additional content, grant players competitive advantages over ones who don’t purchase them would be banned.

Doesn't sound crappy to me. Collectors editions and expansions that grant competitive advantages SHOULD be prohibited.

And here’s the kicker: This new law would also apply to any game that is “not a minor-oriented game” if the distributor or publisher has “constructive knowledge any of its users are under the age of 18.” That term, “constructive knowledge,” is legalese for information a company should be aware of, regardless of whether or not it actually is. (Try to imagine a game developer arguing in court it had no idea its product had ever been used by a minor.)

Again, Doesn't sound crappy to me. If the wording makes it so loot boxes and pay-to-win is banned across the board instead of "just for children"... I'm all for it.

This crap shouldn't be in games in the first place. If there isn't a complete "opt-out" setting in the game where you can't even see loot boxes (and the like)... then yes... ban them alltogether.

RedEye9 wrote on May 9, 2019, 23:19:

NicklePop wrote on May 9, 2019, 22:37:
The population is becoming a low IQ shadow of itself as preprogrammed sex robots and people are mad that a youtuber texts nudes?

Ha

The only ha here is you did not even spend a nanosecond perusing the article before you started vomiting your clueless dreck.

jdreyer wrote on May 5, 2019, 15:02:

Scheherazade wrote on May 5, 2019, 02:58:
VR resolution is really bad. People don't realize that the image is post processed, warped and scaled, and you get effectively 1/2 panel resolution (because image pixels aren't aligned 1:1 with display pixels).



Beyond resolution, VR just needs 'normal' games to put in proper support.
(The games people want to play, not 'VR games')

*FPS games with normal controls, and just add freelook.
No gimmicks.

*Flight-sim/racing games with normal controls, just add freelook.
No cutting features in VR mode(like disabling zoom).

I sold off my VR stuff because I just wanted to play 'normal' games with VR, but there was always something messed up in the VR version/mode - just bad integration choices by the authors. Like as if they just wanted to make a demo, and didn't count on anyone actually trying to play in VR.

-scheherazade

Doesn't the VorpX driver let you play normal games normally in VR?

RedEye9 wrote on May 5, 2019, 12:46:
And now we're off into Conspiracy Mode.
What took that so long?