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Happy 27th(!) birthday to Quake II. This is another chance to thank id for
creating it, and another chance to thank all the parties involved in the
2023 update that makes the game easily
playable on modern systems, in case you want to play it to celebrate the
occasion.
So it appears the often hapless New York Mets have landed Juan Soto, the plumb free agent of this baseball off-season. On the one hand, getting a superstar at the age of 26 (much less taking him from the Yankees) giving up no resources other than cash is a great move for a cash-rich team. But as much as I bemoaned the team's poverty when that was at issue, paying out the richest contract in the history of sports (15 years, $765 million) doesn't feel like a real point of pride. Baseball's lack of any sort of hard salary cap combined with the miserly profit-sharing between the haves and have-nots has led to New York and Los Angeles being able to toss so much more money around than the smaller-market teams that it's uncompetitive. This has always been the case in baseball, but I think it's becoming more of a problem as salaries escalate and these income gaps become even wider. This doesn't seem great for the sport in the long-term, but this is how they've been doing things for about 150 years now, so what do I know?
So it appears the often hapless New York Mets have landed Juan Soto, the plumb free agent of this baseball off-season. On the one hand, getting a superstar at the age of 26 (much less taking him from the Yankees) giving up no resources other than cash is a great move for a cash-rich team. But as much as I bemoaned the team's poverty when that was at issue, paying out the richest contract in the history of sports (15 years, $765 million) doesn't feel like a real point of pride. Baseball's lack of any sort of hard salary cap combined with the miserly profit-sharing between the haves and have-nots has led to New York and Los Angeles being able to toss so much more money around than the smaller-market teams that it's uncompetitive. This has always been the case in baseball, but I think it's becoming more of a problem as salaries escalate and these income gaps become even wider. This doesn't seem great for the sport in the long-term, but this is how they've been doing things for about 150 years now, so what do I know?
Big Budget Round-up
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- A Montana Hospital Let Dr. Thomas Weiner Continue Practicing Despite Concerns — ProPublica.
- An airline is investigating after a crew member recorded video of 2 passengers engaged in 'intimate acts' - Yahoo! News.
Science
- Scientists Issue Warning About Perfumes - Futurism.
- 'It explains why our ability to focus has gone to hell'- Screens are assaulting our Stone Age brains with more information than we can handle - LiveScience.
Media
- Gladiator II- The Musical - SNL. SNL goes AI.
The Funnies
I remember getting Q2 in college before its Xmas break started. It was amazing. I miss those days. 
Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 17:50:Reviews give a pretty good idea of a case's comfort level when building, I never buy a case without reviewing it extensively because it's the one part you interact with all the time, serves as the basis for your entire build and any future expansions, and probably will last longer than every piece inside it. Space shouldn't really be an issue if you're working in a mid tower or above.
I finally got all the parts in for my new PC build in on Saturday. I started building yesterday. What an absolute nightmare it has been.
First, the be quiet Silent Base 802 is horrific to work in. Half the screws are aluminum and it was clearly designed to look cool before user serviceability. Billions (slight exaggeration) of tiny little crevises in the case. So if you drop one of those aluminium screws, you'll be picking the entire case up and shaking it like a snow globe to get it out.
Second, the ASRock X870 Riptide board was bad out of the box. But do they have a POST code block? No, they have lights but not all the light codes are documented. So if you are trying to find out what a particular combination of lights mean...good luck! Also, no phone support. Email only and they might get back to you after 2-3 days.
Lastly, why can't motherboard and case vendors get together and standardize on the front panel header so we get a single cable to plug in like the USB cables for the front panel?
This will be my last PC build. My arthritic hands just don't like wedging in to tight spaces and dealing with small, fiddly bits of plastic. I'll either buy a pre-built from System76 in the future or just buy a mini-pc and become a console gamer.
If the consumer manual doesn't have all the post codes, there should be a service manual you can find online with all of them. Though it's strange that they didn't have them listed in the manual.
The front panel header IS standardized, and there are little plastic blocks that you can plug in all the cables into before placing it on the MB itself. That's really the only fiddly part about it, all the other front panel connectors are standard USB/audio header cables.
Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 17:50:
I finally got all the parts in for my new PC build in on Saturday. I started building yesterday. What an absolute nightmare it has been.
First, the be quiet Silent Base 802 is horrific to work in. Half the screws are aluminum and it was clearly designed to look cool before user serviceability. Billions (slight exaggeration) of tiny little crevises in the case. So if you drop one of those aluminium screws, you'll be picking the entire case up and shaking it like a snow globe to get it out.
Second, the ASRock X870 Riptide board was bad out of the box. But do they have a POST code block? No, they have lights but not all the light codes are documented. So if you are trying to find out what a particular combination of lights mean...good luck! Also, no phone support. Email only and they might get back to you after 2-3 days.
Lastly, why can't motherboard and case vendors get together and standardize on the front panel header so we get a single cable to plug in like the USB cables for the front panel?
This will be my last PC build. My arthritic hands just don't like wedging in to tight spaces and dealing with small, fiddly bits of plastic. I'll either buy a pre-built from System76 in the future or just buy a mini-pc and become a console gamer.
I heard about this cool new place where you can rent a PC!
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Music for the discerning:
http://www.deathwishinc.com
http://www.hydrahead.com
http://www.painkillerrecords.com
Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 17:50:My current Gigabyte board has a thing called a G Connector that you plugged all of the front panel cables on, then you plug that into the MB. It was way easier to do that than plugging them all into the MB individually. I'm probably going to go with Gigabyte again with my upcoming build. Hopefully they still use that.
I finally got all the parts in for my new PC build in on Saturday. I started building yesterday. What an absolute nightmare it has been.
First, the be quiet Silent Base 802 is horrific to work in. Half the screws are aluminum and it was clearly designed to look cool before user serviceability. Billions (slight exaggeration) of tiny little crevises in the case. So if you drop one of those aluminium screws, you'll be picking the entire case up and shaking it like a snow globe to get it out.
Second, the ASRock X870 Riptide board was bad out of the box. But do they have a POST code block? No, they have lights but not all the light codes are documented. So if you are trying to find out what a particular combination of lights mean...good luck! Also, no phone support. Email only and they might get back to you after 2-3 days.
Lastly, why can't motherboard and case vendors get together and standardize on the front panel header so we get a single cable to plug in like the USB cables for the front panel?
This will be my last PC build. My arthritic hands just don't like wedging in to tight spaces and dealing with small, fiddly bits of plastic. I'll either buy a pre-built from System76 in the future or just buy a mini-pc and become a console gamer.
"You can either want something to be true, or you can want the truth. Pick one." - Mr. Diety
Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 17:50:Con... console... ga... gamer?!
I'll either buy a pre-built from System76 in the future or just buy a mini-pc and become a console gamer.
That was a joke, right? RIGHT?! Sure, that was a joke. *sigh of relief* You're still one of the good guys and will do the right thing.
In the current political and social climate, don't be an aggressive monkey . Show that you have evolved that important thin sugar coating called civilization. Don't fall for the fools.
Jonjonz wrote on Dec 10, 2024, 06:19:You forgot the /S or hidden text joking smiley face.
That is life and death in the oligarch fast lane, where corporate espionage and warfare is always covered up and blamed on a looney working alone.
Otherwise that ranks up there with denying we landed on the moon or flat eartherism..
That is life and death in the oligarch fast lane, where corporate espionage and warfare is always covered up and blamed on a looney working alone.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! - HT
Quake 1, single player campaign as disturbingly excellent now as then, with great fan levels still steadily made year after year.
Quake 2, as underwhelming and forgettable -except for the great deathmach- now, as in its first day.
Good SP fan levels production, little and gone so fast, never to be seen again.
Quake 2, as underwhelming and forgettable -except for the great deathmach- now, as in its first day.
Good SP fan levels production, little and gone so fast, never to be seen again.
Fantaz wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 22:34:
Happy bday Quake 2 !!
Quake 1-2 were the most significant Quake's, and A LOT of games used the Quake 2 engine... maybe some still do now, just heavily modified?
I suppose you could make a case that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is using a heavily modified Quake 2 engine.
Primalchrome wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 13:12:"Couldn't evolve with the industry"...
Q2 Loki's Minions ate way too many of my hours and accounted for gallons of sweaty hands. LOL. Too bad that ID couldn't evolve with the industry.
The Weiner article is just another damning aspect of the medical system in the US. Medicine for profit with little to no regulatory oversight results in this kind of professional wayyyyy too often. Not to mention lovely additions like United Healthcare and their hellbound CEO.
Ignores the absolute bangers that are Doom 2016 and Eternal. 😆
Happy bday Quake 2 !!
Quake 1-2 were the most significant Quake's, and A LOT of games used the Quake 2 engine... maybe some still do now, just heavily modified?
Quake 1-2 were the most significant Quake's, and A LOT of games used the Quake 2 engine... maybe some still do now, just heavily modified?
RedEye9 wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 22:17:
The FBI has requested that all drone sightings be reported directly to them.
apnews
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=905466625057810&id=100067834416315
Hmm, I guess I'll do my part. I tried to get video but not easy at night to get any detail but lights.
fujiJuice wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 20:20:The FBI has requested that all drone sightings be reported directly to them.
Anyone else in the NJ area seeing these drones? I can spot half a dozen flying around my house right now. Weird stuff.
FBI Tip-Line at 1-800- CALL-FBI or online at tips@fbi.gov
apnews
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=905466625057810&id=100067834416315
jdreyer wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 20:58:Really???RedEye9 wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 18:39:Ted wasn't caught for 17 years. This guy didn't last 7 days.jdreyer wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 18:18:Not a lot of dummies are valedictorian of their prep school and go on to an ivy league university.RedEye9 wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 14:12:He couldn't have been that smart given that he apparently still had the gun, the IDs, and went to a McD's with his face everywhere on the news. Unless it was his plan to get caught? In which case, why not just turn yourself in?
Well that didn't take long.
26-year-old Luigi Mangione appears to be the United Healthcare CEO shooter.
As for being no dummy, he was a https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/baltimore-valedictorians/
https://www.gilman.edu/
edit
How long before the school nukes their Gilbert Robotics accolades page w/his photo. Complete w/video of him at the competition https://youtu.be/kqzcsqpmz68?si=5beRtCyjnjcr3Fyf
from the wiki
Ted Kaczynski was ahead of his high school classmates academically. Even being placed in a more advanced mathematics class. He skipped the eleventh grade, attended summer school, and graduated at age 15.
He was accepted to Harvard at 15 and entered the university on a scholarship at age 16. He later earned his master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics.
He would never have been caught if he hadn't demanded that major newspapers print his manifesto.
His brother recognized the writing style and turned him in. https://allthatsinteresting.com/david-kaczynski
I don't think you can label either one of these people as dumb
He never would have been caught without the manifesto. (On a side note;
The BTK killer would still be free If he hadn't sent a three and a half inch floppy to the police with a word document on it. I mean, he asked the police if they could trace it And they said no.
he was crazy for the cereal killing and dumb, for believing the police, all at the same time) Ted Kaczynski did not walk up to somebody in broad daylight in one of the most surveilled towns in the United States and pop a cap in their ass.
He was the definition of chicken shit, mailing or leaving packages that would maim or kill the first person to open them.
He was nowhere in sight when they were triggered, that's a little different, don't you think?
I said this murderer was not dumb, mental illness is different than dumb.
Mangioni's family owns two country clubs, nine nursing homes and a commercial radio station. He even has a cousin in the state legislature.
What I'm trying to say is they're wealthy and connected.
This case is ripe for an insanity plea.
Edit
I didn't read what Mr. Tact said before I replied.
Does that still count as being ninja'd?
This comment was edited on Dec 9, 2024, 21:40.
Not sure that it matters. But I have to say, Ted either mailed his attacks or placed them to be found after he left. His "home" was a cornucopia of evidence. *shrug*
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” -- Carl Sagan
RedEye9 wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 18:39:Ted wasn't caught for 17 years. This guy didn't last 7 days.jdreyer wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 18:18:Not a lot of dummies are valedictorian of their prep school and go on to an ivy league university.RedEye9 wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 14:12:He couldn't have been that smart given that he apparently still had the gun, the IDs, and went to a McD's with his face everywhere on the news. Unless it was his plan to get caught? In which case, why not just turn yourself in?
Well that didn't take long.
26-year-old Luigi Mangione appears to be the United Healthcare CEO shooter.
As for being no dummy, he was a https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/baltimore-valedictorians/
https://www.gilman.edu/
edit
How long before the school nukes their Gilbert Robotics accolades page w/his photo. Complete w/video of him at the competition https://youtu.be/kqzcsqpmz68?si=5beRtCyjnjcr3Fyf
from the wiki
Ted Kaczynski was ahead of his high school classmates academically. Even being placed in a more advanced mathematics class. He skipped the eleventh grade, attended summer school, and graduated at age 15.
He was accepted to Harvard at 15 and entered the university on a scholarship at age 16. He later earned his master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics.
He would never have been caught if he hadn't demanded that major newspapers print his manifesto.
His brother recognized the writing style and turned him in. https://allthatsinteresting.com/david-kaczynski
I don't think you can label either one of these people as dumb
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
Anyone else in the NJ area seeing these drones? I can spot half a dozen flying around my house right now. Weird stuff.
jdreyer wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 18:18:Not a lot of dummies are valedictorian of their prep school and go on to an ivy league university.RedEye9 wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 14:12:He couldn't have been that smart given that he apparently still had the gun, the IDs, and went to a McD's with his face everywhere on the news. Unless it was his plan to get caught? In which case, why not just turn yourself in?
Well that didn't take long.
26-year-old Luigi Mangione appears to be the United Healthcare CEO shooter.
As for being no dummy, he was a https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/baltimore-valedictorians/
https://www.gilman.edu/
edit
How long before the school nukes their Gilbert Robotics accolades page w/his photo. Complete w/video of him at the competition https://youtu.be/kqzcsqpmz68?si=5beRtCyjnjcr3Fyf
from the wiki
Ted Kaczynski was ahead of his high school classmates academically. Even being placed in a more advanced mathematics class. He skipped the eleventh grade, attended summer school, and graduated at age 15.
He was accepted to Harvard at 15 and entered the university on a scholarship at age 16. He later earned his master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics.
He would never have been caught if he hadn't demanded that major newspapers print his manifesto.
His brother recognized the writing style and turned him in. https://allthatsinteresting.com/david-kaczynski
I don't think you can label either one of these people as dumb
RedEye9 wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 14:12:He couldn't have been that smart given that he apparently still had the gun, the IDs, and went to a McD's with his face everywhere on the news. Unless it was his plan to get caught? In which case, why not just turn yourself in?
Well that didn't take long.
26-year-old Luigi Mangione appears to be the United Healthcare CEO shooter.
As for being no dummy, he was a valedictorian https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/baltimore-valedictorians/
https://www.gilman.edu/
edit
How long before the school nukes their Gilbert Robotics accolades page w/his photo. Complete w/video of him at the competition https://youtu.be/kqzcsqpmz68?si=5beRtCyjnjcr3Fyf
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 9, 2024, 17:50:
This will be my last PC build. My arthritic hands just don't like wedging in to tight spaces and dealing with small, fiddly bits of plastic. I'll either buy a pre-built from System76 in the future or just buy a mini-pc and become a console gamer.
That was my sentiment after my last build a couple of years back. By the time I was done I was all, 'Fuck this noise, I'm just buying an assembled rig next time.'
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