Haven’t played PS2 in years. I really enjoyed it until they introduced the lattice system, forcing players into big battles. Me and the people I played with were mostly into guerilla warfare, capping behind enemy lines and generally being a nuisance. And for that, my favorite vehicle was always the skywhale.

I liked playing engi as it worked well alongside the skywhale. And if I was bored an alone I’d crash it into an unsuspecting enemy underground without shields and spam landmines all over before blowing up myself and anyone else around it.

I’m not sure, but I think I played Terran. They’re the ones who have the mossie aircraft, right?

Edit: Oh, and I really liked infil with stalker cloak + crossbow. It allowed me to be a real asshole hanging out around enemy terminals and someone not paying attention to their surroundings would suddenly get headshotted and stabbed almost at the same time, only for me to run off and hide somewhere nearby ready to do the same thing once they’d given up the search.

Note: I think it’s been 10 years since I last played. The mechanics may have been reworked, so I don’t know if my old tactics are still viable.

Wut? BG3 runs flawlessly out of the box for me. Pretty vanilla Mint install, Nvidia 4060.

Same. Hell, the conversation doesn’t even have to be in person - a phone call will do.

This is an efficient method, yes, but it’s doable without money: If you fly enough you rack up enough bonus points to upgrade for free.

Source: Done it plenty of times. If the flight is four hours or more, that’s when I consider spending my points.

I am an atheist and ordained dudeist priest. Because it aligns with my values.

As I stated elsewhere, I refuse to take part in any hiring process that involves a one way video aspect. But I’m not 100% against using it as a filter: The first bar in the hiring process is to refuse the video interview.

No. Never. It’s demeaning and unnecessary.

I know it happens nowadays, but I’ve been on both sides of the hiring process and I refuse to have any part in it.

I’m afraid I know fuck all about Mac except right clicking requiring a doctorate, and it having a pretty cool screen saver game in the early-mid 90’s

For those of us not in the know (or who have suppressed it), wtf is a charm bar? All Google points to is 90% jewelry and 10% generic metro stuff.

I didn’t use Win 8 or 8.1 for long, though. And i’ve only used 10 and 11 via work, set up by a pretty reasonable admin.

It is argued by “some” that a GUI has no business being on a server.

Thanks for reminding me of that abomination. I edited in my own take on that inOperable System

Wasn’t that the UI overhaul that started with win8 and persists to a lesser degree to this day? It’s impossible to make an UI that works efficiently for both desktop and tablet. They’re two different platforms that are operated in different ways, and as such different UI designs are needed. Trying to unify them is like trying to invent a dashboard that works for both Volvo 940 and Airbus A380.

If so, I’d say it couldn’t have been done “right” by anyone else either, as it seems that a core element of its design is to make information as vague and short as possible, while padding it with a lot of dead space. At a distance it looks neat, but up close it feels like you’re expected to play guitar with mittens on. Its only reason for existing was that it was built on logic that was flawed to begin with.

And any implementation would’ve run into the same issue: You’re removing flexibility for the sake of simplicity, something you cannot really do with a desktop OS. Microsoft never seemed to grasp this fact.

Example, if I want to change the thingamajig-ratio of the skoodleblurp, utilizing the brumblebork method:

• Linux: skoodle -s thinga 50 (brumblebork is assumed by default unless something else is explicitly defined via --method=)
• msdos 6.0: skoodleb /thing 50 /brumblebork
• win 3.x and win95: can’t do that natively, but the msdos method still works for some reason.
• WinME: Nobody knows how it’s done, or even if it’s possible. Anyone who wants to adjust this is smart enough to avoid WinME
• win2k: after right clicking my computer and selecting properties, it’s a setting hidden somewhere in the hardware tab, provided you’re running the latest SP.
• win98: same as win2k, except a reboot is required afterwards
• XP: same as win2k, except a defrag is required afterwards. Also, Teletubbies color schema.
• win vista: back to rebooting. The change may not have been applied. It will not tell you either way.
• win 7: finally they made it functional and easily accessible via the control panel
• win 8: uh oh, the control panel of ye olden days is no more. We have a new thing going, so there are two way of doing it. The newer method isn’t quite as flexible as the old control panel, though; you need to regedit for proper brumblebork.
• win 8.1: They fixed the new panel, but you can’t fit it on a single screen due to excessive dead space padding. And sometimes you get told to contact the sysadmin. For your computer. That you own.
• Win 10: It fits on one screen now, you just have a million sub-menus to navigate through; control panel -> network -> advanced -> skoodleblurp -> advanced -> thingamajig -> advanced (yep, again) -> ratio slider -> apply -> OK -> submit -> execute -> “are you sure?” -> (three minutes of that spinning circle that replaced the hour glass) -> Fuck, you forgot to check the brumblebork box half an hour ago. At this point it’s easier to get WSL up and running and then run skoodle -s thinga 50 --method=brumblebork (method not implied. WSL isn’t that good)
• Win 11: you have to log in to support.microsoft.com with your Microsoft account, using edge, and hope it has detected that you are running an OS that supports this. Then you can download a service patch that may or may not be relevant. Either way it changes your default search to Bing.

I think I got a bit carried away there… but my point still stands. It was an awful design choice, and the awfulness was part of its core functionality. It’s gotten a little bit better since its initial release, but it still sucks.

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You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin’ loser beams attached to their heads!

Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Germany
Poland
France
Czech Republic
Slovakia
UK
Ireland
Spain
Portugal
Croatia
Austria
Belgium
Netherlands
US
Brazil
Malaysia
Nigeria
Cameroon
Equatorial Guinea
Singapore
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Hungary

The shortest stay was in Bahrain, for three days. I’d add duration and impression to the list, but that’d take me forever. So instead I’ll just say that my favorites are Singapore, Malaysia, Czech Republic, and Croatia. Honorable mention: Bahrain

Storage space requirements are usualle insane compared to the end product. In this case, you need the full recording for every angle, and if you’re actively editing you probably want a buffer as well.

Another example with the same principle: Geophysical survey data. The end product is usually a bunch of SEG-Y files with associated JPEGs, totallengde a few gigs. But the raw survey data is more close to a petabyte: It’s s8mewhat reasonable to think of it as an audio recording consisting of four mono channels * 1000 recording stations * a month duration.

Raw data adds up fast.

Yup, wrote that way too early after waking up. Fixed.

I’m sure RFK Jr will get right on that any day now…

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