Glad to see another player! There’s at least 4 of us here. I still love it, but play rate dropped way down when I went back to the office with a commute. I believe I hit about 700 hours 2020-2021. The events over the last year rekindled my interest and acquired my focus. The Thargoid invasion was fun, though I didn’t do much battle. But I nabbed a few dozen base-level goid kills since surface-based air battles didn’t have swarms. There were a few lucrative community goals since then as well. I made 1.5 billion last month with a cargo haul loop where I managed top 25% (mild addiction). I’m close to handing in the current CG with exploration data, though I’m not sure what the payout really will be. Should be solid top 50% for that.

I’m not into the grind. I’m into the vibe. 1000+ hours with ~23 ships but only 4.x bil in the bank. High imp rank (got the Cutter) but still 2 ranks below unlocking the Corvette. Aside from CGs, I don’t really do any activity more than 3 play sessions in a row.

Witcher is a slower burn anyway

Agreed, it’s tooting his own cohort’s horn without acknowledging he is, inf act, susceptible to marketing. The actual topic at hand is marketing for software tools to software devs. Of course hand-waving marketing doesn’t work, it’s a technical field with technical products. The marketing he’s blasting is emotion-based marketing. Guess what, there’s plenty of other emotional decisions that will be affected by marketing in his life. Vacation destinations, artistic exhibitions, restaraunts, games, whatever. This article screams like it’s from someone who loudly proclaims marketing is dumb because they weren’t swayed to by women’s deodorant because of a YouTube ad.

You are not immune to marketing.

Not a true sim, but Ace Combat 7 novice controls are non-inverted. I feel like Far Cry 5/6 and definitely Fortnite put the non-inverted pitch control on the planes, which were not the focus of the game. I assumed other plane-including games did the same.

Games are about having a good time. If your idea of a good time is story and completionism, then sure, what a waste of time. Some people just want to vibe, role play, or socialize.

Also some people just leave launchers open and rack up ghost hours unintentionally.

Edit: I’m amused there’s so many reasons for leaving the launcher open I didn’t even think of. Personally, mine was just having a bad habit of playing Elite Dangerous until I fell asleep in the chair. Computer would go to sleep, I’d rack an extra ~16 hours before ei came back. Then I’d remember to check in the morning, cutting it down to like 7 extra hours. I probably have 100-200 racked up from before I got better sleep commitment. 2020 was an interesting time in which time itself didn’t matter for a bit. Rounding 1100 hours now.

Trans people went from weak men who’d cry in a gunfight, so they can’t serve in the military, to the most dangerous mastermind tacticians in the the country. Congratulations on the promotion I guess.

For decades, we’ve had a question live as a meme of misunderstanding and yet, it’s exactly the question this committee should be asking now instead: “who is 4chan?”

It was tumbling in the wind of a Transstar truck

You mean TRN for the manufacturer stamp? Edit, nvm, I guess it’s the comment about reading the bullet

In a perfect world where bicycles were in traffic or dedicated bike lanes, following traffic rules? Sure. However, spend a few minutes in the city and you’ll see reckless “bicycles” operating like lawless low-grade motorcycles. They move like a vehicle or pedestrian, whichever is most convenient in the moment. Wrong way riding, ignoring red lights, blasting through crosswalks, and scraping cars often. Ignoring bike lanes, disregarding bike lane traffic, weaving between people pedaling.

Obviously, I’d rather improved bicycle infrastructure to largely keep bicycles, cars, and pedestrians separate. They operate at 3 different speeds and maneuvering rates. Mixing bikes and cars in a more open area is one thing, where better visibility and less traffic pattern complexity makes mixing the two a predictable inconvenience. Having them split and swerve jammed traffic like they’re a Brazilian on a moto? Way more of an issue.

I’m sure speed was already an issue before e-bikes, but it was less prevalent because you had to use actual muscle to speed. Low-speed motorcycles E-bikes made that accessible to everyone.

I don’t see much crossover in the car/e-bike travelers. If you look for normal cars with T### plates, they’re uber/lyft/etc app cars. They’re traveling out of the city. They’re hauling something. Subway use is very, very prevalent where the traffic is the worst so the e-bikes are filling short trip roles or bad public transportation routes. So I don’t see slower bikes convincing many riders to drive a car. Some, but statistically few.

I have motorcycles. They’re road-legal, registered, insured, and capable of all legal USA speeds. They could only do 25mph in the city at best, splitting and filtering. You wouldn’t want them to go unregistered and lawless, right?

Anyway, banning the sale of speedy bikes just means Tony from Brooklyn will suddenly be Tony from Bayonne selling off-highway track bikes. Or they’ll have defeatable limiters. And Amazon will still thrive. The ban won’t do shit, enforcement needs to step up. We know proper bike lanes and bike etiquette aren’t coming anytime soon

“Kinetic” with a hard “T” like posh Brit is saying it to the queen? Everyone I’ve ever heard speaking US English pronounces it with a rolled “t” like “kinedic” so the alternate pronunciation still reads like it’d have a “d” sound

Who had info saying that it was a long distance shot?

But like, you can’t just delete someone’s wealth, because they can’t just rebuild an empire from scratch. These self-made billionaires are so strapped for cash, charitably speaking, because they need the capital to fund future charitable investments. Don’t you want to get a trickle of charity more than once? That’s why they can only donate like 10mil a year. Also partly because humans are really bad at estimating the difference between 10mil and 400bil. It’s like a factor of 40. They’ll be drained of wealth after 40 years at 10mil a year.

Oh wait. Hold on. 40 years… 10 mil/year… So 400 million… If we froze their wealth of ~390bil, by the end of this scheme, they’d have… ~390,000,000,000- 400,000,000 =~389.6bil.

OK nevermind fuckem

No, it’d take at least a 3rd heinously rich guy to wipe the 1.8tril USD student loan debt. Don’t be ridiculous, 2 can’t pull it off.

They said we needed guns in schools. They said we needed good guys with guns.

I dream of triggering reform but I’m betting this will iust bring escalation. But whatever, maybe we’re down one fascist today.

He mocked McCain for his war-related arm disabilities. For the voter base, that should have been the end of it.

Dine-in is self serve at a fast food restaraunt here in the US. Drive through/app order is filled on a fountain with an auto-stop. The labor time is the same as grabbing a juice box. You know what’s manufactured at brain-numbing scale? 2-gallon bags of black corn syrup to make 800 cups of soda. In no way will the shipping cost of 800 juice boxes be cheaper than the bag of syrup to use municipal tap water. And no, milk/juice is not produced at near-zero profit. That doesn’t make sense as a business model. Economies of scale does not mean profit goes down, it means the cost of production goes down and sale price can go down proportionally.

I disagree that it’s a price difference, especially since it wouldn’t be such a flat difference across options. Paying to ship water (as in, a complete drink) is generally never going to be cheaper than mixing flavoring into tap water on-site in a developed area. Even drinks at the bulk store is more expensive for me than using tap water at home (Mio, Gatorade, coffee, sodastream). Fountain machines are notoriously profitable, still less than 0.25USD per cup in syrup and materials.

Not yet, Disney doesn’t have those vampires

Why are you doing this when it’s legal in both Canada and a bunch of US states?

Because regardless of selective legality, there’s still taxes, registration, regulation, and other barriers to profit. I know tons of people that hate store-bought weed and continue to buy from their old dealers. Cheaper, their strain, and no paper trail. It’s still illegal at the US federal level so we can’t know if a current regime will suddenly make it a national crisis and bring a crackdown