Fun fact: Antonov is a Ukrainian manufacturer, not Russian. ;-) So Their factory is at Hostomel near Kyiv. It was an early target of the war, actually; Russia wanted to secure the airport at Hostomel as a place to insert special operations troops with the objective of taking over the government. They specifically…

ahh so you’re their token, got it. You’re the immigrant who made it here and promptly pulled the ladder up rather than helping others.

tie fighter gang till i die, as a kid who was raised on NES, MS-DOS games that had to be loaded off of a stack of multiple 2.5" floppies that sometimes required a boot disk to run properly and original trilogy star wars movies, tie fighter and wing commander are S-tier games to me.

Luke, every year you make the same claim and every year I want to scream at you: TIE Fighter is superior to Dark Forces in every way. I will argue this until the day I die.

Max Payne was one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had.

I would add why this tool is still unfinished and how it can’t be just drag and drop, Nvidia’s video explain what it takes to use the tool, but basically (and hopefully someone writes it better) these games are not using the full potential because 1) You need to convert each texture to a PBR material or else they will…

Right? It’s like ‘cool’, ‘neat’, ‘nice’, or ‘hot’, like...you think that outfit is cold and/or warm? It’s well organized? It’s hospitable? We can add ‘it leaks liquids at a slow rate?’ to the list. Why can’t people just use the few specifically relevant words, remove all connotation, and just try to fit their more…

Damn, why didn’t we all just inherit emerald mine money so we could buy an existing company and sue the founders so they’d also have to legally call me a founder? Then we could claim the success of the company as our own and people on the internet would believe we pushed the industry ahead by a decade.

I swear to God, if I drop out of warp (or whatever we’re calling FTL here) and a ship doesn’t come out of nowhere and comms come up and they don’t say: “I’ve been looking for you. Got something I’m supposed to deliver - your hands only.”
It’s a wasted opportunity.

Good. For once a rich asshole faces the consequences of their own actions. I am literally ashamed of myself that at one time I had respect for this guy. It makes me truly wonder how his awful behavior was kept out of the public’s eye for so long. Because people don’t become assholes over night. He has probably always…

This is the part of the equation no one talks about that really pisses me off. I’m very not a climate change denier, in fact, I feel we are at the point we need to start moving mountains pretty soon if we don’t want to be facilitating Earth’s next Great Die-Off. But I think we’ve put all our collective eggs in the EV…

Two wrongs made a right.

This is just the most visible manifestation of a much larger problem.

I totally agree. Disney is a corporation run by a board, and their job is to make money for the stockholders. That’s it. It isn’t to make people HAPPY at the park, unless that increases their bottom line, and people being unhappy isn’t having any real impact now. (Will it down the line? That’s debatable. Personally I…

Yes I did! I had it for several years and somewhere while moving it got lost.

No one in this story seems particularly likable...

A hole-in-one is rare enough that the dealership and country club felt comfortable gambling that nobody would manage to do it. Uh oh, somebody rolled snake eyes! 

That quote absolutely messed me up. The total lack of self awareness and near complete disconnect from reality never ceases to depress me. It’s amazing in the worst possible ways.

A conservative-identifying parent

“We think a direct dialogue between company and employees is the most productive route.