Sure, but I built my previous rig in 2012 and kept it in service up until I put together my latest one just at the end of last year. Even with the best will in the world I had absolutely no intention of building yet another new gaming computer any time in the next two years regardless of geopolitical fuckery.

In the immortal words of Daniel Rutter (again): If nothing else, backups are necessary because at some point in your life you will confidently instruct your computer to destroy your data.

Or constructive dismissal.

“We’ll make all those expensive whiners quit, and then they won’t get unemployment benefits. Don’t worry, we’ll replace their positions with AI. It’ll totally work. Honk honk.”

That’s only the rear wheel drive ones. There are still plenty of other idiots who were dumb enough to put down even more money for the prior more expensive variants.

Rampant incompetence?

They should, yes, but they don’t. In fact, they’ll ding you for having too many failed transactions and claim that it’s your responsibility to do something about it.

The author not only uses ASCII bricks ( ▓ ) as bullets, and not only uses silly CSS tricks to mark down animated rainbow text rather than using the four megabyte or whatever jquery library which would inevitably tempt everyone else, but also goes as far as to literally name the aforementioned CSS class “funky.”

I think I like this cat already.

Because a wide swath of speed limits are not credible, and are deliberately set unrealistically low in contravention of traffic studies, civil engineers’ best practices and experience, and common sense simply as a revenue grab via fines and to have a convenient legal justification to pull over and harass undesirable people, i.e. minorities.

You ever drive through an all-white beach down in Nowhere, Florida or someplace and wonder why all of the sudden the speed limit on their major six lane thoroughfare is suddenly 20 MPH? You’d better believe the people who live there aren’t the targets of getting pulled over constantly.

Edit to add: This is before getting into the possibility of emergencies, fleeing disasters, getting someone to the hospital, etc.

Win + G if you don’t have an XBox controller connected to your PC, like I presume most people probably don’t.

I get what you’re after, but space sims in particular do get one thing right in that asteroid fields are made up of rocks in largely stable orbits, i.e. they’re not moving around relative to one another and crashing into each other and so on. Because if they were, they wouldn’t be asteroid fields for very long.

My vote is for Star Fox, anyway. Some of the astroids legitimately do have it out for you there and home in, and a couple of them also inexplicably have faces.

I’m a little fucked up in general so it’s hard to tell.

RIP to the Microsoft support forums, then. Although if these get tanked in the search results that will probably be a small net benefit for society given that not a single problem has ever been successfully solved by the Microsoft support forums in the entire history of computing.

Correct. They only care about this stuff because they don’t want anyone to use it on them.

If you don’t believe me, just note how basically every single weapons ban written in the US magically has an exception for law enforcement carved into it. So… We (not me, but all you Californian people) can’t have, say, a butterfly knife but for some reason the cops can? What do they need it for that we don’t, exactly?

In defense of Raiden in MGS2, though, I submit to you: But that backflip he does when you hang off of railings.

I don’t know if Japan of all places is ready for it. We’d better hope the zombies are vulnerable to airsoft BBs.

Interesting. Well, if I ever want to get into any of that I’ll look into it. For now, the stock firmware is doing fine by me.

All stock. What limitations are those? I haven’t run i to any that have impacted me as far as I can tell.

Sounds plausible to me. On reflection, I think I’d just run off a wooden box on my table saw if I need a cube to sit on.

My problem, as I’m sure many others have, is admitting when 3D printing something probably isn’t the best solution…

If there were ever a poster child for printing something with a 0.4mm layer height of possibly even more, it may be this. One wonders how much infill you’d need to make it strong enough to sit on. Otherwise, I don’t know what the heck you’d do with it.

Could be. Usually when that happens there’s some variance in the surface, too, or some booger left behind. I didn’t see that here but it’s possible it simply got mashed flat back into the surface on the adjacent pass.