I love this comment just for the fact you point out that no one really thinks about you and even if they do, their opinion isn’t relevant.

I myself am 50 and I gave up many years ago even considering what other people think about me, as long as I behave in an ethical and kind way.

This to say, I cannot imagine the daily stress of today’s generation, where every moment is spent disingenuously performing for others on SM and trying to get them to notice you

I am in full agreement with this.

I always thought white chicken was bland as hell… And in recent years I’ve met a really cool indigenous dude and he’s giving me all kinds of deer, elk, bear… It’s only reinforced that factory farm white meat chicken is horrible.

It is simultaneously bland, and yet the little flavor it does have is nauseating and unpleasant.

Everybody loves a deep fried chicken breast but it’s the fat caked on the breading that people love, not the chicken.

You have hurt people by saying what you said, but I couldn’t agree more.

Absolutely not weird, and any normal adult would just walk by and think hey cool.

Unpopular opinion time, the only people, and I mean literally, the only people that are even suggesting it’s weird or thinking other people think it’s weird, are the sweatys that have never actually been to a park, or understand the dynamics of park people.

It’s been known for years that silicon is much better at storing lithium ions, like insanely more efficient than graphite which is what’s currently used in anodes. But it’s ability to pack in the lithium ions is its downfall… Charging and discharging embrittles it by actually and expanding/shrinking the lattice

So it took a few years to surmount that challenge. Figuring out how to not have the material destroy itself, and finding the balance of how much energy to store. As far as I know there’s a few different approaches that involve deposition of individual molecules into crystals… and nanotech photo lithography and crazy shit that’s honestly too hard for me to keep up with.

There’s all kinds of hype surrounding them and people talk about them being like an order of magnitude more efficient than current LiPo technology, but that’s a lot of hot air, we’re looking at like 30% improvements now with slightly increased charging times… huge complexity increases in manufacturing… cost… We don’t even know what’s going to happen when we deploy a couple hundred million of these.

They’re going to be the next big thing for batteries but we’re kind of in the early adopting phase right now.

That really dramatically takes the steam out of your argument though.

If the same conditions for you existed today, any modern game would blow qbert out of the water, and indeed you would put thousands of hours into it.

Also, Atari games were $20 when they were new not 10. So with inflation it’s about the same as an $80 game today.

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In a way yes. There are times when I am so sick of dealing with people who cannot organize their thoughts - it becomes just exhausting.

So consistently being the most analytical, on-the-ball, ahead of the curve, able to predict the future, able to see-through people within seconds of meeting them, being generally good at most things, adept automatically the first time I try anything… It’s a burden.

But at the same time I’m not so dumb to think I don’t choose this burden.

Yes I’m being a jerk. Dude is a complete addict and needs HELP

I went back and played The Dungeon about 15 years ago and I just about cried because it was so fucking bad by modern standards lol

The hard truth is that if you want change you have to change and there’s nothing else to it

You have to try new things even if you think you’re going to hate them

There’s no getting around it

I took my own advice. I’m not saying it’s easy, it’s work

I guess if you find it funny it might help you ease feelings

All that conjures in my mind though is a mouse furiously hammering on a lever trying to get a pellet

It’s also the 1st round top left question

I felt extremely sad reading this. I understand what your perspective is, but what I’m hearing is an addict freaking out.

Doubtful

I’m not talking out my ass, a good buddy of mine worked for frantic films for decades and I myself learned 3D alongside him… We would squabble over the rendering farm too…

Anyways most of the renderers made for those early movies were custom built. And anytime you custom build, you can’t generalize to output to a different system. So it’s a long way of saying no but maybe, if you wrote a custom renderer that was specifically designed to handle the architecture of the scenes and the art and the lighting and blah blah blah

Edit oh and you would probably need the Lord of all graphics cards, possibly multiple in a small array with custom therading software

Omfg…

Yesssssss. Our entire family loved The Dungeon so much. My father wrote a letter to the developers and got a response, with excited descriptions of upcoming games in the series that never came to be. The producer or developer, or whoever wrote him back was bragging about how the next game would have characters you could actually see while in combat! (E: referring to The Arena)

Me putting 6 (3 more than I’m sure I’ll need) in my backpack (which is storage overkill now) and then since I’m like a primitive creature or something where if I don’t see it it doesn’t exist, I forget that I have the bags after checking out.

2 to 17 inclusive or exclusive?

I’m just here to tell you that anybody that says to talk to a lawyer is a jackass and is talking out their ass.

You do not deal with these matters in regular civil court, these are handled directly through whatever tenany board is in your region. Start by contacting them and ignore all the other nonsense about contacting attorneys, it’s a waste of time because all the attorney will tell you to do is to contact the tenancy board.

Speaking of getting burned at the stake, Iron Maiden stole their sound from Anvil. The truth hurts people’s feelings

I completely agree

And I’m hypocritical, because I have traveled extensively

Most people, and that includes myself, won’t even enjoy what is available in their own region

How does it make sense to go on a trip to Banff to go skiing, when there’s a slightly smaller mountain 45 minutes away that you just won’t bother going to? There’s 7000 museums in every city; There is natural beauty all around… go!

Go these places first, and once you’ve exhausted what is available next door, then expand horizons