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Bimfred

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  • Boeing Starliner astronauts might get a ride home from SpaceX — in 2025

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  • Thunderfoot's psychotic obsession with Musk and the complete denial of reality happening before his eyes it necessitates has destroyed any credibility as a scientist he ever had. The authority of a food chemist on matters of rocket science is questionable in the first place. Your blind, unquestioning acceptance of whatever drivel escapes his frothing mouth is no less pathetic.

    And with that, I'm going to toast to the memory of the brain cells I've lost over the course of this "conversation". Hoping for anything even resembling a reasoned argument from you is clearly a fool's errand.

  • Boeing Starliner astronauts might get a ride home from SpaceX — in 2025

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  • Yeah, you got nothing.

  • Boeing Starliner astronauts might get a ride home from SpaceX — in 2025

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  • Fucking lol.

    EDIT: Hoo boy, you didn't even look at what you linked, did you? My point was that SpaceX has completed 8 crewed missions. The video is just half an hour of Thunderfoot's inane rambling about launch costs. Not a single word about whether or not SpaceX has completed any crewed missions, ISS or otherwise. That's the point I'm challenging you to disprove here. Go ahead. Show your work. I'm looking forward to it.

  • Boeing Starliner astronauts might get a ride home from SpaceX — in 2025

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  • They have 8 incident-free crew missions under their belt. Sit your ass down, the adults are talking.

  • Boeing Starliner astronauts might get a ride home from SpaceX — in 2025

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  • What's your reasoning behind the claim that a company that's been transporting crew to and from the ISS for 4 years, and currently has a vehicle docked to the station, is incapable of launching a tenth mission? Mind that said mission was supposed to launch next week, but Starliner is being a pad princess in orbit and won't get off the required docking port.

  • Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to last-gen consoles next month

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  • I suppose I'm somewhat fortunate to have been a poor bastard for most of my life. 25fps with moldy potato settings was just fine, as long as the game didn't crash or deep fry the CPU, so I'm not as sensitive to the occasional drop below 60fps and don't feel slighted when I have to turn some settings down. Though I can understand being incensed when you've poured thousands into a bleeding-edge gaming rig that's supposed to handle anything at 4k, maxed out and a stable 120fps and it's the game itself dragging your experience down.

    But the stutters weren't the only problem people reported early on. There were cries of the game being unplayable, on account of endless bugs, visual glitches and repeated hard crashes. Worst I got was the normal mapping on Cal's face getting real weird in certain lighting conditions. That's hardly game-breaking.

  • Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to last-gen consoles next month

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  • I mean if you want to invalidate my lived experience, sure. Played on release on a 5600X, RTX3070 and 32GB of RAM, 1080p, almost everything maxed out. Open areas on Koboh saw a drop to mid-40 fps, but other than that, I had one hard crash and no bugs I noticed.

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 Still Reaching 100K Daily Steam Players One Year After Launch.

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  • Gamers when the game has bugs: >:(

    Gamers when the devs delay a patch because they discovered it breaks a core system: >:(

    They're trying to fix bugs, not make existing ones worse. Deal with it, princess.

  • New Nvidia AI demo gives NPCs even more reasons to complain at you

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  • I see where you're coming from, but also think it's a tad hasty to say it'll never lead to anything but fluff. Excitement should be nourished, cause it's the people who are excited about new things that will explore what could come of it. Now let's give 'em time to cook.

  • New Nvidia AI demo gives NPCs even more reasons to complain at you

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  • That's assuming that the generative technology remains stagnant. I wouldn't be surprised if, eventually, the systems get complex enough to conjure up entire minor quests at runtime. Honestly, it's just a further development of procedural generation, I don't see how it's going to stall out at "meh dialog".

  • New Nvidia AI demo gives NPCs even more reasons to complain at you

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  • No more pre-defined dialog trees for NPCs and more reactive interactions. An example from BG3:

    you can find evidence that Isobel, the cleric who keeps Last Light Inn safe from the Shadow Curse, is the resurrected daughter of that act's boss.

    But you can't talk to her, or anyone, about it, since those conversations were never written. With a system that generates NPC dialog on the fly, based on context and the NPC's pre-defined parameters, you could.

  • Sometimes when I say danke (thanks or thank you) some of my friends will say (and the spelling is wrong but it's as close as I can get) they will say danata or maybe it's dinata.

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  • I think in two languages and sometimes one of them is better for expressing my thoughts, even if it's not the language that we've been using for the conversation so far. And sometimes it just happens mid-sentence.

  • For some Helldivers 2 players, the fascist role-play has gone too far

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  • If Starship Troopers had the player numbers of Helldivers, these articles would be about that game instead.

  • Is there any real benefit to getting mentally diagnosed?

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  • It depends. If you know you have issues, aren't dealing with or handling them to your satisfaction and want help? Absolutely. Therapy, treatment and proper medication generally require an official diagnosis, not to mention potentially being cheaper when you don't have to pay for all of it yourself. If you know you have issues, but have also developed effective coping mechanisms on your own and negative effects on your life are overall rare, I think it's fine to keep going undiagnosed, as long as you're mindful of your problems and how they affect the people around you.

    Couple examples from my own life. I knew I was depressed. My friends knew I was depressed. I thought I was handling it okay, but I really wasn't. So I got a diagnosis, so I could get medication and therapy, that allowed me to build coping mechanisms to hold it at bay. I'm also fairly sure I'm somewhere on the autism spectrum. Where, exactly, doesn't matter, since I can manage life and socializing just fine, I simply have to think twice about what I say. And when I'm not sure of myself, I have trusted friends to go to for a second opinion. And then there's the undiagnosed face blindness. A diagnosis won't help at all, since there's to treatment or medication. I had built workarounds without knowing I was doing it, years before I found out face blindness was even a thing

    In the end, if you're unsure, you can't go wrong with getting a diagnosis. If nothing else, it will at least tell you more about yourself and serve as a guideline for how you manage your issues.

  • Estonia considers closing its border with Russia

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  • First off...

    So I have no idea how you can pretend that you are doing them a service by actauly actively stopping them from making their own choice to go where they can for search of better life.

    Now, perhaps it's creative interpretation on my part, but it came across as you implying I'm arguing for their best interests. Apologies, if that's not the case.

    Secondly, whether you like it or not, there's more to consider than the lives of these refugees or any that would follow. National security and the security of the Schengen zone. The very likely tensions and conflicts between the refugees already housed here and the newly arrived Russians. I assure you, when emotions run high, it won't matter if everyone involved are innocent civilians. And our own history of Russia attempting to use the local Russian population as a weapon. That was under Putin's rule, I don't find it unreasonable to think he'd do it again.

    And finally, I'm not letting you ignore the inconvenient fact that we don't have the resources. It may not have been the point of the article, but it's most definitely a factor in the decision. Because the reality is that these people would need help, because practically everyone who was rich enough to snag plane tickets, or had VISAs, and wanted to leave has already left. They did that over the first year of the war. These people need housing, food and healthcare, none of which they can provide for themselves. The reality is that if we let them in, we have a sharp spike in homelessness. Soon after, a spike in people needing healthcare. Around the same time, a rise in crime, as some of the refugees are unwilling or unable to get jobs. Followed by another spike in people needing healthcare. And during all that, families freezing to death in the streets. But I suppose all of that is fine if they're searching for a better life, yes?

    Just out of curiosity, where are you from?

  • Estonia considers closing its border with Russia

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  • You'll note that at no point did I claim that turning them away is in their best interests. I'd appreciate it if you stopped telling me what I said.

    And yes, forbidding them passage through the country is what "closing the borders" means. Very astute of you. Not like they'd get to go anywhere anyway, seeing how they have neither a Schengen VISA nor a EU passport. So all those masses would be ours to deal with. Again, we don't have the resources to do that. It's a point you seem intent on ignoring.

  • Estonia considers closing its border with Russia

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  • And how can someone so unfamiliar with the situation preach, with such conviction, to the uneducated and clearly right-wing xenophobic untermenschen who actually have to deal with it?

    You speak as though we're closing the borders with a giant "fuck you" to the people on the other side. We can't help them. Can't. Not won't, but can't. We don't have the resources to help them. You can talk about the EU being rich as fuck all day, but the reality on the ground is that we have nothing left to give to help these people, because all that wealth isn't here. We're stretched thin as it is.

    You ever heard the saying "Don't light yourself on fire to keep someone else warm"? Because that's what you're proposing.

  • Estonia considers closing its border with Russia

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  • You are clearly unfamiliar with Estonian winters. The days are below freezing, often in double digits. Anyone not sheltered will freeze to death. And where, pray tell, would we shelter them? Refugee shelters? Full of Ukrainians. Hotels are full of Ukrainians. There's a Ukrainian family living across the street from me, because a call went out for private residences to house Ukrainian refugees and my neighbor took his family and moved in with his parents. There's nowhere left.

    But please, continue to tell me how we're not doing enough by giving all the help we had to give to the first victims of this war.

  • Skull And Bones Is Less The Pirate Life And More The Division

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  • Not "no PvP" servers. Single crew servers. Only you and your crew. Those have been live since December, but they're quite heavily limited. Can't use captained ships, can't progress the trading companies past 40 and you get only 30% of the base treasure value. Still, not having to deal with some jerkwad thinking their fun entitles them to ruin my fun more than makes up for that for me.