Looking forward to it in around 5ish years, if I decide to buy a new phone then, that is.

It’s a technical nightmare. It requires exponential levels of labor for every cosmetic and legal agreements with disparate game owners. Sure, I make an asset in my game for a skin the player bought in your game, who keeps the money?

I mean, yeah, fuck scalpers. But valve’s global market is atrocious. I could buy a PS5 in a brick and mortar store, I could order any Xbox version I want, I could’ve bought and play a Switch2 on launch day. But somehow 4 years later I would have to find a sketchy online reseller if I wanted a Steam Deck. The Steam controller won’t get to me unless I’m willing to pay 4 times the original cost, and it would probably be years before I see a Steam Machine in person. Valve is right, piracy is a service problem, and I’m starting to suspect that scalping is too.

For all the talk about fighting scalpers, valve’s lack of global shipping and market means that scalpers are literally the only way I can get any hardware product. The billion dollar corporation won’t ship to my country, but Randy from Jacksonville will literally ship the product right into my doorstep. I don’t defend scalpers but this is ridiculous.

Yeah, the gravity will affect them, over the next couple hundred of kilometers given their initial speed. Not within a few meters. It’s way over thinking it. The destroyers are battleships and the fighters are planes, that’s how their movement is coded. Real life space physics play no role. That’s OK, is an stylistic choice that works for the franchise. Anything more is head canon from fans that breaks down with even the slightest scrutiny. Like I said, it’s fun to argue about it, but from the very mouth of the cinematographers, it’s not that deep.

Rich fucks just fly more overall. While flying is very safe. If you do it more, then it is more likely you will be the one in the plane when the rare thing goes wrong. Quirks of privilege.

It’s almost like there’s some sort of intentional visual language of symbolism in films or something.

/s

It always makes me happy to see someone who is head deep into the star wars kool-aid punch bowl. None of your explanations matter because Star Wars is filmed like in-atmosphere dog fights, on purpose. Lucas wanted the esthetics of old aerial battles action flicks. Gravity, orbits, physics matters not at all. It became part of the visual language. None of the space battles in any Star Wars product make any logical sense in a world that has physics even slightly similar to our universe. But you know what? it doesn’t matter, you keep defending it. It is more entertaining that way.

I hate cantaloupe.

The internet arguably exists as a mass phenomenon because of porn. They have their shit and unethical parts. But, on the internet tech side, almost all the good (and some of the bad) trends appeared on porn first.

There are studies on this. Extensive research shows that physical punishment stops immediate behavior, for a very short time. In psychology it has been established for a long long time that punishment doesn’t extinguishes behaviors. In practical terms, the behavior just resurfaces when out of the source of the punishment. In cognitive terms, punishment creates resentment, emotional disregulation, that leads to revenge behavior.

And millions of drivers would disagree. The study is clear. If a driver doesn’t fear hitting something they mostly disregard painted lanes. Without protection, bikers fear the lane with good reason.

Paint is not infrastructure, no surprises there.

You have way more than I do, with more flexibility. Definitely not tied to Visa and MasterCard. Skrill for example, accepts crypto and debit. PaySafe I think is outside of the Visa network and takes debit for prepaid cards as well.

Steam takes debit in certain regions. And a debit card, from the point of view of what private information is managed, is identical to a credit card. Many debit cards now even allow international use.

Better Nate than lever.

Crimson desert. You’ll never finish it.

Classic not all wasps apologist.

If you don’t trust Tailscale there’s like 3 different FOSS self-hosted alternatives. Setting one up is actually not that much more complex than setting a reverse proxy and you control the tunnelling network end to end.

Anything but public transit, eh?