ErroneousBosh

It's quite a leap from using the word "rape" in that context, which no-one in their right mind would think is acceptable, to thinking that maybe possibly somebody somewhere could possibly be offended by a game that they might or might not have seen where you blow up cardboard box-like structures on a map.

Do you also believe that "cultural appropriation" is a thing? On a scale of 1 to Taylor Swift how white and suburban middle-class are you?

Counterpoint - the whole point of the arcade game Rampage was to have a big monster punch lumps out of buildings and helicopters, and just destroy as much stuff as possible, and everyone played the absolute shit out of that.

> Like, if a bunch of kids caught a stray cat, tied him up, and started shouting in his ears and laughing, would you stop them? And if they complained “no fun allowed”, would you think that was fair?

You are talking about directly harming another living creature who cannot fight back.

> What about if there was a video game in which you beat to a pulp deepfake representations of your friends and family?

You are talking about "harming" a collection of north and south facing flips on a disk, a few ones and zeros in a RAM chip. Hell, we used to actually make Quake characters with our real faces on back in the day so you really could blast your real-life friends and family to pieces.

> I don't understand what idiot designed an airport without backup connections.

I have literally spraypainted the pavement and wall - "One fibre goes here, and down on the corner there, the other fibre goes there" - just to ensure a good separation of routes. I want the pinch point to be within the rack that the routers sit in.

I don't get why an airport can't do similar.

What happens if you scrape your fridge getting it into the kitchen?

You go to the DIY shop and buy a tin of white spray paint.

What happens if you scrape your brushed stainless fridge getting it into the kitchen?

Well, now you get to either live with it, or come up with some really clever ideas on polishing out the scratch and then sanding it back to disguise it with the rest of the surface which will never really look right.

Not really. Stainless is expensive and brittle. It's a lot more work to form complex panels out of stainless, and then they're essentially scrap if there's even a tiny amount of damage. A small dent will start a crack.

> They could’ve done something like the Slate truck a decade earlier.

They could have Roadstered it.

Buy Ford Transit 350 "gliders", work out how to make them FWD, RWD, or AWD using your own transaxles and batteries. Pickup, van, or just a bare chassis-cab to go to a coachbuilder, it doesn't matter.

The Transit has been around for 61 years. Sticking electric motors in it that you already have is a no-brainer.

> And originally they were talking about basically building it like origami from a sheet of steel.

It turns out that sitting in your office wearing an adult nappy and snorting cat sedative until your bladder no longer functions might give you a lot of quite "creative" thinking, but it doesn't make you an engineer.

At some point Elon has to climb out of the K-hole and realise that these things are better left to proper engineers.

I don't really see the point of them. They can't carry anything, because the back is exposed.

Yeah, but getting planning is no obstacle, they'll just get that handed to them.

Bike infrastructure works great in urban parts of Holland. It doesn't work well in rural Scotland. I'll tell you what - I'll scrap my 30-year-old Range Rover agricultural machinery if you can demonstrate how a bakfiets can replace it.

These particular houses are in the outer part of Greater Glasgow. They're about 15 years old, the framing is absolutely rotten, and the crappy brickwork is literally falling apart. There's no saving them. They were build quickly and cheaply and sold at a premium price, like everything else.

I just don't buy things that have adverts I find annoying.

I did some web development work for an advertising guy about 20-odd years ago and he found my position on it baffling.

"But advertising works on everyone!" he cried, "everyone remembers their favourite adverts! Why do you buy oh for example the washing powder you buy?"

Well, I buy Persil, because it's what my mum buys, and I like how it smells. I tried other washing powders, but I didn't like how they smelled so much, and there are two brands I won't buy because they have annoying shouty adverts.

He just didn't get it at all.

> I think the songs get pushed by who pays to push, and most of those songs have vocals.

They get pushed also by what's the most profitable to play out, which is why you get so many bootleggy "Live Version" and shitty remixes.

It's often hard to get Spotify that actually all you want is the unremixed unedited unremastered album version of a track.

No, it's not regulated at all. That's the problem.

Any developer can buy up a patch of land, throw up some houses in a month so close together that if you run out of toilet paper you can just reach out your window and use some of your neighbours, and with a design life just the same as the mortgage.

Oh the access road totally buggers up traffic along the existing road? Oh well too bad, full speed ahead and damn the externalities!

This leads to the situation that's arisen in a housing development (described as a village, where it's really about 300 houses crammed into a small field), where the houses have in fact not made it to their design life of 25 years and have had to be demolished at about 15 years old.

So, you've got people paying a £400,000 mortgage on a patch of rubble and mud, who are currently taking up space in council housing with the taxpayer footing the bill. But hey! At least it provided a lot of shareholder value! Full speed ahead and damn the externalities!

But if you don't do that, what you end up with is housing projects - "villages", they're often called in the marketing brochure, built on greenfield sites with no access to amenities except by car. They're expensive, built to really crappy standards, and there's kind of nothing for anyone to do except stare at their huge flat-screen TV mounted too high on their grey-on-grey living room wall.

Okay, have you ever visited Earth before? Space and time are both surprisingly linear here.

If I want to be somewhere 250 miles away, I know it takes about six hours to drive there. So, in order to get there in time, I leave maybe six and a half hours before I need to be there. If I know the road is going to be busy - quite often where I live there are a lot of tourists doing 30mph with no idea there's anyone else on the road - I'll give it even more time.

Dead easy.

> This is a problem on the MSI Prestige laptop using the RTX Spark platform and Linux. Lets assume it also applies to the Asus and Dell machines using RTX spark and Linux.

Is the problem one that could be easily countered by assuming that laptops are generally better when they're not on fire?

Because I left at the right time and I know how long the journey takes.

It's quite simple really.

Oh I'll get there in time, I'll just plan the journey time accordingly.

And carry a few spares and tools. I bet you do, too.

But I don't need to know the time when I'm going somewhere. I need to know the time before I set off, so I set off at the right time, and then I get there at the right time.

I don't use a phone when I'm driving. I don't want anything with lit up screens in the car.

I've never been "stuck in traffic", so the problem has never arisen.

If you're "stuck in traffic" it doesn't matter what time it is, you're not going to be there any faster. Plan better.

How long does it take you to fill your tank?

How does any of this need you to know the time right now?

Why would knowing the time in the car help with that?

No, it really isn't. You're not allowed hit other players.

In shinty a perfectly acceptable tackle is to hook someone's legs out from under them and then hit them as they go over to make sure they stay down for a bit.

I have. It's pretty mild stuff.

I don't have a watch and don't use a phone when I'm driving. I don't have any lit-up screens in the car, ever.

I don't really care about what time I get where I'm going, I get there when I get there.

My '97 Range Rover has an analogue clock with a quartz-controlled movement, and a button to set the time.

It gains anything up to an hour a day, particularly when my six-year-old is helping me clean the car and he pushes the button to watch the hands go round really fast.

It's fine. Time is time, we get there when we get there.

Yeah, they just scoot about on the ice and don't actually play.

Ice hockey is a really boring sport.

No, field hockey is a totally different thing. Like ice hockey, field hockey is non-contact, and very slow, and you're not allowed to lift your stick off the surface.

Wait until you hear about shinty.

Have you ever seen ice hockey? Okay well imagine that if it was on a field and if you made it into a really fast and violent contact sport.

I once read a transcript of an incident where ATC advised an aircraft with multiple engine failures and no hydraulics "Emergency team in attendance, runway at your discretion".

The reply: "Oh you want me to be all fancy and make it a runway, do you? Well, we'll see..."

They got it pretty close to the runway and it all had a far happier ending than this one.