looks at pot plant

😠

They do this with Early Access and people still lose their shit about empty content and unfinished graphics in a game they paid $10 for.

Considering it’s Boeing and the same thing happened to the last one a few years ago… I mean, it’s not rocket science.

There is too much to cover here.

As I said earlier, you clearly have minimal alignment of the primary understandings most others have. For starters, it’s clear you don’t even understand the premise of NATO.

This is like me projecting opinions about cars when I think they’re made of wood and drawn by horses.

You’re either a troll or you’re peaking on the Dunning-Kruger graph based on some obscure and narrow-scoped details you may have garnered. It’s so small picture and fundamentally flawed or entirely untrue.

And that circles back to my original point.

Your mindset is based on the shallowness of an acute modern opinion that disregards history as much as it does immediate reality and humanism.

Or, to put it simply; you have as much growing up to do as you do learning the basics—at least to contribute in this forum.

You’re new to this. Your opinion matters, but isn’t valuable. It seems valuable to you now, but isn’t to others. That’s your first step forward to knowledge.

They may have had the potential to be a superpower, but it’s apparent that they never had the leadership to conduct as one. Those inside the Kremlin bought into their own bullshit and thought of themselves as a superpower, not realising the machine within is operating on unlubricated, old, broken, and missing parts.

This seems to be a common theme with countries that feed a superiority narrative to their people and other nations.

It’s not for a lack of trying, but they have prioritised other things. But the more it seems as a prize target, the more likely it’ll get dropped because damaging Putin’s domestic reputation is paramount.

I hear the Nintendo war drums…

I’ve done this with three friends, moving a couch from one part of the city to another, around 7pm at night. At first carrying seemed easy, but it soon got awkward and tiring. Then we ended up being able to very easily put it on our heads while arms kept it balanced and made excellent progress.

Cops pulled up next to us around halfway, “Sorry guys, I have to ask. What the fuck are you doing?”

“We’re moving this couch from one friend’s place to the other.”

“Yep, thought it’d be something like that, but I had to ask. Be careful crossing streets.”

Near the end, middle guy was resting it on his head too much, it burst through the fabric and he was temporarily couchhead.

Even for a military university, I’m inclined to agree. I would not be at all surprised if that were the truth.

It’s not. I work at a research university and while our critical systems are much less than that—mostly datasets and documents—repositories for research and knowledge management information are full of media that’s well over 150TB.

But…

destroying over 150 terabytes of enemy resources, including websites, databases, and file storage.

If it’s more the databases, yeah, that’s some huge damage. An information system holding 100GB of data could be the source of 20 years of pay, employee, org structure, access governance, IDs, the lot; gone. And all dependent systems to it go blind because they use that database to work, rather than storing their own copy of it.

However, we also daily backup those critical systems in multiple ways. This includes for ransomware. It can be destroyed and it doesn’t matter unless the hacker knew about and was able to also hack an entirely different setup geographically located somewhere else with its own security and network independent to what we primarily rely on. A lot of our data is, by law, scheduled and retained on government systems too, but only every few months. So there’s yet another hard hurdle to find out and attempt to breach. Get all three at once, yeah, you got us, but what an impressive and mammoth hack that would be.

When games are paused, this is just the timeline.

If you truly want the game to pause, you would sit at the loading screen every time you unpaused, as you just stopped everything and it now needs to cache back in to where it was. Once it is all loaded back in, your CPU and memory loaded back up, the game can unpause. The game also has things running to prevent crashes, frame issues, memory management, etc. This is why you get a fair bit on the CPU and RAM even on the opening cinematic, it’s loaded up with all that extra stuff for environment.

Obviously that’s not a pause feature, rather essentially what happens when you save and then load the save.

Oof, that was good.

To be fair, it is loading and handling a lot of assets. Lots of little mechanics attached to lots of little objects, all the while simulating.

Oh, I thought he was going hard on the trolling, implying the bug was that the ads are broken when offline.

When I arrived again in Australia, floods happened again—hm, maybe I’m the problem—anyway! Insurance companies were trying to get out of payments by saying flood damage was covered as a result of flooding from rain. And yes, rain obviously caused the flooding, but the rain occured up on mountains which then flowed down and flooded areas below.

The government regulators got onto it straight away.

The final attempt argument was something like “The insurances cover water coming from above, not below.”

Regulators didn’t have a bar of it. Insurance companies had to do—get this—insurance.

Everyone was happy except for insurance companies and the people that lost their homes and got financially held up for over a year as the insurance companies tried to find any leftover money for payouts because the rest was in funds. Of course.

Ah.

Yeah I thought a fab bomb was when your mate arrives to the party with a tinsel scarf and glitter fedora, demanding we all do shots and karaoke to Madonna’s greatest hits.

I mean, it appears to have a respectable amount of engine bay… Maybe a supercharged 6 or LS could squeeze in there and it’d be fine. Still thirsty, but fine.

If I recall correctly, that man is exactly the kind of person they appear to be.