Andrew

The government says to eat 5 fruits and/or vegetables a day to be healthy. So that's exactly what I did. 1 Banana 3 Cherries 1 Chocolate (chocolate is a bean, bean is a vegetable, therefore chocolate is a vegetable) That's 4 fruits and 1 vegetable, therefore this is healthy.

Minor update: When I installed the rear suspension, I should have made sure it was at the correct setting before I put everything back together. I didn't and set the suspension to the middle setting. As it turns out, that was too stiff. So, today I adjusted it to put it on the softest setting. It was a PITA. I also put the sound deadening thingies back on while I was in there.

I hope the re-releases go better than their website is made. I can't get passed the age verification thing. It says my cookies are disabled even though they're not, but okay. I might give it a try, I've never properly played a MGS game before, but I did enjoy the Splinter Cell games. Seems like this is a good chance to.

Mom, can we get NB MX5? No, we have NB MX5 at home. NB MX5 at home:

I just have mine stored on an SSD with no backups because I like to live dangerously. But I do also "only" have 26 movies ripped. When I do get around to it, I am going to get a NAS running a few Seagate Ironwolfs (Ironwolves?) in I think RAID 5. Whichever RAID number gives you the maximum number of storage space on as few drives as possible while still having "backups".

I haven't been playing FS2020 all that much recently. I'm waiting for the PMDG 777 and/or FBW A380 to release. In the mean time, the AAU2 beta update for the 787 and 747 do look great. They're finally making improvements to those two planes and both desperately need it. I haven't personally tried them, I'll wait for the public release before trying them out.

This is potentially a spicy topic. With a type of cancer that has a very high chance of fatality, I don't think there's any reason for someone to not take part in further tests of this. There's a lot of very good things that can be done with this technology and it's amazing it hasn't been done sooner, especially considering that this tech has been around since the 80s. I'm guessing it's the red tape that's been stopping it from being tested.

I would not be surprised if he's being forced out, again. Every single business he has bought his way into, he's been forced out of or they've put it preventative measures to stop him from messing things up.

They lost as soon as they announced the Xbox One with inability to buy and use used games as well as always online with a Kinect being required that they thankfully didn't go through with. Had that not done that, there's no reason why Xbox One and Series S/X wouldn't be as big as the 360 was.

I made some churros.

Oof. Too bad you can't sue the local government for not controlling the deer.

What a coincidence. I almost killed a bear on the way to work as well recently. I'm not allowed in that nightclub anymore.

@SimmonsHave you been in any good crashes lately?

Rare photo of Simmons.

Authenticious Italian food

Keeb. I also got the UK layout one which is a nice surprise. I was expecting the US layout one. Also no import fees that needed to be paid, so that's good as well. Thanks for arranging this guys, and thanks EVGA for sponsoring the event.

I believe this is the first time the NA-ion batteries are going to be used outside of a lab, so it's going to be pretty interesting to see how they perform. It's not just cars that could make use of them either. In lab testing, Na-ion batteries are less power dense(375Wh/L vs 600Wh/L), slightly less efficient (92% vs 95%) but are half the price ($77/kWh vs $137/kWh) of Li-ion. They're also less likely to catch on fire when damaged and they can handle significantly more cycles, so long term from the lab testing, they do seem to be able to make up the power density issue over time. There's also the added benefit of sodium being almost twice as dense lithium. I don't know how well this translates over to the batteries themselves, but if it does scale with the mass, there is potential to either have batteries that are half the size and have roughly the same energy, or batteries that are the same size as current Li-ion but have almost double the energy.

Huh? Sony just released a new VR headset for the PS5 a couple of months ago and there are quite a few big titles that got support for it, from Gran Turismo 7 to Resident Evil and even Cities Skylines. The PSVR2 sales figures are also doing better than expected. They were expecting between 270K-300K units to be sold in March. Instead, they managed to sell over 500K units, almost doubling to a total of 915K units 2 weeks later. Things are looking just as good on the PC side of VR as well.

Bomb has been planted?

I would not at all be surprised if it turns out they've been doing this, and been successful in doing it since at least 2014-2015. That's when large gaming communities really went bad and a lot of politics started to get talked about. That's around the time the "oppressed gamer" became a thing and a lot of things "oppressed gamers" believe now line up pretty well with the same anti-Western propaganda Russia and China have been spreading for decades. The people in those communities also tend to have a pretty fragile ego. See: War Thunder classified document leaks as well as the classified documents leak that just happened in that Minecraft Discord server that the article talks about. Every single time, without fail, the documents leak the same way. Someone makes a claim about something. Someone else says "you're wrong"/"you don't have those documents" then their fragile ego kicks in and they post those documents as proof that they aren't lying. This is a fantastic tool that the military can use, and tbh I wouldn't be surprised if all of the classified document leaks ended up being bait. I look forward to watching that to hear questions being asked such as: Does UwU mean good things, yes or no? Tracer rule 34 violation. Is that part of the Chinese spy network?

I got sent a link to a car mod. One of the first things I did was go to a race track. For comparison, here's actual GT7 at roughly the same part of the track along with another screenshot to match the time of day and weather settings. The camera position and FOV is a bit off, but considering Asobo never intended anyone to do this and I am comparing it to a game that has a laser scanned and hand crafted track, what FS2020 has is really impressive.

I think something is wrong with my copy of Gran Turismo 7