Have they made co-op not retarded?

I talked my friends into playing it with World, and then found out you can't play normal co-op in the story missions, which you have to do to actually unlock 90% of the game. They expect you to play through a lengthy campaign before you can consistently play with each other. Saying "Okay, you have a 15 hour homework assignment before we can actually play together, and we'll never have the new game experience with each other" is not acceptable.

Anyone into this should image search Frank Frazetta if they aren't familiar with his work.

maybe it should be a requirement to post the model and prompts. Possibly LoRA as well.

separate contests for pure and retouched photos

Two categories if you want, but at least in the "pure" one, I would support letting people use whatever tools they want, as long as they say what they did, so everyone could learn what's possible and how to do it. It's an interesting field, but it is changing pretty fast and it's easy to lose track of what's out there.

Right, every response in the article can be read in at least one of the following two ways:

A: Having this pro-troon position is bad, not because it's wrong, but because it's politically damaging

or

B: Having this pro-troon position is bad, not because it's wrong, but because it hurts women (sports/prison)

So this is hardly groundbreaking "Newsom is our guy on troons" sort of thing, he's just another TERF and/or wants to be president.

"Retarded" used to be the polite, politically correct of saying "idiot". It does, after all, just mean "slow".

The language treadmill has been going on for centuries.

Did he only just notice the Washington Post is mostly staffed by communists who think most of the Bill of Rights was a mistake? What prompted him to do this now if he had those values since he bought it?

It's unclear to me how much it's porn to pervert to troon, and how much it's autism to troon to porn pervert troon. Especially since autism is presumably over-represented in discord moderators.

There are definitely a lot of autistic men/boys who get convinced their social weirdness is actually because they're a cute girl inside and if they just take these drugs they'll become a socially normal kawaii girl just like in their anime. Then once they're in, the "support groups" are essentially industrialized grooming, and they end up crazy perverts. Some of the screenshots I saw a while back from one of the kiwifarms vs. crazy tranny episodes was pretty eye-opening. These people are able to operate in the open and in huge numbers to push some really extreme degeneracy- in this case it was how to make bathtub hormones, or "girl juice" as they call it- and banning that shit, and everyone who participated in it, would definitely be a great first step, possibly more effective, and definitely easier, than banning porn.

post-it note

I think it was the NSA which would do regular mandatory password changes and then occasionally throw you out of your office to do a physical search for things like passwords on post-its. But yes, people choose awful passwords all the time, I assume it's even worse when it's protecting assets that aren't even theirs. Having strict password policies in the workplace makes sense.

It would also likely be skewed to the bottom, too. Two peaks at either extreme, even.

I bet if you checked statistics on how much muscle people gained/weight people lost from exercise, it would look pretty abysmal, if you didn't filter out all the people who only exercised for a week then gave up. So I checked, and got this:

The average creator on OnlyFans earns $151 per month *This amount is calculated by combining the average amount of subscribers (21) and average subscription fee ($7.20) of your average OnlyFans creator account. Note: this figure doesn’t include tips.

What's the average number of videos released per month? I bet it's low. For this data to be a meaningful comparison to hooters, which actually requires people to show up or get fired, it would have to do something like divide by number of videos released or otherwise control for women who didn't actually try. I bet the return per hour worked is better for onlyfans even at the lower end.

Edit: Thinking about it further, this is all nonsense. You can't take the average number of subscribers and multiply it by the average subscription fee, because there's no guarantee they're equally distributed. Maybe the popular women charge more and the average sub is higher. Maybe the cheaper women attract more subscribers and the average sub is lower.

On the other hand, a brief bit of internet research suggests that, if you don't use Steam for your in-app purchases- which is not mandated- you don't have to pay them a cut, which is surely more valuable than in-game ads.

If you fuck a cuck, does that mean they aren't a cuck any more? I guess it depends on who is doing the cuck fucking.

To summarize the article, "Make then under-perform by 20% and they'll stop being woke, to do that, buy 20% less of their stuff". Or a direct quote:

Proxy 20% of your army. Use Legos, other game minis, or whatever. Instead of buying new units, proxy 20% of your intended GW purchases instead. I personally use 3D resin printers, which are excellent (I have a full threads on 3D printing if you search).

Hold off on new purchases. Every quarter GW will release new exciting things that everyone will want to field on the table. I’m not saying don’t field them. Proxy them. Wait until the quarter is over before going out to buy the actual minis if you want them. That will completely throw off their quarterly projections and they will “miss rent” in our shareholder/landlord analogy.

This is pathetic. First of all, this won't make them under-perform by 20%, because not 100% of people will participate. Normies don't notice, and even in the warhammer player base, not 100% of people disagree with woke. People who do care have to make up for it by reacting strongly, not by "delaying their purchases by three months". I like playing games, and I don't buy 20% less of the woke games, I buy 100% less. These people hate you. They look at a story that features white men and they hate it because they hate white men. It's not about representation or equality, they'd have zero problem with a black woman making a story about black women ruling the universe. It's about hating white men. They will not stop when there are 25% female space marines, or even 50%. Women make up 2 out of every 3 college graduates, and they aren't stopping there. "Perfect diversity" is 0% white men. The correct amount to purchase from these assholes is nothing. Don't 3D print 20% of your stuff, 3D print 100% of your stuff, and ask your friends why they aren't. If you have such a compulsion to buy new plastic toys that you can't stop pouring money into the pockets of people who think you and your family trash because of your skin color and gender, you need to get a fucking grip on reality.

conservatives who opted not to go to college would need to be compensated with equivalent debt forgiveness.

Likewise the predominantly men (and therefore also more conservative) who went to college with an actual plan to successfully pay it off, and therefore don't have the debt any more. Men go to college for financial reasons, women go to college for social reasons.

The motivation of the average college pro-Palestine protest isn't that they're critical of Jews or Israel, it's that they see the conflict as brown vs White, and they do as they've been trained: prioritize brown over White at any cost. That woman probably disagrees with 95% of what's said on this board.

There are a couple of other problems here.

We show that eliminating legacy and athlete preferences and racial preferences would result in a 69% and 42% decline in African American and Hispanic admits, respectively.

vs

According to the study, 43 percent of white Harvard students admitted were legacy students

These are not comparing the same thing. One is how much the black population would DROP if X, the other is how many whites are Y. If you eliminated all whites who are legacies, some of the replacements for their spots would still be white, so the DROP in the white population would be less, by a value close to the average admitted white population, so the white figure is inflated by 35%.

Also: it sounds like they're assuming that 100% of legacy students and athletes wouldn't have gotten in otherwise. At least some of them would have. So the number is off by even MORE than 35%.

There is no amount of transparency that would cause me to buy a game before it's been out long enough for me to watch a few random "let's play" videos from reasonably far into the game. Everything released about a game before it's out is manufactured PR hype, and even on release game reviewers at best might not share your tastes, and at worst are completely retarded and fucking the developer. User reviews can also be from morons, and suffer from selection bias- people buy games they like. The last X4 expansion has great reviews on steam, but that's because everyone with standards got driven away years ago.

A few random minutes from a couple of different let's play series at hour 50+ is the only thing I really value to judge a game. That or pirating it.

Calling criticism of a woman misogyny is always a trendy talking point.

Modern hobby-level controllers are extremely configurable, and can do that. The radiomaster zorro or boxer can both do it. Probably any controller that runs EdgeTX can do it.

First, some of my favorite drone freestyle videos, if you want to see what's possible. It's a hobby with an enormous skill ceiling. Even if you never get remotely that good, cruising around your local area can still produce some nice footage that's meaningful to you.

The fastest way to improve your piloting skill, especially from zero, is in a simulator. This is by far my strongest recommendation. The good ones are close enough to reality that your skills will largely transfer over, and you'll save a lot more money in broken drones than the price of the sim. I use tryp, which is on steam. People really into racing use velocidrone. I plug my radiomaster boxer in to my computer, so it's training on the actual controller, too. You'll have to check if whatever controller you get can do the same, or use a gamepad.

TL;DR on drone selection if you want everything in one purchase: Pick one of these. The nazgul ECO specifically, the cheaper ones are for indoor flying. Sadly, the goggles bump up the price tag, and make up a bit more than half of the total price. If you are willing to buy the goggles and controller separately, get this controller, it will work with all 2.4GHz ELRS drones, which is almost all of them. For goggles, get the DJI goggles 2 which works with the O3 camera, which is what most bind-and-flies use. For drone, you'll have a lot of options, iflight and geprc will cover you. 7 inch (propeller diameter) tends to be for long range, 5 inch is general purpose outdoor use, and the ones with smaller, ducted blades are mostly for indoor. If you've been looking at phone drones, the prices will probably seem crazy, but the performance difference is genuinely huge.

I'm going to be talking about parts you would use if you buy a "bind-and-fly", which is where you pay a company to build it but it's still made out of parts you can buy instead of a single piece, or build it yourself. I have never flown off-the-shelf single part drones like DJI sells, but the expensive ones especially are quite good. The DJI Avata 2 would be the one to get these days if you go that way and want a very capable one-piece FPV drone. However, the upside of building your own or getting a bind-and-fly is that you can get the performance where you want it to match whatever your flight requirements are, and if you break it, you can replace the broken parts instead of buying a completely new one. It is also easier to upgrade your drone, either in pieces or getting an entirely new one which will still work with your goggles and controller. iflight and geprc are both respectable bind-and-fly choices, and they also sell complete "ready-to-fly" options that come with everything you need. You do need to know how to solder and watch youtube videos if you build your own, but it's not that bad. Joshua Bardwell for youtube videos, Oscar Liang for text. Liang does a lot of reviews of both equipment and bind-and-flys too.

You can definitely increase your range by a lot. Entry level ELRS radio links will give you solid control to over a mile of open space with a lot of room to grow, but your video link will be weaker. Higher gain antennas on your goggles will give you more range, as will higher signal strength on the transmitter in the drone. People have flown the long range 2 watt walksnail transmitter to at least 55km in open air, but this was with a pretty extreme antenna receiver in a best-case environment and the signal strength on that transmitter is simply illegal, if you care about that sort of thing. A basic drone at a decent altitude with basic antennas with no obstacles between you and it should be good for a mile, but have a plan if you lose video unexpectedly. A "beeper" is recommended.

15-20 min of battery life is doable if you fly gently on a larger battery pack. Aggressive flying on lighter batteries will definitely give you a lot less. The usual way to deal with this is to just have several packs and change them out, rather than one very high capacity one, but look into Li-Ion packs if you really want to have long endurance, they will give you significantly larger capacity at the cost of less maximum output than you'd get from a standard lithium-polymer pack. Bind-and-flies have a standard battery plug, so you can pick your battery separately. Be careful with the batteries, don't overcharge or overdrain them, and don't charge them when you aren't in the room if you want to play it safe.

Goggles will take up more of your field of view, make easier viewing on sunny days, and increase the feeling of connection to your drone, but they will raise the price tag a lot, and effectively lock you in to one camera system. Compared to flying it through your phone, it will be a world of difference. DJI (they sell cameras and goggles separately in addition to complete drones) or Walksnail are basically the two good ones for most pilots, and the video quality is very similar, HDZero is used by serious racers and has less video quality but better latency, and anything that's not those three is significantly worse and I wouldn't recommend it. The plus side is you'll never crash your goggles, so it's a one time cost. There are cameras that transmit at 1080p and record at 4K available for both walksnail and DJI. Walksnail also has low light, very lightweight, or long range options. Honestly, the cost mostly comes from the goggles, not the camera, so you might as well get a good one.

Auto-landing (return to home) and position hold will be available on any drone with a GPS and the latest verison of betaflight, which is most of them. The performance out of the avata 2 would probably be better here, because it has a few extra sensors.

Downward pictures are normally achieved by just tilting forwards in flight. If you want to hover at the same time, gimballed camera mounts are available but uncommon.

Everyone in the video, including the person allegedly on fire, seem pretty relaxed about it, except the cameraman, who sounds like an idiot. Is any of this real?

Wake me up when they acknowledge white men exist.

Drones are already geofenced, according to what drone hobbyists have been saying

I am pretty sure that's true for DJI drones, but building your own drone, which is achievable by anyone who can do internet research and competently operate a soldering iron and allen wrench, has no such limitations.

There are a hell of a lot of other legal limitations, though:

You must have direct, unassisted vision of the drone at all times. This means long distance flight and all FPV flight (goggles connected to a camera on the drone) are illegal. I've been told you can get around this by having a "spotter" while you're flying FPV, but essentially everyone in the hobby ignores this, which is fine up until a cop decides to make a problem for you.

You must have registered yourself and your drone with the FAA unless it weighs under 250 grams, which is not very realistic. This involves the FAA getting a bunch of information about you.

You must fly with a remote ID module. This is a fairly expensive device which broadcasts the GPS coordinates of the pilot and drone, and the FAA ID number from the previous step, at all times, over bluetooth, so anyone with a phone can receive the signal if they want. This is widely perceived as a mechanism to enable Karens who wrongly think all public drone flight is illegal to find and harass drone pilots, which already happens at a fairly high rate. I honestly don't even know what the point of this is from a safety perspective, besides to fuck with drone operators and hugely reduce their privacy. I doubt planes can pick up the signal in time for it to matter (not that drones accidentally hitting planes is a real problem to begin with), and anyone with actual criminal intent will just turn the feature off. It's like demanding that everyone install an electronic tracking device on their gun- do you think maybe the criminals would turn theirs off before they commit a crime, or simply not install it to begin with? It applies at all times, even if you're flying at the height of one foot over your own property.

There can be additional local laws. The FAA claims sole jurisdiction over the air, so NYC for instance can't actually ban all drone flight, but they can apparently ban taking off or landing, so that's effectively the same thing.

You must obey FAA flight regulations about altitude. Mostly this means you have to fly under 400 feet, but there are areas, like around airports or various government facilities, that drop that altitude to less, sometimes to zero. Under 400 feet and not at airports is the one regulation that actually makes some sense, everything else is just fucking with drone operators because some idiots panicked and want to do something, even if it doesn't make any sense.

Flying a drone for any commercial purposes- which is defined very broadly and includes posting a video from your drone on youtube- requires an additional FAA license which you get from passing a written test and jumping through a fair number of additional hoops.

A lot of drone equipment either outright violates FCC regulations on signal power or requires you to have a ham radio technician license, which involves passing a test which is mostly not remotely applicable to drone operation.

But the short of it is that most recreational drone operators regularly ignore some or all of these laws, which is fine up until a cop decides to make an issue about it and arrests you, then starts looking for laws you may have broken. It fits into a broader pattern of basically making it impossible to live a normal life without violating enough laws that the government can seriously fuck you over at any time they wish.

They prioritized telling the story they want to tell above being a good game or allowing player freedom. Walking next to talking people is not gameplay, and having the player swing from being a god of death when it's not plot relevant to being unable to kill a few guys when the plot demands it is both bad storytelling and bad gameplay. If you can't tell your story without taking away control from the player, then make a movie.

Further, It's like someone told them "Unskippable cutscenes are bad", so instead of removing them, they said "Well, if we make the player hold 'W' to walk during the dialogue, it's not technically a cutscene, problem solved. It's still unskippable though."

I could watch a western movie while holding forward on an unplugged controller and have a similar experience.

After resuming college in 1989 to finish her bachelor’s degree and then getting a master’s degree in history from Cal State History, Lofting became a librarian and started “bartending with books.”

She also had a son. So connecting some dots, she was a stay-at-home mom who took up voice acting at the age of 39, followed by a variety of other activities, as a hobby after her child left home.

The design is not great.

People spawn behind you in areas you've just cleared in a way that absolutely murders immersion. It doesn't feel like you're in a world that has people moving around, it feels like you're in a world composed of inhabited points of interest with a barren wasteland in between, with the game occasionally rolling some dice and spawning guys just behind you. The developers apparently saying they have a good system in place but it's just broken right now is an obvious 'dog ate my homework' level lie.

The economy is a joke. Every guy you fight obviously has infinite ammo... except when you kill them, you find they had a partial magazine in the gun and less than ten extra rounds in their inventory. On top of that, their guns are almost always in such poor condition they're totally worthless, yet they never jam on the AI, only on you. They're also visibly wearing armor, but that armor lootable less than 1% of the time. It all adds up to a feeling that the game is constantly rewriting reality to keep you from making money too fast. The repair costs for your gear once you've upgraded a couple times is so high you'll be running in the red every time you go out.

The day/night cycle is very fast, and the game is not particularly fun at night: it's just too damn dark to see anything, your flashlight has a maximum range of about 15 feet, the enemy is almost impossible to see beyond that range, and there are no flashlight upgrades or night vision in the game. I suspect the AI entirely ignores nighttime vision penalties.

There's paid fast travel between bases, but with how valueless the in-between space is, this is a game that would benefit from unlimited fast travel between all discovered locations. The amount of time it takes to run from spot to spot is the primary factor in whether I'm willing to explore a spot I haven't been to. That goes double if I'm trying to bring back enough gear to afford my repair bills.