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cccpneveragain 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'd be very interested how often these lose power. Do they operate on different power in port like some sort of battery versus fuel? I mean these boats go over huge distances regularly and I can't imagine they are often stranded in the middle of the ocean causing massive cost and delay, or something would be changed about them.

First, its massive vertical supports are positioned much closer to land than the Key Bridge's—1,000 feet away from the harbor's navigation channel—making them considerably less likely to be hit by an errant vessel. The towers also are surrounded by rock islands, which would force any ship heading toward the supports to run aground before striking the tower. Additional safety projects have further hardened protections, even adding an air gap sensor system that detects vertical clearances between the bridge and large vessels passing underneath.

Maybe this should have been a thing everywhere too. Sure, it's not going to be perfect, but it sure seems that the one in Baltimore ran into the bridge without any hinderance.

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cccpneveragain 19 points ago +19 / -0

Oh no wait, I would never question Правда. Shall we get back to more appropriate discussion? I don't believe we've yet to comment today on how great Lenin is, and it's almost mid-day. Travesty!

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cccpneveragain 45 points ago +45 / -0

Every actual video I was able to find of such, it was a black guy. Well, I guess they "ain't black" because apparently it's the MAGA blacks that infest NYC doing this?

The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty

Not the one I could find.

I think most of this is made up based on a couple random examples. The day and age where everything is filmed, and we can't get more than a blurry pixelated video? The ape contingency loves to film their crimes and put them on the internet with a group of them going "ohh look at that bitch you know what I'm sayin!" They just don't here for some reason? Oh wait, that's right it's all the right-wing white people in NYC doing this...

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cccpneveragain 14 points ago +14 / -0

I’ll accept that as soon as it’s also okay to replace white with any other race or social group in the world, without exception.

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cccpneveragain 6 points ago +6 / -0

parent/child narratives

Like what? I’ve played hundreds of games. The PS4 God of War is the only one that stands out as a parent/child narrative. What are we going to say Fallout 4 or something? I mean I guess. I don’t recall that many.

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cccpneveragain 10 points ago +10 / -0

Ready for the insect net mafia. I wear my insect net to protect you, you wear yours to protect me. It's too dangerous to go vote, we will have to mail them all in.

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cccpneveragain 19 points ago +21 / -2

Catholic Christians. Every one else has been rejecting the pope since 1517.

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cccpneveragain 10 points ago +10 / -0

Star Wars has a huge amount of existing music to adapt from too. Do they use that? Nah, go get the generic "epic" music for generic awful looking animated show.

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cccpneveragain 22 points ago +22 / -0

I've never been one to really care about the Jews, plight of the Jews, arguing about the Jews, etc. Still you make a fool of yourself in anything to take the story of one side as the whole truth and totally dismiss any alternate accounts. The truth is always elsewhere. Even if something as crazy as 95% of the Jewish account of the holocaust is true, that means 5% is not.

I do find the comment a bit dumb to imply that a country at war should not have cut off supply lines of the country they were trying to defeat. I'll take that over a modern pussified forever war. Aggressively win or go home.

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cccpneveragain 2 points ago +2 / -0

Their attendance is outpaced by a few colleges even. I wouldn't even let them play in California the next three years. That city and state made their choice with the policies they support.

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cccpneveragain 6 points ago +6 / -0

It does surprise me. I assume any popular new game is full of them. Cosmetic stuff I'm not sure I really care about either way in the end. "High fantasy" or whatever you'd call it has so many games I could play in history, there's just no reason to bother with a questionable game.

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cccpneveragain 20 points ago +20 / -0

Donkey Kong, Minecraft Steve.

Their definition of iconic is so off. If I were to poll even a groups like totally random gamers that play > 40 hours a week, the number that don't recognize Donkey Kong is near 0. I wouldn't be shocked if the annoying owl from Zelda games polled higher than Kiryu Kazuma.

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cccpneveragain 12 points ago +12 / -0

Doom guy or no one. I'm biased but so are they.

If you'd asked me to bet on it before. I'd have put every dollar on the chick from Last of Us, so at least a bit surprised. Cool to see Agent 47 get some love.

Baldurs Gate 3, really? I haven't even tried it and probably won't. I know about beast sex already, and just based on it's age I assume it's otherwise an MTX live service fest

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cccpneveragain 1 point ago +1 / -0

Area 15 by Meow Wolf is coming to Orlando.

I don't understand the cultness of this Meow Wolf thing. Leftist trend is my best guess. I went to the place in Santa Fe years ago as it was supposed to be the place you absolutely had to go. I mean, yeah it's some weird art. It's not a bad place. I'd much rather spend my time looking at a nice collection of proper fine art.

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cccpneveragain 1 point ago +1 / -0

I found it, Fabien Sanglard. Definitely something I'm going to look in to.

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cccpneveragain 6 points ago +6 / -0

I'd been told for years I was definitely going to be using VR, all the games would be VR, life is going to VR, etc. Still waiting. They can't even get kids interested in it for more than a novelty, and that's where the future of games comes from. I mean, the first ones they sold on spending more money on cosmetic skins for a game and everything being live service were kids. They can't sell them on VR, so it's dead.

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cccpneveragain 4 points ago +4 / -0

I degoogled in 2018 I think. I do still have an Android phone, although I do my best to disable things on it. I looked at taking it to LineageOS as some software crap destroyed the battery life overnight, but not supported unfortunately. That's what I get for getting a "nicer" phone.

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cccpneveragain 10 points ago +10 / -0

Lucifer in Dante's Inferno. There I found one for them.

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cccpneveragain 8 points ago +8 / -0

It's almost like there's a ton of good laws that make sense in the bible, that many try to weasel out of throwing away because Jesus was nicer or something. Yeah, sure, God totally changed his mind on all this stuff one day, right...

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cccpneveragain 3 points ago +3 / -0

I can't remember what exactly we used but we did have to do a bunch of different programs for it. There weren't that many op-codes it didn't have to do a ton. I took the class in the summer because I knew the professor, a white guy that could teach well. I think at one point I took every class he offered as electives. There were only like 8 of us in the class and I got paired up with a real oddity, it was a 14 year old kid that was taking random college stuff in the summer. I think the professor paired me up with him since he knew me from other classes and that I'd treat the kid okay. Kid was smart and actually wanted to learn so it was a win for me really. We finished everything in the class, and I spent way more time working on that than I'd expected. I went in wanting some easy hours.

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cccpneveragain 7 points ago +7 / -0

Everything advanced so quickly around the time the PS2 came out regarding DVDs. Sure at launch it was the price of a DVD player but for a very short time. It wasn't even a year before DVDs were ubiquitous at rental places and DVD players were a fraction of the cost of a PS2. Yeah, I recall watching some movies with friends on a PS2, but that was so we could watch in their room where the game system was and not like having to be a teenager hanging out with parents. It was a nice feature to have, but yeah almost no one bought them as a DVD player primarily.

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cccpneveragain 2 points ago +2 / -0

Dark Forces remaster got me to drag out my old CD and play it a bit again. That and Rebel Assault II that I need to try. Two oldest games I have and still own. Rebel Assault II is the first game I remember buying brand new in it's fancy box and not some bargain bin disks or downloads--having held on to some birthday money for over a month to get it. I'm pretty sure I "borrowed" Dark Forces from my cousin at one point and have had it for nearly 30 years now. That game holds up so well and there's a modern engine recreation for it, so I don't even need a remaster.

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cccpneveragain 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's cool. I did one in college on computer architecture, we had to design a dumbed down 8-bit computer from transistors. I'd done a ton of programming in my life by then, and that was still really interesting.

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cccpneveragain 1 point ago +1 / -0

The old hardware with tile-based graphics just fun to program for and fairly simple still. Even something as advanced as assembly you'd be shocked how it's not all that complicated to get some graphics in and move them around, because that's all built into the hardware.

I really need to try the Doom or Quake code out. I've had my hands in about everything except native 3D consoles and that, and Doom was far and away my favorite game as a kid. I'd made entire games worth of replacement maps that have sadly all been lost to time.

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cccpneveragain 1 point ago +1 / -0

You can run it in Dosbox still. Modern equivalent has gotta be Python for ease of use and learning. I’ve used quite a bit for data parsing and things, but i have no idea what kinds of things kids could do in it that’s interesting. Godot has its own scripting that’s pretty easy to use, so there’s that.

This is a really cool project I’ve messed with before: https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK It’s a C-based SDK for Sega Genesis. It’s slightly beyond “Hello, world” level beginner, but you’d be surprised how simple it can be to load in some graphics and move them around. There’s a lot of tools and support resources for it too.

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