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7bicycles [he/him]

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  • I hate that shit is plastic now

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  • I get plastic instead of glass mostly, glass is heavy as shit. What I do not get is plastic instead of paper. Like if you need it to be tight to water, sure, but so much stuff is plastic with airholes, just use cardboard

  • The demo for ZA/UM's newest game, Zero Parades, is out

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  • Esoteric Ebb is due to come out on march 3rd and from having played the demo it's so far the only thing that really got that DE vibe to me (currently downloading zero parades).

    I thought Rue Valley was nice and you feel the influence, but it's sort of "If you like CONTROL, you'll like Alan Wake 2"

  • she makes more $$$ serving drunks.

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  • They hand those out for free

  • she makes more $$$ serving drunks.

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  • If I hand a bartender 5 moneys I get a beer, if I hand a teacher 5 moneys I get like nothing

  • Post

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  • wanting a very specific power tool and then spending 1,5 years scouring craigslist or local equivalent for it to get it at an insanely cheap price

  • NSFW

    You're gonna wanna see this

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  • woke alex jones voice: they're turning the freaking frogs carbrained

  • Army warrant officers will ‘bid’ against each other for their next bonus

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  • It sounds like bad fiction honestly

    It's a bit less ancap than it might initially sound but it does still sound like to me of having the inherent issue of being mostly reactive instead of proactive.

    My theory is that it's a reaction to Ukraine being insanely corrupt and they figured out they wouldn't be able to unfuck the traditional structures in the midst of being invaded and as such just basically built a new one on top

  • Army warrant officers will ‘bid’ against each other for their next bonus

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  • I feel like historically most countries realized that when you actually need a coherent organisation to do shit under pressure, i.e. what you want out of the armed forces, the free market bullshit is right out.

    Now there's the counterfactual here which is Ukraines weird discord run gamified RL-EXP-Point gathering for resupplies. Given the whole premise of that entire war I'd say just on that aspect the ukranians seem to be doing oddly well with it considering how fucking stupid it sounds, but then again russia seems to be doing the same sort of war-but-neoliberal here. Which is a scenario that neither meshes well with 24 hour global burger king deployment capabilities nor what the USAF usually gets tasked to do

  • Moats are back!

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  • they might be, my point is they're doing an insanely bad job against protecting against that exact threat

  • Moats are back!

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  • I admit to having pentester brain here but that's not impenetrable to anybody who actually wants to get in there instead of being mostly opportunistic about it on a random break-in risk vs. reward scale. Guarantee you whatever money they spent on bullshit security systems would've been better spent as insurance to just get your home cinema back at 10% of the price since all these places are furnished by interior architects and not like, actually living there, bribing local politicians so a cop car idles outside all day or, if you wanna go really woke with it, welfare. And "guy who really wants to get in there, to get to you, specifically" is like the one thing the police are incredibly bad at protecting against even if you're rich.

    I think this mirrors the WSJ-Article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/the-mega-rich-are-turning-their-mansions-into-impenetrable-fortresses/ar-AA1Waeot

    About $1 million was spent on bullet-resistant smart glass. And the front-entry security features cost more than $1 million.

    Real good use of money to save you being burgled like one one of those rich people home cinema systems that costs 250k or whatever

    Bonus lmao:

    The home’s most fortified feature lies hidden behind a wood-paneled wall: a reinforced concrete safe room with a 2,000-pound door and an air filtration system built to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers standards.

  • Capcom told investors they're building for PC now. A year of broken performance, 10 million to 1 million in sales, and a PlayStation audience that never showed up forced their hand.

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  • Imagine the horror of being able to play any video game with a 5 year old graphics card, who would buy the overpriced scalped GPUs now?!

    Barring notable examples like STALKER 2 isn't this just now and has been for a while? I feel like I see so many people talking about their RTX 2000 series still being fine and I don't really see anyone futzing with ubermegaültragraphics anymore á la Crysis 1 back then, it seems to be mostly endless shaders for GTA IV and V.

  • I know way too many people using LLMs to validate their own batshit thoughts

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  • The underlying technology isn't really inherently bad, presenting it in chatbot format definitely is though.

  • I know way too many people using LLMs to validate their own batshit thoughts

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  • I think we’re going to hit some major problems not long from now as a significant portion of people start offloading their thinking to these corporate models.

    It's been surprising to me how many people seemingly suffer under the oppression of having to think. Like their ideal job would be white collar factory line work and when something unexpected comes up they ask the LLM and it tells them what to do and they do it. Just straight up locking yourself into the chinese room.

    Like even ignoring how bad LLMs generally are, apart from the obvious question of how you figure you, the friction between the computers just talking to each other, is gonna keep being employed and maybe even the far fledged (to the non technical people) question of "if anything in the real world that affects this excel file ever changes, what's the dataset you train that thing on when nobody is even doing it anymore" this just sounds like my personal hell. The only berable part of white collar work is problem solving and you want that automated away to just mindlessly type in numbers or click buttons for 8 hours a day?

  • Sell me on the 2010s Wolfenstein games

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  • imo all the mid shooters of that era have just aged terribly, singularity is the same way. It was novel back then that you have cool gimmick powers but it doesn't stand the test of time

  • Do you think they'll finally be able to depict people sleeping under the covers in GTA 6

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  • never stops being funny to me that this is such an issue and also that that issue has been solved by the charming janktastrophe: Deadly Premonition

  • Sell me on the 2010s Wolfenstein games

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  • There's a reason everyone forgot about that one

  • Bring back arbeit macht frei

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  • People 50+ years make up 60% of the german electorate. They don't exactly think germans don't work enough, they don't think young people work enough (to pay their pensions)

  • Upcoming Bicycle Tech: Indicators

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  • no way in hell would anybody add ~500g of weight at a minimum to their expensive carbon road bike

  • Upcoming Bicycle Tech: Indicators

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  • I think given sufficient infrastructure this is a bit of a non issue or otherwised solved by putting 2 eurodollar glowing slap bracelets on your arm, I find it fascinating mostly because I love bicycle gadgets.

    Having said that: I think there's quite a few cases with people with disabilities this'd be hella useful for or even just open up bicycle transportation at all and for beginners, if costs go down, this could also be good. I mean riding one handed is a skill distinct from being able to ride a bicycle.

    Positioning needs some work though imo, I've seen a lot of "mounted next to the rear brake light" solutions and it feels kind of too tiny as per distance. I think maybe some sort of Fisher 360° light approach'd work better, i.e. projects downwards also:

    This does have the problem of being still hard to see out of your angstpanzer 4.0 at any distance less than 20m, but I don't think you can engineer yourself out of that one without touching the angstpanzer 4.0

    also looks like Need for Bicycles: Underground 2 as a bonus tbh

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    Upcoming Bicycle Tech: Indicators

  • badposting @hexbear.net
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    There's so many distinct subgroups of "you don't have to eat vegetables"

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    Wheel World impression - finally, bicycle videogame

  • food @hexbear.net
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    preferrably vegan

    What is your recipe?

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    Snow removal is bureaucratically stupid

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    Genuinely how do I get better at this

  • traingang @hexbear.net
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    ASU study reveals that relying on a car beyond a certain level is linked to lower life satisfaction

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    Am I getting too good at SP videogames or is it just the mouse aim?

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    Update on Berlins instantly congested til shutdown urban Autobahn: We traffic simulated it but sadly, the car drivers don't adhere to our simulations

  • food @hexbear.net
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    The Bay Leaf confusion posting is a look into the abyss of what's wrong with cooking social media

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    Unusual Bicycles: Rowing Bikes

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    fuck the knife that resets the world what kind of ball bearing technology do all these lost civiliations have in tomb raider

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    CW: Sexual Violence

    The latest "woke" Tomb Raiders seem much more misoygnistic to me compared to the old ones

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    What even makes for good gamefeel?

  • traingang @hexbear.net
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    Something like 30% of any given dashcam video could be avoided by the recording party not being hugely carbrained

  • traingang @hexbear.net
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    Parking

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    Apologies to Chumbawumba of '98 "I get knocked down" fame for the ridicule I did not know y'all were moving like that

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    how the fuck is fortnite 150gb

  • badposting @hexbear.net
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    CHRIST ALIVE IMAGINE THAT! A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY POINTING GUNS AT A CITIZEN! JESUS CHRIST!

  • badposting @hexbear.net
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    If one more person claims they work in food production due to their geographical nearness to food production I'm flipping my shit