eSports at anything above “having a giggle” and WiFi network connectivity are mutually exclusive things.

Having any latency at all makes your lad about as much use as a one legged bloke in an arse kicking competition. He and his team should be on hardwired gigabit fibre, and that he isn’t should be seen as embarrassing for his institution.

For what it’s worth, I’m a simple home user (in the UK) and I have a gigabit fibre to the transceiver in the cellar, to a basic gigabit switch which routes to patch boxes in every room of my 150 year old house. That I can do that affordably and a supposedly professionally run institution can’t handle such is profoundly humiliating.

Perhaps try putting it like that to the powers that be and see how they react? 💛

Nature produces some absolutely terrifying and ruthless creatures. As awesome and capable as tigers are, you have to at least credit them with honesty and integrity. They are tigers and will act as such, you are prey and you will be hunted, maybe for the food, maybe just for the practice. With that, one can treat them with respect and care they deserve, and everyone involved can benefit. (We’re generally a long way from that, and animals like the tiger are being royally fucking shafted and exploited, but I digress.)

People however… People fucking scare me. Capable of such great things, but so easily led by their fickle and unstable emotions. Conniving and dishonest, and as likely to shiv you (metaphorically or literally) as help you, depending on their preconceived notions of who you are. Tribal, shortsighted, small-minded and fucking angry about it.

Give me tigers any day of the week.

“You can’t go around arresting the Thieves’ Guild. I mean, we’d be at it all day!”

As he should. You’re heating everything else in the fridge, making the fridge work far harder than usual and thus vastly accelerating both the fridge and it’s contents’ demise.

All totally correct.

Now, the billion dollar question. What are you going to do about it?

Not about some things, no.

This isn’t your fault, but is because an awful lot of people are simply fucking stupid, and will read it at face value.

Other people then have to expend great effort to explain the details of why it was only a joke, to someone who can’t count to ten, with their fingers to count on.

This has to be done because fucking stupid people get to vote too, and they take jokes as serious info.

That’s exactly where my brain went with their first comment. 😁

I’ve found an acid test for susceptibility to VR sickness. Driving in VR.

Most brains know what it feels like to be in a car, in control or otherwise. Feed in only the visuals of “being in a car” and watch the face turn green in tandem with the brain’s ancient “we’ve eaten poison!” subroutine kicking in.

In Elite: Dangerous, I can pirouette a Vulture round an asteroid field -permaboosting with flight assist off- shooting other ships all day long. Drop an SRV onto a moon and drive 100 metres, pass me the sick bucket.

I put this down to having plenty sensory memory of “car” but none of “high velocity space fighter”.

Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos pulls a close 2nd place for it’s genuine Newtonian physics at sub-light speeds.

Edit: Sniper PDCs and ranging everyone out, true space combat.

If that “fake artistic character” is a minor, that’s CSAM in some jurisdictions, and that leaves the instance admin legally on the hook for a whole range of offenses which are punishable by incarceration, huge fines, and/or life on a sex offenders register, and in some places, chemical castration.

So yeah, not near as fucking innocent as you make it out to be.

What the fuck? We can’t be actually helping these disabled, benefit scrounging, lazy scumbags FFS. If we do that, everyone with a disability will expect similar humane treatment, and frankly, that’s just not what Britain is about.

(Huge /s, for those that probably should be registered with a learning disability.)

A shitty flag made in China and cable tied to a lamppost suggests there is at least one racist piece of shit nearby.

To anyone non-white, that is a cause for alarm and distress. The fact you can’t conceive that notion speaks volumes about you.

Elite: Dangerous. 1300 hours and counting.

Frontier are an absolute shitcake of a company, and David Braben is a greedy motherfucker. The game is a mile wide and an inch deep, with some fucknasty game mechanics and grinds.

Despite all that and more, nothing I’ve played so far in my 44 years on this earth is quite as fucking cool an experience. It works well with all my simrig peripherals including the TrackIR, which helps the experience a lot I will admit. But still, it has it’s moments.

I do remember from waaay back in the day using the same syntax in DOS batch files. Shit’s probably just been carried over since then.

What the actual fuck is wrong with your “mother”?

I am aware that is no way to speak about someone’s family, but my dude… What the fuck?!

I’m not one to advocate for the death penalty, usually.

Using these two to make a case for it would have me seriously considering it though. I’m not talking injection or even hanging here, I mean a public fucking stoning.

English (Traditional), English (Simplified).

Consider for a moment that other people may not be in a position to simply “find another line of work”. Perhaps they have dependants, or medical issues, or any number of other situations that could prevent them from being able to retrain into another profession, or even to be able to switch employers.

You’re in a very privileged position if finding another line of work is something actually sensibly achievable.

The Argentinian moron is being strung along by Trump, who’s doing it because he sees it as him getting even for our staying away from his Iranian Self Own as best we could.

The US won’t seriously back Argentina on account of the Israeli interests operating in Falklands Territory, and when push comes to shove, the US loves chugging Israeli meat more than it gives a fuck about Argentina.

Not on the whole, no.

In short, there are groups of ignorant, useful idiots that are easily led by their prejudice, being led by right wing grifters who think they’re clever, who are in turn being led by rich grifters looking to cash in on selling off what’s left of the UK’s government services to private interests.