I’m not super knowledgeable with how it works, but it is essentially a system for seamless jumps between multiple servers “meshing” them together so there is zero noticeable lag time between them. There isn’t a single loading screen going across multiple star systems, which is a pretty significant achievement, especially given how detailed the game itself is.

I’ve never played World of Warcraft or really any MMO, but it is my understanding that there are areas to load into new places (a short black screen on entering a building, a “portal” to another zone, etc.).

It definitely is actually “playable” now, and I’ve had a good amount of fun playing it this year, but it certainly isn’t ready for release or anything.

That said, the network infra they have created is pretty cool: 600+ player servers with relatively little issue, and the goal of 1000 long term is quite a feat of engineering.

They fucked themselves overpromising so much back at the beginning by giving the release dates they did while using like, Unity or something, and now they have the infra/engine to deliver, but nobody trusts them to actually do so.

Yeah…that definitely isn’t a nice thought :(

Never smoked weed or had a drop of alcohol here!

Honestly, your question is somewhat unsettling, as I’m not sure it is exactly healthy to only feel joy while under the influence of chemicals, so that might be something you should ask a medical professional about.

That said, surely you experienced joy as a child before using weed/alcohol at some point in your life, right? I guess in a lot of ways, I still feel that same spark of happiness or excitement I did when I was a kid. The things that sparked it may have changed somewhat, but the same feeling is there.

Yeah…pretty much

It’s no surprise voter apathy is so high in this country

Hillary in '16

My entire voting life has been votes against over votes for when I think about it :(

Isn’t that a self-propelled artillery piece? I wanna say like an M109 or something

Premise reminds me of The Integral Trees a lot

I don’t wanna get banned for saying China does bad things too lol

I guess the logical progression is to go after the most accessible level…meaning eventually the office workers would probably be a target, which isn’t great.

That, or people go after, like, their extended families instead…which isn’t exactly great either…

Maybe flooding a country with firearms and putting them into its constitution isn’t such a good idea

Its my understanding that subsonic ammo sometimes won’t have enough gas to move the slide fully and must be done manually like this

Scientific advancement in space experimentation leads to breakthroughs in other areas - all scientific progress is interconnected.

“Pushing science towards solving the most immediate and important problems” is sort of a nonsense statement, as there could be new efficiencies/strategies that are discovered in fields that are completely unrelated to what would normally be associated with “the most immediate and important problems.”

Its going to be interesting seeing the Republicans do their batshit policies, as people REALLY hate having their bottle taken away (“bottle” in this case being the ACA, prices of goods, abortion access, etc.)

The United States just needs a reminder of just how bad things can be. They’ll learn if you keep hitting them hard enough…

My musing is not the sole reason why I’m voting for Harris, but you are correct that it is not exactly up to her (which of course kind of undermines the continuous claims I see from people saying she could end the genocide right this second).

I actually wonder if she has a different stance on Israel but simply will not/cannot talk about it because she is also the VP and it’s a “bad look to go against the boss,” so to speak.

Unlike the Republicans, I am of course being facetious in my statements, though, one could make an argument such a thing is already occurring with Police and minorities…

That said, the plans Republicans have put forward absolutely do include the outright killing of “pedophiles,” with “pedophile” being defined as "any person that distributes obscene content to minors or espouses “sexually explicit things to kids,” effectively allowing them to kill drag queens or LGBT+ people as their very existence is labeled as obscenely content for minors.

I don’t know why the Dems don’t drop some of their gun control policies, but its not an issue I’m really super concerned with either way compared to other things.

Yeah…its so obviously bullshit, which sucks, because I agree it is terrible what is happening in Gaza, but these mouthbreathers don’t seem to grasp that the world isn’t an easily defined place and solutions aren’t ever easy (inb4 I get one of them screaming “JuSt sToP vOtInG fOr ThEm” or whatever, lol).

“Fix your goddamn country”

Ah yes, let me just snap my fingers and fix all the problems of where I live lol

Another day, another smattering of “leftists” in safe blue states trying to be armchair activists while folks in red states fight to not be hunted for sport by the ruling class.

I’m sure glad it’s easy to hide behind “both parties bad” or whatever nonsense they come up with this time.

Sigh… we both know this isn’t going anywhere. Neither of us will give in because both of us feel strongly about our positions and will not budge on them because of our feelings that we are doing the right thing (and no amount of saying I support genociders will change that).

Anything you say that’s less than Russia totally pulling out of Ukraine I can easily say is supporting genocidal dictators in the same way you say voting for the Democrats is supporting genocidal regimes and we can keep going back and forth ad nauseum, so I’ll save us both the trouble.

Just remember, the average American is wildly less socially conscious than you’d like to believe, though the fact that so many poor factory workers are anti-union should make that somewhat self-evident. Whatever you plan to do better be a bit more compelling than just talking about Muslims a world away to the decidedly closed-minded rural population of Middle America.