Fun fact, Condorcet is the inventor of RCV, and threw it out because it almost never produces the Condorcet winner.

I’m an opponent of RCV for none of those reasons.

No, I hate it because it’s deeply flawed and provides zero of the benefits that proponents claim it does.

Rather than help third parties, it actually hurts them.

The inventor of the system, created it as an example of a bad voting system. This was in 1790.

There’s far more ballot spoilage when compared to any other system.

It doesn’t eliminate the spoiler effect, just kicks it down the ballot a bit,

It’s confusing to count, which has led to the wrong candidate being sworn in.

It requires centralized counting, which is a single point of failure or attack.

And finally there are better, simpler systems that actually do the things that RCV proponents claim RCV

It’s a fun game, and the movement system was not actually that hard to learn.

But the upper level players are all doing animation interrupts to put out crazy combos for much faster movement and attacks.

A beginner will learn these interrupts just by playing an hour or so, but chaining them? That takes skill and dedication beyond the norm.

I do remember winning the occasional match, but it was rare. Overall it was a fun game.

GunZ is still around? I played that game back in the day. I remember the skill curve being somewhat vertical…

That list is super helpful. So many games to avoid. Although, I was somewhat surprised by the number of Denuvo removed I’ve gotten through Humble.

This particular final patch, the eighth major patch, is it. The contracts with Wizards of the Coast are expiring, which frees Larain Studios to work on different games.

While there will certainly be more games in the series, this particular one is effectively done.

Well, security through obscurity never really did work

Another distro that’s easy to get going for gaming is Garuda.

Also, the easiest way to switch to any distro is to get a USB drive and install a program called Ventoy. Then you throw your install iso onto the Ventoy drive, boot from USB, and you’re good to go.

As a tip, pick up an external drive large enough for your Steam library. Then in Steam, you right click on each game and select Manage/Back up game files.

Doing it this way will save you days of downloading.

XP might actually be somewhat safe to connect by now. Most of the viruses and worms have updated past it by now.

I’m counting game installations. Then there’s the fact that NoScript seems to reset every time I swap operating systems, so now I have to figure out what I’ve allowed and blocked before…

Then there’s the pruning of random shit that was auto installed. Some of that shit can take days to find.

But most of the pain is when I try to do X, and need to find a program that will do it. This happens in Windows and Linux, and either will have programs that work, but then I have to find the program and learn it, and then let enough time pass where I have to do it all over again.

The most recent example was a map making program for my Table Top RPG obsession. One program that’s a go-to under Windows (with possible Linux capability?) is called AutoRealm. Which hasn’t updated since 2013… But it’s still one of the most powerful fractal mapping programs I’ve ever lightly used.

I’ve swapped back and forth between Linux and Windows a half dozen times now, and I can honestly say, both are a bitch to set up from a clean install.

Even with guides and autoloading scripts and whatnot, it’s still going to be a few days of pain while you try to figure out what else needs to be installed to use the computer the way you want to use it.

Or that’s how it works for me.

I mostly just wish more games were linux native.

More than one test failed.

The Tesla failed the heavy rain and the heavy fog tests.

There’s zero excuse to fail either of those tests. But the Tesla killed the kid both times.

The wall test was just to show that the Tesla cannot put together optical clues.

The other two tests that the Tesla failed were more realistic. Heavy fog and heavy rain.

It failed both.

If your self driving car cannot handle weather, then it’s not self driving at all.

Actual lidar isn’t fooled by weather. Shitty optical only cameras are.

It’s doubtful that they killed him, he was just a kid when they took him. They have him squirrelled away somewhere, having gone through heavy indoctrination. Just waiting for the Dali Lama to die.

That hinges entirely on whomever holds the loan.

If it was one person, then no way. But it’s not just 1 person, it’s more than 100.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/these-are-the-investors-who-helped-elon-musk-acquire-twitter-in-2022/ar-AA1pguJS

There are investment groups in that list, and ties to the Saudis and Russians.

The investment groups might be legally required to margin call if the stock price falls too far, but none of them will hold the full loan.

To be fair, every Air Force base had higher than average Reddit usage back in the day. It was one of the few websites not blocked by default. I don’t know when that changed, Because I was out before then.

But yes, there are also the propaganda teams.

Either that or Trump is following orders.

The CIA wishes they were even a tenth as competent as you think they are.

Go read any of the declassified reports of CIA activity, starting with the Church commission.

Or the actual events of Benghazi.

The truth is, the CIA is full of bumbling chucklefucks who have no clue if the actions they take will have the effect they want.

They can do a lot of damage, but like you, they also tend to believe the Hollywood myth making.

This belief doesn’t make them any more competent, but it does make them more reckless and dangerous.

Hardness isn’t the best thing to have in armor. In fact, extreme hardness means extreme brittleness.

Tensile strength is more desirable in armor. That’s the sort of strength that a string or rope, or Kevlar will have.

Those can stretch a bit before breaking.

Kevlar will stretch a bit when catching a bullet, this does a few things, but importantly it slows the bullet before stopping it.

So this new material will likely show extreme tensile strength rather than hardness.

Notch was primed for that shit long before Minecraft took off. He posted early builds to 4chan, and was an active shitposter there.

The money just made him stop paying attention to anything else.