Speaking of which, IDK why anyone would want a Mach-E. Sat in one and it was mind-blowing just how Spartan the interior of those cars are. Even the real Mustangs have have nicer interiors, and sports cars aren’t exactly known for their luxury. But the Mustang might as well be a Bugatti by comparison to the Mach-E.

Noticed that trend in a lot of EVs lately, actually. They all seem to have the same bare-bones, Tesla-like interiors: all you get is just a steering wheel, somefake leather seats, some vents, and a giant screen that covers half the dashboard. And they expect people to pay $100K for these econo-boxes.

Well it’s not a very good one.

I know, I’m just trying to piss them off. People really hate being called a troll when they’re being serious. Counter-trolling, if you will.

Of course, explaining it kind of ruins it but oh well.

God damn you’re a grade A troll. Your comments are almost believable but no one is this stupid. I applaud you for your efforts.

Nobody’s even buying EVs right now, so this won’t really affect Tesla that much at all. Dealers are stuck with a bunch of new inventory that no one wants, because once the COVID bubble burst, everyone realized how overpriced and underequipped they are. I took a ride in that SUV “Mustang” once and was blown away by how Spartan the interior is. Same goes for the Jaguar I-Pace. Even my 350Z, made in the era when Nissan was cutting corners to save money, has a nicer interior than some modern EVs. Yet dealers are expecting people to fork over $60k+ for these bare-bones cars.

To matters worse, you have morons going onto TikTok because they didn’t do their homework before buying, didn’t have a charger installed in their house, and then go crying about things like charging times and range because they have to spend several hours every day sitting at a public charger after work. They just thought that they could plug their car into a 120v wall outlet and it would be able to charge the car enough. And then other morons watch those videos and eat that shit up.

I just wanted to say that I’m proud of you for using the proper form of “its”. It’s a tricky one, for sure.

The early 2010s was peak BIOS design. When I built a new PC in 2022 to replace my 2014 4th gen i5 machine, I was amazed to discover that the BIOS interface in my brand new, $500 AM5 motherboard was actually worse than the one in my old $120 board.

The old one ran at my display’s native resolution (1080p at the time), had a contemporary interface, and cool stats showing on the left and right sides of the screen. Meanwhile the BIOS in my modern PC runs at 1024x768, is mostly text-based, and so many settings are just buried several menus deep. IDK if this is an AMD problem or an AM5 problem (not a motherboard manufacturer problem cause they’re both Gigabyte boards), but it was a shock to the system for sure to see how badly the tech has regressed.

All this talk about the old analog phone networks reminds me of this YouTube channel I like to fall asleep to. It’s a bunch of recordings made by a phone phreak from back in the day. He narrated his recordings in modern times to explain what he was doing, and then stuck them all on YouTube. I discovered a whole new world that I didn’t know existed because it disappeared long before our time.

The quirks of the old phone systems being analog by nature allowed for some really neat things to happen that are impossible today. Such as being able to hear more and more noise being added to the to the signal as each node connects during a long distance call, effectively allowing you to “feel” the distance. Or did you know that if a bunch of people in an area called the same wrong number and shouted loud enough, they could hear each other in between the “your call cannot be completed” recording? It was basically a way for complete strangers to have a conversation with each other in a pre-intenet era. It’s some really fascinating stuff.

I don’t think you can, but the game is so boring that I never played long enough to find out. That’s the point I’m making. I’m not interested in a multiplayer game if there are no randoms to run into. Might as well just play an SP game.

No.

The sameness of every planet was a major turnoff for me, plus the scale of the universe pretty much guarantees that you’ll never run into another player organically. The game is basically just Minecraft in space, except bad.

This is the reason why I don’t like procedurally-generated games. What’s the point of a big, massive universe, if it’s nothing but a bunch of generated sameness? Environments that weren’t handcrafted are a major turnoff for me. As someone who sees video games as art, it just feels soulless and empty. Like AI-generated art, except it’s an entire game.

When she speaks, she sounds like she doesn’t even believe her own bullshit. Or anything at all, for that matter. She gives off no emotions at all. I’m not entirely convinced she’s even human. Just a zombie in human skin. AI behaves more realistically than her.

But human poop is perfectly fine? You saw that one Mythbusters episode, right? Feces is everywhere.

Bruh you forgot about me… :|

Pretty sure I asked for Arkham Knight before anyone else. No point in complaining about free lunch, but still…

Leaded gasoline, asbestos, and cigarette smoke easily adds two decades to your appearance. That’s why high schoolers in the 80s looked like they were in their 30s back then.

Case in point: here’s footage of Biden when he became the country’s youngest senator at 30. Dude legitimately looks 50 in this news report.

There is no guarantee, because they’re not seeding. There’s one hit-and-run, then the torrent is cached on a server for anyone to directly download. Again, IMO one hit-and-run is still better than thousands.

Correct. Without a Debrid service, you stream the torrent directly from the tracker. It’s also slow AF for all but the most popular content so you really don’t want to go without.

(In my experience most torrents are already cached on Debrid, BTW, so there’s no hit and run since you’re just downloading the file directly from a server.)

Caching a torrent isn’t leeching. Like the other person said, it actually helps because it prevents multiple people from doing a hit and run. The torrent only needs to get cached once, and then everyone can just directly download that file, bypassing the torrent entirely.

Stremio is free, the service you need to cache the torrents (Real-Debrid) isn’t. It’s about $/€3 per month, which is still cheaper than a VPN (which you need for torrents but not for Stremio/Debrid).

Stremio isn’t going away, just like Qbittorrent isn’t going away.

It doesn’t actually host any illegal content. Stremio alone is nothing more than a film and TV database. It’s not illegal to make a database.

I’d argue that you’re not really hurting the torrent, since most torrents are already pre-cached. It only needs to be cached once for thousands to enjoy the file.

Yeah it’s not ideal, but one hit and run isn’t going to make a dent in the grand scheme of things.