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That picture is amazing, lol.

Oh, I see what you’re saying. Thanks for the explanation!

The character’s auction house gear sales are classic RMT scammer money trades, where they put horrible gear up for ridiculous prices as a way to move ingame currency around between mules.

I thought poe2 didn’t have a real AH, just currency market. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re trying to say.

Rest of the stuff checks out though.

IIRC, he already is.

Sooo, as a Canadian, I’m pretty sure I have the authority to speak for all of us, and as much as I’d love to have you all, I’d rather not tempt fate and accidentally start a war.

Also, Indiana, Idaho, South Dakota and Wyoming, you’re expressly not allowed in.

Yep, pretty much.

If you watch to the end, the reason she can’t get to her online classes was because her ISP’s configuration CD was windows only.

So if we’re looking to find fault, it’s partly Dell for insisting everything would just work, partly Verizon for not having a good Linux process, and partly her for not just calling her ISP for tech support.

Carnists having a good ol’ game of “muddy the waters, then play coy”.

All good! :)

still choosing to misread what I said

I’m struggling to understand your philosophical position. If you believe that plants deserve moral consideration, how would that not lead to avoiding killing animals as a way to minimize loss of plant life?

Speaking of not reading…

The article itself is actually much more sympathetic.

I literally pointed out that the title is incongruous with the rest of the article. Did you bother reading my whole comment before replying?

The implication is that disproportionately helping black people is somehow problematic. The article itself is actually much more sympathetic. Makes me wonder if it wasn’t an editorial decision.

Compare:

How Federal Ruling To Wipe Medical Debt From Credit Reports Helps Address Historic Inequality

Yeah, I’m just glad the popularity of streaming sites keeps eyes off the torrent scene.

It took me longer than I’d like to admit to realise this was satire. Pretty good read, TBH.

I know it’s a joke, but this really rubs me the wrong way, as it plays off the idea that homeless people are homeless because they’re deviants somehow, not just unlucky individuals who fell through the cracks.

Fact is that giving homeless people a sizeable cash injection and a place to live often has very good outcomes in them being able to turn their lives around.

Good work by the author on punching down.

How would that even work? Like, small segments in immersive VR? That seems… very specific.

Yes exactly. They did this in theatres where small sections of the movie would be in 3D. There’d be a blinking icon to tell you when to put your 3D glasses on.

The problem with 3d anaglyphs is that there’s a tradeoff: To get the depth information across, there’s a big loss in colour reproduction. It’s fine as a gimmick, but doing the whole movie that way probably isn’t the best idea.

VR headsets just have a different set of tradeoffs (hot, sweaty and isolating ;) which make them basically equally undesirable for a good viewing experience.

The idea behind having only sections in 3d is that you only accept the tradeoffs when they’re most worthwhile.

It’d actually be kinda cool if there were movies with supplemental VR. That is, mostly 2d but with VR headset sections. I know they had this in the theatres in thr past with red/blue VR glasses, but it’d look so much better with a good VR headset.

The issue is that it’s a bit of a hard sell within an already limited market segment. You’d need to already have a largeish TV, and then also a 3D headset on the same PC.

I’d think most VR enthusiasts would have their VR on either a standalone unit or on a gaming PC, not on their HTPC.

As you’ve said, watching an entire film in VR is kinda ass.

Just embrace being horny on main. :) Unless you’re American. Then instead of you coming, they’ll be coming for you in the next 4+ years.

o7

Yep, agreed. It’s the potential for exploitation that’s the main issue.

Don’t get me wrong, Vanguard is BS, and I quit playing riot games because of it. However, simply having low level access isn’t sufficient to classify it as spyware, otherwise drivers would be spyware. I still haven’t seen any evidence that it currently does anything nefarious with that access, which means it’s quite unlikely it’s being used for mass surveillance.

To me, there are 2 problems: 1) It could be used for targeted attacks, and the likelihood anyone would find out is much lower than in a widespread surveillance scenario. 2) It could be used to deploy a massive bot-net.

I think the US reclassification here is precautionary in nature.