Recent content by rhinohelix

This ad about why Socialism sucks is brought to you by Reality™. Now imagine the whole economy is run this way, and they shoot people who don't meet those quotas. It's how millions of people starve in every Marxist system and why they all have to be backed up with totalitarian force of arms...

I swear PVP based MMOs are almost like Communism, in that they keep failing and people keep trying them regardless of the outcome. Other than Shadowbane? or maybe Archeage or possibly original UO (debatable), has anyone done open world PVP successfully? I know lots of games had it has a tiny...

See, some of those IDEAS are amazing! in concept but someone has to make them work well. And make them work well on a small level. Make a single city work like this. All MMOs are graphical front ends for databases and database interactions/transformations. Per Daidraco, I think they were...

The originals were delivering a base level of functionality in a static, theme park world. What Steven and Intrepid were trying to create is massively, massively more complex, involving destructibility, weather, seasons, day/night cycles, player building, PVP, and evolving world, etc et al AND...

Took my daughter to see this. It was OK; she was a fan of the game/experience whatever it was. It was showing at River Oaks Theater, which is an old-school cinema, non-stadium seating, for instance, 4:3 screen, but she was hyped, so we went. Sound mix was what most people said about Tenet...

I paid for a key but have had serious concerns since Intrepid and Steven had their falling out with Narc. I guess it was too much burn and not fast enough to get to release. Edit: You just can't launch with WoW/More than WoW functionality straight out of the gate. I mean, Elon could fund it as...

I sold cars for a couple of years as my day job during the week after I changed direction from Law Enforcement, and it was a great learning experience. I was pretty good at it and worked at a couple of dealerships, selling Fords, BMWs, Pontiac/GMC, and used. There were good sales and bad sales...

Update: I switched over to running Abyss and got a few of good Omen drops that let me put together a build for less than 100 Div, which while maybe not having some of the ultra rare items, did allow me to put together a build for my plant druid that worked pretty well; asset inflation also...

We've had that over the years with the various floods and hurricanes. It's like carnies that follow storms, doing roofs and cleaning up trees/limbs etc. Some are OK and the others grifters following the money and looking for elderly and others to make them marks. We've got three or four tree...

I just bought a bunch of unnecessary junk I need to return but I had one of these and some other toys in my cart. Soon my dear, soon...

The panic here in Houston is ridiculous. People are still completely shell shocked from the Great Freeze of 2021. Stores, even HEB, are out of everything. The really bad news is supposedly there is another one coming next weekend, although how bad yet to be seen.

I saw that. There is going to be a not a bust but a transition, and corps are going to probably be getting a national security bailout on this one. AI isn't going away but hopefully this sagging of the whole bitcoin style will give way.

I love technology and the Internet but there is something to be said for Agent Smith's speech as he interrogates Morpheus in The Matrix:

I have seen DM live more than any other band. Staring in 1988, we would regularly go to most shows in Texas: later when I could afford it we'd get seats in the first 5 rows. I last went to a show in 2014. After 2014 ticket prices just outstripped what I thought it was worth to sit up front: In...

Supremely underrated Carpenter film. Super thought provoking for me, not in the way the storyline of the movie unfolds but rather potentially what we experienced as interaction with Divinity and Evil, spirituality could actually be spirits interacting with us in the material plane at the...