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That feeling I felt sitting in my cousin’s basement in June of 1996 playing Super Mario 64 for the first time.

Freespace 2 is one of my favorite sci-fi stories, and an incredible game. Has shockingly good ongoing mod support, there are tons of high quality, fully voice acted campaigns.

I was into Tribes: Ascend, and feel a lot of fomo about missing out on Tribes 2

I played this for the first time a few months ago, it is gnarly. Incredible art style.

The explanation I saw that the Blackhawk pilot got confused about which airplane he was supposed to be paying attention to kind of brings up the obvious question of “why the hell were they flying through the approach corridor of a major airport?” I normally try to refrain from backseat quarterbacking subjects I don’t have expertise in, but it seems obviously reckless.

Inspirational

It’s gonna be devices that are supposedly neuralink style mind/machine interfaces, but are really just fancy mood rings.

Holy shit, I thought you were making a joke, but they really did.

They won’t hesitate to do that for their pet issue.

The whitehead remaster’s inclusion of spin dash and elemental shields gives you enough extra tools to make this a pretty fun zone to navigate.

The 1991 version, though… well, I don’t want to break rule #3. I will just suggest that there is an overly high skill floor to navigating Marble Zone quickly.

Unironically, one of the ways that I matured and became more wise as a person was understanding the true power of love.

You’re hitting on a deep point: that it’s not merely that freedom of movement that is hampered by borders, but that it creates completely bizarre and artificial geographical social complexity that has no bearing on the real, actual activities and cultural fabric of the people who cross those borders. Many of you live next to a border: reflect on how in adds complexity and inefficiency to your lives for no particular reason. Particularly egregious are political borders that run along rivers - the people of these regions are usually united by the river, but then the border creates nonsensical division (Kansas City comes to mind as a city united by rivers, and then fucked with by borders).

I’m not sure, they’re out-of-stock. The grocery store website claims $5.99 per dozen.

One of the most pervasive aspects of American propaganda in media is how CIA and other government ghouls are always depicted as hyper-competent and logical. But even a casual reading of history reveals their real character as frat boys who think they’re the hottest shit ever.

In conjunction with this consolidation, we’ve also seen a reduction in industry capacity from actions like REV Group’s shutdown of its KME plants. What is curious about that shutdown in particular is that it came in the face of rapidly increasing demand: As federal COVID-19 assistance filled state and local government coffers, fire truck orders grew approximately 50% from 2020 to 2022, reaching roughly 6,000 for the first time since 2008. Since then, order activity has remained strong, hovering between 5,500 and 6,500. As a result, both REV Group and Oshkosh have seen their backlogs skyrocket over the last two years. The latest available data shows that REV Group had a $4.2 billion backlog on fire and emergency vehicle orders in the United States as of October 2024, while Oshkosh had a $5.3 billion backlog on fire apparatus orders globally as of June 2024. And yet, neither company appears to be making significant investments in additional manufacturing capacity to rapidly cut down its backlog — or even concerned that multi-year delays in delivery might lead customers to bail on their orders.

Indeed, it appears that the dominant manufacturers have managed to turn their delivery failures into financial advantage. Using the purported difficulty of projecting material costs over a 2-3-year lead time as an excuse, they have imposed “floating” price clauses onto their customers — allowing them to increase the final price of a rig when it finally goes into production. In effect, the bottleneck in fire truck production that REV Group, Oshkosh, and to a lesser extent, Rosenbauer created with their M&A and operating strategies are giving them even more bargaining power vis-à-vis fire departments. Not only that but, according to REV Group’s SEC reports, the twenty-four-month backlog it is running is literally enhancing its value to shareholders — AIP being the largest among them — by giving the company “strong visibility into future net sales.”

Altogether, these facts paint an alarming picture. A handful of financiers have been allowed to transform a critical, once-vibrant industry into a rent-extracting racket.

There’s a broad sea of possibile ways for national productivity to be coordinated so that sufficient fire trucks of good enough quality get into the hands of local governments. It doesn’t have to be “government directly owns firetruck factories and logically forecasts needs and matches production”. But it most certainly should not be “local governments get raked over the coals engaging in a darwinistic market free-for-all for firetrucks from a triopololy of fire truck makers”. From just a pure national productivity point of view, this is obviously a huge dead weight loss to society in service of profits for a niche industry.

This sentiment is really common among the general American public, I’ve had this very talk with co-workers before. To them, it’s a simple, logical solution that wraps everything up in a neat bow. How to I explain to them the fundamental unfairness of it, and that this “solution” is precisely what Palestinians and their Arab neighbors have been violently opposed to since the foundation of Israel?

Nintendo’s native support of S-video on their consoles SNES onward has been a blessing in this era. Not only does it look really good on late era CRTs, but it even looks decent LCD TVs with S-video.

The N64 really is one of those consoles that is a better experience with OG hardware.

I would go ahead and open it up and get a coating of superlube 21030 on the cup. You’re not going to break it unless you’re forcing something apart. And prevemptively getting lube on these will dramatically extend their useful life.