I think it's more along the lines of "I don't want the other guy to win" so they'd vote for a carrot over the offered Republican, who they know what they stand for. They'd prefer a better Dem, but anything to stem the bleeding.
The mentally deficient ones are the ones that can't seem to decide when the choices are obvious.
I certainly hope that now he, as Kevin Bacon, walks around telling strangers he loves them. Since now he knows how much it sucks to be a nobody.
The guardian is lower credibility? I guess I should get all my information from OAN or FOX, huh?
What the fuck is MFBR and why should I give a shit what it thinks? How do I know it's not biased?
Well hold on there, they do have a wide range of vegan products as well. Here's a quick Google to get a list of their vegan offerings:
https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/features/is-quorn-vegan-products/
In Blade Runner 2049, Weta Workshop had their laser pistols set up with a solenoid that moved back and forth with a trigger pull. Adam Savage looked at them in a Tested video. I don't know if it's cost prohibitive, but it sure seemed like the right way to do it.
However, you don't get smoke with that. You can definitely rig something up as they did it with a knock off nerf blaster in the 80's or even a cap gun, but at some point I assume the level of complexity makes modifying a real gun cheaper.
You could weld shut the barrel of a gun, which is what a lot of them do, but it seems like it's a cost cutting measure when they used real guns that would retain their value. Alec (as a producer) used a cheap setup with a cheap armorer that didn't know what they were doing. It's both of their faults.
It's a problem of scale. If a platform takes off, the site slows or goes down. They need to invest more on hosting, which drives up the prices. Then people leave because it's not reliable, and the company is left with a huge bill.
Maybe it'd be better to have multiple video sites with their own niche categories, instead of a one stop shop. That might be easier to maintain.
Man, this was so cool back in the day. Everyone wanted one, but it could've cost a million dollars for all I could afford. My best friend had it at his house but he didn't ever want to play ninja turtles, and then he switched schools. This is the unobtainium of my childhood. I'm sure I could get one now, but those days of wanting to play ninja turtles are long gone.
It's pretty cool to look at on the Internet, though!
I'm right there with you. I get the feeling that the richest people in power are counting on the coming apocalypse to solve it. What slows greenhouse gases, plastic usage, oil refining, overfishing, etc? Less people. We'll have oil wars, water wars, and kill/die off. Until then, make as much money as possible to wall yourself off in a bunker and survive. It's easier to continue to exploit the economy than to fix it, make less, and have less people die. If we're all dead, everything is solved for them and they've maximized profit that they can then use to boost survival and stay on top.
I don't see an incentive for them to do otherwise.
You might need to account for an extra day or two to dig down low enough in the rocky mountains. Unless you're working with a friend and they brought their own shovel.
That, and also that's not how the English language works.
And you call them steamed dilithium despite the fact that they're obviously crystalized.
And when he finally does die, we'll get an AI chat model of him to continue rambling on Twitter.
Very optimistic to believe he'd live that long in the first place. He'd be lucky to live through the next one, even. He's pretty old.
Nevermind being actually elected, or staying out of prison.
I don't know why they'd go for this. They already write the laws that Congress approved, and it costs far less than a billion. Heck, you can buy a congressman that'll sway the others for as low as 20k.
I imagine part of it is so Russia doesn't know exactly what Ukraine's military arsenal is.
"Oh the US just gave 10 tanks to Ukraine? Let's be on the lookout with our tank busters for 10, and after that we won't worry about tanks during our assaults."
It died in my area when they dropped the amount of spawn nodes to the point where you couldn't really walk around. You had to drive pretty far at that point, and that kill let most people's enthusiasm.
I don't know if it was complaints by local businesses or what, but after that I never saw large groups walking around again.
I don't trust anything that wormy little turtle scrotum says.
Unless it's death. I'd believe him if he dies.
Alas, I don't live in Kentucky and can't do anything about him continuing to be a political figure.
New parents of left handers
If you just found out your kid is a leftie, most of the world we can adapt to. But something that will make their school years easier, as well as their crafting ability, is left handed scissors. Once I got my pair, I found it was individually easier to cut things out. Try it - the typical pair is molded for a right hand, so it cuts into your thumb over extended use. But the worst part is the way the blades connect - you can't see what you're cutting! You have to hold your left hand far over your body's right side, or crane your neck over your hand to see what you're cutting. Otherwise, you just guess and it looks sloppy.
Keyboards, pianos, drums, doors, manual cars, all of this can be overcome. But scissors? Lefties need leftie scissors. I'm still using my pair 30 years later and they're worth their weight in gold.
Radioactive material storage?
I inherited my grandfather's WWII compass, and had it sitting around for a long time on a shelf. I recently got a Geiger counter, and find that it's radioactive. Around 10 microsieverts/hr. Apparently they used radium paint to make them glow in the dark. I can't just throw it away, but I don't want it potentially causing a danger to others in the room. Is there some sort of lead lined box I can put it in, or some kind of prevention I can do? Is there anyone experienced with this sort of thing that can offer some advice?
Fatal Direct X Error research and fixes
If you've been crashing in FFXIV and are greeted by the error "Fatal Direct X Error: 11000002", then hopefully this will help.
Fatal Direct X Error: 11000002 is, unfortunately, a GENERIC error. There's nothing specific about it, other than DirectX had a problem with the client and crashed. Square-Enix doesn't allow any debugging, and doesn't seem to be interested in digging deeper into this error. They always tell you to give them a readout of your specs, and re-verify your game files. Then they fade away if that doesn't work, because they don't know what else to do, either. There's simply too many factors in a generic error to know.
I've been dealing with this for about a year. I work in the IT industry, and this is what I've found so far (I have edited this down, so not all efforts are shown).
I have an AMD CPU, a Ryzen 7 3700X, and the R5700XT GPU. However, I also had this error with an Nvidia 1070. This started right around the time Endwalker launched.
Things I've tried that didn't seem to make a difference:
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Switching GPUs
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Replacing and Upgrading memory
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Changing timing of memory in BIOS
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Updating BIOS
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Updating/Downgrading GPU drivers
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Uninstalling Adrenaline software
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Turning off ALL other programs on a fresh boot up
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Removing overlays (Discord, AMD Adrenaline junk, closing Steam even though it's not running through Steam)
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Using GPU Studio drivers (AMD)
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Using GPU MS graphics drivers
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Disabling SMT (AMD CPU Simultaneous Multithreading)
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Reinstalling DirectX
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Reinstalling/re-verifying FFXIV game files
Things I did that seemed to help:
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Disabling Real Time Reflections and Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSBAO+ Quality) (these are in-game options) - turns out, SSBAO is very intensive and causes frequent crashing if you're prone to these errors already. This made the biggest difference and increased my time between crashes.
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Capping frame rate at 1:1 instead of Unlimited. If you don't have a 1:1 option, Unlimited is likely a better choice. That's what I found on my 1070.
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Making sure that both monitors used the same cable method (DisplayPort) and thus could have the same refresh rate. I originally used on DisplayPort and one HMDI - despite having two of the same monitors, this limited HDMI's frame rate and caused more crashes. You want all monitors on the same refresh rate, especially if you change focus from the game to something else.
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Turn off Full Screen Enhancements in the Properties of the FFXIV launcher shortcut.
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UNDERVOLTING the 5700XT via Adrenaline menu - if it didn't crash my system, I had less fatal directx errors this way
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Turning off xBox gaming overlay in Windows
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Turning off Game Mode in Windows - this supposedly "Helps achieve a more stable frame rate depending on the specific game and system" but in practice seemed to hamper FFXIV performance.
Things I did that made it worse:
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Running video on my second monitor/switching focus to that monitor
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Switching to Windowed Mode (Fullscreen or Borderless Windowed mode worked slightly better)
Clues I learned along the way:
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Inside most cities and other high-intensity areas that Square-Enix can predict, they seem to cap fps or effects for stability. So I rarely crashed in Limsa or the Golden Saucer. However, I most commonly crashed in dungeons, raids, and trials. Phase 2 of the Ultima Weapon in the MSQ Roulette was very common.
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After running sfc/scannow and rebooting, the next two crashes gave me a blue screen and actual memory .DMP files. They said the graphics card had "invalid fence IDs". This means that the GPU returned results either too fast, or too slow, from what the CPU was expecting and allotted. The BSODs happened much faster, about 10-20 minutes into play. Not like a slow buildup of hours like before. This time, it seemed to indicate that something was checking for data slower than the GPU could push out results. Meaning, the GPU was processing too fast for its own good. So I undervolted the GPU. I have seemed to stay more stable, but this didn't fix the problem completely.
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I also had a problem with sound cutout in Frontlines when playing Seal Rock - and it wouldn't restart even if I restarted my audio services. Turns out, FFXIV uses a lower-level access method to access the sound drivers directly instead of going through Windows services. This is controlled by "exclusive access" which you can actually see in your sound options in Windows. You want FFXIV to have exclusive access. And "Give Priority". I had to disable my monitors as audio devices in Device Manager (DisplayPort can send audio, like HDMI). Even though they had no speakers, FFXIV was momentarily confused on which device to use. It wouldn't repair itself until I closed and reopened the game. I disabled my GPU from being an audio source. This left me with my motherboard's Realtech driver as the sole source of audio, so there was no more confusion. I also turned off my Gamepad options in the FFXIV menu, which apparently also does something with audio. Why do I bring this up? Because I suspect the video runs the same way - bypassing Windows control. So when you use all these new Windows features, they just interfere with communication between the game and your hardware. Turning off as much of it as possible is ideal. If you troubleshoot with that in mind, you'll likely have better success.
My solution: I tested again by switching graphics cards. I put my old 1070 card back in, and haven't crashed since, even when I turn on Real Time Reflections and SSAO again. The frame rate suffers, but I can tell that it renders better. Real Time Reflections specifically looks better than with the AMD setup. While I believe that this is not a problem exclusive to AMD GPUs or even the 5700xt, it does seem like it exacerbates the problem. The RX5700xt just has poor drivers and poor hardware (the GPU screws can't get tight enough to hold the heatsink on fully). I think my other configuration issues like the two different cables causing two different refresh rates caused my crashes on the 1070 initially. In the end, I bought another graphics card (4070) and haven't had an issue. I suspect other AMD cards would probably be ok as well, if their drivers were written properly. There's a lot of problems with the RX5700xt physically (short screws can't keep the heat sink on the chip well) and driver-wise.
I hope this helps somone else out there!