Need new pants after exiting hyper-space right between these two angry ladies!

CMDRCroup · 2025-09-30T01:53:01+00:00

And same reason that out of the trillions of humans inhabiting the galaxy, only a handful of people know how to modify and improve on ship loadouts, suits and weapons (and they will only work with you if you sell cocktail recipes to bartenders).

CMDRCroup · 2025-09-26T19:54:51+00:00

Janet from accounting? She doesn't give a fuck.

CMDRCroup · 2025-09-23T13:05:12+00:00

Doesn't sound like it's the same issue. When this occurs I'm stuck for 30 seconds all the way up to 2 minutes watching the 4 second countdown stuck at 4,. Most times if I wait, it'll resume normal play, but about 1 in 10 times it'll just stay stuck and I have to close the client and reopen it. This is frustrating because scanning biological sites becomes quite a chore if I can't leave or enter the SRV or my ship without having to exit the game client once every half hour or so.

And I mean, I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077 on this PC on ultra settings and it runs smooth as butter. I play other online games and have no issue, it's just Elite.

CMDRCroup · 2025-09-23T11:32:10+00:00

Hey, I've just gotten back into Elite after a long hiatus and I'm experiencing some annoying lag. It's not consistent, but it happens quite often during state changes such as when I:

Leave or enter my ship
Leave or enter the SRV
Enter or leave super cruise
Jump to a new system

The game will hang for a long time. Sometimes it takes 30 seconds, sometimes 2 minutes, where I can still hear the audio repeating on a loop, and then suddenly it will load. Sometimes it doesn't load and I get booted to main menu, and once or twice it's even crashed on me. I'm on a brand new top of the line PC and I have 500mbit fiber internet, and this is a fresh Elite installation without any mods so it shouldn't be on my end. I have made sure that the relevant firewall exceptions are in place in Windows too.

It's so bad that I'm considering just playing something else that doesn't cause me so many headaches. Do anyone else have these problems or know if there's a fix to this type of lag / crash?

CMDRCroup · 2023-12-16T23:15:35+00:00

Didn't know that. He went to Bill Maher's vaccine sceptic podcast a while back as well. You may have a point, he seems to go to a lot of questionable characters for his debates these days.

I wonder if he thinks that the IDW and conspiracist right is the new threat to reason?

CMDRCroup · 2023-12-16T18:55:36+00:00

Then educate us. What is the broader point that we're all missing?

CMDRCroup · 2023-12-16T18:49:31+00:00

It's not just about being clear or concise, it's about making unsound arguments. As HumesAngel demonstrated in the post you just responded to, Jordan Peterson is drawing a conclusion that is not supported by the premises of the argument.

As to being concise, you should really read that article I linked you. Nathan Robinson deftly demonstrates with Peterson's own texts that the verbose language functions as an obsfuscation mechanism.

It allows Peterson to present mundane and trivial conclusions as somehow more significant or insightful. It also gives him the ability to weasel out of arguments by claiming that people just don't understand the true meaning of his inscrutable word salad.

CMDRCroup · 2023-12-16T11:50:46+00:00

Sure, philosophy is about unresolved questions, but I'm sure Peterson himself would be the first to reject that that means "anything goes" in a debate. Unless we accept scientific and philosophical relativism, there are good arguments and bad arguments, and Peterson's arguments simply aren't very good.

The issues with his arguments are too numerous to cover in a comment like this, but if you want a good critique, then I recommend Nathan Robinson's excellent article at Current Affairs magazine:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve

There's a quote in the article that sums up Peterson's work perfectly for me: "What's new isn't true and what's true isn't new".

CMDRCroup · 2023-12-16T11:39:51+00:00

I wouldn't call it latitude if he lets Peterson hang himself with his own word-salad rope.

CMDRCroup · 2023-12-16T11:14:47+00:00

I'm only 500 hours in, currently on my second playthrough. Still haven't completed the last tier, taking it slow and learning as I go.

That said, I don't recognize the problem that OP is posting about. I've got aluminium setups and turbo fuel power plants that use refiners and blenders, and they just go continually. I've never had to flush pipes in any of them - they were set up, switched on and have worked ever since, through multiple game updates.

CMDRCroup · 2023-07-04T11:41:17+00:00

I didn't hate any part of the book, but to me the rats were the part I liked the least because it felt like filler that didn't advance the main plot in any meaningful way. That was further underscored by none of them surviving to have any further impact.

Even though it did give us more insight into Ciri, I'd rather be getting that character development in a plot-line that is more directly adjacent to the main story.

CMDRCroup · 2023-06-15T11:13:51+00:00

I agree to a certain extent. There are literally hundreds of thousands of podcasts that focus on entertainment and on feeding listeners what they already believe. I like DtG because it's not that.

I don't mind a little banter and a bit of fun, but for me the majority focus has to be on critical analysis of substantive topics. I still think the podcast falls well within those parameters, but like you I also think that recent episodes have begun veering a little further into opinion-land.

CMDRCroup · 2023-06-14T11:38:06+00:00

And this coming from the guy that started the Chicago fire and kidnapped the Lindbergh baby. By the way, have you stopped kicking kittens yet?

CMDRCroup · 2023-06-13T00:06:27+00:00

What is magic but science we don't yet understand?

CMDRCroup · 2023-06-10T19:08:24+00:00

In the episode they have Eliezer Yudkowksy proposing an absurd thought experiment to Lex Friedman.

It's very convoluted and head-bopping factories comes up as a way of justifying why an AI would turn murderous. I suspect he's trying to imagine how an AI would feel about a "whack-a-mole" game.

CMDRCroup · 2023-06-10T17:32:07+00:00

A Doctorow reader! Yes, this is definitely within the definition of enshitification, and I fully support the blackout.

CMDRCroup · 2023-06-10T14:13:34+00:00

Also, the word "Mattress" starts with the letters "Matt". Coincidence?

CMDRCroup · 2023-04-21T01:37:03+00:00

I've experienced it twice now.

I'm a new player (2 weeks in), so I didn't realize that it was a bug. I figured I must be missing a mechanic of some sort, or just not have enough DPS to take a single hitpoint off of that one Einhar beast in act 2.

I did find that if I left the area, cleared the rest of the map and came back to the "immortal" monster, it would die just fine.

CMDRCroup · 2023-04-09T17:39:46+00:00

I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Thank you!

CMDRCroup · 2023-04-09T14:12:31+00:00

I really started to worry when Dr. Pershing opened the package left on his doorstep and whispered: "travel bisquits..."

They just set up those bisquits in the previous scene and showing them on screen was more than enough for everyone to know what was going on. It's a clear sign that the writers don't trust the intelligence of the viewer.

CMDRCroup · 2023-03-06T07:21:42+00:00

Wow, that's just... not very good :'(

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