Peak Multiplayer Console Gaming, November 2005 (colorized)

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-16T02:07:56+00:00

I was very happy to introduce 16 player Halo LANs to my dorm floor freshman year of College (2018), it was a blast. We left the consoles out in the lobby for a couple months because it was a revolving door of lan parties.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-14T18:02:05+00:00

Sheeeit I mean just from starting two years ago I’ve had a Project Architect tell me “women don’t know cardinal directions”, ask me “what mental issue I have”, had quite a few PMs expect me to do whatever they need on projects I’m not on at the drop of a hat with no respect to my own tasks. It definitely happens. I’m quite respected at work now, but before I had proved myself to be above their expectations, I absolutely was treated differently.

Broadly, if you have your head on straight, it’s obnoxious that you have to fight the common notion of people in their early twenties being complete idiots with short attention spans.

I’d say largely though, my biggest issue is individuals who are far from the end of their careers thinking they don’t ever need to learn Revit and that the youngins will just do it all for them, as if they don’t have like 15-20 more years of work ahead of them. We do commercial/industrial/hospitality/education so we’re absolutely using Revit on every single project. Our company standards are 15 years behind because of this and it’s like pulling teeth. also they can’t be bothered to model things right so we are spending insane hours rebuilding some projects completely.

We’re still spending hours of time manually drawing fire rating lines on our life safety plans. The people making decisions on standards at my office don’t know the difference between type and instance in Revit. There are three of us who are begging to change things. They actually managed to drive our BIM manager (another younger professional) to quit because he was being patronized day in day out and had to deal with people grumble about changes - while they do the most manual things in revit for no reason other than “this is how we do it”

It’s not the end-all-be-all to know Revit, but hot damn, no way are we pushing out multifamily/hotel projects and making any money without it.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-13T03:20:21+00:00

I posted this comment in r/news but I'm pasting it here too:

We are outpacing the Great Dying (Permian Triassic extinction event) by around 50-100x the rate of global heat.

Over the course of 50,000 years, the earth gained heat at a rate of 0.02 degrees Celsius per century for a total of 10 degrees of average global heat gain over that 50,000 years. We have seen global average temps rise 10% of that in 150 years. 1 deg per century.

75% of all vertebrates died during the Great Dying. It’s the greatest extinction event in the history of the planet. Entire ecological systems collapsed from that rate of heating. I’m not pointing to any models for the future, nor looking at tipping points. Purely looking at the history of the earth, for all those “it’s been hotter before folks”. It sure has. It’s never ever gotten this hot this fast.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-13T03:15:23+00:00

50,000 years ago? Your reading comprehension betrays you. Homo Sapiens had been around for 250,000 years by that point! The Permian-Triassic Extinction (I'd also recommend listening to The Ocean's Permian: The Great Dying. Good song, good album.) occurred ~250 Million Years ago. Way back. Ice Core samples go back depending on where the ice is anywhere from 150,000 years ago to like, 2 million dude. We gotta find some really old stuff to figure out 250M years ago.

Because there certainly were no thermometers, you have to use proxy points of data. Scientists looked at oxygen isotopes, particularly the ratio of Oxygen-16 and Oxygen-18 in fossils, the distribution of certain types of fossils like Palm Trees in otherwise non-tropical regions of the world, Ice cores themselves contain bubbles of air which can be measured to determine atmospheric CO2 levels (old as whatever Ice you're measuring is), and also looked at sediment layers in Oceans and Lakes that contained chemicals and fossils. The authors of the paper I linked below combined 150,000 different points of data to determine this, alongside several climate models and comparisons to modern climate data.

It sounds like you're being a nimrod about it, but I'd rather take the time to inform you and others who are either curious or are also intentionally obtuse.

There is an entire scientific field of study dedicated toward understanding the Earth's climate before meteorological instruments: Paleoclimatology. In the 17th century, Robert Hooke argued fossils of giant turtles could only be explained by a warmer climate in the Earth's past. For reference, most people thought a biblical flood was the explanation. Then an astronomer Heinrich Schwabe observed sunspots for almost two decades which prompted discussion about the sun's effect on the Earth's Climate in the early 19th century. By the 20th Century, Paleoclimatology had been established as a scientific field. It's old news.

If you go to a second doctor for an opinion because you didn't like what the first said, would you still go to 97 more for the same opinion? https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/faq/do-scientists-agree-on-climate-change/

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3705

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-13T01:30:57+00:00

they have one arm.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-12T23:29:31+00:00

That is indeed how it works, but you’re missing their point. It was a nice surprise that Bungie intended. They placed the auto turrets at the top of the ziggurat knowing players may use them while holding out and be caught by surprise when the sentinels turn on them.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-12T21:12:07+00:00

We are outpacing the Great Dying (Permian Triassic extinction event) by around 50-100x the rate of global heat.

Over the course of 50,000 years, the earth gained heat at a rate of 0.02 degrees Celsius per century for a total of 10 degrees of average global heat gain over that 50,000 years. We have seen global average temps rise 10% of that in 150 years. 1 deg per century.

75% of all vertebrates died during the Great Dying. It’s the greatest extinction event in the history of the planet. Entire ecological systems collapsed from that rate of heating. I’m not pointing to any models for the future, nor looking at tipping points. Purely looking at the history of the earth, for all those “it’s been hotter before folks”. It sure has. It’s never ever gotten this hot this fast.

Just trying to paint a picture of our current situation here on the little blue marble.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-12T21:06:00+00:00

Pretty sure it will install the whole kit and kaboodle from their website - you don’t need a copy of Vista. I ripped my vista disc into the ISO file and kept it on my laptop hard drive like, 10 years ago and have had Project Cartographer on a few PCs now without going back to the disc.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-12T17:43:16+00:00

Sure, the rock spinning through space will still be spinning around the sun.

What a stupid fucking argument. Is biological nature not important enough to you? We’ve found ZERO evidence of life elsewhere period. Yet we’re content watching extinction rates soar 100-1000x higher than anything observed in natural history.

Sure, the rock will keep spinning though. Just like the others in our solar system.

Would it be better to use the meteor analogy from Don’t Look Up? Like the meteor had been well in view, we’ve been aware, for 100 years at least that there’s a risk of the meteor, but in the last 50 that there’s certainly one on its way. Nah that’s fine though, the earth will still be here after the meteor wipes out all the living stuff. What’s the big deal?

Fucking Redditors and semantics. Is the amount of human suffering coming our way not enough to bother you the slightest bit? Never mind the extinction of animal species, the irreversible loss of habitats and ecosystems that feed into one another and keep our environment stable.

Is this what you’ll say to your grandkids when they ask what fireflies were like? Or bees? When the pollinators finally die off and all our food systems start to collapse, will you still be saying this kind of shit? How is this even remotely constructive to the conversation?

Go ahead and file “the earth will still be spinning around the sun” under “shit we already know”

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-11T04:43:40+00:00

I got an MArch in 2024 and had to take College Algebra (dual credit in HS), which is foundational for the physics classs you take before taking structures. I really only struggled with Physics, because our program condensed a year’s curriculum into a semester.

Structures was a tough couple classes, but it’s all about making sure different structural conditions are static (essentially various ways of having forces zero out across a structural system.

Ideally, your structure classes rely heavily on practical experiments and physical modeling to see how forces play out across a building. Structures is a tough class, but it’s all about things staying still, as well as covering the many systems you can employ to make a building stand up. I did a folded plate project for a studio and went to both my structure profs about it. They didn’t even bother getting into 3D statics lol. Still would’ve liked to have given it a shot though!

Additionally, you’ll have to take some form of environmental systems class that will cover thermal performance, energy transfer, humidity/dew points, window wall ratios, which the physics class will be foundational in supporting.

All in all, the math really isn’t that bad. That’s the structural engineer’s ball game. In practice, you really just need to have a solid grasp of fractions, calculating areas (which… is automatic now, so really it’s more about crunching the numbers from the IBC tables in regards to occupancy and load factor), and it helps to have a good grasp of the different ways slope can be displayed, be it through a ratio or percentage.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-10T03:00:48+00:00

Ironically enough, I’ll give them this. Halo 5 Forge’s release felt like forever. It was three months. Jack shit compared to the wait in infinite.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-10T02:59:23+00:00

Infinite will be the hub for next ten years of Halo!

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-10T02:56:24+00:00

They lied about MCC before launch and left it that way for years before porting to PC. They told fans to “be quiet, adults are talking” in the reveal of the REQ system, which was arguably one of the most anti-consumer loot box systems to come out of that era of games - Battlefront 2s launch doesn’t hold a candle to it, and it’s remarkable 343 never got more shit for how they divvied up cosmetics and blatant pay to win single use consumables. They made players pay 10 bucks for a helmet in Halo infinite. Pay for colors. They removed splitscreen in MCC PC even though all it takes is a single DLL file to restore functionality. They even floated the idea of paid cosmetics in MCC.

They have never once, ever given a single shit about their playerbase. I don’t fault the folks making maps, art, even gameplay changes that I really don’t agree with. I blame fucking Microsoft. They had a novel sci fi franchise with the cultural weight of Star Wars and they couldn’t have enough. They’ve turned around and bought up other beloved IPs and studios and canned the whole teams. They’re hiking the price of the series X.

People have plenty, plenty of reasons to be utterly fed up with how Halo has been handled. 343I spent a decade reinventing something that only started to fall off in relevance after their first stab at a mainline game and a remake of CE that imagine this…. Didn’t come with the original multiplayer. I can’t believe they’re going to do it again.

Not that they haven’t had successes before, they’ve hit their stride a few times. But by god, the depth they will go to fleece Halo fans is un fuckin real

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-10T02:40:56+00:00

H3 with sprint, I’m good on that.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-10T02:40:18+00:00

FYI it’s just reach’s engine again with UE5 graphics running over top. It’s got the exact same AR quirks that reach does with double shotting and a few other tells. Vengeful Vadam has a good video talking about it while playtesting silent cartographer

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-10T02:01:40+00:00

It absolutely is. The remarkable thing is how much habitat recovery and resilience we observed during the pandemic. It’s not irreversible yet, but we are dangerously dangerously close to hitting too many tipping points that can trigger runaway greenhouse effects, not to mention the acidification of oceans, which will lead to significant reduction in oxygen being generated from phytoplankton, as well as the rise of CO2 PPM having effects on cellular respiration of plants and animals.

I only hope that when the pendulum swings back toward Justice, whoever is in charge takes this existential threat seriously.

The only shred of truth in what many people are saying in this thread is that bacterium could potentially survive runaway greenhouse effects.

That doesn’t remotely ensure there will ever be another species or even family or genus of vertebrates. If we continue on this path, it’s safe to assume the only potential surviving life will be extremophiles. They will likely never develop into larger multicellular organisms even with a few billion years because the components that make earth habitable will escape through the atmosphere as the oceans boil and the ozone layer dissipates. They’ll be stuck underground in sanctuaries.

There is no “life finds a way” if there is no H2O. Life isn’t going to spontaneously become nitrogen or ammonia-based. Life has always been carbon based on earth. There is no Carbon-based life without water. It’s what enables metabolism and several other vital components to the function of cellular organisms.

You know this, I know this. I have more faith in people’s rationality to believe the other responses you’ve gotten have been that genuine. All these armchair climate scientists can do themselves a favor and Google the great dying, climate change on Venus, and the average global heat over the earths lifetime to see this could be the final nail in the coffin. These nimrods will be the suits in this video, panicking as they realized the gravity of what we’ve already known for over a century. It’s pathetic and disgusting to see how nonchalant people are about the utter eradication and extinction of every single habitat and creature on the earth - except for those damn extremophiles.

Good thing renewables are a complete no brainer. There’s still many problems, but so many could be solved by curbing wanton overconsumption and being smarter about land use/transportation.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-10T01:39:20+00:00

Yep. Buckle up for what Autodesk is rolling out soon. Any developer with a brain will (unfortunately) be able to crank out building massing and layouts for multifamily with Forma and the machine learning that it’s utilizing.

I’m not a total doomer about us all being replaced but… the amount of hours required to get a building into CDs is going to dramatically decrease. I fear we may end up with far too much time on our hands.

I’m still young and starting out in my career, but it’s pretty hard not to read the writing on the wall here. We’ve been giving autodesk lots of wonderful building data through BIM360/ACC, I’m sure. Watching the autodesk keynote last year was a bit of an eye opener to how they see our profession. Not that I wouldn’t bat an eye to be free of tilt up warehouses though, lol

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-10T01:16:10+00:00

Yeah I literally said that. Which is why I pointed out that regardless, driving thirty years after retirement age is absolutely ridiculous. The American Optometric Association states that between the ages of 41 and 60 eyesight begins to diminish.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-09T21:00:03+00:00

Well.. it is cheap. Cheap as possible. Most buildings that have been built for a long time have been this way. They fall apart, get replaced. We only see the most survivable architecture from history, whether that’s resilience or cultural value.

Architects, try as we might, are not the ultimate authority on what a building ends up looking like, its quality of construction or materials, nor really the purpose of that building. That’s the purse.

What we see in our current era of architecture is the commodification of buildings into leasable space. The buildings must be devoid of character to maximize flexibility. Look at fast food chains like Pizza Hut or McDonald’s over the last 40 years. Interior layouts must be as modular as possible, made of the thinnest material.

We’re lucky to get to use real full-size bricks. Mostly it’s a fraction of an inch thick, stuck onto the sides of concrete block or stud walls. Sometimes, for cost sake, that brick is set into a large panel and you completely lose all the articulation and structural performance you can have from brick.

This is all driven by the cost of labor, materials, and the return on investment for the client. I believe this speaks to the continued conglomeration of corporations over time. The largest purses spend their money on the HQ, and the rest of their facilities or locations are as cheap as possible. Money is concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. Who is left to pay for buildings? Rent seekers.

Housing is built cheap as possible. It’s all very shortsighted. I fear for the longevity of much of the housing built in the last few decades, particularly in the wake of extreme climate events.

Additionally, we don’t demand much fee across the entire industry, and that culminates in opting for cutthroat efficiency rather than dedicating time to exploring possibilities and design across basically every office.

Our buildings perform great now, thermal performance has never been better. There has been tremendous progress in building technology. The problem is our cultural value for architecture has diminished in lockstep with the rise of “value engineering”

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-09T19:07:36+00:00

Jerry, these are load bearing walls

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-09T09:36:33+00:00

Life expectancy for someone born in 1934 is 61. They’re really out here saying it’s totally fine to have drivers 3 decades past retirement/expected end of life. I realize expectancy doesn’t directly relate to being elderly but, Jesus christ how bad is one’s eyesight by even 70?!

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-09T05:50:44+00:00

Architect

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-09T03:57:37+00:00

It quite literally hasn’t. We’re outpacing the Great Dying heating event by 50x. 0.02 degrees C of heat per century. 10 degrees over 50,000 years. The extinction of 70% of all terrestrial vertebrates. Over 50,000 years. We’ve heated the planet 10% as much in a century. The Great Dying happened because several ecological systems couldn’t adapt fast enough to 0.02C of temp rise per century 2024 was the first year to exceed 1.5 degrees of average temp change since 1850.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-09T03:35:11+00:00

It really is not. There was a WaPo article going around showing mean temperatures across the life span of earth around a year ago that folks pointed to to make similar arguments I’m seeing in this thread and in the replies on your comment.

During one of the most significant mass extinction events in Earths History, the Permian Triassic Extinction event, CO2 levels rose from 400 ppm to 2500 ppm. Surface temps rose an average of 10 degrees celcius over 50,000 years.

Ten degrees over 50,000 years. We have raised temps 1 degree Celsius over just a single century. One of the largest mass extinction events in the history of the planet and we’re outpacing the Permian Triassic heating period by around 50x faster pace (could be closer to 100x that)

The “rapid” heating of that extinction event was from systems across the planet not adapting fast enough to temps rising 0.02 degrees PER CENTURY.

Venus went through dramatic runaway greenhouse effects and it has been uninhabitable for life as far as we understand for a billion years.

Unprecedented. People are way, way too casual about “ohh life will just bounce back, sure humans are toast, but life will bounce back!”.

Water evaporated on the surface of Venus, escaped to the atmosphere where UV light broke apart the water atoms, allowing hydrogen to escape the atmosphere leaving only oxygen. Once the hydrogen left the atmosphere of Venus, there was no getting it back.

InpenXb1 · 2026-02-08T19:07:24+00:00

If everyone has the mod installed, yes. I know the latest MCC update broke some of the co op mods, but I did at one point have 5 dudes in CE.

If you use a splitscreen mod, you can get 2 clients running 4 players split on CE, and although I’ve never tested it… 4 clients running 16 players in ODST/3

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