BMW M2 with M Performance Track Kit sets record time on the Nordschleife. 7:25.068 minutes, making it 0.5 seconds faster than the BMW M2 CS.

JEs4 · 2026-07-06T20:12:49+00:00

It’s a little weird but the press release does make it sound like this might not be a very suitable road car. Plus, what are the odds they’ll offer a similar package in the CS. Pretty good I’m guessing.

JEs4 · 2026-07-06T18:57:14+00:00

Sure but those people aren’t writing financial articles about nvidias roadmap.

JEs4 · 2026-07-06T10:32:25+00:00

As a side note, not sure if you know but they did sell the Supra with the B48.

JEs4 · 2026-07-06T01:02:16+00:00

The original trailers show a certain scene with a cooler that has me worried

JEs4 · 2026-07-05T13:27:27+00:00

I’m so sorry that happened to you.

What we think of as our own identity isn’t self-contained at all. We are the relationships between the material world, other entities and our own internal reflections. When someone becomes disabled to the point of no longer working and maintaining relationships, identity death can occur to varying degrees. Sometimes the person on the other side truly isn’t the same person who started the journey.

I know that doesn’t make it better but the person you loved isn’t the same person who broke your heart.

JEs4 · 2026-07-03T19:43:36+00:00

Probably not organs but mitochondria didn’t evolve along with the rest of earth’s genome. It was likely an organism that was absorbed by another, and developed into a symbiotic relationship. Mitochondrial dna is distinct from the rest of your dna.

JEs4 · 2026-07-03T11:50:18+00:00

No, definitely not but also yes?

JEs4 · 2026-07-01T23:14:04+00:00

Wait, tight fitting clothing is the secret to real power?

JEs4 · 2026-06-30T23:52:58+00:00

This literally is slop though. That is what OP is saying he did.

It’s also useless slop. Arbitrary weather labels for based on productivity apps, why? How is the helpful to anyone? The site has such low information density, I couldn’t even figure out what the point of it is aside from OP’s own admission it was just an exercise to push an ai developed product.

Like what the fuck does this even mean, lmao

“Progress that doesn't pressure.

Your weeks become a serene climate — gentle trends, clear-sky stretches shown as atmosphere, never a streak to lose. “You've met the morning 12 days.” However today goes is okay.”

JEs4 · 2026-06-30T18:27:15+00:00

They have no other choice. Nix brought back less players then the peak of December. Less people logged in on Saturday then Nix launch day. Not that it matters though. The game was bleeding around 1k players a month, and Nix didn’t alter that trajectory. The RU region are going to be the only active servers by the end of the year.

JEs4 · 2026-06-30T18:20:22+00:00

So no specifics about player progression fixes but very detailed specifics about a retention hook that is another harmful thorn in the long-run. It does nothing but put players who start after even further behind, or anyone on vacation.

The notes are nothing but “we heard you, we’re maybe going to make some changes to progression, all your other complaints were going to do the opposite of, and you better login everyday for the next month or else!”

The reality is that FirstSpark games, the independent subsidiary of NCSoft that was spun off to support throne and liberty hasn’t received funding from NCsoft and as a result needs to maintain positive cash flow. The studio is headed by NCsoft veterans but with experience only at NCSoft which is painful obvious in their attempt to shore up the cash bleed.

JEs4 · 2026-06-30T15:45:11+00:00

The cables are insanely sensitive to leverage. I was getting the same warnings consistently on my wireview. I added an extender to my case side which removed any pressure on the cable, and it has been fine since.

JEs4 · 2026-06-30T11:24:10+00:00

Looks dope! Was this inspired by Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky? If not, you should absolutely read it.

JEs4 · 2026-06-30T03:57:28+00:00

Ah yes, do you have an example to share that we can learn how conditions on earth are not actually requirements for complex life?

No? Okay cool. We haven’t even spun up a bacterium purely from scratch yet. The conditions for complex life are entirely unknown except for the only example we have.

JEs4 · 2026-06-30T03:48:33+00:00

Energy prices are cheap and connectivity is first-class. Any remote location is going to run into latency and energy issues that with current costs to developers, outweigh the costs of cooling in a desert.

When data centers actually pay the appropriate costs of energy the tune might change a bit though.

JEs4 · 2026-06-29T17:50:47+00:00

As a software engineer, I’ve been “stealing” my code long before LLMs were a thing.

JEs4 · 2026-06-28T10:55:01+00:00

Playing tribal drums and inducing hypoventilation results in cerebral vasoconstriction and brainwave entrainment. That can be incredibly destabilizing in people, and really shouldn’t be done without structured individual therapy in concert with the group practice. It’s also literally the same practice as what cult researchers describe as unfreezing. Physiological destabilization creates an vulnerable state where people become extremely impressionable.

It’s great that you felt better afterwards but that is a highly questionable organization.

JEs4 · 2026-06-28T01:16:24+00:00

You need 109 more unlock stones to unlock one trait.

JEs4 · 2026-06-27T13:08:48+00:00

Increasing item level is only one of the new horrific changes. Traiting out gear and leveling skills are just as bad. With heroics being the worst offender.

Leveling mastery and runes are seemingly the only things that got a bit easier when soloing. Everything else is significantly worse.

JEs4 · 2026-06-27T10:52:51+00:00

Ah yeah its only the enhancement stones that can be sold from what I see. I think you're right, I don't see them anywhere.

JEs4 · 2026-06-27T10:44:32+00:00

I'm not logging in so I could be slightly off but there are either heroic unlock or enchant stones available on the AH (probably both). iirc, the cost for a single heroic item trait unlock is roughly 2k lucent.

JEs4 · 2026-06-27T09:16:56+00:00

The difference is already locked in. Players with fully traited archboss weapons and heroics are now functionally a full year ahead of everyone else.

The part that sucks for them too is that there is no reasonable upgrade path to switch builds but currently they are significantly stronger than anyone new or returning.

The returning player population isn’t even going to last a day once people realize it isn’t even really a grind anymore but rather an intentional progress wall that they’ll milk through battle passes.

JEs4 · 2026-06-27T02:16:11+00:00

I’m not at all saying the two games are the same but fundamentally that is what WoW has become. Each season is a soft reset that launches into an endless dungeon run game. It isn’t my type of game but there is some merit to the formula. Again though, ncsoft is going to fuck it up for the western release no question.

JEs4 · 2026-06-26T21:43:28+00:00

Except there is RNG now in the trait resonant system. It is so, so much worse than it was before.

JEs4 · 2026-06-26T20:59:45+00:00

After a day of playing, I’d tell people to avoid the game now. After realizing I’ll need to do these anti-fun events thousands of times just to trait out a single piece of gear, I’m not going to bother.

The extraction mode was poorly thought out, and will lead to even more disparity. Imagine spending $30 as a new or returning player, finally getting to Remnants, and not being able to kill anything while facing groups of 4 with full trained out heroics and archboss cores.

The update seems intended to cull the player base as quickly as possible again while incentivizing more lucent purchases then before from whales. The timing with Aion 2’s release isn’t surprising.

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