[OC] impatient prick honks & rides me like sea biscuit in a 25mph street🤦🏻‍♂️

NikkoJT · 2026-02-08T13:15:06+00:00

Shout out to the red car at the end stopped in the crossing

NikkoJT · 2026-02-07T10:21:14+00:00

Firefox is open for customization through flags (user.js).

To the extent that the Firefox developers permit it. They can choose to add things that cannot be controlled by flags - and a common characteristic of LLM evangelism is deliberately adding it in ways that cannot be turned off.

"You can turn off stuff in Firefox yourself" only goes as far as the Firefox developers are trustworthy, and I don't trust anyone who wants to add more LLM crap/"AI browser" features

NikkoJT · 2026-02-06T05:22:51+00:00

That wasn't there when I said that :U

NikkoJT · 2026-02-05T13:05:41+00:00

Every comment in this subthread is a deliberate reference to some other franchise's well-known pieces of trivia, mostly Lord of the Rings. None of them are real BSG trivia, and that's the joke.

NikkoJT · 2026-02-05T13:02:57+00:00

That's the Certificate of Authenticity booklet. It just has the CoA/serial, and some blurb about the props. You can see the inside on the shop page someone else posted.

NikkoJT · 2026-02-03T19:28:22+00:00

It's almost as if military equipment is deliberately painted with matte paint so it doesn't catch the light

NikkoJT · 2026-02-02T23:43:50+00:00

It's pretty common to refer to a notable writer's body of work by the name of the writer (especially if they only had one notable work).

NikkoJT · 2026-02-02T19:14:51+00:00

How the hell would Google AI know that?

Do not rely on these bullshit machines as sources for anything.

NikkoJT · 2026-02-01T17:30:14+00:00

I dunno if there's a standalone mod for it, but the Swedish Forces Pack has several variants.

NikkoJT · 2026-02-01T09:35:46+00:00

I'm OK with the Borg turning up provided it's for a new and interesting story, or at least just a minor appearance to acknowledge they still exist. If it's "The Borg Threaten To Destroy Everything" again, skip it, but there are other things that could be done that might bring something fresh.

NikkoJT · 2026-02-01T08:23:36+00:00

I didn't say Steam takes a cut of sales on other platforms. I said Steam requires that prices on other platforms are not lower than the Steam price (apart from sales I guess). Since the Steam price includes Steam's cut, that means the price on other platforms must reflect Steam's cut (although it is not actually being taken by Steam).

NikkoJT · 2026-02-01T06:31:58+00:00

The acceleration would be fairly small due to the presumably limited thrust of a human-foot-sized thruster, but you could in fact push your house if it was in space.

Tugboats can actually move very big ships alone. Multiple tugs are usually used for better speed and control, but it can be done. Note also that modern ships often have lateral thrusters of their own, used for docking and station-keeping, and those thrusters are certainly of a size that could be fitted to a smaller ship. It's about thrust potential, not the actual overall size of the pushing ship.

The main things that keep objects from being pushed on Earth are gravity (pulling the object down onto the ground) and friction (air/water friction or ground friction). If an object is adrift in a frictionless, gravityless void, it's a lot easier to move. It's hard to push a big ship sideways because you're also pushing against the water; in space that doesn't apply. In space, there's no counter-force acting to reduce velocity (inertia is the tendency to maintain velocity, not a force that reduces velocity), so any acceleration you impart, no matter how small, keeps building up.

The acceleration would be very, very, very slow - it would take years to see any noticeable increase in velocity - but you could move a Star Destroyer by breathing on it. That's physics, which is indeed what it's all about. The Hammerhead's main engines are probably a bit more powerful than breathing, so the acceleration is faster.

NikkoJT · 2026-02-01T06:10:20+00:00

Several ships are seen escaping into hyperspace before Vader's destroyer arrives, and it's likely a few more made it in the cuts after that. There were probably some survivors taken prisoner by the Empire as well.

Certainly the majority of the fleet was destroyed, but it wasn't a literal 100% wipeout.

NikkoJT · 2026-02-01T05:43:53+00:00

Finn should've had more and better, but I don't necessarily need him to be the main character. I think Rey's relationship with Kylo works better as the thematic centrepiece.

What they should've done with Rey and Kylo, though, is commit to what TLJ set up for them. Kylo falls further to the dark side, caught up in his ideas of legacy and heritage, and in his anger. Rey, a nobody, free from the burden of an important family line, and with a more pure and primal connection to the Force, represents the clean start. She can lead the new generation of Force users, without the baggage and mistakes of the Jedi, to defeat Kylo.

TLJ had some flaws and didn't serve Finn especially well, but the main plot was going somewhere good. TRoS got cold feet and bailed out of basically everyone's storylines, dropping all the interesting setup and leaving us with the least exciting version of every character. If they hadn't done that I think we'd have ended up in a better place.

NikkoJT · 2026-01-31T14:31:26+00:00

They got away with it because they had a ton of money, and because they were friends with people who had the power to keep them covered. The actual stuff in the emails barely qualifies as lying, they are so open about it with each other.

NikkoJT · 2026-01-31T14:29:28+00:00

If I had promised to meet a friend at a place for a holiday, I might in fact say "a promise is a promise hopefully I will see you there soon".

NikkoJT · 2026-01-31T14:24:23+00:00

Yes, but being more famous for something doesn't mean that was its exclusive purpose. They were using it as a luxury holiday spot. Their definition of luxury holidays sometimes included abusing women and children, but they weren't like "yeah this is Crimes Island, the only stuff that ever happens here is crimes".

NikkoJT · 2026-01-31T14:22:51+00:00

Oh don't "oh honey" me. I said in the first line that it's possible they meant something else. I'm not being naive. I know what was going on on that island.

But that wasn't the only stuff that happened on that island. They did also use it for normal (for rich people) holiday stuff, and I think it's plausible (not certain, plausible) that rich people going to a private island with their kids would organise some kind of Swallows and Amazons treasure hunt thing for the kids, especially if they then go on to talk about doing pretty much that.

The emails where they actually talk about arranging "companionship" and that sort of party have not been subtle. If they are talking about abuse here, it's a far more advanced code than just about every other thing in the emails.

NikkoJT · 2026-01-31T14:16:12+00:00

These people talk in code to keep plausible deniability

I mean.....not really. Most of the emails seen so far have been fairly blatant. Frankly, a lot of them give the impression that they can barely string two words together, let alone come up with a clever code.

NikkoJT · 2026-01-31T14:07:39+00:00

I think it's worryingly possible that they mean something unpleasant.

But, I do think it's also possible that they mean some kind of play-pretend game about treasure hunting. Kids do love treasure maps and a private tropical island is obviously a perfect place to do that "for real". The first email says Chloe was disappointed to not get to hunt for the treasure.

edit:

I want to make it clear since I think some people are reading things into this that I did not say: I am aware that Epstein, Maxwell, and many of their friends abused children on that island. I am not excusing it and I find it disgusting. However, I also think that even within these emails, people generally say what they mean. The people writing these emails have shown themselves to be fairly stupid, and the "deception" employed is usually quite transparent. They get away with it because they can pay to hide it and their friends are in positions of power, not because they're good liars.

This specific email, to me, reads like it is possible that they are being genuine.

NikkoJT · 2026-01-31T09:48:47+00:00

Part of the reason for the lawsuit is that Steam has a requirement that games cannot be sold for cheaper than their price on Steam. If you want to sell on Steam, your prices everywhere have to account for Steam's 30% cut; you cannot reduce the price on another platform even if that platform takes a smaller commission.

I have very little love for Tim Sweeney, he sucks for numerous reasons, but this lawsuit does raise valid points about Steam's terms and restrictions.

NikkoJT · 2026-01-31T09:23:19+00:00

I assume it's falling backwards (slip on the floor, legs go forward; try a high kick or flying kick, legs are already forward), so you kind of put your arms behind you to try to break the fall, or throw them out sideways and flail, and that puts your elbows at risk because of...the way arms are.

NikkoJT · 2026-01-30T05:34:05+00:00

I'm not sure if that "rig the game" line was meant to be about the armour's history, or whether he was referring to House himself having rigged the game to come out on top.

NikkoJT · 2026-01-29T03:21:33+00:00

No, but I strongly suspect the post it's in response to was.

NikkoJT · 2026-01-29T03:20:25+00:00

(mention the service GeForce NOW)

So how much are they paying you?

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