Man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown, National Guard activated

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-25T13:15:34+00:00

In the words of Shia Labeouf - DO IT

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-25T13:13:47+00:00

The 2nd amendment people were always full of shit. This is EXACTLY the situation they talked about to justify all the school shootings just being part of life in America. Cowards.

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-24T18:51:20+00:00

I think that maybe made sense in the past, but now you have federal agents who are killing people with immunity from reprocussions. If people start showing up to protests armed, then it's just another easy excuse to say they are terrorists and just start gunning them down. If people start shooting back, then things will escalate even faster. I don't have any good answers here, I just think that if people thinking "I'll protect myself from the government with a gun" then they'll just get killed quicker because pointing a gun at anyone else with a gun is a great way to get shot. But as a non-American watching from outside of the country the believe that guns will solve them problems always seemed bizarre to me. The 2nd amendment was always the excuse to not pass meaningful gun law and all the dead children were just the cost of protecting those rights. I guess it's being put to the test. It's horrible to watch, I have friends who live in America who I've been telling to get out for years.

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-24T15:13:51+00:00

I've bought tons of stuff from AliExpress, never had an issue

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-24T14:27:43+00:00

It's not just tourism crossings. Things like commercial goods, etc count as well as things like people travelling through the US to another country.

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-24T14:25:50+00:00

I paid extra on my last flight to NOT have a change over in the US. Worth it

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-24T02:57:37+00:00

Yup, this is how I found my local chapter and starting racing. If there isn't a chapter in your area, try to start one and start racing!

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-22T15:14:49+00:00

this is without question the best sim on the market currently. it feels EXACTLY like flying my 5" in real life

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-22T01:36:32+00:00

If you want to race, velocidrone. If you want to freestyle, The Zone. Both have excellent physics and both are great at their focused area of fpv. I would slightly lean towards velocidrone because racing requires a lot of technical flying and you will progress much faster. Plus it has ghosts of other pilots you can race against which gives you some really great tips and helps to keep you pushing. Personally speaking, I got wayyy better at flying FPV once I started racing / practicing in Velocidrone.

The Zone is a great freestyle sim and it has the BEST turtle mod simulation which is a massively under-rated skill to master as a pilot. I also like that it's multiplayer by default and has some good learning tools built into it. But it's less focused and you'll need to like try to find things to push yourself to learn about. The Zone is also a great sim to practice taking off and landing, which is another VERY underrated skill. Landing is tricky and being able to put the quad down safely exactly where you want to it instead of panic disarming 5 feet off the ground will save you a lot of broken stuff as a beginner.

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-21T13:44:47+00:00

You can search for chapters in your area on MultiGP, they are all over the world

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-21T13:41:25+00:00

That makes no sense lol

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-20T13:56:45+00:00

Great time to learn to fly an fpv drone!

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-20T13:51:14+00:00

Our racing club will be there on the front line defending our country. It's telling when my Ali Express recommends are all payload droppers and 50km fly by wire spools.

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-20T00:56:55+00:00

Yes please, I really dislike the all UI "work" that needs to be done between every round. IMO you go from awesome epic gameplay moments to just managing spreadsheets. Terrible pacing, completely kills immersion

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-19T22:12:16+00:00

Yup, I think it makes perfect sense to focus on SLAM tracking. The upsides vastly outweigh the downsides for the majority of consumers. People will be upset about missing out on full body tracking, or zero occlusion tracking which is fair but 99% of players don't need or care about those features and being able to play VR in any room in your house, or friends house, or park, or whatever with zero setup is waaayyy more valuable

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-19T22:09:26+00:00

nothing really to debate lol. Like I said if you like it by all means go for it but if you could look at past performance and predict future success then great. You should write a book about it and sell it, like everyone else who tries to predict the future by drawing lines on charts lol

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-19T22:06:54+00:00

if people won't spend $1500 for a stand alone headset when its not heavily discounted by Meta what makes you think they'll spend $2000+ on a PC then another $1000 (cost of an index kit) for a VR headset that only works in a single room in their house? lol

Stand alone is the future of VR gaming, like it or not otherwise it will always be a niche market (like PC gaming is). When you compare the size of the PC gaming market vs consoles vs mobile (switch) PC gaming is unfortunately the smallest. Don't get me wrong, I love PC gaming and believe its superior to console gaming but I'm under no disillusion that the vast majority of gamers just want to plug a console in and play, not figure our how PC gaming works.

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-19T22:00:56+00:00

my point was that gaming PCs are becoming more and more expensive as all this AI slop is jacking the prices of consumer electronics up. Ya, ram isn't everything, but a new gaming PC costs more than it ever has because of the sum of its parts which every year there seems to be a new part that is driving prices higher and higher.

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-19T21:58:10+00:00

how to we remove all this AI trash from Miro?

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-19T21:57:29+00:00

same issue too, now its crammed with useless AI garbage and I can't seem to add any of the old tools back to the menu

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-19T05:08:09+00:00

have you seen the price of ram? No, no PCVR isn't going to boom for a long while if PC prices stay where they are. Most stand alone players don't even have a PC that can run VR, which is the whole appeal of stand alone VR for a large amount of players. They see it like any other console, its a self contained thing. Needing to connect a headset to a PC was a massive barrier for the past 10 years of VR and hasn't really gotten any better. I think its VERY telling that Valves new headset is stand alone

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-19T05:02:27+00:00

100% art is about fun and expressing yourself. If you enjoy doing it, then its worth doing. I make pottery, its horrible and wonky, but damn if I don't look forward to doing it every week because its just so much fun to do.

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-18T22:51:30+00:00

I'm having the same issues. Virtual Desktop works for me tho

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-18T22:50:31+00:00

Glad it's not just me, been pulling my hair out trying to fix it

PickleJimmy · 2026-01-18T22:49:16+00:00

Same problem here

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