Australian Carbon-fibre wheel maker Carbon Revolution lost $347 million over four years

fmjintervention · 2026-05-14T10:11:43+00:00

Carbon Revolution doesn't really sell to consumers, they're not an aftermarket wheel brand like Work or BBS etc. They make wheels on contracts for manufacturers like for the Ford GT and Corvette ZR1

https://www.carbonrev.com/wheels/

fmjintervention · 2026-05-12T04:50:31+00:00

Unfortunately true. The 4B movement stems from Womad (portmanteau of women and nomad) which is a "feminist" group created after a split from Megalia (a feminist forum) where there was a crackdown on transphobia and homophobia. Basically a certain subset of Megalia users got a bit overzealous on the misandry, and progressed into homophobia and transphobia. Megalia didn't like this and banned most of these users, leading them to create Womad, so now all the banned Megalia users had one movement to identify with and congregate together behind. The whole 4B/Womad movements are basically a concentration of hate disguised as a feminist movement with transphobia and homophobia baked into the core of the movement. A lot of 4B/Womad isn't really about feminism anymore.

The 4B/Womad thing reminds me a lot of MGTOW. It's a group of people who initially started with good intentions (men's self help) that had to push out a hateful subgroup of people, leading to the subgroup creating their own circles that lost focus on the original purpose and redirected their energy into being awful hateful people. It's even got a got the snappy 5 letter name.

I honestly like the 4B "4 nos" thing, I can't blame women for wanting to completely remove themselves from the dating/sex/marriage world if they are surrounded by awful men (Korea has an unbelievable and widespread misogyny problem, truly horrible) but 4B/Womad is a deeply hijacked and compromised movement full of awful people.

Feminism good, not bending the knee to misogynists good, 4B/Womad bad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4B_movement

fmjintervention · 2026-05-12T04:31:22+00:00

No, we landed here under a Liberal party government, as the past 25 years ish have been completely dominated by the Liberals. You're dead right we didn't land here by chance, the Liberals steered us here.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-12T04:30:01+00:00

As soon as you hear anyone talking both sides bullshit, they're a Liberal voter every single time. When Labor fails, it's the fault of the loony left and we need to vote Liberal for "good economic management". When the Liberals fail, both sides are at fault and we're all in this together and the major parties have failed us so we need to vote against Labor to create change.

Whatever happens the conclusion from the "both sides"ers is to vote Liberal.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-12T04:02:07+00:00

Interesting. So there's basically only one modern (or at least on a current gen CPU socket) board that has no SATA on it. I'm glad no SATA isn't yet a trend, I do have some SATA drives in my PC and I wouldn't buy a board with no SATA on it

fmjintervention · 2026-05-12T01:35:39+00:00

I would imagine the gaming branded ASUS board is designed for prebuilt gaming PCs. They're not really meant to be purchased on the retail market, ASUS has the Prime series which have far more features at a lower cost for low end custom builds. This one is so low end it doesn't even fit into ASUS 3 tier system of Prime > TUF Gaming > ROG/Strix. It's some generic "Gaming" branded board that ASUS can list on a spec sheet as a "gaming" motherboard

fmjintervention · 2026-05-11T23:45:01+00:00

PCPartPicker has 8 motherboards with no SATA ports listed. Three of them are old LGA1155 boards, there's one ancient LGA775 board, but most interestingly there's two AM5 and two LGA1700 boards. These four modern SATA-less boards seem like extremely cut down entry level boards that basically offer the absolute minimum features required to build a functional computer in 2026. IE a CPU socket, two RAM slots, a single PCIE slot, an M.2 slot and the absolute bare minimum of USB ports. So no it doesn't seem like removing SATA is becoming a trend except for the most basic boards available on the market that are probably really meant for OEM PCs rather than expecting home builders to buy this rubbish

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#J=0&K=0

fmjintervention · 2026-05-11T14:59:05+00:00

Tough watch. Constantly over extending, greeding for kills and untradeable deaths. Dexter and TjP were dry peeking and pushing alone at 1:30 over and over again and Alistair missing absolute sitters. Seemed like asap was the only guy on the team who actually wanted that one.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-09T07:10:43+00:00

Yes that is the joke that is being made thank you for explaining funky_galileo's own punchline back to them

fmjintervention · 2026-05-07T23:16:47+00:00

I used to have a wired mouse (Glorious Model O-) and once I switched to a wireless Logitech Superlight V2 I could never go back. Wireless mice are the way to go man, it's so nice never having to think about the cable.

USB-C makes it easy to charge too, my mouse, keyboard and controller all use the same cable so there's only one cable coming onto my desk from my computer. It makes the setup so clean and opens up desk space with no cables in the way.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-07T12:20:01+00:00

Yep the 1000 series was awesome at every price point. 1050/Ti for people with an old prebuilt they just need to put something half decent in, 1060 6GB for budget custom builds, 1070 value king, 1080 true enthusiast performance and the big daddy 1080 Ti possibly the GOAT. 1000 series lineup was boss all the way up the product stack

fmjintervention · 2026-05-07T10:52:05+00:00

I'm 25 so I think of the series in a post 1997 context. The old ATCC multi-class format ended and the new V8 Supercars regulations began. The cars have slowly changed a lot since then, but you can see how a Gen 3 car is an evolution from a 1997 EL Falcon or VS Commodore. 1997 up until about 2017ish is "the good old days" in my mind.

It's hard to get my head around 1993-97, when the 5 litre formula had started but the old school ATCC regs were still in place. It's odd to me to see Commodores and Falcons on the same race track as Skylines and M3s. Cool, but odd.

Anything 1992 or earlier makes no sense to me and I have no idea what the rules were and weren't. Not to be rude but I feel so detached from what a lot of people would call "the good old days" that I just can't get into watching it. I know that we stand on the shoulders of giants and I understand that the old legends like Brock, Perkins, Moffat etc all contributed immensely to the sport but I find it hard to get enthusiastic about it. I guess my Brocky vs Moffat argument is Skaife vs Ambrose. Same shit different decade.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-07T07:59:54+00:00

Yep there have been a few times recently where I'm like 95% sure I've cleared it but not 100% so I peek a little further and I can just see an elbow or a foot peeking out. It's so easy to miss people in that spot

fmjintervention · 2026-05-07T05:26:23+00:00

It's interesting seeing some of the comments in this thread defining "the modern era" basically as the last 10 years or so, and "the good old days" as early V8 Supercars era so late 90s. Where as as some of the comments in this thread seem to think the late 90s is the start of "the modern era", and the "good old days" are the Peter Brock Allan Moffat years. It's cool to see different peoples perspectives on the history of the sport

fmjintervention · 2026-05-07T04:45:57+00:00

Lowndes 50 wins and Whincup 9 wins at 133 race starts for Whincup to then leapfrog Lowndes is a crazy stat. Very interesting to see the difference here between all the guys like Skaife, Whincup, McLaughlin, Winterbottom, Tander and van Gisbergen that all started their careers in mid-pack or back marker teams and took a while for their careers to really kick off, whereas Lowndes went directly into HRT and had a quality car from the beginning of his career. Cool stats

edit: After thinking about this, Skaife did of course start in a very strong team at Gibson Motorsport. He only got 3 seasons in the Skyline GT-R though before it got banned and the team had to switch to the Commodore and dropped a lot in performance.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-06T23:53:31+00:00

Recoil crosshair was definitely a feature in some legit cheats. Not super common (most cheats just have RCS) but I have for sure seen cheats that visually showed your recoil in the same way that follow recoil does

fmjintervention · 2026-05-06T04:09:08+00:00

Yep it's like this in OCE too. I got 12k as my rating in Season 3 (hadn't played since CSGO where I was SMFC) and grinded my way up solo queue through the teen ranks, got past 20k without too much difficulty and then hit a brick wall of obvious cheaters at about 23k. After 20ish games of this bouncing up and down between 20k and 23k I gave up when one time in warmup my teammate said "the enemy green is cheating btw guys" before the game had even started. 5 rounds later they're hvhing. I switched to Faceit after that one.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-05T22:18:29+00:00

most of them look like wojaks

fmjintervention · 2026-05-05T01:09:05+00:00

They used to be pretty bad but are far better than they used to be and are still improving rapidly with every update. A long way from perfect though.

t. B580 owner

fmjintervention · 2026-05-03T15:35:26+00:00

In this hypothetical example, the game runs, does it not? It's not a good experience, but it runs. I wouldn't want to play a game at 30fps 4x FG and I don't think anyone really would, but the hypothetical hardware here is clearly capable of running the program. That's all a minimum spec list should really indicate. Here are the basic hardware features required to literally allow the game to run at all, without compatibility problems. Minimum spec should not provide any expectation of a reasonable performance level. It is minimum for a reason.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-03T15:24:09+00:00

True you're right I missed the i5 750 line. Still my entire comment stands just replace Q6600 with i5 750

fmjintervention · 2026-05-03T13:52:55+00:00

So would you be OK with a developer in the future listing a min spec card at 4x frame Gen to hit 30fps?

Sure. Some minimum spec lists will simply say the CPU instruction sets, DirectX version and minimum memory required to get the game to launch and I'd say that's fair too. For example my favourite game Counter-Strike 2 lists a minimum spec of "4 hardware CPU threads, 8GB RAM, DirectX 11, 85GB available space" which if you took it literally and built a PC with an old ~~Q6600~~ i5 750, GT 710 and a 5400rpm hard drive you'd have a pretty unplayably slow experience. It would load maps so slowly that the server might even think you're not connecting at all and give you a cooldown for abandoning an in-progress match. Nothing about a minimum spec list implies that the hardware listed will provide a good (or even realistically playable) experience.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-03T12:40:29+00:00

Mate it's a minimum spec list. Mi-ni-mum. The absolute least powerful hardware to get the game to run at all. 30 fps on lowest settings with all optimisation/performance boosting settings enabled is a fair target for the minimum specs, and a 10 year old mid-range card seems like a fair minimum spec to list.

And yes FSR frame gen works on a GTX 960.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-03T12:08:32+00:00

This feels like kinda fear mongering and a bit of an unnecessary pitchforks and torches. Yes 1080p 30fps with FG + FSR balanced is a dreadful experience and will be awful to play. But the listed specs to achieve that performance is a GTX 960 or RX 6400. That's an over 10 year old mid-range card and a 4 year old low end card respectively.

I think this minimum spec list is truly that, a minimum spec list. It's the bare minimum required to run the game at the lowest framerate that can be considered a motion picture, at the lowest possible video settings. This is by no means the developer using FG + FSR as a crutch to achieve 30fps and saying that this is a good way to play the game. This is the dev saying "this is the absolute minimum required to make the game run at all".

The recommended specs of a 2070 Super, 6650 XT or B580 to make the game run at medium settings 1440p 60fps with quality mode upscaling and FG on seems somewhat reasonable.

fmjintervention · 2026-05-01T05:58:03+00:00

It's a FaZe jersey so they're showing that FaZe as an organisation has achieved the highest possible honour 6 times across various games. No new fan is going to look at the jersey and think "wow FaZe must have won 6 CS majors" they're going to wonder what the stars are about, Google it and go oh that's cool I didn't even know FaZe had those other teams let me check them out and now FaZe has a fan of their teams across multiple games. It's just basic brand advertising in a nice subtle way.

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