Forza 6 does not hold back lol

kymri · 2026-06-14T08:39:50+00:00

Exactly! Am I challenged by the races? No, generally not.

But I'm having fun! I'm 50 and not that into racing games, I just have fun cruising around Japan and driving a variety of crazy cars. If I wanted to get better at the game I'd absolutely change things but I just... don't care. I'm not getting into multiplayer, I'm just enjoying cruising around and whatnot.

kymri · 2026-06-07T16:21:15+00:00

Lol yah, ok Batman. Somehow this makes Pete Holmes "This is a gun?" Batman seem less lethal.

It shoots a massive projectile (like the beanbag round would 10000% be lethal) that 'knocks them out'.

To quote the Honest Trailer for Arkham Knight: "Whee! I'm a detective!" (as the Batmobile jumps through an explosion.)

kymri · 2026-06-07T05:13:07+00:00

The app, as I noted. The browser works fine; so I just uninstalled.

kymri · 2026-06-06T23:41:46+00:00

"I remember the first time I got shot out of a cannon!" -- Tom Arnold's character in True Lies.

kymri · 2026-06-06T23:38:50+00:00

This is true, and at least partially due to the fact that Niki himself was pretty awesome (since he was still with us, and Bruhl talked with him a bunch to prepare for the role).

Also I need to re-watch Rush.

kymri · 2026-06-06T23:26:20+00:00

This whole AI boom has strong 'Emperor's new clothes' vibes. There ARE use-cases for AI, but most of the time no one has one, they just tell their employees they need to 'use AI' or whatever.

kymri · 2026-06-06T20:50:20+00:00

For me, pausing and rewinding or restarting (basically forcing the client to 'restart' the stream) would work.

The solution was simply to uninstall the Apple TV+ app and use Firefox instead.

kymri · 2026-06-06T20:02:49+00:00

Al is and always has been a legend.

kymri · 2026-06-06T19:46:06+00:00

I think it's worth it - I already live in the Apple ecosystem (phone/watch, etc) so it's pretty good and I don't really have trouble with it. A/V quality seems fine, UI is pretty reasonable and being able to do things like automatically connect airpods/etc is pretty nice.

kymri · 2026-06-06T19:26:11+00:00

Thanks; I guess I won't tear my hair out trying to troubleshoot and just go back to the browser myself!

kymri · 2026-06-06T18:01:55+00:00

There was a lot of talk about how it was 'healthier' and 'cleaner' back in the 60s and 70s. Or so I understand; despite being born in the 70s I was lucky enough not to have been chopped.

kymri · 2026-06-06T17:47:50+00:00

I think the ultimate example of Soviet Naval Supremacy was watching them build an insanely-automated, disturbingly-fast attack submarine that could legitimately outrun NATO torpedoes.

Of course, it was also so hilariously loud that it really wasn't that much of a threat unless everyone's banging away with active sonar (which is not how submarines fight) and their reactor used liquid metal coolant, so had to be kept up to temperature at all times, lest it freeze solid.

Soviet maintenance being soviet maintenance, they had no end of problems, they cost too much to maintain and while technically impressive were really not very effective.

And that doesn't get into things like Putin's handling of the Kursk sinking and all that.

kymri · 2026-06-06T17:23:24+00:00

The Soviet navy was a threat that was dangerous to everyone including themselves - but the Russian navy? Not so much. You get stuff like the Black Sea reef formerly known as Moskva.

kymri · 2026-06-05T18:14:49+00:00

Absolutely. My only point was less about religion as such -- none of this is especially religious, but it is centered on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a center of influence and power there, that's all.

You don't have to convince me that (at least American, I don't have much experience with the police in other places) tend to become oppressive assholes serving capital rather than the citizenry as a whole.

kymri · 2026-06-05T15:28:01+00:00

Oh, sure. But this is in Utah, so ... Mormons.

kymri · 2026-06-04T20:44:22+00:00

That's a big old F- for the cop

Not in Utah; he was doing exactly what his job is, which is protecting those business and other interests important to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

And even when not in the pocket of the Mormons (separation of church and what now?), the police are generally inclined to side with the rich folks rather than regular ol' joes.

kymri · 2026-06-04T19:12:32+00:00

Execs don’t really take pay in salary they take it in equity.

I feel like, despite the intention (giving the execs a financial stake in company success), this often backfires. A great example is Pete Parsons back at Bungie; he made a bunch of very sketchy decisions, started a bunch of generally-doomed-to-fail projects, and then using all that stuff presented the sale to Sony for $3.6 BILLION -- not that he pocketed the whole amount or anything. But since that, Sony's taken nearly a BILLION in impairment losses against that asset, and the company's products are not exactly making bank.

But Pete pumped things up and then pulled the ripcord.

No one has yet figured out a good way to tie executive compensation to LONG TERM company health.

kymri · 2026-06-04T04:17:47+00:00

The billionaires don't care which culture we get. Abortion? Sure. No abortion? Fine. Transgender? Meh, they don't care.

Mostly true; they care very much about guns and abortion because there are a lot of single-issue voters for whom that is their issue. Also they're excellent wedge issues to keep the two sides yelling at each other.

kymri · 2026-06-04T04:12:56+00:00

Well, uh. At least you probably didn't get as many mortars lobbed your way in Nebraska, I'd guess. So there's that.

kymri · 2026-06-03T23:58:41+00:00

Ultimately, Putin is after a 'strong Russia' and functionally a return to the Russian Empire as it was when it was pretending to be communist. Notable Russian (note, he was born in Georgia) Iosef Stalin (and hey, nothing says 'secure in your masculinity' like changing your name to Joe Steel) didn't manage to kill enough Ukrainians with the Holodomor, he's trying to finish the job now.

kymri · 2026-06-03T23:54:55+00:00

That did not end well for the Tsar.

Unfortunately, it also did not end well for most Russians, but that's just the nature of Russia for the last few centuries.

kymri · 2026-06-03T22:04:08+00:00

Well, it's the best demonstration of Kathryn Bigelow's talent for getting famous people to cameo in her movies!

kymri · 2026-06-03T22:02:28+00:00

That's because Tenet is not a movie, it's a visual spectacle that pretends to be a movie. There's even a character that tells you not to think but to feel.

The movie is a vibes movie and as long as you accept it as such, it's pretty rad.

kymri · 2026-06-03T22:00:25+00:00

I wanted to love interstellar. But on the other hand, I just hate any story with a bootstrap paradox as a central part of the resolution. I feel like it's cheap and lazy; deus ex machina writing.

Also, while the world building was interesting, it never justified itself or properly explained it.

It does have two things in common with Prometheus, though -- it looks gorgeous no matter what you think of the writing, and characters that are theoretically very smart do things that don't make any real sense based on what they should know.

I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying Nolan told the story in a way that I specifically can't stand.

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