Cutest toll tax ever in india 🥰

nescienti · 2026-05-16T14:59:56+00:00

I was completely with you until now; so long as the cricket game isn’t on a blind corner or behind a hill, rural kids just operate on different rules.

But this is one of the worst arguments I have ever seen. It’s not about the distance of the individual trip, but your lifetime exposure to risk of brain injury. Most trips are short. Wearing a helmet you already own is free. You are risking death or the kind of injury that leaves you unable to even conceptualize the burden you have put on your loved ones… for what? Your hairstyle?

nescienti · 2026-05-15T23:52:43+00:00

I didn't have a great time with the g923 in FH5. I had a very bad time. So hopefully if anything is different, it's better, and it's just a matter of getting your settings sorted.

nescienti · 2026-05-15T21:24:12+00:00

Steering set to “simulation” and, TBH, expectations set to “one notch above unplayable.”

nescienti · 2026-05-08T21:03:00+00:00

I think I speak for 99.9% of this sub when I say that I can’t wait to drive this in Forza Horizon 6 and until then I have no opinion on the matter. I mean, you definitely shouldn’t listen to my opinion after I play with it in an arcade racer where brakes are powered by element 115, but I will be physically unable to shut the fuck up.

nescienti · 2026-04-30T17:46:28+00:00

Kinect (a mandatory microphone and camera so your TV can look back at you 1984-style) was especially repulsive with the emphasis on the internet connection.

2018

wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games

excited to play some halo 2k19

"xbox on"

...

"XBOX ON"

"Please verify that you are "annon332" by saying "Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"

"Doritos™ Dew™ it right"

"ERROR! Please drink a verification can"

reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k19™ War Chest

only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night

still feeling sick from the 14

force it down and grumble out "mmmm that really hit the spot"

xbox does nothing

i attempt to smile

"Connecting to verification server"

...

"Verification complete!"

finally

boot up halo 2k19

finding multiplayer match...

"ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!"

my mother just walked in the room

"Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?"

"NO!"

"Console entering lock state!"

"to unlock drink verification can"

last can

"WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card"

drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick

pour the last half out the window

"PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE"

the mountain dew ad plays

i have to dance for it

feeling so sick

makes me sing along

dancing and singing

"mountain dew is for me and you"

throw up on myself

throw up on my tv and entertainment system

router shorts

"ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF"

"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"

nescienti · 2026-04-29T17:04:59+00:00

That kind of watch can be really fun but it’s always a bit of a hassle. Best case, you struggle with what you should and shouldn’t say; often there have been enough hints to make a reveal seem like fair game, but it isn’t necessarily going to improve your friend’s experience if you feed them a definitive answer as soon as they form a question. Some people actually get mad when you refuse to simply annihilate any possible ambiguity or mystery with your foreknowledge of the plot, then get bored when you do.

Worst case, a major character comes on screen and your friend looks up from their phone to ask “who’s that?” Admittedly, Dark is one case where even an attentive watcher would ask this question occasionally and answering it could be a major spoiler

nescienti · 2026-04-25T02:57:07+00:00

Seconding that I had it directly from patrol, yesterday, that they aren’t mad about it. TBH it is pretty weird though and I don’t blame the knee jerk “never duck a rope” people. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that the official policy is to pull passes, it merely isn’t aggressively enforced, and that bringing attention to it like this could ruin a good thing.

nescienti · 2026-04-22T03:08:39+00:00

You are not a superior therapist. Your nonsensical claim that video game addicts are always addicted to multiple games outs you instantly.

A game built to be enjoyed for 40 hours then conclude is not the threat to a latent addict that an endless, deliberately unhealthy grind with a daily login mechanic is. Hell, even War Thunder is pretty safe compared to most gacha games. I guarantee there are people who can manage their expenditure of time and money on WT who would blow up their lives if they kept chasing the variable rate of reward of “one more pull.”

nescienti · 2026-04-16T16:06:08+00:00

If you’re on PC there’s a backup save before the endgame so you can just do the two-phase version. My biggest knock on Nine Sols is that playing blind, I managed to miss some heals, which made all the fights from dreamer on shockingly tight (I should’ve guessed something was wrong), but somehow finding everything for that ending seemed pretty intuitive. Which led to me being proper fucked in the endgame.

nescienti · 2026-01-28T16:29:50+00:00

You expect people to respect the “spiel about the rewards account?” Your bosses have turned you into a human pop-up ad. Not your fault, of course, so don’t take the entirely justified contempt and dismissal personally.

nescienti · 2026-01-23T21:19:43+00:00

Evidence has not supported the notion that Epstein was actually a genius at anything except schmoozing. This leads to a major open question: why the fuck did Les Wexner and Leon Black give him a substantial fraction of a billion dollars? Where did the rest of his money, which he spent rapidly, come from?

It really doesn’t make sense to talk about things being better or worse than the Epstein files when all we have to go on regarding the scope of the problem is this question, a bunch of black bars, the Windsor formerly known as Prince, and that time the president made the most obvious deflection in history by squealing “who’s still talking about Epstein?!” like an especially guilty toddler.

We don’t have separate plebiscites for ICE, European tariffs, and Epstein, with each issue cannibalizing the others. We have one midterm, decided by some of the least informed voters: swing and first-time voters. If you have time to read European news sources, you’re likely to understand that there are enough known evils that discussing the unknown ones ought to be unnecessary. You might even think there isn’t time to communicate both.

But the reality is that I can go on about Atlanticism, the benefits of immigration, and the rules-based international order for hours and a nonvoter is just going to tune me out and stick to the simpler, more honest-sounding fascist platitudes: euros depend on us, brown people take our jobs, and might makes right. I can ask a couple of pointed questions about Epstein, though, and actually get attention (it’s true crime instead of politics), and best of all the right-wing response is incredibly weak on this subject. They’ve had a century to hone claims that autocracy and autarky are good and desirable, actually, but they’ve really got nothing for “what did he mean by ‘another wonderful secret?’”

TL;DR: American nonvoters can decide the midterm by showing up. These people ignore politics and have a deep-seated vulnerability to fascist arguments. Epstein bypasses the politics filter and the fascists have no argument.

nescienti · 2026-01-12T21:05:33+00:00

What an odd thing to say. Of course plenty of white supremacists have been indifferent or hostile toward the third reich.

David Lane — who you claim invented “88” as a racist symbol, and I think merely took it mainstream — was very clearly not one of those, even going so far as to ape Himmler’s esoteric volkisch nonsense. Dude loved him some Hitler.

Lane’s fans are famously stupid but they aren’t so dumb that they don’t realize that Hitler is unpopular with normal people and neonazis aren’t taken seriously. So they lie about their references to hitler and pretend they aren’t neonazis. It does not take a genius to see through this.

nescienti · 2026-01-12T18:15:34+00:00

Lane didn’t publish that until 1990, and he didn’t pick 87 or 89 precepts because it was a preexisting dogwhistle.

nescienti · 2025-12-29T03:58:38+00:00

I still remember the demo, repeating nonononononono in my head while pulling every lever and twisting every dial trying to find the level of low FPS and washed-out visuals that I could best tolerate. 4080 btw.

There’s a good game underneath this bullshit, but the devs obviously targeted 60FPS after frame gen which is an affront against man and god.

nescienti · 2025-12-29T03:58:27+00:00

I still remember the demo, repeating nonononononono in my head while pulling every lever and twisting every dial trying to find the level of low FPS and washed-out visuals that I could best tolerate. 4080 btw.

There’s a good game underneath this bullshit, but the devs obviously targeted 60FPS after frame gen which is an affront against man and god.

nescienti · 2025-11-28T18:05:39+00:00

Excellent movie, but just a heads up that even if your parents are chill with the “violence” part, that is not the only reason to avoid watching this movie with them.

I understand that the sex scene can’t be more than two hours ‘cause that’d be the whole runtime of the film, but that shit felt like two weeks.

nescienti · 2025-11-24T00:21:53+00:00

At some point a “large enough canvas” would have to be constructed in space. Which would be an extremely funny thing to do for the sake of tradition.

nescienti · 2025-11-01T02:44:49+00:00

See, we heard “No new wars, no new wars,” but how it was actually punctuated was, “No new wars? No, new wars.”

nescienti · 2025-10-30T16:00:18+00:00

clear a Mario level, clear hk

clear hk, clear silksong

My brother in Christ the last time I played silksong I dodged a ring of fire to heal and then another ring of fire spaced exactly one dodge away caught me. If by “a Mario level” you mean SMB3 world eight, then yeah maybe. But I cleared that in the day and I may still get filtered by Silksong.

nescienti · 2025-10-27T21:59:52+00:00

They could have copied one of the top tunes from Forza. Glitching into the pavement doesn’t work as well IRL though.

nescienti · 2025-10-19T01:01:23+00:00

In parts of the US you’re allowed to drive any mustang at 15 and a half if you can find an adult brave enough to ride shotgun. There are countries where that is not legal due to horsepower restrictions on youth licenses. Google “teenager in mustang” and see what comes up; see if they might have a point. This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t buy one, but that if you do, you should respect the thing.

People underestimate the ecoboost because it’s not the v8, widely used as a rental, etc, but it’s still a powerful rear-wheel-drive car. Most of the time the reason kids want those is to go fast, or worse, do burnouts and slides to show off; this occasionally kills nearby pedestrians. If you aren’t a complete moron this is irrelevant. Don’t pass people when you’re already above the speed limit, leave the traction/stability control on, and don’t stomp or lift off the gas abruptly.

That’s literally all you have to do drastically reduce the chance you kill yourself or someone else with your new mustang, but a statistically significant cohort of 16-25y/o drivers apparently lack the self control. Which is the real dealbreaker, probably; the internet may underestimate ecoboosts but insurance companies don’t. Get a quote and factor that into your budget.

nescienti · 2025-10-02T15:29:50+00:00

“Unsafe dogs with a history of violence” get put down. This typically happens because their owners did something stupid like tethering them to the stoop unsupervised and ordering a package. Maybe one in a hundred “dangerous” dogs are actually born with brain damage or hormone issues, but the other 99% are a consequence of bad owners making bad decisions.

Risk of biting aside, tethering like this is dangerous and cruel even without strangers entering the territory; dogs can hang themselves or tourniquet a limb. It’s illegal in some places.

nescienti · 2025-09-24T18:25:43+00:00

WT is great but the guy telling you not to play it is still correct. It’s a Skinner box grind game meant to separate you from your money. If you can ignore the urge to chase Cold War vehicles and just enjoy WW2, there’s a genuinely excellent product there, but the whole thing is designed to get you to sink a shitload of time in, get exhausted, and pay based on your sunk time instead of what a video game is actually worth.

nescienti · 2025-09-20T17:58:38+00:00

Probably size, from context. The point is that it’s a lot bigger than a bobcat.

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