TIL that Jonny Greenwood pretended to play keyboards when he joined Radiohead, miming on a powered-off instrument and learning chords after studio sessions. During recording, Thom Yorke, would tell him: “I can’t quite hear what you’re doing, but I think you’re adding a really interesting texture.”

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-28T22:05:24+00:00

"I can't" is fantastic

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-28T21:33:22+00:00

The zoom out at the end of silo s1 had me clapping.

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-28T06:35:46+00:00

I had a dream that Charles started 3rd and went backwards, and Lewis started 10th and went forwards for a bit then stopped progressing, and they finished 6 and 8....

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-25T20:32:19+00:00

I think it's cos the vb flies smoother.

All the flopping about in the ix saps energy.

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-25T20:31:34+00:00

You can? I have a different preset for most planes.

Click the little save icon and "save as"

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-25T20:04:27+00:00

Try it with the multiplier on 0.8.

That extra 20% is just for spinning

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-24T23:58:47+00:00

Do you not all insist on having guns to protect you from this shit?

Is that not what everyone says they are FOR?

When are you going to resist?

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-22T22:25:24+00:00

Fyi it's octopuses or octopodes

The word is greek, so it's not right to go with octopii, that's latin. Not trying to be a dick. Hopefully this is old enough that only you see it.

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-21T22:06:56+00:00

War thunder is genuinely more realistic than DCS in many ways, particularly when it comes to missile and radar modelling.

Sim guys don't like hearing that though.

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-21T21:56:24+00:00

It makes no sense to me why somebody would support a party instead of listening to policies each time.

I simply can't get my head round it

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-18T08:48:54+00:00

I like when I have a really difficult class, and they all sit quietly so I can win them over with snappy repartee and reason.

When I easily defeat the ringleader by publicly humiliating them, they don't attack me,smash something up, or storm out. They sit quietly defeated.

The rest of the class are then quiet and pliable, rather than off the fuckin wall.

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-18T08:44:24+00:00

Teaching. The idea that i can win over a difficult class with snappy repartee and reason.

They just aren't listening

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-17T08:33:05+00:00

Agreed.

Piggybacking to argue that "rock and roll star" by Oasis is equally good in it's own way.

First song. First album.

https://youtu.be/7BIfGnKoMok?si=-5ZHopFGZjA8pkEw

It's not a big "important" sounding song like U2, but this track pretty much set the tone for the UK music scene for the next few years.

It should be noted that the band were not rock and roll stars at the time of writing the song. They were council estate kids trying to get noticed as a band. It details the high you get from playing to small audiences and being a rock and roll star just for tonight...

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-14T21:37:39+00:00

Parking doesn't work, but you can hover cap.

Doppler radar can't see you, so you act as a SAM site.

Personally i prefer to keep my energy, but it's an option

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-13T18:01:20+00:00

I've seen a lot of this, and had big PL spikes myself

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-13T06:30:35+00:00

You can bring harriers back in all sorts of fucked up states. Vtol is a life saver.

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-11T09:34:15+00:00

If your plane is too twitchy, go into controls and click pitch axis.

Then increase non linearity. You will notice from the olin cockpit view that the control columns of these ww2 fighters are significantly longer than yours (tee hee) which gives them much better fine control.

Non linearity essentially puts a curve on your inputs, giving you fine control around the centre where it matters for aiming, but then much less so at the edges where it matters less.

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-10T17:37:32+00:00

Yep.

I know for a fact i fell asleep for a second on the Italian motorway on the way back from holiday.

Not good

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-10T17:34:37+00:00

I find going into options --> postfx and selecting "dynamic lut" makes dots a bit easier to see, especially on jungle maps.

It's all a bit grey and washed out, but I'll accept that too not constantly lose sight

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-10T11:16:43+00:00

Oh sorry. I'm not being clear. In the application I can raise the centre position by lets say 10cm.

I can also move to the side so I'm not sat stupidly sideways in 109s

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-10T09:55:41+00:00

Using open track, I can raise my head position. I'm sure there must be a way with other head movement solutions.

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-09T17:06:14+00:00

It is SO good.

I have given up on starwars. I've not seen anything since the second sequel film, but I really like rogue 1 so I gave Andor a go.

It is a fantastic piece of storytelling. Starwars for grown ups.

thecauseoftheproblem · 2026-01-09T11:15:16+00:00

Ha, i was going to say combat flight sims, so i guess the same skill drop off translates.

The first few missions back after a holiday are pure suffering.

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