It would be amazing to visit Britain 2000 years ago, before all the ancient forest was cut down, when the Romans considered it to be a haunted and fearful island
Shocked to discover that the record for longest continuous flight was two guys flying a Cessna for 64 days straight, refilling from the ground with hoses and taking turns sleeping
They still hold the record even beating advanced drones
This meme makes me laugh because it could have been made in a trans womans server or a right wing server and there's literally no way of knowing which one it was
My dad has a chrome shortcut on his desktop called “YouTube” that takes him to the google homepage, then he googles “youtube” and clicks on the first search result
It’s hilarious to me that the Alien franchise is set in a British-Japanese empire ruled over by the combined royal and imperial families of both
(Hence Weyland-Yutani)
Yes this really is the lore
I installed Crysis 3 on my graphics card!
I used some VRAMdrive software called GPU Ram Drive, made a 15GB NTFS partition on the GPU, then installed Crysis 3 on it
At 4K very high settings get good fps and the game loads very fast - GPU-Z reports total VRAM use 20434MB
i would secretly form an organization unknown to the hand whos entire job is to pass down technology and education down the generations in secret in the hope that one day mankind would be powerful enough to destroy the hand many centuries later
You when someone tells you they installed a game on their graphics card: "That's not really how it works, you install it on your hard drive, here let me se... oh my god what the fuck is this"
Just saw this insane personality test where you have to look at surreal images and say "me" or "not" me that someone apparently had to do to apply for software role, they are so strange it's unreal
I've also heard people applying to retail jobs getting the same test
this really is the crux of why Google is so bad now for power users
it barely looks at what you write, it’s all parsed through 1000 layers of god knows what in order to help people with thier idiotic searches
so google, in its infinite wisdom, must have figured out that "genesis" and "megadrive" are sometimes used interchangably, because googling "the book of megadrive" gives these results near the top on the first page
Too much End of Evangelion and Half Life as a child gave me an unrealistic assessment of how likely it was that black ops special forces would attack my workplace and try to liquidate everyone
An advanced military prototype solar powered Airbus drone named "Zephyr" also flew for 64 days but crashed in the desert just hours before beating the record of the Cessna
Reminds me of the time a guy in France lazered a plane which turned out to be a Navy electronic warfare plane which predictably instantly tracked him down and had him arrested
New setting idea:
Astrology is real, so a civilization starts building dyson spheres and artificial black holes to alter their destiny
"The stars are not in our favour so we shall make them so"
Americans: You have to work 12 hours a day you need to have a an active GitHub with a green square every day you need to not use your vacation or you won’t make it you need to learn a new language every month
Europeans: I will be out of the office in march. Do not contact me
credit to my bf for telling me about this while we were playing helldivers 2 cand I was watching the eagle refuel from ground with a hose and asking if that had ever been done in real life
*closing dune and Warhammer 40k books*
damn, a future where technology is so advanced that no one understands it except a feared caste of techno-mystics who maintain all advanced systems sounds wild, I don't think that could happen here
In May this year,
@LordPeterHendy
pressured my now-former employer
@SYSTRA_UKIRL
to sack me by threatening them.
Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign.
I feel like games don't really make use of massive scale enough
You could build things that were truly overpowering and monumental that could barely exist in real life but I feel like there are very few games that ever give you this feeling
Some people really decided to watch Serial Experiments Lain, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Hellsing as kids and decide to base their entire lives on them and it shows
@alicemazzy
on the contrary i've often thought it's wierd how old it isn't, it's probably only provably what, 5000 years old?
but humans have been around for 300,000 years, what were we doing for 295,000 years
I have been continuing my watch of the X-Files recently and just watched S2E1
The Blue Beret UFO Crash Retrieval Team makes me think they must have inspired the HECU from Half Life a few years later
Just thinking about Control again, god, it's so good
I feel like something rarely commented on about the game is it's sense of a sort of almost wistful, romantic, mythologised lost America
You used to be able to go to Las Vegas to see nukes detonated in the desert, with advance notice
With the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty it was all over
Give us younger generations a chance, let us see the fire of Prometheus one last time
We need to go back to naming companies like we did in the 1900's, for example:
- Standard Oil
- American Telephone & Telegraph
- International Business Systems
I'm tired of getting emails from companies named snickerdoodlepoodle.
Dad, to me (as a child): "You will have to dress professionally when you grow up and get a job"
Me, working professionally at a very large organization going into the office dressed as a cyberpunk angel with an RGB halo or something: "lol, lmao"
@petrafied808
Apparently they had to give up because the refuelling pump broke down, the electrical generator broke down so they had no lights or electrical power and the thing that finally stopped it was eventually the combustion chambers started getting fouled up with carbon
These days, tech is done in crappy WeWorks and open plan offices, we don't build giant facilities with glass pyramids anymore.
We used to be a proper country
War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged towels. Nano-machines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control... battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control.
oh to be shooting at an outdoor range at night, the only light being the glow of muzzle flare and the seifuku turning iridescent under the night sky 🌃✨🎇🌙
"I want my memory, my existence to remain. That will be my legacy, my mark on history. But the Patriots would deny us even that. I will triumph over the Patriots, and liberate us all. And we will become the "Sons of Liberty"!"'
746 years after the creation of my organization in the renaissance, a day of railguns and nuclear cruise missiles will be unleashed
man will fear the hand no longer
@stm_system
its a picture of an anime girl with a p90 sub machine gun and the caption "god gave the most breedable hip-to-waist ratios to his most mentally unstable soldiers"
"no the hand is too quick"
can He evade hypersonic weapons and relativistic kill shots? MIRVs? Laser weaponry?
all of mankind's knowledge accumulated for the final showdown, one day of ultimate battle when the technology is revealed above ground
There should be a feature to only allow useful notifications
“Your driver is arriving” - great
“Hungry?? Order a pizza tonight!” - contemptible spam, whoever sent this notification deserves to be condemned to oblivion
Seen some tweets claiming I am anti-tech, a flat earther, crazy, etc
In fact I am a software engineer with a degree in computer science which is how I know for a 100% fact that this is true
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🇦🇫🇬🇧 Prince Harry has reportedly disclosed in his new autobiography that he killed 25 people while an Apache attack helicopter pilot in Afghanistan.
Harry reportedly writes that he is not embarrased of the killings as he didn't see the victims as "people" but as "chess pieces".