Jeffool

Nah you're good. I'm absolutely going to suggest we give Warframe a try. And if we get off of Warzone, maybe I'll end up moving sooner rather than later.

hah, respect, but I play Warzone with some cousins who are on console. (Actually I just searched, and I didn't realize Warframe had crossplay now! I might have to at least get them to give it a shot, thanks for the mention!)

That WOULD be a fraction of the cost of a new PC. But given my current one is a 2017 build with a 1080 in it, I'm really hoping to make next year the time to free up some money for it regardless. But I do appreciate the thought!

I actually used Mint for about a year a decade ago, and really liked it then. What made me switch back was the gaming. That said, I hear gaming on Linux has just gotten better and better; just like people in this thread are saying. Whenever I get around to putting together a new PC I'll probably either dump something Linux on this one or dual boot myself. Sadly I don't expect Activision to really support it. But hey, Lord knows I've been wrong before. (And yeah, printers are often kinda universally assholes though; that we all know.)

Y'know GPS didn't even enter my mind. Hell, depending on GPS 3 accuracy (isn't it supposed to be in the centimeters?) my talk of signals is completely moot. That measured against a map of roads on a server somewhere would probably let you download an entire map of nodes toward your destination. Along the way the car just measures against its current location and does the math for obstacles. Great point. This is why I ponder shit out loud. Thanks.

I'd love to make the move, but there's a one-two punch of: I play Warzone with family. I think anti-cheat there is only going to get worse. Second? I already get caught with the fiddly bits of errors on Windows sometimes and spend too long searching for answers. Any time I see that on Linux it looks like I'd need years more of active learning new problem solving to reach my current level of comfort.

I'm at that "is it worth planting the apple tree now that I didn't plant 20 years ago?" thinking.

Anyone knowledgeable about city planning? Why did we never put some type of signal in our roads? (I don't know. Passive RFID every few feet?) It would only cost what, ten, twenty thousand on top of each million spent paving every mile?

Seems it would be better baseline navigation than self driving cars and occasionally map apps. The cars would still have to do obstacle avoidance, of course.

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about self driving tech or city planning. But if interstates are replaced every 10 years, and highways every 20, and Musk first made these claims in 2013? Then we'd have the base tech for every auto manufacturer to do moderately reliable self driving on interstates and a lot of our highways already.

Or maybe that large view pathfinding is the relatively easy part? That's why I'm asking. I'm sure there's something more obvious from an informed viewpoint that I don't know.

It's okay Jeff. It's okay. And yourself?

My name is Jeff.

I get you, but personally visuals is the first area I'm willing to sacrifice. Of course, that said, aesthetics/design are more important than polycount these days.

People are complaining about Motti not knowing Jedi were real. But how many times did we see things written down, much less recorded video/holograms?

In this essay on how recorded media was made illegal by the Empire to clamp down on shared knowledge and control the public, I will prove without a doubt...

I was much more critical of the games I played when I was 30 compared to when I was 20. So perhaps that's a bit of the explanation?

I'm sure you're right that age, the circles we ran in, and platforms all played a significant role in our experiences around the game. That's why I wanted to underscore that it was reviewed phenomenally. But so was Oblivion. Oblivion ranked much closer to Skyrim than Morrowind did, and I'm pretty sure it sold better than Morrowind too.

But like you suggested, a lot of the magic games have is found within us, especially when we're younger, and more open to it. Though yeah, Skyrim was still pretty fucking good. But what do I know? I liked the persuasion mini game in Oblivion that everyone else seemed to hate.