BlemboTheThird

I like that part of firefox's summary was that it's free. Uh, yeah, they all are. Thanks Mozilla!

That's a Dead Milkmen parody of Elvis lol. It's the intro to Bitchin' Camaro

Wait actually it's not even Elvis! It's Jim Morrison!

I think you responded to the wrong comment

Don't worry, he's got 10000 hours in various other flight sims

That dog either has a horrifically inflamed anus or isn't a female

This is a stunningly ignorant take.

Being a modern so-called "wage slave" sucks, no doubt. But equating it to actual, literal slavery belittles what those people actually went through to a disgusting degree. No one today can whip you if they feel like it. No one today can separate you from your spouse and children, selling them to some random asshole two states over, never to be seen again. If you decided to try to make it on your own and move, no one can sue to have you brought back to your workplace in a cage. If you break your leg, no one can shoot you in the head like you're a useless animal.

The closest thing to slaves we have today are convicts. There's a whole different discussion to be had there about how immoral it is to use prison as a punishment instead of rehabilitation, allowing a court to take away someone's rights, exploiting time behind bars for labor, the incentive that provides for pronouncing people guilty, and removing felons' rights to vote. But poor wage workers are NOT slaves.

Only the G-Man (and arguably Breen) understood what was about to happen. The rest of the scientists were doing the research they were told to. Freeman just happened to be on lab duty that day. One of the guards says "looks like you're in the barrel today,” which is a reference to a dirty old sailor’s joke, implying people in the lab take turns doing grunt work in the HEV suit.

If Freeman was the fall guy, it wasn't by other scientists trying to place blame on him, it was the G-Man manipulating events so that the cascade would happen on Freeman's day in the suit.

I like to think that Black Mesa was an insane confluence of theoretical and practical physics. After all, they are inventing interdimensional travel and laser weapons. Freeman probably spends most days in an office somewhere doing math. There's a guard that jokes Freeman is "in the barrel today," which is a reference to a dirty old sailor's joke, implying people in the lab take turns doing grunt work in the HEV suit.

Unless the game is solely bottlenecked by processing stuff

yyyyep. Pretty much any mainline GPU made since 2010 should be able to handle TF2 just fine, and if you've got a 1060 or better I seriously doubt your GPU is the problem. The problem is that CPU usage is horribly optimized and it can only really utilize 2 threads (not cores, threads). After that it's your clock speed that makes a difference.

I played competitively on a 680 and an overclocked [email protected] until I finally upgraded last year, and would only dip below 100FPS playing pubs on Halloween. In 6s I never went below 200.

I mean, back in the day, I already used to get better performance when I would boot in Ubuntu 16 instead of Windows. Not sure that's the case anymore with modern stock Ubuntu but I imagine Mint would still do better thanks to having less bloat. But I have trouble imagining that better shaders are going to help many people at all.

edit: the vulkan update probably won't help. the switch to 64 bit has the potential to be HUGE.

This might help very slightly but it isn't gonna fix it. Runs terrible on windows too

What really gets me is how newer Star Wars media has repeatedly teased dealing with the issue but then drops it before anything interesting happens. In the Solo movie they literally had Lando fall in love with a droid and then fucking murked her. Just like every droid in the universe that starts to think it deserves rights, I guess...