zorg wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 11:36 am
ErickC wrote: Thu Jan 01, 2026 3:34 pm
We need to pass a constitutional amendment banning mandatory updates for games. Fuck off and get out of my way already.
I don't know what you mean by mandatory, but I got the kid a Switch 2 for Christmas and by the time the umpteenth MarioKart reboot finally loaded up, we would have been halfway done with Super Mario World in 1990. Progress.
That's exactly it.
I used to make content for
Microsoft Flight Simulator way back in my teens and early 20s. You might get an (optional) patch a year after release. Recently, thanks to the interference of my brother and my friend Derek (who I was visiting in Edmonton), I bought FS2020. And every goddamn time I load it, it has an update you can't say no to! Jesus, could you imagine developing for that platform? You have to start, exit, and reload the game several times an hour when you're doing in-game testing.
Here's another constitutional amendment we
really need. All civil engineers must be piss tested 4 times a day, every day. The decisions they make on a regular are indicative of a substance use disorder. Ever been subjected to a diverging diamond? Literally the only type of parallel roadway that requires the left lane to stop for the right lane and vice versa. "But they're more efficient than a 4-way signal under these very specific conditions!" Sure, so install them under those very specific conditions instead of at every rural low-traffic intersection that should have a goddamn roundabout.
Piss in this cup, dipshit!
Also, I hear so much negative press about Massachusetts drivers but my drive into Brighton on MA-2, I-95, and surface roads was the most pleasant driving experience I've had in over a decade. The problem is these studies all use flawed methodologies based on recorded collisions or fatalities. What about the 10 almost-collisions per day I'd get into when I lived in St. Cloud because people would (similarly) pull out on you at intersections, but not commit to it, and instead freak out and stop in the road? Or all the drunk drivers going to wrong way in the DUI capitol of the world (Wisconsin), who never caused a collision, but 20 drivers ended up in the ditch swerving out of their way? How many almost-collisions went into every collision? The drivers around here simply don't mess around. I'd rather take an elevated risk of a minor fender bender every few years over being stopped on a 4-lane highway in the middle of the night because I was the third driver on a road with 2 idiots who decided to be afraid of the highway and there was a terrifying minor bend in the road.
Also, I left my car behind because I live on the Green Line.