Oh, I feel for you... Delphi is a really nice language... for 1995. Last I saw it used in anger was back in 2004 or so, and even then it was a joke that it was still going...
I always thought it was because the earliest stuff was actually filmed infront of a live audience (Like a theatre) who did laugh, so when switching to non-live-audience stuff, the viewing public would be 'put off' by no laughter, so they injected it with canned laughter... then as time went on they realised this was rubbish and stopped it.
But maybe I'm just missing the joke in the previous two comments, I dunno.
Yeah - I don't even cary cards with me any more, it's all on my phone. Including many store cards (Coop, Texaco, Shell, McDonalds...) which automatically pick up without me doing much - I scan, it works.
The only thing I can think is that the US is such a fractured environment with Federal, State and Local government, each with different jurisdictions, rules and taxation, that trying to get it to work would be beurocratically difficult. But at the same time, it's so ruled by corporations that surely they'd want to push the easiest way - flip your phone out and wave it to pay, easy and secure, so make it happen :D
Member since 24 July 2004 here. Doesn't feel like 20 years, but it's also hard to imagine having ~5Tb of installed games across multiple launchers just... available. Plus emulators and other resources. Steam was a pain in the arse at first, but they made it work, and they saw beyond the limitations of dialup tech. I was all for it at the time because I had one of the few Coax connections (NTL at the time, later taken over by Virgin Media) which at that point I believe was 10Mbit... Of course, nowadays we have Gigabit FTTP rolling out throughout the UK, so this seems really quaint, but it's pleasing to see how far we've come.
The US coverage still sucks. Sort your shit out guys, you're 20 years behind the UK, and we're a good 10 behind Norway, Hong Kong and others thanks to Twatcher.
That's because HS2 is a totally flawed, Ill thought out, over budget and badly managed boondoggle - just like everything in the UK rail system since the Beeching cuts in the 60's. If it was properly run, well thought out - and actually made a significant difference in time (not approximately 15 minutes from Piccadilly to Euston), we'd support it.
Just a quick note - it's this weeks free game, not this month - they do a game or two a week. :) I've not played it, and I kind of feel like it could bring the worst of deck-building and real-time strategy together into one, rather than best in my mind; but I'm open to try when I get free time.
What... are you doing in the background? I've got a 3070 and 4k monitor, and I get between 50 and 60 FPS with all the settings I can fiddle with disabled enabled. I use RivaTuner to pipe statistics to a little application that drives my Logitech G19 with a real-time frame graph, CPU usage, memory load and GPU load and it uses multi cores pretty well, and generally makes use of the hardware.
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Thanks for pointing out I made totally the wrong comment above, changing the meaning of my comment 180°...
Porkbun have a ddclient plugin on GitHub. Subdomains are supported. They've got a full API, so if something isn't supported, someone can probably implement it relatively easily.
I love this concept... it takes the humanity out of alien/foreign/different races. If done properly, you can easily conceptualise different views of the world. Something like the sort of thing John Scalzi has done with his works - let's work through how a different viewpoint actually works and then work out where the jagged edges are - all of a sudden, the different races are fighting with each other because they see the world diferently and don't communicate properly so they assume all of the others think the same way (because they can't concieve of anythign else without looking that far into it) and boom you've got a realistic world with in-built fracture lines...
I'm a huge reader, massive... like, I spent up until I was about 29, 30 or so going to the library every week or two and getting 10 books out every time (That was the most you could get). I'd have read them all, and be champing at the bit to go back well within the week... it was a regular trip for us to go.
I've never actually read the Never Ending Story, and I loved the movie... one of my favourite childhood movies.
I've had the "Tetris Effect" happen to me - at one time I was really, really into Tetris (To the point where I could quite happily play GameBoy Tetris at max speed for... well, I did it for a few hours in one game once, much to the annoyance of my mate who actually owned the GameBoy and had agreed it would be, "Swap on death"), and I had the 'visualising falling bricks' ephemera afterwards, and vivd dreams about Tetris for a few days afterwards.
But, then again, if I get into anything pretty seriously, I'll have dreams about it. I got really, really into building with Lego's and I had dreams about that; same with Minecraft and No Man's Sky.
I'm going to briefly explain why I downvoted... this (I feel) is an unhelpful comment that doesn't explain anything. You say, "[if] you're comfortable support a broken-by-design network, do it.", but you don't explain why it's a broken-by-design network.
I'll say - I agree with you, but the comment doesn't actually enhance the conversation and comes off as abrasive and unhelpful. If I'm looking for information, I'd rather be given education (Even if it's just a, "Go here for why you don't do that!"), not just a, "Don't do it" with no assistance and help for how to do it right.
That's... not and never will be the true f1 intro for me.
Fleetwood Mac, The Chain is the one, true, F1 theme.
Yeah, I'm old... I'm nostalgic... I can't let go.