I never worked with any versions of NT before 4, mainly because I was mainly doing desktop support stuff until I got my MCSE cert. But it did indeed work surprisingly well considering how janky it was.
Win2k was such an improvement it wasn't even funny.
By the way, did you know that the Windows NT Resource Kit shipped with the GNU C compiler?
Yes. When Destiny 1 came out, it was famously... an acquired taste. It took many updates to get it to a point where it lived up to its potential. And by the time Destiny 2 was near, Destiny 1 had grown into one of the best games I'd ever played. Then Destiny 2 came out and it was like they completely threw out everything they learned fixing and growing Destiny 1. It was a HUGE step back in almost every respect. A massive waste of money.
And then just to rub it in, they went F2P pretty quickly because that's what you do when you charge for a live service game and nobody wants to pay for it because it's crap.
I went back to it a few years later to see how it was because it had seemed to find a following eventually. They completely reworked the beginning off the game to make it almost exactly the same as the beginning of Destiny 1. That's how they fixed it. They changed it back to what worked in the first place. Pathetic. Insulting. Infuriating.
Destiny 2 killed one of the best games I'd ever played. Then replaced it with a poor imitation whose main advantage was that it was optimized for predatory MTX. Fuck Bungie.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but NT was usually called NT 4.0 by those of us who worked with it. You're probably better off skipping it anyways, it was terrible for anything other than file server...ing.
I mean it works here in Nevada. Of course we have exorbitant "Resort Fees" at all the hotels to make up for it, but as long as people keep flying in to pay it, it works for us locals. Not sure skiing and churches are as big of a tourist draw as casinos though.
Yeah I knew someone was going to respond to my rhetorical "I have no idea" and explain it like I actually care. It's like saying I have no idea why people buy Microsoft or use Twitter despite them being despicable. Obviously there are lot of things about them that a lot of people like. Obviously not everyone knows about all the despicable things these companies have done and continue to do. Obviously not everyone would care enough to stop using them even if they did know.
But it still frustrates me. I wish the world was a place where companies like VW couldn't possibly exist because their own employees would never let them do the things they did, much less their customers or the regulators who are supposed to protect us despite ourselves. But, alas, we do not. And I have no idea why. (<--- Rhetorical! Nobody has to try to explain why.)
I was really looking forward to another Arkham style game. Sucks for me that they decided to go in another direction. Doubly bad when that direction (live service co-op) is one I couldn't enjoy even if I wanted to (and to be clear, I don't).
So weird... I wonder why they have this whole thing that I had no idea about. I've been using Netflix since they were a DVD rental service and I've been gaming since the days of Wing Commander and King's Quest. You'd think I'd be the target demographic yet it's news to me that it even exists.
EDIT: Oooooh, it's mobile only. I get it now. It's really obvious in the app but I never watch Netflix on my phone. And yeah, it's basically the Amazon app store all over again.
I like... don't even have an idea in my head of what we're talking about. Is it like Gamefly for renting video games? Is it like Epic Games Store, a pathetic attempt to cash in on Steam by offering the exact same service but worse? Is it like Amazon App Store, a pathetic attempt to copy the Google App Store but worse? Is it games you play on your TV with the TV remote? (I'm pretty sure I have seen one of two of those on Netflix that my kids played.)
I could look it up but they might see that as interest, and I'm really not interested. Just OOTL.
This was my first thought as well. ~100 weekend days per year, ~40 years, that's ~4,000 days just on the weekends. From memory, our tiny plane took up 8 jumpers (4 tandem pairs) and it looked like it was prepared to make plenty of trips per day. But even at a VERY conservative one trip per weekend day, that's 32,000 jumps.
And FWIW, pretty sure this is the place I actually went skydiving (tandem jump) many years ago. Can't recall the name, but I doubt Lodi is overloaded with skydiving centers. They seemed to be relatively busy with people there who were not randos like me but regulars with their own gear who looked like they did this often. I would not be surprised if the number of total jumps over 4 decades was well into the hundreds of thousands if not millions.
Full disclosure, it's been many years since my last LoL game. It's possible they've taken steps to mitigate that particular issue, but it's just one of many.
LoL is the poster child for toxic community. The game is fantastic but it's really not worth playing because the other people ruin the fun.
It really only takes one person to ruin a match and you're always playing with 9 other people (in the "main" game mode). Because of the way ranking work, leaving early because of a troll actually punishes you so you are incentivized to stay in a game that you're not enjoying. It makes people cranky and they tend to take it out on internet strangers.
And for some reason, only in LoL do they seem to feel free to use the most despicable language you can imagine.
Anyways, there are other games in the same genre if you want to try them. DOTA2 is the obvious one, though I personally think it's a worse game than LoL. The Blizzard one was really good but it was shut down IIRC.
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I never worked with any versions of NT before 4, mainly because I was mainly doing desktop support stuff until I got my MCSE cert. But it did indeed work surprisingly well considering how janky it was.
Win2k was such an improvement it wasn't even funny.
If I did, I've forgotten it by now. lol