bermuda @ bermuda @beehaw.org

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man he got weird

Okay.

Have looked at linked content sometimes but it always looks like a bunch of short meaningless thoughtless content. So I think Twitter has 0 value.

I mean, that was the original point of twitter. Jack Dorsey took Facebook's status updates feature and made a whole website about it. You'd follow people you knew in real life as well as famous people you liked and then could see short updates about their life and their interests. Most of the very first tweets were just innocuous little updates. 50cent said he was in Turkey. Warren Buffet said he joined the app. A bunch of random non celebrities posted messages about what they were cooking that day.

Twitter effectively ran this concept into the ground when it 1) removed the character limit (it was originally 140 chars), and 2) added thread reply features.

I don't really care that it's a generalized term for where the planes go. My comment was about how it's just wrong. Nobody in the aviation industry calls it tarmac. It's what journalists call it when they can't be bothered to learn the right terminology.

...what? But you wouldn't say tarmac either for your example. Youd say road.

If it's about location then they should say runway, taxiway, gate, hangar, etc.

I had to do an assignment in college about news report headlines vs what was said in the abstract vs what was said in the conclusion. Basically finding out how many news reports just skimmed the abstract. Kinda shocking tbh.

I'm not an expert in airplanes and I'm not even a pilot, but even I know that most airport runways are not made of tarmac. They're made of asphalt, which is a different substance. Even some newer ones are made of concrete. But every time you'll watch a news report about planes at an airport they'll say "on the tarmac." It's not even slang among pilots. It's slang among journalists.

I know I know it's not super important but it annoys the shit out of me every time I hear it.

they only responded 3 times

I haven't played far cry 2 yet. I heard the realism kinda messes with the fun in a way, like the malaria and the guns breaking gets in the way of the objectives

I see the site posted a lot so I assumed it's semi-major but I dunno it's just an internet news site.

Anyway I agree the "in the field" part is weird. Also the fact that the author knew the "expert" that was cited and the info came from a discord post makes it seem like a bit of a puff piece.

I heard Far Cry 6 changed a lot which is why I've been hesitant to give it a shot.

MGSV was another one I loved that felt very similar. Unfortunately I kinda stopped liking it right after the Africa part starts. Afghanistan was super fun though.

Youre right and I'm sorry

Player numbers aren't that great daily on steam (considering most owners bought the epic version anyway), but all of the developer tracks plus most of the community tracks have leaderboards in the tens of thousands, even the hundreds of thousands for the seasonal track releases. There's also a daily community highlight where players can race and compete on a community track hand-picked by Nadeo staff, so that really bolsters numbers on community tracks.

Multiplayer is kinda dead compared to the older games, but I also don't think a lot of players play the game for the multiplayer anyway. There are even community playlists of tracks that you can play in singleplayer that go up to I think 50 tracks in size. So you can just pick one of those and play through a bunch without ever having to connect to a community server.

A new one was released in 2020 on epic games and I think it's on steam now. It's a remake / remaster the TMNF/TMUF games. It's just called Trackmania but most people call it TM2020. It's a subscription based game with tiers, which sounds shitty but the prices are pretty normal. Like the best tier is $60 for 3 years and that's how long most people play $60 games anyway...

anyway I'm currently mostly playing TMUF.