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Feb 9, 2020 16:57
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Everyone who attempted to use it died of heat stroke.
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Feb 9, 2020 17:43
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Cojawfee posted:Everyone who attempted to use it died of heat stroke. Nevermind the heat. Imagine the noise. "Poor Flight Sim player. Thought of Delta fans and died."
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Feb 9, 2020 17:49
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I'm the nine keyboards
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Feb 9, 2020 18:03
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MRC48B posted:I'm the nine keyboards Appropriate, since the staggered layout is obsolete. I'll die on this hill. 
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Feb 9, 2020 18:20
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Dear God, the power bill
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Feb 9, 2020 19:22
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Killingyouguy! posted:Dear God! The power, Bill.
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Feb 9, 2020 19:24
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Since I first saw this pic a few years ago it still unknown to me how he made this work.
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Feb 9, 2020 21:07
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AntherUslessPoster posted:Since I first saw this pic a few years ago it still unknown to me how he made this work. MS Flight Simulator had (and still has) an incredibly active mod community, that has no problem doing things like hooking deep into the simulation engine to render a bunch of different views over the network. Judging by the pictures that come up when you google "flight simulator multiple pcs" it's probably this software.
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Feb 9, 2020 21:46
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https://i.imgur.com/Q99lQtX.mp4 audio
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Feb 9, 2020 22:24
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There are old Boomers who doubled up on their pills and started listening to their doctors’ orders just to live long enough to see the new Flight Simulator. I’m surprised Microsoft took this long to make a new one considering how many people played it. People got pissed when Chicago closed down Meigs Field. Not because they actually liked the airport, but because that’s your starting point in MS Flight Simulator. I never played it because my PC’s couldn’t hack the extra requirements. I did play one called ‘Jet’ and you bought add on floppies so you see pixelated Kansas versus pixelated California. And yes, the only different was one had green and blue and the other had green.
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Feb 9, 2020 22:31
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MRC48B posted:I'm the nine keyboards Back then you couldn't hot plug a keyboard or you'd risk blowing up the keyboard controller, and lots of KVMs weren't that great, so just having a lot of keyboards made some sense. Krispy Wafer posted:There are old Boomers who doubled up on their pills and started listening to their doctors’ orders just to live long enough to see the new Flight Simulator. I’m surprised Microsoft took this long to make a new one considering how many people played it. People got pissed when Chicago closed down Meigs Field. Not because they actually liked the airport, but because that’s your starting point in MS Flight Simulator. I fondly remember taking off from Meigs Field in Flight Simulator 4 and you could see Sears Tower and stuff  They were just polygons but they seemed pretty cool for the time. I think earlier versions might not have supported advanced concepts like "buildings" yet though? Even then I suppose you could navigate by radio beacons to find another airport and just imagine you were flying at night when you couldn't see scenery anyway  Jet was made by subLOGIC, the same company that initially developed Flight Simulator, and the scenery disks were compatible 
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Feb 10, 2020 03:06
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"Whoa, you almost crashed into the World Trade Center!"
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Feb 10, 2020 03:14
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:Nevermind the heat. Imagine the noise. An actual turbo prop might be quieter.
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Feb 10, 2020 14:06
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Johnny Aztec posted:"Whoa, you almost crashed into the World Trade Center!"  Never forget
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Feb 10, 2020 16:05
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monolithburger posted:
Holy poo poo, wow.
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Feb 10, 2020 16:07
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:Nevermind the heat. Imagine the noise. i hear airplane jet engines can also be loud/noisy
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Feb 10, 2020 16:08
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monolithburger posted:
And yeah, that's the extent of a scenery disk. You have a vague outline of a coast, there are some major roadways, and only the tallest buildings. Turn around and there's probably the Empire State Building aaaaaaaand that's all of NYC. I need to play an actual up-to-date flight simulator. I got so much drama out of playing Battle of Britain with all of my crew named after Catch-22 characters. I'd feel real grief when one pixel erased the other pixel and Yossarian finally met his fate.
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Feb 10, 2020 16:30
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Johnny Aztec posted:"Whoa, you almost crashed into the World Trade Center!" I recall they removed the WTC after 9/11 which was obviously the right thing to do. But part of me can't help but think that for marketing purposes, it would have been better to leave it in and cash in from all the outrage that would have inevitably ensued if it were still there and youtube-able.
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Feb 10, 2020 16:34
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Krispy Wafer posted:And yeah, that's the extent of a scenery disk. You have a vague outline of a coast, there are some major roadways, and only the tallest buildings. Turn around and there's probably the Empire State Building aaaaaaaand that's all of NYC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNN8w2XlwY
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Feb 10, 2020 16:53
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Nocheez posted:Nah, just watch this guy's videos instead. This reminds me of the time my gf and I were curious wtf ham radio operators even talk about...so we looked up some videos and people were either taking it way to seriously or using it for a sort of open mic comedy session, but on average they just talk about what radios their using.
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Feb 10, 2020 16:58
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LifeSunDeath posted:This reminds me of the time my gf and I were curious wtf ham radio operators even talk about...so we looked up some videos and people were either taking it way to seriously or using it for a sort of open mic comedy session, but on average they just talk about what radios their using. When I'm feeling really bored on tuesday or thursday nights, I tune in to our local ham meeting with my scanner. It's always ten minutes of check-ins and then a few guys talking about their radios and the weather.
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Feb 10, 2020 17:11
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Nocheez posted:Nah, just watch this guy's videos instead. good poo poo
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Feb 10, 2020 17:14
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wa27 posted:When I'm feeling really bored on tuesday or thursday nights, I tune in to our local ham meeting with my scanner. It's always ten minutes of check-ins and then a few guys talking about their radios and the weather. Well sure. Until they get activated. Then it's "detonate your relatives and fly to Petrograd". And the weather.
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Feb 10, 2020 17:21
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Nocheez posted:Nah, just watch this guy's videos instead. Would not advise listening to that at work if you're not trying to draw attention to yourself. I had to turn it off when he got to the copyright issues with his background music.
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Feb 10, 2020 17:45
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Shut up Meg posted:I recall they removed the WTC after 9/11 which was obviously the right thing to do. My bad. I was referencing this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLHyn6_7O74 But it was the Empire State Building.
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Feb 10, 2020 18:06
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Johnny Aztec posted:My bad. I was referencing this video: My dad had their entire VHS course library for both private and commercial pilot training... these two dorks are etched in my mind.
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Feb 10, 2020 18:09
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Krispy Wafer posted:And yeah, that's the extent of a scenery disk. You have a vague outline of a coast, there are some major roadways, and only the tallest buildings. Turn around and there's probably the Empire State Building aaaaaaaand that's all of NYC. The last flight sim was DCS when it was called Lock On, at this point I think I'll wait for the new MS one. Looks fuckin sweet. Shut up Meg posted:I recall they removed the WTC after 9/11 which was obviously the right thing to do.  This was actually because they had to crop the skyline due to technical limitations, which is a great "obsolete technology" story in itself
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Feb 10, 2020 18:53
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mobby_6kl posted:The last flight sim was DCS when it was called Lock On, at this point I think I'll wait for the new MS one. Looks fuckin sweet. Do go on. And explain why it had that terrible dithering like that. I seem to recall playing it later on a better machine and that wasn't there, or I simply got used to it.
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Feb 10, 2020 18:55
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wa27 posted:When I'm feeling really bored on tuesday or thursday nights, I tune in to our local ham meeting with my scanner. It's always ten minutes of check-ins and then a few guys talking about their radios and the weather. Lol, that rules. We saw some show and this old dude's neighbors were all mad at him for putting up a huge antenna (these idiots swore it was giving people cancer). Anyway, so it triggered us to look into wtf people are on about with ham radios in 2020. Some threads online answering were like this: Weather Radios Radios Location Obama Radios
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Feb 10, 2020 18:55
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LifeSunDeath posted:Lol, that rules. We saw some show and this old dude's neighbors were all mad at him for putting up a huge antenna (these idiots swore it was giving people cancer). Anyway, so it triggered us to look into wtf people are on about with ham radios in 2020. Some threads online answering were like this: You forgot "Ailments", particularly diabetes.
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Feb 10, 2020 18:59
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Pham Nuwen posted:You forgot "Ailments", particularly diabetes. oh poo poo, yeah that was in the lists too, but some people said "never heard people talking about that". I checked some other thread and it was like "I got heart surgery," "I got diabetes," "I got agent orange."  
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Feb 10, 2020 19:01
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"Sexual dysfunction" and "HAM radio guy" are redundant, surely.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:13
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"Hey N0T0ES, this is call sign D1V0RC3DDAD, have you seen the new BaoFeng transmitter? Yeah, more like Obummer. Over."
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Feb 10, 2020 19:13
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I've always thought HAM radio guys were the king of the nerds in the old traditional pre-internet heirarchy, above Linux guys, model train guys, and LARPers, before Tumblr added people like Bronies to the list.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:17
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There's probably some merit to that since you have to take a test to become one.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:29
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Nocheez posted:Do go on. And explain why it had that terrible dithering like that. I seem to recall playing it later on a better machine and that wasn't there, or I simply got used to it. The story with the skyline is that there was a limit on how large of an image you could load into the game - either in resolution or in size (as in bytes), I'm not sure which. So the solution to still have a realistic-looking NYC skyline was to crop and then mirror the real skyline by reusing the same image. Here's another screenshot, it looks like there's a seam to the left of the statue of liberty, and then everything further left is repeated on the right side of the previous screenshot too, so WTC just got cropped somewhere. I tried to google for the original source but couldn't quickly find it. Anyway, they realized it and made up an in-game explanation that it was blown up by terrorists.  Anyway, nowadays you can load huge jpegs right into the GPU memory and it works fine.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:34
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Dithering? More like Obamering. Over.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:39
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JPEGs? In my GPU? It's more common than you think.
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