atmur

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[–] atmur 5 points 4 months ago

Oh hell yeah I've played almost all of both series.

Flatout 1 is alright, hasn't aged especially well. Suffers from being completely overshadowed by its sequel in every way.

Flatout 2/Ultimate Carnage is still my favorite Bugbear game, with Wreckfest being a close but firm second.

Flatout 3 is.

Flatout 4 is honestly not terrible, but still feels like a cheap imitation of the first 2 games.

Burnout 1 also suffers from sequel shadow.

Burnout 2 is a great arcade racer that no one talks about because...

Burnout 3 is quite possibly the best arcade racer ever made. Absolute masterpiece.

Burnout Revenge is somehow just as good. Whether I prefer this or 3 depends entirely on how much I enjoy traffic checking on that day. I posted Junkie XL - Today to the music community a few days ago because I was playing Revenge recently, what a soundtrack.

Still haven't played Dominator, should probably get around to that.

Burnout Paradise is also excellent in its own right, but I think going open world took away some of the charm that the previous games had. Tracks were so well designed in 3 and Revenge. Still love Paradise too, but 3 and Revenge are just absurdly good.

[–] atmur 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fuck yeah. After Test Drive Solar Crown turned out to be live service garbage, I've been waiting for another racing game to look forward to. Hopefully the career mode has a bit more depth than Wreckfest 1.

[–] atmur 25 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I can't imagine a future of non-electric cars (assuming cars remain the dominate form of transportation in the US because we suck). They're so much better than ICE cars and it's not even close.

I've owned a Spark EV and a Bolt EV, basically the cheapest EVs you can get, and they're two of the best cars I've ever driven. Driving a family member's brand new ICE Kia felt like going back 50 years. It's so slow, it makes so much noise, it feels like a boat, ugh.

If I had twice the budget for a car, I'd get an Ioniq 5 or 6. If I had quadruple the budget, I'd get a Lucid. If I had half the budget, I'm going back to the ~~street legal go-kart~~ Spark EV. I just can't even consider ICE cars as options anymore after getting used to an EV.

[–] atmur 201 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The frozen chipotle employee watching me walk behind the counter and make myself a burrito 180 times before time resumes

[–] atmur 6 points 5 months ago

Linux User Space is excellent. I also listen to Linux Unplugged, 2.5 Admins (not strictly Linux), and The Linux Experiment's patreon podcast.

[–] atmur 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is just blank writable discs, movies and TV shows on bluray will continue to be produced... for now.

[–] atmur 35 points 5 months ago (12 children)

I live in hell (i.e., Arizona), can confirm.

[–] atmur 101 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

As someone who was home-schooled, I absolutely agree with Cosmonaut Star. I dodged the alt-right insanity of modern homeschooling, but I got the "okay sit here and do learning unsupervised for a while" treatment after I turned 11 or 12. Prior to then I feel like my parents did an okay job at making sure I was keeping up with normal kids and taking me to social gatherings and stuff, but that just gradually slipped away the older I got. I feel like I'm still unpacking mental baggage from basically not having a life in my teens.

Thank fuck I got into self-hosting, networking, and Linux/BSD stuff in general as a hobby otherwise I would have zero marketable skills for a job.

[–] atmur 48 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I want to give ogre a hug

[–] atmur 59 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I'll watch no anime for months, then I'll find a show I really like and watch 6 episodes a day. Dungeon Meshi was that show recently.

[–] atmur 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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