Posts by definitely-not-indy

  • Free Labrador

    Had no dogs for 4 years. Neighbor calls, want a free lab puppy? Sure, the kids are 9 & 10 now and need some dogs in their life. Lets go look at this puppy, which my daughters have decided we're adopting, before we've even seen it. He was a few weeks old, separated way too early.



    ... labrador?


    He also came with free parvo. So $2500 in vet bills later he got through that and... labrador? with a white chest? ... got the Doggy DNA test done.


    Pitbull, Labrador, Husky, German, Belgian, Dane, Weimarner, and residual dog dna.. feels accurate, he's got traits of all of them.


    Then we ended up with my brother in law's old black lab while he was in the hospital for 4 months.


    The black lab was headed home (so I thought), so using knowledge imparted to me by Toad many moons ago on FW, I got a real lab. She's kind of an asshole, but has all the paperwork to back it up and all of the hunting behaviors I was wanting in a dog. Thanks again for that one Toad!


  • AI

    Quote from Gina

    Wow. that's pretty good!


    What program do these people use? I want to try that.

    Resemble.AI, Respeecher, FakeYou. Maybe Descript's "Overdub" function which needs 30 minutes of voice recordings to train with.


    There's Real-Time Voice Cloning on GitHub that can clone your voice with a 5 second sample.

  • The Bitches of Aces High

    Quote from Beej

    That's how I used to think of it, kind of like hanging out in a bar getting shitfaced with your buddies without having to leave the house

    That's coop in pretty much every game. Right now myself and a group of other dads with no time for games with learning curves casually play shit like Pummel Party.

  • The Bitches of Aces High

    Quote from El Sluggo Loco

    I was SHOCKED at the difference in resource use AND graphics quality when I first downloaded DCS. But from what I understand a lot of AH's resource problem (considering relatively poor graphics) was the sync and lag part that DCS didn't have to deal with.


    BUT... DCS adds more and more multiplayer stuff all the time and STILL.. I can have the eye candy cranked on DCS with 60fps while over in AH I'm turning off water textures and shadows just to keep it near 30.


    I always found that kinda weird.

    Nah, DCS forces DirectX 11 or better. The last time AH2 updated their requirements it was 2018 according to their min req page, and it runs on DirectX 9. DirectX 9 came out in 1995. DCS supports multi-threading. As far as I know, AH2 never has. Multi-threading allows you to distribute time intensive functions off the main core and massively speeds up everything.

    I wrote a quick "boids" demo (flocking AI) for a bunch of fish to swim around a tank. Without multithreading you can get about 1000 fish before framerate crashes. With multithreading on my PC you can do 10,000 fish at the same framerate as the 1000. My PC isn't anything special either.

  • The Bitches of Aces High

    Quote from slamfire

    You have to be really into Flight simming to love AH.


    People actually showed up with a sim pit at a large RC flying event. Nobody cared. They'd rather turn a wrench on a tiny plane.


    The most fun I had in AH was one of the big ops flying with a Spit squadron vs 109s over Malta. Single day ace that day. I started with one of the base grabber squads in the MA and.. man that shit got boring fast. Then it was on to furballing off carriers under 3k. Best fighting in the game until some cunt eventually sinks the CV to ruin the fun to "protect the base!"

  • Clown World

    Quote from Lord Soth

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    you don't want that garbage.

    you want real pizza, cooked in an electric conveyor belt oven, from papa johns.

  • Ukraine War thread.

    Quote from Lord Soth

    Friend of mine has a mid range thermal scope on his .243 . It’s simply amazing. I can only imagine what high end scopes can do.

    Night hunting is almost as fun as duck hunting. Definitely better to use thermals for hogs, after a shot or two regular NVG washes out and shuts down into protection mode even with gen 3.

  • Tucker

    Between the fake hair, botox, makeup, love of bowties, and shrill, womanly bitching.. people watch this instead of practicing any type of useful skill?

  • Russia coup 2023

    Quote from El Sluggo Loco

    Only $3,000,000,000.00? Well.... never mind then.

    Nope, just accounting bullshit. An M113 adjusted for inflation would be a $3 million dollar line item. 3 to 6x more than an 2022 MRAP for 1960s tech. Depreciate it to current surplus valuations and similar tracked APCs of the era go for less than $30k.

  • Russia coup 2023

    Quote from rabidrabit

    Where is 6 billion dollars "missing" from?

    It's "an accounting error", where they effectively doubled the $$ value of weapons being sent to Ukraine, have now halved the value of the weapons sent and claimed it was that way the entire time. This depreciation has resulted in a large surplus of available funds, so more money and weapons can be sent to Ukraine to bring it back to the Congressionally approved limits.

  • Russia coup 2023

    Okay now I miss the FW thread, where Russia is actually winning and it's all gay-jew conspiracy, Zelensky will be crushed any moment, and Putin is the most effective leader on the planet.

  • Crush depth

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