Sure, but the question was, who is more hated? I do not think that globally at the moment the population thinks about, let alone actively hates, Bush Jr these days.

Yes Trump has his core base, but man, it really feels like if you don’t love him, you hate him.

It’s hard to keep perspective over the decades. I was more passionate back then, and he really did some horrible things, but I don’t remember feeling like he was so, I don’t know, disgusting of a human being as Trump.

Time will tell I guess

It’s hard to remember how much we hated Bush II back in the day. The fact that he is now just lumped in with the other surviving presidents today for me is the real demonstration of just how much worse Trump is.

Very similar but on the corporate AV side. Design, program, and manage conference systems. Everything from small 4 person huddle spaces up to auditoriums and divisible multi purpose rooms.

Been doing it since everything was analog, now I’m basically a network engineer.

Going over the stats today we manage over 600 endpoints world wide, not bad for a three man team.

I live by two simple statements, “No one can make me” and “No one can stop me”. I adopted this some time in my early forties.

This applies mostly to social events and activities.

Want to jump on my motorcycle and head off for a weekend? No one can stop me.

Don’t want to attend a wedding or birthday party? No one can make me.

My time is mine, and I’m free to choose that which I do and don’t want to engage in.

Aside from that, as others have said, you really do stop giving a fuck what other people think of you.

This leads, at least in my case, to a smaller, but far higher quality social circle.

Get a grapefruit or an orange, heat it for about 20 seconds in the microwave.

Then cut it in half, throw both halves in the garbage, and do like everyone else suggests and listen to your partner.

I’m always split between skateboarding and snowboarding. Have 41 years on the skateboard and 35 on the snowboard.

Being old and broken, I certainly can’t ride like I used to, but I’m having as much fun as ever and still push myself to learn new things.

I hope a much needed knee surgery later this year improves things.

Still, nothing I enjoy more than a day at the park teaching anyone who will listen.

I tried playing at launch, on a PS4. Only time I’ve ever really felt a game was unplayable.

Year or so later, tried on a PS4 pro, but still wasn’t any good.

Today after a friend bugging me for like week, I’m giving it another go on a PS5, and this time, it looks and plays the way they promised.

First game I’ve played that makes use of the trigger feed back, going to have to get used to that.

Just finished the tutorial, really hoping it lives up to the hype. Do have to say it’s the best looking game I’ve played.

For perspective, me at 22. Kicked out of the military, recently divorced, and living on a couch in my parents basement.

By any measure, I was WAY behind anyone else I knew.

Now, at 50, I have a job I truly love, a nice apartment with just me and the cat. Have a couple motorcycles, game consoles, and my time is my own.

I’m not rich, but I make more than I spend in a given month, have enough savings that I’m not living paycheck to paycheck, and an emergency expense won’t ruin me.

It took a long time to figure out what happiness looked like for me, and to stop judging my life by those around me.

Sure, my siblings are more “successful”, but I can’t say they seem happier than I am.

I don’t use any social media aside from Lemmy, I don’t follow anyone, and experience people the old fashioned way, in person or through phone calls.

Look around your life and see the things you do have. Not to post, just for you to recognize.

Think about what it is that makes you happy, both day to day, and in say a five year plan. Make a goal, make it achievable, and then do it. Just for you.

Go see a live show, buy yourself a present, take a short trip to see a place you’ve never been, invest in a new hobby, take up a musical instrument.

And for fuck sake stay away from AI chats and social media!

From what I’ve read / watched, Rage 8, the engine used for Red Dead Redemption 2, was basically a prototype for doing GTA6, which is on the Rage 9 engine.

These large open world games want you to think there is a large, city scale sim running, but before RDR2, this was all just smoke and mirrors at best.

One key thing Rockstar has been working for GTA6 is separating the various simulations from each other, so that local car and player physics, general traffic, pedestrian pathing, etc, are all fully isolated, and in fact will run on different cores of the processor.

The end result is that you can have large world scale simulations of traffic and pedestrians running all the time, without wasting any graphical or physics processing power on them. That’s why the world of RDR2 feels like it’s happening whether your character is there to experience it or not. Unlike most open world games where you can just tell “I’m the main character and the world is just a local bubble projected around me”.

Even in GTAV, which is basically the best of the old way, you can still see vehicles spawn in and out of existence. Cops just appear on the map because you have a wanted level, things feel like west world, where the animatronics only start their scripts when you walk in the bar.

GTA6 is supposed to do away with all of that. Cars, people, animals, the weather, will persist even when you aren’t there to look at them. Events will just be going on in the world. Pedestrians will report your description and car to the police, which will then dispatch local cops to chase you. These various systems able to interact with each other is going to provide far deeper emergent game play across the board.

Far more than higher poly count / more pixels / bigger map, having these core game systems isolated from each other and able to run continuously, will change what a video game world is and can feel like.

When you asked if people were really excited about the game, this for me is at the heart of the hype.

Only in that those games were not the big leap forward in tech the main numbered games always are.

VC and SA were the same engine as III.

VI is a whole new engine and game systems.

Yes, I’m very excited. Every time I’ve played one of the main, numbered entries in the series, I absolutely loved the experience.

Each one brought something new and unique to gaming, and from what I’ve seen, this one promises to deliver in a big way.

I’m sure it was because the windshield was littered with too much HUD.

Coffee and a bagel w cream cheese

I have a very specific skill set so my experience may not apply, but I’ve had the best results going through technical head hunters.

Tempt to perm positions lasting six months to a year, then they decide if they want to hire you.

Yes spam away, it’s not like your credit score is getting dinged each time you send one.

My only caution to this approach is that you want to be sure to research the company before any interview, don’t show up and be like “Well, ya’ll were the only one of the 500 I sent out to reply, what do you do?”

I went through the No Mans Sky turn around, and ended up loving the game. I always thought Cyberpunk would rock, given the team behind it.

You’ve convinced me that it’s my next big play through.

I’ve bounced off this game twice, the early PS4 disaster and another attempt admittedly before all the fixes.

I have a PS5 now, so maybe it’s finally time to give it another try

I have no idea why this is posted in science, but it made me smile.

Insanity by Oingo Boingo

Echos, Live at Pompeii by Pink Floyd

I started playing bass guitar on Rocksmith about 5 years ago. I’m in the top ten on most songs on the medium difficulty, and have almost 1000 hours in the game.

I’ve never actually played bass in front of anyone other than my ex, and I’ve never really tried to play without the game.

At first I thought I wanted to get good enough to join a band, or at least play along with my family, all musicians, when they get together, but it turns out I just really enjoy spending a Friday night with a half pint of whiskey and jamming alone with headphones.