Sounds like something Rand purveyors would do.
paraphrand
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Well, for me, off the rails means it lost the heart it once had. But to each their own.
“Put a boot in their ass, it’s the American way” etc. etc.
The person you are replying to is suggesting a vindictive false flag event is being prepared. Classic conspiratorial banter.
But it’s 2026, so dismissing it as conspiratorial thinking/banter is possibly exactly what this admin wants. It’s a really fucked up time period.
I notice rollbacks and snapshots are commonly talked about in the context of shitty software. Microsoft, enterprise software no one likes to use, etc…
It’s just a population density map.
Thank you! I’m glad someone else sees what I sensed. R&M has the ability to balance the grim elements with humanity. It’s part of why it’s good, and the genesis of that copypasta meme in many ways.
They were definitely lost and meandering in those middle seasons. And it didn’t line up with my conceptions of Dan Harmon either. I’m interested in R&M because of Harmon, in spite of Roiland.
For me, it got better in the last two seasons.
There was a season or two while he was there where it went so dark and didn’t have the balance it had in the first seasons. IMO
But I also don’t think he was a driving force behind the plot/writing. Maybe I’m wrong. I don’t know how much correlation/causation should be drawn from him being forced out and the tone or quality shifts.
Edit: I just read someone else’s comment in this thread that confirms he was a menace during the seasons that it felt went off the rails. Where I felt it lost the balance the show originally had.
This all sounds like what I described. Yeah.
cool, they get to say it’s all bullshit then. Great job guys.
cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/37907
Some readers may recall the Lynx-R1 headset — it was conceived as an Android virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) headset with built-in hand tracking, designed to be open where others were closed, allowing developers and users access to inner workings in defiance of walled gardens. It looked very promising, with features rivaling (or surpassing) those of its contemporaries.
Founder [Stan Larroque] recently announced that Lynx’s 6DoF SLAM (simultaneous location and mapping) solution has been released as open source. ORB-SLAM3 (GitHub repository) takes in camera images and outputs a 6DoF pose, and does so effectively in real-time. The repository contains some added details as well as a demo application that can run on the Lynx-R1 headset.
The unusual optics are memorable. (Hands-on Lynx-R1 by Antony Vitillo)
As a headset the Lynx-R1 had a number of intriguing elements. The unusual optics, the flip-up design, and built-in hand tracking were impressive for its time, as was the high-quality mixed reality pass-through. That last feature refers to the headset using its external cameras as inputs to let the user see the real world, but with the ability to have virtual elements displayed and apparently anchored to real-world locations. Doing this depends heavily on the headset being able to track its position in the real world with both high accuracy and low latency, and this is what ORB-SLAM3 provides.
A successful crowdfunding campaign for the Lynx-R1 in 2021 showed that a significant number of people were on board with what Lynx was offering, but developing brand new consumer hardware is a challenging road for many reasons unrelated to developing the actual thing. There was a hands-on at a trade show in 2021 and units were originally intended to ship out in 2022, but sadly that didn’t happen. Units still occasionally trickle out to backers and pre-orders according to the unofficial Discord, but it’s safe to say things didn’t really go as planned for the R1.
It remains a genuinely noteworthy piece of hardware, especially considering it was not a product of one of the tech giants. If we manage to get our hands on one of them, we’ll certainly give you a good look at it.
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I agree that it should be more like a proper contract and that people should understand it. It’s absurd that we have this structure where it’s implied you read even a single word of a TOS.
People should be attacking things like this. Not just boasting on social media about clients that hack YouTube.