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  1. I've been using this with OnAir for the last couple days, and I'm liking it kindof a lot.  It gives you more purpose vs just flying around and checking shit out.  Currently on one last run in a DA-62 from Montana to California with 656lbs of cargo, then I'm buying my first TBM with the cash I've built up.  You can hire AI employees (maybe real people too, I dunno) and stick them in planes to make runs and all that shit, set up your own FBO, etc.  You don't even have to use a simulator to fly, and can instead play it like a management type game with all AI pilots if you want for whatever reason. 

     

    It costs money (like $68 for two years), but I like it better than FSEconomy, which looks like its from the 90s.  There's a trial so you can try it out if that interests you: https://www.onair.company/

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  2. On 8/30/2020 at 10:06 PM, Doc Reeves said:

    spacer.pngspacer.pngThe view from Mt. Fuji

    Microsoft Flight Simulator 8_30_2020 10_02_43 PM.png

    Nice spot.  I always have trouble with that CJ4 for some reason, and here you are plopping it down on a damn mountain like it's just another runway.

     

    7 hours ago, Deej said:

    Can I play as Jet Pack  guy and fly over DKR?

    Haha that shit was so ridicuWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

     

    E:  Oh hey.  If someone lands on the field at DKR, there might be a bug where the textured turf is floating like...I dont know 20ft off the ground.  I'm not sure if it's my current settings being a little fucky or what, but it looks weird.  I flipped the Shock Ultra stopping on it:

     

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  3. I had a graphics card mishap (it's overheating and seems fucked and I can't pull it apart to check it out due to fucking loctite on the tiny screws), so I've had to downclock it and turn everything down to med/high until the new card gets here on Monday.

    It still looks pretty great, so those of you with lower tier hardware might still consider giving this one a shot.  Right now, for stability, my card is maxing out at 1375mhz with a Ryzen 3600X processor and 16gb of slow DDR4, and it's still hitting 30-35fps on med-high 1080p, which is fine for a flight sim.  The graphics aren't something you'd rub one out over or whatever, but they're still pretty damn good.  E: I do have Google Fiber which gives a good connection speed and can make a difference, so bear that in mind too.

    1375mhz (with 8gb of vram) puts it in the old RX 570 range for clock speed, I think, just for comparison purposes.  There are, of course, some other things about it that are better, but we're not exactly talking about peak Vega 64 performance here.  

     

    E2: By "overheating" I mean I have to keep it below about 62-63 degrees in the Radeon software or it blackscreens and needs a reboot.  https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/898055-black-screen-gpu-fans-at-full-speed-crash-fixed/  Basically any stress on it and it starts risking a crash.  I also set it to 1000mV to keep that low too, but these seem to respond favorably to that anyway, and adjusted the fans to start ramping up at 50 and to all out by 60.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Yep it does, I don't really get it.  Does Rolex keep inventory artificially low ?  The running joke on Timezone.com was it takes Rolex one year to build a single watch. My Hublot Big Bang has seen similar increases in value.  I think I could get a couple $k more now than when I bought it back in '08.

    I honestly don't know.  I've heard it both ways:  it's artificial and that it's just that some of them are so popular that they can't keep up.  Regardless, they're doing something right.  

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  5. On 8/22/2020 at 5:44 PM, Onboard 2.0 said:

    They're like jeeps.

    Except Rolexes don't randomly fall apart.  Fucking JKs.

    E: Yeah, I'm bitter.  So what?  Should have bought a couple of Rolexes instead of those two turd Jeeps and just walked everywhere.

  6. I was buzzing around San Antonio after I took that DKR pic, and they've got stuff like high school fields (flew over Central Catholic and Alamo Stadium) and small colleges (Incarnate Word) modeled.  There are also business signs that are readable on some buildings, like Alamo Cycleplex on 410 and a nearby Whataburger.  It's the 3D photogrammetry stuff.  In places where that doesn't exist, they still have at least some of the field markings, but the stadiums are flat, like the AI didn't know what to do with them.

  7. Went out to the range today and finally put some through the "new" (I got it just before the lockdowns and such started) G43x.  I think I like my Sig better, but it's fine.  The Sig is full size though, so it's probably just a matter of getting comfortable, and 25 rounds just isn't enough.  The range was only allowing 50 rounds of 9mm per customer, so the wife and I only had 100 between us.  Scorpion still works, 22 is still fun to blaze away with.

    Masks + ear pro + eye pro = fucking shitty hot

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  8. 4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

     

    Criminals are downtown... Suburbs are safe...

    UNTILL THE CRIMINALS COME FOR YOU!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

    Now where have I heard of having to move to the suburbs because of the DANGEROUS inner city? Hmmmmmm just can't put my finger on it....

    Well yeah.  The criminals are currently downtown looting shit.  He didn't say anything about them living there, or whatever..

  9. 6 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    Ah shit, so still a ways off until a version is out on Xbox. Of course, PC with a full setup would be optimal but I need to get a rig together for that and was hoping I'd be able to still play.

    Check first to verify (I got the Steam version), but I believe if you get it from the Microsoft store, it has the play anywhere thing.  You can get your flying fix in even on a potato-ish PC, then fire up the Xbox version when it's available.  The PC spec requirements aren't particularly crazy:

    https://www.flightsimwebshop.com/en/blogs/content/system-specs-flight-simulator-2020-published/

    The differences between low and ultra aren't too bad, with the settings being independently adjustable (so bump up the clouds so they don't totally suck and compromise somewhere else):

     

    Also, Austin:

     

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  10. 9 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    I've seen that figure too - but I believe it's arising from a straight conversion of 2.7kt of ammonium nitrate to TNT - which may or may not be accurate for various reasons. 

    I'm trusting the damage-based estimate more - as it seems to align very well with the magnitude quake reported. A 1.3kT TNT explosion should have produced greater than a 3.3 reading on the richter.

    For some 'Rona lockdown style entertainment, go to the table/article of large non-nuke explosions on Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions#Rank_order_of_largest_conventional_explosions/detonations_by_magnitude) and F5 it to watch the neckbeards fight over whether it should be on there or not.  

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  11. 17 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    Gotcha, missed your tweet. thanks for the info

    You weren't wrong.  Hiroshima is a pretty small nuke by todays standards as well.  This one would just be considered tiny, and probably not worth it to use because it's still a nuke, but it's in the range.  This isn't like the dipshits at USA Today talking about the MOAB with a 20 ton yield like we nuked Afghanistan with it.  

    E:  Not worth it for a nation, I should say.  The big thing about that W54, which is what was in the Davy Crockett mentioned above, is that it's small.  While this was a warehouse full of shit going off, that thing weighed like 50lbs and could be backpacked around by some poor fucker engineer for demo, or attached to a launcher like a fat RPG.

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    1 minute ago, ztejas said:

    No. I shared a tweet a page or two back where some rough calculations based on damage were pegging it in the 150-300 ton of TNT range. Hiroshima was 15,000. A bomb like that would have basically evaporated every building in the videos.

    Quickdraw Wiki types are saying 1.3kT at the moment for the big explosion.  W54 size.  

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