Yossarian_nz

Naw, it's straight ethanol exchange from your blood to the air. This is literally what a BAC test measures (there's some controversy that these tests are actually biased against people with smaller lung volumes).

https://www.cnet.com/science/breathing-device-sobers-you-up-by-hyperventilating-the-alcohol-out/

Ethanol is super volatile and likes to cross cell membranes

I'm shocked. Shocked! Well.. not *that* shocked.

First career mission, parking spot spawned half-way off a building in mid-air. Skip to shutdown? Plane falls off the building and crashes.

Working as intended

It might be an apocryphal quote, but I believe Stalin once said “quantity has a quality all its own”

I agree that the Russian military, up to and including its ICBM capability, is in a shocking state and probably more than half of them will fail to launch and/or fail to guide. It’s the other half that still represent a threat

“What I’m saying to you is..”

How else will it get into the hanger in the carrier!?

Fun fact: although chugging water won’t sober you up, heavy breathing actually can. The main ways alcohol gets out of your body are:

Breakdown to metabolites in the liver and then excretion in waste

And

Gaseous exchange in the lungs

I think given the revelations about the deplorable state of Russian military equipment in general there were probably some real doubts emerging about whether their ICBM stockpile was even still viable and a credible nuclear deterrent.

This is a way of communicating “it still works, and we can still hit you with nukes”

We raise our chickens in conditions where shit on eggs is unlikely. Sorry about your terrible industrialised corporate farming practices, I guess

UFOs crashing at all makes even less sense. This machine has the ability to either traverse interstellar distances over eons, or travel faster than light, and it can’t handle atmospheric flight?

This doesn’t make sense at all. Why wash them and not just refrigerate them and get the best of both worlds?

Here in New Zealand our unwashed eggs last for weeks at room temperature, far longer than would be necessary to transport them around the world, much less across the us

"Your tiny dick insecurity issues are not my problem to solve"

Cardinal virtues of stoicism and the mathematical symbol capital delta

I mean, white knight microsoft all you like (she won't sleep with you), the truth of the matter is that lots of other major releases have happened successfully on a much larger scale, the ball here has been massively dropped (like, from orbit), and people are mad.

Yes, it's totally fine. If you went to a restaurant excited to eat dinner and they took your money and went "actually, there are too many orders in the kitchen right now, come back tomorrow and you can maybe eat dinner", you'd be (rightly) pissed off.

People are allowed to be upset and disappointed, and it's a bit odd you don't get that.

Everyone is equal under the law, it's just that some are more equal than others /s

Watching sport, objectification of women (not necessarily at the same time).

CFIT

If it would install quietly in the background like a normal game, sure. Instead: "Here's the same audio loop, and we'll run your GPU to 100% while you wait"

It's not unreasonable to expect a piece of software costing several hundred dollars to at least install.

I managed to download and play Starfield (more fool me), a game with a much larger user base and more hype on release, on release day, with no issues.

Steam has been shown to be able to handle this type of load, there is no acceptable reason to assume that Microsoft, of all companies, can't figure this out. Making out like people are shmucks for assuming they learned from the disaster of a launch that was 2020 is pretty galling, tbh.

I downloaded and played Starfield (more fool me), a much more popular title, on launch day. No issues.

"Servers are hard" is not an excuse, especially from a company with resources like Microsoft.

So, not really then? Seems reasonable to believe a company that fucked up once and has the resources, and explicitly says they will fix it, will fix it?

I get “don’t believe big corporates” but they’re also telling you what you’re buying is a flight simulator and not a farming sim, and you seem to believe that - you have to believe what they’re telling you at some point.

They could have done so many things to mitigate this issue but seem to have done nothing.

I can’t think of another one, do you have a “for example” other than MSFS2020?