Hey guys, I watched the show, totally crazy !!! and really funny ... you have to see!
The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond and Tory Belleci (Mythbusters) join forces for The Great Escapists, coming to Prime Video later this month.

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https://www.seenit.co.uk/amazon-releases...eo-series/

I don’t watch this show heavily, but I kept up this last season. And boy was it dramatic. They had two bachelorettes. They had to replace their bachelor mid season. Not actually a terrible thing, probably mutually beneficial. She found love and got engaged after 13 days. The rest of the guys in the house were frustrated and felt they weren’t given a chance, but Clare was right. Nobody should apologize for love. 

What happened next was more predictable than we would have wanted to admit. Spoiler alert: they broke up. And it was dramatic. 

I find it hard to judge people on TV from this show because it’s so easy to see where producers edit people to look or appear a certain way. It’s hard to tell who they actually are just from a television show. But that being said, I’ve seen many people come and go on this show, and I have some questions about this entire thing. Something isn’t adding up. 

1. Was the entire thing staged? Everyone who goes on the show has to pass a two week quarantine. They had Clare replaced after day 13 and immediately had Tyashia Adams take the roll. No 14 day quarantine. The producers were aware of this whole plan before the season even began.

2. Clare is (not surprisingly) bashing Dale ceaselessly. Dale is speaking well of her publicly and trying to save her reputation. Clare is trying to destroy his. 

And without knowing the entire story, I sense it’s almost a red flag. If there isn’t more to this story, then I can’t say it’s necessarily a good look for her. As someone who has been on the other side of that, it’s not fun and the bashing is often totally undeserved. (Break ups happen. It doesn’t mean either person is evil.)

It’s just hard to tell. Throughout the season, I almost felt as if she had an idealized version of who he actually was in her head. She has dreams and goals and desires and expected him to meet those needs perfectly. And in many fast paced relationships like this, it all comes crashing down because nothing in this world is perfect, nor can that be expected or anyone. It’s a sad situation that sucks for both of them.

And I don’t knock Dale for it either. Dale just seemed totally not ready, had no idea what he was getting into, quickly realized she was VERY attached and he didn’t want to break her. So he went head on, tried his best, and realized the inevitable months down. And he was being compared to an idealized version of himself constantly and was having to sacrifice his own goals and dreams to be that person she wanted him to be. It’s a situation I’ve been in, and it’s a suffocating reality. And he has the burden of being painted as the bad guy for admitting the inevitable. He’s trying to protect her. She’s trying to destroy him. So he’s got a side to tell too, and it’s a perfectly valid one.

It’s just so hard to tell. These kinds of breakups take a toll on both parties and are difficult for everyone involved. There is always another side to the story that we don’t hear, and the public slander rarely paints a true picture of everything that happened. That being said it’s TV, and we simply don’t know what transpired when the cameras weren’t rolling. Safe to say this was probably the most dramatic season of the Bachelor we’ve ever had.

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Most of us who have had larger cities know the horrors of reaching the vehicle limit. It has to do with the internal workings of Cities Skylines, and it limits the internal number of CIMS physically simulated on the map at any given time. This limit is 65,536 (to be oddly precise). This includes all pedestrians, public transport vehicles, garbage trucks, busses, commuters, boats, trains, plains, or any other type of vehicle/cim on the map. Of this, 16,384 can be vehicles. This 64K agent limit is hard-coded into the game, and it is part of the reason that the base game limits gameplay to 9 tiles.

9-tile cities rarely push against this limit, but of course, most of us have increased that as well with the 25/81 tile mods. And on a sprawling, 20+ tile metropolis, the agent/vehicle needs are far higher, and tend to push the limits of the game. The end result is that traffic simply disappears. The game is less challenging and roads become empty. The game runs out of its internal 16K vehicle pool, and cims simply start teleporting. Not very realistic.

This is already inconvenient when it's commuters that are affected, but it's much more problematic when even utilities and essential services can't spawn their vehicles. It's actually a very real problem for 81 tile cities. The game was simply never designed for cities of this size, and will very gladly send garbage trucks, hearses, ambulances, fire trucks, or other essential services across the ENTIRE map if any local service is underallocated. Because of this, very large cities often run out of "spots" even for essential vehicles such as hearses or garbage trucks. This obviously results in massive gameplay problems, garbage pileups, unattended death waves, and all sorts of other mayhem that makes the game nearly unplayable.

There is a new mod that is helping to solve this problem. It (supposedly) provides a massive 4x increase to the internal vehicle limit. It's unclear at this point how this was accomplished, but I suspect that they re-allocated the internal limits to allow vehicles to (in theory) use all of the 64K limit. In practice, it probably simply means that more vehicles and fewer pedestrians will hit the streets (for very large cities), but it still fixes many of the issues that larger cities experienced with regards to these limits and makes these cities feel more lifelike.

(And it's worth noting that if these limits were indeed simply reallocated as we suspect, pedestrians will still count towards this 64K limit. The mod would simply combine the 48K and 16K pedestrian and vehicle pools to allow all agents to be allocated as needed. If this is indeed the case, mass transit will be an important thing to watch. Busy subway stations or bus stops can easily rack up thousands of waiting commuters underground, which take away from this limit pool and restrict the number of vehicles that can hit the roads above.)

This will probably benefit pretty much any large city above ~150K population, especially if more than 9 tiles are in use. I personally have several 20+ tile cities that use the real time mod, and I've seen a pretty welcome increase of traffic back to my roads. It's not quite to the level of a brand new game where the limits are nowhere near being reached, but it's a very noticeable change that makes my cities certainly feel more alive.

Anyone else used this mod before?

I make music on the side. Nothing production worthy (yet), although some tracks will be coming out later this year. Been learning the ropes and trying to get my hands in on it. So far it's been interesting. 

I've used three over the years. Sonar X1 (back when it was a thing) was great, the included plugins and virtual instruments were fantastic. The interface was ehh.. 

Cubase was a little difficult to use, but had fantastic plugins and great presets. My mixes always were very good in cubase. Part of me wants to go back to using Cubase again just for the virtual instruments and plugins. 

And then there is logic, which I've fallen in love with. The presets are not as good and the virtual instruments are a little stranger, but the workflow is second to none. I've had very good results doing even more advanced editing related tasks. And flex is absolutely fantastic for audio editing (time fixing, pitch editing, and so forth). 

Anyone else ever play around with digital audio workstations? Which ones do you use?

Google is proposing changes for “critical projects” in terms of the norms of what developers do. Among those are things that make sense, such as forcing two factor authentication. Some of them not so much, like forcing a sort of registry for any contributors or not allowing anonymous contributors. But perhaps more worrisome is that that they want TWO independent, third parties to be required to review all changes. (They also want these third parties to dictate what can, and can’t be changed. And this is absolutely ridiculous.)

It is totally antithetical to the spirit of open source, along with everything it stands for. It’s taking away the freedoms that made open source so powerful, forcing and allowing third party companies to control the destiny of large scale projects. 

They claim that this is under the guise of security, and that it reduces vulnerabilities and increases truthworthiness. But let’s think about that, because Google itself has benefitted immensely from open source. One of the largest companies in the world has benefited from the huge community of projects that are available for free, thanks to the developers who had the freedom to create wonderful things. They chose to use those projects and have contributed to their popularity.

And it’s not unwarranted. There is a reason open source dominated the mobile market, the server market, and the IOT market. One of the most prominent reasons is security and stability. This is the reason we don’t use closed source options such as Windows (as often, at least). These critical open source projects are already being used by Google (and many others) because they are much more secure and trustworthy. So when Google wants to come in and force developers, many of whom are working for free, to jump through hoops and red tape that are antithetical to open source, it’s not security they are concerned about. The outcome isn’t security, it’s influence. Google is fully capable of developing their own options or forking projects if THEY want to control the destiny of those projects.

The whole thing is just against the entire spirit of open source. If you don’t trust the package, don’t use it. If you think a critical package isn’t maintained in the way you want, then fork it. It’s YOUR responsibility to do that in open source. Not your responsibility to get red tape involved and strong arm them into paying third parties. No. As a multi billion dollar company, it’s YOUR responsibility to contribute. 

Honestly, just not so sure about this one. What are your thoughts?

I saw out bandwidth usage shot up by nearly 400% last month. Tried to figure out why and was setting up advanced stats to see. While I was it, I changed the server configuration to disable hotlinking to our theme images. (I have to do this on a per directory basis because there are certain images that we are allowing this for.) 

Outgoing bandwidth (transfer/hour) instantly dropped to about 1/3 of what it was. There might be other images being hot linked, but someone is stealing our images somewhere (presumably they didn’t upload them to their own site and instead linked to ours). And it’s not even like we have anything special. Most of it is the MyBB default icon set.

It’s a common problem on the internet. It’s a rabbit chase to try to stop it completely. But for now, this game of whack a mole was caught. For now.

I've always been an 80s buff. Some of it is not particularly enjoyable (some of the more cheesy or pop-ish songs), but a lot of it had a certain sophistication and progressiveness that really put a lot more meaning and soul into the songs. It was also before the autotune era where things were not artificially perfected or sterilized by the production team. The music of the 70s, 80s, and 90s felt more alive. 

Today, I'm not so much a fan of modern pop music. Some of it is great, but a lot of what has become popular has just never jived well with me I suppose. It all comes down to preference. 

And perhaps it's worth noting that many artists still do make classic rock/pop, but it's often not as popular today as it was then. The music industry and the power of the market has shifted towards the more modern approach. I personally don't want to have a do-over of old musical eras, but I do hope we go back to the aspects of the 70s and 80s that were the best and evolve from there. 

I think that in the next 10-20 years, it could happen. What are your thoughts?

Greetings according to the time of day in the forum

Hello Darth-Apple Hello folks, My question to you about my small adjustment in the forum, greeting after day / night time in the Mybb forum.
It was important to me not to generate it according to the server time, but according to the user-specific set time zone in the user Cp.
I managed to do that.
How far I have errors in the whole, I ask you to point out and to improve.


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Joe Biden tuch wives?

He's constantly grabbing girls and women, kissing them, fumbling around, very, very strange, isn't it? and that has been noticed for a long time, not just now when Präsidentvoting, but in 2015 and earlier !!