wait, you waited like 3 hours for an answer?

oh, no. i get now whats going on. i’m so sorry!

ju r weri smart. fank ju for enlitening me. moron.

Yeah, that would be exactly the part which puts me off.

yeah, thats an thoroughly built argument which might fool an idiot but i have to say you are sociopathic asshole. jfc

I hate my billionaires as much as the next best lemmy user but this seems to be just a tad too edgy for my liking.

from a purely visual perspective it looks a bit sloppy with a hint of give me just a plate. but from previous acquired knowledge i know this is tasty as fuck.

“AI vegans”

ffs, just publish an article with a single clownemoji for the same effect.

Back then i still clinged to the few active forums which were still around. I slowly started to switch to reddit 2016 i think.

Coordinated astroturfing on reddit isnt even a new thing. I had the chance to watch how the whole marketing efforts for the Burnout Paradise remaster unfolded from the very first minute . That was back in 2018. It was so blatant how all the posts popped up on the same minute on several different subreddit and then slowly filled with obvious shill comments which got unnatural ammounts of upvotes. I mean there was also some natural engagement. Its still a beloved franchise. But that made it even easier to pick out the tonedeaf marketeer comments since the remaster wasnt that great and it already showed in the prerelease footage. Astroturfing was probably a thing from the very beginning of reddit. But thats the first example i noticed because it was just so obvious.

i feel him so much

Well, but they involve themselves with mods quite a bit: https://www.beamng.com/resources/

Because Beamng runs their own mod repository which is even accessible ingame. This isnt about some random mod hosted on a randrom 3rd party site. This mod was released and distributed over servers and a services which Beamng as a company runs themselves. So reading a whole ass month after the incident my system and my passwords were potentially compromised fucking sucks. I’m not blaming them that the mod got uploaded. I’m blaming them that they made no attempts to publicly communicate: “yo, a mod containing malware got uploaded to our service and 3000 users downloaded it before we got informed that it was infected. If you happen to have downloaded the mod in x timeframe your system was likely compromised. Sorry yadda yadda”

I had the mod installed in the timeframe were it had the malware. Fuck me.

But what really pisses me off is that i read about it first here on lemmy. Not on the Beamng forums/repository, not in the game, not in the steam announcments of the game. Like you distributed malware over your platform and the policy of you fucks is just to stay silent? Meh.

tbh i dont care what theoretically is written in law. what i care about are the fuckers who light up the 200m infront of them with their led lights and with that burn up my corneas. everyday multiple times. dont get me wrong, led lights are awesome. i use them myself. but there are too much assholes who only think about them self. even if with 30km/h you certainly dont need the visibility of cars full bright.

am i overreacting? maybe. idk. but these fuckheads drive me mad everyday.

stop! badly adjusted way too bright bike lights are the most hated things in my life. i have nothing left but spite for them. i’m activily holding myself back right now. i could sputter nonsensical insults for hours because of them. One time i started to carry a stupid bright flash light with myself just to blind them fuckers back. since then i grown up. but awfafhasifhaoshfoahgoiahsdoigasddfafas asfdda fuck

true, if you’re in the driver seat these lights are awesome. I worked as a driver for a few years. Mostly in old shitboxes but sometimes i had the chance drive these modern marvels of technology. no doubt its way better for your eyes and concentration if you are in the driver seat. but for anybody else its just soooo bad. even if you steer a vehicle with fancy LEDs the other car with LEDs will blind you. but as a pedestrian, on a bicycle or in a shitbox they just straight up fuck up your cornea.

as a nerd who dabbled with photography in the past the diagonal shot of the interior is just sooooo good. damn

the lighting is near perfect.

no need to get personal.

i’m still amazed how these fucking lights got through regulation in germany. ‘everything’ is regulated here. but these blinding pieces of shit got through. i know the answer: money. as in cars, the crown jewel of the german economy. i hate them sooooooo much.

i’m still proud of myself that i got rid of the four different scart cables i had left in box a few years ago. one of them was even transparent blue. a real looker. it really hurt. but i live my best life since then