Don't have a shadow box to post but these awards belong to the Brother In Law of a friend.
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Don't have a shadow box to post but these awards belong to the Brother In Law of a friend.

From what I was told, he served as a marine in Vietnam, but under the hood did the kind of shit you couldn't talk about freely. Supposedly he was taken on by some three letter agency that had him do work after the war. Could anybody tell me what you'd have to do to get some of these medals and ribbons. Thanks and I'll try my best to answer any questions.

u/TheJohnRockstar — 3 days ago

Was torquing intake manifold bolts on my car when righty-tighty suddenly and very loudly became righty-loosey

Thankfully we could just pull the manifold back off and remove the rest that way but I still feel like a complete dumbass for letting this happen.

I hadn't realized that the indication for inch pounds when torquing would be so subtle and I was expecting at least an audible click but I didn't, clearly.

u/TheJohnRockstar — 11 days ago

Racing Game/Sim But The Music Gives You Community Decided Buffs

Hello, I was driving home the other day over the mountain while listening to my driving playlist on Spotify. I have it start out with Dragula by Rob Zombie, and I thought wouldn't it be funny if this song gave me extra speed or gears similar to the joke of how racing stripes give you extra horse power or how RGB gets you extra frames. Then it dawned on my that that idea would make for a neat game so here's my idea.

It's a single player game where you are put in different scenarios that very pretty greatly from street racing an AI, out running the police, or running product like moonshine that could also include community contributed maps and scenarios, etc. The theme and setting could vary like the mountain racing could be set during the 30's at the height of prohibition and you have to make a delivery on time or you have to outrun the law or it could be set in the 90's and you're an up-n'-coming street racer in Los Angeles.

The songs would have to be provided by the end user whether through local play or by connection of their Spotify/Apple account to try and avoid any copyright responsibility on my end. I'd also want the game to be FOSS or at least source available since the FOSS community has helped me out so much in the past and has contributed so much to the world, I'd love to be apart of that. There's be a DB that would have an upload of a songs title, art, and singer and then people could vote on what they wanted to give it as a buff and it could be changed periodically. Then whether you play the song through a service, or play it locally, the title and artist name would be sent back to the DB and then you're buff would be applied for the duration of that song.

So for example of how it would work: You're scenario is set in 1933 Kentucky, USA. You have a load of 100 Gallons of moonshine in your souped up 1932 Ford Model B. The playlist doesn't have to be period correct but it should be well timed to give you the best edge possible. Say you start out on the road, you want a song that's going to give you speed and gears. Then your path takes you on to a rocky, back-country dirt road so you want something that's going to minimize your shaking (Due to a lack of good suspension) and give you extra grip on the dirt. You get the idea.

If some one chooses to use this idea, I ask that you please keep the open source initiative but ultimately that's your choice. I still have a lot of refining with the idea but I wanted to hear your thoughts and opinions on it.

Thanks and have a great day!

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u/TheJohnRockstar — 2 months ago

[Far Cry 5] How To Improve Support for Fitgirl Repacks Under Wine?

1. Name of game:Far Cry 5

2. CPU: Core I7 4790K

3. GPU: AMD RX 6600

4. Wine: wine-11.10

5. Game Launcher: Lutris

6. Release Info: Fitgirl Repacks / DODI / CODEX Crack

Hello. I've tried installing some games from Fitgirl under wine with Lutris but it always gets hung up and freezes completely at 0.2% done, consistently, with any game repack, compared to DODI which installs just fine. Has anybody run into this before? Is it some kind of missing dependency or is it a fundamental incompatibility with Fitgirl and wine? I'm using Arch Linux and i've also tried to install it with wine-ge and it does the same thing.

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u/TheJohnRockstar — 3 months ago

How do games run so much better through WINE rather than natively

Hello! I'm curious about how wine seems to run games better than they would running natively on windows?

I have Lego Batman: LOTDK installed through a repack and running as a local game through Lutris, obviously running thorugh wine. The game runs at max graphics, on an older HDD, through a translation layer, on a platform it wasn't meant for and I somehow managed to get 60FPS solid and my PC doesn't even blink at it.

On the flip I install the same repack on Windows and the game at max graphics, just like on Linux, stutters so bad I can't play the game properly and the only way to play it is to lower the graphics to the lowest settings and even then it jumps around 40-50FPS, and still there is very mild stuttering. The only possible thing I could think of could be the fact windows is running on an SSD while the game is installed on a HDD but even then the HDD was defragmented before running it so it should have been at peak performance.

How is wine so much better at running things than the native platform is that the game is targeting.

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u/TheJohnRockstar — 3 months ago