Notices by bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz), page 142

great, i can't figure out what that game i remember is where they legitimately did something similar to this, if that was even a real thing i remember

i'm trying to use google to find it but i keep getting pages full of shitty android horse racing games???

@monorail i remember this too, i think it was basically a platform with wheels that had a horse and buggy on top? but i can't remember where it was from...

bonus if the horses basically become rubber and have absurdly exaggerated ragdoll physics upon crashing

you know how cartoons often have horses and buggies in place of cars, but they still get consumed by a gruesome explosion upon crashing?

what if car games included secret horse and buggy "cars" that still behave exactly like other cars in the game

@monorail they probably toss a robot on the back of the bike to make it seem realistic, though the robots must be pretty expensive/hard to rebuild because they've removed most hazards like explosions

or they might have better healthcare and/or special protective gear that allows riders to actually do it themselves. bike mode is basically a padded cell version of the paradise city experience anyway.

@monorail oh yeah. i was starting to forget this was an actual video game :p

@monorail i mean, you probably can drive around in a real car, but it'd be certain death.

and rich people eat gold just to say they can. i bet they'd play an AR video game just to say they practically destroyed a city while street racing over the weekend.

@monorail the building is probably a reinforced central control hub for the teams managing all the special effects, repairing/preparing cars, etc

in fact, the buildings are all practically indestructible, so they're probably all absurdly reinforced to cut costs and resources of constantly repairing them

but the fantasy is about smashing stuff up, so some flimsy objects that are easily replaced are scattered about to give the illusion that you're doing significant damage (billboards, fences)

the drivers all control their cars safely from some augmented reality arcade unit thing in some central location, so they can crash as many times as they want without the risk, but still have real world effects and physics

burnout paradise theory:

i'm pretty sure you never see pedestrians walking around anywhere in the game. and with how casually you can just get away with speeding and crashing into everything, i'd bet paradise city has no real people in it. it's just a playground full of driverless cars set up for the rich to have fun.

the amount of money you rack up in crash mode is probably the amount of money you have to pay for the extra special effects on top of repairs

@monorail y'know what, considering how people react to things irl, you're probably right

@monorail it will truly be a dark day for humanity when people normalise wrecked cars that can explode multiple times, bouncing across the city of their own will, utterly destroying everything in their path

@monorail hell, they might even have to pay off locals to turn a blind eye to such supernatural nonsense

@monorail tbf they probably have to cover a lot of therapy for people seeing the burning wreck of a car travel halfway across town still smashing into things and exploding every now and then

@monorail kind of like a voluntary read receipt. i like it

been trying to think of some good name to set on discord to replace my Teen Name but i'm coming up empty

when you just really don't know how to respond to something so you just

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@masklayer if it's just writing and researching then 500gb should be fine, the extra speed of a 7200rpm drive would be better than a 5400rpm one anyway.

if there's an option for an ssd though, even if it cuts the storage space in half, i'd highly recommend it. it'll run without one, but it'll be a bottleneck.

i mean i guess it should be slow since it's 5 years old and was decidedly mid-tier for a laptop when released. but it seems like it should be powerful enough to handle basic programs and internet usage, but it's kinda slow to load stuff. i guess programs have gotten a little more bloated in the last few years.

it was snappy when i got it a couple years ago, so...hm