Thank God. I’m so sick of seeing low effort reviews with one or two actual reviews on the front page. From copy paste ASCII art to listing every single disease in the world when reviewing a bad game. And don’t even get me started on the “if this gets [blank] I’ll do [blank]” reviews
These days we can. We use GPS that’s accurate within about a hundredth to a thousandth of a foot. These days we can get a basic idea where it is within a hundred feet or so, but we still have to go find the point to make sure it’s even there. We can’t just assume it’s where it says it is based on old records from before GPS even existed. So we have to go find it. And the thing is that if you find a section corner and find that it’s off by 15 feet to the east, you don’t set a new section corner because that specific point is the section corner. And everything from property lines and roads to the dimensions of every building in the area are based on where that section corner is, not where it should be. We’re talking property lines that were laid out a hundred years ago. And the GPS we use for things like Google Maps is not even close to accurate enough, so we can’t use that as a base either.
It can get way more complicated than that. I won’t go into too much detail, but it could be something small like the fact that states are divided into different “planes” because the Earth is round and inconsistent, to the actual movement of tectonic plates. Like, if you incorrectly choose the wrong state plane for GPS you could find yourself literal miles from where it actually is.
It’d be funny to move your property corner slightly. It’s basically the same principle. :P
Also it’s a federal crime to fuck with them.
Copying my reply to someone saying we should change it. Just here to spread the knowledge. :)
"Land surveyor here. That’s actually more complicated than it sounds. You would have to disregard all historical records and section corners throughout the entire state and neighboring states. Section corners are actual physical monuments set in the ground. In the past they’d literally just put a mark on a rock with a chisel. Nowadays we use a rebar with a two inch aluminum cap stuck into the ground similar to the property corners you’d find around your house but bigger. They’re set up in a “grid” all around the state and sections are around 1 square mile with half sections and quarter sections being very common as well.
Whenever someone needs a land surveyor to do anything, the first thing we do is find section corners to orient ourselves because they are known points. We will literally hike miles into the wilderness with field notes from 1892 to go on just to find these things so someone can build a fence. Just because people don’t live there doesn’t mean a section corners doesn’t land in the “grid.” Some of them are so remote it’s a whole day of work just to find one. If these points were to change not only will all of our records from the past 100+ be completely obsolete, we would have to manually set new physical section corners and make a new grid across the entire state. Not only that but all of our information about everything from property lines to the elevation and location of the curb outside your apartment building is all based on those section corners to an extent. The actual legal definition of someone’s property is based on a known section corner with a bearing and distance to the property (Google “land surveying legal description.”). The information for this kinda stuff is like a giant tower of information and records dating back from the 1800’s with everything today being at the top. If you take out the bottom the whole thing collapses. Also we would have to rewrite the legal definition of every single piece of land and property in the entire state if not the country.
Also the funding for it would be astronomical. Like, hundreds of millions of dollars. And most counties are already cutting their land surveyor budgets as we speak."
Land surveyor here. That’s actually more complicated than it sounds. You would have to disregard all historical records and section corners throughout the entire state and neighboring states. Section corners are actual physical monuments set in the ground. In the past they’d literally just put a mark on a rock with a chisel. Nowadays we use a rebar with a two inch aluminum cap stuck into the ground similar to the property corners you’d find around your house but bigger. They’re set up in a “grid” all around the state and sections are around 1 square mile with half sections and quarter sections being very common as well.
Whenever someone needs a land surveyor to do anything, the first thing we do is find section corners to orient ourselves because they are known points. We will literally hike miles into the wilderness with field notes from 1892 to go on just to find these things so someone can build a fence. Just because people don’t live there doesn’t mean a section corners doesn’t land in the “grid.” Some of them are so remote it’s a whole day of work just to find one. If these points were to change not only will all of our records from the past 100+ be completely obsolete, we would have to manually set new physical section corners and make a new grid across the entire state. Not only that but all of our information about everything from property lines to the elevation and location of the curb outside your apartment building is all based on those section corners to an extent. The actual legal definition of someone’s property is based on a known section corner with a bearing and distance to the property (Google “land surveying legal description.”). The information for this kinda stuff is like a giant tower of information and records dating back from the 1800’s with everything today being at the top. If you take out the bottom the whole thing collapses. Also we would have to rewrite the legal definition of every single piece of land and property in the entire state if not the country.
Also the funding for it would be astronomical. Like, hundreds of millions of dollars. And most counties are already cutting their land surveyor budgets as we speak.
Let’s be real though, they are only so expensive to produce because they have the notion that bigger and more expensive means better. Just look at what happened with Starfield. You can’t tell me that game wouldn’t be immensely better if there were just like 8 or even less planets. You don’t need to make things as massive and expensive as possible to make a successful game. You just need to have a good idea with a good execution. I’ll play a game like Deep Rock Galactic or RimWorld over and over again, but I got bored of Destiny within a year or so. Heck, I’ve probably put more hours into the Halo games over my life than I ever will in Destiny.
To be fair I don’t think I’ve seen good things about Micro$oft in years. I’m honestly not surprised.
My general rule of thumb when it comes to this is that if they say “due to rising costs” within the first few sentences it usually means “not enough money for the important people.”
I’ve seen indie devs make more functional and graphically intensive games on a shoe string budget. And then go around and sell it for less than $60.
I don’t mind it if the game was always free to play. They gotta make their money somehow if that’s the case. The problem I have with Overwatch and the microtransactions is that they went free to play after they already made a fuck ton of money off of loot boxes and the fact that you used to actually have to buy the game. It’s just a cash cow and gameplay (including matchmaking, like you said) has suffered considerably. Not only that but they charge as much money as entire games for skins. Games like Overwatch when it first came out.
I don’t mind microtransactions in free to play games, I really don’t. It’s just the method they are using is just blatantly greedy and targeted for whales that will pay anything for fear of missing out.
Well, they also sell weapon skins that cost as much as the entire game used to cost. So I’m sure they are just trying to do damage control while also not changing their monetization.
Never really thought about that but that makes a lot of sense.
That was one of My favorite things about Crunchyroll. I love going through the comments after finishing a series and seeing what others were thinking. I know anime fans can be pretty crazy, but I very rarely saw toxic comments. It was mostly people talking about a shared experience and was surprisingly wholesome the majority of the time. I even got some good recommendations about what to watch next because of it too
We’re all kids. We just have responsibility now so we have to pretend we don’t want to sit around and play with Legos all day. None of us have “figured it out” and the only reason it seemed like adults knew what they were doing when we were kids was because adults were old enough to have fucked everything up at least once.
I wish Valve had some sort of monetary incentive to fix this. If this happened to the cash cow that is Counter Strike this would have been fixed already. It’s sad to see this going on especially with the resurgence TF2 has been having lately.
Not exactly. But if you disagree with their decision you’re automatically antisemitic.
Honestly, I love windows 10 and windows 7 even more. I have had very little complaints with them and I miss 7 every day. But when support runs out for Windows 10 I’m switching. It seems every single day they come up with another stupid plan or “feature.” Whether it’s AI that’s barely helpful or forcing me to use their software and services, I’m exhausted with the obnoxiously aggressive tactics to get me to use them.
This meme was created way before Assassin’s Creed added Yasuke to their game. Which sucks because this meme was pretty funny before people got racist.
This meme was a lot funnier before the whole Assassin’s Creed debacle. Although it is funny seeing people get mad about it while trying not to sound racist lol.
A good thing to remember when they do things for “safety and security” is that they aren’t talking about your safety and security. This is just a liability issue they are trying to avoid while pretending it’s for your benefit.