asciilifeform: just barely carried pilot and parachute iirc.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re 'solar airplane' -- 1 was built in '80s, it hangs in the national museum. not particularly useful other than for 'guiness record' tho afaik.
asciilifeform: ( i actually knew a fella who tried to check into an asylum, on own steam. the latter still exist, but they keep patient for a week, jack'em up with 9000 meds, and let go. to get 'full program' generally you gotta kill somebody )
asciilifeform: iirc the occasional genuine barmy still gets it
asciilifeform: d00d is clearly stuck in wrong half of globe tho. in usa a certified schizo gets a gov pension ( as described by tlp ) and for that matter davis lived on one
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: imho madness alone is not necessarily a barrier to productive work. nao if only fella would do sumthing constructive with that energy..
asciilifeform: iirc ben_vulpes got sumthing to do with dirigibles.
asciilifeform: i , also, never had appetite for ' blow k/mo on virtual cartridge' heh
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in principle. ( this is where asciilifeform confesses that he has never in entire life eaten game other than from warez... )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i saw . decent 'elite' variant
asciilifeform: i saw one vaguely original thing coupla yrs ago, iirc was 'far cry' -- very ornately graphixy thing set in... stone age. ( twist : character is able to tame animals and lead a sort of army )
asciilifeform: the irons cheapened, but game people lost the spark of life, very little made these days that eats 3d card other than infinite variations on tired old shooter theme
asciilifeform: sounds like it's condemned to eat w7 then
asciilifeform: generally i have a use thought up for box before arising off arse to sew one , lol
asciilifeform has not, never felt compelled to use oddball bindist linuxen just because sewn box with 3dcard
asciilifeform: then anyffin that talks to openglism-under-x worx.
asciilifeform: aha, what i had on mine. ( not ubuntu, naturally, but vendor's binturd installer actually does shit forth a loadable kmod , and goes on conventional gentoos for so long as k 3+ )
asciilifeform: ( w7, if one must, eats 1070, with some fiddling )
asciilifeform: as i understand mircea_popescu's own eulora knows what to do with 3d card tho ( can't picture why would need whole 1070 however , for such )
asciilifeform has not gamed much in recent times; not since embarking on multiyr maffs grind
asciilifeform: tho supposedly 'valve' has linux gamez
asciilifeform: oughta be doable on any linuxism with relatively recent (3+) kernel, iirc. incl. the cuntoo draft.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform has not had chance to try this any time recently, and afaik no one in l1 reported such an experiment.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thinking re 'gfx-heavy' : might be interesting to try the recent years' opensores nvidia driver. (supposedly it actually worx.) perhaps send a pet to set it up.
asciilifeform: if i omitted anyone else's ffaisms, plox to lemme know. ( PeterL: your item will be in 19 )