asciilifeform: rather than 'where do i learn to pass exam for driving serious machine'
asciilifeform: this is why i was bewildered at the answers to this thread, i specifically mentioned 'contemplated playing games again after decade+', 'unwind'
asciilifeform: realistic sim is to study for exam (and, once you passed exam, to increase your life expectancy at the wheel)
asciilifeform: and, theoretically, the d00d mentioned earlier -- also. but he had no plane. and last i knew had taken 'vow of poverty', became academic.
asciilifeform: at uni i roomed with an old friend, who dreamed of flying, ended up practicing with xplane, studying like maniac, paid his 20k, got the license, then bought, instead of airplane... a ship. which is afaik rusting in port still.
asciilifeform: (some folks spend almost what real machine costs, on practice pit, i found out)
asciilifeform: phf: you have the joystick, pedals, etc. also ?
asciilifeform: if you were to go ~every week~ (why???) then yes, save a few pennies. but then your life expectancy is a few years.
asciilifeform: but it typically costs ~same to go to 1000km in it, as in a passenger liner.
asciilifeform: if a 50k rusty 'cessna' could go across ocean, that'd be one thing.
asciilifeform: traveling in straight line for hours!111 what marvelous fun
asciilifeform: i can do the study, hell, buy the machine, but i've nowhere to go in it. at some point might do it anyway when i get sufficiently bored and tired of living.
asciilifeform: (not that there is anything wrong with studying how to drive big rig)
asciilifeform: anyway original thread was about games. and yes, why play racing game, go instead to truck driving school.
asciilifeform: i've lived in roughly same town for decade +
asciilifeform: actually i live literally across the street from amateur airport.
asciilifeform: phf: i can watch dashcams on youtube for 0 $
asciilifeform: (boeing is the one exception i know of, it had a genuine history earlier, even a brief airline monopoly -- but then absorbed also)
asciilifeform: lockheed, grumman, general dynamics, et al, were creatures of usg from day1
asciilifeform: i suspect they can more easily cancel him, than him -- them
asciilifeform: 'Kokesh has called for a "new American revolution" and has announced plans to run for President in 2020 on the platform of an "orderly dissolution of the federal government."' << pediwik
asciilifeform: iirc he realized what was happening to his profession and began to work to leave it, the hard way, by learning an actual 'liberal profession' etc. but ended up leaving it 'the easy way'
asciilifeform: he also vagabonded around usa as a young man, was involved in aynrandism, then was cured, and left.
asciilifeform: iirc he had law degree in his country.
asciilifeform: most of the d00d's life happened offline, in commercial world, is my understanding.
asciilifeform: he left behind very few ab-initio works ('long and painful history of time' is afaik more or less it)
asciilifeform: sql, emacs, vi, similar animals, survive indefinitely not the least because they are relics - for all their flaws - from the age of men; and have ~ 0% monkeycode
asciilifeform: hey if it had theoretical economy, i'd consider it (periodically i go and actually consider, and find that i have to press literally 500x more button)
asciilifeform: whereas modern vi, if you were to roll in all of the pieces i actually use in daily life (e.g., correct autoindent AND colourization for 50+ languages) it will probably weigh what emacs weighs
asciilifeform: it is mindblowing that vi, that abortion, still is in use. i can only grasp this in light of the alternative being emacs, equally horrid in exactly opposite ways.
asciilifeform: fwiw i had a colleague who was in iraq and pointedly played 'call of duty: iraq' while there.
asciilifeform: it isn't that this is useless thing to study! but there is distinct flavour of 'why play 'doom', instead go to the recruiter post and go to afghan, die of scurvy and boredom'
