FPVSteve

We're capable of great things sure, but we're also capable of being complete idiots since we're at the whim of a hierarchy who doesn't necessarily have the interests of humanity at heart - instead, their own ego-driven goals. It's the Fermi Paradox, Resolution #2: "Self-Destruction: Advanced civilizations may develop technologies that lead to their own demise, such as advanced weaponry or ecological collapse" Future intelligence doesn't necessarily mean human intelligence or even a derivative thereof. We may wipe ourselves out, the machines may well die and perhaps Apes will become the dominant species. They will consider their own "maximum" intelligence level as "the" intelligence to strive for in that case. You can't know what you don't know about.

Eh, I guess it's subjective. I've been simming for years and I can do without satellite imagery. In a lot of cases it's more of a distraction than autogen, it puts the sim in the "uncanny valley".

(And I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted internet personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground lithium caves).

How arrogant as a species we are to assume that we must keep the world at our intelligence level. If we create something, whether accidentally or on-purpose, that can out-perform us, out-think us, out-maneuver us .... why shouldn't it flourish? We're limited anyway - we take too long to grow, we take too long to learn (and some of us don't reach our full potential and are a drain on humanity from an evolutionary perspective), we can't survive in space, we can't survive long enough to travel to another planetary system.... honestly, AI and mechanical organisms (even hybrids) could simply be evolution of the human race. Survival of the fittest. Our brains are out biggest asset anyway - these meat suits we move around in are decrepit, incapable and vulnerable. What IS consciousness anyway? We don't even know - so what right do we have to prevent something from out-doing us if it is capable of being infinitely more successful at "living"?

MSFS scenery is like my car - looks great from a distance, but when you get up close it's best not to pay too much attention. Even lightpoles in MSFS are completely fake - at night they're just floating orbs following a path.

maybe he means the old MS Gaming Zone lobbies that people used to use for multiplayer.

Now that's funny 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Man, don't you guys have anything better to do? X-Plane's better anyway 😂😇

I'm not sure - but they can check their changelogs and maybe trawl through to see "what did we do between SU2b1 and SU2b2" to see what might be the culprit. Hopefully it's something daft like telemetry being left on or something, but it's definitely annoying for those of us who suffer with the problem - landings are the best bit 🙂

Sorry Noel but I completely disagree with you here - I have the exact same issue but it wasn't a problem in SU1 and early versions of SU2. There's absolutely nothing wrong with my computer or setup - Asobo have broken something. Not saying your experience is invalid, but it's certainly more common than you're allowing for - check the thousands of posts about it on the main forum in multiple threads. It is a big deal for many.

Mr Peng had no intention to fly that day and was only testing the fit and comfort of his parachute on the ground, Global Times said. Luckily for Mr Peng he was wearing a full suit, hang cover, gloves and had everything set up including his compass, GoPro recording etc... pure luck! 😭🫡

One thing that really bugs me of late is the number of streamers being given aircraft weeks in advance of everyone else. I feel it kills the hype somewhat - of course, you make a choice to watch someone else fly it but eh... I think sometimes it's a bit too much when my Youtube feed is filled with people flying preview builds of something I'm really looking forward to. (Inibuilds A350 for instance, and the same is happening with the CSS 737-500).

I 100% agree with this.

Didn't Laminar state that their plan was not to use orthophotographs but to enhance the "plausible world" with better quality assets and much more data seeded from orthophotographs? So essentially they'd be rebuilding the 3D world rather than superimposing photographs over it. That way they wouldn't have artefacts like clouds and shadows showing or things like static vehicles etc on the roads so the world would look "alive" without needing to stream ortho like Asobo/MS do. I'm looking forward to the results, although I may well be dead by the time it comes to fruition 😅

You can make it more realistic (if you wish) by installing the Simcoders Reality Expansion Pack (although it is payware).