KillingTimeItself

always been confused why roofing in the NA area is often black, or close to black, it simply doesn't help anybody.

while i don't disagree, we should probably stop building suburbia as that would solve our problem. Suburbs completely decimate everything in the way and require replanting of the entire foliage, often leading to really shitty growth.

trees near buildings are a nightmare, they can often grow weirdly due to lack of sun, and often make maintenance and clean up on the tree itself a nightmare, if it grows to close to your house you need to do something about it. They are also generally liabilities during storms, especially if they hang directly over your house.

Like a previous commenter said, they can be problematic for foundations and driveways and things like that. It seems fairly common that surface level root structures will expose themselves and start to pop through the top layer of dirt, primarily due to soil erosion and compaction i imagine, but that's another problem for grounds keeping as well.

Speaking of grounds keeping, trees make grass grow really inconsistently, and also generally provide "dead spots" where the grass will get almost no sun, and almost certainly die. Also mowing under them is hard. Trees don't really grow at human accessible heights all that often. And when they do, they're not as good for providing shade.

People want to have their full window view available whenever they want it.

damn, too bad you can't just like, go outside, or something.

i religiously watch the oil lamp videos. For some reason.

our house was built in the early 2000s. It has an awning.

Why were they forgotten? Probably because manual awnings suck, and once extended if it's windy, it's a rather fun time having it out.

Other than that, they're pretty good. I actually plan to experiment with passive building cooling using a similar technique, instead of an awning, it'll be a diffusion sheet of light fabric to block direct sunlight exposure to the walls, hopefully providing a decent bit of cooling, but naturally, i have to get around to testing it in the first place.

im not sure this would really apply during the whole, limb extinction event.

It would most certainly apply after.

that's bizarre. Torx are commonly used in construction with impact drivers, and in vehicles as well. Very rarely are they ever problematic, and that's with quite significant shock loading as well as torque application in the case of construction, i would imagine more than in a bike, but i wouldn't be able to say off the top of my head, though they might be bigger standard head sizes, so that could be it.

Regardless, begs the question why hex screws aren't in construction, those should be simpler and easier to produce.

yeah no that seems like a fair assessment to me.

mhm. Gotta love the internet, it's a place of all time.

its a little more than an engine update, and you're forgetting that a game engine is like 80% of the game itself.

It also updates maps, and map textures, which is another like 10% of the game, and the rest would be like, actual gameplay, which CS players don't want to change, and uh, i believe they did.

Even when they did make games (portal) for example, they literally contracted a uni team that was making it for a project.

ok well this is just wrong.

HLA definitely counts, and CS2 IS the current game their working on and making.

HLA was also an extrememly popular game.