Rick Brown

Computational Physicist/Systems Engineer

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

Happy Birthday America!

If I was born in any other country I wouldn’t be where I am today. I wasn’t born into wealth. I shouldn’t be MrBeast. This country gave me the freedom to chase my dreams and mindset that I can achieve anything. America isn’t perfect but dam I love her 🇺🇸

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

@bitmapped They were intentionally dropping the voltage across pjm to reduce power demand on generation.

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

@BrookeMH__ 🤣

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

@iluvfrogsz_ Its so hot my tesla charger overheated lol

[Zack @Asmongold]

Long post--sorry.

The fixation around physical media is a red herring.

People who obtained physical copies of Crimson Desert early weren't able to play it because the PS5 locked them out of playing it. You can look this up, multiple articles about the topic. Clearly physical media didn't save you then, and it won't save you when a licensing agreement expires and a game will no longer run on your software until you download an update that might remove features/content.

A good example of this is ironically Mixtape. Because the game has a large amount of licensed music, it's plausible that one of those contracts will expire and a patch will be pushed that removes a song from the game. If you don't download that patch, you will no longer be able to access or play the game.

Physical media isn't the holy grail, consumer rights and protections is. Why aren't we using Apple lighting cables and we are using USB-C instead? It's not because of Apple, it's because of the EU.

While PC players have more work-arounds for this issue, console players are at the mercy of updates they have no choice but to accept. Physical media won't save you from that.

The convenience of digital downloads should not be viewed as a forfeiture of consumer protections.

The reason why record labels still sell vinyls is because people still buy vinyls. While there are I'm sure some people who still purchase video games physically, I would guess that number is decreasing every year. If physical copies were popular, Gamestop would still have video games in it instead of Funko pops and tshirts.

I know this is the unpopular take to have. but you can't expect companies to keep making physical editions of games if not enough people are buying them.

My point with all of this is that a lot of peoples' concern and frustration comes from the lack of control they have over the media they "own". Physical media does not solve this problem when it's at the mercy of the software running the consoles/game launchers.

If you want to solve the problem, you should be supporting initiatives like Stop Killing Games @StopKilingGames.

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

@turtle_sunshine So pretty!

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@savshawz @shawzsav So unfair

[Tesla @Tesla]

Looking forward to the long weekend

[Festive Owl @TheFestiveOwl]

Pretty Lights has surprise-dropped a new album: A Trip Thru Time Fantastic — his first in over a decade.

You can stream it for free now at https://t.co/W94SAwRkMB 🌀

[M͓̽a͓̽d͓̽a͓̽l͓̽e͓̽e͓̽🧷 @turtle_sunshine]

idc if you like cottage cheese just don’t do that shit around me

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

You could not pay me to go to a fest in this heat. Absolutely crazy to have a festival outdoors in July.

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

@OteroWants2know @4211i @elonmusk @IBMNews Are you schizophrenic or ai lol

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

This isn’t true at all, you’d have to very intentionally want to capture them like this. Satellite trails show in images, but since astrophotography is done via subexposures they are eliminated with the rest of the noise during the image stacking process.

Also important to note that they are only really visible close to dusk/dawn when they are no longer in earth’s shadow.

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

I don't know a single talent buyer that went to school for this stuff. Insane to me to pay to go to school for it, it isnt that complicated.

[Starlink @Starlink]

The first @SouthwestAir flight with Starlink has taken off, connecting passengers and crew with reliable, high-speed Wi-Fi from gate to gate 🛰️✈️

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

@MaxCrypto @mschultz33 Do we not know how to math lol

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

These stasis ads are pissing me off. No, I don't want to spend triple what I pay for my adderal script for your non fda approved bullshit to help with side effects 🤣

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

@TheFestiveOwl @DeanofDank Fuck, so that is why im radiused from announcing a show. 🤣

[Rick Brown @SoundPhysicsGuy]

@14Niksta im just teasing ya after that 2 or 3 month later response I got once. 🤣 i'm 100% guillty of doing the same so always also feel free to bump me.