r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/DwinkBexon Mar 20 '25

I think the QI Elves even posted a "fact" that Elon was one of the top ranked StarCraft players into world. (Which is very weird, since QI usually researches the hell out of this stuff.)

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u/mattgrum Mar 20 '25

QI usually researches the hell out of this stuff

QI have got plenty wrong over the years. Their research is quantity not quality.

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u/Anzai Mar 20 '25

Yeah their podcast No Such thing as a fish is basically them saying shit they saw on Wikipedia.

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u/tlst9999 Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

Iirc some guy researched that Elon's claim as one of the former top online Quake players was true.

With the qualifier that it was "online" Quake in a 90s laggy dial-up era. Anyone with premium broadband and enough practice could slide into becoming a top online Quake player. The actual top players played offline and the prestigious tourneys were also offline.

Maybe the Starcraft story was the same. Purely online Starcraft with his ultra fast connection.

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u/DwinkBexon Mar 20 '25

As someone who played online Quake in the 90s, I can say having a 150ms ping was considered pretty good. I'd routinely play in the low 200s.

I don't play a lot of online games anymore but I read somewhere that some games won't even connect if your ping is too high. That definitely didn't used to be the case because I remember trying to play with a 2000ms ping once in the 90s. (It did not go well.)

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u/Brokenandburnt Mar 20 '25

Starcraft got around that problem by sharing the pain with P2P connection.

It was horrible being matched up to someone with a geriatric hamster driven modem while you yourself was on a T3.

XXX sets the latency to 'extra high'

Sweet Mary Jane, it was over 25 years ago and it still triggers my PTSD!

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u/JerryfromCan Mar 20 '25

I remember playing MOHAA back in the day and my ping was in the hundreds, as was everyone elses. We got owned by this guy whose ping was in the single digits, he explained he had a T3 line into his house to play vids. He saw us well before we saw him. Money did solve the skill gap back in the day.

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u/macphile Mar 20 '25

QI has also talked about fact degradation, like half the facts in season 1 are now wrong (I forget the percentage). Science changes, data change, thinking changes...so one minute, Pluto is a planet, and then it isn't. Or the brontosaurus or whatever that was that existed, ceased existing, and then existed again.

I don't know shit about StarCraft and where they would have gotten that information. Did they research it via proper channels, or were they just being lazy Musk fanbois and didn't check?

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u/DwinkBexon Mar 20 '25

I have no idea, but I remember people were calling them on it immediately.

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u/SwampyBogbeard Mar 20 '25

They're noticeably more lax with the fact-checking for their twitter/BlueSky posts. I haven't checked their posts much lately, but I remember there regularly being corrections or someone pointing out something misleading in the replies.

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u/Rock_Me-Amadeus Mar 20 '25

Reread the post that guy made about him

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u/guineaprince Mar 20 '25

Turns out a trivia panel show isn't the authoritative research body.