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07-10-2025, 11:59 AM
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#26826 | | Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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Originally Posted by whitev70r  RS so active today and it's just like noon ... looks like no one is seriously working. | 
Researching my AI generation offerings.
Two accounts means 80 seconds of content generated per day, over 3 months... two hours of content for $1200. A really skilled person might be able to generate one of those AI TikToks that hits over 100+ million views... a nice payout for sure!
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07-10-2025, 12:21 PM
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#26827 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Researching my AI generation offerings.
Two accounts means 80 seconds of content generated per day, over 3 months... two hours of content for $1200. A really skilled person might be able to generate one of those AI TikToks that hits over 100+ million views... a nice payout for sure!
| You see all those Bigfoot video's? Who owns the rights to that? One guy made the original and now every one is making copies, most of them crap.
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07-10-2025, 12:31 PM
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#26828 | | Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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Originally Posted by Manic! You see all those Bigfoot video's? Who owns the rights to that? One guy made the original and now every one is making copies, most of them crap. | Just a trend, but the first guy probably made bank!
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07-10-2025, 12:36 PM
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#26829 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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07-10-2025, 12:54 PM
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#26830 | | RS Veteran
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hahaha good times
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07-10-2025, 01:01 PM
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#26831 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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What do you all think about reducing speed limit in residential side streets to 30km/hr? It was a unanimous yes from City Council. But honestly, some of the side streets in YVR, parking on both sides, narrow as hell, how can you go > 30 kms/hr anyhow? https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/art...ntial-streets/
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07-10-2025, 01:33 PM
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#26832 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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I’m all for it.
I live in a section where people cut through to avoid main arteries and It’s incredible a kid hasn’t been killed by the idiots racing stop sign to stop sign
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07-10-2025, 01:36 PM
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#26833 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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No problem. Vancouvers already a stupid shithole. Why not make it even more stupid. All those traffic calmed neighborhoods weren’t enough apparently.
Now I gotta speed through people’s back alleys to get across all these blockades they put in place.
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07-10-2025, 01:42 PM
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#26834 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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I don't drive faster than 30km/hr when I am in the side streets of Vancouver anyway. Basically if I'm in a residential neighborhood, I'm pretty much driving at 30km/hr.
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07-10-2025, 02:01 PM
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#26835 | | linguistic ninja
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Even if you do drive over 30 who is going to enforce it? No one. Carry on as usual.
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07-10-2025, 02:01 PM
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I'm all for it.
Here in my neighbourhood, there's a school, a public park, and a large sports field. With all of that, even with 30km/h and 40km/h signs, people are still going 70km/h. Speed bumps and cameras were installed. I would say that enforcement is poor. People give zero fucks. I guess they can afford speeding tickets. #Toronto
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07-10-2025, 02:53 PM
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#26837 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Originally Posted by CivicBlues Even if you do drive over 30 who is going to enforce it? No one. Carry on as usual. | Typically for a few days a month cops post up in my neighborhood purposely for catching people cutting through. It will be even easier now to make some quotas with the new limits
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07-10-2025, 03:57 PM
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#26838 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Agree it's a pointless bit of law as there's no one to enforce it. Heck I haven't even seen cops enforcing school zones nevermind side streets. Almost got run over by a fucker in an Outlander outside Cook a few weeks ago.
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07-10-2025, 07:51 PM
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#26839 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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07-10-2025, 08:53 PM
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#26840 | | private modder
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Google Maps is a big reason why people cut through residential neighbourhoods now. Some of the directions it gives me commuting from south van to North Van during rush hour are literally through side streets and school zones, and it's clear I'm not the only one taking that route.
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07-10-2025, 09:13 PM
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#26841 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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Are people using Google Map navigation when they drive? I only use Waze when I am going somewhere that I am not familiar with, so I don't know how closely people follow Google Map's driving directions.
But I do use Google Maps before I head out somewhere, mostly as a tool to gauge the commute time, and potentially choose a different path than I would other have if traffic is heavy with one route over another. What I noticed with the routes that Google Map suggests is -- a lot of times they aren't really practical. Let's say if I'm heading from the 49th and Victoria area down to Richmond. Quite frequently before the Knight Street construction has started, the majority of time Google Map would suggest going down Victoria, turn into Argyle, and then turn into some stupid side street like 59th or 61st to keep going west, only to turn left at Knight. For anyone familiar with that route, it is fricking difficult to make that left turn from 59th or 61st onto Knight Street southbound! Esp during busy times, you'd have to be an idiot to think such a turn is do-able.
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07-10-2025, 09:22 PM
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#26842 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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Originally Posted by Traum Are people using Google Map navigation when they drive? I only use Waze when I am going somewhere that I am not familiar with, so I don't know how closely people follow Google Map's driving directions. | I use Apple Maps for directions even when I know where I'm going mostly because I want to see my ETA and sometimes it'll offer me a route that's better (or warns me about traffic). I'll ignore the direction it gives me if I feel I know better or I see something happening that it can't but it's also help steer me away from bad traffic as well.
For example, my route from downtown back home has many options - Kingsway, 1st, 12th, Hastings, McGill - it's pretty handy to get pointed to the quickest one or be shown what's happening.
My dream would be to be able to talk to an AI that really gets the routes I like or can give me options based on my questions. "I want a route home that's more quiet" (Marine Way instead of Marine Drive?) or "I need to hit Home Depot and Superstore before going over to mom's house, what's the best plan for that?" or "I want to take the coast down to Napa before switching over I5."
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07-10-2025, 09:51 PM
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#26843 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by Traum turn left at Knight. | Maps has never been great but it's steadily getting worse with all the sketchy left turns it recommends. I'm tempted to go back to a dedicated GPS because my old TomTom worked way better.
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07-10-2025, 11:48 PM
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#26844 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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what's with everyone with front tint nowadays, is it legal now?
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07-11-2025, 04:34 AM
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#26845 | | Performance Moderator
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Nope… not legal in Alberta either but so many cars have it. Including me lol… had to rip it off my Merc in the parking lot before my inspection they wouldn’t even look at it with it on there, not even when I tried to bribe them hahaha
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07-11-2025, 07:30 AM
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#26846 | | SFICC-03*
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i use google maps quite a bit, especially when the traffic is heavy. i don't wanna get stuck for an extra 5-10m if there is an accident somewhere (sometimes way longer). one time i was getting ready to go to vancouver just to stop by a camera shop for something i couldnt get near me. that day there was a shutdown on the highway and it would have probably taken me another 30m or more to get to where i was going. i got in my car, checked the maps, saw that it was red everywhere, then i just turned off my car and went back inside lol.
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07-11-2025, 07:53 AM
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#26847 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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I use google maps. Don't have Waze map downloaded
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07-11-2025, 07:59 AM
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#26848 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Google maps is ok except when it trying to send you down side streets for the sketchy left turns, usually to save 1 min on the eta.
It's definitely great for alerting for traffic now that there's no traffic radio stations anymore. Kids like it so they see where/how far away we are. It's really cut down the "are we there yet/how much longer" whining.
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07-11-2025, 08:07 AM
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#26849 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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I think google maps must have scaled back their data harvesting or something because it used to be MUCH better, especially for walking directions
Used to effectively show short cuts or things like stairwells etc. now it seems like it mainly just pushes walking directions in the same way you’d drive
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07-11-2025, 10:16 AM
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#26850 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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There's no real point using Waze anymore, Google owns them and has integrated their stuff already into Google Maps (for example police/speed cam reporting).
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