callouscomic
@callouscomic@lemm.ee
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 1 day ago:
You still can pay to remove ads sometimes, and you also get to pick what you’re watching instead of waiting for whenever it’s on TV. You also can cancel any time. Things are getting worse, but they’re still immensely better than cable.
- Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism? 2 days ago:
I feel the country spent the 90s hiding racism, and it came out during the election. I knew things were going south when McCain at that town hall in 2008 had to shut down an elderly woman trying to be racist about Obama, amd McCain had to defend Obama as a great person and that they simply have policy differences, and McCains own supporters boo’ed him.
- Comment on My favorite photo from my vacation! 3 days ago:
Oh fuck you’re gonna make me come on vacation.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
For what it’s worth, I see no reason not to believe you. I am sorry for the way others are responding to you, and I am sorry you have dealt with such heartache in life.
Please live for your child. Find the happiness your child would have found. Please take care of yourself and live a good happy life.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Some people have just experienced a lot of bullying and harassment, even from family, along with a traumatic event. Maybe just be a fucking human and take it at face value cause why not? Who’s it hurt?
Or become an armchair doctor and try to break down the shit out of them because … I dunno, it makes you feel big or something?
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 5 days ago:
Works on Contingency. No Money Down!
- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 1 week ago:
Most of Nintendo’s pre-Switch “consoles” arguably had poor performance-to-price ratios in terms of hardware.
Also, a PC doesn’t have the constraints of a mobile form factor and better cooling and can have better performance without the built in battery and screen. You just argued to me that a PC can be a console.
This all seems arbitrary to argue the differences.
- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 1 week ago:
I thought it was because of cars?
I thought it was because of straws?
I thought it was because of private jets?
I thought it was because of deforestation?
I thought it was because of plastic ocean pollution?
I thought it was because of the top major corporations?
I thought it was because of soot ovens in southeast asia?
Seems like I have read that it is predominantly because of everything.
- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 1 week ago:
steam deck exists: “am I a joke to you?”
- Comment on With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 1 week ago:
Why? Steam Deck OLED is already amazing and probably 4 times as powerful and infinitely as flexible with what youre allowed to do with it as Switch 2 will be.
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 2 weeks ago:
I bet young people today are more honest.
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 2 weeks ago:
Everything Nintendo sucks.
- Comment on The huge life-sim Life by You from Paradox hits Early Access on June 4 2 weeks ago:
It’s Paradox. It’ll run like crap and come with 4,000 DLC’s.
- Comment on Which game series had the worst anniversary celebration? 3 weeks ago:
Elder Scrolls Online just is wrapping up it’s 10th anniversary event, and it’s been pretty underwhelming. They basically did what they do for every event, and made it about farming rewards only on specific activities that result in people grinding mindlessly, and too many people congregating on the same things, which causes bugs and issues so many players don’t even get rewards.
I barely partake in ESO events anymore. They’re copy/paste, and hardly any fun. And your reward is often the 10 billionth style you won’t use anyways, but everyone has FOMO so they go nuts.
I would ha e much preferred unique quest lines revisiting past incidents, stories, characters. Or if it had been more broad and not specific to small parts of the game world or specific activities. The only broadly applied stuff were endless loot boxes that get old.
Just felt very meh.
- Comment on How Subscription Services are designed to BANKRUPT you 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t been to a theater in more than a decade, I almost never eat at places that traditionally request tips (cause I don’t agree with it), and I have literally never once ever used a service like Uber or DoorDash.
Helps avoid adding new costs to my lifestyle by simply trying not to care about these things. I don’t trust people, and I don’t mind driving, so I would never use on eof those services, amd I feel like my couch and TV at home look and sound better than a theater, amd I’m more comfortable.
Another tip, if you ever get the itch for a new car, instead go pay for a car detail cleaning. It’ll make you feel good for a while and is far cheaper.
- Comment on You gotta do what ya gotta do 5 weeks ago:
Yep. You’re 100% right. I’ve never struggled and I lack any empathy whatsoever, merely because I will not overly celebrate a repeat offender no longer offending.
Nuance never works on the internet. The irony in how yiu so easily judge me, by the way. Have fun with your assumptions of people. You’re no better.
- Comment on You gotta do what ya gotta do 5 weeks ago:
As I said to the other person, you spend enough time around family and other friends who have time and time again endlessly thrown in everyone’s faces how Jesus Christ they are now that they are clean, and that YOU just don’t get it. They’re the dickheads. Most of them fall back into it. It gets old how much they seek being on a pedestal.
I am not against encouraging people improving their lives AND then moving on. I am also not standing outside prison clapping for the releases simply for having accomplished the bare minimum.
- Comment on You gotta do what ya gotta do 5 weeks ago:
You spend enough time around family and other friends who have time and time again endlessly thrown in everyone’s faces how Jesus Christ they are now that they are clean, and that UOU just don’t get it. They’re the dickheads. Most of them fall back into it.
I am not against encouraging people improving their lives. I am also not standing outside prison clapping for the releases.
- Comment on You gotta do what ya gotta do 5 weeks ago:
Whenever I hear these braggarts looking for praise, I say something smartass like “Hey me too! I’ve been clean since the day I was born and never even wound up harming others or in jail. Interesting!”
- Comment on [Poster] New poster for Furiosa 5 weeks ago:
Movie is about her, so they make him the largest prominent piece. Idiots.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
What??? When was anyone gonna SAY something!!!
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game.
This is going to be hilarious. Can’t wait to see the whining online.
- Comment on I don't like what I've seen, man 2 months ago:
…and ignorant, and stupid, and moronic, and selfish, and rude, and entitled, and…
- Comment on 23-year-old Nintendo interview shows how little things have changed in gaming 2 months ago:
Sony can’t even include basic features in new console releases. Like themes, music players, or folders. Multiple consoles in a row now.
- Comment on American veganism is like American Christianity. Sometimes fine and wholesome, especially when kept to oneself; but often a toxic, blatantly lying, proselytizing cult when in a group 2 months ago:
often a toxic, blatantly lying, proselytizing cult when in a group
This describes a hell of a lot of American things.
- Comment on Expertise 2 months ago:
herp doesn’t imply derp
- Comment on Expertise 2 months ago:
To be fair, journal articles and scientific research in general have gotten to be pretty bullshit. Haven’t they studied this and proven the vast majority of published journal papers probably shouldn’t have been?
A couple easily Google examples of discussion regarding scientific publications likely being bullshit.
[journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371…](Why Most Published Research Findings Are False)
[www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03865-y](Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists)
[www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.php?story…](Too much academic research is being published)
[www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03974-8](More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record)
[science.org/…/whistleblowers-flagged-300-scientif…](Whistleblowers flagged 300 scientific papers for retraction. Many journals ghosted them)
[retractionwatch.com/…/top-10-most-highly-cited-re…](Top 10 most highly cited retracted papers)
And on and on. Publish or perish and general shitty culture in academia is why I quit phd and took my masters and left.
- Comment on This console generation seems skippable 3 months ago:
PS5 and a Steam Deck aren’t massively different in price. Building a PC can be relatively the same price during sales depending on your expectation. And then the games on PC are so much more often cheaper, that it saves a lot of money on that front.
Over the last few years, I have bought countless games for Steam at a few bucks or less that were $20+ on PS.
And that’s not even getting into how garbage Sony customer service has been for over a decade when you need them.
I might regret wasting money on a PS5. I play Steam Link or Steam Deck more than anything today, and this is likely my last console Gen. Steam also has controller configuration settings that make playing older games so much nicer. Some games I never thought I’d comfortably play with a controller can be modernized very well with enough tinkering.
The Nintendo Switch is an appallingly slow and clunky piece of handheld. Nintendo hardware is slow and their UI, eshop, and general software designs suck. They are immensely restrictive about game saves, ownership, and transferring things to new systems, and their stuff is needlessly pricey.
I don’t even bother with Xbox. PC for that.
- Comment on Valve: Most games made with AI tools are now welcome on Steam 4 months ago:
People shit on the Hobbit trilogy for the CGI compared to the live action of the LOTR trilogy. This stuff does happen.
- Comment on What even is the point of delivery anymore 4 months ago:
Stop ordering delivery. I never have used these shitty apps. I also never order pizza delivery. I can’t believe how many people trust their unsealed food with strangers who nobody is watching.