Joker

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be if they give it some TLC like CD PROJEKT and Hello did with their games. There’s a lot to like about Starfield, but it has problems that have a big impact on gameplay. I don’t want to deal with that inventory system for the hours it will take for me to enjoy the story. In general, the menus kinda suck. They really need to work on the ergonomics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s next for Mozilla?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully a new CEO with better vision and ability to execute. Mozilla’s leadership is a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks accused of manipulating app payments for $900 million profit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they over roast their coffee. It’s deliberate. I assume it’s for consistency and because it’s a low effort way to cut through all that milk and sugar in expensive lattes. Americans have also been conditioned to associate dark, bitter coffee with “strong”.

  The irony is dark roast has less caffeine than lighter roast and it’s usually done to mask defects in the bean. Whether to roast light, medium or dark typically isn’t an arbitrary decision or based on any preference. There’s a whole grading process where the ideal roast is determined based on the quality of the beans.

  The highest quality beans will often be roasted medium and you start going darker as you get into the lower quality stuff. Basically, you’re cooking off bad flavors that may be the result of sour beans, mold, insect damage, chemicals or worse. There are all kinds of farming practices you don’t want to know about where they get away with it by roasting dark and/or blending with a little bit of a higher quality coffee.

  The thing with Starbucks is they actually start with good beans so they don’t have to do this. They also have a wide variety of suppliers and bean types. They could easily put together a great flavor profile that would work for lattes as well as black coffee. But things do change a little bit from one harvest to the next. Starbucks is all about consistency. You can order the same drink at any location in the world and it tastes exactly the same every time.

  A small black coffee is $2 because people will pay that much. The cost is less than 25 cents for the coffee. The cup and lid might cost more than what you’re drinking if it’s a commercial grade bean. Coffee is a high margin business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Portal Is Out Today, But Fans Are Having a Hard Time Finding One - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if that’s a fair criticism. I think I first saw something about this thing yesterday. Not much of a marketing push. I had to look it up to see what the heck it is. It seems to have a very specific and narrow use case. I’m sure it’s a nice option for people with that need and works well enough, but it’s not exactly something the masses are clamoring for. There’s similar tech out there and they are sort of niche products. I don’t expect this thing to be selling like hotcakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how our games worked in the 80’s. Most of them used passwords. I remember one that used a tic-tac-toe looking thing where you entered a combination of dots to load your game. I think it may have been Mega Man. Zelda was the first one I remember that actually saved your game. There was a battery in the cartridge.