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- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 1 week ago:
I feel boring - only thing I ever had to realize that if you work with solvents with a boiling point close to body temperature and have them in a flask with a glass cork, you shouldn’t hold the flask in your warm hands while waiting - because after a few minutes the glass cork flies off and you have to pay for it 😕
- Comment on What ever happened to Ipecac? Why is it rarely used today, there was some side effects but not to warrant most hospitals to abruptly stop the use of it. 1 week ago:
Aspiration is one of the main ways to die in a hospital, regardless of quality. After aspiration, lung inflammation often follows quickly if you are already weakened.
- Comment on Anon works out the question to the final solution 1 week ago:
I’d rather try and give baby Hitler a nice comfortable life with an understanding mentor, so that he never develops the hatred and closemindedness needed for the implementation of the Holocaust.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 1 week ago:
I upgraded my PC just in time last year before pricing went bonkers. Stayed on my AM4 board, upgraded to 64GB DDR4, swapped my ageing 2600x to an 5950x with 32 cores, snatched a 5070 to expand my smallish VRam, upgraded storage to a total of 43TB.
I’m still in the market for 4 8-16TB HDDs, since I have a very nice NAS standing in a corner. But I will probably opt for used drives with the current prices.
Next PC upgrade is the first time in a long while I have to actually replace the whole PC, but I’ll ride out this Madness first.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 1 week ago:
It’s similar with me. I have pirated games starting with my Amiga 500 in the early 90s, and still pirate today. But I am also one of the best costumers the game industry has (except in the categories MTX and cash-grab DLC, and I am very careful with early access titles). I own around 2500 games legit (not counting Systems other than PC), and nearly all of those games started as a pirated copy. Without pirating I would never be able to decide which games are worth my money and time.
If a game isn’t well rated, I won’t pirate it, and if it can’t hold my attention, I delete it. If it’s my cup of tea, I wait until the price point is where I perceive it as fair for the offering. That can be full price on day one too if is good! BG3, Nier Automata, Witchfire, Prey 2016 and a very long list of other games all got what they asked for.
If I see that a game is flawed, but the devs are actively working on making their game as good as it deserves to be (it helps if they have a good track record), I also tend to pay close to full price. If fixes come slowly or erratically, or they abandoned a game in an unfinished state before, I only buy after it is fixed, heavily discounted, or not at all.
- Comment on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California 1 week ago:
It actually requires a pivot, because if you want to account for making a game playable at end-of-life, you normally have to plan that from the start, to make sure the game is structured in a way that allows for easy switching. If all you plan is actually to turn off the servers, well, that’s the current situation.
Making sure the game ends gracefully means either releasing dedicated server binaries, implementing P2P (or Splitscreen) multiplayer or disabling multiplayer, and repurposing/rebalancing previously online content to work in the new setting. That’s not easy to do if you never wasted a thought on those things in development, especially with a skeleton crew of developers which have been working on other stuff for years at this point.
Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait to see this legislation come into effect, but even I have to acknowledge that a game that has been worked on for years at this point is probably not designed for this.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 1 week ago:
Which gets fucking expensive quick, because it’s illegal and the probability is high that police and / or ambulance already are at the end of your race track
- Comment on DNAddy 2 weeks ago:
I worked with HeLa cells as a molecular biology student. The ethics weren’t a great look, and I’m happy that today there has to be informed consent for stuff like that.
Without having an immortalized cell line like this genetics would have taken even longer to get going tho, and she’s actually one of the few people whose genes will be preserved for near eternity. Creepy, but it’s closer to actual immortality than any of us will ever be.
- Comment on Why do old people's farts smell either like decomposition or sickly-sweet? 2 weeks ago:
The “Death” smell is normally associated with an inefficient digestion, which causes amino acids to break down - relevant ist especially cysteine, which contains Sulfur and therefore smells intensive. The “sweeter” smell can have multiple reasons, but having an disturbed gut microbiome is the most likely cause.
- Comment on Child’s school updated the uniform policy 3 weeks ago:
some final solution that is
- Comment on What was the first thing or video or music or whatever that was so called "pirated" from the internet? How did it happen and was the end user happy? 1 month ago:
Yup, this one: wiw.org/~meta/vsum/view.php?vir=245
Our version of f-prot was severely outdated, and remediation method of choice was a full reinstall while booting from a clean 3.5 inch floppy.
- Comment on What was the first thing or video or music or whatever that was so called "pirated" from the internet? How did it happen and was the end user happy? 1 month ago:
The first thing I downloaded at home was Star Wars Imperial march using a 56k modem. But before that a colleague of my father made a fair bit of money using his relatively fast internet connection to download games and apps from newsgroups, effectively running a subscription service offering 1 CD each with programs and games per month. I still have the Mp3, but the CDs are long gone.
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 1 month ago:
Hail Hydra or something
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 1 month ago:
Israel, Russia and the USA internationally, domestically they have more competition like NK, China, Belarus, some African States and a bit of South America
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 6 months ago:
And there always will be cheaters. If running a cheat on the local machine doesn’t work anymore, there is nothing stopping someone hooking up an SoC running a inference model analysing your screen and sending inputs to an usb-dongle that emulates mouse input. Can probably be Mass manufactured cheaper than those inflated price tags on those games.
- Comment on I'd also add that 8 months ago:
Mustard and pickle slices for me!
- Comment on The Daily Beast uses "Hot Mic" in a headline to describe someone saying things with a microphone in a known public place into known records 8 months ago:
Apparently they adapted the title of the youtube clip:
“Yeah, I’m sure he’s in there,” Collins said, without providing evidence, according to an audio clip of the exchange uploaded to YouTube, titled, “HOT MIC: Republican caught saying Trump IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!”
- Comment on They didn't stop to think if they should 8 months ago:
I would be less concerned if that rectum actually were a rectum, those are actually built to stretch, even if not that far.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 8 months ago:
I’m happy to see that all around the games industry and the surrounding areas like game journalism the value of unions is rediscovered. Work to rule is very effective against these insidious tactics of one layoff round after another while announcing record profits, because if noone cares that work piles up because of not enough hands, it hurts the owners in the only way they understand - in their finances.
This greedy thinking of only next quarter’s numbers must end.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 8 months ago:
There are analog clocks that move the minute hand only when the next minute starts. But to be honest, you might profit from a little less rigidity in your “time usage” - it’s good for your mental health to not plan everything down to the minute. If i make a private appointment, i try to set time windows of 10-15 minutes for meetups; i aim for the beginning of the window, and if i get delayed it’s of no consequence.
Can you imagine that it’s not so long ago that people called a phone number that told you what time it will be at the next signal tone?
- Comment on 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC 8 months ago:
Since “chaotic neutral” includes the mentally deranged and insane, your description is apt.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 8 months ago:
The word that pops up in my mind when i read this is “sabotage”
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 8 months ago:
There’s a distinctive difference between american evangelists and other christian groups, for starters that the evangelists have been integrated in the state-religion the USA has been running at least since the cold war., and they are actively utilized by the Republicans. This also means that those evangelists believe that in the US white nationalists should be in power.
Please note that the “christian” part in this has gone pretty far from any christian roots - it’s for the most part just utilized to identify the in-group and to radicalize members. The quip “Y’all qaeda” comes pretty close to the truth - they are just as radical and socially regressive as any other islamic sect that would use terror to achieve their goals.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 9 months ago:
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Always have Jeans.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 9 months ago:
i think this meeting in particular puts emphasis to the fact that trump has lost it and that europe has to put more weight behind their support.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 9 months ago:
I mean the discovery queue is pretty much on point except for the blockbusters they insert “because they are popular”. I don’t care whats popular, i care about what i like, roguelike indies and metroidvanias for example.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 9 months ago:
“There were more sports cars in the parking lot in the PS1 era than there were in the PS4 era, …"
dude, fuck you, your parking lot and i wish that giant acme anvils drop on every fucking sports car you’ll ever own.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
it’s time to start feeding game guides to gamefaqs again lol
- Comment on The guy President Trump nominated to lead the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 9 months ago:
This guy sits there so that the numbers say what dumpy mcshitplants likes.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 9 months ago:
umm thanks i guess 🥹