Dudewitbow

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get over fear of cooking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  id start by using cooking tools that require low maintainance and skill (e. g crock pots, microwave, airfryer is next step up)

  after that youd probably want something that minimuzes fire hazards, so id probably start by cooking using induction cooking ware. since it itself does not generate a fire, the only way you could actually do one is if the physical food itself burns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  its not that they dont work on linux, its morelikely they just dont test for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  only casually read stuff on hardocp around the sandy/ivy bridge generation. but yes a good chunk of it died to video coverage of the content. its why for example Gamers Nexus has the reverse approach where the video content is their main priority (and audience) and they maintain their own website because thats what they wanted to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsom Moves Quickly to Counter Trump in California | Gov. Gavin Newsom called the Legislature back to the Capitol for a special session to bolster civil liberties, reproductive rights and environment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tl;dr for people not in california. hes a heavy system democrat, so progressives dont really like him, but he runs on charisma which is something important for elections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  most problems are state level problems, so generally unaffected, but any interstate, constitutional amd international problem is up in the air

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too spicy for me but thank you 😊⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  model y is an EV suv.

  the problem basically is that the people driving model 3.the 3 itself is also fairly heavy, but the assumption that if they were going to drive a model 3, the majority would switch back to a lighter sedan when in reality, they bought the model 3 because it was one of the cheaper EV options, and had it not been a cheap EV option, they would have driven a larger hatchback or SUV regardless.

  for example I had a coworker who recently got a tesla. what he was driving beforehand was a V70 Volvo hatchback before he sold it to fund the model 3. the hatchback is only a few hundred pounds lighter than the model 3, which effectively isnt a significant amount of weight, given an addition one, or two lighter people would already make up the weight difference alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too spicy for me but thank you 😊⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  its weoght would be dependant on how much of a battery capacity they have as its chunk of weight is just pure battery weight alone. An average model Y weighs in about the same as a large SUV. so if this statement was made in particular to the U.S, it wouldnt change much given how popular SUVs are. if you take away the EVs, the vast majority is just moving back to SUVs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because the people in the top end are paid via stocks and not actual hard currency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  mixture of housing supply shortage, empty homes, fucked investments, a bit of zoning laws, and nimbyism, and airbnb

  housing supply shortage

  younger generations want to live in cities because thats where both employment and “fun” is reletively speaking. the demand is very high for limited space.

  empty homes

  in some areas, there are homes that are completely empty, some due to negligence, inheritance and some just to artificially decrease supply. to put an example, San Jose, CA legitimately has more empty homes than it does homeless.

  fucked investments/nimbyism

  some people see housing as an investment instead of putting it into stocks. the investments keeps proces high because its seen as profit rather than a basic necessity to live. people who own houses will use all their power to prevent more houses to be built because more home lowers procing because of more supply.

  zoning laws

  some places, they restrict building to strictly residential or strictly commercial building. as WFH becomes more mainstream more land needs to be made as residential land. or remove the zoning alltogether

  airbnb

  airbnb gets you more money in popular areas. it takes away a potenial home for a local worker in favor for maximum investments, which is bad for the city, because it circumvents hotel taxes, and takes away potential income tax from someone who would have lived and worked in the area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grr Windows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean you still update on your command, its just that you update all the stuff at once, and theres virtually almost always an update at a given time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors, with their fancy-pants cache, are launching November 7th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  theyre hard to find because AMD sunset production of them. (despite the fact the 5700x3d and 5800x3d is functionality the same chip)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  statistically no, but its possible to get a random group of poppyseeds that are extra potent. its why for example, South Korea bans it (as they dont even want the chance for them to get collected)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 launches next year for $249⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  as long as analogue didnt use the devices actual hardware design and code, its completely legal. theyre not selling you games, theyre selling you a piece of hardware capable of playing said games with their own hardware design.

  i dont want to say emulation in a soft sense because its not software emulation, its hardware to hardware emulatoion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean hes not a very bright guy. he was complaining about if they made metal gear solid delta(3 remake) political when metal gear as a series is one of the most political series ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, the mmo at launch was a huge flop, so much so that the newer version of it kind of makes fun of the old world that was destroyed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  basically the major points of change was launch, then cyberpunk edgerunners clothing dlc patch (1.0 but bigs fixed). 2.0 rewrote some of the games mechanics that dropped before the expansion. and then the expansion was released (which added new endings)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AOE2DE is the 72 most played game on steam currently in reference to RTS, its much higher than several other games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its more or less that yes. they saw the money but not the time and effort to get users to use your platform.

  and its not like impossible, as long as you can create games people will play and stay at itll work (e.g Riot), but they legit put such little effort in the launchers that it was creating a negative user experience, and never put in the money to make it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concord Director Steps Down As Studio Behind Historic PlayStation Flop Waits For Sony's Decision⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  battlefields a bit different. battlefield basically nowadays is that the game always launch in a terrible state, and fixes itself a year down the line. battlefield players will play the game regardless and maintains ~6000 user playerbase active

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the advtage the steam system has is first the bought game/gifted game situation, as well as the more important factor, the recent opinion score, as at amy given momemt a game can get good because of a major change (e. g payday 2 reverting all the pay 2 win content the original publisher mandated) or gone to shit because of greed or a bad patch.

  the problem users have is finding a curator that has a similar taste in games that they do. If I was a fan of JRPGs, im not going to care about the opinion on some person who doesnt really play jrpgs. at the same time, if you like some niche genre, to the general public, that niche is always less popular, so itll get worse ratings thanit should compared to people who enjoy said niche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aldi Nord controlled stores in the US are Trader Joes, Aldi Sud stores in the US are just Aldi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  to me, Mortal Kombat goes under the “Soo bad its good” category.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the problem is the covid supply chain ended a while ago and console sales havent drastically picked up since then. the PS5 has been orderable direct from sony for quite a long while now, and shortly after in stores. physical game sales (something console users champion, has gone way down (according to sony, only 30% of their users buy physical now)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  im not saying consoles have 0 appeal and wont have buyers, its just that their market is in real time, decreasing while on pc has increased, especially post covid. with the advent of streaming, more and more people are shifting over to PC because of it. im not saying consoles are dead as in 0 sales, but the market is forever going to decrease for it, as more people get into pc, and those countries that cant afford to already got into mobile gaming (mobile gaming accounts for more than 50% of the profits of game sales)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the difference is at least you can see it in more real time numbers. Xbox is clearly a dying brand, which leaves Sonys home console sales for now (~60M) and the switch as a handheld device. Devs are already starting to port everything on PC, and 1st party game development rate has gone down a lot. 3rd party devs are also starting to abandon console exclusively/timed exclusively over time (capcom making the next monster hunter simul release on pc instead of a year and a half cadence, square enix backtracking on making final fantasy a timed exclusive due to not enough sales)

  Japan is completely flipping its old image of PC being the device for porn addicts of years past and starting to heavily buy into pc too, which is why Valve went to attend Tokyo gameshow to pitch the steamdeck for japanese handheld players(which remain the majority of console purchases in japan)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  were basically at the point on the timeline where PC and Mobile basically kills consoles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new m.2 ssd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  possily running into b vs m key situation. if you have a laptop that was made during the transition period of sata based m.2 to pci-e based ones, knowing which key you needed is important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  dependent by employer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Announces New Rules Banning Fake Reviews and Testimonials, Allowing Authorities to Seek Civil Penalties Against Violators, Deter AI-Generated Fake Reviews⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  would they not have to have evidence that a review is fake? especially if you bought a product (e. g on amazon) its very easy to verify you have likely bought a product and have it in question to review.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So sick!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  most channels dont have/cant afford/gave a shit about having a product designer on board