dejected_warp_core
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- Comment on Good job 4 days ago:
What we want: OS updates that make the system more performant, more accessible, easier to use, smarter at using battery power, and more secure.
Apple: Let’s make everything an unreadable mess and tax the GPU to shit just for fucking UI elements, because we’re out of ideas.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 5 days ago:
It was uncanny and disturbing back then. It’s uncanny, disturbing, and hilarious now.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 6 days ago:
… a new set of knives, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, lisa needs braces, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, dental plan, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, lisa needs braces, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, dental plan, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, a new set of knives…
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 1 week ago:
Don’t forget SCSI termination. There was always some extra piece of junk you needed to make it all work. No wonder we all have “the box” in the basement/attic with all the extra cables squirreled away.
Now you take a tiny board a little bigger than a stick of gum, and press it onto the motherboard. Smaller footprint than a DIMM, mind-blowing amounts of solid-state storage. Drives? Naw, we just have chips where the "1"s stick around after you turn it off.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 week ago:
They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.
- Comment on Innövative sölutiön 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t even be mad. As long as they could explain what a Mobius Strip is, they can use it.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 1 week ago:
You missed the part where not all LASIK procedures are “bladeless”. As in: there is an eye knife.
- Comment on Anon goes camping 1 week ago:
It’s a common error. You have to spell it like daemon:
$ sudo paegan ritual - Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Hardly. I added some clarification to my argument.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thanks for clarifying. I’m actually trying to argue the exact opposite of something like “all lives matter”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Technically, everyone that doesn’t identify as “men”. But it’s done in the abstract, negative space of the message by not saying it. Subtle, but without clarifying things, it’s left open to this interpretation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It could be an innocent mistake, or if we put our tinfoil hats on for a second, deliberate counter-propaganda aimed at sowing division and dissent by baiting people with otherwise good intent.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I agree. It’s kind of a tightrope these days. As a white, cis, hereto, middle-aged, male, I pretty much clock as the poster-child for privilege. I am palpably aware that crying loudly for any support might just come off as tasteless, or even insensitive in the wrong group.
Yet, a lot of our social ills these days look an awful lot like mental illness, which is poorly compensated for through evil, perpetrated by people that resemble this description. Zero social support means you just listen to Joe Rogan instead, while projecting trauma as hate.
This poster/meme might work better if it aimed for equality and that it doesn’t exclude anyone. Or maybe if it had a quote from research or some person of note about the silent epidemic that is men’s mental/social health issues.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 1 week ago:
break a public pay phone
At the zenith of that technology, the phone company(ies) had already battle tested countless other designs. The newest relics you find are hardened enough to be left unattended in the most vandalism prone areas imaginable. Each one, a little fortress perfectly protecting delicate electronics and a coin-box. Slam it all you want: they’re nigh-on indestructible.
- Comment on Stats boost 2 weeks ago:
health is under 10%
Consider something like Elden Ring, where level-scaled bosses can basically end you in 1-3 hits. 9% or less means you have to be able to endure something like 10 attacks, prior to this kicking in. IMO, that means your foe is probably not at your level in the first place.
Then again, is anyone playing with a “blood night” style build in games like this? Like, deliberately running around with 5% health, or just burning HP to get stat boosts? Just curious - that’s not my style at all.
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 2 weeks ago:
TL;DR: Show me someone with any hard-to-quit habit, and I’ll show you someone that’s self-medicating for something.
This is tragically under-appreciated in our society. Especially when it seems everyone is converging on some kind of self-diagnosis, and collectively coming to a “hey nobody’s normal” conclusion. We’re so very close to framing help as “harm reduction for nicotine” and “maybe it’s also neurodiversity and/or trauma”, but we keep missing the mark and argue about vapes instead.
Also, as the greentext suggests, I personally think we’re way past the point where people that can avoid starting or can quit easy, have already done so. What you see these days is a rather hard-core use cohort that has complex addiction to work through.
So… yeah. Helping a friend quit? Please work with them to consider the jenga-tower of adverse psychology that a-pack-a-day might be holding up. It could be way harder to pull off than either of you think.
- Comment on Every NPC sidequest 2 weeks ago:
Nothing in these games makes any goddamned sense, and one sounds like a raving lunatic trying to explain any of it out loud.
- Comment on work is easy 2 weeks ago:
I once had a micromanager that made it impossible to get anything done during a workday. So I started coming in on Saturday to catch up on all the work that kept getting interrupted. MFW he noticed the logs and my activity on the weekend and thanked me for putting in all the extra effort.
- Comment on Anon reflects on a conundrum 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. If anon is taking a selfie, the fish-eye effect of phone camera lenses can seriously distort your face. Especially when used up-close.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 3 weeks ago:
Others may have different experiences, but AFAIK schools tend to be funded by the property taxes in their district. Combined with rampant, unchecked, failed desegreation, and you have some schools that are swimming in cash while everyone else begs to close that gap.
- Comment on Unconditional support 3 weeks ago:
It’s from the movie Predator.
If you want to see what it would look like if the anthropomorphic incarnation of testosterone itself it wrote, directed, and acted in a movie, then look no further. It’s so full of vitamin-T your voice will drop an octave while watching it, and your unborn grandkids will go into puberty next week.
- Comment on Explains crossfit 3 weeks ago:
Out-crazying all the crazy passengers. This probably stops so many stupid rants and conversations dead in their tracks.
5/5 pro move.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 3 weeks ago:
He also technically killed Cell. Not even Goku or Gohan can boast that.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 3 weeks ago:
That’s 50% more eyeballs than Krillin, and Tien has a nose. Plus, he can turn triangles into squares, now that I think about it. That math checks out.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 3 weeks ago:
It’s a masterpiece of fan art. It’s the best way to watch that story, period.
Abridged Vegeta is my spirit animal.
Man has the personality of an ornery housecat. What’s not to love?
- Comment on They're unstoppable 3 weeks ago:
I am not enough of an Otaku to have this debate to any sort of conclusion; I’ll take your word for it. I do have one question though: if we discount the Saiyan hybrids and androids, what puts Tien over the top?
- Comment on They're unstoppable 3 weeks ago:
He’s still the strongest human alive. By Terrestrial standards, he’s indestructible.
- Comment on who are you? 4 weeks ago:
Except diary. Milk has an expiration date that (for me at least) is accurate to within 12 hours or so, when refrigerated.
Protip: if this plagues you, grab the Lactaid (lactose-free) stuff. It lasts longer. Soy milk lasts even longer than that, but I get that’s not for everyone.
- Comment on The emotional support dunkies 4 weeks ago:
If true, that would explain the pictures. That is the face of “I can’t deal with ::waves arms at everything:: this, right now.”
