Telorand
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- Comment on “We’re used to people saying fuck no and doing it anyway” -Michigan governor Gretchen Whitner. Daughter of a health insurance CEO. She is currently selling Michigan out for every penny she can as her… 5 days ago:
Agreed. But the question wasn’t, “What’s the bare minimum a politician should do,” it was, “What has she done that’s progressive?” I listed two examples that I’m familiar with, though I would expect there’s more.
I’m not saying she’s some progressive paragon, but she can have enacted both progressive policies and regressive pro-corporate ones. Generally speaking, people aren’t stereotypes, and anyone who’s presenting that case should immediately raise red flags that they’re either not engaged with what politicians are actually doing or they’ve got an agenda (see other politicians and pundits).
There’s plenty of room to despise establishment Democrats without lying or oversimplifying them down to a single quote.
- Comment on “We’re used to people saying fuck no and doing it anyway” -Michigan governor Gretchen Whitner. Daughter of a health insurance CEO. She is currently selling Michigan out for every penny she can as her… 5 days ago:
She banned conversion therapy in Michigan: michigan.gov/…/whitmer-signs-legislation-to-prote…
She repealed abortion restrictions: web.archive.org/web/…/71657347007/
She may not be the progressive voice we need, but it’s disingenuous to pretend she’s done nothing for regular people.
- Comment on US Layoffs Skyrocket to Highest Level Since Pandemic as Tech Giants Blame AI for 40% of Cuts 4 weeks ago:
AI is voluntary software. Nobody is forcing them to use it or cut staff.
“AI made me do it” is bullshit.
- Comment on Fashion Souls 2: Onion Edition 5 weeks ago:
Onion Bubs! Onion Buuuuubs!
- Comment on "Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers 1 month ago:
Hell yeah! Full-Throttle is my go-to Lucas point-and-click
- Comment on "Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers 1 month ago:
Nice, what are some of your go-to’s?
- Comment on Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation 2 months ago:
why anyone would trust these companies to pay out
AFAIK, they historically have
why anyone would help them fix their problems at this point
They’re not “helping,” they’re trying to get paid by finding exploits legally, rather than using them illegally. And if someone is particularly good, it can be lucrative work. It’s historically been a mutually beneficial arrangement, so it’s ironic if M$lop thinks they can cut out human researchers (ostensibly swapping them for AI agents) and still maintain a secure codebase.
To me, this is M$lop trying to cut costs from the wrong thing; may they get what they deserve.
- Comment on Is Hades hard to beat? 3 months ago:
Yes. I don’t think I beat Hades until around run 80, possibly higher. You’re not doing anything wrong.
Just keep at it, and like others have said, once you do it that first time, it gets easier. I think the Adamant Rail was my first cleared weapon, but find one that works the way you like and try different combos of boons; think about the effects that might synergize with how the weapon attacks (speedy hits + flat damage, big hits + damage over time, etc.).
- Comment on I'd rather a simple "no thanks" 4 months ago:
This is a boilerplate rejection letter. Companies have been sending rejection letters like this with the same language almost verbatim for decades, long before LLMs existed.
Sorry you got rejected, but be grateful for the closure. Some companies don’t even bother, leaving you wondering how your time invested in a fourth-round interview went.
If it’s a job you actually wanted, reply and ask for some tips on how to improve as a candidate. Otherwise, I don’t really see how this has to do with work reform other than your personal preference of dispensing with superfluous language and getting to the point.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as shops warn it's being stolen to order 5 months ago:
“It was razors, cheese, coffee. Today, these people that are taking stock from convenience stores, from supermarkets, it’s taken to order. So chocolate is primetime now.”
It is not lost on me that the setting of 1984 takes place in a conquered England where chocolate rations are regularly reduced, nor is it lost that people in “Airstrip One,” the new name for England, are constantly trying to acquire necessities and specifically razor blades.
The fact that people are stealing these items in particular is concerning.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Sounds like you had fun
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured 7 months ago:
I don’t care to find the source right now, but around the time when the OLED came out, the battery performance was nominally better in third-party tests. It did come down to specifics in what you played (game optimization) and how you set the power profiles, but the extra battery didn’t add much in terms of playtime—maybe an hour extra in real world use cases.
I don’t know if that’s still the case; it could be that Valve has OLED specific improvements by this point, but I suspect that it still would not be a significant enough point for someone to decide upon a model just on battery specs.
- Comment on Cooperative indie darling RV There Yet cruises past 1.3 million sales [Eurogamer] 8 months ago:
I haven’t played this one, specifically because people say there’s no map variety. Same path, same events, same puzzles.
Once they have some procedural generation, then it will go into my rotation with friends.
- Comment on More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC 9 months ago:
And I very much appreciate you setting it up! I have even posted a few, though people often post them before I do.
- Comment on More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC 9 months ago:
Not even necessarily F2P. Depending on what you have access to, Epic, GOG, Prime/Amazon Games, Steam, Itch, and a few others all release freebies nearly every week. Some of them are even AAA titles.
If you’re not supremely picky about what you play, you can get hundreds of free games over time.
- Comment on Why do people say "as sweet as canned beans"? 9 months ago:
I’ve never heard this expression.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 21st 10 months ago:
Thanks for the rec! I have Castle on the Coast, but it’s been low on my “play later” list. I’ll move it up!
- Comment on Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI 10 months ago:
Exactly. It’ll be a 3-day workweek, and you’ll only get paid for three days of work. They’re not gonna give us the same wages for less work.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 10 months ago:
And there’s the whole issue with a certain buffoon who doesn’t understand how tariffs work and is currently trying to speedrun an economic collapse, so who knows if the hardware components will be available in three years.
However, unless there’s a significant change in games that makes the current Gen unable to play games, I think it’s likely going to be a great device in three years time. I know that I have no plans to upgrade mine.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 10 months ago:
I mean, nothing is stopping a whale from contacting Hello Games to get a bespoke spaceship… 😂
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 10 months ago:
No Man’s Sky has almost every feature that Star Citizen will have/has:
- Frigates
- Walkable ships (via the new corvettes)
- Space stations
- Food/cooking
- Quests and lore
- Planet exploration
- Ship to ship dogfights
Like, by the time SC releases, the game’s features will have been done by multiple companies. I expect people actually buying the game, if it’s ever released, will do so for the memes and not because the game has anything innovative to add to gaming.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 10 months ago:
Steam Deck 2 is very likely a long way away; they’ve said they won’t be doing minor upgrades—only major ones, and the current models still play most modern games just fine without issue. There’s no reason to wait on a Steam Deck if it’s within your budget.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 10 months ago:
You can absolutely play a Steam Deck on the couch. It’s effectively the same sort of device as a Switch, just without all the Nintendo nonsense of knowing that you’re supporting a company that specializes in squashing industry innovation through litigation.
You can even buy a dock that uses the USBC port as an HDMI output, if you want to play on a bigger screen, and connect your favorite Bluetooth controller.
- Comment on have some standards 10 months ago:
I wouldn’t know! I’m currently exploring the black, and that hasn’t changed much! I think it’s had some improvements, though, since Horizons. They maybe added a new ship…? Still one of the best space flight sims.
On the other side of the coin, No Man’s Sky added walkable ship interiors to their new Corvette class ships, so they’ve basically added everything Star Citizen promised, just with more cartoonish graphics. Either are still great choices for scratching that space exploration itch.
- Comment on have some standards 10 months ago:
I have to wonder if they’d be more interested if you’d said you fly a space ship with a HOTAS (as in Elite Dangerous).
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August September 7th 10 months ago:
Still playing through The Messenger. Excellent game that everyone should play.
I don’t actually own Silksong just yet, so I just started a game called The Gunk. So far, kinda has that Savage Planet semi-realistic vibe to it, and the voice acting is really good. The beginning hooked me, so hopefully it has a satisfying ending when I get there.
- Comment on Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine 10 months ago:
After setting out what he said were findings showing that vaccines “created havoc” in the human body, Malhotra said he had been asked to share something by a doctor who he described as one of Britain’s most eminent oncologists.
I want names. These dangerous goobers always play fast and loose with the word “expert,” and if he’s just going to point to a single doctor—without a name—I am just as justified to believe he’s hallucinated the entire thing.
- Comment on THE SILKSONG IS REALLLLLLLLLLL 11 months ago:
I mean, yeah. Did people think it wasn’t? It was announced weeks ago.
- Comment on ‘The age of game mechanics is over’, claims Shadow of the Colossus director Ueda | VGC 1 year ago:
And REPO.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 year ago:
Yeah, like what need is there for these intermediaries in the first place? I get that there was probably a need once upon a time, but that seems superfluous now
