BurningRiver
@BurningRiver@beehaw.org
- Comment on RIP FaceID, Hello Palm Recognition: How Veins In Your Palm Are The Next Biometric Boom - Yanko Design 2 days ago:
The young lady with the uzi…Is she single?
- Comment on Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’ 3 weeks ago:
Without spoiling the show, get up to date with the show.
- Comment on Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday - IGN 3 weeks ago:
There’s about a zero percent chance that 5 year old console components cost more today than they did 5 years ago.
Things like that don’t get more expensive, they get cheaper as new tech develops.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
Many will consider this a cost-cutting step too far, but the interior was designed for ease of upgrading, with easy mounting space for anything from a simple soundbar to a full sound system.
This isn’t for everyone, but if it’s easily accessible, I’d have no problem installing a basic CarPlay head unit and speakers in an afternoon.
- Comment on ain't your buddy, pal! 1 month ago:
The most glaring thing I saw too. I lived a large chunk of my life in So Cal and everyone was bro.
- Comment on Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit? 2 months ago:
The Walking Dead. There was a season premiere where Negan became more prominent and just kills off a main character and there was no point to it. That’s when I shut it off mid episode and never watched it again.
- Comment on What TV series have the best intros? What TV series have the worst intros? 2 months ago:
Peacemaker. It’s so corny, but it makes me laugh and I couldn’t ever skip it.
- Comment on Crysis 4 is on hold as developer Crytek announces layoffs 3 months ago:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is pretty damn good imo.
- Comment on Donuts are good for you 5 months ago:
I’m gonna say that my mutt rescue puppy disproves this theory 100%, since he can flip his head straight up and chomp on my arm in like half a second flat. Fuckface murdermouth has a three axis neck.
But god damn he’s a good looking dog and I really like him most of the time.
- Comment on It's December, what are your favorite Christmas movies? 5 months ago:
- Scrooged
- Bad Santa
- A Christmas Story
- Elf
- Comment on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) 6 months ago:
will eventually
You’re looking for “may eventually”. We’re not anywhere near this so using it as a current argument is rather silly.
- Comment on Tough Shit 7 months ago:
your bowel is wider than your asshole
imagining a nurse using the word “asshole” to explain it to a regular person is just hilarious to me.
- Comment on Mobin' Time 7 months ago:
You kind of have to accept it, the teachers write the tests.
- Comment on Oxygen 8 months ago:
I think it’s got about 3-4 billion years left in the tank, if I remember reading correctly. It won’t be humanity’s problem.
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 8 months ago:
There’s a transaction cost to processing the sale, hosting the giant download and then issuing the refund. If people organized and manipulated the system and this became a financial burden, then the policy would almost certainly change.
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 8 months ago:
About it being completely arbitrary and anti-consumer? It 100% is.
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 8 months ago:
Sony has a horrific track record of data breaches. They’re collecting and selling data about you for profit. I place that bar higher than this.
For my own personal amusement, what else would they have to do to meet the level your personal anti-consumer bar is set at?
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 8 months ago:
This is actually a fantastic idea. How long will it take Valve to threaten account bans for doing it?
- Comment on Launches 8 months ago:
I scrolled down specifically looking for a KSP comment, thank you.
- Comment on the secret recipe 8 months ago:
I’m usually that person as well. BG3 was the first game in probably 8 years that hooked me on the story. If I sprinted through it, I would have probably saved like 80% of the time I spent playing it, but I enjoyed it. Maybe I’m simple, but to me it felt like the decisions mattered.
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 9 months ago:
Obviously the way to combat this is to organize dozens or more people who just walk around, load up shopping carts, then leave the store without buying anything. They can pay people to put everything back.
- Comment on Immigrants Are Becoming U.S. Citizens at Fastest Clip in Years: The government has reduced a backlog of applications that built up during the Trump administration. New citizens look forward to voting 9 months ago:
It’s great to destroy societies to win an election, is there enough housing, jobs, etc?
You start with a bad faith argument, and anyone is supposed to take you seriously?
- Comment on Technically Correct 9 months ago:
“The government made 25% of my district unemployed, why didn’t I get reelected?”
Ask it from that side and you have your answer.
- Comment on "My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says 9 months ago:
That whole mindset is weird to me. I’m in my mid 40s and just got hired on as a team lead for a bunch of kids who are fresh out of college. They’re exactly where I am when I started and I’m excited to share my 20 years of experience and mentor them.
They wanted to hire me on as their supervisor but I made it clear that the extra couple grand a year for that headache didn’t interest me.
- Comment on Compost 10 months ago:
I’ll bring the magnet.
- Comment on 'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement 11 months ago:
Can you trust whatever AI you use, implicitly? I already know the answer, but I really want to hear people say it. These AI hype men are seriously promising us capabilities that may appear down the road, without actually demonstrating use cases that are relevant today. “Some day it will do this, or that”. Enough already, it’s bullshit.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
recall taking screenshots periodically
Seriously, you didn’t get through the first paragraph?
the notion of a tool that silently takes a screenshot of your desktop every five seconds”
Saying “periodically” is a pretty trivial way of putting it.
Microsoft and Adobe fighting each other over who gets enshittification of the decade award. Sam Altman is probably crafting a victory speech about what chatGPT 12 might possibly be able to do, someday. The sooner all this snake oil hype crashes and burns, the better off we’ll all be.
- Comment on Humanity making progress like it always does 11 months ago:
I don’t know where all of you live, but my windshield is still an aria of death in the spring of 2024.
- Comment on Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps. 1 year ago:
As an American reading this, “yank tank” is one of the funniest and most spot on things I’ve ever read.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
This isn’t solving any problem, this is yet another mask to push
contentadvertisements in front of people.That looks better.