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- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
$300 isn’t too bad of a price for a 47" 4K where they aren’t getting extra money from your data and ads. I went for the 1080p model because at the distance we sit at it was impossible to tell the difference based on the 4K Roku TV is replaced.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
You mean it doesn’t have any of this yet :)
I say this as someone with two LG TVs. Sure you can just not connect them to the internet, but a lot of people reply on the “Smart” part of the TV to view all their content.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 week ago:
I got their 1080p 43" “dumb” model for $150 not too long ago. I wouldn’t choose it for my main living room TV, but it is perfectly fine for what I needed it for and they can’t retroactively make it worse like the Roku tv it replaced.
- Comment on Dune explained 4 weeks ago:
I am from FL and just moved to MN last year and it was similar for me. Snow doesn’t feel or behave like I thought it would based on TV/movies.
- Comment on Good morning it's very cold so let's make some soup. 5 weeks ago:
Clearly an AI photo, and at first I thought “Well, of course only AI would be dumb enough to do this.”, but then I remembered I grew up in Florida and realized civilization was a mistake.
- Comment on Pass the football 1 month ago:
There is a name I thought I would never seen again when I left Florida :(
- Comment on Sony reportedly prepping PlayStation 5 portable, plans to battle Nintendo's handheld dominance 1 month ago:
Oh, is it time for Sony to self-sabotage again?
- Comment on Anon gets home from a long day at work 1 month ago:
Accurate. I love hot sauces, but I have had to tell friends and family to never buy me hot sauce because chances are it will suck or be samey. Especially those gift packs they push around the holidays.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 1 month ago:
For your own sanity and wallet, it is best that you do not investigate further.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 1 month ago:
And yet, whenever I get a new keyboard or caps there is a nontrivial chance my wife will steam them.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 2 months ago:
Its not a drip machine though, it’s more like a Chemex that doesn’t require you to do the pouring.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 2 months ago:
The analogy works well since its Debian-like, but way more awesome. The Moccamaster is great. As easy to use as a drip, but makes better coffee than the Chemex.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 2 months ago:
To be fair, it made slightly more sense in the comics, though still batshit. In the comics there was no noble purpose like they tried to shoehorn in for the MCU. IIRC, Thanos was literally doing it to impressed Death (the cosmic entity) to gain her affection.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 2 months ago:
Anon is absolutely exaggerating for comic effect. That doesn’t mean Java doesn’t have all of those problems though, it just isn’t as ridiculous as they made it out unless you get dragged into enterprise bullshit (then you’re in for it).
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 2 months ago:
I’ve definitely heard some sort of frog/toad make the “ribbit” sound, but I’d say the German “kwaak” is probably more common. The various Asian sounds seem odd to me though. I suppose it is entirely possible the frogs makes different sounds there.
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 2 months ago:
Good luck! I am about the same place in my career and I also wanted to actually release a game (not just make 80% of a game in secret!).
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 2 months ago:
The list is honestly bizarre and the rank placements are all over the place. Most of your later examples of that I completely agree with. I just think that the mainline FF games not being on the top 100 list of PC games is fairly understandable, and I say that as a huge fan of the series. Ironically, FF14 is quite literally the only game in the series that I haven’t played.
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 2 months ago:
Regarding the FF games, I think it’s actually fine considering some of the more notable omissions. Most FF games didn’t get released anywhere near when they were relevant.
- Comment on Subway 2 months ago:
I haven’t seen anything like that on a pizza since I moved to the midwest. They do seem obsessed with pickles though.
- Comment on What is the current best smart TV software/brand/ecosystem option? 3 months ago:
That is great news if they stick to it. Ttheir WebOS TVs are becoming slimier and slimier.
- Comment on ‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening 3 months ago:
Congrats, you’re already a much better screen writers than anyone at Marvel.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 3 months ago:
Ok, I see where you’re going now, but I’m still not sure I agree with you here overall for the genre.
I think the “add tactics” thing is already done to a degree in these games as early enemies in these games tend to be dead simple since players like likely still acclimating to the game, but I suspect that there is only so much you can do before you end up turning later enemies into some sort of frustrating puzzle. Diablo-likes, for better or worse, aren’t generally mind bending affairs, high skill ceiling affairs.
There is definitely room in the genre for more tactical, skill dependent entries, but I not sure the end result would be as fun for most people as that would be a fundamentally different type game. Hey, maybe I am wrong and this would lead to some sort of souls-like Diablo game where skill and learning are all that matters and items and character building are far less important. Come to think of it, that sounds a lot like Hades in a way.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 3 months ago:
Your desire to dumb down diablo-likes is your own and I hate it. PoE and Grim Dawn are about the only games like this that I have truly enjoyed in a long time. Blizzard ruined Diablo and WoW with this bullshit take.
- Comment on Empires fall 3 months ago:
As someone that shopped at both, but preferred Circuit City, I think Best Buy initially did a better job of “wowing” customers and had a better store layout. They also were better at trying to squeeze money out of people and thus were more profitable than Circuit City, so when times got leaner they survived and then had the whole market.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
Well, if your keyboard is hotswappable and you have any spare switches, it could be a quick fix as long as you know which switches/keys are chattering and you have leftovers. I don’t know who (Mass)drop had actually manufacture the Halo Clear switches, it could be Gateron, but I don’t think they made that information public.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
If you have chattering, that is sadly a problem with the specific switch itself and the software has just been ignoring the issue. I don’t suppose the keyboard you’re using is hotswappable? If it is, just pull and replace those switches. If not, you either need to desolder the bad switches and resolder in replacements or stick with that software. I have had some consistently bad chattering issues with Gateron switches to the point that I completely avoid them as a manufacturer. So if you coincidentally are using switches from them and plan to replace them, I’d look for a different brand of switch.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
I suppose technically any keyboard with a programmable controller could be considered to have software even if you don’t need to run, but I was thinking more along the lines of Logitech or Razer always memory resident garbage.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
While that keyboard isn’t for me, I’ll admit that look good and does in fact have software. Good counter point. Also, that software appears to just for reconfiguration of the layout and probably macros so I bet it doesn’t need to be run all the time, or even at all if you like the standard layout. That is how software for hardware should be done.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
Disclaimer: I’m a keyboard snob. I can’t think of a single good keyboard that even has software.
I actually use Logitech for all my mice and trackballs, but I also haven’t installed Logitech’s junky software in a long time. Maybe I don’t know what I’m missing.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like reddit 4 months ago:
Same here, except I won’t go on Discord for discussion either. I really loath the platform. I’d even go back on the dumpster fire that is Telegram before I go back to Discord. Good thing IRC still exists.