stringere

@stringere@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear you. I’ve had every playstation since the PS1. We even own a PS4 and PS4 Pro. Mythbusters was the beginning of the end for me. When they yanked Mythbusters without warning or recompense it drove home what I already knew: my digital library was only as good as the whims of Sony. I haven’t made a purchase on their platform since.

  And like you I also have Plus for a while, but I’ve noticed more offerings are starting to be PS5 only. And maybe it’s bias informing my experience but I could swear they’ve already begun enshitifying the PS4 store the same way they degraded the PS3 store when the 4 came out. They removed some of the browsing options, like browsing by category.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  all tracert point to akamai like internet rome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  disconnecting my microwave proves that I can take down the power grid

  DO NOT DISCONNECT YOUR MICROWAVE!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was good of Sony to bribe enough people to bring it to your attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And because of double jeopardy he’d be free from further (criminal) prosecution for those charges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ding ding ding

  I’m wondering if it will run on the Steamdeck I bought my daughter for Christmas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No need to boil the ocean⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it blow your mind to find out it’s nuanced and good judgement and data should be used to determine when we should or should not implement new laws or repeal old ones? Or do you prefer binary choices that force a loss on one side or another?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No need to boil the ocean⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  USA checking in with a very short, nowhere near comprehensive, list of the more egregious breaches in trust by the federal government; local and state governments undoubtedly have more to add: Business Plot left uninvestigated Kennedy Assassination and the Warren Commission War on Drugs Bush v Gore decided by Supreme Court for Bush despite losing popular vote which led into… 9/11 and Weapons of Mass Destruction - wars in Iraq and Afghanistan justified by lies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No need to boil the ocean⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in the USA. You’re describing life in the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf Cambrian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always liked the Hooloovoo, from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

  “The Hooloovoo resemble a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re not from the USA they’re just sparkling pathogens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Song of Ice and Fire - first editions of each book⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes me really sad is knowing it didn’t have to be like this, and it doesn’t have to get worse to get better…but it likely will, and that tears me apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mass deportations sweeping up agricultural workers will need to be replaced when a national emergency is declared because crops can’t be harvested. President declares the crops can be harvested by prison populations…what’s the word for captives forced to labor for no pay indefinitely?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're called leaves for a reason.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably. With a clover lawn you’ll probably need to reseed annually anyway. $4 per 1lb bag covers ~10,000 sq ft so not really a bank buster there, just a little work in the fall and spring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're called leaves for a reason.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that’s what couches were for…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're called leaves for a reason.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could try a no-mow lawnternative: www.thespruce.com/lawn-alternatives-8657762

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're called leaves for a reason.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let those leaves kill the grass and replace it with moss, clover, walkable thyme, native grasses, or any number of more interesting ground covers. I’m working towards a no-mow lawn. It’s fun finding creative ways to thwart a pesky city ordinance: “A minimum of fifty percent (50%) of all yard areas shall be comprised of turf grass”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are movies where the time loops over and over considered time travel movies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looked it up, it was neither: Arq.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are movies where the time loops over and over considered time travel movies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only have this one upvote, but it is yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are movies where the time loops over and over considered time travel movies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife relented on her “no Tom Cruise movies” stance because he dies 200+ times in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are movies where the time loops over and over considered time travel movies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say Bioshock Infinite and Arc fit your criteria

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The last 10 years provide excellent reasoning for the removal of the US, Russia, and Israel from any council where they have veto power. Especially given that veto power is often used to allow atrocities to continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Got any tips to get started on that? I’ve got a wife and kids to take with me, so emigration will be complicated.

  When will countries start accepting US asylum seekers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad it is this obvious from the outside. I’ve felt gaslit ny entire life living here. We’re sold this bill of goods, The American Dream, but we have to buy it on credit and it never really meets expectations.

  The sad fact is its taken the general population around 50 years to wake up to the klepto-kakistocracy being forged and the only hope I have is that they’re overplaying their hands too soon while the general population still has a hope of reversing course peacefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In our neighborhood a lot of families set up a fire pit in the driveway and hang out passing out candy. It’s something we hadn’t seen before moving into our neighborhood and we love it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So bad it was actually entertaining⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We have one where they throw rolls at you .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Petty reasons, likely cuelty or as a dominance display born of insecurity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  She should take notes from Coolio regarding his beef with Weird Al:

  “F*** no, man, I let that go so long ago,” Coolio responded. "Let me say this: I apologized to Weird Al a long time ago and I was wrong. Y’all remember that, everybody out there who reads this s***.

  "Real men and real people should be able to admit when they’re wrong and I was wrong, bro. Come on, who the f*** am I, bro? He did parodies of Michael Jackson, he did parodies of all kinds of people and I took offense to it because I was being cocky and s*** and being stupid and I was wrong and I should’ve embraced that s*** and went with it.

  “I listened to it a couple years after that and it’s actually funny as s***. It’s one of those things where I made a wrong call and nobody stopped me. That’s one thing I’m still upset about—my management at the time. Somebody should’ve stopped me from making that statement because it was dumb. And I think it hurt me a little bit. It made me seem stupid.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨66 hours in, i made a factory that makes 25 motors per minute. [Satisfactory]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still on my first playthrough amd my “factory” is a collection of what I had to build at any moment connected where it has to be for the next step. Other than a few rebuilt spots here and there. Last night was the quest for more coal and a lesson in power grid management. Next up to tackle is better water pressure optimization.