Jesus_666

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
There’s a reason why oldschool X-Com players kept coming back to the games despite technical issues like the Groundhog Day bug. (Thank all applicable deities for OpenXcom solving those issues, though.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satisfactory v1.1 Launch Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
My most used features so far are vertical splitters, vertical nudging, and the new placement modes for conveyors and pipes. With an honorable mention going to conveyor wall holes, which also free up a lot of design options.

Honestly, though, just about everything in this update has been a godsend. Priority splitters are the only thing I haven’t really used yet. Even the elevators rock; being able to zoop up to 200 meters up or down in one go can make them useful even as a temporary yardstick for tall structures. (Also, I did end up needing to go 150 meters straight down to get at some resources and can confirm that elevators handle their intended purpose very well.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Apparently we got our floppies for cheap because we just had a whole bunch of pirated floppies.

Admittedly, some did have multiple games on them. That’s what LOAD"$",8 was for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
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LOAD"*",8,1

SEARCHING FOR *  
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READY.  
RUN
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correct Grindr Response⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I wouldn’t have gotten that far. That utter savage can’t even tell the difference between MT/s and MB/s.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon considers LASIK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
230 bucks? I usually paid twice that. Then I spent 7000 bucks on getting ICLs implanted. The years later my eyes got worse again so now I’m wearing glasses again plus I’m a bit farsighted from the ICLs.

But those glasses are only at -2 dpt and are so comparatively cheap that I’m still saving money over my expected lifespan.

So. Fucking. Worth. It.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Das Millionenspiel.

It’s The Running Man except twelve years earlier and a media satire instead of an action movie. It comments on TV phenomena that wouldn’t exist in Germany until two decades later (like scripted “reality” TV). Also, it has early appearances of one of Germany’s most famous TV hosts (as the show’s host, fittingly) and one of Germany’s most famous comedians of the 70s to 90s (in a completely serious role, unfittingly). And unlike the Schwarzenegger movie it doesn’t construct a dystopian future to introduce public bloodsports but merely gives a terse reference to a “law on active recreation” dated three years after the movie first aired.

To make it even more odd, it’s actually a good movie despite being from Germany and made for TV.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Look Up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Fair enough. The dumb ones were just loud enough to sound like 90%. But I sure did talk to some panicked dumbasses online back then.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Look Up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I agree with the “nutcase” diagnosis but I think she just can’t tell paragliders and parachutes apart and thought these were paratroopers. Which Hamas somehow has now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Look Up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I remember the early 2000s when basically 90% of all Americans were absolutely certain that jihadists were going to attack their local supermarket any minute now because Power Cable, Nebraska was such a strategic target.

Heck, there was a bomb scare because of an advertisement campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force that involved placing PCBs with LEDs on them that would display characters from the show. Because surely Al Quaeda would put conspicuous LED displays on their bombs.

News media want people to panic so they keep tuning in. Panicked people tend to come up with remarkably stupid scenarios like “Al Quaeda have unlimited resources and can show up anywhere to shoot people at random” or “Hamas want to take Dorcester as a strategic location to strike at Israel from”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon discovers cigarettes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Of course, the effect is not at all as intense as alcohol or other drugs, but there are effects. There are also, to my knowledge, some indications, that a lot of people with ADHD use it to self-medicate, since it seems to affect them differently, like other drugs do, too.

Sounds plausible; nicotine is a stimulant by means of triggering the release of adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin. That is pretty much what an ADHD brain lacks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My vent core feels retroactively unblasted by this revelation. You really can’t expect anything good from any of the major studios anymore these days.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The clueless people are out there among us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That’s quite how AC outlets work. Line and neutral can intentionally have different potentials relative to ground depending on how the house’s electrical system is designed. This can become relevant in certain situations like very simple devices (think “lamp socket with a power plug”).

A plug that can’t be inverted makes this a non-issue.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The clueless people are out there among us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I think the Swiss have the best Europlug-based system. Their three-conductor plugs have the same footprint as basic Europlugs, which makes for very dense plug arrangements. Unlike e.g. the German Schuko plug they only fit in one orientation so you get no polarity issues.

It’s pretty neat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has regrets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Even if it was, condoms come in sizes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always explains so much⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Remember that each woman has a different experience. Some women have such a light period that they only notice it because they find spots in their underwear. On the other hand, a woman with endometriosis will probably start being in excruciating pain the day before the period starts and will know exactly how long it lasts.

Source: I know someone with endo. She also has a resistance to at least one OTC painkiller because she used to pop those things like candy. And a female coworker of hers (with a very light period) thinks that most women are exaggerating and that periods aren’t much of a problem…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Usually, when people talk about bees dying, they mean wild bees. Unlike honey bees they aren’t cultivated by us. They also tend to be better pollinators than honey bees, adapted to local plants that honey bees can’t handle well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hamster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And the name of that hamster? Pikachu.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3's grip looks the most comfy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Seconded. As far as pens are concerned, Uniball is where it’s at.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is chasing an old high⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And then your European players wonder why the color artifacts are all wrong. PAL and NTSC had different distinct looks (and presumably so did SECAM).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not everyone needs to talk to everyone. But many people need to talk to many people.

Microsoft has to abandon the initial Vista project and start over because they couldn’t manage a team of 1000 developers. People working on adjacent features had to go through so many layers of management that in some cases the closest shared manager was Bill Gates. For something like getting a change in the shutdown code reflected in the shutdown dialog.

Huge teams become exponentially harder to manage efficiently.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Back then Clippit was also memetically annoying. Perception of how him has actually improved over time thanks to nostalgia.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s not a problem if executive orders are treated as law; the first amendment doesn’t curtail the president’s power.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And if you have a bike with a belt you can replace all chain-related maintenance with “check if the belt looks weird maybe once a year”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People never understand the sacrifices I make for them.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The prep and recovery blocks are also team calls; everyone prepares and recovers together, moderated by the scrum master.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This job description for a job posting by Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I know I sorted by feed by Top 6 Hours but that doesn’t mean I expect six hours worth of text in a single image. Did they copy and paste three different job postings together? Did they use a LLM that had its stop token configured incorrectly? Is it an attempt at weeding out people who object to having their time wasted by corporate bullshit?

We may never know. What we do know is that this wall of text has more red flags than a Chinese military parade.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Run a fairly large LLM on your CPU so you can get the finest of questionable problem solving at a speed fast enough to be workable but slow enough to be highly annoying.

This has the added benefit of filling dozens of gigabytes of storage that you probably didn’t know what to do with anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act Re-Introduced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I do but my condo’s HOA is more concerned with building maintenance than with telling people what to do. Or regulations fit on a single A4 page with a fairly large font size.

Now, a neighborhood HOA would probably be a different beast altogether.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree on THIS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It depends on how busy the day is, I guess. Today I arrived 5 minutes early and waited for less than a minute. But my GP is pretty good at scheduling anyway; I don’t think I’ve ever waited for more than 15 minutes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fixes Super Mario Bros⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The real problem with the “improved” SMB from the post is not that it has ways of making the game easier, it’s that the “fixes” amount to a microtransaction hellhole, complete with intrusive prompts.

I’m all for games with configurable difficulty. Nobody thinks less of Doom for having difficulty settings. But everybody does think less of games that pair frustrating mechanics (like difficulty spikes or countdown timers) with bypass MTX.

To use the default controversial genre, I think that a soulslike with difficulty settings would work just fine. But a soulslike where your healing flask only restores one charge every ten minutes unless you buy more charges from the store (but store-bought ones can exceed the normal maximum) or where game-breakingly OP equipment is available as MTX would not go over well.