otacon239
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- Comment on All downhill from there 3 hours ago:
I’m kind of surprised considering there’s a massive mod scene. Not even with a custom difficulty mode?
- Comment on cis friend does witchcraft 6 hours ago:
If you actually practice Christianity, and really the majority of popular religions, in the way they are intended, they all sort of circle back to a lot of these same concepts. It’s when you start attaching material specifics to these intentionally abstract concepts and governing others based on those specifics that things get messy. A true follower of their religion is often not vocal about it.
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 12 hours ago:
I stand corrected. You learn something new every day.
- Comment on cis friend does witchcraft 15 hours ago:
Mindfulness is its own reward and prayer, even to a rock, can help. It’s about surrendering and accepting that there is something in the universe that you have no power over.
It’s not about believing the rock is alive or capable or changing things for you, but by simply reframing your desires as a universal one rather than an internal/personal one you can find yourself motivated in a different way and opportunities may present themselves differently.
I’m also talking about the traditional concept of prayer, not whatever the fuck the Christian’s are doing.
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 15 hours ago:
If everyone simply replaced the batteries on their phones, not using Apple’s service (even when they’re willing to do the work), then they probably wouldn’t be worth a trillion dollars.
Hardware margins are tiny. Most companies, including Apple, don’t make their money on hardware. They make almost all their money on ad revenue, data collection, and subscriptions.
Someone might get a new phone once every 1-2 years and make Apple ~$50-100 one time, if that, but they likely had to pay for an employee to sell it to you and for the store to be open for you to buy it.
Compare that to the nearly 100% profit on every digital service you pay for, such as Apple Music/TV.
I see it going one of three ways.
- Fake and gay
- The phone was beat to shit and Apple didn’t feel comfortable working on it
- Had a super old model that they no longer had parts in store for.
Not defending Apple or anything, but hardware is often the last place a modern tech company makes a profit.
- Comment on Milking dust 1 day ago:
They just work for IGN
- Comment on riders on the storm 4 days ago:
I moved away from a state that has them. They’re so beautiful to watch over a big open field. Like stars that fill the ground to complete the sky.
- Comment on Can anyone do the maths? 4 days ago:
If I had to guess, probably since right around 2000.
- Comment on Every summer be like this 5 days ago:
Headphones are pretty much only a night shortened in the summer for me. And even then often on borrowed time.
- Comment on Excel having a stab at dates 6 days ago:
Listen. Let’s just do it simple. Everyone sync their clocks with mine right now. It says it’s 10:57 at the moment, but we’ll just subtract that in the future going forward. Ready? 3, 2, 1, Go! Now we know where 0 is, whew. Problem solved, scientists!
- Comment on Doctor Debates 1 week ago:
I got the chance to see this live and some of those scenes should make you bright red around your parents. I can confirm this advice. Great show otherwise!
- Comment on Doctor Rockso 1 week ago:
What a heartthrob
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 1 week ago:
I’ve just had my gaming PC hooked up to my living room TV for the last several years. I have a lower power desktop on my room for anything that isn’t gaming. I can’t imagine buying one of the modern consoles just for their limitations alone.
Plus I just wait a few years and 95% of the explained make their way to PC anyway.
- Comment on Poop In A Box 1 week ago:
That was not the loophole. That only applies to Sonny who was the only one capable of ignoring the 3 laws. The main computer (Vicky I think?) is the one who comes to the “we must enslave the humans to save the humans” conclusion all on her own.
- Comment on Having a big memory card was such a flex 1 week ago:
This is the first I’ve heard of this. We didn’t get our PS2 until a year or so after it came out. This would have driven me absolutely mad.
- Comment on I put these 2 pics of Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker together, can someone who's more clever than I am come up with with some captions? 1 week ago:
Has this sort of vibe:
- Comment on I want these walls back 2 weeks ago:
Someone watching jam2go???
- Comment on Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
I agree with all of your points, but if we don’t even shine a positive light on steps in the right direction, then what are we supposed to do? Wait until we’re in a utopia, then start acknowledging improvements?
This isn’t a perfect final solution, but it’s a positive step, so is still say worth celebrating.
- Comment on Anon is investigated 2 weeks ago:
Clearly, they’re deep into the crypto market. Untraceable.
- Comment on we are not the same 3 weeks ago:
What in the ██████ is this?
- Comment on You have my consent to kill me 3 weeks ago:
Bam. Spot on. That makes for great storytelling. There’s even a sanity mechanic.
- Comment on You have my consent to kill me 3 weeks ago:
This makes all the difference between a good Call of Cthulhu DM and a bad one.
- Comment on Steam Deck and SteamOS hit 20,000 playable games 3 weeks ago:
But that’s just it. That fiddling isn’t something the dev probably accounted for, so it should be noted that the experience will be less than optimal. I think it still fits.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been playing racing games ever since I was a kid but was never into Nintendo. I played everything from Crash Team Racing to Assetto Corsa and everything in between, but never own a Mario Kart game.
Just in the last year my roommate picked up a Wii U and I played through 8. It doesn’t necessarily do anything that other racing games haven’t individually done better and there’s nothing truly unique.
That being said, the one thing it does better than anyone else is precision and feedback. It is exceptionally tight and responsive compared to others like it. It’s also just incredibly well animated and visually consistent. The game still looks good a decade later, no issues.
I would akin a lot of what Nintendo does to Apple. Not necessarily the first, or the most powerful, but almost always the most polished.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 3 weeks ago:
Some part of me hopes that the current shit show eventually reaches some sort of conclusion and all of the people that actually have real-world skill sets will get to go back to what they know how to do because the business that ran on capital will have collapsed. I know it’s an unrealistic hope. But it’s a hope nonetheless.
- Comment on 🤯🤯🤯 4 weeks ago:
In the next line, he says “Obnoxious, yellow and porous is he” be cause he is yellow, obnoxious and porous.
- Comment on Hell 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft
- Comment on Hell 4 weeks ago:
COMPUTER NOT WORK!!! FIX!!!
- Comment on Why do so many people delete their posts? 4 weeks ago:
Half the time, it’s because I don’t read the original comment closely enough and realize that my point no longer makes sense, but I usually only do this if it’s less than a minute or two after posting.
- Comment on Hell 4 weeks ago:
6 years of tech support and I dread email troubleshooting because I know it will take two weeks and 13 exchanges before we can actually start troubleshooting.
