atomicbocks
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- Comment on The shrinkflation 1 day ago:
You can reuse it several times by running it through a cheese cloth. Otherwise just put it in a jar/pitcher/empty oil bottle.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 2 days ago:
That could easily be hot chocolate as well. Like how Strawberries aren’t berries, they are still called coffee cherries even those they aren’t.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 2 days ago:
Seems quite a few people really like hot ground up roasted cherry pit water.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 2 days ago:
On the contrary, lots of people were radicalized by hearing people like new age healers given the same airtime as medical doctors.
It’s taken 20 years to fail at making the publicly funded internet a utility. The purpose of the doctrine was to govern publicly owned airwaves. I strongly believe it would have been and is impossible to expand the FCCs jurisdiction to include privately owned networks. I also strongly believe that the current administration would abuse the fuck out of these regulations.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 3 days ago:
People give the fairness doctrine too much credit; First it’s partially responsible for the current mentality of all opinions matter no matter how stupid. But more importantly it only ever applied to broadcast TV and Radio, not cable or satellite, or the Internet. So it never would have applied to Fox News, for instance.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
You are correct. What they can’t do though is only allow you to buy the car with one method of payment, which is what is being described here.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
I think you would be surprised how many states already have laws like that on the books. Mine does.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
That isn’t how holding a business license works.
Sure everybody has the right to refuse service, but they can’t offer service only through one means of pay.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
I think you just got a shitty dealership. “Legal tender for all debts public and private” means just that, they aren’t allowed legally to refuse dollars. My cousin also successfully did what you are describing.
- Comment on Niche species 1 week ago:
It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.
- Comment on Niche species 1 week ago:
I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.
- Comment on Niche species 1 week ago:
I am confused, do you think niche rhymes with bitch?
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 weeks ago:
Time to ruin your day…
The words naughties and aughties are interchangeable and we have been calling them that since 2000.
- Comment on Sea Level 2 weeks ago:
The tides are also likely responsible for advanced life on this planet. So there is that.
- Comment on Lying motherfuckers 3 weeks ago:
You only need to do that if you are using an eink screen.
- Comment on Lying motherfuckers 3 weeks ago:
Click and drag the image. If the background goes with it, it isn’t transparent.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 3 weeks ago:
The CBS/Paramount app has always had so much tracking in it that it’s blocked by most PiHole like devices and software. Even if you pay for the no ads tier they still won’t play the video if they can’t hit the ad server.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 3 weeks ago:
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on that one. Personally, I think you are giving the Xbox far too much credit.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 3 weeks ago:
You clearly missed out on a whole era of shit like Pocket Tanks and Zuma.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 3 weeks ago:
When I think of the rise of indie gaming I think about the early 2000s when people could put their game on their own website and things like Steam were coming out. The Xbox doesn’t even cross my mind. Consoles were very much not the realm of indie games until like the Wii U.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 3 weeks ago:
The original meaning of indie was independently published. I would think having a publisher would pretty squarely put you in the not indie category.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 4 weeks ago:
If I let myself I will easily fall into a 28-30 hour cycle and end up only going through 5 or 6 “days” in a week.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 4 weeks ago:
When it didn’t go away when I was temporarily taken off my adhd meds as a teen. Before that they thought it was just because of the meds. That was apparently also the earliest indication that I would have adult adhd. If you have an adhd doc talk to them about it, it’s pretty common to have both.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 4 weeks ago:
I have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome… light has no effect on me. Checkmate scientists!
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 5 weeks ago:
Bunch is made hams for Mac originally. The 2003 Mac version isn’t a port, It’s the original game. The PC and Xbox versions are the port. That’s why it feels like it’s behind those. Because it literally did have less development time despite coming out later.
They released another Halo for Mac a few years later that I think is the one the other commenter is talking about. It came out around the time of the MacBook Air and as a result is the only game I know of that has an official no-cd patch.
- Comment on A screenshot that is the old evidence of my first ever attempt at a game. 5 weeks ago:
This reminds me of my first game, a Zelda arrow shooting clone that we built in Microsoft XNA. What was this built in?
- Comment on We have one at home 1 month ago:
Because the Xbox was built in secret while Microsoft and Sega collaborated on the Dreamcast. It’s actually somewhat compatible with Dreamcast games but MS never wanted to allow that feature.
Also the Duke is the only comfortable controller I have ever used.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 1 month ago:
It’s weird, there is a long history of these kinds of games getting a console release going all the way back to SimCity for Super Nintendo. IIRC it could optionally use the Mario Paint mouse.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 month ago:
They have always been this way:
Although Sony ultimately did not win any of its lawsuits against them, Bleem! had to shut down when the huge court costs became too much for the small company to handle. Bleem! shut down in November 2001…
- Comment on UK union accuses GTA maker Rockstar Games of firing employees attempting to organise 1 month ago:
Looks like it was a brand new account too.