atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 4 hours ago:
Only child of lesbian parents checking in. You’re wrong, it takes all sorts to make a family please don’t let corporate bullshit brainwash you.
- Comment on Establishment Democrats think they know who is "electable". These are the same guys that saw this in 2016 and said yeah we want Hillary. 5 hours ago:
I’ll never forgive Obama for not replacing her.
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 6 hours ago:
You guys have jobs?
- Comment on A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August 1 week ago:
Just so we’re clear, that’s roughly the starting pay for teachers in this state…
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
They were also complicated circuit boards with full color manuals and box graphics, none of which is in digital nor the overhead of the creation thereof.
- Comment on The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80% 1 week ago:
I had been waiting to get one until I could afford it… fuck me right?
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
That’s what the link says…
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent 1 week ago:
I’ve only seen this happen with a prompt.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
I have no idea how you got that from what I said. I literally pointed it out for that reason…
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
- Comment on Bit harsh? 2 weeks ago:
Given that this completely ignores that there are thousands of people who can speak English and their native tribal language I’d say it’s both harsh and ignorant, putting aside that a foreign language was a required class in my high school school.
- Comment on Nice one dad 2 weeks ago:
The only thing I really remember about that movie is that I saw it in theaters like the same week I saw the remake of The Italian Job and that Hollywood Homicide was terrible in comparison. Which is saying something because the remake of The Italian Job was also not great compare compared to the original.
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both 2 weeks ago:
Honestly this is what is confusing me the most about Xbox’s move here. They have spent the better part of 10 years dumping exclusives specifically to become the next Steam. Now all of a sudden they care about console sales again and it doesn’t really make sense with the direction they have been going.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
Valve is one of the few companies that has historically honored people’s bequests and allowed bequeathing their libraries to other after they die. Unlike say Apple who has outright said that your iTunes purchases disappear into the ether when you die.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
Most of those guarantees involve mailing your receipt and the proof of purchase to the company along with a letter explaining how you were not satisfied before they will get around to mailing you a check for the $4.73 in 8-12 weeks.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 2 weeks ago:
Then they shouldn’t have allowed themselves to be bought out.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 2 weeks ago:
I was blaming Microsoft for what they became 20 years ago.
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 2 weeks ago:
How close are your outdoor trash cans to your front door? In the hottest summer months it is sometimes hard to keep flies from laying maggots in the trash cans and even though it’s about 15+ feet from my door through a gate they still manage to fly in.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 2 weeks ago:
The problem with what you’re saying is that they’ve always bought out other studios and then fucked them up. Going all the way back to their original IP Halo; Halo was a product of Bungie, a Mac exclusive game company at the time. Halo was originally going to be Apple’s big jump into gaming. The release of Halo was delayed to port it to the Xbox and today… today Bungie barely exists and all of their IPs are owned by MS.
Xbox was a passion project, Bill Gates was obsessed with getting Microsoft into the living room. Once Bill Gates left, and later Steve Balmer left, there was nobody left who gave a shit about this passion project and it became a money grab. So Microsoft went back to doing what it does best, buying people out and running their IPs into the ground.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 3 weeks ago:
I mean… my people and many other tribes put up a fight and were basically wiped out. That’s before you even start talking about Rainbow Farm, or MOVE, or the general public’s response to things like the Black Panthers. But sure… we just rolled over… yeah…
- Comment on Can anyone confirm accuracy? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but that’s when you also get the weird gummy bear that melted into the bottom of the bag.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how much longer we’ll be able to buy 4K Blu-rays then…
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but also no… For instance there were definitely bugs in Mario 64 that were corrected in later editions of Mario 64 like Mario 64DD and the one that came out on the DS. One very famous bug that’s been corrected is the ability to backwards long jump up the stairs in the upper section of the castle before having enough stars to climb the stairs.
Obviously these weren’t game breaking bugs in the same way that day one patches are fixing things, but it’s also not exactly correct to say it didn’t happen in the before time.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
See, this is the real problem. Anybody with an MBA is going to look at your statement and think about all the money they didn’t get because they’re too fucking stupid to realize that you would not have bought more games if you had to buy multiple copies. It’s the same thing with like pirating music they used to talk about how much money they’ve lost, and I used to think no I just wouldn’t have bought that album. So they’ve spent all this time trying to figure out how to chase down dollars they never would’ve gotten to begin with.
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 5 weeks ago:
By the time the Dreamcast came out the writing was already on the wall. The Sega CD and 32x were both expensive and had little support while still looking barely as good as what the SNES could do with the Super FX chip and similar. Then the Saturn was basically forgotten despite being stupid powerful for its day and given the Osborne effect by the CEO of Sega of America. When the Dreamcast came out mid-cycle in 1998 nobody who had bought a PlayStation or N64 in the previous couple of years was in the market for a new machine and a lot of Sega fans weren’t willing to jump in before seeing how serious Sega was. Sega on the other hand was on the heels of low sales and relative failure and so keen to wait for the Dreamcast to be a hit. That chicken and egg paradox was the death knell. They also weren’t helped by Microsoft who had been their partner on the Dreamcast and who basically threw them under the bus to develop the Xbox based on what they learned (not for the first time, MS also did the same thing to IBM by developing Windows while working on OS/2 with IBM). This is why ‘The Duke’ controller looked so much like a Dreamcast controller and why, according to some reports, the Xbox could play Dreamcast games earlier in its development.
TL;DR Sega killed the Dreamcast before it even came out and Microsoft happily looted the corpse.
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 5 weeks ago:
My biggest issue with the ‘dead Internet theory’ is that the Internet is not the World Wide Web. The Internet is the physical network, the Web is one of many software platforms that use the Internet. The Internet isn’t going anywhere, it’s the Web that is dying and really just parts of it. Whether we move our favorite parts over to whatever comes next or the Web can be salvaged remains to be seen.
- Comment on What is Exaptation, Alex? 5 weeks ago:
That makes far more sense than what came up when I searched TCM. Thank you.
- Comment on What is Exaptation, Alex? 5 weeks ago:
Turner Classic Movies?
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 5 weeks ago:
Haha, by other applications I meant I remember there being some background music systems for elevators and retail stores and some early dictation systems and such that were slower, like in the 10 rpm range.
However… Software used to come on cassette tapes in the days of the C64 and the ZX Spectrum etc. I don’t see why you couldn’t record the same ‘sound’ onto an LP but I imagine the error rate might be far higher. In fact, I would be shocked if it’s never been tried.