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- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 4 days ago:
Something about campfire smoke just makes stew taste better. I swear I’ve made the same recipes at home, and it just never hits the same as when I’m camping.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 5 days ago:
Yup. Flat colors, thick ink lines, and very little detail. The goal is for animators to be able to reproduce the art quickly and reliably, to be able to churn out dozens of seasons.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 5 days ago:
There’s an episode in season 10 where Meg turns 18, and Quagmire ends up taking her to his remote sex cabin. Peter and Lois end up breaking in and threatening Quagmire to stay away from her.
- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 5 days ago:
Stealth camping is a real thing, where people try to scout spots to stay overnight without getting caught.
But unless it’s coming from a specific part of France, it’s just sparkling homelessness. It’s really just a bunch of rich dudes who like to cosplay as homeless.
- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 5 days ago:
If you’re in a hammock, a tarp overhead (and maybe a bug net around the hammock) is often all you need. You’re off the ground, so you don’t need to worry about water runoff. And sleeping in the open means there’s always a breeze to keep you cool, even on a warm rainy night.
- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 5 days ago:
Why not hang your pack to keep it off the ground? I’m assuming you have the ability to do so, since you’re already setting up a hanging hammock. Paracord is cheap and easy to stow in your pack, and you can just tie it around a rock to toss over a tree branch.
- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 6 days ago:
Yeah, I have a wonderful time camping, but it’s because I’m experienced enough to know what to pack. If it’s cold, a small cot (to get you off of the cold hard ground) and foam sleeping pad (to insulate your underside) will do wonders. Or if it’s hot, just string a bug net over a hammock, and you’ll sleep cool and breezy.
Also, don’t underestimate the value of a good solid meal. Some of my best meals have been made in the middle of fucking nowhere, with nothing but a Dutch oven, my pocket knife, and a campfire. It’s hard to feel upset about camping when you’re noshing on the best bowl of soup you’ve ever had.
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 1 week ago:
My buddy still regularly plays EverQuest Online. These days, it’s sort of expected that you multibox and run an entire party, instead of just one character. He usually has his bots pulling mobs in the background of whatever other game we happen to be playing.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
Fix two things:
- The weird loot range issue, where if you’re not standing in juuuuust the right angle, you won’t be able to loot certain corpses or containers.
- The fact that, outside of combat, controlling Geralt feels like driving a boat. Weird large turn radiuses, slow start and stop, etc… The devs did this to make his movement look more natural, but it feels like the game is constantly fighting against or trying to correct your inputs.
Combine those two things together, and you get a consistently frustrating experience outside of combat. Installing a ranged loot mod was one of the biggest quality of life upgrades. You walk near a corpse or container, and it automatically gets looted.
The combat can also get repetitive at times, and the difficulty scaling is weird too. But as long as those two things and still deliver a good story, I think players will ultimately walk away happy.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, the real appeal of the Borderlands series is multiplayer. The games are alright in single player mode, but multiplayer is where it really shines.
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 1 week ago:
It’s a shame that Another Metroid 2 Remake got Cease & Desisted, purely because Nintendo was about to release Samus Returns and didn’t want to compete with a fan game that was better.
- Comment on A weight to bear 1 week ago:
Tall women are also often fetishized. There are lots of dudes who will try to date women simply because they’re tall. And that usually coincides with lots of “please step on me” types of DMs. That shit is exhausting, especially if you’re not a dom. It’s also a constant reminder that people want to date you purely because of how you look, the same way Asian women deal with dudes who have yellow fever.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
The cap should actually be due to the hashing algorithm. Every password should be the exact same length once it is salted and hashed, so the actual length of the password doesn’t make a difference in regards to database size. The hash will be a set length, so the storage requirements will be the same regardless. Hashing algorithms have a maximum length, (IIRC the most popular ones cap at 128 characters), but the salt is also counted in that limit. So if they’re using a 32 character salt, then the functional cap would be 96 characters.
Low character caps are a huge red flag, because it means they’re likely not hashing your password at all. They’re just storing them in plaintext and capping the length to save storage space, which is the first mortal sin of password storage.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
That means the breach is imminent, but at least you won’t need to worry about other accounts when it happens.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
I just use a catch-all email domain. It’s functionally similar to a hide-my-email address, except the email addresses are much easier to read and remember.
Every single email that hits my domain goes to the same inbox. So Target@{my domain} and Walmart@{my domain} both hit the same inbox. And if I start seeing spam addressed to Target@{my domain} then I know Target sold my info. I can easily filter everything to that address straight to spam, with the exception of any senders ending in “@target.com”
It means my shit gets automatically sorted into neat little folders before it ever even hits my inbox. I can still get the birthday coupons, while all of the spam quietly vanishes into the spam inbox abyss.
- Comment on who are you? 1 week ago:
But the point is that it’s not truly an expiration date. In most cases, the food is perfectly safe to eat after the date. It may taste stale, but it’s still safe. Many people treat expiration dates as a food safety thing, when it is not.
- Comment on who are you? 1 week ago:
They’re not a myth; they’re a scam. They’re set by the brands, by determining when the food is the “freshest”. But that determination is made entirely by the brand, and they have a direct financial incentive to encourage food waste. Because if consumers throw more food away, they buy more food. So they set the expiration dates extremely short, so people will throw food away before it actually goes bad.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 1 week ago:
No, but the point is that the included examples are pixel-for-pixel, meaning they were almost certainly copy-pasted by a human, rather than generated.
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- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 week ago:
Only younger generations wear fanny packs “correctly”. They were originally a hip bag that stayed behind you, not something you wore in front of you. Because fanny was slang for ass in America.
So younger generations wear them “wrong” in the sense that they were originally meant to be worn behind you. But “correctly” in the British sense.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 week ago:
Jonathan pronounced “Joe Nathan”
I would call that fucker Jonah-T-Han purely out of spite.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 week ago:
I know a Paris, a Virginia, and a Georgia, just off the top of my head. Location names are weird, but not unheard of.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 1 week ago:
That was the very first thing I thought of. For the unaware, promissory estoppel is when party A is damaged by party B promising something, then later rescinding it. It is something you can file a lawsuit over.
For instance, maybe someone says “I’ll buy you a brand new Maserati if you drive your current car off a bridge.” You know they can afford the car, and a reasonable person would believe this promise. So you shake on it, and proceed to dump your car over the side of the bridge. Then that person laughs and goes “yeah, I changed my mind. I’m not buying you a Maserati.” Now you have been damaged because of an action you took due to their promise. You can sue them, to force them to fulfill their side of the promise, or at least to make you whole again.
In the screenshot’s case, it sounds like he made some major financial investments in this job. He moved to a new location, turned down other job offers, etc… He could sue PayPal to force them to repay the costs that he incurred as a result of their rescinded job offer.
The only reason employers still do shit like this is because individuals either don’t realize that they can sue for it, or don’t realize that lawyers will take their case.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
Yeah, they pay fees to keep Denuvo in the game. So they only usually use it for the first 6-12 months, (long enough to capture the initial surge of launch sales), and then remove it to stop paying the fees.
- Comment on No, Steam wasn’t hacked, and your account details are safe 1 week ago:
Because it’s about reducing attack vectors, and your password manager isn’t likely going to be a vector. Attackers are going to try and net as many users as possible, which means (aside from heads of state or C-suite executives being spear phished) they aren’t targeting individuals… They’re targeting the companies that those individuals have accounts with. Essentially, you as an individual aren’t important enough to bother trying to hack individually. As long as your password manager has a sufficiently long password, (and you’re not one of the 1% of individuals who are rich or powerful enough to actually target), hackers won’t even bother trying.
With shared passwords, every single service you use is a potential attack vector; A breach on any of them becomes a breach on all of them, because they’re all using the same credentials. And breaches happen all the time, both because any single individual employee can be a potential weakness in the company’s security, (looking at the accountant who plugged a “lost and found” flash drive into their computer, and got the entire department hit with ransomware), and because the company is more likely to be targeted by attackers. With unique passwords and a manager, a breach on any service is only a breach on that service.
So by using a password manager, you essentially accept that breaches in individual companies are inevitable and out of your control, and work to minimize the damage that each one can do.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 2 weeks ago:
That’s the biggest reason I use Plex. I bought my lifetime pass over a decade ago, because the cost at the time was only slightly higher than an annual subscription. But luckily, you can run Jellyfin right alongside Plex, so it’s not an either/or situation, and I have Jellyfin ready to go in case Plex makes (more) anti-user moves.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, suing just one or the other will have them deflecting and finger-pointing in court. Suing both forces both of them to actually meet at the same table in front of the judge, instead of one or the other deflecting to some distant entity that isn’t in the courtroom.
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 2 weeks ago:
My point is that it already basically exists… It’s called Arch.
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 2 weeks ago:
You guys are getting graphics? Mine is just a Matrix-style series of special characters.
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 2 weeks ago:
Valve wouldn’t be running kernel design. SteamOS is just a heavily modified version of Arch. Arch runs the kernel design and security, while Steam just runs on top of it.
