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- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 2 days ago:
A year ago I got 2x SATA cheapo SSDs - 1TB at $56 and 2TB at $106. Today the same listings are over double that price.
Even HDDs are expensiver now. 2.5" 1TB is $60. In January I got 12TB WD HDD for $220. Today it is $460.
FUCK AI!
- Comment on Anon reads horror 1 week ago:
some people even said it was a good allegory for leaving childhood.
It is an allegory. But that is a certainly not a good one and should be not a choice to be used as one.
- Comment on The house always wins 1 week ago:
Printer goes brrr
- Comment on What's with black superheroes and lightning powers? 1 week ago:
Found a list with bunch of superheroes with lighning powers. I see that most of top 10 are black-skinned heroes and heroines. But once you go down, most of them if not all are caucasians.
I feel that it is less of a “black heroes mostly have electrical powers” and more of a “heroes with electrical powers are more likely to be black”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Double clicking links
- Comment on What's with black superheroes and lightning powers? 1 week ago:
Never heard of this trope.
Off the top of my head: War Machine, Black Panther, Blade, Cyborg, Bishop, Storm, Spiderman (Miles).
The only black comics character with lightning super powers I know is Electro from The Amazing Spiderman who also used to be white in old comics.
Is this really a trope? Can someone name 10 black superheroes with lightning powers?
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
I remember sex scene that overlaps with bird bonding in a very unusual way.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
In the article it states that:
While EA owns the patent, they’ve generously allowed other games to implement similar mechanics—so far.
It’s a rare case where a patent actually benefits the industry, ensuring that intuitive communication remains available to all developers rather than being locked away.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
In the games you’d have normal enemies that scale according to progress in the game. Like say Assassins creed where you start with basic goons with swords and later get armored crusaders to fight with.
But then you also would get a special enemy - mini boss orc that is a leader of a group/location or just a loner hunter. They will spawn at random in cities, and outside. Not sure if they can spawn at the missions tho. If you kill one, his death will be passed on his peers who will seek vengeance. Some of them will try to escape if they feel you are winning. They can creep on you again later. Sometimes orc can be resurrected and become stronger. There are also different types of them. Say one is bruiser, the other is tracker, third might be hunter type, and so on.
There are multiple difficulty tiers of these special mini bosses that are interconnected. Some have beef with each other and will infight. Some will team-up to kill you. Later in game there is a technique change that I will not spoil cause it is integral to the plot.
It is an extremely unique game mechanic that pretty much made Shadow of Mordor/War games into cult classics. It has multiple layers to it and makes each playthrough is quite a unique one. I strongly recommend to play at the very least the first one.
- Comment on Rejecting Cookies 1 week ago:
I recently got an ad about these rail chairs for elderly to get up and down the stairs. I am inu 30s and I am proud that me clicking out all non-essential cookies doesn’t bring me related ads.
Also, that ad somehow passed through ublock. Not sure how 😅
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Correction needs to be made. Albeit picture in the article is Guitar Hero, that point talks about a real guitar as a controller for Rocksmith. Patent is probably for a cable and a technique that is used in game to detect notes (basically a smart and fast tuner).
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Didnt knew any besides that one before found this article.
For those who do not want to click:
- Nemesis mechanic by WB (expire 2036)
- Mini-games during loading screen by Namco (expired in 2015)
- Ping system - like pinging on the map so your team mates can see or pay attention to it. EA (expires 2039) FUCK EA
- Dialogue wheel like in Mass Effect - fuck EA (s 2029)
- Direction arrow - racing games, Crazy Taxi style - Sega (expired in 2018 but doubt it will be ever used again)
- Pokemon’s fight and catch for later fighting mechanic - fuck Nintendo and Game Freak
- Active Time Battle - not sure, I dont play JRPGs but this one was introduced in FFIV - Square Enix (expired 2012)
- Proprietary guitar controller in sync with gameplay (Guitar hero) - Ubisoft (2029)
- Mouse controlled flight for aircraft games - Gaijin (expires 2033)
- Surprisingly, other plastic musical instruments for Rock Band - Harmonix that was fighting with Konami for rights (expires 2032)
Nemesis system is probably the most notable because it was a great mechanic that everyone liked. And it is only been used in 2 games and never again.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Nothing mentioned in the game but I am 99% sure Anon is talking about Nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War.
- Comment on It's actually that simple. 1 week ago:
- Comment on “Think you’re decent at CS? Queue up on CF’s Victory Square and the Principals will show you what’s up.” 1 week ago:
He is the hard hitter as of right now, but donk is not immortal. He dies quite often.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 week ago:
I hooked up my wife on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. We do not own any Nintendo consoles and not planning to.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 week ago:
It seems that the last great Playstation was in fact Playstation 3.
- Comment on Mint 1 week ago:
Got to know a gardener lady who lives far outside of the city. She usually gives me dried mint for a tea since she has it abundant. That is how I know.
- Comment on WTF is this??? 2 weeks ago:
Can’t be. Just got car back from repair shop.
- Comment on YouTube now 2 weeks ago:
I do not need other user’s feedback to know that video is shit. Average YT user would not even check dislike count. They are still watching MrBeast, Paul brothers, Tate, Sniperwolf and all that other taint that spits videos on the platform.
- Comment on YouTube now 2 weeks ago:
It estimates dislike amount. I might be wrong but the way it works is that it puts likes from everyone, dislikes from ones who has this extension and an overall view count, mixes this data up in a formula and gives an output of approximate dislike count. Factual count is only known to creators.
- Comment on Modern lies 3 weeks ago:
I got some weird dry skin/dandruff/oily scalp issue combo. Things that I have found working over a very long time struggling:
- Out of all shampoos Head and shoulders actually has the best effect. Anything else not-specialized doesn’t. Ketozonol/Nizoral does help but I am not feeling much better over HnS. And these are not suppsoed to be used long term.
- I have tried SLES shampoo from Neutrogena. Didnt work for me like at all.
- Water hardness is super important. My hometown had much softer water that allowed me to not to wash my head for a week and it would be fine. My current location has fucking insane hardness and I have to wash my head each 2-4 days or it starts to itch very badly. Whenever I travel, some of the time my hair feels great and I suspect that water hardness in the hotel might be much lower than at home. Maybe look into installing some kind of filter. If you live in a house, 100% invest in reverse osmosis filter at least for your bath/shower.
- My head also gets oily quick. I usually wash with 3 shampoos. 1st shampoo - cheap 1 euro shampoo that I use just to wash majority of oil off. 2nd shampoo - deep cleaning shampoo that is also cheap - 2.50eur but it does have an effect. 3rd is HnS. The longer I soak hair with 2nd and 3rd shampoos, the better it feels afterwards.
- Adding up to soaking point: if I take bath I soap my head quick, and each shampoo soaks my scalp for 20 minutes or so. This way head feels much nicer over the next days. In shower, 2-5 mitnues or so.
- adding up on deep cleaning shampoo: I found a few shampoos that claim they are deep cleaning/cleansing. But upon trying, only one felt effective. If you seek for these shampoos, try more options til you find something that works.
- Conditioners have no effect to me. I have heard that it might help in certain cases, so maybe you should try that too.
I really do hope you will find a solution to your problem. This shit sucks donkey balls and is so annoying to live with.
- Comment on 7 Eleven 3 weeks ago:
Wild Adam Neely reference
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
My point is that wouldn’t it be better that, instead of harming you, one or both would try to help you live your life? You know this is a possibility.
- Comment on Need a AI update 3 weeks ago:
No idea. I just googled to see how much for a tool that been so common, that you can buy a really great one in under 100 euro.
Does it really cut better than a typical $100 knife?
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Choose between broken legs and arms or a lobotomy. One is clearly less harm.
- Comment on Need a AI update 3 weeks ago:
450euro for a ultrasonic vibrating knife.
- Comment on Your grammar lesson for today 3 weeks ago:
Dunno if it is me, non-native English speaker, but it seems that very old can vary depending on context, while ancient barely changes on the context. And it seems few others could be divisive and a few green ticked ones repeat.
- Comment on Streamers 3 weeks ago:
TheActMan and his jawline do make him handsome.
- Comment on Day 657 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
We played it on a private server. Our stack managed to get all people out of the server because we were dominating.
