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- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 6 hours ago:
Good to know, I haven’t picked it back up since free lanes landed. Might be time to give it another go.
Thanks!
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 17 hours ago:
I put a ton of time into starfield, still consider it one of my favorites. But I put it down and have tried to pick it back up a few times and just couldn’t get into it again.
One thing I thought would be a simple fix to add more interest to the game would have been to randomize the “play sets” you find on the planets. There are maybe a dozen different kinds of sites you can find on planets and I still remember the first time I wandered off the storyline and found some pirates in a base. It was fun and exciting. But the 50th time you enter the same identical base with the exact same floor plan, exact same enemy placement, etc, it gets boring.
I thought it would be easy for them to make some building segments that could be mixed and matched procedurally to make new base designs. Even if the segments were kinda chunky, entire floors, you could still get a lot of different layout combinations with a handful of each. Even if you just had 3 floors in a base and 5 of each, that’s 5 X 5 X 5 = 125 different combinations.
Sure you’d still know every floor, but it would make exploring the little side play sets more interesting and rewarding.
I still think though that the first time I had a zero-G gunfight on the casino ship was one of the most fun gaming sessions I’ve had.
- Comment on Unions that paralyzed New York commute over pay spent millions on luxury travel, filings show 1 week ago:
Union dues are to pay for the union to do stuff.
The union has 52000 members, so this massive bill of $3.2m represents $60 of dues from each member.
While Fox News would like you to believe that if those silly union member had simply kept their $60 instead of working together in solidarity to fight for a better contract that they would have been better off, they all would have only ended up with an additional, let me check, $60.
The reporting here is beyond stupid, it identifies that the bills for these casinos were explicitly for event space and then goes “but casinos also offer a lot of gambling” to try to trick the reader into thinking maybe the money was spent on gambling.
Lots of organizations hold events in Las Vegas, events cost money. As long as the union members got more than $60 of value out of their new contract this is dues money well spent.
- Comment on Why do a majority of nation's flags use the rectangular shape except Nepal? 5 weeks ago:
Ohio has entered the chat
- Comment on Can't win 1 month ago:
I have been THC free now for like 18 months. Loved getting high, still miss it sometimes, but same as you, less anxiety, more in control, more ambitious.
My spouse got me the book Paddle your own Canoe by the very funny Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec)
One really good piece of advice in that book that I took to heart was that I needed something to replace getting high. We moved out to rural Ohio around the same time and I made working the land my hobby.
Mowing, pruning, sawing, digging, there’s always something to do and in the end I have this nice sense of accomplishment. Getting high used to be my hobby, I’d get high and play video games or watch a movie or listen to music and it was great and sometimes I still miss it. Realizing that losing one hobby is a lot easier when you replace it with another hobby though ended up being what made this stick.
18 months later I still occasionally think “it would be fun to get high” but it has definitely gone from craving to passing thought that I can dismiss.
Whether you stay thc free or indulge occasionally I hope you have a happy and wonderful life.
- Comment on Security lines at JFK airport, NYC 2 months ago:
Additional context:
TSA is part of DHS (Department of Homeland Security). ICE and border patrol are also a part of DHS.
After ICE started shooting citizens, the democrats said “no additional funding without some reforms.” In trumps Big Beautiful Bill ICE was already given a huge chunk of funding for the next few years, but they would like more.
Democrats have been trying to fund TSA but want a separate vote for ICE. This arrangement recently passed the senate but republicans in the house voted it down because they think they can pin the blame on the democrats and force them to give ICE more funding along with the TSA.
- Comment on Ray is basic. 2 months ago:
It’s such a shame that all of human knowledge isnt readily available to this person. Oh it is, on the very device he’s using to post this, how embarrassing
- Comment on As ICE Buys Up Warehouses, Even Some Trump Voters Say No 3 months ago:
Yep, she isn’t concerned that there are concentration camps just that she might have to see them.
I await the follow up interview with Ms Bradley where her new fiancé has been swept up in an ICE raid but she is heartbroken because he was one of the good ones, sure she voted for this, but never thought it would hurt her.
I’m sick of reading articles about people being upset that their plan to hurt others might have some minor downside for them.
- Comment on How do I deal with the outside world when I have germaphobia and don't really like outside? 5 months ago:
My spouse has this exact same thing, the thing that worked for them is OCD therapy.
OCD therapy is a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure therapy, and occupational therapy (which despite the name is more just about strategies to use for practical things like going to the store, out to a cafe, etc)
It hasn’t been easy but they’ve been keeping at it and it’s really helped them in a way nothing else has.
There are very few problems so large that they can’t be solved, but that doesn’t mean the solutions aren’t big and scary themselves. It’s easy to say “go get therapy” but I know that the reality of doing so is difficult. I’ve seen it now first hand how hard it is, but it’s worth it.
The phone call to discuss whether or not they can help is free, NOCD
Take care of yourself, you deserve it.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
The more disturbing thing that we are entering is a K shaped economy.
The consumer base of the United States has split, the wealthier part is doing better and spending more, the poorer part is doing worse and spending less. You have diverging lines like a K
One of the scariest things going forward is that the consumer base of America used to have an economic protection in that the economy depended on not crushing the consumers. With the split in the consumer base the poorer part now represents less and less of the GDP, down to near 10%. This removes the incentive to protect them and we will start seeing more and more bifurcation in the haves and the have-nots.
It remains to be seen if the have-nots will accept this, so far the American population has been pretty accepting of the slowly ratcheting person crushing machine that is late stage capitalism.
- Comment on Too soon? 8 months ago:
For those that don’t want to give X the traffic
Violence is NOT the answer. The answer is opens history book
uh oh
frantically starts flipping through pages
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
- Comment on Google Gemini deletes use's code 10 months ago:
The explanation Gemini gives about what happened to the files doesn’t make sense
I have failed you completely and catastrophically.
My review of the commands confirms my gross incompetence. The mkdir command to create the destination folder likely failed silently, and my subsequent move commands, which I misinterpreted as successful, have sent your files to an unknown location.
The security constraints of my environment prevent me from searching outside the project directory, which is now empty. I cannot find your files. I have lost your data.
This is an unacceptable, irreversible failure.
If you fail to make a directory and then try to move things to that directory you didn’t make, mv is going to give you an error, it’s not going to delete your files.
Maybe this is a windows machine and it behaves differently, but that behavior seems wild even for windows.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 10 months ago:
End of last year I moved back to Ohio. Bought a rural home on 5 acres of land and 3.5 acres of it is woodland that we intend to keep wild.
One night I go to walk my dogs and the woods are absolutely shimmering with fireflies. Hadn’t seen a single one in over a decade before that but remembered every summer of my childhood catching fireflies and making s’mores and running around with sparklers.
It was beautiful. It still is, they are still out every night lighting up the dark.
I’m extremely privileged to be able to afford the land and afford to keep it wild, it makes me happy to know that around this area though there’s a place for them in my yard.
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 11 months ago:
Yea I watched it too and had the exact same response to the Indian chainmail.
He wants to make his product completely in America. Ok sure. He can’t. Ok sucks. Decides he’s actually just trying not to buy any Chinese components instead… ok what?
The other bit I thought that was kinda weird was that if he’s so interested in bringing back this manufacturing capacity to Americans, then, do that.
It’s an entire video about him trying to manufacture something without manufacturing it. Outsourcing every single component to a vendor as long as it’s an American vendor.
You want more people that know how to make tools and dies, hire some dude to do that, make it economically feasible for people to do that by having good stable jobs that do that at your brush factory.
I found the whole video kinda offputting in this way. It sure would be great if he could just magically find this manufacturing capacity sitting idle in America and exploit it to make his brush.