boonhet
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- Comment on $1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go? 1 day ago:
Yes, it’s something a lot of people don’t seem to understand. The “value” of a company is it’s stock price multiplied by all the shares and the stock price is pretty much just the last price someone was willing to buy a share at.
If everyone goes and sells all of their Tesla and SpaceX stock and nobody ever buys any again, Elon Musk might not even be a billionaire anymore.
- Comment on Is it still there‽ 3 days ago:
The solution to enjoying touching your genitalia is sex reassignment surgery?
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 5 days ago:
Bro IDGAF abou Cubans today.
Well that’s a bit racist, isn’t it
Bro Cuba is no longer a socialist state. Have you seen the rrforms? Have you seen the oil embargos effects on Cuba since 2 years ago up until today? Clearly you havent so why am I even asking?
Oh, the oil embargos of the last 2 years are the reason Cubans have been fleeing Cuba for decades, got it. Not fleeing the dictatorship (instead of revolting against it).
Instead of talking about Koreans from 1910-53 …you talk about SOUTH KOREA TODAY …when Im talking ALL of the Korean Penninsula from decades ago.
Did they revolt against the Japanese, or did Japan lose the war? I was under the impression they only managed to kick the oppressors out because the oppressors got two nukes dropped on them. By the Americans ironically enough.
- Comment on Apple’s engineers carefully designing the last 60 Hz OLED screens on the planet 6 days ago:
They’ve been claiming that for their products for a while now, whether or not it’s true… who the hell really knows, it’s pretty damn hard to audit a large corpo’s entire supply chain.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 6 days ago:
The Cubans are escaping to Florida instead of revolting, Korea has had multiple visibly corrupt presidents and I still haven’t heard of violent protests… Not sure those are the best examples.
- Comment on Sorry, vampires 1 week ago:
Well marijuana is barely a drug nowadays, the psychiatric medicine could be anything from a mild antidepressant to meth to xanax though, so that may or may not count as not raw dogging reality
- Comment on Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos. 1 week ago:
Well unlike Sir Connery, he at least is English! Though I think Connery impressed Fleming so much that Bond was rewritten to be half-Scottish
But no, there has been no story published on the next Bond having been chosen yet. There are a lot of theories floating around and many of them are fairly unbelievable to the point that it may as well be perpetual teen guy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If that’s serious (and I’m hoping it’s not), do not go unless you’ve been talking to her for a long time now, or at least bring friends for backup on your first trip. Thailand’s got a bit of a reputation and I’m not talking about the ladyboys (hey - if you’re into it, they’ve got some of the most beautiful trans women around, I’m not gonna judge).
I know of two Estonian celebrities who have had some weird-ass experiences there. There was a comedic actor who went and… he’s not really talked about it much, but he was much more serious when he came back. Like something proper dark must’ve happened because the man seemed to have PTSD coming back. Would’ve been about a decade ago. Then there are two stand-up comedians whose podcast I used to listen to until one accidentally got semi-famous in the US so they stopped making it. One of them and I forgot which one, but I’m suspecting Ari, talked about how he literally got drugged by some women in a club and his friends barely saved his ass from being dragged away. This is something that women unfortunately have to fear worldwide, but it being Thailand, he suspected they were either going to rob his ass or remove some organs, it’s not like he was going to say no to sex anyway so it wouldn’t have been for rape purposes likely. Dude’s tall and well built, used to do MMA. Not the kind of person you’d expect to get kidnapped and murdered, but hey, it was pretty likely gonna happen, even strong people are very easy to incapacitate when their guard’s down.
- Comment on Ketamine addict Elon Musk believes puppets are attacking him 1 week ago:
Oh hey that one is legal, someone just needs to convince him that the kool kids are all doing it so he can join the klub
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 week ago:
Fair enough, they actually didn’t have the size I wanted (60 cm) so I looked at the price for 80 cm. And the price diff was more like 15x.
But that was also some official place with a physical store selling it. Dropshipping marketplace here has the 60 cm too, with only a 4.5x price difference compared to IKEA, 5.5x if you don’t get their stupid subscription service. And to be fair, that was the cheapest possible IKEA 60 cm induction stovetop, so the real difference between an actually good model would be only ~2-3x.
But at least 840€ with a stupid subscription to cancel later I can handle. The other place was only selling Neff at something over 3k.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 week ago:
The other drawback is that I could buy 10 IKEA stovetops for the same price lol
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 week ago:
I mean you really should wipe your stovetop off any time it gets greasy, that way it doesn’t build up so you don’t have a mess to deal with later. Even on an old one with knobs I’d advise that.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Front Burner Gang 1 week ago:
I know, I want it so bad already. I have a tiny portable induction stove so when I ran out of gas recently I started using that and the oldschool electric “burner” on my gas stove and it’s been fine, I couldn’t handle more than two hobs at the same time, but the induction literally feels faster even than the big burner on the gas, whereas the normal electric one is agonizingly slow to get things hot.
I also have a house built in the 1980s. In the former Soviet Union. Building code wasn’t really a thing for single family homes, so obviously we don’t have a hood. Or even anywhere to connect the hood so it could vent outside. Meaning I’ve been inhaling big beautiful CO2 for all my life from the gas, but also I’m thinking if I get rid of the gas then perhaps I could get by with a ventless hood, otherwise I’ll have to drill a hole in the wall to get a proper vented hood.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 1 week ago:
Which I did not know or remember from the podcast (though they may have mentioned it) because I’ve never played Halo myself :( Never been a console gamer unfortunately. Though protondb lists Master Chief Collection as Gold status so I may yet get to play it, it just happened that it came to PC when I was already an adult with little time for vidya :( Then by the time I got into my career enough that I didn’t worry about hitting 8 hours a day in the office, I’d forgotten it existed again. Aaand now I have new reasons for not having enough time for playing as much vidya as I’d like.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 1 week ago:
Who actually is a gamer himself too
Apparently day 1 of Firefly filming he told Alan Tudyk to go buy an Xbox so they could play Halo. Day 2 he asked Alan “so what’d you think” and Alan was confused, having thought it to be a joke. That day he had to go and buy said Xbox.
I’m listening to their podcast (Once We Were Spacemen) right now, though the episode where they talked about how they became friends was ages ago, so I might be misremembering some details. They also have an episode with the guy who directed the Uncharted fan film Nathan starred in, Allan Ungar.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 1 week ago:
I mean BioWare has been a disaster for like a decade now, hasn’t it?
2007: Mass Effect. BioWare acquired by EA.
2009: Dragon Age: Origins
2010: Mass Effect 2
2011: Dragon Age II (not AS loved as the first one, but still fun game, just a bit repetitive; Good reviews, great sales), SWTOR
2012: Mass Effect 3; The two remaining cofounders resign (the first one dropped off earlier to get back to her medical practice, apparently all 3 founders were fresh med school grads when they started).
2014: Dragon Age: Inquisition; Not my cup of tea, but sales disagree, BioWare’s best selling game (definitely at that point, but possibly still?).
2017: Mass Effect: Andromeda; Sales still strong, but critical reception bad. A lot of people dislike it. Feels rushed, like a cheap “hey we own this IP, let’s make a game unrelated to the previous ones” game. They really backed themselves into a corner with the ending of ME3 and at this point a prequel would’ve done better, but not an unrelated sequel in another galaxy.
2019: Anthem. Live service bullshit. Sold well, but not as well as previous BW games. Abandoned after 2 years, but they continued selling in-game currency after stopping work on the game.
2021: Mass Effect remaster
2025: DA Veilguard. Well received, but sold poorly. Under half of the expected sales. Review bombed on some platforms for being “woke”, but that’s probably irrelevant given it started off “mostly positive” on Steam that requires you to actually play the game before reviewing it. Dropped the whole “your decisions from previous games influence the world” thing BioWare used to have. Explain all the mysterious lore and suddenly everything is simple and straight-forward…
They used to drop literal gold every 2 years or so on average. Now 6 years between two actually new games and quality seems to be dropping. The original people who made BioWare what it was are mostly gone, all of the founders long gone.
This while EA Games has actually been fairly hands-off with their studios. Respawn has been creating single-player games and has another one in the works. Those have no post-launch monetization whatsoever.
But anyway, EA was used as a vehicle to drop a bunch of debt into. I don’t think any of their studios are going to be doing great by the time the decade’s over.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 1 week ago:
The bigotry is probably a new thing for them then because at least back in the day they didn’t give a fuck as long as it made money. Bioware games usually had LGB(perhaps not T, don’t remember any) characters, often as romance options and I recall racial justice being a theme in both Mass Effect and Dragon Age games.
But I suspect the new owners don’t really want you to infect anyone with the gays™
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Front Burner Gang 2 weeks ago:
It in fact takes 2-3 times longer to get the water boiling in the pot on the smaller one for me. Rather change out the gas container a bit more often. Though I’m planning to just remodel the kitchen to get rid of the gas now and go induction. The gas range is slightly newer, but the furniture is 40 years old so I’d rather go new and integrated.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 2 weeks ago:
I suspect they might have meant the other end
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 2 weeks ago:
by the mid 90s for the most part
And in 2026 it’s still “for the most part” because some people still only configure www, not the domain root, to serve webpages.
- Comment on What I Imagine Taylor Swift Fans Eat 2 weeks ago:
Mm pickled pearl onions tho
- Comment on What I Imagine Taylor Swift Fans Eat 2 weeks ago:
You could try pawning your husband off on my ex-wife. She has all of the same “restrictions”, but also bell peppers and garlic. Oh and no fish of any sort, except for herring, which she’ll eat tons of whenever pregnant (which I think would be most of the time if she could)
- Comment on What I Imagine Taylor Swift Fans Eat 2 weeks ago:
I think this is unseasoned boiled chicken breast
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 3 weeks ago:
About as comparable as the AYN Thor (Android phone with weird form factor) is to Steam Deck (PC with weird form factor).
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 3 weeks ago:
Top 1% … holds 32,5% of the wealth
And people over 55 own 73% (most of the top 1% that isn’t tech billionaires, are also old people after all). Start taxing corporations more and they won’t be able to retire the way they have, so they’re naturally against that. Good luck figuring it out without magically increasing birth rates to have more workers per retiree, or having your old people live in squalor so young people can have better lives (potentially driving up birth rates if they feel they can afford children)
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Plot twist: Crackhappy converted after bitch ex wife and is now happily married to his husband
- Comment on My mother-in-law's way of sealing plastic bags. Yes that's been burnt by the stove top 3 weeks ago:
Toothbrush: Fibers
Asbestos: Fibers
I see nothing wrong with this.
- Comment on AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It Running 3 weeks ago:
I literally let deepseek + opencode modify the nanogpt code for my own custom model and suggest training datasets lol
Ran out of patience after a while because crappy GPU, but it was training and words were being worded when I prompted it after the first day of training
- Comment on Car Park Capital now available in Early Access 3 weeks ago:
Windows. That’s why 8 gigs of RAM.
- Comment on what the fuck, apple music??? lmfao 3 weeks ago:
If it’s a regular phone number, of course your regular call rate would apply though? Only special numbers get exemptions usually