BurgerBaron
@BurgerBaron@piefed.social
What up fellow kids, you gettin' indoctrinated on the world wide web? Radical!
Why not eat the epitome of burger greatness while you doom scroll? Visit your local location today! The cult following has never been stronger ಠ_ಠ
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 2 days ago:
When enough people care collectively yeah. Rare.
Canadians vs Heinz Ketchup in the past and I think that one has stuck around somewhat to present day.
Canadians again vs American booze in response to 51st state threats. Yesterday’s headlines were about a continued drop in sales, down 85% this year so far.
Travel is down too. Not enough in my opinion, but enough that a few states are whining about it including Newsom in California. Fuck the USA.
Usually no though.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 3 days ago:
Nope. I think “we’re” evolved to bury our heads in the sand regarding death and the true nature of reality.
- Comment on Persona 4 Revival is "shaping up nicely" – but it's "not just about adding more" content, because the JRPG devs "have to create an experience that's enjoyable in a new and different way" 3 days ago:
It’s about doing the bare minimum and asking for $90.
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 3 days ago:
They don’t exist in Canada yet and I don’t see an image.
- Comment on Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos 3 days ago:
One thing is for sure: I hear about her way more than I want to, just like other billionaires.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 4 days ago:
DVD drive laser does. They’re replaceable however.
Most tech savvy users just soft mod and run games off a hard drive for the fat models or over network LAN for fat/slim. Storing the games on a PC or NAS instead.
PSBBN (PlayStation Broadband Navigator), is a newer alternative to the FreeMcBoot memory card mod for the PS2.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 4 days ago:
Not played by many because it’s one of the last releases on PS2, but if you like horror ganes then check out Rule of Rose. Up there for some of the best graphics on the console too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Rose
Others are suggesting Resident Evil Outbreak File 1 and 2. It’s much better played online with other people than AI. There’s fan server support: https://obsrv.org and they have guides to set it up on PCSX2. I’d recommend learning how to install it to the virtual hard drive because the loading times are pretty awful otherwise and server hosts generally only make hard drive install only servers.
Their Discord community is a good way to find a group to play with, unless you have a few willing friends :)
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 4 days ago:
NFS Underground 1 is better than the sequel IMO. The open world is empty and tedious filler vs just loading directly into the tracks.
Best NFS on the PS2 is Hot Pursuit 2 however. Made by Black Box, it’s vastly superior in every way to the other console versions and the PC version made by a different company despite sharing assets.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 4 days ago:
Nope higher. Especially if you enable ray tracing which was added.
IPC single thread performance matters most for Crysis because their complex AI especially is single threaded IIRC. Remastered didn’t do anything about that.
- Comment on Mina the Hollower has been delayed 4 days ago:
I’m looking forward to this one, but I’m in no rush. Limited selection isn’t a problem I have with indie releases.
- Comment on I can't say I am going to kill the president. But can the president specify me a civ saying he is going to kill me? And it be legal? 4 days ago:
Pretty dumb thing to telegraph.
Enforcement is what matters most, regardless of legality. Especially under fascists, it’s selective application.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 5 days ago:
Steam is also American, so I’m using GoG more now.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 5 days ago:
Building is a lot of work. Using one is another story.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 5 days ago:
You appear to be sunburnt too since you’re ginger pale beneath the shirt, hope this helps.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 5 days ago:
Appreciated, I’m glad I could write something at least somewhat impactful while being very brief.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 5 days ago:
Well this is just delving my own personal musings: I think we’ve evolved to do our best to not understand and bury our collective heads in the sand. Being born with natural critical thinking ability (being driven to seek out maddening truth, rejecting comforting lies) and empathy ability is a rare combination. I think you need both to, as you say, understand things you didn’t personally live through. I mean real understanding, not a cold rote memorisation of facts and trivia to pass a government / post secondary tests.
- Comment on Microsoft reportedly mulls ad-infested free Xbox Cloud Gaming plan — Game Pass Ultimate subscriber allegedly catches ad during game loading 6 days ago:
Modern Luddites, I understand the draw now.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 6 days ago:
Humans being awful is most of our entire written history. Bill Wurst has the cliff notes:
The powerful made themselves divine deities directly or made up religions where the deity gave them power over others. Conquest, war, rape, tribalism, raids, corruption, oppression, suppression, slavery, spice trade, disease, volancoes causing crop failures and wiping out empires, or causing starving pirate raids who did the same, ice ages causing genetic bottle necks where we almost go extinct, whatever.
You could read David Mitchell’s recent book “Unruly” about the ~1600 years of violent dumb misery following the fall of Rome just in the land whuch became the U.K. if you like. Pretty dry material but he does his best as a comedian to get through it all. It’s a very long list of short lived Kings (and a couple Queens) murdering each other and peasants while the Northerners did the same and eventually settled and interbred and continued murdering each other and living short violent dumb lives. A lot of them aspired to be like a fictional King Arthur. There’s your yearning for past glories. A little like today. It’s not real, it’s fantasy.
Until the printing press and the renaissance, sort of. Temporarily destabilised the powerful. Kinda like the internet. Or radio broadcast I suppose. The old guard didn’t know how to exploit it at first. Printing press fucked up the massively corrupt Catholics at the time, fresh off their crusades and coming up with the idea of paying money to get into heaven. They really hated the idea of peasants learning how to read too. Martin Luther had a bunch of reasons they sucked. One was a complaint about how many little boys each priest kept. Nothing new under the Sun.
Relating any of it to the “right wing” becomes incoherent in a hurry when trying to compare things to modernity. Conservatives are what Royalists became after people kept cutting Royal heads off. Suffice to say though, it was shit fucking awful almost all the time humans have existed.
Looking to the future with climate change in a few hundred years and I expect way more extremism and a lot of death fighting and starving over the dwindling habitable land near the poles.
Eventually the Sun gets too hot even if we were perfect and peaceful and the oceans boil into space. Long before the Red Giant phase swallows the scorched Earth entirely. The end.
Anyways, I’ve deliberately sterilised myself.
- Comment on "Valve must stop making excuses": Steam under fire for "significant price disparity for PC games," causing regional pricing that's "often 20% to 30% higher than the dollar equivalent" 1 week ago:
I’ve been buying keys from the legit shops like Instant Gaming, Fanatical, and Green Man Gaming for years now because the prices on Steam itself are usually higher more often than not for Canada anyways.
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 1 week ago:
Rock Band 4 does get in-game now on ShadPS4, but it’s a long ways off from playable.
https://github.com/shadps4-compatibility/shadps4-game-compatibility/issues/1165
- Comment on Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports 1 week ago:
It won’t be, they’re doing a good job diversifying.
Unlike Alberta run by even bigger dipshits.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
I buy less physical media because it’s a physical space waste but I do like some vinyl of my absolute favourites.
I buy digital with no DRM like on Bandcamp and make redundant backups. Usually when you buy Vinyl you get the digital version along with it at no extra cost.
That’s thit really. Copy my MP3 and FLAC to phone to play in my car over AUX. At home it’s on my NAS and on Premiumize cloud storage as well which I also use as a debrid service.
I pirate as well, but I try not to for independent nobody (poor) artists. I don’t judge others it’s just my personal preference.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 1 week ago:
I called one of my co-workers a cunt for bullying a different co-worker. Calling him a cunt got me in more trouble than his bullying.
So that, but I never apologized despite the pressure. Woo, union? lol.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 week ago:
I make the shit full time so I think I’m 50/50 ken doll/human by now.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 1 week ago:
I’ll work manufacturing until the doors fall off, but trades would be next. Something not at the mercy of mad kings in the USA.
At 35 years old, what should I do? My brain isn’t as elastic now. I failed at welding prior to this. Electricians is oversaturated here. I was thinking HVAC or Plumbing. Those seem like they’ll always be in demand.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 2 weeks ago:
Looks like Unreal 2 still just with high poly models slapped in that’d make Grove Street Games look competent.
I didn’t ask for this.
But the release date will be current year so idiots will buy it over the original. I bet all the old bugs still remain that a minimal fan patch found on pcgamingwiki can address.
- Comment on Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games 2 weeks ago:
The equivalent in Lottery tickets would’ve been less boring and wasteful than this digital money burn pit. I’d like to never meet them.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah it never was applied. I just remember one of my high school English (Language Arts) teachers talking about it.
- Comment on Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle? 2 weeks ago:
PS4 severely disappointed me after PS3. The regression in GUI / OS multimedia features from XMB was one part of it. Charging to play online was another part of it.
When it came to games? Any exclusives it did have, besides souls games which I don’t like, ended up ported. Regretful purchase.
I figured PS5 would be more of the same and stopped buying Sony hardware.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
I went through the two websites posted here for graduation year 2008. The only incorrect thing I was taught that I still believed was:
“Learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) determine how you best learn”
False. Huh.