ZoteTheMighty
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- Comment on Killing time in the doctor's waiting room 11 hours ago:
As a scientist, I am amazed at his dedication, and I wish to know his secrets to funding so that I needn’t fight for funding on harder subjects any longer.
- Comment on That would be petrifying 14 hours ago:
In Microsoft Teams, no one can hear you scream.
- Comment on That would be petrifying 18 hours ago:
“Houston, we have two Microsoft Teams, and neither of them is working.”
- Comment on Olive Branch MS mayor refusing to lower flag for Dolly 5 days ago:
Same. Every once and a while we get a weird half-staff death, we’ve had more than a few weird ones under Trump, Charlie Kirk obviously comes to mind. Tim Curry died a few days later, and I found him to be a much more noteworthy celebrity in my lifetime, so why does Dolly get a half-staff? The system necessarily means you’re ranking people’s value, and requires that you draw a line somewhere.
- Comment on Is Old or New Call of Duty better? 6 days ago:
Cod Blops 2 was peak CoD IMO. MW and MW2 was where they really figured out the formula. BlOps 1 was where they figured out it needed to still be fun and innovative. MW3 kinda sucked, and BlOps 2 was where they got everything right for the last time. Ghosts was still recovering from all the mistakes of 3, and BlOps 3 completely lost the plot. CoD occasionally remembers that simple gunplay was what made it famous, bud nowadays, all online games are about whale fishing, so we’ll never get better than BlOps 2.
- Comment on This comically terrible mug 1 week ago:
That’s how you know they’re not local
- Comment on My student loan is gaining interest while I'm in school but I'm not allowed to start paying it off yet 1 week ago:
So by those numbers, if you will owe another 30k next year, and this time you have 6k to pay, you should put your 6k fully towards the 30k of new loan, and nothing towards the 26k you owe in loans. That’s why they lock you out from paying the loan, they’re forcing you to make the mathematically optimal choice, unless you happened. To be on the verge of paying 100% of your tuition each year.
- Comment on EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society' 2 weeks ago:
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving company!
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 2 weeks ago:
CLICK THE CIRCLES
- Comment on Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affected 3 weeks ago:
They’ll soon have to rebrand to “fairly large games”.
- Comment on 'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended look 4 weeks ago:
I’m always amazed at Rockstar’s ability to sell a game with the simple sales pitch of “It’s GTA”. We’ve basically seen nothing about this game, and they aren’t well known for managing their existing games well, yet everyone is convinced this will be
- Game of the year
- Highest grossing game of the decade
- Most innovative piece of software ever
Despite only seeing a pre-rendered trailer up to now. We don’t even know any members of the cast on IMDb.
I think we’ve completely lose the plot on game development.
- Comment on Tooting my horn 4 weeks ago:
The excel model for naming.
- Comment on Spherical Bastard 1 month ago:
Fritz Zwicky was truly insane. He claimed the sun was powered by dwarves and that the solution to interstellar travel was to move our entire solar system from place to place.
- Comment on O hi 1 month ago:
I can suddenly see why you would fight a war over Cleopatra or Helen of Troy if this is the average local option.
- Comment on Zebra!! 1 month ago:
Whoops, typos
- Comment on Zebra!! 1 month ago:
You can tell it’s real because after it’s all said and done, it’s still Bella fragmented.
- Comment on Sony Signals It’s Not Prepared To Sell PlayStation 6 ‘At Significant Losses’ 2 months ago:
The PS6 might just be a streaming box, about as big as an Apple TV, that streams video from their servers that run the games for you, and run AI models outside of peak hours.
- Comment on I feel like this could have been a smaller package 2 months ago:
They use the same bottle for a 400-pill bottle and a 200-pill bottle.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month 2 months ago:
I’m not able to reproduce it.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 months ago:
I was reading an story on Reddit about a guy who worked as a door dash driver, and he basically said that this is the requirement to meet the necessary ROI for a real job. He listed off a million tricks to maximize profits. If you refuse low-cost/low-tip orders, Doordash will tend to prompt you with higher value orders, and give the low-value orders to the people who won’t refuse them, so you can gradually build your way into the premium customer base. If an order will deliver to a low-income area, it’s not always worth the trip back to a high income area by the nice restaurants, so he usually refused those too. It was honestly an awful testimonial to read, everything he listed off screws over his fellow man because Door dash makes it impossible to screw them over for even a penny.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 2 months ago:
Same. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen another game like it. Everyone complained that it wasn’t like the rest of the franchise, but since I did like DMC DMC, the rest of the franchise doesn’t sound like it’s worth my time.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 2 months ago:
As someone who didn’t particularly enjoy the first two, I was very grateful that Infinite was different. The only really bad part IMO was the ghost fight. On the higher difficulties, she tanked more ammo than existed in the area.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Every creature on the box art is impossible in-game one way or another.
- Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead. 2 months ago:
Scott Adams was an asshole and a lunatic long before Trumpism made it mainstream.
- Comment on Anon imagines 2 months ago:
Just like how Yoko Ono abused all of our ears.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 3 months ago:
Hot take, this is honestly a steal. That’s like 10 nice meals in this economy, and 20 reasonable ones. It’s absurd to throw a fit about the price of a Steam Deck when the rest of the economy is so bad. I love my deck, I use it daily, honestly I use it more than my $2000 desktop. It’s an amazing piece of hardware that makes me rethink what a gaming device can be. I can play my favorite game one moment, than log in to my raspberry pi a few minutes later via a real desktop. The Switch isn’t even close to that kind of agility, and will NEVER get close. The Steam Deck is a stroke of genius in a world of mediocre slop, and 1k is a totally realistic price.
- Comment on Steam Key Giveaway 3 months ago:
By far the best game on the list
- Comment on Wowee 3 months ago:
If you put them too close to each other, Russia will try to invade. They’re drawn to it sorta like a magnetic Poland field. Once you have too many Poland’s, it’s best to play it safe.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 3 months ago:
I picked a rather niche field for my career. Leaving where I work would basically be a career reset. At the same time, a lot of my family chose not to live in a big city, and there aren’t lots of good jobs there no matter what field I worked in. This was a career path I took knowing that flying around was no big deal.
Other people are replying that Trains will cure all the world’s ailments. Even if we had good train infrastructure, it would get you from New York to Florida, it would never get you something weird like from Montana to Nebraska in a timely manner.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 3 months ago:
This is a much less cool post when you realize that the Earth can only sustainably support 10 billion people if we never fly, give up a lot of our modern tech, and have rice make up 50% of our diet. Basically any meat is completely off the table, as with personal cars, and probably standalone houses. If I’m given the choice between not having kids and not flying to see my family for holidays, I’ll take the no-kids option.