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- Comment on Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal 4 days ago:
I actually sat through a pitch for downdetector. They have an enterprise product that shows historical data and trends. You have to pay per service monitored, it was wild.
Expect these to be put fully behind paywalls or some other privacy invading method to maximize value extraction. They use tools to gather outage info from all kinds of sources on social media, not their websites so they don’t rely on user reports as much as some might think.
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
We call them Karen
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 2 weeks ago:
As much as I think nintendo and the pokemon company are evil shits, I do believe overall pokemon go was net positive for humanity.
The physical health benefit from all those people walking around, and the mental health benefits from said populations being more social and friendly with others won’t ever show a statistic for lives saved, but I think it’s reasonable to assume lives will be saved from extra exercise and positive social interactions.
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 2 weeks ago:
Beautiful, it’s not even listed on are we anticheat yet either (but there’s a github request to put up the denial.)
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 2 weeks ago:
Sucks their game sucks. At least there’s countless other options!
- Comment on Bean thinking of you, Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Unbeanleavable, where’s the fucking corn?
- Comment on Couldn't have said it better 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen it, I should know this. Been a while though.
- Comment on Couldn't have said it better 3 weeks ago:
Herse? They got done doing dat.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It would be really nice to have extreme endgame goals of watering the entire map, eliminating badwater that is unmanaged, storing a couple of years’ worth of water consumption, etc etc.
I will say I don’t even bother dealing with their inter-zone logistics too. I just make one big zone for the whole map and suffer through the long travel times. Makes so much of it infinitely easier to deal with. I don’t have these multi-thousand-beaver saves though like some folks do though, so maybe it changes at that scale.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s all about getting over the hump, once you’re set and don’t worry about floods or droughts there’s just no challenge to overcome or objective to attain. Becomes a sandbox really long before you get to the end of tech.
- Comment on Day 567 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t tried 4 yet. I’ve never really been obsessed and the groups I used to play through the originals with are long gone in terms of availability to play together and push through. Maybe it’s just my demographic and the realities of being an adult setting in. I’ll pick it up eventually though, probably in some kind of crazy deal once all the DLC is done and included like I did with 3.
I still miss the rare gun grinds for BL2 and the amazing builds. Peak borderlands for me for sure. Didn’t touch the spinoff(s) or most of the DLCs over the years simply because the only way to get my friend circles on board is playing around release time when hype is strong.
Next up is Nioh 3 though, with a satisfactory play through ongoing. So many amazing games nowadays. Borderlands pioneered a lot of combined systems that exist in these games. Satisfactory has it’s own roulette with hard drives. Nioh is absolutely going hard with the looter… martial arts…action and super abilities from the yokai side. Nothing but love for the BL franchise. I still remember them handing out the psycho class at pax east, back when giveaways actually happened for the masses at expos.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 4 weeks ago:
I basically refuse to pay more than $50 for a game.
The outer wilds had some good press but by the time I was interested it was given away for free. Guessing that’ll be the case here too.
- Comment on Day 567 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Pre-sequel was always tough for me to play through. Just never clicked like past or future titles did.
Was easy to push through borderlands 3. 2 was amazing system upgrades and a ton of fun. 1 was the first of its kind so incredibly addicting.
- Comment on The sheeet of power 4 weeks ago:
If you can’t hear a very clear loud squeaky fart sound, you need to turn up the volume and tune out the extremely loud person talking with your brain.
It’s there. Right when the blonde looks down at him.
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 5 weeks ago:
There’s nothing that says game developers can’t allow add-ons to be installed from third party stores. Already works that way with games like Gratuitous Space Battles. I’ve bought the expansions on third party stores and simply put the zips or whatever in the relevant game folder.
I don’t know if something has changed since that game, but I don’t see addons sold by 3rd parties as a popular avenue for consumers simply because you have to then manually manage it.
- Comment on Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows 5 weeks ago:
Thanks brexit
- Comment on Hey Micro$haft, how's it going? 1 month ago:
Micro$lop code is peak slop.
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 1 month ago:
I th*nk something broke for you. Usually it only messes with a single letter for us.
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 1 month ago:
Or Spa*n.
Why can’t we use the letter * here?
- Comment on Solargene, a space colony-builder where you can expand on the planets and moons of the solar system (including space stations), with complex, modular building mechanics (with support for Z levels) released on Steam 1 month ago:
It’s like rimworld but implemented in the most janky incomprehensible way possible.
Last I checked you had to manually assign people to bathrooms and each one only took like two or three people. Stuff like that is found in basically every aspect.
- Comment on Please hold 1 month ago:
Stickiness is a child thing.
Being a child isn’t necessarily tied to biological age, unfortunately.
- Comment on Judge Allows Policy Restricting Lawmakers’ Access to ICE Facilities 1 month ago:
So fucking stupid.
They need to provide notice they are coming every single day, and just not show up until they randomly decide to.
365 notices gives you 365 random inspections. If you plan one every single day, they can’t complain you didn’t give notice.
- Comment on Two-shay 1 month ago:
I’m just happy to see you.
- Comment on Two-shay 1 month ago:
Please hands off the smartees I hoard in pants.
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 1 month ago:
Sure but you can listen to whole albums on stuff like Spotify.
Some bands are truly one hit wonders though..
- Comment on Is this worth anything to a collector? 1 month ago:
Do you collect? what do you think it’s worth?
Certainly looks to be corn-fed.
- Comment on Huh? 1 month ago:
I know a guy who removed his motorcycle’s muffler and rode around for a couple of days. He can’t really hear in his right ear much anymore (because that’s where the pipe was cut off, to the right of the bike.) I did ride for a time, but always wore earplugs even if I wasn’t going on the highway.
I don’t really like large crowds or bars either man. I like 1:1 conversations and interactions. My heavy bar scene and parties only lasted maybe a couple years and I was always a +1.
My wife took me to a wedding where her cousin was getting married and the volume was cranked to 11. I sat through a two hour catholic service before the party which was fine. We got to the party afterwards and I just wanted to go back to the room and sleep. We were traveling, I was sick from what I thought was the food or having some of the local water but it later turned out to be full blown covid but I was trying to be supportive and there for her because her enormous extended family was just meeting me for the first time.
I was in line for food since we hadn’t eaten, and the speakers were to my right. The noise was so loud you couldn’t hear someone yelling “what” at point blank range. I only stood in that line for a minute before leaving and my wife gave me so much shit for leaving, even though it was after her own father left. I wouldn’t be surprised if some or even most of my tinnitis came from that one party. I’ve never told her about this suspicion though, but I still remember it as I notice my ears ringing, right now. The right is substantially worse than the left.
Anyway, fortunately the tinnitus is extremely mild and I generally don’t notice it. If I start thinking about it, it gets worse and very persistent until I manage to distract myself. It’s always there, pulsating to the beat of my heart, and will not go away until I die or go deaf.
- Comment on Huh? 1 month ago:
Weird, my friends and I may occasionally talk about the bad stuff, but there’s always something good going on. We can be excited for upcoming things too.
I like being able to have conversations at bars and restaurants. In my bachelor days when I was dating an amazing person she knew all the good bars and restaurants that you could actually have conversations in. We always knew going in to a social thing if it was gonna be a good conversation or just yelling and “what?”
Plus the ear damage from the loud shit is no joke. Tinnitus started for me by mid 30s and I never listen to loud music or do stupid stuff, beyond bars and parties.
- Comment on YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match 1 month ago:
The EU consumer laws you see get wider adoption tend to have copycat versions show up in other regions, usually too many regions to make it worth splitting the codebase.
GDPR is still basically just EU & California (with it’s specific version that overlaps substantially.) The rest of us are boned.
Apple’s side loading is just EU as far as I know.
I know some things have been widespread like USB-C, but those are few and far between… and I still buy devices with microusb and other dumb connectors because of course people are still selling them in brand new products years after the EU ban.
- Comment on Federal Agents Shoot 2 in Portland, Ore., Police Say 1 month ago:
Is there some kind of law stopping the publication of the names of the murderers? All we ever see is “ICE agent” at best, or similar.
If a local cop shoots someone, their names often end up in news articles. I always wondered why the federal side doesn’t.