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- Comment on This is my boomstick 1 day ago:
Perfect for those states with 10 round restricted magazine sizes. That way you can have 99.4% blocked space in your mag!
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 day ago:
Mine tells me to take all appointments and do all errands i’d need to take off on my wfh days.
If i’m idle during those I still get the nasty grams, and 50/50 on any of them he asks if I took the day off because he doesn’t see it in the team calendar or HR’s PTO official system, even though there’s zero expectation for us to take PTO for a doctor’s appointment or other errand that takes a couple of hours at any point.
Guy has taken a day and a half this week to work on his own personal stuff without requesting PTO. I took 1.5 hours on one day and got nastygrams (the “I don’t see your pto in the pto calendar” (again, tells me in person not to put it in… but every time i’m remote and idle for an appointment there’s now a record in writing asking me where I am and why I didn’t take pto.)
Later, when I see the guy in person he totally understands and it’s not a problem… so what the fuck are you messaging me for like this asshole? Why? The fuck is your problem? It’s in my fucking calendar, and i’m not taking actual time off or a half day or something - so why would I put in the team wide calendar that i’m going to a doctor? They don’t need to know!
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 day ago:
My boss loves sending me messages saying “Are you working today?” within 3 minutes of being idle on teams at any point in the day.
Other times if i’m idle he’ll call me just to give me some busy work or try and “catch me” not paying attention or something.
In the office I can be idle on teams for hours at a time and there’s never, ever random spot checks for productivity… and we have no objectives, goals or project management (because he doesn’t think any PM principles are effective.)
- Comment on The land before time 1 day ago:
Market Basket, Stop and Shop, and so many others still have people for this.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 day ago:
If it’s not on dnd it should still ring, not that hard to test though.
- Comment on Palworld Hits 40M Players Ahead of Friday's 1.0 Launch - FullCleared 2 days ago:
Have there been a ton of big content changes since the EA launch?
I know they changed a ton of features like pet mounts and pokeball throwing due to morally reprehensible, anticompetitive nin lawsuits. That stuff can be modded back in - but I looked at a recent map and wasn’t sure how much it’s really changed over time or how many new things have been added.
What i’m hoping for is substantial improvements to base management and the metagame, along with loads of new pals. The bosses also seemed kind of weird compared to the rest of the game so changes to that / the story would be huge improvements for me too.
I guess I should look this stuff up.
- Comment on Resetting XBOX - Compulsion Games and Double Fine to go indie again, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs "to join new ownership" 5 days ago:
“The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global […]”
I’m positive this is just austerity measures after folding in activision. They’re probably finding more and more ways to offshore american and western european jobs to poorer nations where they can pay the employees less $$$.
Money is the only motivation. It’s not about producing better art, just more profits.
- Comment on Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" following GPU failure 1 week ago:
If 1/1000 systems are DOA and they imported 40k in the US, that means 40 systems should be DOA.
0.1% of systems having minor issues would be a pretty common occurrence in consumer electronics.
- Comment on JOB 1 week ago:
Come the fuck on. Stay on theme! STAY ON THEME!
TITTIES!!!!!!
- Comment on Post more betterer 1 week ago:
Corn, it’s always corn.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
I’ve been picking up game consoles for my whole life. I decided before the NS2 was announced that I was done picking up game consoles. Now there is absolutely zero chance of me picking up a ps6, it’s just not acceptable to do this.
They all want you to go to digital storefronts because they get a bigger cut of the pie and you cannot use anyone else’s copy. Soon we’ll see them remove activating two consoles on one account entirely and possibly the offline capability as well. They want to make sure you drink your verification cans to keep playing, they just haven’t gotten there yet.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity' 1 week ago:
Dungeons and Dragons: Birthright.
Let’s do it! Bring us back to Aebrynis!
I’m probably the only person out there who wants this. Some pen pusher would compare it to kingmaker which is just not the same at all.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity' 1 week ago:
IMO Don’t try to make a sequel, just make another story in the world. Call it Baldur’s Gate: GameTitleGoesHere
I’d take IWD though, I loved those games and own physical box copies I picked up at compUSA, and i’d even take it as a combat heavy spinoff with light story, just like the first one. Getting bogged down with dialogue in every city is a turnoff for me as much as I adore BG2/3. Was so nice bringing my own party and exploring the world, one dead beetle, lizardman or undead at a time.
- Comment on Sony Signals It’s Not Prepared To Sell PlayStation 6 ‘At Significant Losses’ 1 week ago:
at cost?
- Comment on A patriotic cocktail for real Americans 2 weeks ago:
Come on man, go with the best: Natty Ice.
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 2 weeks ago:
The last thing i’d ever want to do is go with a kit for SFF. I have built exclusively for over 20 years at this point and picking a motherboard, cooling solution, PSU and overall internals myself tends to get me something that is better quality than a kit using cheaper versions of everything they can’t sell to fit a price point. I don’t think i’ve done a build as cheap as 1k since I was a teenager, but i’m not just buying the most expensive shit either.
Those silverstone cases are super fugly. It’s like they haven’t updated shit since 2010, and this kind of lines up since that case is well over a decade old. The case can only fit GPUs that are up to 270mm long by 129mm tall, which really limits what you can put in there. My steel legend 9070xt is 298 x 131, so it can’t fit in two dimensions. I have a 3070 suprim that is 335mm x 140mm, that thing is never gonna fit either. You have to really seek out something that fits.
If I was going to give someone advice on a smaller / ITX build today i’d say go with something way more comfortable to work with like a Cooler Master NP200. My last build is a 25L ATX build with no sacrifices. Cable management is one hell of a struggle.
Very possible to build something that will be faster for cheaper, or grab a deal on a gaming laptop around the same price with better ram/storage and similar GPU, but there’s no way to build something smaller than the machine really.
- Comment on Rate my daily breakfast 2 weeks ago:
Gotta go the happy family way man. We can get it all.
- Comment on Rate my daily breakfast 2 weeks ago:
Bro you need corn in your life.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think I would have much success trying to build a SFF PC today for 1k or less. You pay a premium for mini-itx and really tiny cases, PSUs, everything. The only cost that is the same is the CPU really, even a heatsink often needs to be very specific to fit a case.
The last two SFF cases I picked up that are high quality were $200. Just look at minisforum stuff, their products are expensive and look nice, it’s all in the same vein.
You can definitely find better deals for desktop gaming performance, for sure, but I doubt people are going to find something that’s off the shelf at 27L or less and same or better perf for cheaper.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 2 weeks ago:
$300 on ebay for completed listings like crazy. Why is anyone keeping these things vs taking $300 or even $200?
- Comment on I'm doing my part 3 weeks ago:
$140 = 2250 straws.
5c a straw feels expensive. I buy PLA straws at around 4c a straw. I don’t think pasta straws are all that better unless you compost. All straws are bad if you’re just chucking them in a bin at least from what i’ve heard.
- Comment on porch of geese 3 weeks ago:
I can count to brazillion. It’s a lot of tits.
- Comment on porch of geese 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of similarities between Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Most Portuguese speaking people can understand basic Spanish but it’s harder for Spanish speaking people to understand Portuguese.
At least that’s what my wife tells me as a Spanish native ~150 days into learning Portuguese.
- Comment on Mission accomplished 3 weeks ago:
Still less of a disaster than iraq. Money means so much less than so many lives lost or ruined due to physical and mental injuries.
Why the fuck can’t we stay out of the middle east, and the rest of the world? It’s always stupid. Information warfare is what the rest of the world wages.
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 4 weeks ago:
I love the series, especially XCX even though it doesn’t look like they’re revisiting it any time soon.
The combat is kinda casual mmorpg tier when you’re mid-lategame. It’s similar to having perhaps a third of the moveset of lancer in FFXIV once you get going. Like sure, there’s some amount of positioning or build composition for the team, but it’s still very tiny compared to games with robust combat systems.
The game shines with the amazing, wondrous open worlds. Then there’s the characters with great personalities, and the stories that tie it all together. Plus the fairly robust post-game grind is enjoyable. There’s a lot to love, but definitely not the early to mid game combat for me anyway.
- Comment on Weird 4 weeks ago:
It gets much, much worse.
I don’t think I’ve felt young since I was like 12, body wise. I have next to no health issues or genetic issues.
- Comment on Just gonna toss this one in here… 4 weeks ago:
Cornbeans. Ain’t nothing wrong with that I guess.
- Comment on What do they put in this stuff? 4 weeks ago:
Is that an inside out urn or something?
- Comment on Just gonna toss this one in here… 4 weeks ago:
Now you’re gonna tell me you don’t want rice with your beans That is not very latino sounding.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah let’s all send nature articles to back up everything said on the internet.
Just google plastic infertility or some other combination of terms and see the many studies published and take your pick.