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- Comment on I'm doing my part 21 hours 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 days ago:
I can count to brazillion. It’s a lot of tits.
- Comment on porch of geese 3 days 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 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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… 1 week ago:
Cornbeans. Ain’t nothing wrong with that I guess.
- Comment on What do they put in this stuff? 2 weeks ago:
Is that an inside out urn or something?
- Comment on Just gonna toss this one in here… 2 weeks ago:
Now you’re gonna tell me you don’t want rice with your beans That is not very latino sounding.
- Comment on 2 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.
- Comment on Just gonna toss this one in here… 2 weeks ago:
This post is missing corn.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Teenagers with raging hormones have way less health issues than someone in their late 20s or 30s.
Plastic causes all kinds of hormone issues too that cause infertility, and we use it everywhere. It’s in our food packaging, it’s in our clothes, it’s in the chairs we sit on, the mice and keyboards we use. Take a human apart and you find microplastics everywhere, even in our brains.
Look up Dr. Shanna Swan. It’s basically the one thing she does, and there’s a netflix documentary about it even.
- Comment on poverty is a choice 2 weeks ago:
By this logic everyone should be a prostitute on top of whatever their hustle is. Just saying.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
And like most mmo launches, it’s really just an EA launch with the real content to be reworked and added later.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 2 weeks ago:
Way too much credit is being given to both sides of this. Everybody is just cheering for one team or another with their votes. Whatever they say aloud doesn’t really matter because the result is handing over any choice or real practical discourse to a handful of people who are entirely at the mercy of their political parties and the party sponsors.
Choosing a lesser evil is always better than doing nothing but we really need more than two choices at this point. The massive PAC funding has to go and campaigns really need to have extremely strict regulation that is thus far unprecedented imo. We also truly need national ranked choice voting, strict term limits for all elected positions and honestly, age limits too.
Would be nice if we had more popular vote based levers as well to force certain policies or decisions, but the tyranny of the majority has some challenges too. Maybe congress and the courts should be expanded so that more people are involved in the representation of a country that had ~26 senators and ~65 representatives in 1791 when we only had around 4 million americans. We are close to 350 million people now which is 87.5x more than then, so shouldn’t the have closer to ~2275 senators and ~5688 representatives? Would be a hell of a lot harder to keep this many people in lockstep with “loyal” party line voting like there is today in our completely fucked system especially with term limits that mean they don’t have to worry about re-election (maybe it should be one term only, ever. Longer duration but the citizens of a district should be able to vote to trigger a new election cycle for what’s remaining in a term.)
Oh and districts at this point probably shouldn’t be based on drawn voting maps. Everybody’s social security number should go into a pool and be randomly assigned to a district in every state that corresponds to the amount of representatives they have. The voting places could be the same local ones and the tallies could still be done, we’d just need a number of voting forms in each voting location that corresponds to each district based on the amount of voters. They could even print these out on demand on the day of to avoid waste if we want to avoid a digital solution.
anywho, feel free to dunk on all of it. These words don’t even matter, this will never happen. The ones in power run the show and do not want to give up their power.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3901760/Crystal_Project_2/
Looks like it keeps the aggro system, open world and no missables (thank god no missables. I hate having to use a guide to play a game.)
New features list from the steam store page:
Explore and conquer an entire new world in the land of Sycamore.
- Even more build possibilities with new options like combat items, ability augments, and new equipment modifiers.
- Discover entirely new classes, alongside remixed returning classes that feature new abilities and passives.
- Looser weapon skill restrictions: weapon skills are now classified as either slashing, piercing, or bludgeoning.
- Tune your playthrough to your tastes with more assist options and more challenge options.
- New systems like snappier animations and new mechanics like summoning allies.
- Get access to more teleport points by collecting multiple Home Point Stones.
- Customize your party member appearance and clothing colors.
- Actual fishing! Who knows what you’ll find…
- And more.
Here’s hoping theres a bit more in terms of revamping. I did like the original but it fell off a bit for me as I approached late game.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
So it’s basically crystal project but with a few new classes and a different map? Tilesets look very similar for much of it, as do tons of the sprites.
- Comment on Vibe management 4 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, when they hire back their humans they will be paying them 25%+ less after adjusting for inflation.
- Comment on Hands-On with the Retroid Pocket Classic; A Love Letter to the Game Boy Era 4 weeks ago:
So I do casually follow the handheld emulation stuff. I’ve always thought android sucks as a platform for gaming in general, but shouldn’t all of those retroid problems apply to the ayn thor? My assumption is that people are in love with that thing, but maybe the boot times are just better or they did a better job of the driver/power management?… or maybe the marketing is just on point.
I have a deck so I don’t really see a point to having another handheld, but I still want to understand why x vs y.
Also am full time linux on desktop os at home and work and I can definitely see how the boot and sleep state times would be much better just in general on a properly tweaked distro.
- Comment on PlayStation Plus price increase announced for new customers 4 weeks ago:
Seriously, they are already getting a cut on every single game sold due to licensing. They discontinue services very early too for tons of games because the companies making the games are the actual hosts anyway.
So I guess we pay for shitty voice chat and some updates? and the privilege of them unlocking the ability of playing multiplayer. Imagine if microsoft charged a subscription for updates for normal users, or they charged a subscription to connect to a network connection.
- Comment on Do not repost this image 5 weeks ago:
THE everything bagel
- Comment on Do not repost this image 5 weeks ago:
I love how you chose to go with uploading a screenshot of an image. Bold. Unwavering. Perfect.
- Comment on I didn't realize it was so bad 5 weeks ago:
Quick, recalibrate the warp core matrix and modulate the deflectors, we’re going in to one year.
- Comment on Woman of my dreams 5 weeks ago:
i’ll kick yah ass back to wuhsta kid.
Yeah I don’t think the bostonian accent is gonna be confused any time soon lol
- Comment on YouTube now 5 weeks ago:
I’ve sat in mid and upper level executive meetings about this stuff.
They 100% know exactly who did what review, it’s not secret no matter how much they swear up and down it is, if you’re high enough in the chain.
Lower middle management won’t be told who it was generally, especially if their report size is a handful. They still know exactly what was inputted though because they see the responses and can generally tell who it was based on that alone due to context hints.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s his contractors. They’ll do a bunch of free private work by charging 10x+ for this.
Quid pro quo / corruption per usual.
- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 2 months ago:
As far as I know an internet connection is required on a vanilla OOBE setup of windows 11 with today’s iso or a dell/hp/lenovo preload.
Most user systems ship with W11 Home licenses, no pro, so they don’t even have a domain join option.
- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 2 months ago:
Yes, invoking a command prompt to enter a command is under the hood for most users.
I work in IT, I know all the tricks. I also know how users tend to behave. Anyone who is tech savvy can figure out the ins and outs and get around all manner of things. If you just follow what you can click on screen and stick strictly to GUI and zero customized OOBE tweaks you have no other option.
- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 2 months ago:
I use CachyOS, but for the vanilla home user “I bought a laptop!” at bestbuy or whatever the fuck, there’s no local account option anymore. It’s connect to the internet and sign in with microsoft, and nag you constantly every 3 days until you activate onedrive and other microsoft services.
I got an ARM64 laptop through work to test to see how it might work as an experiment and this has been how the device behaves from day 1. It’s a nightmare.
- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 2 months ago:
Enterprise and SMB always have practical workarounds that consumers do not need to deal with.
The only way to create a local user account on windows 11 now without fuckery is pretending you are going to domain join. No other method exists without under the hood tweaks. A similar workaround would work.
But none of this actually protects kids. The goal is to have total surveillance over as many users as possible in their home life. Enterprise is already handled by m365 and google workspace after all.