ArmchairAce1944
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- Comment on Taste the flavor 3 days ago:
The skin on your lips is the same as the skin on your asshole. That’s why.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 days ago:
I haven’t gone to a foreign country on vacation in a long time but… why the fuck would anyone behave like this? Even the ‘not my country, I am just a guest’ idea is bullshit. Sure tourists are there to have a fun time and would eat and drink more than they would at home but… shitting on the street? Really?
- Comment on cats are so silly 1 week ago:
The most adorable of sentient walking ball sacks!
- Comment on cats are so silly 1 week ago:
Get a sphinx cat or other hairless breed.
- Comment on Le Tits, Now! 2 weeks ago:
I found it and watched it shortly after writing that comment. It is all good.
- Comment on Le Tits, Now! 2 weeks ago:
Oh god I miss that flash. I wanna see it now.
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. I haven’t bought that many new games or even tried new games in a long ass time. I am still going through a lot of the Hitman (2016 series) since that game has soooooo much content. But the thing is, the game doesnt feel old. I have played newer games and they haven’t changed much in my view.
Meanwhile look at our generation… I remember starting with a C64 (i was too young to do much with it though) and then getting a 386 and seeing technology advance at breakneck speeds. A game released in 1991 vs. 1994 had radical differences, and one in 1998 vs. 1994 even more. The 2000s were also rapid-fire advancement. Have you seen how the Medal of Honor games advanced? In 1999 vs. 2004 from the original one to Pacific Assault, and Oblivion in 2004 vs Skyrim in 2011 vs Morrowwind in 2002? Absolutely blowing everyone’s minds away in how much change happened?
I get that we are hitting a tech wall, I really do. But the enshittification is ridicules. Holy fuck… again… why internet and cloud for everything? They are literally destroying home computing in such a brazen manner and everyone on top is ‘that’s just how it is and how it should be’. It isn’t an unseen hand. It is as obvious as a hammer smashing your head in.
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 weeks ago:
Partially yes, but also partially no. I mean them adding internet and cloud and AI to everything is utter shit and so nonsensical that I cannot fathom anyone thinking it is a good idea.
Remember when AWS servers went down and some people’s beds tilted at an uncomfortable angle and their heating wouldn’t stop? Why the FUCK would anyone want a bed like that?
I bought a new bed recently. The only thing about it that is different than my previous bed was that it has a power outlet for USBs. That is a good idea, but it doesnt need anything else… seriously. It is a fucking bed! I got a nice mattress for it and that was fine.
Don’t get me wrong. Appliances and furniture with fancy features have been around since forever. Beds with heating and automated angling and power outlets and even TV/Radio were around since the 1950s. Ovens and stoves with computer controls and timers have been around for a long-ass time, too. Ditto for fridges and even toasters (i looked up some videos online of high end toasters that are kinda incredible).
But here is the kicker… all those things need is electricity to run. No internet or cloud services whatsoever. And they can do amazing things. Why the hell would anyone ruin these? Why not just optimize them and make them cheaper? Why needlessly complicate everything?
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 2 weeks ago:
I like how they just made the British dog’s nose massive.
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 weeks ago:
I get it. I really do. But that’s not the point. It is the endless enshittification of everything that I am most concerned with. Stagnation in general I can deal with, but having everything be a more effective spy tool is something else.
Like take smart phones for example. My first real smart phone I got in 2015. You could say I actually got one in 2013, but for some reason that phone could not connect to the internet easily, so it was mostly just a phone with some nice apps I could install and also be an MP3/MP4 player. But while performance wise the phones I had since 2020 have been much better than those I still dont feel the slightest difference… and since I rarely receive real calls anymore I can probably get away with just leaving my phone at home most of the time which is probably for the best given it is effectively a anklemonitor most of the time. I can take my older 2013 phone that no longer works for telemetry if I want music and I can wear a wristwatch (a Casio ripoff, no joke. Those haven’t changed in 30+ years) to tell the time.
I can navigate in the old school way of just looking up before hand where I want to go and memorize it or write it down and pay attention to road signs.
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 weeks ago:
To lead you off a cliff even faster!
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 weeks ago:
I am really tired. As an elder millennial I was promised endless progress. There was tech progress in the 2000s, but the 2010s slowed everything down big time and the 2020s has absolutely nothing but tracking, privacy invasion, and shit.
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 5 weeks ago:
I am so sorry that this happened to you. My last computer was failing, but it was failing on two different accounts: The power supply was dying and the main harddrive was dying. When I got a new computer I got a new backup HD and my old HD gave its one last dying breath to transfer all the files before croaking.
- Comment on get out of my head 1 month ago:
Goatsy!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Fuck! This is a 21st century vampire hunting kit!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You can be a nerd about anything. A language nerd who speaks 20 languages and studies ancient Akkadian for fun won’t know what those are.
I mean I am a nerd, but I haven’t much of a clue about trees and plant life.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I guess she encountered a lot of resistance from all those!
- Comment on Hey Grok 1 month ago:
Eat lead, murderer!
- Comment on Hey Grok 1 month ago:
Haha!
- Comment on Careful, he's a hero 1 month ago:
But the one we want to hear about…m
- Comment on Lasagna 1 month ago:
Nope. Last I checked around yesterday he’s still around. He is 80. Old but not impossibly old.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 1 month ago:
That was a sticky way to die!
- Comment on Two types 1 month ago:
And it was. It wasn’t noticed much when it first came out, but some decades later it blew up when people realised how cool it was.
- Comment on Two types 1 month ago:
Ahh that’s the one. For some reason I thought it was from the 1880s…
- Comment on Two types 1 month ago:
Wasn’t there a novel written in the 1880s that did not include the letter E? The most commonly used letter in the English language. The story in the novel was unremarkable save for the fact that… yeah, there are no Es.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 1 month ago:
Are they going to fight? I bet they know their judo well!
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 1 month ago:
I never read the grapes of wrath, but I should.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 1 month ago:
This reminds me of when a large whiskey distillery broke in 19th century Ireland and many people died. Not from large quantities of alcohol sweeping people away (something like that happened in London in the early 19th century) but from passerby drinking so much of the stuff they died of alcohol poisoning.
Most Irish way to die ever!
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 1 month ago:
Autistic dogs? You mean they will be more obsessed with catching that squirrel than normal?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 1 month ago:
Look, the mechanical Turk was a good chess player at least… and his operator had to literally hide beneath the table…