yaroto98
@yaroto98@lemmy.world
- Comment on Mama didn't raise no quitter 11 hours ago:
With fewer people smoking, the price of cigs sure didn’t drop.
- Comment on Costco Pistachios 4 days ago:
Did they fall out and the nuts are at the bottom of the bag?
- Comment on The legendary PS2 6 days ago:
I remember staying up all night long with a group of friends of mine. We took turns driving by Target where one guy worked and he knew they were getting a shipment of PS2s in.
We formed battle plans based on who wanted the PS2 the most , down to me, who would buy one if there were enough, but didn’t overly care if I had to wait a few months to get one. Since I cared less, and am over 6ft I was dubbed crowd control. The guy that worked there drew the floorplan and showed us where the display was going. Our caffeine fueled plans had us developing different formations and routes to ensure as many PS2s for the group as possible and delay other people as long as possible. And contingency plans if a different customer took an alternate route around the crowd to get there first.
Once we saw the line starting to form at around 2am we all drove down and got in line and camped out till 6am when the store opened.
Our plans were dashed, but held in reserve just in case things went south when we learned the store manager was a levelheaded individual. He passed out numbers for each of us based on our position in line.
I was #12.
The line never got longer than the number of PS2s they had in stock, so our plans were doubly dashed as there was absolutly zero confrontation.
It was a fun fantasy for a while though. These were the same kids that had baseball bats and ski masks at the ready when Y2K happened. They patrolled the town at midnight looking for signs that everything crashed and were going to join in if they saw anyone looting. They wouldn’t start the looting, but were ready with a wishlist from various stores. Best Buy was high in their priorities.
That also never happened. But boy were they ready.
- Comment on Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis? 1 week ago:
Bloodrayne was pretty fun back on the ps2. I think there’s a pc port on steam.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. I usually go for the charmin strong, but even it, when I place it on my toilet paper holder which holds 5 rolls vertically like that. If the first glued on roll comes loose it’ll unravel annoyingly.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 2 weeks ago:
Does it unravel a little and brush against things?
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 2 weeks ago:
Why’s the TP holder pointing up?
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 weeks ago:
Why would they sell cases of salmonella alongside eggs?
- Comment on Weapons for defense only 5 weeks ago:
I mean there’s the Iron Dome the US helped fund for Isreal. It’s a short range air defense system. It’s not built for offense, and wouldn’t work well for it from what I understand.
But even that there’s still the ‘self-defense’ mentality where the iron dome could shoot down non-combatants flying within range because of a supposed threat.
- Comment on Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing? 1 month ago:
Not for gaming so much after ssds got big and cheap, but on NAS Operating Systems like Unraid and TrueNAS, (and likely others) you have a pool of hard drives that do big data storage. Like you pointed out IO is slow. So to speed things up you have an ssd setup as cache. Typically you have the programs you have running are running off that ssd cache. It does IO to the ssd and you setup a slow scheduled replication to the hdd pool.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 month ago:
Right? I’m still pissed off about the PS3. I owned a PS1 and a PS2. PS3 launched and before I could save up enough money, two awesome features that the PS3 launched with they pulled support for. At launch you could boot to linux and you could play PS2 games. They disabled both before I could buy one. Huge class action lawsuit if I remember correctly. But they keep pulling the same shit.
- Comment on This has gotten out of hand and I demand satisfaction. 1 month ago:
Does visibly liberal equate to adding the free stuff like lettuce, pico, and corn. Instead of just meat, beans, rice and cheese?
Lettuce takes up a lot of space.
- Comment on with free peanuts as wingman 1 month ago:
Not with those porn shoulders hanging out. Sluts.
- Comment on Cheese is available 2 months ago:
Though, to be fair, unlike a lot of other states our grocery stores all have liquor sections. Most gas stations too.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
What’s almost worse, is that it works.
If people stopped answering, and buying, it would stop being financially viable for businesses.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
There’s SpamBlocker app in fdroid I use and love. You can add a regex rule to block numbers. I moved several times, and don’t keep in contact with anyone from that area code anymore, so most spam come in spoofing that area code. I have a rule set to block that area code completely and allow my current actual local area code for doctors and schools and whatnot. Works pretty well.
- Comment on I vaguely remember these but forgot what they were for 2 months ago:
Definately an option. Hard when there’s more than like 5 pieces of paper.
- Comment on I vaguely remember these but forgot what they were for 2 months ago:
You use a paper hole punch to punch a hole in several papers. Then you put the tines through the hole, and then bend them in opposite directions fastening the papers together. Old manilla envelopes have then built into the envelope to keep the flap shut.
- Comment on Nope 2 months ago:
We got put in time-out.
- Comment on What somebody with cosmetic plastic surgery gets injured, does the plastic "spill out" or get seen? 2 months ago:
Whicj is why they litterally inject it into our veins all the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Sounds like a rip off of the IASIP bang maid episode.
- Comment on Everyone knows hot air rises. So, do we gain or lose weight when we burp or fart? 4 months ago:
For weight loss purposes, you actually lose the weight by breathing. O2 in C02 out. You’re constantly shedding carbon. Does breath count as warm gaseous emissions?
- Comment on Save me from going down a dark path 4 months ago:
It’s from the brain damage.
- Comment on Now this is an interesting question. What sound would you like it to make? 5 months ago:
That sound a pump shotgun makes.
Chi-chick.
- Comment on Bet you wish you had one of these in your car 5 months ago:
Non smoker? Free coin pouch!
- Comment on Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums 5 months ago:
I have a few! They’re, just not, you know, allowed to connect to the internet…
- Comment on Follow the rules! 6 months ago:
As former QA I also agree with this chart.
- Comment on How long does it take for pregnancy to become noticeable? 6 months ago:
Depends on the girl and the number of babies you’ve had. If you’re on your 4th baby people will be able to tell sooner than your first.
Generally it’s unnoticeable for everyone in the first trimester. Second trimester is probably pretty safe too, this is when you might start looking a little fat by the end, but not really pregnant. Third trimester is when the majority of the weight is gained, and the baby grows the fastest. In the last month of the third trimester the baby gains like a pound per week.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I don’t think this is it, but maybe?
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 6 months ago:
Depending on how you make the game some launchers can make sense. You can set disolay options before launching the game. Back in ye olden times some games would launch by default in a set resolution which often made changing that in-game difficult as it would be off screen. Also makes your first time launching it a better experience than some low-res garbage. Also, without a platform like steam they can handle updates.
That being said, I don’t think most modern games need those functions. Graphics engines are pretty good at getting screen resolution from your os (not perfect). And platforms handle patches and updates.