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- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 8 hours ago:
Denon AH-D210
I had a pair of Denon AH-D2000 that were flat out amazing. They ended up getting fried in a power surge from a bad storm which also took out my receiver.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 8 hours ago:
Sony used to make some really awesome high end headphones (like the Qualia 010 MDR-1 or MDR-R10), while were definitely overpriced (IMO), they were definitely not garbage. They do still make at least one actual high end non-garbage headphone (MDR-Z1R) it is for sure overpriced. I don’t think it’s not garbage.
Also, few sane people are buying them, so I doubt they’ll last.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 8 hours ago:
The Audio-Technica ATH-M line are quote sturdy, I’ve never really seen them break. The same goes for the Beyerdynamic DT-770-880/990 lines. And both companies sell replacement parts at decent prices in my experience for those rare times when sometime could break.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 12 hours ago:
Don’t be silly, they’ll be happy to make a vibe coded remaster for it and charge $80 a piece.
- Comment on A product of his environment 4 days ago:
I’ve had 2 and they were both far, far more than just overbearing (yes, I realize that I used that word in my previous comment). My first HOA had a pair of elderly sisters that were both on the board that would walk around the subdivision a few times a week with clipboards just looking for anything that they would come at you with. One time they had the board lawyer send me a threat of putting a lien on my property because I had left a pain can on my driveway for a few hours… while I was literally painting a room.
The only people that HOAs serve are authoritarians and people who only think of their home as an investment whose value is more important than anything else. I just won’t play that game anymore.
- Comment on A product of his environment 4 days ago:
I have had some shitty HOAs and I now live in a home with no HOA for a reason. Fuck those overbearing shitheads.
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
It’s always been framed as “good luck” in every family I knew growing up.
- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 1 week ago:
Yeah, I know, and honestly that is perfect as long as the speaker isn’t isn’t total crap.
- Comment on It's literally science 1 week ago:
I don’t know exactly what these are based on your descriptions, but I went through physical therapy and was given some stretches/exercises that do for sure help some. It isn’t a “cure”, but as you said, if you have back pain and can do them, you should be trying to.
- Comment on It's literally science 1 week ago:
I could have sworn it was due to the severe injury I sustained, but who am I to argue with science?
- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 1 week ago:
I have legit thought about just bringing an old school “boombox” style stereo into the car. I got one a couple of years ago for like $60 and aside from the cassette and radio, it can be connected to with aux and bluetooth, so that would be a slightly hilarious way to play music in the car.
- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 1 week ago:
I really, really, don’t like Bezo’s involvement in the company, but if it actually comes to market, isn’t a POS, and ends up as the only EV that isn’t spyware on wheels it’ll have my attention for sure.
- Comment on Good point 1 week ago:
Meat spin intensified by design, that’s why it counted up!
- Comment on "I'm so sorry I hit you... I'm so sorry..." (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon) 1 week ago:
It’s still “front loaded” with regards to content, but the bugs/issues are more or less handled.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 2 weeks ago:
In my head this read like Queen’s “Flash Gordon” song. It made it all the more absurd and better.
- Comment on "I'm so sorry I hit you... I'm so sorry..." (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon) 2 weeks ago:
It plays like Oblivion, but the combat is more satisying, the story is much better (subjective), and the map is smaller (though still decent size IMO). It won’t give you the freedom of the older TES games, but then again, neither have the last couple of TES games.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 2 weeks ago:
Of course it is…
- Comment on The Wheel That Went to Court (or, did you know Pixar sued DMA Design - who ended up becoming Rockstar North - because they made a game about a unicycle? 3 weeks ago:
Pixar are such douches. Uniracers was a god damned masterpiece and one of the most fun, if rarely heard of, games on the SNES.
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 3 weeks ago:
If they said and meant it like that, there wouldn’t be a problem. It is more like: “I got this from Aldis”, “I’m going to Aldis”, etc.
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 3 weeks ago:
I think it is more like the unrelated, and annoying, phenomenon where people inexplicably add an ‘s’ to brand names. I swear if I hear my in-laws tell me about their stuff from “Aldis” one more time I’ll lose it.
- Comment on Anon is all smiles 3 weeks ago:
A little too poetic for Sherman anyway. “War is hell” was definitely one of his quotes though.
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the lack of distractions is the man draw I believe (also the qwerty keyboard on it is pretty nice), but it had rough edges that prevent me from recommending it. I had a feeling it would be like that since it is the first and only phone that company had made, but hope springs eternal.
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen any. My wife has a Minimal Phone, which is android, but heavily nerfed in what it can actually run. I can’t recommend it though until they fix the connectivity issues. It frequently has problems with wifi and bluetooth, also poor general cellular signal.
- Comment on Beyond All Reason 4 weeks ago:
Making your own AI variations was one of the coolest things about SupCom.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
No, it probably affect tifa and aerith saves as well.
- Comment on Rumor: Voice actor page leaks Xenoblade game for 2026 4 weeks ago:
I have quite a few!
I believe I mentioned many of them in my original comment, but I’ll list some of my completely subjective gripes here:
- very underpowered system, even at launch.
- most multiplatform games for the Switch are absolutely the worst version of the game, even for Indie titles that shouldn’t need the performance (I can give examples in spades)
- I feel that it is a poor handheld console (too large, too short battery life, bad/uncomfortable controls)
- I feel that it is a poor standalone console (iffy dock instead of just a power cord, controllers need to be physically attached and reattached to use, poor performance (already mentioned), too expensive for this purpose, battery dying prevents it from working standalone (sadly learned this the hard way))
- bad included controller (tiny buttons, no dpad, analog stick constantly had issues and needed repair, batch charging mechanism (already mentioned))
The Switch tries to be two consoles and ends up just being too many compromises while still being quite expensive. Add on to Nintendo’s knack for price gouging for games and accessories/replacements and I am just done with them. If they had released an “unSwitch” or something that just had a regular controller like the “pro” controller that was stationary and thus lacked a screen, battery, joycons, an $80 dock, it would have been much better for the half of the users that didn’t or couldn’t use it as a handheld and could have been cheaper. It still wouldn’t fix the performance stuff, but it wouldbe easier to forgive if it had been a budget console, not one that the previous gen of consoles trounced.
- Comment on Rumor: Voice actor page leaks Xenoblade game for 2026 4 weeks ago:
The Xenogames were the only reason I even bought the Switch to begin with. I was, and still am, so disappointed with that console. No chance I am buying a Switch 2 for more Xenoblade games this time. I would love for them to become detached from Nintendo honestly. Sony and MS are at least receptive to PC ports, with Nintendo they are forever trapped.
- Comment on Rumor: Voice actor page leaks Xenoblade game for 2026 4 weeks ago:
Same, but we both sadly know it’ll never happen.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Your extremely expensive try-hard sequel to a just OK game didn’t blow everyone away? Womp womp. Obsidian died when MS bought them.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 4 weeks ago:
I understand now, thanks.