tiredofsametab

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There were unpatched issues in the first one (it's been so long now I don't remember them all but there was one in a DLC where you're supposed to be able to give an item to a robot NPC but it was just broken in addition to several others).

  Looking at the price and thinking of that, it was a "pass until decent sale" for me.

  I do like the setting generally (at least based on the first one). It might be neat to have someone else take over the IP and go somewhere with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Pitchford and Take2 -- sell the IP to someone who will do something cool and bring back Eddings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jellyfish go to hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I had sea cucumber for the first time the other night (along with 鮟肝 (ankimo - monkfish liver). Sea cucumber flavor was fine but texture wasn't my favorite (I also don't like crunching on cartelige). Ankimo was smooth and delicious. Shiokara is also great. Shirako (your fish jizz) is great battered and fried, but I've never had the guts to try it raw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jellyfish go to hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfish tastes OK. It's more a texture than a flavor. I have no idea which species I've been served. Why, yes, I do live in eastern Asia where something trying to be inedible to humans is taken as a personal affront.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't find emoji or even emoticons professional, but I'm also in my 40s so take that for whatever it's worth. I imagine younger people would feel less of a taboo around them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just arranging it the last time in person. Mail worked just fine to confirm or cancel a bit before since the same city. If you needed things more quickly, couriers was one way. There were also a lot third spaces and people met out and about more and more often. They might see each other every Sunday at the same church for instance.

  Up until I was in uni, even payphones didn't matter most of the time since there's no guarantee both parties are going to be near one and no normal person had a pager. If you were going to a business that had a phone, you could look up their number and call them to put one of your buddies on the line or at least send a message (see the running gag on the Simpsons where Bart calls the bar to ask for someone).

  We also just waited a bit and if they didn't show, we went on with our plans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We don't, really. I certainly grew up without them. It did both good and bad things. It did centralize and simplify some things, but that came at a cost of freedom for more power users. It was great for sorting out dependencies at a time games were still often bad at doing that cleanly on their own for less-technical people. I think it did good things for community, though, particularly for those of us who did not use any modern consoles that had various party/SNS-like features baked in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the GoP. Not the green party, at least with Stein still around. Not the dems after all their nonsense. So... I don't know; we'll have to see who runs. The "good" news for anyone disliking my selections is that the (heavily-Gerrymandered) district means my vote will almost certainly mean fuck all anyway (assuming they don't come up with some bullshit to throw out overseas votes to begin with since I can't really do anything about that).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I met one really drunk Russian guy years ago, but the bar was so loud everyone basically had to yell so I can't really count it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. The post asked specifically about Americans and, perhaps by virtue of living in East Asia, I haven't run into that many loud Europeans lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans are mostly super loud. You can hear them from forever away like they're competing to be the loudest in any space. ~ someone originally from the US that had this pointed out to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People like this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People are much more likely to write a complaint letter than a praising one. Same as it ever was but internet version.

  I worked for a company that had a post karma system before reddit ever existed. It was no different then. No matter how much we said that the downvote button is not a dislike button, it changed nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts to share at dinner #1: Shagreen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use wasabi grinding paper all the time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only eat beef on special occasions a handful of times per year and, if I'm buying, make sure it is as local as possible. Bonus points if it's from a farm that has land that's otherwise crap for vegetable/staple farming (which is a lot here in mountainous Japan)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have two citizenships and permanent residency in a third country, so that seems unlikely. In the spirit of the question, though, immediately start drilling language and learning customs. If they have IT jobs, particularly in English, I'm already ready to work. I also have my own small farm so experience there as well. I've worked in many industries in my life, so I can jump into many things.

  The kicker is probably the legal side and then finding housing which just requires doing whatever is needed. I assume I have whatever assets I had, my phone, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in a big city recently and had business by their BYD dealership. I walked in as I had never seen any of the cars in person. Two of the models they had had physical controls (both the low(er?)-end ones). If I had planned on buying, that would have ruled 2/3 of what they had out. One complaint about my current vehicle is that it has touchscreen exclusively for all the HVAC controls (I have music controls on the wheel). I'm used to my older cars from (my an '83, '86, '95, '97, and '03 in order of model year) that I could adjust anything without taking my eyes off the road. I don't mind ALSO having a tablet for navigation and the like, but want my main controls to all be physical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We already do in colloquial Japanese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked in the MMO industry and played a lot of them, including ones I didn't want to (and some that never saw the light of day or folded almost immediately). The last one I kept playing was Rift: Planes of Telara and, when they did an overhaul of stuff, I couldn't be bothered to learn all the new stuff and just quit. That was probably 15ish years ago at this point. It also kinda ruined a lot of gaming for me for years. I do play games again now, and I do sometimes feel the itch for an MMO, but I haven't played one again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • an absence of quick-time events (I hate those things in cut-scenes, parry systems, etc.)
  • a mode that allows the player to destroy the environment, NPCs, etc. including, when on, making the game unable to be completed potentially. I think having that be a toggle will still allow people to relive older RPGs where you could easily ruin your life without knowing for hours.
  • Off-the-wall weapons. I think Blood 2 had a few and even halflife 2
  • Counting beyond 2, speaking of the above.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assume that this is an apocalyptic Jew before rabbinic judaeism. That should frame thinks a bit better. The problem, at least as I understand it, is people doing commerce, particularly for a profit, in a sacred space. I do t think the money was the problem in and of itself, but rather the execution and motive. In another story, biblical Jesus tells someone of wealth and power that what he needs to do is give all of that up and he was quite miffed (in a very tldr telling)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For cases where it sounds like another letter, why not just use that one?

  Which the other one? Within English itself, the same letter can be pronounced a number of ways. It's like when people want to "fix" English spelling, they always assume it's going to be their dialect that wins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨green salad fingers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe hematite? I seem to remember saying that about hematite when I was young and the whole neopagan and new age stuff had a moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First, I start moving people to hotel rooms...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just got this flyer in the mail today.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a/c is mostly (entirely?) a north-american naming convention. It's been "aircon" in the other places I've lived in traveled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  English is notoriously awful regarding orthography vs pronunciation. I actually thought you meant something that rhymed with Bach just looking at the name with a longer 'a' for some reason (which is weird since vowel length isn't phonemic in English).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Raych?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying (and failing) to receive IBP beacons on an SDR⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I now have a random wire antenna ~16m long (though not straight and the very ends wind around the structure I'm using to hold it up which I'm sure is not ideal), a ~4m counterpoise-ish-thing, a 9:1 balun, and cable to the SDR.

  I've gotten wefax (though in negative and spotty, so still some figuring out to do). Still no IBP beacons at all, though.

  I have fldigi working to a degree using soundcard as input. No hits using a regex of the beacons' callsigns (including the one here in Japan) on any frequency I've tried. Not sure why that is yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are stardust.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My brain added an 'n' to the first word of "waking universe" and I think it still works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup! It's dumb. Bonus one: one could get sued by posting on social media a pic/vid that shows someone cheating and they get caught. It's profoundly stupid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Japan, a person can get sued for leaving an honest, negative review. One has to be careful with wording to avoid that completely (i.e. making sure that it's clearly stated that the content is a personal opinion (as opposed to an accusation, I guess?)). Some people still do write them and some get scary take-down notices (which may or may not be real or enforceable). As far as I know, someone could leave a low rating on like a star-based system or whatever and be fine, but I am not a lawyer.