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- Comment on Asmeinkampf 5 days ago:
I can tell from your diminished reasoning abilities that you’re probably an Asmongold fan. There’s not much I can type here to help you, but I’ll try to keep it short and use simple words and bullet points:
- I have heard him talk
- by hearing him talk, I have become informed about him
- using this information, I have made the informed decision to not listen to him further
I can try simplifying it further if you still don’t get it.
- Comment on Asmeinkampf 5 days ago:
No, people cannot make an informed choice without information.
…That’s what the “informed” part of that phrase means.
- Comment on Asmeinkampf 5 days ago:
He’s huge on all the streaming platforms, so you can’t really ignore him. Clueless people will have his content force fed to them by the algorithm, and some will end up becoming fans.
Pre-empting that by pointing out how much of a disgusting pathetic loser and worthless piece of shit he is might help someone make an informed choice before watching his content.
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 1 week ago:
Nintendo needs to get humbled every couple of generations.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
You sound like you’re very lonely. I just want you to know that turning to AI chatbots is dangerous and self-destructive, and you really shouldn’t use it as a cure for loneliness.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
- Fortnite tried this with Darth Vader
- Fortnite is struggling so bad they had to lay off 1000 employees
Coincidence?
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 1 week ago:
You don’t need that much space for a functional home gym setup. You can do a lot with just a set of adjustable dumbbells and regular furniture.
Even if you’re in an extreme situation, living in a barely habitable illegal rental, you can just take your dumbbells outdoors to a park or something. You can even skip leg day if you do that!
- Comment on The three archetypes 4 weeks ago:
False. He sees grift opportunities nobody else can.
But yeah, he’s not the founder.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 5 weeks ago:
The sunk cost fallacy is a bitch
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 5 weeks ago:
xbox one x was the last good console xbox made
Was it good? The Xbox 360 outsold it (by a lot), but even that was mostly luck because Sony notoriously fucked up the PS3 launch (and in the end, PS3 sold more anyways lmao). It also had the red ring of death issue.
The Xbox One was when they started the hardcore ramp up of enshittification which never ended even after continually losing in every way to the competition.
The OG Xbox worked well, and at least managed to outsell the GameCube (though not by a lot).
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 1 month ago:
Please explain yourself. I’m not going to judge you, I’m genuinely curious where you got this perception of Phil Spencer from?
From my perspective, he was in charge during the fall of Xbox. There may have been a few good decisions he made, like backwards compat or whatever, but on the whole he destroyed Xbox. I don’t understand how some people can simultaneously be pissed at all the terrible decisions that company has been making for over a decade while also glazing the guy in charge of making those decisions.
If Xbox wasn’t part of the monopolist that is Microsoft, they would’ve gone out of business after the Xbox One. Instead, as is usually the case for orgs/people like this, they’ve been able to fail upwards all while dragging the entire gaming industry through the dirt (eg the horrible Activision acquisition, among many others). It’s actually incredible how, despite not even needing to worry about competitive pressures, Xbox still failed so badly.
So again, what circumstances have lead you to see Phil Spencer as anything other than an incompetent moron?
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s weird, I was just being lazy with wording, but now I want to defend BMI a little since it’s not that stupid. (I meant to say he didn’t look like the stereotypical image of a morbidly obese person, which in hindsight isn’t very productive)
It’s true that BMI is only useful for “normal” people, which excludes pro-athletes/body builders with a lot more muscle than the average person, and people with conditions that affect their weight. For the vast majority of people, it’s a useful metric for overall health. Anyone who cares about longevity and quality of life shouldn’t ignore it just because it’s uncomfortable to think about or “seems wrong” based on some self assessments. Obviously, there’s a lot of stigma around being labelled as obese, but people are judgy assholes about everything. What’s basically guaranteed, though, is that if you do lose weight to reach a “healthy” BMI, you will feel a lot better physically (and probably also mentally). Pains you didn’t even realize you had will go away, you’ll have more energy, etc.
I’m not saying you should lose weight, idgaf. Your life isn’t mine, and I’m not here to give unsolicited advice. I just feel compelled to add some extra context so people don’t draw hasty conclusions.
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 1 month ago:
That’s almost 300lbs! The reflection rules out morbidly obese, so are you tall as fuck, jacked as fuck, or both?
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 3 months ago:
Damn, good catch. The others are all slightly different too
- Comment on Who did this? 3 months ago:
Who’s the guy in the bottom left?
- Comment on Who did this? 3 months ago:
Off topic, but is there a name for that grin/facial expression? It’s like technically a grin, yet devoid of any real emotion. Feels like it’s trying to not commit too much into an emotion, maybe even for calculated social engineering reasons. I see it in the Godot logo as well.
In my head, I’ve taken to calling it “the autistic stare” due to the confused/vague communication of an emotion, but idk if that’s offensive.
- Comment on What Do Kids Want for Holiday Gifts? Video Games, Of Course! They Also Want Their Parents to Game Alongside Them 4 months ago:
They’re a lobbyist for giant publishers. They work really hard to prevent regulating loot boxes/gambling, console jailbreaking, and are behind pretty much any evil thing the industry does. If they were in the EU, they’d no doubt fight against the stop killing games initiative too.
- Comment on What Do Kids Want for Holiday Gifts? Video Games, Of Course! They Also Want Their Parents to Game Alongside Them 4 months ago:
Fuck the ESA
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
There’s no “simple fundamental flaw” in AI that people don’t know about. It bothers me when people who have never thought about
xin their life think aboutxonce, make an obvious observation, and then go off acting like nobody else is smart enough to have made that observation. It’s narcissism. It’s annoying.Please prove me wrong though. I would love to see this grift come crashing down all because you saw something that nobody else saw.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I recently (a few months ago) built a new high-end server for my homelab, and bought 512GB of DDR4 ECC RAM for around $510. I just looked it up, and those exact same modules are around $2.5k to $3.5k for the same amount. That’s more than I paid for the entire machine.
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 4 months ago:
It doesn’t matter. It’s a rumor that one US president sucked off another US president, except there’s a sliver of credibility in it. It’s one of the least likely things imaginable, yet here it is showing up in a context where you can’t just completely dismiss it as an obvious shitty joke. This is probably going to become one of the most iconic and significant memes in American history, even if it turns out to be false. Our great grandkids will be joking about it in their locker rooms.
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 4 months ago:
But the emails also show that they knew how to get politicians to owe them favors. Pretending like Bubba is someone so Trump owes him one is well within the behavior we’ve seen discussed in the files.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 months ago:
Damn those headphones you have are from the pre-enshitiffication era. Cherish them!
The headphones work without the app fortunately, but you need it to control EQ settings, isolation settings, and install firmware updates. They’re kinda like the shitty software that PC gaming peripherals ship to control LED colors or whatever.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 months ago:
I’m using “Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones” manufactured in 2024, according to the app. I can’t find any model number, but I just looked up the order in my email and it turns out I’ve actually only had it for a little over a year, and the price was a ridiculous $380. Luckily, I only ended up paying around $200 because I had reward points with the vendor, but I would definitely not recommend these to anyone at $400. At $200? Maybe, but I wouldn’t buy it again at that lower price.
My ears fit in the cups, but they still get tired sometimes after wearing them the entire day. Idk what to tell you, I guess my ears are too big and brush up against the inside of the cups? It’s not a real issue for me, and doesn’t happen often, which is why I didn’t even mention comfort as being a problem.
Do you really not experience any of the software issues I mentioned? The Bose app even says I’m on the latest firmware version.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 months ago:
I actually have been using those Bose QC over the ear ones for a few years now (and I already had to replace the pads once), and they’re not great. IIRC I paid like $300, and they’re definitely not worth that much. I’m not that picky about sound quality, but the UX is terrible. Powering it on is a crap shoot. Sometimes you press the button, and 5 seconds later it plays a sound to indicate it turned on. Sometimes it takes 10 seconds, sometimes more. Sometimes it doesn’t even turn on, and you just sit there doing nothing waiting to see if it decided to turn on this time, or if you have to hold the button for ~30 seconds to get it unstuck. Sometimes that sound that plays when powering on even gets interrupted by the bluetooth connection notice. Sometimes, it gets stuck in a loop switching between sound isolation modes, just endlessly saying “Aware. Immersion. Quiet.” until you intervene.
It’s also hard to simply wear them around your neck when your ears get tired and you just want to use them as tiny speakers. This is for two reasons. First, the placement of the physical buttons on the side of the cups means that they will accidentally get pressed when the cups collide (which will happen when you wear them around your neck). Second, they will constantly pause whenever they get close to your chin, as they’ll think you took them off your head. That part is overly sensitive, and they were too cheap/lazy to add a simple sensor to detect the rotation of the cups to know when they’re not being used over-ear.
And finally, the battery life is not good enough to last an entire work day, so you’ll have to connect them to power… except, for some reason, connecting a usb cable to charge causes it to shutdown immediately. You can use them while charging, but you have to power them back on/reconnect them after connecting the cable, which means you have to play the annoying waiting/guessing game again with the power button!
I have other complaints, but whatever. When they’re working, they’re fine, but I’m probably done with Bose. These little issues on such an expensive product left a bad taste in my mouth. I don’t know how Sony’s over the ear headphones compare, but the in-ear ones I have are amazing simply because they work as intended 99% of the time without any of this kind of bullshit.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 months ago:
Lol this reminds me of that time the US Air Force built a giant compute cluster using PlayStation 3s. Idk if Sony sold those at a loss, but they certainly didn’t see any game purchases coming from the US Department of Defense
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 months ago:
They make some pretty good bluetooth headphones though…
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 months ago:
- New home console (called “GabeCube”)
- New Steam controller
- New VR Headset (called “Steam Frame”)
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 months ago:
BTW, to answer your original question: just because someone is a lawyer doesn’t mean that can’t also know how to sew. I wouldn’t be surprised to find a darning egg or two in a legal professional’s briefcase. They do have to wear fancy suits, after all.