halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Day 107, suspicions are high and a fear I must soon leaf 1 day ago:
Found the NIMBY that demands the 5x more expensive equipment, that isn’t as capable because it has to be hidden, and still complains about service being bad.
- Comment on Day 107, suspicions are high and a fear I must soon leaf 1 day ago:
Yup, and these disguised sites can cost 3-5x as much to install and maintain depending on the specific style needed for the area.
It also limits the compatible networking hardware that can be used, which can be more expensive than what’s necessary for those locations.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
With all the effort now being on AI cheating, you’d think some students would instead try to look at older cheating methods to slide under that AI radar.
But that would require the critical thinking skills that they aren’t learning now, because of the AI crutch.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 2 days ago:
Public officials should not be able to sign NDAs with private businesses.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Not at all. Trump famously got a bullshit diagnosis of bone spurs to dodge the draft.
The U.S. Constitution states that the president must:
- Be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
- Be at least 35 years old.
- Have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.
Beyond that, it’s just what the people want to consider required qualifications.
- Comment on It's funny how we say "a bug hit my windshield" when we are the ones going 70mph. I'll bet the bug's family describes it differently 4 days ago:
You sure about that? Many of the close calls I’ve had as both a pedestrian and a cyclist, the car driver seems pretty sure it was my fault.
Of course the driver of the vehicle is going to say that. Otherwise they would have to admit they fucked up.
That’s not a comparable situation though to what I’m talking about. Your example is about the driver of the vehicle in question, not someone reading about an event later that wasn’t involved. To an uninvolved third party, they’re not going to say that a pedestrian is at fault most of the time when it’s just a car versus pedestrian. They’re going to assume the driver of the death mobile was the issue.
- Comment on It's funny how we say "a bug hit my windshield" when we are the ones going 70mph. I'll bet the bug's family describes it differently 1 week ago:
But neither do those articles actively discuss the crash as the driver’s fault
That’s because in every one of the given examples it’s painfully obvious the driver is at fault. Those aren’t scenarios where there’s any ambiguity. It’s not a scenario where a car hit someone on a highway, where fault could easily be either direction.
Driving into a building is clearly caused by the driver of the vehicle. That’s the situation in all of those examples.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There’s a reason most of the presidents we consider the best were former military. They have that experience. They also tended to avoid conflicts whenever possible. It’s not a coincidence.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
This show is feeling relevant every single day now.
- Comment on It’s Well Past Time for a Four-Day Workweek 2 weeks ago:
If only you could sue your employer for false advertising.
- Comment on Are you worthy of this little treat ? 2 weeks ago:
Dairy Queen has blended ice cream they call blizzards. They famously hold them upside down to show you they are thick enough to not fall, as opposed to the milkshakes everyone else makes.
And the scene it’s photoshopped into is from Gladiator. It refers to a hand gesture used by Ancient Roman crowds to pass judgment on a defeated gladiator following duels in colosseums. Thumbs up meant life, thumbs down meant death.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
300GB apparently. So not far off. Especially with SSD prices these days.
- Comment on How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media 2 weeks ago:
Social media has allowed all the individual village idiots to unify under one banner.
It used to be that every village had their idiot that everyone in the village knew to ignore. However, now the idiots can post publicly just like everyone else. So the idiots can now talk to each other. And as a group, they manage to achieve a perceived credibility by sheer number. So you end up with people that aren’t quite at that level that see the group and think they’re smarter than they are… and this just keeps growing at each level.
Eventually you have people with literal brain damage running major government departments.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
No, “experience” is just corporate shareholder wording for this type of thing. You’re looking at this statement from a gamer’s perspective, but this is a company announcing the price of a product. Statements worded like this are talking to shareholders, regardless of where the statement is being made. Rockstar doesn’t give a shit about what gamers think about the price, this is Rockstar giving shareholders a unit price they can base estimated revenue from.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Never say never.
Rockstar only loses money by releasing both at the same time. PC-only gamers will wait to get it on PC, but the gamers that also have consoles and don’t want to wait will buy it on console, and then buy it again on PC when that releases in roughly a year (just like GTA V and RDR2). It was never launching on PC at the same time as consoles, the chances of that were 0% after Rockstar saw the multiple millions of dollars in extra sales they got thanks to those staggered releases.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Also wtf is a “single player experience”? Is this going to focus almost completely on GTA Online?
Pretty sure it means the exact opposite. GTA Online is NOT a single player experience in any way shape or form. They’re saying that it isn’t going to have that at launch.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Oh that was NEVER going to happen. They found out with GTA V and RDR2 that they can triple dip on sales at full price by staggering releases and upgrades. Rockstar will never release everything at the same time again.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Some people like to still have the box for collection purposes. Personally, I agree. I think the only physical option at this point should be something like a collectible steelbook if all they’re going to have is a redemption code.
- Comment on So guess what boss 2 weeks ago:
Meanwhile it would have cost $$ for both the downtime and repair cost to fix the issue before failure. Now that it failed it will cost $$$$$ to fix it as an emergency.
- Comment on I have questions 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of a place on Atlanta. Chinese restaurant on one side, and a wing place on the other. They even had a door between them. All the unused wings from breaking down those chickens just ending up next door.
- Comment on Is Ace Combat 8 (Deluxe) worth getting for ¥11,990? 3 weeks ago:
This preorder includes the new PC remake for Ace Combat Zero for free.
The only scenario where I would consider it a positive value. A free game I would normally purchase anyway.
- Comment on Is Ace Combat 8 (Deluxe) worth getting for ¥11,990? 3 weeks ago:
It’s $89.99 in the US for the Deluxe Edition.
Also keep in mind the preorder comes with the PC remake of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War. One of the three best AC games, only playable on PS2 or emulators, with mixed results. So basically you get two Ace Combat games for the price of one by preordering. It does not need to be the Deluxe version, just a preorder in general.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 3 weeks ago:
As terrible as much of that movie is… It is a great movie overall and a recommended watch.
- Comment on Israel, Stunned by Trump’s Iran Deal, Sees It as a ‘Catastrophic Capitulation’ 3 weeks ago:
A reminder that we were instrumental in that regime in the first place. Iran had a democratically elected leadership in place and were very similar to Western democracies before the US and UK helped topple that government in 1953 because we didn’t like it.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says "YouTube monetizes Xbox better than we do", ahead of expected layoffs | Satya Nadella bemoans performance of Xbox 3 weeks ago:
You’re describing the entire AAA gaming industry. It was like that before Xbox, and it will be like that after.
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 3 weeks ago:
I can understand someone drawing a line between the playground and sewage facility when it comes to putting things in their mouth… But that’s not really the same on the receiving end.
- Comment on Browser? I barely knew her! 3 weeks ago:
They did a shittier version of the same episode on the Orville after finding some woman’s “ancient recording device” aka a basic ass iPhone, and I do not understand why people claim that’s a good show.
Ah yes… Because a device from 400 years in the past could never be considered “ancient” by anyone.
- Comment on Why even try? The peak of humor has already been reached 3 weeks ago:
Had a neighbor in the area that had a flagpole with a US Flag and Trump flag for years. After the Epstein files came out and Charlie Kirk was killed… That became a US flag and Turning Point USA flag. At some point for a bit there was a don’t tread on me flag sprinkled in there.
We’ve been considering getting an even taller pole just to fly a US flag, Don’t Tread On Me flag, and the LGBTQ rainbow flag. Because it will 100% confuse the fuck out of them.
All of a sudden last week, the neighbor’s entire flag pole is gone. Oh and this neighbor’s address is on the sex offender registry for sexual crimes with a minor. Of course.
Still not sure why the entire pole is missing, can’t even tell where it used to be in the ground.
- Comment on 'We Are Well Above Our Forecasts' — 007 First Light Sales Are Now at 3 Million, IO Interactive 'Very Confident' It Will Be Profitable 4 weeks ago:
Layoffs after a launch are normal. Studios don’t need the same set of employees to support a game after launch, or to start on a new one as they do to finish a release. There is a lot of turnover in the industry because of it. Not every position is needed from beginning to end over several years.
Not everyone working on games are direct employees either, some will be contract. And bonuses can still be paid out after people are no longer actively needed if that was part of the pay structure they had. We don’t know exactly how all of that was setup at IOI.
- Comment on What do they put in this stuff? 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, let me just drop on by to the store around the corner in [insert basically anywhere other than the EU] that regularly stocks a specific German soda.
GTFO
