themoonisacheese
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- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 5 days ago:
“sure our game has gambling elements, but we’re Nintendo so shut the fuck up and give us a better rating because you’re a private company in the business of giving ratings”
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
Also: brand shield says they only wanted the url gone but you don’t get that when talking to the registrar. Registrar are all or nothing, so clearly they knew they were doing this
- Comment on Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs 1 week ago:
The statute of limitations may have passed, or the prosecutor may be uninterested
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 2 weeks ago:
Number for number, sure, if it’s actually available at that price.
The problem is that Intel’s drivers sucked in the past, so they definitely have to prove themselves with this launch. I definitely wouldn’t be buying it release day if I needed a GPU.
- Comment on I've had the same laptop for seven years. Don't know much about them besides buy a Toshiba. Is this Hp Essential Laptop a good deal? 3 weeks ago:
It’s… Not great. It’s on par with other $300 laptops, which isn’t saying much. 8Gb of RAM in current year isn’t really enough anymore, and the screen is basically the cheapest possible. You’re looking for a laptop with a screen resolution near 1920x1080, and ideally 16 Gb of RAM.
It’s gotten very hard to recommend laptops based on the brand name, since pretty much every brand has started pumping out crappy laptops to capitalize on the brand.
Like others said, try looking at business laptops, either surplus or liquidation sales. They’re not great either but at least you’re ideally not getting fleeced.
If you’re feeling adventurous (and I’m mincing my words, this won’t be a breeze if you don’t know much but you’ll learn a ton), the best bang for buck you can get in a portable format is a Steam Deck with USB hub + mouse and keyboard (could be travel size if you want). Can be had for less than $500, if you have the budget portable screens also exist, and for that price it beats any modern laptop under $1000. I understand that it’s not exactly for everyone though.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 3 weeks ago:
I love how this doesn’t even begin to cover bad kbs ms pushed out. The fact that windows admins think testing updates before deploying them is a routine operation that should always be done boggles my mind.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 3 weeks ago:
Jesus Christ.
I’ve been doing linux admin and honestly I haven’t been looking back. My breaking point was Microsoft pushing a kb that rebooted domain controllers for no reason.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Ready gaming fires away in this Kraber g200 montage!
- Comment on Claim Now! 4 weeks ago:
YES
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 4 weeks ago:
That’s nice, be sure to tell us how it goes when HSTS is enabled
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 5 weeks ago:
If you own track mania nations forever on steam, you will be unable to run it on a modern OS. You can install mods to make it work but the game is still for sale and if you’re unaware the mod exists, you’ll never be able to play it again
- Comment on Mama's boy 5 weeks ago:
It bothers me that Oedipus wasn’t even aware that she was his mother, and Freud named it that anyway
- Comment on If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed? 5 weeks ago:
Because the entire idea of online voting is terrible and we should never ever ever do it except when it’s to name a boat. This is coming from a dev and sysadmin, we are the people who know and we are telling you it’s a terrible idea.
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 5 weeks ago:
It’s probably expired.
- Comment on Ads 1 month ago:
Smarttubenext
- Comment on Whatever happened to racing games 1 month ago:
If you liked art of rally, I suggest Parking Garage Rally Circuit. Much of the same vibe.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 1 month ago:
I used to have these issues and I’m sorry to say you are, in fact, using it wrong.
If you find your coils burning out regularly when the tank is not empty, it’s most likely because you haven’t properly set the power on your vape. My coils have the appropriate power printed on them, and they only ever burn out when I forget to fill the tank. My current coil has been in operation for 7 months, I have 25785 puffs on it (the vape counts them). Before this vape, I didn’t care about setting the power and my coils would constantly burn out and I had the same frustration as you.
My current vape also does not leak, despite the fact that I manually replaced the seals when I broke the glass tank (so it’s not just that the factory made it well).
As for the liquide, yeah. Personally I buy base and flavor in the mail and mix them myself, but that’s probably also illegal for you.
Be careful with disposables. Their nicotine levels are way higher than advertised, because they want to build the addiction to their product.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 1 month ago:
Obviously prohibition doesn’t work, but banning disposables specifically should be mandated everywhere. It is insane that a product that contains rechargeable lithium batteries is not rechargeable, or if it is it must be thrown away after less than a month.
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 1 month ago:
I mean, not connecting machines to the internet is entirely reasonable (though in my opinion having them at all is insane).
That’s really interesting though, because your model creates a system where fraud can exist but can be checked (and thus it will, not doing it would be insane), whereas ours removes the problem entirely. I know that you personally don’t have the power to change it, of courses I’m just fascinated by the ways society manages to create deeply flawed systems and prop them up like we can’t do any better.
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 1 month ago:
I mean, yes here too, but we’re still assigned a specific place. My voting location is booth 6 at my local primary school, and someone else in my city might get one of the booths at their closest location despite both of us being in the same district.
Even at that primary school, I’m only on the ledger at booth 6, if I tried voting at booth 5 they wouldn’t let me (though they would point me to the booth right next to them of course)
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 1 month ago:
How do people vote at different locations? Here we are only registered to vote in a single location, if we’re away then we have to go to the police station and sign a delegation form to allow a trusted person to vote for us in the original location.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 early access should last "2 to 3 years" - it'll launch with "several biomes" and "some narrative" 2 months ago:
I was wanting to play it with friends but I’m just gonna have to wait for release. Subnautica on EA release was garbage compared to 1.0.
- Comment on It's honest work 2 months ago:
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 2 months ago:
A vpn is not a proxy and cannot do anything to protect you beyond changing your exit point. You are not anonymous using a vpn, especially not with any vpn that has servers in a five eyes country.
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 2 months ago:
If you’re logged in a vpn that’s also true of the vpn, and all these measures are not stopping FAANGS
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 3 months ago:
I heard good word about Paradise Killer, in which you’re also a detective and must figure out the truth
The outer wilds is amazing. You should play it.
- Comment on Oof ouch owie 3 months ago:
To be a victim of maga extremism, you must already be bigoted enough to think that it is a reasonable opinion to have to want black and LGBT people to die. She deserved what she got.
- Comment on So sick! 3 months ago:
Custom T-shirts with extremely limited runs (hundreds) cost $10. Creators are selling them for $20+. Creator merch is a scam or if you want to look at it more positively, a donation with an item in return but no items sold by a creator is even close to a reasonable profit margin.
- Comment on 'The Accountant 2' Release Date: Ben Affleck Sequel Set For Spring 2025 4 months ago:
I found it fine really. He’s great at killing because he was traumatized into being a super soldier and having plot amor, not because he’s autistic.
- Comment on First reactions to Borderlands call it a "game over" 4 months ago:
I’ll have you know butt stallion is very sad you didn’t enjoy the joke
