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- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 5 days ago:
who the heck even buys gas leaf blowers anymore
Gas blowers are about half the purchase price. And in this ‘first thing I looked up’ match up, are even slightly better speced.
- Comment on How do you voice chat without bothering roommates? 5 days ago:
Since y’all aren’t sharing a room, closing your door and speaking softly is usually sufficient. Make sure you have a mic that rests in front of your mouth, and isn’t setting far away on your desk. That way it can pick you up easily.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 5 days ago:
Exactly, every time I say ‘I’m thinking of putting up a Factorio server, you want in?’, they are significantly less likely to be playing (or paying for) the newest game that has kernel-level access. Why, because we are playing Factorio for the next few weeks together and Factorio is fun.
Factorio isn’t the only game we play, but the point is to reinforce yours. If you are playing fun game x, your friends are more likely to play x instead of something else. Even if they have no care about Kernel-Level access, the fact you do affects their buying (and playing) patterns.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 6 days ago:
First of all, plenty of people would be happy to self-host a game for their friends, if they were still allowed the option.
Exactly! Me and my friends often play on modded Factorio servers that one of us hosts. This is only possible because the developer doesn’t lock things down to only the first-party (official) servers.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 6 days ago:
Why would they listen to your personal complaint if you, singular, are going to buy it anyway? Your voice only matters to a company if it means you won’t buy their product otherwise.
- Comment on Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, seems OP is getting tired of the live service grind. Subnautica (start with the first) and Hollow Knight are both excellent single player games to try out.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for the solid points. People are dooming way too hard, simply because their preferred candidate lost this round.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
teetering on brink of another civil war
Shit has to get much, much, much worse before people are willing to take up arms against their own family member 'en mass. A civil war isn’t one in which you fight a far away enemy, a civil war is one in which many of your family members and friends are on the opposite side. We are nowhere near a civil war, not even close.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
Happened 8 years ago, it wasn’t the end of America then. It won’t be the end of America now.
- Comment on It’s Not Hard For A Billion-Dollar Company To Credit An Artist From Time To Time 5 weeks ago:
It’s Not Hard For A Billion-Dollar Company To Credit An Artist From Time To Time
The companies who own these games never bother to credit the artist
I guess I’m a bit confused here. Every film I have seen in my entire life credits the artists, and many games do as well.
- Comment on Games to play with my late 40s brothers? 1 month ago:
Some games that make for some fun coop and don’t require a ton of screen time. All of these are at least gold rated on ProtonDB, though I’m not sure about crossplay with consoles on any:
- Sanctum - A shooter and tower defense (Sanctum 2 was also real good)
- Borderlands 1 - Looter shooter with some solid humor (Borderlands 2 was also real good, but goes downhill after that)
- […steampowered.com/…/MechWarrior_5_Mercenaries/](MechWarrior 5) - Who doesn’t want to be a giant mech riddled with guns?
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/550/Left_4_Dead_2/ - Fight together to escape zombies, or in multiplayer servers work together as the zombies to take out other humans
Now, less of a focus on shooters:
- Golf It and Golf With Your Friends - Put-put golf taken to extreme levels
- Magica 2 - Murder enemies together in a top-down wizard game
- BattleBlock Theater](store.steampowered.com/…/BattleBlock_Theater/) - Jump over obstacles and solve puzzles together
- Comment on On a lighter note: Why do people still buy fast food? 1 month ago:
Do note, you can assemble a sub at home in the time it took you to just drive one way.
- Comment on Can you help me find this political infographic? 1 month ago:
That second graph is a doozy. What is driving the two? I’m assuming the Trump plan involves a cut to capital gains tax?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Highly, highly recommend using GOG. Buying is owning. There is no DRM and they even provide offline installers for the games you buy.
But they updated the terms of use and apparently now, stating that buying is not owning
This has always been the case for Steam and every other service that isn’t GOG.
- Comment on How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed? 2 months ago:
Realistically, one would just dig down a few inches, break up the concrete, cut the post, then backfill the dirt. Put any new post you need a foot to the side.
- Comment on How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed? 2 months ago:
From what I have seen, it’s everyone going to college and looking for white collar, not blue collar jobs. There is a labor shortage in the construction/contracting industry that is leading to them raising prices. It’s also why getting a job in the trades is pretty solid right now.
- Comment on How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed? 2 months ago:
I don’t have a number for you, but get 2-3 quotes. Labor is expensive, it’s going to be your main cost here, not materials.
Basically every quote I have gotten for anything has been a much higher number than I would have liked by a good margin. Been doing more and more stuff myself. A fence replacement is very much so in the realm of something you can do yourself if you are getting sticker shock at your quotes.
- Comment on Oxford Study: Those Dastardly Video Games Are Good For Improving Your Mood 2 months ago:
Just remember to not play League of Legends. I’m pretty sure that game is designed to trick you into thinking you are having fun, but what is actually happening is everyone is yelling at you and you are probably yelling (at least privately) too.
- Source, Every LoL player I have ever been on voice chat with
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
And it was something people were hoping would save the game. But, it’s unfortunately more confirmation that Bethesda can no longer produce quality games.
- Comment on Subnautica - Time Capsule Galore 2 months ago:
Lol, capsule distributor apparently running a little high on stock!
- Comment on Why would someone desite a pension instead of a 401k? 3 months ago:
Unless you are retiring in the next decade, it is highly advisable to invest a 401k in the stock market. You get significantly higher returns over the long run. And any losses due to a recession are more than made up for by the significantly higher returns every other year.
When you are nearing retirement (5-10 years out), that is when you want to put the money into something safe and stable like CDs. That way if there is a recession as you retire, it won’t affect your fund.
- Comment on Why would someone desite a pension instead of a 401k? 3 months ago:
Stocks are 293% higher today than they were at the peak of 2007. Even if they bought all of their stock at that peak right before the 2008 recession, the market had fully recovered by 2012. It isn’t the market keeping them from retiring…
- Comment on Why would someone desite a pension instead of a 401k? 3 months ago:
On that note, it makes a ton of sense to take full advantage of 401k plans. At least put it enough for the company match to max out, and preferably put more in to cap out the annual limit for it. That isn’t possible for everyone, but it’s both tax advantaged and pre-tax money, so an extra $500/mo into the 401k is NOT $500 removed from your post-tax pay.
- Comment on Why would someone desite a pension instead of a 401k? 3 months ago:
Even before, people would often work later into life. Many people are fucking terrible with money and if spent poorly, you may need a job even with the pension.
- Comment on Why would someone desite a pension instead of a 401k? 3 months ago:
I’m personally with you. I prefer to manage my own money rather than hope my employer is solvent 40 years from now to pay a pension.
Some people don’t want to to think about investing in their own retirement, and they see the pension as a more stable and safe solution.
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 3 months ago:
So blame them for being too stupid to see your worth…You’re waiting a company worthy of your talents finds you.
Careful with this. If you legitimately feel you are entitled to be hired by a specific employer, you are almost certainly less likely to get the job. Nobody wants to deal with entitled people.
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 3 months ago:
At the end of my interviews, before saying bye,I ask what I could have done better. Almost always received constructive criticism. I highly recommend it.
- Comment on Do people actually starve themselves to play games like World of Warcraft? 3 months ago:
Yeah, kinda sounds like he should put the whole game down. That monthly sub isn’t cheap either. Shit adds up.
- Comment on 'Cities: Skylines II' Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords 3 months ago:
We have those IRL as well, condos and townhouses. Many people choose to go for those.
- Comment on Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game? 3 months ago:
Best we got is a new Skyrim version. What do you mean you don’t want to buy the game you already own again? We made 20 different versions, all just for you to buy!
