CarbonatedPastaSauce
@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can big tech and privacy coexist? (00:36:21) 1 day ago:
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 day ago:
Yes I know. Real sports have “motor” in front of them. lol
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 day ago:
Counterpoint- all sports are silly. That’s why they are called games.
I don’t dunk on wrestling fans anymore because people are free to enjoy whatever they want. But it’s always been like this. It didn’t change - you did. Personal growth!
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 day ago:
I mostly played video games in between intense bursts of productivity to get work done.
Yes, I was doing this before remote work was a thing. You just have to be slick. I once set up a “lab” of three PCs to “test some new software” in a back room and then played Birth of the Federation on one of them while the other two ran perf counter output, for 3 months straight. This was an act of desperation to keep my mind busy. They had laid almost everyone off in the company so I didn’t have much to do, but it started a tradition that carried me all the way to retirement!
- Comment on Who can I ask or where can I find help in moving to a new country? 6 days ago:
Reddit is garbage. The end.
- Comment on Who can I ask or where can I find help in moving to a new country? 6 days ago:
You forgot the -
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 1 week ago:
Ah yeah not much you can do about that unless you put an aftermarket cooler on it and that’s a PITA.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 1 week ago:
Very unbiased source there.
I’m primarily a PC gamer but I buy ALL THE VIDEO GAME THINGS, so I have every console that comes out, even if I’m only going to play one game on it (looking at you, Returnal). Who is he trying to convince? Cause he’s full of shit.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 1 week ago:
Stop buying cheap fans?
My last two PCs I built were top of the line and they’re basically silent just with Noctua air cooling.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 2 weeks ago:
It was cardboard with red and yellow paint on it.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 2 weeks ago:
Those things used to be on every single bank drive-up teller booth in the 80’s and 90’s.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 2 weeks ago:
Truth. Whatever they did 10-15 years ago made it tolerable. Not great, but tolerable.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 weeks ago:
Counterpoint - you can boycott whoever you want for as long as you want whether the world is getting saved or not. Try not to give a shit what other people are doing. You don’t have to change the world. You just have to stick to your own principles. And if enough people do that, the world will change anyway. But all you can control is your own actions.
I have a long list of boycotted companies that I have never gone back on. Started with Blackjack Pizza in college when they wouldn’t refund a pizza that had oven cleaner all over the bottom of it. Facebook gone for 15 years now, and I go without the cool Quest VR stuff. Walmart kicked to the curb around the same time for their gross abuse of their employees. Amazon ditched 3 years ago, don’t miss it. I’d love to have Starlink to put on a vehicle when I travel the country, but it’ll be a cold day in hell before Muskrat gets a dollar out of me. Canceled all my Target shit (20 year card member) a couple months ago over their DEI bullshit and won’t set foot in one again. I shop at Costco as a single adult. The list goes on.
And while I wish other people would give these companies the finger so real change would happen, it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that I am sticking by what I believe.
- Comment on purpose 2 weeks ago:
Ok but I still think the mosquito thing is worth a try. I’m even willing to live alongside wasps but mosquitoes gotta go!
- Comment on am i insane? 2 weeks ago:
!lemmygold for this guy, damn that was a good post
- Comment on What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made? 2 weeks ago:
One of my absolute favorite science documentaries as a kid!
- Comment on When did movie credits move from the beginning to the end? 2 weeks ago:
George Lucas pulled some heat for not having credits at the front of Star Wars, IIRC. So mid 70s would be my guess.
- Comment on What's that science show where the bird flies through the museum? 2 weeks ago:
I did mess with Lightwave a bit but never got proficient. I cut my teeth on Imagine for the Amiga. IIRC it was like 2-3 hours to render a single frame of a starship flyby animation I made. I remember it took me a couple weeks to render the whole thing.
I only ever did it for fun though. I actually have a lot of respect for those artists. It’s a lot harder than it looks.
- Comment on What's that science show where the bird flies through the museum? 2 weeks ago:
Wow. That would get you a C- in 3D Rendering 101 these days. lol
- Comment on What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made? 2 weeks ago:
Probably would have to be the movie Rubber.
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see the point. How are you going to alt-tab back and forth between the game and Excel with a controller? Pfffft.
- Comment on Petty pedantry 3 weeks ago:
Ok but what type of LAN gauge? Are you talking like an ethernet cable tester, a protocol analyzer, what? Are we dealing with fiber, ethernet, or even shudder token ring?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
My friend, you are railing against the human condition. That’s just how we roll, no cap.
- Comment on Why Chrome only? 3 weeks ago:
I have an very long blacklist of companies for this reason.
The problem with standing up for your privacy is that it massively diminishes the resources available to you. I’m down to shopping at Costco as a single adult, because I had to say fuck you to Target recently, and my local grocery store was busy doing anti-union bullshit at the same time. So I’m driving further and probably paying more in the long run.
But they aren’t principles if you don’t have to give something up to stick by them.
- Comment on Why does tea taste different when I drink it outside? 3 weeks ago:
I think I remember you from that Faces of Addiction poster.
- Comment on What is a TV show that was one of your favourites, but just went on for far too long? 4 weeks ago:
Of course you’re right. I just wish we lived on a world where it stopped sooner and we could enjoy rewatching it, even if it was incomplete - like Firefly. The way it ended, I’ll never watch the show again and that sucks.
- Comment on What is a TV show that was one of your favourites, but just went on for far too long? 4 weeks ago:
I’ll pick the low hanging fruit and say Game of Thrones, because it was great right up until it wasn’t.
- Comment on Why Titles Are Written Like This? 4 weeks ago:
Treat others as you’d like to be treated.
- Comment on No! THIS is a DeGoogled phone! 4 weeks ago:
I prefer 100%.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah sorry, the Unites States of America is gonna be out of order for the next decade or so. We’re working on getting angry enough to get rid of the fuckers who caused it, but it’s gonna take a while.