theragu40

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrinkflation hits IKEA Family by removing 5% discount⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think colloquially people have begun expanding use of the word to include anything where features are removed but the price stays the same.

  Maybe there’s a better word for that, but I understand the parallel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you just had a badly made one. Not all franchises are equal.

  A well made big Mac tastes good. There’s a reason it’s been around this long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worth trying if you’re interested, IMO.

  Morning mind-blowing (except the morning crunch wrap, which is mind-blowing). But they are pretty consistent, and have a lot more options than most fast food places when it comes to healthy-ish options.

  It’s not Mexican food, it’s not even tex-mex. It’s just taco bell. It’s its own category of food. Go in without preconceived ideas of what it should be and you might find that you enjoy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like McDonald’s. I know, wrong opinion.

  Maybe it’s because it was an occasional treat when I was a kid, but there is something nostalgic about it.

  But it’s definitely hard when eating at McDonald’s with our family of 4 is equivalent to eating at a fast casual place, and starting to approach the cost of a sit-down restaurant. The big happy meals are over 6 bucks now, and that’s starting not to be enough food as our kids get older. If we get a value meal it’s $8-10 each for me and my wife. So even if we go minimal, which usually results in people still being hungry, we are already at ~$30.

  Remember the dollar menu?? I mean if we break each of those meals down to their components of sandwich/fry/drink, if we stayed on the dollar menu what now costs $30 could have been bought for $12. Obviously inflation comes into play a little bit but I’m not sure prices needed to nearly triple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmm. Tuna Dog.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This has to be a new meme format. It’s too good not to be.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Message From the Skype CEO | :Dropout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget hangouts! That was a really fun one to convince my users was a real professional application back in the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an interesting comparison to Deus Ex. I hadn’t thought of that but I agree. It’s definitely got that feel, it’s just much more shallow. Good call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nonetheless, it didn’t really feel finished, y’know? That part wore on me, and I think is what undermined my enjoyment the most. It really was released too early.

  The performance issues seem to be what every article and blog post focuses on because it’s the easy thing to talk about, but I think this right here is what the actual biggest issue was and the real reason people shat on the game.

  I didn’t hate it by any means. And I, like you, ran it without issue. I just sort of lost interest because it was janky and super unpolished. Like I was playing an early access game. It wasn’t big bugs as in the game breaking and not running. It was just lots of little annoyance that felt unfinished or half conceived, or like they didn’t undergo full play testing.

  The massive performance issues experienced by some just compounded those issues that existed even when it did run perfectly well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue was that there were multiple huge problems with the game spread across various platforms that created a big shit storm of negativity.

  • It was straight up broken for many console players.
  • Some PC players had performance issues.
  • For those who had no issues actually running it (like me), the game still had floaty controls and weightless guns. NPCs and vehicles that popped in and out at odd times. Dialog that clipped or played over each other. Completely broken police/wanted system. Confusing and largely ineffectual skill tree.
  • Once you got beyond those issues with game polish, then you were dealing with it not really being the deep scifi RPG they promised, but more of a shooter with RPG elements.

  So you’ve got potential issues from multiple angles, and it just all compounded on itself. For me, I just got bored of dealing with it after like 10 hours. It was janky and that combined with it being nothing like what they hyped it up as just sorta killed it for me even though it ran with no issues.

  With that said, I played for an hour or two after the update and my first impressions are a ton better and it seems like they have really fixed a lot of things. I’m excited to come back to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty simple root cause analysis to conclude that the game’s brokenness was the ultimate reason though. Like, why was the game being massively refunded?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way to open a pop can stealthily?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do this, but also cover the whole operation with a towel. Not quite stealth maybe but it’s about the best you can do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is Indeed a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard someone IRL say it just last week. I think the issue is more specific to certain jobs or industries at this point, whereas before it was widespread and there were worker shortages in every field.

  What I glean now is that a lot of the “no one wants to work anymore” issues are centered around low paying service jobs. Which in my mind tells me basically that people have skilled up to fill better paying roles, and the overall reduction in employable workers means there simply aren’t people willing to work those low paying jobs anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Simmons believes the Knicks will land a big free agent within the next year. 1 of Embiid, Giannis or Mitchell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s also on record plenty of times not enjoying the big city life and doesn’t seem interested in hanging out with other players that aren’t on his team. He’s a stay at home family guy.

  That’s not to say it’s impossible. As a bucks fan I want him to stay forever but I understand there’s a real chance he leaves someday.

  But he’s not going to be swayed to a shitty team just for money or just for the city like some players would. It would need to legitimately be the best chance for him to win, which I really don’t think the Knicks are that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giannis: "I'm a Milwaukee Buck, but most importantly I'm a winner. ... If there is a better situation for me to win the Larry O'Brien I have to take that better situation.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As a bucks fan: 😢

  Please be good, Bucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game has a great story and is worth the time investment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m late to the party, but just wanted to say that your list of purchases and recommended to purchase are just monumental lists of games. So many amazing choices.

  I want to add two more if you have room.

  Psychonauts and Psychonauts 2. They won’t get you as much in the way of epic set pieces, but they are dripping with charm and very well crafted games with some of the most interesting levels I’ve seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game recommendation, looking for easier western 3D ARPG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Witcher 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternatives to bars that stay open late for folks that don't drink alcohol?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic (and no offense taken if you are lol). But I think if you turn it into a home brewed version of Chopped meets Guy’s Grocery Games, you can have a lot of fun with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternatives to bars that stay open late for folks that don't drink alcohol?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol my wife and I absolutely used to go to 24 hour grocery stores at like midnight on weekends back before we had kids. We both love cooking so it was fun to slowly peruse the aisles looking for random things we hadn’t noticed before and coming up with ways to use them.

  Lame I guess, but neither of us likes bars that much and we couldn’t afford to go out that often anyway.

  Different strokes for different folks, and all that :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda hired a Skyrim modder to create the "lighting and clutter" in Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care about Bethesda. As I said I didn’t even buy or play this game. Sorry about the wording.

  I just feel like it’s asinine to say things like “is this the best they can do?” when literally no company puts out their best. And it’s asinine to day things like “but they own id software” when id isn’t the developer making this game. And it’s asinine to expect a company whose games have made gobs of money and sold tens of millions of copies not being a graphical showcase having above average graphics, because why would they suddenly spend time and effort on something they haven’t had to do before and still had success?

  Focusing on wording is nitpicking. I’m quite sure you understood my point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  12k is upgrades is both enough to potentially have the landlord owe additional taxes if they are assessed and not enough to be able to increase amenities enough to meaningfully raise rent.

  The real issue here though is that you don’t go altering someone’s property without their consent. I don’t know how that isn’t the obvious answer here. The amount spent doesn’t even really matter (although I’d argue more spent is even worse, considering it implies greater alterations without consent).

  Landlords can be and very often are terrible. But on a base level if I own a piece of property for which I am ultimately responsible, I see no justification for being ok with someone else making thousands of dollars of changes to that property without getting my ok first. It seems incredibly basic that I as owner should have a say in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda hired a Skyrim modder to create the "lighting and clutter" in Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No it is not the best they can do. I haven’t played starfield yet, but it should be obvious that no company with shareholders to whom they need to answer is ever going to do “the best they can do”.

  That isn’t even their target, at least not overall. Their target is maximum profitability. Putting forth maximum effort for the best graphics is not going to result in max profits, so they were never going to do that.

  And that’s to say nothing of the fact that graphical showcases just aren’t what Bethesda does in the first place. No one should have expected that. This isn’t an id game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I replace my shower controls?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m someone who used my main (only) shower/bath to learn this stuff on. My wife happened to be 8.5 months pregnant. Don’t be me.

  I got it done, it works, it doesn’t leak, it looks how I want. But it was stressful AS FUCK, and my extremely pregnant wife was showering at the YMCA for almost a week while I was dicking around with this stuff (we re-tiled the whole tub surround, including replacing all the drywall with cement board, reinsulating, vapor barrier, etc). Like…I don’t regret doing it because we had tiles falling off and it needed to be done. And I’m glad I learned all the things I learned.

  But it was not easy, I ran into tons of shit I was not prepared to handle and had to figure out on the fly, and it was very time sensitive and stressful. I might have chosen to start earlier if given another chance lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you get a big bite on your eyeball? How would the eyeball respond?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen here you little shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you get a big bite on your eyeball? How would the eyeball respond?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish to unread this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is great advice. The other advice I would give is to make sure the household is prepared for the impact of routing everything through a pihole. There are quite a few things out there on the internet that will simply stop working with the default block lists. Yes, that is obviously the point. But it is helpful to prepare everyone with how to do temporary allows, and have a strategy for what type of things you might want to whitelist and which you’re content with leaving blocked. Otherwise it can be very jarring especially at the beginning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign Maintenance Is Important⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Those signs were awesome and whoever decided they should change to what they have now should be ashamed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Pompey] It’s official. The NBA has fined James Harden $100,000 for public comments.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody thinks they want Kyrie until they have Kyrie. Look inside yourself. You know it to be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there people like this?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  $10M??

  I’d take $10. Seriously. I mean I guess unless the meal was fully paid for and pretty fancy. But with either of these two donuts that feels like hardly a given.

  $10 is a sure bet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is has all the nutrients the body needs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey. People that know butter know kerrygold. Stating that it’s better than kerrygold is a bold claim.