halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on 2hot2handle 3 days ago:
Except that 9 months took place on a space station. There were regular cargo missions to the station. And they could have been brought back at any nearly any point if necessary. Other astronauts literally went up and came back from the Station in that 9 months.
The timeframe being so long was almost entirely about the Starliner itself and what they were going to do with a known defective and potentially unusable spacecraft, where the only trained pilots were those astronauts, not anything with the astronauts themselves.
If the station wasn’t an option for whatever reason (despite it literally being part of the planned mission), then other contingencies would have been available or at least planned already. This wasn’t an Apollo 13 situation where not making it back was a serious concern.
- Comment on ICE chief vows to ‘flood’ Boston with agents after Dem mayor vows to resist 1 week ago:
So they’re going to invade? Aren’t they the ones complaining about invasions by “unwanted” people?
I know it’s all bullshit, but I still have to point out the hypocrisy whenever and wherever they do it.
- Comment on Lil Nas X arrested for battery of a police officer | CNN 1 week ago:
To the LAPD, being black and walking towards them is “charging a police officer”.
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 1 week ago:
Mandatory school advertising on your children. And people say advertising in the US is out of control…
- Comment on I fast-forward through the songs... 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 2 weeks ago:
I mean, we already have memory cards like microSD. And SSDs have been shrinking for a while now. Not surprising someone is getting to the point where the line blurs.
- Comment on Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP 2 weeks ago:
This is one of the few games I keep installed and jump back to just as a chill game that requires no intense planning or strategy. The mechanics are simple, well executed, and easy to pick back up after not playing for a while. So many games have tons of complex mechanics that are fine when you’re playing it, but hard to remember if you haven’t touched it in a while.
- Comment on I may or may not have gotten way too in the trees@sh.itjust.works and eaten an entire block of cream cheese 2 weeks ago:
More like 2 with the proper amount of cream cheese.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I see you’ve never heard of any big guys nicknames being Tiny?
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 2 weeks ago:
No, they reverted a lot of that. Bulk restoring even “overwritten” post data several weeks and months after the fact, after most people stopped checking.
- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 4 weeks ago:
It is intentionally vague, because companies want to be able to weasel out of any and all accountability whenever possible.
But Mastercard isn’t off the hook either way even if we accept the rules as they are currently. Before this incident, Mastercard has been starting to censor adult content in general with rules changes. To the point where there was already a petition on the ACLU site about this exact type of censorship.
…aclu.org/…/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unj…
Mastercard is trying to weasel their way out of this particular instance because they didn’t directly have a hand in this video game situation, even though they clearly would agree with it based on other recent changes. They’re trying to play both sides by assuming that people didn’t know they were already doing these things.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 4 weeks ago:
What I see is Mastercard hiding behind their generic rules for processors and being fine with the processors taking unilateral action that could damage their brand.
Mastercard should demand they rescind the decision based on a flawed interpretation of their rules since the content IS NOT ILLEGAL where Steam provides it, or drop those processors entirely due to the brand damage their unilateral decision has caused.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 4 weeks ago:
That’s almost surely a result of how Valve works internally for approving projects. They operate with a flat management structure. With no bosses or managers, the employees themselves choose which projects to work on. The philosophy is that Valve only hires the best, and they should operate at their best doing what they enjoy instead of simply being told what to do.
Every employee at Valve is given the freedom to join whatever project they choose, or to create a new one. They are encouraged to work on what they feel if the most important project to the company and what will have the highest direct impact on their customers.
If the Valve employees wanted to make Half Life 3, they would. At this point the joke is that Valve simply can’t count to three. Half Life 1 and 2, them Episode 1 and Episode 2, Portal 1 and Portal 2, Team Fortress and Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike 2. Several of these have had other interim releases, especially Counter-Strike, but those were always based on the previous game and not a totally new game from scratch, much like the Half Life Episodes.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 4 weeks ago:
Steam can 100% enter any market they want, especially something entirely digital like online payment processing. That’s pretty closely related to what they do already. They just have to have a reason to want to do so.
Steam makes a reported $3.5 million per employee from commissions alone. Possibly as much at $19 million per head across the board. To put that into perspective, Facebook, one of the most profitable companies on the planet, averages a net income of $780,000 per employee, and Apple at $476,000 per employee.
pcgamer.com/…/valves-reported-profit-per-head-fro…
Steam may not be as large as those companies, but they’re so effectively streamlined. So much of their profits come from existing systems that only need minimal maintenance as opposed to needing to constantly develop new products. It is a well-oiled money printing machine at this point. And nothing they do is based on any sort of speculation bubble threatening to burst at any point.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 4 weeks ago:
100% they would try to ban anything with any sort of romance in it if they could.
Collective Shout is a group of anti-porn nutjobs hiding behind a feminist facade.
Surprisingly, not American, the Australians decided to join the puritanical bullshit this time.
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, a lot of energy drinks also take like crap and have weird flavors and aftertastes.
I can 100% see someone making that mistake if they don’t normally drink alcohol or energy drinks all the time.
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 4 weeks ago:
It may have been there longer, but when I go to the store 90% of the energy drinks are in the larger cans like Monster, not the traditional Red Bull can size.
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 4 weeks ago:
Huh. I thought Celsius was an alcoholic drink already. That’s kind of the usual can size for those while energy drinks usually are Monster sized. Some exceptions if course, like Red Bull, but generally across the board those sizes are standardized for lack of a better descriptor.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 5 weeks ago:
My current Amazfit GTS 2 advertised a week, and I only get about 36 hours with heart rate every 15 minutes and sleep tracking overnight.
- Comment on Off topic 5 weeks ago:
There is a lot of text just to bitch to people that probably don’t care about niche differences. We’re talking about budget options here, not “audiophile” snake oil.
I do trust the opinion of places like Rtings and while that is definitely a generic mid-range system, it’s what they recommended for a budget soundbar system. You provided opinion and an alternative that’s twice as expensive for a pair of bookshelf speakers.
I don’t personally care about a random “audiophile” opinion, especially on a random site like Lemmy. From my experience most of those opinions usually are about as good as Monster cables were. 100% when that audio opinion includes absolutely horrendous a things like “I have two ears: I only need to speakers.”
- Comment on Off topic 5 weeks ago:
Quality audio doesn’t have to cost a ton. You can get a quality budget Dolby Atmos soundbar for less than $350.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 5 weeks ago:
God do I miss the 30 day battery life.isplaced my charger a bunch of times because I simply wasn’t using it.
My current Amazfit barely gets a day with my usage. And I only use it for notifications and sleep tracking.
- Comment on Off topic 5 weeks ago:
It’s not that it’s mixed shitty, it’s that they never remixed it for new releases. So it still uses the theater audio mix and range where there’s 12,000+ watts of audio power available and like 12 audio channels.
When they actually remix it to a home release format the issues almost always go away. Even remixing for 5.1 most TVs can downmix to stereo just fine.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 5 weeks ago:
I’ve still been trying to find good replacements for my Pebble. Long battery life, and just doing what it needs to without gimmicks or extra unnecessary crap. My watch doesn’t need to be a mini phone, it’s there to tell me if I need to bother with the actual phone.
Went through Vector and Amazfit since my OG Pebble and Pebble Time.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 5 weeks ago:
The shareholders aren’t the ones pressuring the payment processors.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 5 weeks ago:
That hasn’t ever stopped other companies from pursuing profits at all other costs.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 5 weeks ago:
I don’t even understand how they give a shit. Seems like the perfect place for shareholders to want them to make as much money as possible, and there aren’t many alternatives.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 1 month ago:
Badically. “Liquid/fluid” and “gas” don’t necessarily mean the same thing scientifically as they do colloquially, they’re actually very close to the same thing.
Fluid dynamics covers the study of liquids, gasses, and plasmas because they’re effectively the same.
- Comment on Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors 1 month ago:
Maybe they should have a way of determining where someone is from and not process transactions for those regions… Oh wait, that’s a fundamental function of what they already do.
