halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 3 days ago:
Oh look a Canadian that can’t see their own descent into the far right fascist rabbit hole on the horizon. Somehow even watching the US, you seem to still be headed that direction as if it couldn’t possibly happen in Canada. Because… reasons?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 4 days ago:
We look like fucking morons on the world stage.
The only sort of solace to this, is that many other countries are clearly following the same path, so its not something inherent to just the US. Idiots are everywhere, and they vote.
Everyone is pointing to the US, but the same initial precursors are happening under their own nose.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 6 days ago:
And yet Proton is Swiss.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 week ago:
the asker must know and trust the one providing the answer.
This is possible if there’s a central authority for that that everyone can agree to trust, like the government records directly. The issue is ensuring the rest of the chain remains anonymous so the only thing the authority gets is the request that an undisclosed service is verifying John Doe is 18+ and nothing else. And that’s not something many governments are going to want to allow with the increasingly alarming amount of authoritarian leadership.
- Comment on Games that I finished this year so far. Probably the best year of gaming for me since 2007 1 week ago:
I totally forgot about the Guardians game. I don’t think I ever finished it. Got lost in the hustle and bustle of life.
Gonna have to go back through that.
- Comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January 1 week ago:
Aww… did the bullying from her own fascist party get to be too scary? Coward.
- Comment on Twin Cities-based ICE employee among 16 arrested in sting operation 1 week ago:
Aside from the fact those three seem to go together a lot…
Seriously though, it should say underage sex sting.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
Of course not. Just pointing out that it’s probably bullshit just like previous similar claims. The exact thing its making fun of.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
There were plenty of articles claiming similar for her dogshit. Where’s the peer reviewed studies?
- Comment on "All I want to do is get off work and go have maximum BroTime at the Make America Gay Again rally." 1 week ago:
Note this is not ICE. This is the Diplomatic Security Service, the State Department’s agents.
It’s not just ICE that get the dipshits nowadays apparently.
- Comment on Twin Cities-based ICE employee among 16 arrested in sting operation 2 weeks ago:
For those that don’t read the article, and because the headline omits critical context…
It was an underage sex sting. Like to Catch a Predator. Which I’m sure you already assumed.
I’m sure the headline not including that info has nothing to do with political party affiliation. No relation whatsoever. No way they’d be trying to hide that as a related factor at all, but would be including it in the headline if it were a Democrat. Nope, they treat party affiliation exactly the same no matter what. /s
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft just needs to start kicking shit out of the Kernel. Allowing any of it is inherently insecure on a fundamental level.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 3 weeks ago:
While the main cooling system is important, the thermal interface material they pick is also a big deal with systems intended to not be user serviced and with long lasting lifetimes like consoles… It honestly depends a lot on what TIM they decided to go with. Traditional thermal pastes are cheap but almost always dry out after just a few years causing much higher temps. Liquid metal is great, but more expensive and you must design it right, vertical orientation can cause leakage if not properly designed (some laptops end up having issues because of this). Phase change material is probably the optimal middle ground for ease of installation, and simplified design.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it [41:26] 4 weeks ago:
It probably doesn’t have a prewash at all. That’s the only reason the door is needed, to prevent the detergent from being used before the actual wash stage.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 4 weeks ago:
Black Flag was a mediocre Assassin’s Creed game, at best. It was a phenomenal pirate game
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Sure wasn’t me running all that stuff when I was 6 years old.
Yeah we didn’t go to the trophy companies at 6 years old and demand they start making participation trophies, Deborah. Our generation didn’t start that shit.
- Comment on If I can only find an artist on streaming platforms and no other search hits, does that most likely mean it's an AI generated artist? 4 weeks ago:
I bet that he has something like Bandcamp though. Most of these| AI “artists” don’t even bother to set anything like that up.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 4 weeks ago:
That was almost certainly to help settle bar arguments before they became bar fights.
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, those are the exception to the general rule that licensed games suck.
And the LEGO games are sort of cheating. They have no right to be as good as they are.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 5 weeks ago:
There’s a lot more than just recognizing known raw IP addresses used as endpoints.
One method larger services with CDNs use effectively is to use DNS for blocking. When you try to access a site, your DNS request will resolve to a server close to you, with your location determining the domain resolving to a different IP. Then the platform just responds to those requests from outside their normal area with a consistent message. No need to know whether it’s actually a VPN or not, the traffic is acting like it is and doesn’t really have much of a reason to do that normally.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 5 weeks ago:
VPNs aren’t hard to detect, especially if you’re using a major service.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
My absolute favorite bit of social media was this instagram exchange. It just encapsulates so much that’s inherently stupid with it.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" 5 weeks ago:
Nearly everything is a derivative of something from before. Occasionally something new comes up though. I don’t remember anything like Getting Over It seems to have created the Foddian game genre for example. And while Balatro uses relatively normal cards for its base, the gameplay itself is unique.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 5 weeks ago:
First… Not everyone is just hiding being a dick because it’s socially unacceptable. Most people just aren’t dicks and don’t want to be. Just like most people don’t have to be told not to kill others, that’s just not something they’d do. They don’t have to be threatened with prison, or eternal damnation, or anything like that to stop themselves.
Second… Superman is an alien. How do we know what is normal for his species? The only insight we have is the comic universe.
- Comment on Louvre security vs CVS 5 weeks ago:
Well, they did. That’s why the deodorant is now locked up.
- Comment on Embark Studios confirm rollout of Denuvo Anti-Cheat for THE FINALS 5 weeks ago:
Denuvo does anti-cheat? I thought it was anti-pirate?
- Comment on Fear their power 1 month ago:
I mean, they are just for different environments. Fins aren’t very useful for terrestrial animals, and legs aren’t as useful for aquatic animals. Both provide similar functions suited to their environment, and are therefore roughly equivalent.
- Comment on I hate it when a show gets a different actor for a main character. 1 month ago:
It was a lot more than that. He said from the beginning he was onboard for like 7 seasons if they stuck to the source material. Season 1 they immediately started fucking with main characters. The showrunners made it clear they wanted to make their own story, but had to use The Witcher IP.
The best scenes in the first season were ones that Cavill insisted were changed and that he worked on specifically to stay truer to the source material and his character.
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 1 month ago:
They’re the same thing. A small oven heats up faster than a big oven. It’s only faster because it’s 1/10th the size.
- Comment on At 1% 1 month ago:
Just need another adapter.
