chronicledmonocle

@chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Cal Kestis…I have to fight the Empire, but I’ve got force powers and a sweet laser sword. Worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watcha gonna do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Shit homie…not only did I not see anything here, but you and I are best friends and we were at my house playing Call of Duty at the time of the robbery.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why I said that these things aren’t mutually exclusive. Diet adjustments to reduce or eliminate meat consumption is one of MANY global warming things that we should be doing. Not allowing data centers to fire up 20-40+ unregulated natural gas turbines is another. Promoting public transit in all cities is another.

  It’s not an easy solution that you can just point a single finger at, but you can point at several big ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Private equity buyers absolutely are contributing to housing prices skyrocketing. The percentage of their effect is up for debate, but as someone who bought a home in the last few years, I was fighting big investors that were making cash offers left and right on every house I tried to get.

  2. Meat production is one of the largest green house gas emitters, but data centers aren’t helping either. BOTH can be a problem. It’s and AND statement, not an OR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps: I picked up the first game in a Humble Bundle years ago and decided to play it randomly. Instantly became obsessed and then got the sequel when I beat it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People with psychopathy don’t tend to do a lot of self reflection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tries to censor people they don’t agree with

  Hides a DDoS script

  “Everyone else is unreasonable and terrible!”

  Absolute psycho shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative medicine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its got eletro-gallops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bit harsh?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The post says “lean” instead of “learn”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Edge uses the same rendering engine as Chrome. Web devs need to check to make sure different browsers respond to CSS, JavaScript, HTML, etc. the same way, as they all don’t necessarily do so, even though they should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loosing my religion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a few:

  1. When looking at the video feed from a night vision camera, my parents tried to convince me the white specs floating around were angels and souls watching over is (it was dust in the air refracting the infrared)
  2. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are part of a baby murdering cult were they skin baby faces to wear as masquerade masks
  3. Bill Gates is building COVID-19 nanites and putting them in the vaccines
  4. The whole QAnon conspiracy stuff they REALLY got into
  5. My wife and I are being controlled by the devil and now our kids are damned because we got them vaccinated, since it’s “The Mark of the Beast”.

  My parents are estranged now. You can imagine why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loosing my religion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s actually incredible the mental gymnastics involved.

  It’s also fun when a Republican is involved, because it’s “clearly overblown or fake”, but when it’s someone they don’t like, THEN it’s a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loosing my religion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents told me that the Clinton’s, Gates family, and other influential people go to masquerade parties where they murder babies and wear their skin ask masks. And they were 100% serious.

  In the world of Epstein Island revelations, there is some fucked up stuff out there, but I’m pretty sure we’d know if people were mass slaughtering babies for fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loosing my religion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents nearly didn’t let me read or watch Harry Potter “cuz witchcraft”. There is a lot of stupid out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loosing my religion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who grew up in a conservative, Baptist home, I can tell you that this 100% isn’t the most insane thing I’ve heard or seen, but it falls right in line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but it at least covers all of the purchases actually made on the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can check your actual spend in the steam support --> Data about my account section.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently $3135 is what I’ve spent on Steam games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No room for romance when there's rising and grinding to be had!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  His wife is about to get some booty, to be sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  400-425F or 200C is pretty much universally the temperature, but yeah…somebody done goofed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Average annual salary is slightly less than $70k annually in the US. A union that gets you even a meager 3% raise annually is ~$2100 in increased income or 3x what your dues is.

  Bunch of fucking wankers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gee I wonder who made things so expensive MICROSOFT? Who could have possibly been responsible for this MICROSOFT?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sonic turns 35 today—what does this franchise mean to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sonic started my video game journey. I was a SEGA kid all in. I had a Genesis and a GameGear and played Sonic 1 through Sonic and Knuckles. I later played the Dreamcast, although I skipped the Saturn, because I was a kid and my parents couldn’t afford it.

  However, once SEGA went under for game consoles and Sonic couldn’t transition from 2D to 3D worth a damn, I stopped playing the games. Sonic just wasn’t good anymore. Sonic Mania and Origins were both fun romps, but beyond that there hasn’t been a Sonic game to give a damn about in decades. Mania wasn’t developed by Sonic Team and you can tell…because it’s actually good. Origins is just a lesser Mania.

  It’s pretty incredible to me that Sonic Team can continue to be one of the worst, most mediocre game development teams in the world and still somehow stay afloat. The Sonic movies were incredibly well done and fun, so you’d think they’d put out a great, fresh game to capitalize on it, but even with a literal golden platter in front of them handing the franchise a breath of fresh air, they then released Sonic Frontiers…the most “7/10” game I’ve ever seen in my life.

  It used to hurt seeing my favorite franchise as a kid bludgeoned by Sonic Team over the years. Now it’s just sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey says...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every person in the world with a net worth over $1B USD. Then I’d equally reallocate their money across every human on earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spyro™: A Realm Beyond | Cinematic Announce Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Toys for Bob is making this game, the people who made the original trilogy remake. It’ll probably be done well. They seem to get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We Are Well Above Our Forecasts' — 007 First Light Sales Are Now at 3 Million, IO Interactive 'Very Confident' It Will Be Profitable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indie Devs: Allow us to introduce ourselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We Are Well Above Our Forecasts' — 007 First Light Sales Are Now at 3 Million, IO Interactive 'Very Confident' It Will Be Profitable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indie Devs: Allow us to introduce ourselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Eye-Opening Experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony in claiming you don’t type like that, but your entire comment is full of mangled punctuation and grammar, is hilarious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Eye-Opening Experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a late-Gen Z/Gen A thing. They don’t use punctuation or capitalization anymore. Apparently they view it as too formal or “fake”. They relate it to “fake it til you make it” mentality in the workplace.

  I know this is a “no the kids are wrong” take, but I just find it infuriating to read. I understand you want to be more genuine and I’m all for that…but if I can’t fucking read what you write because it’s 28 lines of all lower case, unpunctuated text…that’s not a “professional” versus “being genuine” problem. That’s broke ass communication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays World of Warcraft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played during the trial period once. I usually love games with fun gameplay loops that have a bit of grind, but I couldn’t get into WoW. It just didn’t feel fun. It felt like a job. I’m still not sure how it became the largest MMO ever made.