CaptPretentious
@CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 2 days ago:
Rock and stone!
- Comment on Late 1900s 1 week ago:
I’m the beginning of time …
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 3 weeks ago:
I will always recommend the game. But holding to a budget is not important.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that method isn’t intended for enterprise work. But someone who isn’t technical can use it to help figure out what’s going on. Not a single person I’ve ever helped with wifi issues wants to map out things with a wifi analyzer. But ask them to use music and people are far more interested. Even as a thought process since (most) people understand how sound works, if they start thinking of wifi as “noise” they can better understand it.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 3 weeks ago:
Wifi is just radio. So, having your access point or wifi enabled router surrounded by things is bad for your wifi experience.
To a certain degree, you can do a “poor-mans” way of figuring out how good your wifi would be by just putting a speaker where the wifi should be coming from, then go someplace else in the building and ask yourself, “Can I hear the music still?”. You get an idea of how the wifi is moving about. (Keep in mind, it’s not perfect, but if you don’t want to use apps or specialized equipment and want to wing it… this will work in a pinch). Sound is better than light because wifi will penetrate walls/floors/etc, where light won’t, so you can listen against said surfaces and close doors, etc, to get a general idea of things.
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on i found in my notes that "alt+junja" in w10 on potplayer does "Playback->A-B Repeat->Repeat next marked section". is junja a key or i typoed? 4 weeks ago:
I want to take a while gas and say that the word was supposed to be jump.
- Comment on What would the realistic ramifications be, if some (EU) country leader told Trump to his face that he's stupid? 4 weeks ago:
You probably call them nasty people, probably say how he always knew, how you can’t trust them. Claim he would never act like that. Then probably put travel restrictions in place to prevent them from coming here and tariffs.
- Comment on cilanto 🌿 5 weeks ago:
Every been in a public bathroom that has that pink soap. Cilantro tastes like that smells.
- Comment on I'll take a liberal. Just 86 the tofu. 1 month ago:
The Chadwich doesn’t even come with a side of guns. What is this weak beta shit.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Now I understand all those videos of guys thinking it’s a covid test and getting mad. That looks almost identical to a covid tester I had.
You should see a doctor for better confirmation. My understanding has been, if you see positive on the test, see the doctor for actual confirmation since various things can throw the at home testers off.
- Comment on Spider-Man 2 Debuts to 'Mixed' Steam Reviews Amid Serious PC Performance Problems 1 month ago:
It didn’t refer to funding. It’s marketing only. If you ask 100 what does AAA in video games, you’ll get a wide breadth off answers, because it’s not a real term, but it sounds good and people will make up their own definition or repeat one they heard.
- Comment on Select a tip 1 month ago:
Even if it is, at current rate, one day we’ll look back and go “remember when tipping was optional, and less than 100%, we were truly spoiled back then”
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 1 month ago:
For me I hate phone calls because it’s someone demanding I drop what I’m doing to address whatever they want. Keep in mind, 99% of phone calls I get are at work form co-workers.
The number of “quick calls” that are actually quick I can count on 1 hand, and still have room for more. I have tasks to accomplish, things to do. And I’m spread so thin between all the things I do, there’s a fair chance I’m going to forget something about what you asked/told me. If it’s in text form I can review it when I loop back to it. You need me to check/validate/run something, cool. I have record of what, when, and if I completed it. Just because you have a question does not make it an emergency on my part.
As for my phone phone, the only folks who ever call me are either telemarketers or scams. If a friend called I’d probably answer (if I have the time). But I think most of my friends are in the same boat, we have so much to do these days (non-recreation) that it’s just not easy to find time. A lot of my friends have side-hustles or a second job or are in class (like me) in order to stay competitive. When I was a kid, I remember my parents could unwind at the end of the day, friends would just come over to hang out. It just ain’t like that no more.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t know what you hope to accomplish with these memes other than pushing people to the right… Like is that the goal? Because it seems like that’s the goal. It’s a constant strawman fallacy with the same bullshit format the far right uses in their memes.
- Comment on 'Moana 2' Passes $1 Billion at Global Box Office 2 months ago:
With Disney, always assume sequels. They milk every IP to the ground.
- Comment on Welcome to my lair 2 months ago:
If those are regular old school incandescent bulbs connected to six lava lamps, and that light fixture is connected to a dimmer switch you may want to rethink that. You may want to check what the wattage for your dimmer is and if you don’t know I would recommend staying at or below 300 Watts total (more as a personal rule of thumb).
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 2 months ago:
I’m afraid to ask how little it had before, because the amount i see are rookie numbers.
- Comment on typical future ER visitor 2 months ago:
I did not and I wish I had. Today was a bad day to Internet
- Comment on I never realized this 2 months ago:
Terrible idea. People clearly already struggling at naming kids. Coming up with a family name will be endless letters making the wrong sound, random sections being ‘silent’, so many puns or references to things, corporate advertising “oh it’s the X.com family!”… Terrible, just terrible.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 2 months ago:
I have over 6,000 hours in Dota2.
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 3 months ago:
The Alters isn’t out yet. Expected release Q1 2025. It’s on my wish list because I love the demo.
Indika they were just the publisher. On top of which, maybe has a story that not everyone is interested in. I watched these guys play it, youtu.be/MuiHtAYOqgI and while it’s creative and it’s overall a fantastic game, is not one I’m going to play myself.
The Thaumaturge, again they are just the publisher. I hadn’t even heard of this one which means as the publisher they did a terrible job marketing it.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 players rip into Arrowhead for 'straight-up ridiculous' Killzone crossover prices, CEO defends the choice 3 months ago:
They hire psychologists to explicitly figure out how to better make sales. Logical thinking will not win. Microtransactions, which consists of crap you don’t need, is a billion dollar industry and has bankrupted numerous homes.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 3 months ago:
I have an electrically blower. But I use it to clean my gutters.
- Comment on The season of giving 3 months ago:
I mean if you surround it with chicken and some Alfredo instead of marinara you got yourself a pretty nice pizza.
But that’s not what they did. They must be one of those that throws broccoli into their spaghetti. Not on the side,… in.
- Comment on The casual moviegoer is a thing of the past. That's a big problem for Hollywood 3 months ago:
I know some of those people that never stop talking or always on their phone.
I’ve asked them to stop. I’ve told them to stop. I’ve pointed out that if it was somebody else doing it, they’d be pissed off because someone else is ruining their time. They have zero fucks to give.
- Comment on What video game company/developer/publisher loves shitting on it's fans? 3 months ago:
I’ve repeatedly heard that they could operate at a loss for decades and be fine… But I’ve never actually seen real numbers to back that up.
- Comment on What video game company/developer/publisher loves shitting on it's fans? 3 months ago:
Nintendo has increasingly become a problem over there last decade. From taking down tournaments, going after YouTubers, the predatory partner program that they ran for a bit, them suing everybody in sight. Them being anti-emulation but then being found to use emulation that was created by a third party and profiting off of it.
I’ve already decided I’m not buying the next console. I’m done with that company. I look forward, genuinely, to innate file for bankruptcy. To me they’re a lot like Bizzard. Both of these companies are not the same company they were 20 years ago.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 3 months ago:
I did that in badminton. I’m the beginning I swapped hands when they weren’t looking. Once they caught on, of randomly swap whenever.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM 3 months ago:
Can’t have you accessing skins and items they plan to sell!