chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 3 hours ago:
But you still have to know about it.
Whereas the Steam Maclhine - like a Playstation, Xbox, or Nintendo - just plugs into the TV and works.
Plug in the power, run the HDMI cable to the and log into the wifi after powering it on.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 18 hours ago:
It may not he for you, but there’s a huge potential audience. Somebody who is used to the console experience and wants that simplicity for playing on the couch, but wants access to PC gaming platforms like Steam.
I like tinkering with my PC, but a lot of people don’t. They like consoles because they can pick up the controller, push a button, and it powers on and works, and they never have to worry if a game will run. If it’s released on the console, it should work.
Yeah, there’s 1001 ways to get a PC running on the TV, but none of them are as dumb-simple as turning on an Xbox. This device solves that issue.
- Comment on They were well informed. 1 day ago:
I always thought of her as a treasure hunter more than an archeologist.
- Comment on So much... 5 days ago:
Municipal development guy here.
You’d be amazed how many contractors and architects have issues with stair math.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 1 week ago:
Lazlow, Dan Houser, and the rest of the old creative team at Rockstar are no longer with the company.
GTA6 is gonna sell like mad regardless, but unlike the last several Rockstar blockbusters I’m waiting to see if it’s good before giving them any money.
- Comment on newbie player 1 week ago:
Seems like as good a place as any to say I did a photoshoot of an underwater poker game a few years back for the Underwater Photography class I teach at a local university.
All the really good shots had students in them, so I can’t share. I’ll check the PC later to see if I have any decent shots without people.
- Comment on Republicans Swiftly File Lawsuit in Bid to Block California’s New House Maps 1 week ago:
Did they file the same suit in Texas?
No?
Fuck 'em
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 week ago:
I actually also have a Razr+. My employer pays me a stipend to have a second phone so thay when I eventually leave I don’t have a bunch of contractors calling my personal number.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 week ago:
I just realized my Z-fold with controller case could make a truly excellent DS emulator.
Anyone know if there’s an emulator out there that supports folding phones in landscape mode as a DS, similar to the way YouTube will split the video and the controls when partway folded in landscape more?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 weeks ago:
Gaming on Linux is like gaming on Windows 20 years ago when you spent more time just trying to get the fucking game to run than actually playing the game.
I got an error trying to launch a BF2 expansion that told me to contact the nearest rendering deceloper.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 weeks ago:
Not software development. Municipal development.
I work in the planning/building department. We review and permit developments.
The developers aren’t my staff, they’re applicants who want to build something and we have to review it for drainage, engineering, building code, lighting, environmental impact, septic/sewer, etc.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 weeks ago:
Not software development. Municipal development.
I work in the planning/ building department. We review and permit developments.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 weeks ago:
In my case, I work for a municipality and I legitimately do need to be in the office to meet with citizens, attend public hearings, etc. abut I think they could come up with a schedule where I work remote on Mondays and Fridays or something. It would also make those days “no meeting days” so I could catch up on my actual job.
We get raked over the coals for how long development review takes, but then every developer wants to meet with us for an hour every week, so instead of reviewing plans we’re attending meetings 25 hours a week where they’re bitching at us for how long it takes us to review their plans.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 weeks ago:
God I’d love it if my commute were only an hour.
It’s 90-minutes each way if traffic cooperates. I put about 30k miles on my car in a given year.
My back was injured so they let me work from home yesterday, and other than the pain it was magical. I also got SOOO much done.
- Comment on Too late 2 weeks ago:
We don’t have any F-350s in my household…
We have 2 F-150s, a Nissan NV200 Cargo van, an RV built off an E-450, and a Ford C-Max plug in hybrid.
- Comment on Too late 2 weeks ago:
Yeah - I sold zero augers, and ended up calling a location in Minnesota land they were sold out, so we transferred them along with some rifles some of their customers had ordered from our used gun department that had to go through their store for the background check.
- Comment on Too late 2 weeks ago:
A few years ago my local Home Depot was clearancing out Haloween stuff to make room for Christmas stuff the last week of September.
I also used to work for a large destination outdoors retail chain. They held their big sales events at the same time nationwide whether or not it made sense regionally. I was in Texas, and we had a big flannel sales event for the clothing department in August when it was 110 degrees outside.
I ran the marine electronics department, and in 2018 they sent me 3 dozen ice augers for a sale. When I bitched to corporate they said Texas people vacation up North, and didn’t answer when I asked how many people they’d seen pack a 30-pound gas motor and 3-ft drill bit in their carry-on.
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 2 weeks ago:
State Universities lovee failing a student in an entry- level course, because the state will subsidize tuition twice for a given class per student.
They don’t like doing it a second time because the student has to pay full tuition, and when classes triple in price they’re more likely to drop.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Those guys all work on Futurama.
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 3 weeks ago:
We’d pretend to be oblivious to them stealing it while making it obvious they’re being actively observed.
- Comment on Banana 3 weeks ago:
Picked by slaves.
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 3 weeks ago:
I worked in a major outdoors chain, and out policy was to prevent most theft with customer service.That is, you see someone stuffing shit in a box for a cheaper product you go over to them and start talking about the products and making sales pitches and either embarras them into “deciding not to buy it”, or they go through with it and you let it happen.
The only thing we’d physically intervene on was gun theft, and we had a designated armed employee on every shift (usually a retired cop) that handled that if they tried to leave before the local police arrived. It only came up once when I was there, and the local police did arrive in time, so they followed the thieves out of the lot and pulled them over.
The most dramatic event when I was there was actually kinda fun. We ran a background check on a guy and it got a delay, and the guy said he’d go eat in town and to call him if it came back in the next hour or so so he could save a trip. Turns out he was a fugitive, and the FBI called us to ask about the sale.
We quickly got a bunch of police dropped off in a bus so their cars wouldn’t be visible, and they hid in a few offices around the store, and I called the guy back and told him the background check came back with a proceed.
Then when he came in the door I met him at the front and walked him down a pre-arranged route to the gun counter while chatting him up while the police blocked the aisles around us, and then I got “paged” over the intercom to go to the manger’s office and pointed to the register where another salesman could check him out.When I was clear the police moved in on him.
It was kinda awesome.
- Comment on Oh god oh fuck 4 weeks ago:
About a day
- Comment on Oh god oh fuck 4 weeks ago:
Only good thing is that the venom doesn’t have lasting effects if you get artificial respiration in time.
They put you on a ventilator until it wears off, and then you’re fine.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 4 weeks ago:
I think we also need to be careful about what we consider low-quality clones of other work.
Reproduction of research is extremely important. It isn’t glamorous, but it’s how we verify shit.
- Comment on it's true! 5 weeks ago:
They don’t want the leaves covering up the unnaturally green grass, and if they clog up the storm system that’s someone downhill’s problem.
- Comment on it's true! 5 weeks ago:
I work in municipal government, and I have very strong feeling about leaf blowers.
All these assholes blowing all the great fertilizing trulimmings and dirt off their lawn and into the street to clog up the storm drains.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 5 weeks ago:
When the butchers at a single Walmart store in Texas formed a union, Walmart retaliated by firing every butcher nationwide and switching to only pre-packed meats for all stores.
They’ll put themselves through a lot to make sure the peons don’t get too uppity.
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your fifth idea for a Group Costume 5 weeks ago:
I’ve done Barf several times, and it’s always a hit in public.
I made a tail that came out of my pants and had 2 bent coathangers run parallel to eack other inside the cloth for support that went into the pants and were bent back up and around, came out the top of the pants and wrapped around my belt.
That made the tail stand at whatever angle I wanted by bending the coathangers, but when I walked it had a great, natural bounce and wag.
- Comment on For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid 1 month ago:
Mods - please ban this