chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Too soon? 5 days ago:
And it was Flavor-Aid. I don’t know how they expected to spend the money they saved buying the cheap shit.
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 6 days ago:
“Crimson Lepids”
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 6 days ago:
I think they expected more casual gamers to sign up for game pass while the more dedicated among us would still be buying new products.
Honestly, if they’d probably be doing better if they put games on there day 1. Sony doesn’t put their biggest titles on PS+ at launch for a reason.
Halo and starfield had shit sales because we didn’t have to buy them. If they required people to buy the triple-A in-house titles at launch, the double-A stuff like HiFi Rush could still be released on gamepass day 1 as an incentive for people to subscribe.
As it stands, Starfield and Forza burned the money that should be used for HiFi Rush and Ori.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
If they play it exclusively, sure. But people play tons of games on Gamepass. HiFi Rush and a dozen other games splitting that $15/month/account is a lot less rosy.
I’ve had Gamepass since the beginning, and since it was launched it I’ve bought maybe 1 or 2 Xbox games that weren’t on gamepass, whereas I used to average 2-3 a month. My overall spending on games has dropped massively since getting gamepass - especially on Xbox.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
Not just any old malware, but insecure rootkits that allowed ANYONE to have total control over the system with their own malware above the OS-level with no way to even know the malware was there.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
It’s neat seeing someone learn about Mt St Helen’s for the first time. It was such a big deal in the 80s that I can’t remember not knowing about it. It makes me excited to discover major events I know nothing about…
Anyway… The thing with it wasn’t necessarily the size of the eruption. There have been much, much bigger eruptions. It’s that it was one of the first with really good footage (since it was one of the earlier predicted eruptions), it occurred in the US, and it blew out sideways instead of the top.
- Comment on Anyone else? 1 week ago:
Or the bug in the human skin suit in Men in Black. Or the prosecutor in Law and Order CI.
Dude’s got range.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
Oddly enough emissions standards are one of the major reasons vehicles are getting so big.
In 2012 fuel economy standards were changed as a response to the manufacturers calling everything a truck to get around regulations (seriously - they classified the PT Cruiser as a truck in the 2000s). So now standards are weighted based on vehicle footprint instead of by class.
Notice how around 2012 was when the American auto manufacturers stopped making the old Rangers, S10s, Dakotas, etc? And now that the Ranger is back it’s as big as the older F-150s and the F-150s are the size of a small airport? And as the CAFE standards get tougher over time the vehicles keep growing?
It’s easier to just make the trucks bigger every refresh cycle than to make them more efficient, so that’s what they do.
- Comment on Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a love triangle in the series. In the first film the Gale (boy who doesn’t go to the games) and Katniss never discuss it, and Katniss and Peeta (boy in the games) put it on as an act to get people to support them in the games, though for Peeta it isn’t really an act.
It’s discussed openly in the sequels - usually with either Gale pining for Katniss and her saying she can’t deal with relationship stuff with everything going on, or Peeta feeling hurt that Katniss turns it on for the cameras, but doesn’t really love him.
While there aren’t any overt break-up scenes in the later films, there’s some break-up adjacent stuff in them. Maybe it was Catching Fire or Mockingjay part I?
- Comment on Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny? 2 weeks ago:
There must’ve been something weird in the translation there. I can’t think of a “break-up” in the first book or film.
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 2 weeks ago:
International Residential Code §R311.7.5.1
- Comment on Those were the days 2 weeks ago:
And that spin-flip when you needed to send a long message was just sooo satisfying.
- Comment on A bad influence 3 weeks ago:
That’s why I’m wondering if it’s a deployment issue.
Still Microsoft’s fault if it can be so easily fucked up though.
- Comment on A bad influence 3 weeks ago:
Yes. I organize about 10 meetings a week - all involving people outside the office.
- Comment on A bad influence 3 weeks ago:
I guess I’ve just been lucky with it. I only use it on my windows laptops and Android phones, where it’s been pretty flawless.
Though I do work with people in other organizations that have more restrictive permissions applied to Teams from their IT department that make it more difficult to get anything done.
- Comment on Anon's brother hates concrete 3 weeks ago:
What are you passionate about?
- Comment on NASA 3 weeks ago:
Texas is nearly 4,000 miles tall. We just hang out on the surface.
- Comment on A bad influence 3 weeks ago:
Not who you’re responding to, but Teams works great in my office. I don’t love the UI, but it’s not buggy at all.
Maybe it’s a Mac thing?
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
Picard got a wonderful lifetime experiencing a peaceful culture in which he was a musician and scientist with a loving family beamed into his head.
Obrien got the memory of decades of imprisonment in which he killed his only friend.
- Comment on I got this 4 weeks ago:
The doors remove themselves these days anyway!
- Comment on once in a lifetime 4 weeks ago:
Yeah - it was awesome from my yard!
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
Couple reasons.
One: do you know anything about that model of firearm? Does it have a safety? Can it slam-fire if handled improperly?
Two: Is there important information that can be conveyed by the present condition of the firearm. Was it a shooting or an accident. Would clearing the firearm remove important information that can be used to ascertain what happened?
Three: Preserving the firearm can preserve evidence. While that is not necessarily part of the duty of medical staff, there’s no reason to risk destroying evidence if the firearm can be safely isolated with minimal disturbance.
Four: Why do it? An isolated, secure gun isn’t going to decide to start blasting people on its own. What advantage is there to handling the gun more than is necessary in that situation? Get it out of the way and keep working.
- Comment on A new Matrix movie is in development with The Cabin in the Woods filmmaker Drew Goddard at the helm 5 weeks ago:
It is absolutely dripping with hate for the studio. I’m honestly shocked it was released in that state.
For those who haven’t seen it, the story has Neo and Trnity having been returned to the Matrix, where Neo is famous for having created “The Matrix” franshise (initially as a game).
Now the software company is out of ideas, so they’ve decided they need to reboot the Matrix and tell Neo that the project is moving forward with his input or without it, but that if he does it they’ll give him creative control.
Then more stuff happens and it gets worse, but it has zero subtlety about how and why the film exists and that nobody involved really wanted to make it. So they make the best of a bad situation bh throwing the bird at the studio.
I appreciated that part. I highly recommend pirating the film so that the studios don’t make any money off it.
- Comment on Greatest train robbery ever 5 weeks ago:
It’s not the internet. I just don’t want to swear around the squirrels.
- Comment on acceptable screws 5 weeks ago:
A screwdriver - not a drill or impact driver. For those I always use the correct bit. But the $1 Phillips driver in my desk isn’t gonna over-torque a posidrive.
- Comment on acceptable screws 5 weeks ago:
Posidrive is an alright compromise. It’s drives fairly well with the correct bit, but will also work with a Phillips screwdriver.
- Comment on FF Evangelists 1 month ago:
Yep.
- Comment on FF Evangelists 1 month ago:
So for some reason Firefox doesn’t work most of the time on my parent’s ISP. It simply doesn’t find sites 80% of the time. I can take the same wifi adapter and move it to my place and it works fine. I’ve messed arounfld with different DNS and stuff, and I just can’t get it to be reliable there.
It’s super annoying.
- Comment on I'm working on it, ok? 1 month ago:
So 9 month’s salary - got it.
- Comment on Totally hiring this guy instead of a eulogy. 1 month ago:
I’m wanting a Korean Journey cover band foy my funeral.
I want people to party, laugh and have an amazing time, and right at the climax be reminded not to stop Bereavin’.