chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Elmo is on fire 3 hours ago:
You should watch Jon Stewart’s monologue from yesterday.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 days ago:
You want to hear about a game to play?
Clair Obscur. Made from former Ubisoft team members in what sounds like a healthy development culture and it’s a godamnned masterpiece at every level. Visuals, art direction, story, characters, mechanics, music - it’s all stellar.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 6 days ago:
Not everyone can live in California wine country.
Most people live where it gets either dangerously hot or dangerously cold for large portions of the year.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 week ago:
Because I live in Texas and being outside in the summer for extended periods is dangerous.
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 1 week ago:
They admitted they intentionally slowed down old phones with iOS updates.
The thing with smartphones is that they’re already good enough. Almost every app is designed to work on a 5yo phone that cost 100 bucks when it was new, so having 16 times the processing power isn’t really useful unless it results in better battery life.
- Comment on Genius 1 week ago:
Unless you have an older machine, probably the Coke guy.
Coke wants to control what drinks are in the machine and what percentage of the take Coke gets, so they refill the machines.
We used to have an older machine on an old contract, and since we didn’t really care about the income from it we let Coke swap it for a new one they’d service.
About 2 months later, they said we weren’t selling enough drinks and took the new machine away.
- Comment on Genius 1 week ago:
Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 1 week ago:
Buying studios wasn’t stupid.
Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.
- Comment on Xbox is cancelling Rare's 'Everwild' and ZeniMax's new MMORPG IP as part of broader cuts — with 'Perfect Dark' impacted as well 1 week ago:
They know they’ve destroyed the planet, so why bother planning for a future they’ve already prevented.
- Comment on Anon hates reddit 1 week ago:
It explains some.of the earlier stuff too.
He’s active on right-wing hate subs, so he’s banned from the remaining civilized subs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I live in Texas. I own like 2 shirts with long sleeves in case I have to go to a funeral or something.
- Comment on Glitter Bats!! 2 weeks ago:
The regional term that pegs me to where I grew up is calling access roads “feeders.”
- Comment on Get Back! 2 weeks ago:
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.”
Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor…I am Pagliacci.”
Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum.
Curtains.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 2 weeks ago:
And you can turn off some of the survival elements that some people find annoying. For instance, having to spend half your time early on hunting a specific type of fish for freshwater.
- Comment on Air Jordens 2 weeks ago:
I might pay extra for that.
- Comment on I honestly think they're impossible to understand 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Looks delicious 2 weeks ago:
Those are some expensive pickles.
- Comment on Having a big memory card was such a flex 2 weeks ago:
For those who weren’t around at the time: The PS2 had a huge shortage of memory cards the first year or so. So you could buy games, but had to keep the console powered up 24/7 because you couldn’t save your games.
I ended up buying a 3rd party card, but since Sony didn’t officially allow them it came with a disc that launched an application that installed a driver in the local memory that allowed the card to function until the next power cycle. So you’d put in the driver disc, turn on the PS2, load the drivers, then swap discs to the game you wanted to play and pray that the game you were playing didn’t make use of the same memory addresses as the 3rd-party drivers.
- Comment on It is what it is 3 weeks ago:
Are people required to know how their car works?
Do people have to understand chemistry to buy gasoline or mercury thermometers?
- Comment on It is what it is 3 weeks ago:
That’s simply not true. People can’t be expected to know what’s going on under the hood of services designed specifically to simplify things for non-technical users and conceal what’s under the hood.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 3 weeks ago:
My local officials are pretty protective of us.
At the same time, the state just passed a law limiting severance pay to municipal employees to 60 days, so that when they outlaw a bunch of our functions we also suffer when our jobs aren’t legal and nobody is hiring statewide.
I love some of the cities I’ve worked for, but God I hate the Texas state government.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 3 weeks ago:
Actually, I tend to order healthier options than what I cook. If I’m spending 30 dollars on lunch it isn’t gonna be fast food. I usually go with a salad bowl or something.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 3 weeks ago:
I work in municipal government.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 3 weeks ago:
I definitely use Uber Eats because I’m hungry, not lazy. That’s why I ise it exclusively from work, where I rarely get to take time for lunch, and instead have it delivered so I can mute my mic mid-meeting and eat.
I could meal-prep, but between getting up at 5am, getting home at 8pm, and helping out at my parent’s place on the weekends 200 miles away, I simply don’t have time to cook for work.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
Start prepping for some strategic tech investments.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 3 weeks ago:
Which goes back to the issue of the difficulty of building high-speed rail across long distances.
Higj-speed rail can’t be built at grade like freight rail. You can’t risk a cow getting through a fence or a crossing signal failure leading to a high-speed train collision.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 3 weeks ago:
There’s already a lot of passenger rail options in that part of the country. I’ve used it, and it works great.
This post is specifically about using it in place of airlines, which is used for longer-distance travel.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 3 weeks ago:
Slave labor.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 3 weeks ago:
The cost of dedicated passenger rail lines is staggering, and the US has a LOT of ground to cover.
- Comment on Ok smartass 3 weeks ago:
Except it’s not. The actual answer is 9:45. It’s a stupid way of describing time.