hardcoreufo
@hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 2 days ago:
I used to a lot as a kid. It was pretty much the only way to get some more obscure games.
I pretty much stopped in the mid 2000s except for some collectors editions of games that I was 99% sure were going to be great Halo3, Fallout3, New Vegas etc. I still do the same thing now with the odd switch collectors edition xenoblade chronicles, the final fantasy pixel remasters, unicorn overlord but those were games I was 99% sure would be finished at launch.
The rest of the time I wait a year or so until the game is half priced and finished.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 3 days ago:
Who uses a sock? Cumrag or GTFO.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 3 days ago:
Wash once a week, replace as needed which is probably 10 years or so. Then they become dog towels.
- Comment on What is this colour? 2 weeks ago:
1970 called and it wants its color back.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 weeks ago:
This is democracy manifest.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 weeks ago:
They’ve gotten too much shit actually renamed though. Denali, Gulf of Mexico, sort of the Department of Defense, Institute of peace.
They aren’t gonna get anynone government contolled stuff renamed unless the owner is a real MAGA brown noser. The NFL isn’t gonna do shit he wants. The owners have hated him since the 80s.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 weeks ago:
Not really, I don’t even know how you cheat in modern games. Retro games I’ll put in codes if they are built into the game but not game genie/ game shark codes.
I got no problem what you do in single player games though, you do you. I don’t play online multiplayer anymore but you suck if you cheat online.
- Comment on Uhhh... It's a work phone 4 weeks ago:
After 15 years of android I cannot get used to my work iphone. Everything about it is wrong.
- Comment on Uhhh... It's a work phone 4 weeks ago:
I got three different playa phones. One for each part-time shorty.
But I really have a work phone that they pay for because I am absolutely not putting any work shit on my phone. No teams, no outlook, no workday, no authenticators, no emergency alerts. I think a guy who got fired was using it as a playa phone or porn phone. My boss said his data use was always maxed out and everyone else used roughly 1-2 GB.
I only take it home on weekends on the rare case i want to check an email or request time off through workday. It does come in handy while camping/road tripping. I charge it up and turn it off then toss it in the glovebox as an emergency phone.
We used to have pagers as recently as 2022 which seems way more sketchy for the time but i miss them. Always worked, only got important notifications, smaller.
- Comment on True romance, despite everything. 5 weeks ago:
It also feels more about submission to me than a joke about homosexuality. When regular people hook up or are in a relationship it doesn’t seem like submissive act but between two powerful men it does.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 month ago:
What are you talking about. It has nothing to do with the speaker being too close to your ear, its because they were an awful design. Regular earbuds get the driver just as close and are still made, but arent very popular. The style has trended more towards in ear monitors because they seal your ear canal and get better bass. Due to the sealing IEMs are probably worse for your ears if you crank the volume but you probably don’t need to crank them as loud since they provide some passive noise cancellation.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 month ago:
Headphones are absolutely fine. I tend to crank music and have 0 loss in hearing over the last 10 years (we get annual hearing tests at work for OSHA). I do have a significant hearing loss in one ear but that is genetics and hasn’t gotten worse in 3 decades of using headphones.
Just don’t turn it up so loud it hurts, and once you find an initial good volume don’t turn it up later. You acclimate to the sound level so it seems quieter.
- Comment on I'm coming for you 1 month ago:
Second Harvest.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 1 month ago:
The town home next to ours was abandoned and had the smoke alarm beep every 60s or so. We tried calling the city and they were no help so we broke in and handled it ourselves.
It was a weird system where the smoke detectors were hooked into the security system which was hooked into one of those soda can sized 9v (12v?) batteries in the basement. I guess that battery was dying. Disconnected that and the beeping finally stopped.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
All my schools had them. Sometimes you’d catch them doing a resync and all the hands would spin around. I think they probably couldn’t rotate CCW so had to go around the long way if they needed to roll back a few minutes.
- Comment on Progress 2 months ago:
I’ve worn a pebble smartwatch for a decade just to avoid all the annoying noises our phones make non stop. So i keep my phone on silent and I’ve got the pebble set to only get notifications for texts and calls neither of which i get a ton of on a daily basis. I like to be able to glance down and either ignore or pull out my phone and deal with.
I am also a big fan of leaving my phone in the other room and dont wear the pebble a lot on weekends just to get a break.
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 2 months ago:
The hopefully only car I’ll ever total was about 20 years ago. I bought it for 7k and drove it for 5 years. They initially lowballed me at like 3k. I was able to show them Kelly blue book values and current used market it was closer to 6. Ended up getting a little over 5k.
Of course in the 5 years since I got the car the used market was nothing like it previously was. A comparable purchase would have been 12k not 7k.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 2 months ago:
What’s a liter cola?
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
I mostly use qobuz when out and about and vinyl at home. Music streaming is the one streaming media I don’t find objectionable as a consumer. All the services have pretty much the same catalog so pick based on features. I still buy my favorite albums though so the artist actually gets money.
- Comment on Lead 2 months ago:
He probably did. You know all the republicans hate most what they can’t accept about themselves. Grindr servers crashed in AZ leading up to his memorial.
- Comment on Too soon? 3 months ago:
Ahh a “good christian man” he was anything but. Why do all of the “good christians” go against everything Jesus taught? Why do they only use his name to oppress others? A true christian would welcome and accept those that are different not try and belittle and shame them for their differences.
Begone CHUD.
- Comment on Too soon? 3 months ago:
Sounds reasonable.
- Comment on Too soon? 3 months ago:
Nah empathy is for the weak.
- Comment on PSA 3 months ago:
Too late, please advise.
- Comment on Any ideas as to what this is all about? 3 months ago:
Fuck you Shorsey!
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 3 months ago:
Does it have raspberry jamming capabilities?
- Comment on A simpler time 4 months ago:
And thus awoke a dark urge in the mind of JD Vance.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 4 months ago:
Thats fhe story fox news is shilling. So definitely not the real story.
- Comment on Debatable 4 months ago:
Bowlcut in thr front, Vegeta in the back.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 4 months ago:
Or the chicken.
