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- Comment on Day 366 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 days ago:
💪 2 years here we go
- Comment on Day 365 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (One Year Anniversary!) 5 days ago:
Congrats!
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 2 weeks ago:
Do you mean Buying = believing Or Buying = buying
Because I think the real problem here is that people actually are buying=buying and that’s why they keep doing it.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 2 weeks ago:
You might be right, probably worth looking into. I just have so little time to invest in new titles or any learning curve or really any game that takes a ton of grinding before it’s fun
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 2 weeks ago:
Let me share my Xbox experience? I’m mid-40s. Owned Xboxes since literally the OG Xbox 1.
I originally bought this thing to play with my brother split screen. Nowadays I want to play split screen with my son.
Yet somehow there’s no fucking split screen games anymore. The last two or three AAA games I purchased I played for a few hours and then never loaded again.
And the other day when I loaded up call of duty Black ops 3 to play zombies (this is like a 10 year old game now) I found that because I let my Xbox Gold live whatever the fuck subscription expire, I can’t play “online” and use my unlocked items even though I’m doing local play.
So from this guy what in the fucking fuck xbox. This is some kind of device designed to clean out my wallet for eternity and not deliver what I actually want.
I pretty much exclusively use my Xbox as a YouTube player now.
- Comment on Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds 3 weeks ago:
Echo chambers and all, yeah it’s likely TikTok has this issue too. TikTok gives you content you want to see, because you’ll stay around and watch more ads. No surprise here.
conservative TikTok users tend to stick together. They rarely follow accounts with opposing views or mainstream media accounts. Liberal users, on the other hand, are more likely to follow a mix of accounts, including those they might disagree with.
That’s weird and somewhat descriptive of my anecdotal experience with many people I know. I wonder why this is.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Ebay can be really really bad too, Google around and start with the ebay executive team that sent a bloody pigs head to a journalist who said some bad things about ebay
- Comment on The 11foot8 bridge opens another big can 3 weeks ago:
Yeah here in Bangkok the only rule is that there are no rules. I jokingly say that whomever believes in reincarnation the most has the right of way.
This system does work, but there are still way more casualties than necessary.
- Comment on The 11foot8 bridge opens another big can 3 weeks ago:
I’m American but live outside the US in a developing country.
Here, the situation on the roads is wildly unstandardized. Every turn, road sign, curb size, lane width, bridge height, traffic signal duration, etc may or may not be consistent with anything else. Not to mention drivers going the wrong way, motorcycles on the sidewalks, people stopping in the road and more.
Because of the weirdness drivers know they have to pay attention or else death and injury awaits.
The fact that the 11’ 8" bridge still takes so many casualties suggests drivers confidently think they can drive all over the USA and the road is engineered to an exacting standard. Except for this one bridge.
I think it’s actually time for the city to just properly fix this bridge and bring it up to standard.
- Comment on wtf 4 weeks ago:
So apex that most of us outsource our hunting and farming, which makes us fat and slow unless we purposefully burn energy for no other purpose than to burn it.
- Comment on Absolute unit 4 weeks ago:
Somebody must have had a rad cable label machine
- Comment on U.S. to Review Social Media Posts of Student and Scholar Visa Applicants 4 weeks ago:
If some applicant has been posting “death to America” or about how they plan to do some white collar crimes for years, or it turns out they are the brother of some guy who is on a most wanted list, we probably shouldn’t let them inside.
If they post some opinions about how things are going like “hey their president is kind of a blockhead and I think the people deserve better” then I would be against blocking them for that reason.
I’m American but live outside the US. I’m fully subject to their immigration laws which includes passing their screenings, and unless I were to disagree with their sovereigty I have to accept that reality. I can hide my social media but then I might have to go.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike 5 weeks ago:
A bit pissed at this possibility. Games that I bought many years ago require me to be signed in to use my unlocks, even during solo play.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 5 weeks ago:
Learning how to do small talk will improve your social, economic, and relationship opportunities in countless ways.
Asking people questions about themselves makes them think of you as likable.
Remember the acronym f o r d: Family Occupation Recreation Dreams
Small talk can be learned and getting in some more practice might make it bearable, perhaps even enjoyable.
When you are running out of topics keep the acronym above in mind and ask a question related to one of those topics. Something like this example:
Q: So, have you always lived in (wherever you are)?
However they reply, follow up with it positive and encouraging response such as: “ah you’re a long timer. I thought there weren’t too many of us left!” and then go right into a follow up Q also related to the acronym but now attached to the new information you have such as: is your family from this area too? What brought you here initially? What do you do for work? Hey since you’ve been here so long, what do you think about (insert local drama that’s been in the news).
The goal isn’t to interrogate, but to smoothly and rapidly sort through topics until you find commonalities. Then you can lift off and the conversation will feel very natural and easy.
I heard about this 20 some years ago and have used it at the start and end of business meetings, on first dates, with strangers, and heck sometimes even with my friends if we’re catching up and I want to cover things that are core to them.
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 1 month ago:
Well they are sure gonna have fun with all this equipment
- Comment on Game files are verified, House 1 month ago:
It’s never solvable with
sfc /scannow
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 1 month ago:
WTF she said it does!
- Comment on If it ain’t broke… 1 month ago:
I’m sure I’m not the only one who does this too. After finding a t-shirt style that I really like, I’ll buy 20 or 30 at once.
Same with pants, socks, shoes. In every pic I’m dressed exactly the same. I never have to think what to put on and I never have to think too hard about what to pack on a trip.
One less thing to worry or think about in life.
- Comment on Monty Python predicted social media 1 month ago:
If you came looking for the video: https://youtu.be/uLlv_aZjHXc
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 months ago:
I think Google can never really hope to disrupt itself. The entire company is oriented towards selling those ads. So any other internal division that tries to eliminate the ads division is going to have a very uphill battle.
IMO the industry is ripening for disruption and someone will come along with a new idea for how to incentivize content generation and it will very likely continue to involve some heavy commercial marketing.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 2 months ago:
The state asserts its sovereignty and backs up the claim with the consensus of the people and a lot of guns.
A sovereign citizen makes the same claim but fails to convince or compel others to agree.
They very well might believe in some god-given authority but that’s not how any of this works.
But maybe an SC will uncover a deeply hidden loophole someday and win an argument. The law affords them the opportunity to try.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 2 months ago:
GTA 6 is just going to be client app to a universe of micro transactions. They should probably just give it away free.
- Comment on Math is amazing! 2 months ago:
4444 4444 4444 4446
Damn you’re right
- Comment on Cybercriminals have stolen almost 100 staff logins at the Big Four banks, experts say 2 months ago:
This is a funny article and kind of reads like the reporter just discovered the “hacker” community. Is it a scare piece for uninformed readers?
They highlight a social media post where some cybercriminal is selling username/password lists for crypto.
I don’t know if it’s common knowledge or maybe I hang out in weird places but there’s a whole lot more of this on the internet and has been for as long as I can remember.
The reporter goes on to allude - although doesn’t say exactly - that the accounts require 2FA at the banks to grant access so they aren’t actually compromised.
But then the reporter goes on to say the usernames and passwords might give “initial access” which is bad, but didn’t really explain what that is.
I guess the real news is that these credentials were stolen with a keylogger. What kind of bank IT system doesn’t have better malware blocking?
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 8 months ago:
I think there are two answers to this. First, there is a long standing tradition in the US that the new guy doesn’t put the old guy in jail.
Look at so many other countries and so much of world history to see how that style of governing is problematic to the transfer of power from one regime to the next and why it causes its own set of problems.
The second, and arguably the most important, is that the American people as a whole can elect whoever the fuck they want to be president, no matter what any mid level beurocrat, judge, lawmaker or even current president or other official says about the issue, even if said person is in jail at the time.
The law and its punishments should still apply to all, including the president and former presidents, however.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 8 months ago:
He seems to lack competence in many ways, but some of the guys around him are a whole lot more conniving and potentially effective.
It’s also not likely Trump feels any urge to hire a somewhat moderate(ish) cabinet of professionalls like he did last time. I assume he learned his lesson given that they all eventually turned on him.
So let’s see. I think he’s spent the past 4 years surrounding himself with some bad hombres, to borrow a saying, and now he’s ready to act with fewer guardrails.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 8 months ago:
It’s important to realize that in most democracies this isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of the system. The founders of these systems wanted to ensure that major decisions were deliberated, not rushed into, and that there wasn’t a lot of room for an executive power to make snap choices that would determine the future of the nation.
- Comment on What bug is this? 9 months ago:
Detroit assassin hornet
- Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 9 months ago:
It’s normalized in the US to be fat. All the people around are fat too, so they are rarely shaming. You’ll fit right in.
If you’re the only fat one in the group (like when you go to most of Asia) they usually make sure you know - repeatedly - that you’re the fat one. It’s a pretty big incentive to not be that one.
If everyone else is fat too, then why bother (aside from the million health and happiness reasons)
- Comment on Facebook 10 months ago:
She understands there is a problem, just doesn’t understand the solution. Good on her for having privacy concerns and paying attention.