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- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 3 hours ago:
Dead Cells: The leading cause of gamepad breakages among PC players. 9 out of 10 ninjas agree.
- Comment on "You can't have our trash because we don't have a way to charge you for it" 2 days ago:
Another factor to add is that major retailers use anything they throw away as a tax write-off “loss” and they are therefore extremely cagey about giving any of it away for any reason, even to employees, I guess because if this is found out it could have some kind of implications, I dunno.
My nephew works for Target and apparently they do this. He tells me a manager will stand there and watch them crushing perfectly good floor model TV’s and other electronics in the trash compactor so he can sign off that they did it and none of those items were used for any beneficial purpose whatsoever, because weaseling out of $0.02 in taxes is apparently more worthwhile to corporate than giving a dedicated employee a new but slightly scuffed TV they were going to throw away anyway.
It’s positively infuriating. I’m sure the perishable goods/food sector is even worse.
- Comment on "You can't have our trash because we don't have a way to charge you for it" 2 days ago:
Here is the anti-story to the above:
Back when I was in school I needed a handful of 35mm film canisters for some damn fool project or another. I don’t remember exactly what I was planning to use them for. So I went to the local camera store and asked the clerk there if I could just buy like 20 or 30 empty film canisters figuring they’d have a fair few lying around. This was, of course, in the days when 35mm film was still the predominant photography standard, and consumer grade digital cameras that could even achieve one real world megapixel were very new, very exciting, and very expensive.
Apparently I was right, because they guy said, “Good god, please take some” and gave me an entire shopping bag full of the damn things. For free. Apparently just to be rid of them.
I was using film canisters to store everything and anything for years after that.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
Yeah, a shotgun is probably a better choice.
- Comment on "Winner" 1 week ago:
That wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest. For what it’s worth, it wasn’t even part of an arcade. Just standing forlornly by itself in the center of the concourse of a largely empty section of the mall. I know these things are typically privately operated and not part of the mall itself or whatever establishment they’re in. There may or may not have been a bank of gumball machines behind it, I don’t remember.
Anyway, that mall got bulldozed a couple of years ago and given the state it was in, I wouldn’t be surprised if that machine were still in it at the time. And good riddance.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 1 week ago:
Pelicans have stupid stumpy little legs, basically no talons because they have webbed ducklike feet, and are able to apply very little biting force with their beaks due to the length. Pelicans feed by scooping things up and swallowing them whole. They don’t bite, tear, or chew. I’ve never seen one try to peck anything. They’re certainly not built for that.
If you grabbed a pelican by the beak I think there is vanishingly little it could actually do to you aside from squirming and flapping feathers all over the place. You should be fairly clear to yeet the thing into the ocean at your own convenience.
- Comment on "Winner" 1 week ago:
Here’s the story about those damn cut-the-string machines I repeat every time I see one of these.
There used to be one on my local dying mall. Noticing this, and being the
cleverdick that I am, I came by one day with a powerful laser and cheesed it by slicing the string in half right through the glass.I subsequently found out that the iPad box that was dangling from the string was, in fact, empty. No “call this number and use this coupon to redeem your prize.” Just, empty. Too bad about your fifty cents, kid. Get fucked.
Do you know, I don’t feel bad in the slightest about cheating that damn machine.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
Wow, I can’t believe I get to dredge up this ancient photo again:
(Obviously this is satire. I furthermore still haven’t quite made peace with the fact that every single item on Daniel Rutter’s web site can now be considered “retro.”)
- Comment on CD Projekt Red Announces Surprise Cyberpunk 2077 Update - Insider Gaming 1 week ago:
“Incoming Memo: Stand by to receive memo?”
- Comment on What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Posting tons of links to Lemmy posts, for one.
- Comment on Hey Libtards, if you want my guns you'll have to take it from my cold dead hands 1 week ago:
You’ll put your eye out, Fido.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 1 week ago:
Just imagine this is green text.
Nab the wrong guy
Shoot him in the back 53 times while screaming “stop resisting!”
Investigate ourselves, find no wrongdoing
“Case closed, boys!”
…
Police chief gets got by The Adjuster the next day…
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
From an idealist perspective, yes. I want to be able to believe that the law holds everyone equally accountable and no one should be above it.
However from my current realistic position, I know damn well as do we all that they law already doesn’t hold everyone equally accountable – not even close. And the fact that the deceased made a living doing what he did is just exhibit A on a very, very long list of examples. The rule of law has clearly already broken down, which means all bets are off. The fact that it’s been doing so slowly over the course of decades rather than in a single coup or hypothetical night of broken glass is completely irrelevant.
Furthermore, even if the shooter is prosecuted I feel that “this was clearly in the best interest of society as a whole given the harm that the deceased was still actively inflicting on thousands of people” should be a valid legal defense.
Most jurisdictions already allow for the use of deadly force in defense of yourself or others against a perpetrator who represents a clear and present danger to the safety, health, or lives of others. This is just that, but with an extra logical extension riveted on.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 2 weeks ago:
I guess the happy hostel guy would have come forward and been like “WTF?” and “I have an alibi” if it wasn’t him?
I sure as fuck wouldn’t. I know enough not to come anywhere near the police if they’re scrutinizing me for any reason, even if I know 100% I’m innocent and I can prove it. You absolutely cannot trust them not to just arrest you and railroad you into a bullshit conviction anyway, or plant some evidence, or decide “he had a knife” and just outright kill you. You know how they say “anything you say can be used against you?” That’s because they absolutely won’t use it to help you, even if you’re not guilty of anything.
I am positive city hall is breathing down the NYPD’s neck real hard right now. The entire department has got a lot of egg on its face for not being able to stop this guy, not being able to positively identify this guy, hell, not even know with any certainty where he went afterwards. They are under immense pressure to hang somebody – anybody – over this because they’re looking even more like chumps than usual.
So no, a wise man would not expose himself to the cops in any way whatsoever.
- Comment on Persistent problems require persistent solutions. 2 weeks ago:
All of human societal structure has ultimately boiled down to might makes right.
All of it.
In our modern civilization we have inserted enough extra steps in between to delude most people into believing that this is no longer the case. But still it is. I have said this nearly verbatim on here before:
Who are the cops? Just guys with guns.
Who are judges? Just guys with access to cops.
Who are politicians? Just guys with access to cops and judges.
Who are the megacorporations? Just guys with access to politicians.
Etc.
- Comment on Forgot your moms azz 2 weeks ago:
Best I can offer is Moon Lord.
- Comment on Forgot your moms azz 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are there any actual free programs that clean up all bloat ware on a new laptop? Without them putting hidden stuff in? 2 weeks ago:
There are links there right there on the sidebar, 4th option down. You can also get the .iso images directly from Microsoft.
- Comment on Are there any actual free programs that clean up all bloat ware on a new laptop? Without them putting hidden stuff in? 2 weeks ago:
At the moment, Windows 10 IoT LTSC.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you’re alone in this. I’m kind of becoming the same way, and I figure it’s because as you become older you become wiser, specifically wiser to the way that so many modern games are bullshit now.
Nowadays it seems like almost everything is just a cynical cash grab. And with a lifetime of experience, you know how to spot that bullshit. Oh look, it has always online components. And an in game store. And season content. And gatcha mechanics. And grind. Not only just regular old grind, you know, where you need to level up and be at least be this tall to beat the beef gate (which always has the tantalizing possibility of being able circumvent it by cheesing it or being very clever). No, it’s just grind with no mechanical justification. You must fill the bar before you’re allowed to access this content. Would you like to make a microtransaction to fill the bar faster?
Fuck that, and count me out.
The current fascination is on delivering games as a “service,” and that just rubs me the wrong way. Everything is transient, nothing is permanent, and everyone is making a desperate grab for recurring revenue over creating a compelling experience or indeed anything anyone would ever want to go back to and play again. It’s all just crap designed to feed into people’s sunk cost brains, and it feels like damn near every major title wants to be your full time job.
I have even started eschewing Nintendo titles and some modern indie stuff specifically because they display a complete and utter disrespect for not only the player’s intelligence, but also their time.
- Comment on Mom wasn't always right 2 weeks ago:
I had one on my wrist just to spite them throughout much of my school career.
- Comment on Intruder 2 weeks ago:
Nobody breaking into inhabited houses is going to show up holding a feather duster.
If an intruder knows he is intruding and he doesn’t leg it as soon as he realizes someone is in the house, it is a very reasonable assumption to make that he has also got some kind of weapon.
- Comment on Intruder 2 weeks ago:
It’s not the taking the things that’s the issue, it’s that the method of taking the things inherently comes with the either implicit or explicit threat of bodily harm or violence in order for the criminal to get what he wants. Nobody’s going to break into your house your stuff, or leap out of a dark alley and demand your wallet, and when you say “no” just shrug and walk away. They’re going to shove a gun in your face or try to beat you up.
If you show up with the intent of employing force, you absolutely should not be surprised if people employ force against you in turn.
That, and if you want to stick it to The Man there are much more suitable targets than victimizing individual people who just as likely have it as tough as you do. Go knock over a Walmart or something. For fuck’s sake.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Your premise is inherently flawed. There absolutely are consequences…
For you and me. Just not for the elite or politicians.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 weeks ago:
I sure sleep better at night knowing that they put a little gradient on the playback bar that turns the tip of it slightly magenta, though.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 4 weeks ago:
I think most gamers would have been perfectly happy with a trip to the Borealis just for the closure of the thing, even if the gameplay brought little to nothing new to the table other than some nice new visuals and arctic setpieces.
Instead we got Half Life: Alyx which was a stunning albeit niche experience in the same old City 17, which retconned Episode 2’s cliffhanger with another, different cliffhanger. For fuck’s sake, Gabe.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 weeks ago:
My account is so old I have (or had, before they normalized the format) a four digit steam ID. I “owned” Half Life 2 for like four months before it released thanks to getting a code free in the box with my Radeon 9800 Pro back in the day. For a short and glorious flash of time in the summer of 2004, I was guaranteed a copy of the most hotly anticipated game ever, even though nobody could play it yet, and also owned an example of the fastest video card on the planet. Damned if I didn’t mow a fuckton of lawns and reinstall Windows and Outlook an a horde of septuagenarians’ computers to afford that card.
And no, they do not stop asking about your age.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 weeks ago:
Neat, but.
Even HL: Alyx left us with just as much of a cliffhanger as the end of HL2 Episode 2…
- Comment on They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution 5 weeks ago:
Typically they are – for two of the same reasons, first being that most of the “salt alternatives” in use, the original “salt” in this case being sodium chloride, are also chlorides (potassium or calcium chloride, usually) and it’s that chlorine ion that’s corrosive. They also all turn the meltwater into an electrolyte, forming an easy electrical connection between the various metals in your vehicle’s parts and dramatically accelerating galvanic corrosion.
Technically any compound composed of positive and negatively charged ions that balance out to a net neutral is a salt, chemically speaking, and by definition they are compounds, i.e. held together with weak ionic bonds via their electrostatic charges and not molecules held together with strong covalent bonds. This means they like to liberate their constituent ions easily, allowing whatever-it-is they’re composed of to readily react with something else.
TL;DR: Pretty much all salts, not just sodium chloride salt salt, are corrosion promoters.
- Comment on This might blow up in our face 5 weeks ago:
Anthropogenic global warming is not a “debate.” It is a scientific consensus among a significant majority of the world’s scientists across a full spectrum of disciplines, whereas the counter opinion remains a minority pushed almost exclusively by monied interests.
Have you done any “research?” Are you a qualified expert in any relevant field? I predict that you are not.
