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- Comment on Administrative task management 6 days ago:
There’s a friggin’ drop shadow on her arm and the gun as if somebody made this in Microsoft Word. The shadow falling across the corner of the computer tower wouldn’t line up with the part on the wall and bookshelf like that, not to mention the edge of the door frame.
- Comment on Administrative task management 6 days ago:
With the jank-ass safety lever and the top grip screw in the wrong place?
Don’t worry, I have a worse one you can look at. Here you go.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 week ago:
When computers were just a teletype attached to a mainframe?
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 week ago:
Only if you want to have the black and green version of Toy instead of the white and blue version, at this rate. Barring a handfull of exclusives everything gets released on PS5 and Xbox now and maybr also a watered down port on the Switch/2. The current Xbox and Playstation are so architecturally similar to each other that they may as well be the same machine with the only difference being which asshole is at the helm, and for either of them you may as well have a PC.
- Comment on Shit would be pretty sick 1 week ago:
Way ahead of you, chief.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 2 weeks ago:
How many other games from 2011 just got re-re-re-released on the Switch 2 for a full $60, though?
- Comment on My only response to Discord 3 weeks ago:
As any night club bouncer or liquor store clerk knows, ZIP code 12345 actually resolves to Schenectady, New York.
- Comment on PROTIP 3 weeks ago:
I carried my Schrade Switch-It every day in the little seam pocket of my carpenter’s jeans (as was the style at the time) and the only flak I ever caught for it was one day the principal spotting it and telling me he didn’t want to see me with my “pager” at school anymore.
I told him he had my scout’s honor that he would never see me with a pager so long as a lived. Yes, this sailed right over his head. I still didn’t get into trouble, though, which is surprising given the sheer variety of other stupid and highly spurious things that somehow got me in trouble in school.
- Comment on PROTIP 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on All fight no flight 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a meme before.
- Comment on Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS? 4 weeks ago:
I have seen guys do it, though. I suppose in certain specific scenarios it might make sense. I’m in agreement there, though, I think I’ll give it a pass unless I absolutely have to.
- Comment on Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS? 4 weeks ago:
For anyone wondering what the heck this thing is, it’s called a roll chart. Usually these are loaded with turn-by-turn instructions for rally racing or similar, but as you can see you can also stick a map in one.
If you’re going to do the map thing it kind of helps for your overall route to be oriented vertically, or else otherwise you have to stick the map in it sideways.
- Comment on Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a map in a roll chart holder. These days they’re used in rally and off road racing, and sometimes motorcycle touring.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 4 weeks ago:
I can confirm this to at least some degree. Part of my job involves marketing and this unfortunately requires at least some minimum peripheral contact with professional marketing people.
They’re idiots, at least on the creative side. They live in a bubble of their own making and are among the worst people on Earth for predicting how regular people think, interact with products or websites, or make decisions.
However, they also get piles and piles of cash shoveled in their direction by executive types who are also idiots, in the vain hope of an ROI that is legendarily fuzzy and also extremely easy to fudge. Thus, the machine churns on.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 4 weeks ago:
Agreed.
Also, if everybody has a knife, the cartel that slaps those impossible-to-tear plastic collars over the necks of bottles of salad dressing and soy sauce will no longer hold any power over us.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 4 weeks ago:
And while we’re at it, un-ban all the silly things that they used your baseless hysteria as a purported justification for banning.
Knives for everybody! All shapes and sizes.
- Comment on How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform? 5 weeks ago:
As usual, this is thoroughly documented to a perhaps ridiculous degree on the Transformers Wiki:
tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformation#Onomatopoeia
There is an official answer to this question. It’s Transformers; of course there is an official answer to this particular question. Actually, there are several. Jury’s out on which of these interpretations in particular have caused the franchise to be Ruined Forever, but surely at least one of them has.
- Comment on smh 5 weeks ago:
I’m convinced that the majority of whinging about metric in the US is actually coming from old machine operators tucked away somewhere in the industrial sector who don’t want to give up their old decimal inch Bridgeports and Shipleys, or have bosses who wouldn’t buy them new machines anyway. Everything else stems from there, bubbling on up through the pipes as it does.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 5 weeks ago:
More or less, yes. That’s also why it appears more red/orange as it gets closer to the horizon from your perspective, since at that oblique angle the light has to pass through more of the atmosphere to get to you and more of it gets scattered or absorbed by particulates in the air.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 5 weeks ago:
The question is how gradually. Over the span of 10,000 years, probably not. Over the span of a month, absolutely. Remember that the hue of sunlight already changes significantly throughout the day based mostly on the sun’s proximity to the horizon (and thus how much thickness of crap in the atmosphere it has to plow through to get to your location) and we can definitely detect that easily.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 1 month ago:
We perceive the sun as white. That’s a fairly important distinction.
The reason we perceive the sun as white is surely because the sun has output basically the same spectrum as long as humanity (and a great deal of humanity’s precursors) has existed. We evolved with our eyes considering the spectrum the sun kicks out as fully white light, comprised of the sum total of electromagnetic frequencies we’re able to receive with our eyeballs.
There is no such thing as objective color of any light. Our understanding of color is completely based on our perception of it. If the sun’s peak output were in the 590–625nm range (what we currently perceive as orange) for all that time rather than in the green part of the spectrum it is in reality (500–565nm), we undoubtedly would have evolved to see that particular spectrum combination as white light instead.
All of the above notwithstanding, if the spectrum output of the sun changed overnight like OP’s idiot friend is suggesting, it would be immediately apparent to everyone who isn’t literally blind.
- Comment on Invest now before it's too late! 1 month ago:
Jest, perhaps. But you can already buy copper bullion for “investment” purposes the same as you can do with gold and silver:
www.jmbullion.com/copper/copper-bars/
This is, of course, for the express purposes of parting fools who listen to too much AM talk radio from their money. Copper is worth, what, a little under $6 a pound right now? So these one ounce ingots in reality contain about 37 cents worth of metal.
Copper is self-evidently not an investment or speculation vehicle, unless you are able to front the money to deal with it in quantities measured in tons.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 1 month ago:
If you have to do it legitimately for corporate liability purposes then yes, actually buying licenses will not be cost effective. But activating the LTSC versions is otherwise trivially easy.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 1 month ago:
I am explicitly using LTSC.
You don’t need a license if you know about massgrave.dev. I’m only using this because our warehouse software requires Windows and the latter is already bought and paid for. Otherwise, Microsoft can bite me.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 1 month ago:
Ooh, a Celeron N4000. I will see you, and raise you this piece of shit we have at work:
My boss bought this as one of those Black Friday “deals” for about $99 USD. The sticker on the bottom doesn’t seem to reveal its manufacturing date but I believe this model was released in 2018. Really, it’s just a netbook in all but name.
We use this specifically to drive a walk-around barcode scanner in our warehouse and the software we have to use on it is Windows only. It’s tiny and still somehow gets stellar battery life, and it’s deliberately so cheap as to be disposable so when the day inevitably comes that it gets smashed, no one will care.
With Win10 IoT on it the thing actually runs tolerably for our intended use case, which is the aforementioned barcode bleeping and nothing else. And at least yours there has a 1080p display; this one is only 1366 x 768 so doing practically anything else on it is excruciating anyway. What amuses me the most about it is that with only 39 gigs of usable storage there literally isn’t enough left over to run Windows updates. I have this thing as ruthlessly pared down as I can get without creating a custom Windows installation or something and it only has 770 megabytes free on it at the moment. If you want to let it update for whatever reason, you have to attach an external USB drive to it.
I can’t fathom trying to run Windows 11 on it. Fuck all that noise.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 1 month ago:
People do understand what the midterms are, right?
…Right?
Neither Trump nor Vance are up for election in 2026. But quite a few of their GOP cronies are, in the house and senate. All of the house is up for election and roughly one third of the senate. This will most likely be our last chance to oust at least some of Trump’s enablers in congress.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 1 month ago:
And even in the cases when you think it might have games, it turns out they’re not on the cartridge.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 month ago:
Your example sounds like Ikaruga if it were deliberately designed to be annoying.
…We probably shouldn’t give any mobile game developers any ideas.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 month ago:
Especially the gold chests that give you a fiver. However, my gripe is with the 3-4 second delay after it goes “bling” but before it presents you the button that allows you to dismiss the popup.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 month ago:
Basically every console RPG ever. Certainly those which are not voice acted, and present characters “talking” at you by slowly ghost typing their lines out one character at a time into a text box and then awaiting you input at the end before proceeding to the next line, but inevitably with the dialog box refusing to even start listening for button presses until some seconds after I’ve read the text multiple times over, plus its partially completed form several times more.
I’m adding another dishonorable mention on this front which isn’t even a text box: That fucking treasure chest opening animation in Vampire Survivors. If you know, you know.
