FigMcLargeHuge
@FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 2 days ago:
Yup. I probably shouldn’t ramble as much, but my point was that I am sure all of the “opposite viewpoint than you” people are off in their walled garden asking the same questions. Where that is located, well, you have got me. I wasn’t questioning the legitimacy of his question.
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 2 days ago:
I am not taking sides with this comment, but you could literally swap names of everything you just posted with (the opposite candidate) and there is someone saying this exact same thing somewhere on the internet. They are most likely sitting there posting about where all the Harris people went and how they moved to a saner platform to avoid toxic people… Everyone needs to remember that there is someone out there with a polar opposite viewpoint as you and it’s just as strong as yours. The internet and social media has made it much easier for everyone to wall themselves off into groups containing people with only their viewpoint. And now all of that has been fed to LLMs. This is going to be an interesting future we are walking into.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $73m, despite devastating year for layoffs 1 week ago:
Maybe they can come up with some technology that would someday take the position of CEO. Think of the savings…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That said, this has always been the case, they’ve just covered their legal bases by updating their TOS.
Can you be a little more specific with your definition of this and always? I am old enough to remember that when you purchased a physical copy of a game, you got the game in it’s entirety in perpetuity. Eg: I still have my Donkey Kong cartridge for my Atari 800. To be a little more current, I have a copy of Kerbal Space Program from the company that I can download the entire copy of the game and install it on my pc. So what do you mean by your comment, as I remember a time when it wasn’t the case that you were only purchasing a license? Or do you mean that it’s always been the case with these services?
I was just had by rockstar when they cut off certain people who paid to play GTA Online and are now blocked. I will be voting with my wallet and never purchasing another rockstar game in the future, and in case they ever happened to see this, I was considering picking up the rdr games not only on pc, but my xbox and maybe even the switch. It has soured me to the point where this steam issue more of a concern and something I will be keeping an eye on.
Also, one last comment about your last line. We don’t need congress to get involved if we as a collective of gamers just gathered together and stopped “licensing” their games. Just like if everyone, instead of complaining about the price of beer and hotdogs at stadiums, would just stop buying them for a while, the people raping our wallets would be forced to bring prices down. But alas, I think the chances of that happening are next to zero.
- Comment on Piece work entry unpaid 2 weeks ago:
Sure, I guess it all depends what you have laying around. Like if you had a spare monkey that knew how to type. That’s why I said it was just “an” idea. The only thing I would add though is if she needed to type this all in from a machine she doesn’t have admin rights to, then the extra hardware might be the only way. Again, it was just an option…
- Comment on Piece work entry unpaid 2 weeks ago:
So a raspberry pi, or an arduino board will identify itself as a keyboard if you code it right. She could have all the text loaded and ready to go for the textbox and when it gets to that part, push a button that is hardwired and it can ‘type’ all of the text for her so that the system wouldn’t crap it up as it wouldn’t be ‘pasted’ in. Just an idea for a solution for her.
- Comment on 15 Best Cheesy '80s Sci-Fi Movies, Ranked 2 months ago:
I’m not sure they know what cheesy is.
No shit! Tron wasn’t cheesy, it was groundbreaking.
- Comment on Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia 4 months ago:
It will also keep you from rolling out of bed at night.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 5 months ago:
You have to escape the quotes…
“2\"x4\"” or use differing quotes ‘2"x4"’
- Comment on Flip to Channel 62: UHF gets 4K release for 35th anniversary 5 months ago:
Probably as unfamiliar as TV Station…
- Comment on Mozilla places Microsoft under fire for using deceptive tricks in Edge 8 months ago:
I feel like I am in some time warp here.
sed ‘s/Internet Explorer/Edge/g’
- Comment on Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks 8 months ago:
Right. I had to look twice to make sure this wasn’t an Onion article.
- Comment on Mechanical Watch (2022) 10 months ago:
I went to an Academy store a couple of years ago and on a whim walked up to the watch counter and asked if they had any mechanical watches. The girl behind the counter just tilted her head. So I clarified, a mechanical watch, you know, one you wind up. And she just shook her head again. I then explained to her that it was a watch that you wind up and doesn’t need batteries. She then looked shocked and exclaimed “Wow, that’s so cool. Someone should invent that…” I just stood there in a similar amount of amazement. I then told her that they did, hundreds of years ago. She then said, no we don’t have anything like that. Which I figured was the case from the start.
- Comment on Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad 11 months ago:
They are the same people who complain when a news story alerts them to the fact that facebook is collecting their data. They whine about how the govt should do something about this egregious act, and then share that with all their facebook friends.
- Comment on The Morris Worm was released 35 years ago today 11 months ago:
It might be important to note that the internet at the time was not opened to the public when this was done. It doesn’t mention that in the wikipedia article and I think is an important distinction to make.
- Comment on Microsoft buys Activision – what happens to Infocom's text adventures now? 1 year ago:
Can’t wait to pop my original Zork I floppy into my Atari 800 to see it pop up telling me I need to get an Xbox Live ID to play.
- Comment on Suzanne Somers, Star of ‘Three’s Company’ and ‘She’s the Sheriff,’ Dies at 76 1 year ago:
This bot does that quite a bit.
- Comment on Netflix mails its final DVDs to subscribers 1 year ago:
Sad day for me.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 23 September 1 year ago:
Excellent movie.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 23 September 1 year ago:
The Banshees of Inisherin. I liked it. It was different, and I am good with that.
- Comment on Idiocracy tried to warn you 1 year ago:
If only we had a choice like Camacho right now… Someone please get in touch with Terry Crews and beg him to run for president!
- Comment on Mayim Bialik Declines to Host ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ Amid Strikes, Replaced by Ken Jennings 1 year ago:
I know. I was being halfheartedly sarcastic. There’s some horrifically dumb shit out there now. This ought to be exciting to see how far down the barrel they can scrape.
- Comment on Mayim Bialik Declines to Host ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ Amid Strikes, Replaced by Ken Jennings 1 year ago:
and coming up with absurd reality TV soon,
Holy shit, that ship sailed years ago. Ten years ago I told everyone that we have officially made too many cameras. Are you trying to imply this will get worse?