Red_October
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- Comment on Tribes 3: Rivals already in trouble as developers shift focus elsewhere 16 hours ago:
With dev plans like these, who can be surprised that their games weren’t immediately runaway successes? This sort of shit is why nobody trusts new Tribes games. It’s barely even into Early Access and they’ve all but abandoned it.
- Comment on This automatic faucet that need the hands to be between the wall and the water to turn on. 3 weeks ago:
“How could this badly designed thing work if it wasn’t so badly designed?” Sometimes, if you can’t make a thing work, the solution is to use something else that does. And sometimes the solution is just to make it better, like directing the IR detection beams just to either side of the water stream.
- Comment on No Man’s Sky Adrift update leaves you completely alone in its universe, except for sandworms and ghost ships 4 weeks ago:
You should try the Expeditions. If you you achievements as a guide, the expeditions pretty much do that. They’re not explicitly called Achievements but the different stages and accomplishments are functionally the same thing.
- Comment on Summer 2023 Was the Northern Hemisphere’s Hottest in 2,000 Years, Study Finds 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, Earth isn’t content to rest on it’s laurels and will be trying to break the record in next year’s season, like a true champion.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 1 month ago:
So if I just occasionally have a beer with dinner does that mean I could also enjoy a bit of light recreational heroine for dessert?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
Okay so THAT makes sense, people for whom a PSN account is simply impossible will not be able to play, THAT is worth being mad about. But we are absolutely not just seeing outrage from players in countries where they CAN’T have a PSN account, we’re seeing outrage from people who could and just don’t want to.
What I’m trying to understand is why. I get that it’s a greedy data-grab from Sony that is fully not necessary, but also… it’s just not a big ask. They’re not asking for your credit card, they don’t want your social security number, I don’t even think there’s anything keeping you from telling them that your name is “Bofa Deeznutz.” I get wanting to control your data, and I would absolutely suggest a randomly generated super-strong password, but it just seems to me like everyone so angry that they’re quitting just… has a pretty easy fix for that.
So for MOST of us, it really, really is just having yet another account. The few who genuinely don’t have that option are right to be angry, but for most of us it really just seems like an overreaction.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
Okay so I must be missing something. Could someone explain to me why exactly this, of all things, is getting the nuclear backlash? It’s not like they’re adding a subscription charge or new microtransactions, you just need to have an account.
- Comment on Mesopotamia is coming to Total War: Pharaoh alongside over 80 new units 1 month ago:
I’m sure both players will be really excited about that.
- Comment on Your memory will live forever in textbooks. 1 month ago:
This is your chance to codify Ligma as a serious disease. Don’t mess it up.
- Comment on Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day 2 months ago:
This isn’t about early access. This is explicitly about Advanced Access, where a special edition grants access to the complete game a few days early.
This is a closed loophole, not an injustice.
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 2 months ago:
It’s because they are. Apple wants to position itself as a “Luxury Brand” first and foremost, that happens to sell mostly tech stuff. Look at the absurd accessory prices, like this thousand dollar monitor stand. There is no reality in which that piece of shit is actually worth that much, but by offering their stupid shit at those prices, people can be associated with such opulence whenever they buy other Apple products. They just want to be the Gucci of computers, and it shows in how they have only been innovating on ways to extract money for low quality products, and not in the actual technology itself.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Requires The Internet To Install It 2 months ago:
Even on consoles is this even news anymore? It may not be every game that requires it but there’s no way this is now so unusual as to be worth pointing out in an article of it’s own. The time to get pissy about that was, what, 10 years ago?
- Comment on Intrusive thoughts 2 months ago:
Just give in, do it to one spool, and you can move on with your life. Resistance only makes it hurt more.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 2 months ago:
When I block OP and his trash articles from my feed, it’ll be his fault for not going out of his way to deliver content to me anyway. And when I block his next attempt too, it just means he’s being anti-consumer in not catering to me anyway.
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
IIRC that was a design feature of Phillips screws, not a flaw. Deliberately designed to limit torque to avoid over-tightening.
- Comment on democracy in Russia 3 months ago:
They just reminded him that if he doesn’t find something to keep him busy outside for a few minutes, he’ll have a tragic accident the next time he goes near a high window or ledge.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 5 months ago:
This Video will tell you everything you could possibly want to know on the subject, answering your question exactly and in extensive detail. The long and short of it is, not really, no, but they could be made to be very exceptionally effective anyway.
- Comment on Milking machine 5 months ago:
That’s disgusting. Where would you even buy a horrible machine like that, and how much would that terrible thing cost with shipping?
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 5 months ago:
One of my biggest complaints with the EGS is their anti-competitive actions. Rather than try to out compete, rather than try to be the better choice, they pay developers to only release games on their platform, flat out barring them from releasing on any other store. They don’t try to win your favor, they don’t try to be a pleasant experience, they just shortcut their way to being the only option, without a care for improving any of the other faults or shortcomings.
My next complaint is that Tencent has a 40% ownership share in Epic Games, and I make active efforts to not give them a dime.
- Comment on I'm not creative enough to think of a title 5 months ago:
Sigma Males are what those guys who used to call themselves Alpha Males now call themselves, because everyone started making fun of them for calling themselves Alpha Males.
- Comment on I'm not creative enough to think of a title 5 months ago:
Actually the same though.
- Comment on Flying used to be this magical, miraculous thing! 6 months ago:
Now compare what flying in the 60’s cost to what it costs today. If you want some magical luxury experience, you can fly First Class and get a comfortable seat with extra amenities and preferential treatment, but you’re still just buying the cheap tickets aren’t you.
Yes, the airline is squeezing every penny they can out of everything they can, and they’re doing it because consumers are dramatically more sensitive to price than quality. When you look at the booking selection and the available flights are all more or less going to get the job done, you and just about everyone else will pick the one that costs $20 less, completely ignoring the First Class option that costs $800+ more. It’s why everything seems to be shitty and cheap these days, quality goods and experiences still exist, but we don’t pay for quality when the economy option costs a third as much.
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 6 months ago:
He didn’t though. He stole from people who were into Crypto. Sure a lot of them were rich, many weren’t rich but did have disposable income, and plenty were just stupid and thought crypto would be the way they would GET rich. But he didn’t only steal from rich people.
- Comment on A Florida restaurant chain says boosting pay and offering better benefits helped it end its labor shortage 7 months ago:
What a fucking shock, who could have ever seen this coming? They should publish their research, the world has to know!
- Comment on After earning $544 million in its most recent quarter, Unity says even more layoffs are 'likely' 7 months ago:
Well after their pay-per-download debacle, their latest quarter’s earnings may not be indicative of the shit that is coming down on them. There are dark clouds on the horizon for Unity.
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 7 months ago:
At that point we switch to a Year (three digit) and Millennium (M followed by two digits) system, so the year 10,001 would be noted as 001 M10. After 999 M10 we reach 000 M11, and so on. Most applications would only really need the year number.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 7 months ago:
So he’s suggesting AAA games be about $5-$10 right?
- Comment on Really? 8 months ago:
Good thing the Republicans have a long history of bi-partisan cooperation in the interest of a smoothly functioning government, and thus have built up a reserve of good will they can call upon to help resolve this dilemma, right?
- Comment on Really? 8 months ago:
The voters who would believe Democrats are the ones who are obstructing government, and the voters who would ever vote for anyone who isn’t a Republican, have no overlap.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 9 months ago:
It really would have. Considering that my loading screens are scarcely longer than those sequences anyway it could have, should have been nearly seamless.