cobysev
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- Comment on This Far and No Further 5 hours ago:
They’re likely saying that data collection/analysis on customer’s eating habits is getting to the point that they can almost predict when you’ll be hungry, and the next step is to deliver food to you before you even order it.
If you order a burrito at 11:30 every day, their goal is to have a burrito delivered to your door at 11:30 every day, without you even ordering it.
Which honestly, is kind of terrifying. I don’t want a company knowing my habits so well that they predict what I want and then order it without my consent.
- Comment on What is the most common stupid question you hear/see? 5 hours ago:
I don’t want to call it a “stupid” question, because most people just don’t know this. But when I was serving in the US Air Force, if my service ever came up around civilians, it was almost guaranteed that the next words out of their mouth were, “What planes do you fly?” It was such a common occurrence, it was a running joke amongst us Air Force members.
Only 5% of the Air Force are pilots. The other 95% work in career fields that either directly or indirectly support those pilots. We have doctors, lawyers, electricians, police, accountants, cooks… You name it, we likely have a similar career for it.
I personally worked in IT. I fixed computers for 20 years, usually in some cold, dark server room deep in the bowels of a facility. (Sometimes underground even!) I was about as far removed from the airplanes as one could get. So despite my 20 years working for the Air Force, I know absolutely nothing about planes.
Also, it kind of bothers me when people thank me for my service because I didn’t do anything. I’m no hero. Anyone could’ve done my job. Heck, I deployed with Marines once and they told me, if shit hits the fan, to just duck under my desk and let them take care of it. Even in the Air Force, we’re told that Security Forces (our version of military police) are the ones trained to handle combat with enemy forces and to get out of their way if anything happens.
When I was deployed with the Marines, my Marine boss told me once that she hopes to god that she never sees an Air Force person with a rifle in their arms. That means the planes are down, the Marines are dead, and the base is overrun. She said we are the absolute last resort to defend against enemy forces. So if we come under fire, she asked that I hand my weapon to the nearest Marine and then go take cover.
- Comment on Check out my peen 1 week ago:
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 1 week ago:
2016 was the year that a bunch of celebrities started dying all at once. The world has never been the same since.
- Comment on Take the pledge! 1 week ago:
He does not, sadly. He lived a pretty wild party life for many years that got him addicted to heavy drugs, and he became a gay prostitute for a while. He completely disappeared for a handful of years into some creepy sex cult and popped up again when he was rushed to the ER one day. Almost dying in a hospital was the wake-up call he needed.
He’s been through rehab and recovery and as far as I know, he’s working a pretty normal office job now. I’m good friends with his family, so I see him every time he’s passing through town. And he still asks me if I’ve pooped that day.
- Comment on Take the pledge! 1 week ago:
This reminds me of my high school days. In health class, we were taught that a healthy digestive system had at least one bowel movement per day. Throughout the course, we were also encouraged to promote generic healthy habits with our friends, family, and classmates; basically help each other stay accountable with their health and nutrition.
One of my friends took this to heart. He started going up to people - literally anyone - and asking in a concerned tone, “Did you poop today?”
If they gave any answer besides “yes,” he would go off about all the health benefits associated with a daily bowel movement and what kinds of healthy foods and exercises would assist in having one. He would even offer to provide moral support from outside a bathroom stall if they needed it.
We all got a kick out of how deadpan and serious he played it. When the teacher asked him to knock it off, he insisted he was just concerned about promoting healthy habits, then would ask her if she had also pooped that day. To a room full of teenagers, there’s nothing more hilarious than asking a teacher if she’s pooped. No matter her response, the whole room was rolling in raucous laughter.
It’s been over 20 years since then, and every time we meet in person, he still greets me with, “Did you poop today?”
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 1 week ago:
The Federal Communications Commission. It’s a US government agency that regulates all communications broadcasts (TV, radio, Internet, satellite, etc.).
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
Minecraft: Story Mode was actually pretty popular. It was basically a story-rich RPG set in a Minecraft world.
- Comment on Day 759 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Control is one of my favorite games! I’ve really wanted to review it here, but I wanted to review Alan Wake first, since they’re tangentially connected. And you kept playing Alan Wake and posting about it, so I didn’t want to add more Alan Wake content to this community at the same time. It’s my goal to keep adding new content, which is why I generally don’t go back and discuss games I’ve already reviewed once.
I remember the game being short […]
Short?! I’ve played for 36 hours and still haven’t beaten it! Granted, I stopped playing when I got stuck on a boss fight and didn’t want to grind endless mobs to level up for the fight. Then when I did return, I decided to just start the whole game over because it’d been so long since I last played, I forgot what was going on. So I have two half-played game sessions on Steam.
Also, I got absorbed in the details of the game. Something about it scratches a particular itch for me so I love just exploring every nook and cranny and collecting every little bit of lore I can find in game. I love the world of SCP, and this game is based on the overall concept of it. I especially like how this game retcons Alan Wake into an anomaly that The Oldest House is tracking.
- Comment on Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis? 4 weeks ago:
Ah, maybe I’m getting my pop media confused with actual history. Hitler is obsessed with the occult in many films and video games.
- Comment on Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis? 4 weeks ago:
Interesting note: Zombie Army is actually a spinoff series from the Sniper Elite franchise. It was originally called Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army, but they dropped the lengthy title when the third Zombie Army game released. There are 4 of them out now.
Sniper Elite focuses on a sniper behind enemy lines during WWII. Despite creating unique stories and events for you to play, its overall setting is somewhat accurate to real life history.
Zombie Army, however, is an alternate history where Hitler released zombies as a final solution when he knew he was losing the war. These are supernatural zombies, as real-life Hitler was obsessed with the occult. No virus plague zombies here.
The two game franchises don’t have much to do with each other, but they started out under the same franchise title.
- Comment on Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language. 5 weeks ago:
if a movie or TV show had subs we had to take turns reading it out loud
I do this for my wife, because she spends most of a film on her phone.
She’s listening to the audio and can mostly follow what’s going on by glancing at the screen and reading subtitles every now and then, but if there’s a foreign language with subtitles, or a text description (Paris, 11 AM or 10 years later, etc.), she’ll miss it and then be completely lost.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to pause a movie and give a quick recap to get her caught up with the plot.
- Comment on Civic duty 1 month ago:
I was exempt from jury duty while serving in the US military, but at one particular base I was stationed at, they put me on a list of potential jury members for any military trials held in the area.
My boss got selected to sit in on a trial, but I never got called. He was super excited about it. He said it was a fascinating case and he couldn’t wait to spill the details once the trial concluded.
To this day, I’ve never been called on. I kinda hope it happens one day. I’m retired now and have nothing better to do.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #68 - 007 First Light 2 months ago:
It does require a one-time connection to the Internet for a day-one patch before you can play it, but after that, you can enjoy the whole campaign offline.
It does disable some features of the game if you’re offline though, like the tactical simulation mode is inaccessible (since it’s a challenge ranking system with the community). I read that some cosmetics and in-game challenges are also disabled. But if you’re here just for the story, you can enjoy it without an Internet connection.
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- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 2 months ago:
More true than you know. Valve won’t allow you to transfer accounts to other people, so your account is legally dead when you are.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 2 months ago:
Nice! Glad to know I’m not the only person sinking ridiculous money into my gaming habits. 😅
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 2 months ago:
According to SteamDB, $18,181 over 18.6 years. I’m sure that number will be much higher when the Steam sale is over, since it pulls data from current game prices.
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 2 months ago:
I can’t vote because of my VPN… but I’ll wait for a sale before purchasing Grand Theft Auto VI. I don’t agree with spending $70+ for a game that I might enjoy for a handful of hours. No game is worth that price to me. I firmly believe in voting with my money, so I won’t support the industry that keeps inflating game prices.
Plus, I never buy games at release anyway. No game seems to be perfectly polished at release now (unless it’s been in early access for over 5 years) and I’d rather wait and let others find all the game-breaking bugs and get them patched first.
I remember a time when games were strictly offline. A new game released and whatever flaws it had were just part of the experience forever. Game studios were especially careful to ensure their games were as close to perfect as they could get.
Now with everything connected to the Internet, game studios just release a messy pile of code and drop day-one patches to make it semi-playable, with the expectation that gamers will find and complain about other problems that the studio can patch out later. There’s no more pride in making a quality game anymore, it’s just pushing garbage as fast as possible and fixing it in post.
I’ll wait maybe a year or so until Grand Theft Auto VI drops to $20-30 during a Steam sale and then buy it. I have plenty of other games to play in the meantime; I’m in no rush to experience it.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
Ah, I haven’t even met any bosses yet. That’s probably why it’s so slow. I don’t even have engines yet.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
I’ve been playing this game. It’s enjoyable, but it took way too long to get started. I was already several hours in before I was able to build my first base/ship and get moving to new islands. I wasn’t really sure what to do, so I spent a lot of time just wandering and exploring. I still feel that way, several hours into the gameplay.
And even then, it just feels very slow paced. Like it takes forever to do anything in the game. On that note, flying between islands is also very slow. I don’t know if it’ll pick up with later advancements to ship engines or something, but it’s kind of mind-numbingly slow where I’m currently at. It could use some fast-travel options so I’m not just leaving to make a sandwich while my ship flies to the next island over.
I tried to get my friends into it so we could all base-build together, but none of them had the patience to get a character started. So I’ve been playing it solo and hoping it’ll get better in the later game.
the devs are continuing to put significant work into the game, and it’s in a good state now
It’s actually been a while since I played it. I should probably pick it up again and see if the game has improved.
- Comment on and what?! 2 months ago:
*Naked Snake enters the chat*
- Comment on and what?! 2 months ago:
Spoiler, but yes.
- Comment on and what?! 2 months ago:
And what?! I have never played mgs
Liquid Snake is a character in Metal Gear Solid. He’s Solid Snake’s twin brother and one of the antagonists in the series.
- Comment on Anon the Hutt 2 months ago:
The new Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian and Grogu, is all about the other Hutts. Twins took over the Hutt empire after Jabba died, and they recruit the Mandalorian to track down and rescue their cousin who was kidnapped as a child. It got mixed reviews, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
At least in the movies, there’s only one Hutt empire, with a bit of a power struggle within the Hutt family. Sounds like the twins were eager to take over in the power vacuum when Jabba died. Even the Resistance has to work with them occasionally because of the powerful connections their family has.
- Comment on You need to think long term 2 months ago:
I was 10 when the Internet because publicly accessible, and 13 when I made my first ever email address. I used my current username as my email handle, which was an abbreviated version of my name.
It took me like 10 seconds to come up with it. I had a cute girlfriend who was insisting I make a private email because I was sharing my mother’s email account and my girlfriend didn’t like my mother having access to our private conversations.
It’s been 29 years now and I’m still using this username. My original email is long gone, but the username lives on.
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 3 months ago:
- Comment on He's an arborist 3 months ago:
I measured like this when my first girlfriend asked what my size was. I told her it was 10". Suffice to say, she was definitely not impressed when the pants came off for the first time. 😅
- Comment on Grammar school kid who is a realist 3 months ago:
They cropped off the fourth kid on the bottom, who is afraid of Conor.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 months ago:
Despite being an old guy who was around for the original Zelda game, Skyward Sword was actually the first Zelda game I ever sat down and seriously played. I really enjoyed it!
And as a completionist, I appreciated that it’s canonically the first game in the franchise. It gave me a foundation for the lore of the series, so I have a better understanding of every other Zelda game I’ve played since.
If there’s anything I didn’t like about it, it was that there was a borderline romance subtext going on between Link and Zelda at the beginning of the game, which doesn’t ever go anywhere. I half expected them to fall in love by the end, but they kept it strictly platonic once the plot started rolling. I learned later that that’s pretty much par for the course in Zelda games. Link is always the protector, not a love interest.
