aesthelete
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- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 1 week ago:
Similarly, the packaging change they made to the rotisserie chicken means me never eating that heated plastic bag garbage ever again.
It was plastic before but it was at least a tray and a covering. So the plastic at least seemed more durable and not all of it was touching the bird. Now it’s just a shitty plastic bag being warmed under a light. Disgusting.
- Comment on Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' 1 week ago:
There it is. “Use AI” is the new “learn to code”.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 1 week ago:
I now hate income tax because it’s just giving a handout to billionaires (and military contractors, but I repeat myself).
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 1 week ago:
A big ol pile of shit.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 week ago:
Through what fucking program? Magic?
- Comment on Not for me, tho 2 weeks ago:
Truish and falsish and nullish are all concepts made up by madmen. JavaScript is the language of the damned.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 weeks ago:
The other day for laughs in jira I looked at the suggested issues the AI came up with, and they looked like jargon laden nonsense but I could see a future where the upper management do nothing business idiots don’t care and just slop up a bunch of tasks and assign those out.
Everything has become an exercise in cosplaying and pantomiming the thing that’s supposed to actually happen, and AI is the thing that’ll really keep that train rolling. It’s a fucking weapons grade, automated potemkin village creator.
- Comment on wtf i love capitalism now 3 weeks ago:
Love is love
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m not a huge fan of their recent “direction” either, but it actually would’ve been a lot more innovative for Nintendo to offer a headless switch in a tiny form factor. Maybe that’s just the old, highly innovative ways of Nintendo going by the wayside.
It’s a shame because Nintendo is a lot more accessible from a “casual gamer” perspective. I’ve even gotten my parents to play switch and wii games over the years. I don’t think they’d ever touch an xbox or ps.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 3 weeks ago:
Give me a Switch without a screen. No battery. No detachable controllers. Just a brick that plugs into the wall and the TV, compatible with a Pro controller. Probably could even sell that at a reduced price too. Maybe even overclock it and give it a bigger cooling solution to get better performance. Maybe Nintendo’s newer games can actually run at a stable 60 fps on their own hardware finally.
I’m actually in the same boat. I hardly ever play the switch in handheld mode. It is incredibly uncomfortable for anyone over the age and/or hand size of a 12 year old. The form factor is terrible for mobile use IMO. Even when we don’t play the switch docked on the TV, we have taken to playing it plugged into a small USB-C monitor on a side table in front of the couch.
I really wish Nintendo would offer a different option like you’re saying here. The only thing that’s nice about the Switch form factor is the size for portability IMO. Scrap the screen (and probably even the battery) and offer an option that’s as small as (or even smaller than) one of those NUC-looking mini PCs that are all the rage nowadays.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 3 weeks ago:
Disappointing to say the least.
My wife loves the switch but has gone through 3 or 4 different sets of controllers. I tried my hand at repairing one of them and it was not fun – to put it mildly – and I do not savor repeating the experience. I honestly did not know there were hall effect replacements for the original joycon sticks, and wish I had known that when I replaced the one I did.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No you’re not overreacting, but if you’re in America unfortunately you basically have to drive to be a full fledged person. Our governments do not provide you an alternative. I’d personally love to quit myself, but I’m the only driver in my household.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 4 weeks ago:
I like it a lot but I have a clamshell. I don’t understand the purpose of the other form factors. It really isn’t much different from other phones after a while, except you forget about how nobody else’s phone closes or fits in their pocket.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 4 weeks ago:
I’m old enough to remember people saying the n64 sucked compared to the PlayStation. Then I remember Mario 64 and GoldenEye being released.
Nintendo consoles are usually underpowered and the games are often overpriced…but there are reasons why people keep going with the company. They make fun shit.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 4 weeks ago:
The original switch was a bargain too relatively speaking. My one switch outlasted about five or six phones I owned over the same time span.
It does kinda suck that it’s gone up in price in the new generation, but like… PlayStation 5 was also around the same price a couple of years ago, when money was worth more.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
shrug to each their own
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Animal Crossing New Horizons was great. I was also a pretty big fan of Mario Odyssey. Both Zelda games were great (though I know the first one was released to the Wii U or whatever). Mario Kart was great of course. Mario party was a little underwhelming this time but I think they’ve since released a better one. Smash Brothers was great. Mario Wonder? Was pretty awesome too.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You were saying earlier the main reason someone would buy a switch 2 was nostalgia. Nintendo still makes great games that generally run great even on their lowered speced hardware. Some of the games for the switch were some of the best installments in their respective franchises.
I’ve become disillusioned a bit with them for other reasons (console repairability, their litigiousness, the semi-closed ecosystem, joycon drift, the higher game price points lately) but the exclusive games are still rocking, and the exclusive games are a lot of the reason you’d buy a switch 2.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
But most people are very nostalgic (can’t blame them, SNES to Wii Zeldas and Metroids were amazing) and have uncontrollable FOMO, which Nintendo keeps on milking even when their software and hardware is noticeably much worse than it’s competitors’.
This reads like someone who never played any of the switch titles. It’s not simply nostalgia. The switch titles were objectively good despite lackluster hardware. The switch lasted for almost a decade and is still playable today. People are buying switch 2 to be able to play the Nintendo exclusives.
It’s true that the hardware is largely lackluster, but especially in the case of the first party titles, and in general overall, the lackluster hardware just doesn’t prevent the games from looking and running great. Nintendo invests in developers capable of running large, complex games on somewhat modest hardware.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like you got ripped off
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 5 weeks ago:
Needs more integrated development environments underneath as well.
- Comment on Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded” 5 weeks ago:
That won’t matter. Discus comments are tied to people’s real identities in most cases and that didn’t stop them from posting unhinged bullshit underneath every non-notable story.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 5 weeks ago:
I played it sometime toward the end of last year using proton. I’ll have to try it again.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 5 weeks ago:
The Linux version is utter dog shit. It’s native but it’s really terrible looking.
- Comment on So close! 5 weeks ago:
It’s not new and also nobody calls it “water based cooking” because that’s stupid.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 1 month ago:
Gotcha. I was just somewhere and didn’t realize those things existed until I heard one. It’s like the inventor of gas powered leaf blowers just wanted to ruin some more people’s days.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 1 month ago:
Did any of them have those dumb little, loud ass engines attached? Because, if so, I understand a little more.
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 1 month ago:
Everyone thinks of nothing but fame and $$$$ at any cost and then they wonder why everything is such shit.
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 1 month ago:
So dignity and self-respect are so debased to you that they’re considered “nothing” at this point?
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 1 month ago:
I donate quite a bit and I’ve only found AOC and Bernie (big surprise) to be ones that are looking for something other than “send me another check” as a follow-up to your donation.