thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on no ragrets 1 day ago:
We have a cavoodle, basically a smaller version of this breed.
He’s not aggressive, basically a big wuss-bag, but he gets along with our 2yo like a house on fire!
My biggest issue with the breed is that they seem to hhave no sense of self-preservation - picking fights with much larger, more serious dogs (German Shepherds, Border Collies etc.), and are one of the only breeds I have ever encountered that aren’t primarily motivated by food… ours in particular is a ridiculously fussy eater.
Our in-house joke about him is that he’s not a dog at all, but a sentient teddy bear.
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 5 days ago:
Not yet mentioned:
Prince of Persia Trilogy (Sands of Time, Warrior Within, Two Thrones)
God of War 1&2
Devil May Cry 1-3
Bully (Canis Canem Edit in PAL)
Killer7
Under the Skin
Viewtiful Joe 1&2
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 5 days ago:
Replace mega corp with ‘a publicly traded entity’ and you’re spot-on the money.
There are a very few studios that aren’t beholden to the whims of vulture capitalist investors, and they’re the only ones still putting out absolute bangers (Larian), upholding their promises (Hello Games) or keeping the entire gaming industry from consuming itself in a blaze of pure shitfuckery (Valve).
- Comment on 1987 5 days ago:
At least once…
…the brown slop on the left could easily be a two’fer!
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 5 days ago:
I’ll give Libre Office a crack over the weekend, if/when I get my Bazzite installation going and will see how it goes; I wonder just how much support it has for the newer functions that have outputs that overfill into adjacent cells (e.g. UNIQUE)?
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 6 days ago:
I think the biggest hurdle against transitioning away from Windows to Linux for most government offices isn’t the OS itself - but rather the MS Office suite!
You’d honestly be surprised how pervasive Excel is amongst white collar workers; and I think the biggest hurdle is the uncertainty of compatibility (of formulas, macros, workbook links etc.) from Excel to Open/Libre Office alternatives.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 6 days ago:
Very true, same applies to the ESRB in the US. The ESA literally only formed the organisation to self-censor rather than leave it to the Gov’t following outrage over Mortal Kombat — if I’m remembering correctly?
Here in Australia, the ACB is a government body — but just about as useless, if not even more so! For the longest time, we had to have our games additionally censored because they were viewed as for children and therefore couldn’t depict excessive violence, any sexual themes or drug use. Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto 3 & Vice City were notable examples.
What am I getting at, even I don’t know. I guess to say that both implementations can be shit…? 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer 6 days ago:
Rocko’s Modern Life, Angry Beavers, Ren & Stimpy, etc.
That was a rabbit hole to fall down, unlocking so many childhood memories! For some reason, I thought those were all by Klasky Csupo, turns out I totally misremembered… 😅
May as well throw CatDog onto that list too, I sing the theme song to my daughter to make her laugh…
I kinda feel sorry for later generations, there really is no way that modern kids animation holds a candle to what we millennials got to experience.
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 6 days ago:
You know what really grinds my gears?
Region-specific bonus tracks that are literally not available on any streaming service in an official capacity; the only place I can find them are on YouTube - where they could get DMCA’ed at a moment’s notice…
Two tracks off the top of my head like this are:
- Don’t Tell Me It’s Over by Blink 182, from Take Off Your Pants & Jacket
- Subject to Change by Sum 41, from Chuck
- Comment on Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
Didn’t know about the NES game, thanks for the heads-up! It looks like it was only released in Japan and based on the original Kyatto Ninden Teyandee version, and not the deranged English dub.
Even calling the original series notionally relevant is probably a stretch, it wasn’t even renewed for a second season! 🤣 But I guess we have its general failure to thank for setting in the Rube Goldberg series of events which led to the absurd English dub?
- Comment on Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
I honestly have no idea who greenlit this or why; but given just how obscure the source is - I have hopes that it’s a passion project, and will be made with love and care.
- Comment on Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
“One of us, one of us, one of us!”
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- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 1 week ago:
While the win is good, the fact that it’s still a PEGI 12 game while FIFA is a PEGI 3 shows what an absolute joke the whole process is.
Australia had to deal with similar levels of bullshit for way too long before our ratings board finally capitulated to common sense and introduced an R18 rating (for games like The Last of Us, not even XXX content!).
We have an endemic gambling problem too, so I don’t foresee much common sense coming out of that mob anytime soon - either.
- Comment on meirl 1 week ago:
What’s the easiest/best way to start with UseNet? I’ve wanted to give it a try for the longest time - but it just feels like such a daunting task to try and figure out…
- Comment on meirl 1 week ago:
The average US household spent over $500/yr on streaming services in 2024, which was actually down YOY!
At that sort of expense, you would be much better served buying (or if you’re technically minded - building) a NAS at home and then just…
… yaaar! 🏴☠️
That way, you keep access to the media without having to worry about licenses expiring or the internet going out.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 weeks ago:
It really is a spectrum, you’re right - some products definitely taste worse than others.
Pepsi Max tends to taste better because it uses a combination of Acesulfame Potassium (Ace-K) and aspartame (ie. Equal), whereas Coke/Fanta tends to just use aspartame.
I personally find erythritol to be the most neutral flavour-wise, and without that laxative effect in the event of over-consumption.
Stevia definitely has a herbal after-taste that not everyone finds pleasant, but it can/does have its place at times.
Maltitol on the other hand, is the tool of the devil - and I would only wish it upon my worst enemies.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 weeks ago:
The SSN is 9 digits long; so technically they would have to start re-using them after the billionth one. Given the current population size, and how many people have been born/died since its implementation - it’s fair to say they haven’t had to re-use any figures yet.
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 5 weeks ago:
I’m probably the wrong person to challenge, and an exception to the rule! 😅
I drink ~4L (a gallon) of fluids daily; half of which is still/sparkling water, the other half being a mixture of coffee, tea, pre-workout, BCAAs, kombucha, soda, booze.
It was a habit I picked up to help me get used to OMAD when I was cutting weight in the first couple of years of my diet, and is a habit that’s stuck with me since.
I have to go to the bathroom often - which is a downside, but at least I never get a hangover after a night out drinking!
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 5 weeks ago:
I mean, there’s nothing preventing people from drinking water as part of this diet…
Hilariously enough, it’s really a very basic, boozy ketogenic diet.
You’ll lose a lot of water-weight in the first few days regardless, as you deplete your glycogen stores; the caffeine, alcohol and lack of carbohydrates should help keep satiety (lack of hunger pangs).
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 2 months ago:
They are getting stricter, but there are still ways around it - and it only gets easier if you have friends/family (or are willing to make friends) in said countries; the internet is a global community, after all.
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 2 months ago:
Especially if you can finagle a subscription out of one of the cheaper countries, too!
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 2 months ago:
Correct; wo, ni, ta are the singular forms I, you, he/she/it. Adding the -men suffix turns it into the plural we/you/they.
So literally, ‘we’ are ‘women’.
- Comment on Thefts linked to cost-of-living drive rise in Victoria's crime rates 2 months ago:
No shit, Sherlock.
Disenfranchise the entire working class, push them beyond the brink of self-sufficiency, demean them for their status in life…
What do you expect to happen? If people can’t afford to live, they’re going to lash out at the society they see as having abandoned them.
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 3 months ago:
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 3 months ago:
/uj Technically this is their new logo:
J a G U a r is just their new typeface (I think that’s the name?); and apparently/allegedly is to make the pronunciation closer to UK English, rather than American.
Either way, though - it’s still…
/j
…pReTtY fArKiN’ sToOoPiD.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 3 months ago:
There were similar levels of fear and worry when Russia was amassing troops just under the border ahead of their “3-day special operation”. But the truth of the matter is that Russia has shown itself to be a lot weaker as a military force than they purported themselves to be.
Their internal war-time economy is anyway starting to flounder as the >1.5K daily casualties they are amassing is having a noticeable impact on not only military production, but also civilian and agricultural. (‘ Russia economy crumbling with food prices skyrocketing as Putin’s problems mount’ - Express.co.uk).
They are relying heavily on Iran, China and NK to supplement their falling arms production; and are now also needing to supplement their conscript forces with NK forces.
Russia has continually been over-estimated, but don’t doubt for a second that it is being cooked like a frog in a boiling pot in a proxy-war solely using Ukrainian forces.
In the event of a handful of allied European nations joining the war to aid Ukraine, Russia would be expelled from the region quite quickly - but at the cost of additional human lives, which is why the escalations have been so slow.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 3 months ago:
Honestly it sounds like Sino fear-mongering or Tankie wishful thinking.
It’s easy to forget because it’s made up of a multitude of smaller countries - but Europe has a population of ~750m, and a vastly more coherent and powerful combined military (even if the US were to pull out of NATO).
Russia can’t currently steam-roll one nation, how on Earth do you think they’d do anything against Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Finland - all countries with a deeply (& rightfully) ingrained distrust/hatred of Russia.
China isn’t likely to risk making themselves an international outcast just to aid Russia - they are more likely to make a play for Taiwan than anything else.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 3 months ago:
Not OP; but probably referring to Nixon normalising relations with China; or maybe negotiating with the Viet Cong to prolong the Vietnam War so that he could be elected?; or the whole Watergate fiasco which directly lead to the creation of Fox News… I mean, that man is responsible for a lot of our modern ails.
But if it’s the former, it directly lead to outsourcing production overseas where labour was cheapest, resulting in the gutting of American manufacturing and the entire middle class that depended on it.
I more personally believe that Nixon severely injured the US, but it was Reagan who shot the killing bullet. But that’s honestly a debate for another time.
- Comment on Now is the best time to start that thing 3 months ago:
Ah Clippy; not the AI Assistant we wanted, but in hindsight probably the one we needed.
