DrSteveBrule
@DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
- Comment on Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates 2 days ago:
This is a part of how any business is valued. You don’t just buy the building, stock, brand name, etc. You also buy the customer base. Any place you’ve ever done business with that later got sold, has made you a part of the sale technically.
- Comment on At least in the darkness of my dreams, I can forget how things are 1 week ago:
For your health!
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 1 week ago:
The only thing I can think of that Word does better, is making equations. LibreOffice works ok, but it’s more clunky. I still use it over Word because it runs much faster on my PC
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 1 week ago:
I think you have the right idea to put the NSFW content in a spoiler tag, but so is the text that is warning users that it’s NSFW.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 1 week ago:
How does people being wrongfully deported to El Salvador relate to a gaming community?
- Comment on The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July 2 weeks ago:
I’m trying to remember, is this a Mr. Show reference?
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
I recently emailed my professor about a question on a take home test. I asked for clarification because the wording was weird. I also asked how I should format the answer, and where in the textbook I can find info relating to it. His email back to me just said “the answer is on page 75”. It was not.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 weeks ago:
My cousin and I spent a summer messing around in hitman blood money when we were younger. There’s a level that takes place in a neighborhood with a cul-de-sac. We managed to kill every single npc undetected with the snare wire and dump theoe bodies into the sewer to leave no evidence. After each level, the game generates a newspaper article to describe the events and it basically said everyone in the neighborhood just vanished.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
If the game plays on your linux distro who cares what you call it?
- Comment on FromSoftware aren't abandoning single player in favour of games like Elden Ring: Nightreign, says Miyazaki 3 weeks ago:
Wtf did i just read? The author here admits to not caring and therefore not paying attention to what he was supposed to be “reporting” on. Video game “journalists” continue to amaze me.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
That’s true. I should’ve specified i use gg.deals to look for sales from 3rd party websites. Green man gaming is a pretty good one that often has $5-$10 off of new titles.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
gg.deals
New steam games may have $80 price tags at some point, but most of them will end up on that site for a fraction of the price after some time. Nintendo titles might go down to $70 after a decade.
- Comment on Since they wouldn't understand phones, I'd just tell them I was speaking to demons. 4 weeks ago:
There was a good point explaining how the invention of email made communication a more dreaded thing. When all you could do was send written letters, it could take weeks or months to communicate with someone on another continent. When email was invented everyone thought it would make life so much easier to get a near instant reply. But now some some people have to read and send a hundred emails a day. It’s the same with cell phones. A hundred years ago we mostly didn’t have phones. Then landlines became popular but you had to be home, also you had to memorize numbers or write them down. Now everyone has a cellphone where anyone can call you at anytime and any place. It could be work related, medical related, an old friend wanting to say hi, a tech illiterate family member asking for help, someone trying to sell you something, or any other kind of spam call. Phone anxiety is completely understandable.
- Comment on Summit for Lemmy is now open source 5 weeks ago:
I’m not a developer but I believe it was the Voyager dev that explained Lemmy currently can’t do this. Apps only reach out to Lemmy servers while they are open. Push notifications would require the developers to run their own servers that the apps would reach out to while running in the background and no one wants to pay for that especially since most apps are free. I may be explaining this wrong.
- Comment on I've done it again... 5 weeks ago:
Is 5 pounds enough?
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 1 month ago:
They likely make a lot more money with their games on steam
- Comment on Ah shit. Here we go again. 1 month ago:
I’m just quoting what the other user’s screenshot of the AI said. I wouldn’t assume it to be true lol.
- Comment on Ah shit. Here we go again. 1 month ago:
Wafflestomping dates back to at least 18th century Belgium.
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 1 month ago:
In all seriousness I 100% agree. Aside from the ethical reasons behind it, it’s just really weird to do.
- Comment on Mid game review: Superliminal (2019) PS5 1 month ago:
I remember breaking this game on my Xbox. There is a level in which you go through a hallway to come out if the other side larger or smaller compared to the environment. Eventually you can become to large to fit through the doorway, but you can continuously go through the doorway that makes you smaller. Eventually everything became so big in the game my Xbox couldn’t handle the physics of everything and crashed lol.
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 1 month ago:
Yea but that patient was John Nazikiller, so can you blame her?
- Comment on This speaks for itself 1 month ago:
More profitable than ever
- Comment on New To Android? What Apps to Choose? 1 month ago:
Why is fennec dead in the water?
- Comment on fireflies 1 month ago:
Flying insects in general. When I was a kid I remember so many people’s cars being absolutely caked with dead bugs. It’s not something I see anymore.
- Comment on TSA now offers you a choice 1 month ago:
I vote that TSA just stands outside your house and puts you through that every day you choose to go outside. The rest of the world would be a safer place.
- Comment on Avowed made me scream to my doctor: “I am a wizard!” 1 month ago:
I work in a GI lab and one of the funniest things I heard when a patient was waking up was, “You guys were so good I’m coming back for another colonoscopy tomorrow!”
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
DS2 is definitely the odd one of the bunch. I completely understand anyone not getting into it. There’s not really anything major that makes it stand out as being different, but like dozens of small differences that add up. There are very interesting builds that keep me coming back to play it.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I just made it to the Iron Keep in Dark Souls 2. Every year or two ill play through the entire Dark Souls series trying out new builds. I’m doing a dex based power stance build this time. I’ve never done power standing in DS2 before and so far it’s going well. I’m using the falchion and scimitar right now, but am likely going to try out rapiers. I did a powerstance rapiers build in Elden Ring and it was incredibly OP but very fun still. Once I get to DS3 I’ll go with an INT build, for some reason I’ve never done that in DS3.
- Comment on what’s with some adult tv shows using tiktok speak/“brainrot” or acting like the example below, wouldn’t this approach work better with children’s shows? 2 months ago:
I saw a commercial for viagra or a similar male enhancement drug and the voiceover was the generic tiktok AI voice.
- Comment on RIP (again) 2 months ago:
You’re using PTO for a death in the family?