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- Comment on Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely 9 hours ago:
I think it’ll also do it if you return after a long time. I duel boot and get hit with the “we’re doing this right now” updates, which oddly still wait a few minutes before going it, I guess so I can settle in first and get annoyed that I need to open that proprietary PPT again.
- Comment on so i have an ultimatum... 10 hours ago:
Real question while we shitpost; if they require a 4 second video can you just wear a disguise for fun? I’ve got neat prosthetics I don’t get to use often.
And if so, which aspects are best to cover up? Bushy unibrow? Demon contacts? Pointy ears? Crazy nose? Forehead ridges?
- Comment on ShitpostID: 4185519047 1 day ago:
Not just likes but also… whatever threads calls a retweet. What human being freely echoes an advertisement? Lol
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 1 day ago:
I’ve seen it in reverse; people who saw the initial yassification of characters they admittedly didn’t really know we’re impressed by the “rendering” but after a few days, have realized that perhaps it isn’t the creative intent to make everyone look like AI slop.
Plus even if the tech ends up being good, the demonstration (and subsequent response) is very much not. Shadows getting washed out, people’s arms disappearing, and other things, people looking it over realize it’s not even doing what it wants to do.
Maybe it’ll work out when the creators have control over it and can prevent it from undoing important stuff, like a character’s plot related scars or lighting effects used to show players where to go, but that’s all suspect until proven otherwise.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 days ago:
Nationalism tells you your nation is what to be proud of, but that’s dangerous and manipulative.
Instead, focus on the people. You can be proud of the people who are protesting, people who are running secret grocery runs for people hiding from ICE, people promoting progressive or scientific thought in threatened educational spaces, and so on.
There are still plenty of us left in the US, some against our will, and you can still be proud of them for still trying when so many others have given up.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 2 days ago:
It’s indeed the time. I found Cachy was a good pivot, similar feel but seems to work better overall. Manjaro is still based on Arch after all, technically.
- Comment on In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're storing your pokemon in Bill's PC, not Bill's highly available georedundant cloud. One brown out and all your critters are gone. 3 days ago:
The lack of encryption is exactly why Porygon Z exists. A bad transfer along with a dubious disk and sure enough, your Porygon 2 gets a virus. And that’s not even 1996, but Gen IV.
- Comment on This clears things up 4 days ago:
We all know what happened to Lincoln’s eagle-griffin but what ever happened to his sword, the Emancipator? He didn’t have it on him during his assassination, but it wasn’t at the White House either…
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 days ago:
I looked at some of the demo images and if it reads old lady, it decides to quintuple the wrinkles and go full witch. But otherwise, yeah, whore gun.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 1 week ago:
He’s comic relief to counter the rest of the crew, but The Doc does that a thousand times better.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 1 week ago:
To that point. I recently saw the episode where she goes through puberty prematurely and they talk about having a baby even though her species doesn’t ovulate until 4.
It’s creepy. It’s hard to pin down because the actress is obviously of age but that episode was gross.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 1 week ago:
Was literally just thinking this. Star Wars fans had it worse.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 1 week ago:
Even more true if you’re one of many who remove shoes in the house. Shoes are an outside thing only and if they’re the only thing you have on, something has gone tricky terribly awry.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 week ago:
Good question, but it’s technically not sociology so… maybe not? Oh wait no, psychologists also acknowledge racism as existing so probably illegal.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 week ago:
Since we’re sharing fun facts, conservatism and authoritarianism is unsurprisingly correlated with high levels of obedience in things like the Milgrim shock experiment replications. Something akin to 90% compared to the original 60% (which was already quite high since they only had white men at the time).
They’re also more likely to choose selfish options in things like the prisoners dilemma, too!
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 week ago:
I saw one other person mention RetroAchevements and I second their love for adding it to older games-- in these cases, though, they’re a passion projects by fans and while they maintain a leaderboard, the main thing to be is it legitimizes some retro gaming by disabling save states and cheats while still having sets for modded games. I think it sets a good standard for what the industry should be doing.
For instance, it checks those boxes; it’s opt-in by default and there are privacy options, although hardcore mode requires rich presence for enforcement of the rules. There’s still the softcore option though. The sets have rules about what you can make, leaving grindy and multiplayer stuff as subsets. And again, modded/hacked roms get support, since all it takes is a user wanting to develop it (except Pokemon Clover, that’s banned for pretty good reasons lol)
At this point, it feels more legit than Steam, Xbox or PlayStation achievements. If the industry adopted a similar model, most of your concerns would be addressed although it’s likely impossible since developers often have to write achievement code that fits all platforms.
(Oh, and if you can’t tell, my answers to the questions, mod use makes it irrelevant on PC and permanence does matter to me, although not for any good reason: RA badges are nice to look at. Lol)
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 1 week ago:
Weird Asian hack for ya, Avo + soy sauce on rice is weirdly very good. Wife does that sometimes, sometimes with other stuff like natto.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever 2 weeks ago:
Mewgenics releases: a new rogue like best seller!
Slay the Spire 2 goes Early Access: hold my
beercards. - Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but when I had a 7 recently it was hard to aim. The whole shower looked like a Jackson Pollock.
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s my first time with it. Even as a check list it’s an insane amount of content. I’ll need a detox with something smaller afterwards!
Also, I like the hard stuff but subsets help keep that sorted so it doesn’t scare people away. White 2 has a challenge mode that was bugged at release but the RA patch fixes it. It’s not too hard and it’s kinda fun being challenged in Pokemon for once since I used to play competitively and actually know some strategy, haha.
- Comment on California law to require operating systems to check your age 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, that makes sense. Does make you wonder where the corporate interests lie in the age verification case, but it’s probably the usual suspects in tech and surveillance.
- Comment on California law to require operating systems to check your age 2 weeks ago:
At least it’s not requiring ID, and it’s kind of easy to circumvent, but it’s a slippery slope. Also it’s definitely just virtue signalling to the dumbest among us, which is generally a bad thing.
California does this sometimes. One of our more notoriously stupid laws put up cancer warnings on virtually everything with a certain unnamed substance, making it almost impossible to identify things that might be seriously unhealthy. Like you enter a Starbucks and it says something in the Starbucks causes cancer. Like, gee, thanks.
Overprotective, not well thought out, bullshit laws.
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Nice, totally with you on using RA as a checklist for these games (especially after multiset). It feels a bit more guided, especially as they add more and more gimmicks over the years. In post game, it’s practically essential.
White 2 is still kicking my butt because it’s just so, so much stuff. Emerald at least is probably a bit more tame. I’ve still got to beat battle subways, star in movies, beat the Elite 4 with every type, and do every post game tournament including battles with all previous games gym leaders… Plus a 400+ Pokemon capture/evolve/breed list which is just the White 2 only dex entries.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 2 weeks ago:
Interestingly your link doesn’t mention use of color or lack there of. It does say elsewhere that you shouldn’t do it for decoration, though.
That said, things like this are more dictated by the journal you publish to and a thesis has to imitate that. Solution? Graduate and start a journal that requires beautiful color tables, lol
- Comment on Game over 3 weeks ago:
Hehe, ok but I’m not sure what the intermediary is between those. I have much better options that are cheaper and tastier, at least for now (although 8 dollar chicken burritos are up to 12 now after obvious 2025 reasons… sigh).
- Comment on Game over 3 weeks ago:
No, you’re right. Chipotle isn’t the highest grade food but there’s a reason it’s in a category above, say, Taco Bell. It’s servings are a little big, but it’s not unhealthy per se, except some of the more gimmicky items like “queso”, lol.
They do have a bad rep, but the hoopla about it giving you diarrhea is probably more because it sits out too long and/or spicy; fast casual is basically pre-prepped lower tier casual chain restaurant food (e.g. Olive Garden, Applebee’s, or whatever).
- Comment on oh no 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of something that’s been on my mind for several days now. I spotted in my rear view mirror a driver and their passenger having a conversation in sign language while driving.
I never once thought about it.
- Comment on The snow drifts in my yard from yesterdays storm 3 weeks ago:
Ah, to be one with mother nature…
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 3 weeks ago:
Ironically, Huffman doesn’t seem to be in the Epstein files. This isn’t because he isn’t a pedophile-- he very likely is-- but he simply wasn’t important enough of a person for them to invite him or even talk about him.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I’m near SpaceX in CA and see plenty of men in them because SpaceX purchased a bunch for company cars when Tesla couldn’t sell them.
Also it’s really weird to see like, 8 of them in one place.