Broken_Monitor
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- Comment on what is going on with the huge influx of immigrants into our small towns? 1 month ago:
Alright so I don’t care enough or have the time to go through this hour long video and break it down point by point, but I will talk about the opening minutes. This guy, with seemingly zero self awareness, approaches a group of people with his cell phone out saying “hey, I want to ask you some questions about [insert your assumed nationality here].” In this case Haitians who have spent the last several weeks being harassed, vilified, and threatened on a national media broadcast level that they neither asked for or likely know how to handle. My reaction to that if I were them would be “no thank you, please leave me alone”. This appears to be what they do - they politely said no. Then the camera man proceeds to paint them in a negative light immediately for it “why won’t they answer my questions?! Why??” Gets in his car to leave. That group went inside and got someone - probably someone willing to speak for them - but by the time she comes out the camera man has now painted them negatively again “they ran me out of here, they ran away, they scattered and got in their cars and left, oh this woman is coming at me aggressively go go get out of here go.”
They did no such thing, they indicated politely he should leave, and he did. There was no aggression, and the when a woman came to speak with him he zoomed off assuming she was a threat somehow? And then getting offended when she did exactly what he just did and filmed it.
This guy is not a reporter, has no credentials, is making wild baseless accusations in this first few minutes of his video, and its plain to see. This sets the tone for the rest of whatever dribble this guy has to say. The assumptions he made in that interaction were either racist, xenophobic, or just plain dumb because he has no idea why they might be a little on defensive and cautious about having conversations with random people approaching them ready to record them on a cell phone. If you want an interview you approach and ask without recording first, and then you only post video of willing participants. In my quick scroll of the remainder it would appear he did not use this ambush tactic on the people willing to speak to him.
- Comment on what is going on with the huge influx of immigrants into our small towns? 1 month ago:
You guys don’t even try to hide the racism and xenophobia anymore do you?
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #8 - Satisfactory 1 month ago:
I was thinking the same thing. Kinda wish the conveyer belts would just fling them off into oblivion or something for me.
- Comment on Eureka 1 month ago:
But at least the formulas and constants appear to be correct
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Who was ever turning to Keanu for scientific knowledge? Lost him? We never had him! Chill dude, entertaining actor, but absolutely wrong person for science.
- Comment on Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating 2 months ago:
Depends on the exam. Some don’t even allow programmable calcs because they don’t even want to deal with possible shit like this. I have already seen a certification exam where they provide the calculators as well.
- Comment on Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs 2 months ago:
That’s a lot of fucking power for a “feature” I wanna avoid like the plague.
- Comment on Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts 2 months ago:
Reading this made my finger tips uncomfortable.
- Comment on "what happened??" 2 months ago:
Back them up on a hard drive and their ToS doesn’t mean squat anymore. I guess that takes a little more effort and investment but if you want to own the game without DRM that will do it.
- Comment on "what happened??" 2 months ago:
Buy games on GoG when you can
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
Pretty much this - depending how much surface area and how good the glue is you might get it or you might snap that right off too. If it fails the next step is to carefully drill the screw out. A somewhat riskier operation but itll get it open
- Comment on Atari announces the 7800 Plus console coming this winter 2 months ago:
$130?! Plus $30 for each game? That’s straight up bonkers.
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 3 months ago:
- Comment on $100 off naked wines voucher (min spend $155.88, first time customers only) discount voucher 3 months ago:
I was ordering books from thriftbooks.com and every order came in with these. I don’t drink wine and I couldn’t tell what the catch was (looks like the minimum spend is the catch and I guess that’s not awful) so I ended up chucking them. Funny to see this pop up here like a week later
- Comment on YSK most US states assign their electoral college votes by the state's popular vote 3 months ago:
YSK the electoral college can get fucked.
- Comment on Olympian Obscenity 3 months ago:
What bunch of wannabe victims, holy shit. Fucking snowflakes getting offended over nothing
- Comment on Kinetic Energy 👟⚡️ 3 months ago:
I’ve got to think this is why they aren’t more popular. It’s very unlikely they are efficient enough when the entire process is accounted for to produce more energy than was put in to create the overall system. I’ve heard about these occasionally for years, and if it was anything more than a gimmick I would have expected them to proliferate by now.
- Comment on Diablo Coming to Sega Dreamcast 3 months ago:
But… why? Like I’m all for getting retro games working again when they dont, but why back port a game like this to an old console? I don’t get it
- Comment on After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts 3 months ago:
Yo it was a good time to leave back when he bought it. It was a good time again when he dumped moderation. It was a good time again when he changed the name to X. Really its always been a good time to leave. Anyone who hasn’t left by now has already ignored so many signs not even Ace of Base can help them.
- Comment on ELDEN RING - Update 1.12.2 (Rebalanced Scadutree Blessings) 4 months ago:
Yeah that’s a potentially endless discussion right there. I actually think Sekiro was the hardest, even if it’s technically not a souls game. Part of what makes Elden Ring so easy is the number of tools and abilities to use, the summoning ashes, OP spells, and nearly always being able to summon two helper players for tough fights. Melania is so much like fighting Isshin, I think he’s way harder than her, and especially because you have to nail the timing with him. There’s no respeccing, using cheesy spells, or summoning help with that guy. Don’t get me wrong, Elden Ring is a great game, but most of the difficulty is easily overcome by just trying out the other stuff you can use.
- Comment on ELDEN RING - Update 1.12.2 (Rebalanced Scadutree Blessings) 4 months ago:
I don’t, they are right, I can create mynown challenge. It’s not really what I’m annoyed about either, its the whole design by a committee of vocal internet people which results in the same bland shit over and over. Part of what made these games cool is the things that are unique, and often times the most memorable moments are also the most difficult. Seeing From pivot because a bunch of people whined about it is just disappointing really. There was a time where the tag line for Dark Souls was “Prepare to Die”, but come down the line to Elden Ring and you can really feel how they’ve softened that edge up. The DLC feels like they sharpened the blade for its final outing, and people want it dulled immediately. To me that’s boring. Embrace the challenge and what you will remember and be satisfied by is overcoming it.
- Comment on ELDEN RING - Update 1.12.2 (Rebalanced Scadutree Blessings) 4 months ago:
I likely will run my RL1 guy through it at some point. Man I really hit a nerve with the participation trophies for everyone crowd here, didn’t I?
- Comment on ELDEN RING - Update 1.12.2 (Rebalanced Scadutree Blessings) 4 months ago:
Fuckin laaaaaaaaaaaame. I want a roll back option on this. If your gonna rebalance it for everyone crying just give them the “Im afraid to die mode”
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 5 months ago:
Holy fuckin shit
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 5 months ago:
I really tried to pick two things that couldn’t be argued with so now I’m just waiting for someone to tell me they don’t like breathing either.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 5 months ago:
Thats why you just gotta keep eating more. More flavor! Also yes some definitely have more flavor than others, I’m no good at picking them but if you cut it open and it’s deep red you’re probably in for a good tome.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 5 months ago:
Every time this comes up I gotta say, who the fuck doesn’t like fried chicken and watermelon?! It’s like making fun of someone for liking sunshine and the ability to breathe. Not that I needed another reason to point at racists and call them a bunch of fucked up morons, but goddamn they are bunch of fucked up morons.
- Comment on Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work 5 months ago:
Oh wow, never thought to open them in GIMP. I will have to give that a shot.
- Comment on Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work 5 months ago:
Thanks, I will check them out!
- Comment on Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work 5 months ago:
What about for PDFs?