captain_aggravated

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only on Switch 2. There was at least one Tony Hawk Pro Skater game that did this.

  If I remember the episode of Guru Larry, the developer noticed their rights to the IP were set to expire, so they went to shit out one last game as fast as possible. They had to get the game published by a certain date, as in discs on store shelves by this date. The game was not going to be ready in time, so they put the tutorial level on the disc to print and distribute it while they finished the game, which would then be a multi-gigabyte download. Meaning that a physical copy of the game is worthless once the servers shut down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In moon landing units that’s ~186 miles per hour, which is around three times the speed limit of an average American interstate highway. I would not expect the average passenger car to be able to achieve that speed, but there are sports cars that can. You’re probably looking at an uprange Corvette, some of the higher end Porches, a lot of Ferraris, Lambroghinis etc. Something Jeremy Clarkson would describe in an impressed tone of voice. It is my understanding that a lot of supersport motorcycles are limited to exactly that speed; most liter bikes have no problem powering themselves that fast, the question is maintaining control. If there’s a pothole or some sand or a slight curve, will the rider survive encountering it at 3 miles a minute?

  Going that fast in a car, you start to wonder how long the tires are going to hold up. At its top speed, a Bugatti Veyron will actually run out of tires before it runs out of gas.

  In New World landing units, it’s ~161 knots. This is very close to the V~NE~ of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. The Never Exceed speed, top of the red arc. Go faster than that and the airplane is just going to break. It’s the approximate cruise speed of a Beechcraft Bonanza and the higher end of landing speeds for a Boeing 737.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love to send the most absurd messages I can think of to steam scammers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I cast ANGRY UPVOTE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found I prefer Irish whiskies or American bourbons to scotch. And you know what I say to folks who like different drinks than me? Cheers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, does it run on a Galaxy S10 series phone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have heard that Apple removed the headphone jack to kill compatibility with those Square credit card readers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember some guy, anthropologist or something like that, was trying to figure out why it was that people in cities made on average more money than people in small towns or rural areas, until it hit him: That’s why cities exist in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s creative commons share alike. No need for attribution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a common myth; what it actually does is water it up. There’s still 2 or 3 ounces of 80 proof booze in the glass, but now it has a few more drops of water in it.

  At one point in Casino Royale, Bond says he likes his drinks “very cold” which is probably the realistic reason for shaking. You can get a drink a lot colder a lot faster by shaking than by stirring.

  There’s also…Ian Fleming wrote Bond to have a lot of cool and sophisticated opinions like that, at the time it sounded cool to have a custom bar order, whatever it was. Nowadays if you walk into a bar and start issuing a list of instructions to the bartender you look like a prick. If you’re in an actual bespoke cocktail bar they probably have a style they’re going for, or sir, this is an Applebee’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had one of those little sample bottles of Johnny Walker Blue. Tasted like 3 feet upwind of a campfire. Flavor profile: combustion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a whiskey drinker, and this is…accurate.

  Bourbons are often described as having notes of cherry or apple, vanilla and shortbread, like the baking soda tang from shortbread. That sounds nice, like a pie.

  Or they’ll hand you an Irish whiskey with herbal or floral notes. It’s pretty.

  Then they’ll hand you a Scotch and say “This one’s really great, it tastes like peat moss, smoke, iodine and leather” and you hesitantly ask if they’d like to go to the hospital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some very early martini recipes call for equal parts gin and sweet vermouth. There’s been a century-long trend toward dryer and dryer martinis until we arrive at the modern recipe:

  fill a tumbler full of ice, add three ounces of gin, pour half an ounce of dry vermouth down the sink next door, stir, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a green olive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Roundup is an herbicide, not a pesticide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  women wear a pair of panties but only one bra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hamster⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what went through the mind of that hamster as it sat there for 3 days with its face stuck to the wall. Like that would FUCK UP a human. We made a whole damn movie about the guy who got his hand trapped under a rock that one time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was rather common for PC games to include regular everyday “red book” audio for background music; I seem to remember back in the day you’d actually have to hook the optical drive to the sound card with a cable so it could pass through audio.

  The Secret of Monkey Island did this for its CD releases; the audio options for that game ranged from PC speaker to Ad-Lib chip tunes to Roland MT-32 support and eventually CD Audio. The game shipped on a few diskettes, a few megabytes tops, so the whole game is tiny on a single 750MB CD, plenty of room for extremely high quality game audio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “just stick a pot on the board bro, it’ll stay at 1.49284762340598 ohms for 9 or 10 nanoseconds after leaving the factory.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the virus will spread⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shut. Down. Madagascar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was kind of complicated at my high school; Depending on if you were on a college prep or prison prep track they would or wouldn’t bother trying to teach the science classes that had math in them to you. The “going to community college or trade school” program I was on gave you an option of chemistry or physics but I ended up taking both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government said they are b-a-a-d⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they tried, but the least communist place on this website is the Linux sub on sh.itjust.works and they’ll get pissy about the MIT license versus the GPL. The conservatives didn’t stick around, the community went unmoderated, the local kids were looking for a fun clubhouse to play in…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I clean this mess?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Think up every swear word you know, because you’re gonna need them all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C64 Retro Battlestation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reaching back a little before my time but I believe some Sinclair microcomputers were imported to the US under the Timex brand, but between the popularity of Japanese video game consoles and the domestic market of Atari, Commodore, Apple, Tandy and IBM, European microcomputers weren’t that popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don’t brands make simpler names?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand correctly, Intel attempted to trademark “586” and AMD objected because it would prevent them from using a consistent part numbering scheme. The courts agreed foring Intel to make up a brand name. They wanted something that sounded sciencey and technological, like the name of an element, hence the -ium suffix, and it was the fifth major version of the x86 platform, fiveium? No…penta…Pentium!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C64 Retro Battlestation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I see no reason that shouldn’t work. It may be Mega Drive/Genesis controllers I’m thinking of.

  Even among old microcomputer joysticks you have to keep an eye out, I think those made for Sinclair and/or Amstrad were also pinned differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else getting Nicoled a lot lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you very much, I figure I wanted to communicate with the admin team since I started seeing the calls come from inside the house, as it were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C64 Retro Battlestation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Off the top of my head I don’t.

• Anyone else getting Nicoled a lot lately?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C64 Retro Battlestation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just ordered a sega master system controller, should be fully compatible.

  I would avoid using a Sega gamepad with a Commodore computer. 1. the pinouts are different, especially where the +5V line is. 2. Master System controllers have pull-up resistors, where Atari standard controllers just leave pins floating. This can screw with the keyboard. Apparently some controllers use active circuitry which require the +5V line. I have even heard of them borking the CIA chip in the Commodore.

  My advice would be to get a proper controller that has internal microswitches rather than the cheaper contacts that wear out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  does it only effect privates? what about officers, like, say, captains?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the people of the United States have been so stupid for so long that Europe and Canada have spent the last month scrambling to figure out how to do without all the things they rely on us for, to include computer operating systems, CPU architecture, to cloud computing and payment processing systems.