BigDaddySlim
@BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world
- Comment on a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction 2 days ago:
Sorry I placed that oddly, I meant the constant crosswalks are great, not the highways.
- Comment on a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction 2 days ago:
Wait until they find out about speed bumps, stop lights and cross walks across highways in Brazil.
Yes that’s real, you go from 100kph to 25kph with speed bumps and speed cameras that will absolutely ticket your ass if you’re 1kph over the limit. BR-101 in Paraíba goes through many small towns that do this, it’s great for pedestrians since the highway cuts directly though the heart of these towns but terrifying if drivers don’t pay attention. Also these speed bumps aren’t always clearly marked so rip your suspension at night
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s not 343, most of that leadership has left or fired. It’s Halo Studios now, game runs UE for graphics and the Blame! engine underneath for AI and everything else.
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 1 week ago:
If you want a CoD game, pretty much any CoD up through Black Ops 2 is still decent, but only if Activision actually let’s the game go “on sale”. Halo games have a fantastic story (up until 5 at least) and the Master Chief Collection is usually on sale for $10.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I saw a guy convert an old Toyota pickup into an EV and it cost about $18,000 IIRC. Biggest expense is obviously the batteries, followed by motor and charging system. Madman kept the original 5 speed which I absolutely respect.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 weeks ago:
They have a 30 day trial yeah, you can also move your playlists over as well.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 3 weeks ago:
Also, Halo 3 custom games with full lobbies and super creative customs. Honestly, just Halo 3 in general
- Comment on Learn this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget you can also ugga dugga them with an impact gun and cause the bolts to snap, so even if they get new lug nuts they aren’t going anywhere unless it’s up a flatbed
Also don’t forget your locking nut key for those pesky lock nuts
- Comment on advertisement 5 weeks ago:
Gotta say, seeing a flaming dick fart wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card, but then again it’s a wild fucking year so I shouldn’t be surprised
- Comment on labubu 1 month ago:
The first time I had ever heard about labubus was the last episode of South Park. I thought they were just some dumb thing Matt and Trey came up with to use as a vehicle to talk about the tariffs, then I learned they were actually real.
- Comment on These pesky airbags 1 month ago:
The way Massholes drive and how much vehicles rust here there won’t be a shortage any time soon lol
- Comment on These pesky airbags 1 month ago:
I’m a heavy sleeper and this sounds like a great alternative for me, I won’t have to set an alarm an hour before I have to get up and hit snooze for an hour anymore! Gonna have to head to the junkyard and get some airbags now
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 2 months ago:
“When I joined the Corps, we didn’t have any fancy-shmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon - and we had to share the rock!”
— Sgt Johnson, Halo 2
- Comment on The look you have when you realize you've made the greatest alien movie of all time 2 months ago:
You better answer
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 months ago:
Bioshock
Halo: Combat Evolved
Fallout New Vegas
Also, cynical answer is also whatever current mobile game is making a bazillion dollars right now because ✨capitalism✨
- Comment on Dunkin' Donuts Drinks 3 months ago:
To be fair, the “gallon size” you see in the meme is 90% ice, 9% milk and 1% “coffee.” Dunks is selling plastic cups with ice for over $5.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 4 months ago:
Fuck you RFK my Casio can’t and won’t connect to the internet, go swim in more sewage you dolt
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 4 months ago:
You have to use the Google Play version of OSM for Android Auto, plus tweak a setting or two in the advanced settings of AA. As for the maps itself it’s been fine, I use GPS not Google Play Services for location, so I need to make sure the phone is in clear view of the sky for best results, but it still works in the center console of my car. Just make sure your location services are on before opening OSM or it acts funky.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 4 months ago:
Did the same thing last September, my S21 Ultra’s battery was getting tired and I was tired of the Samsung bullshit. So far it’s been great and so has battery life, plus it’s a breath of fresh air to only have apps I want installed without needing ADB to remove them after Google/Samsung decides they want them reinstalled every few weeks.
Only downfalls have been my broken banking app (which might be the actual app being broken based on Google Play reviews) and the amount of tweaking I needed to do to get OSM as my default map for Android Auto.
I finally have a phone that actually feels like mine, not just a leased device from the manufacturer.
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons 4 months ago:
Ya know, I told myself when they brought Verdansk back that I wasn’t gonna spend 70 fucking dollars for BO6 just to help level up guns, and even though I was tempted I didn’t do it, even when it was on sale. Shit like this is what reminds me as to why I shouldn’t buy it. Yeah, I’ll play your game because my friends and I enjoy Verdansk, it’s a good map and is fun for us to play, but I’ll be damned if I give them any money for it.
They locked one of the meta assault rifles in a season 1 battle pass (Krig) meaning you literally cannot unlock it and have to buy a weapon bundle to use it. You can pick the gun up off the ground, but not make a loadout with it without spending money. Luckily I’ve earned several of their free CoD points from previous free versions of the battle pass to unlock a bundle for it, but I shouldn’t fucking have to do that.
I’ll just cost them money to host me on thier servers now, until they remove Verdansk again and I’m not gonna play Warzone.
- Comment on Wet your hands with clean, running water, turn off the tap, spread cheeks, and apply soap. 5 months ago:
Dug through my meme archives for this one, here’s what it’s referencing
- Comment on Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client 6 months ago:
And has reliability issues, I got one for my mom so she could use my Plex server, it died just outside of warranty. She didn’t use it often so it wasn’t used and abused, just stopped outputting video one day.
- Comment on IYKYK 6 months ago:
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish for nuclear winter
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 7 months ago:
I genuinely prefer the graphics of older games…
This is because a lot of older games were going for an artistic style, the graphical fidelity of today’s games was too far out of reach. BioShock is a perfect example because of its beautiful art direction.
AAA games used to have character to them, now every person has to have 1200 individually rendered pores and a remaster every few years to make it look more realistic (cough cough The Last of Us)
- Comment on We all deserve better than this 7 months ago:
I’m using them lol I know I could sell all 3 for a good price, 2 are EVGA K|ngP|n cards and one is a FE that has a very good overclock potential. I’m not looking to upgrade now, they still work fine.
- Comment on We all deserve better than this 7 months ago:
The GPU market is a goddamn disaster. Nvidia can’t even put the right amount of ROPs on a card or back up their “5070 is a 4090 hurr durr” claims, AMD ditching higher end GPUs, melting connectors, AI, AI, AI!!, etc. Even with Intel’s Arc GPUs it’s not enough to compete when Nvidia has all the market share in consumer cards.
I’ve got a 7800xt, a few 3090s in various gaming/video editing systems and a RX 6400 for a backup card. I’m not buying any more until this AI bubble bursts and cards start having actual amounts of uplift from generation to generation and when I can buy one without them getting botted to hell and back.
- Comment on transformations 8 months ago:
I’m a carrier for USPS, I have a guy on my route who often orders Volkswagen parts from all over Europe. One day he got a replacement subframe for one of his VW’s from Estonia and it arrived at our office pretty beat up. When he needed to sign for it he saw the condition and I told him that’s how we received it. The shipper sent it by just sticking the subframe in a box, no padding, no supports, just a cardboard box for a trip around the world. He obviously was upset and had another one sent as a replacement after filing a claim.
The replacement was packaged exactly the same, and luckily only slightly bent on arrival. The old one is still sitting in our office in limbo.
If you’re gonna ship something overseas or across town package that shit properly
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 8 months ago:
The absolute bliss
Same with me when I was in Brazil, it was chugging along just fine back in New England
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 8 months ago:
I don’t recommend anyone buy a Jeep, not because of the ads but because they’re built like shit. Quality has been in free fall for decades while prices have skyrocketed. Death wobble issues (Wranglers), motor reliability out the window, rust, more rust, just not worth it.
I owned a 94 Cherokee and I loved it, and even though that 4.0L straight 6 had problems at least it would still run with bad piston rings, mysterious battery drain and holes in my radiator. The new ones just can’t compete.
- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 8 months ago:
Yeah my 3090 K|ngP|n pulls over 500w easily, but that’s over 3 8 pin PCIe cables, all dedicated. Power delivery was something I took seriously when getting that card installed, as well as cooling. Made sure my 1300w PSU had plenty of dedicated PCIe ports.
