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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get stuffed, Millhouse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least he has the balls to show his face. Not that I think he has anything to be proud of in taking that job, but most of his colleagues are a bunch of weak frightened little cunts who cosplay as a Star Wars villain every day.

  He looks like Mr. Mackey from South Park when he joined ICE, if his head were normal size.

• I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Print some math.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is like me laying naked on my back with an erection and saying the shadow cast by the sun is a complex timekeeping device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent most of yesterday trying to figure this out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MEGA FLAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure I saw a complete form of this on a lamppost in N. Ireland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah that’s its chin. Handsome Squidward-lookin’ ass.

• If we organised highly-publicised world-wide funerals for each animal that goes extinct because of our behaviour, maybe it would help sway people to take environmental issues more seriously
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Won’t it be kinda strange for gamers who buy a game and find that none of the characters look like the ones on the Steam storefront? 👀 Many of these characters are legendary and have been in long-running serieseses, imagine booting up the latest Uncharted game only to find that Burt Reynolds is the main character now, all because you turned on DLSS.

  Downright disrespectful of the artistic toil that goes into perfecting characters, lighting, colour grading, etc. Like maybe there was an artistic choice made to not have the character look like an AI ad for an AI-generated OnlyFans model?

  It used to be a tool to gain FPS while retaining graphical fidelity. Now it’s aiming to be a full-on infidel; replacing art to the extent that it’s barely recognisable. What will DLSS 8 be like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would this render figs off limits for vegans and vegetarians? 🤔

• Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who remembers when you needed a separate "Download Manager" to handle concurrent downloads?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FlashGet was my jam back in the early 2000s. Then one day it downloaded malware a malicious third party had somehow managed to inject into its updater 😒

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp, looks like I’ll need to get myself a PS5 then.

  Said no cunt ever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Charlie Kirk’s killer turns himself in. This cunt literally says “we got him”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just getting into a little bit of Troubles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s some evidence/theories that the Northern Bank robbery was done to give ex-IRA members retirement funds 👀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Steam Store Front’ should be shortened to ‘Stormfront’. At least then no one would be shocked when they discover it’s teeming with illiterate bigots.

  All I can suggest is that you report and block as much as you can. If there’s a game, like Relooted, that’s a bug light for scumbags, go to its forums when you have 10 minutes free and just report the shitstains you come across. Steam does take action sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents paid about that much for a SNES copy of Earthworm Jim back in the mid-90s. It was disgusting then and it’s disgusting now, despite the fact that, adjusted for inflation, that would be £140 today. I mean I don’t feel like we’re getting a 50% discount when a game costs 70 fuckin’ quid nowadays.

  There’s really no reason to spend that anyway, not on PC at least. IsThereAnyDeal.com and the slightly questionable loaded.com (formerly cdkeys.com) give decent discounts even on day one (and Steam itself will eventually have it on sale, of course). Loaded isn’t like G2A, which is a credit card thief’s wonderland. It’s more like when your uncle Jim crosses the border with 40 cartons of cigarettes secreted in the wheel wells of his truck because they cost 400% less over there. I can live with that level of mischief when it comes to AAA games that take the absolute piss with their prices and their hostage DLCs. EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar have not caused me a millisecond of lost sleep when I get their games for £3 six months after release from a code that was originally bundled with a new GPU. With how extremely easy it is to pirate games (something I haven’t done in nearly 20 years), I don’t feel like those larger AAA companies are meeting us half way, to say the fucking least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rage for the machine?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could cover ‘Killing in the Name’ and not change a single lyric. They just need an aura of “and that’s fine, actually” which will be provided by their TRUMP 2024 flags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ironing clothes significantly less common now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many newer fabrics don’t require ironing, or not as much of it at least. Newer washing machines and driers, as well as newer fabric softeners and detergents, seem to play a role in the non-wrinkliness of clothing, too.

  I rarely own anything that would require regular ironing these days. I tend to avoid buying clothing that looks like it would be a pain in the ass to keep wrinkle-free. I guess in our parents’ era there ware no such choices available.

  Plastic in clothing might have circumvented the need for ironing, but of course it has brought its own issues. Plastic might be an apocalyptic death substance, or it might actually be fine to have 5% of our bodyweight to be nylon. Not sure which yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I get a set of furry train tracks to complete the scene?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is our collective memory of this trope (man ties woman to train tracks) all based on one instance of it in one silent movie, or was it really as widespread a cliché as it seems to us nowadays? 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re banking on severe vendor lock-in preventing people from moving on. So many communities are solely on Discord now, it’s insane.

  Would something like Stoat (previously known as Revolt) eventually have the same requirements?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid Rock is the people version of an above ground pool⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kid Rock makes music for people who listen to Kid Rock.

• Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  be on the wrong side of history speedrun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At least they have an AI-free option, as annoying as it is to have to opt into it.

  On a related note, it’s hilarious to me that the Ecosia search engine has AI built in. Like, I don’t think planting any number of trees is going to offset the damage AI has done and will do to the planet.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lyrics to "if you're happy and you know it" imply you can be happy and not know it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes you don’t know how good you have it until your “rock bottom” turns out to be an elevator which is now headed down a mineshaft 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In any other business, having 6 simultaneous failed projects would be cause for dismissal of the CEO and probably the majority of the management staff. If I owned or had a large amount of shares in a company where this happened, I would not be a happy chappy. But I’m assuming the Ubisoft upper echelons are patting themselves on the back for their business acumen and financial savviness, already penning their bonuses into their calendars.

  Meanwhile, regular workers are dropped like pubic lice the minute it’s convenient to do so.

  Parasites.

• If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whichever one has life-deranging haemorrhoids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna give it a chance back when they were letting people reserve their usernames. When the site first went live (in beta, I guess?) they wanted me to pay them money to gain access. Enshittification is baked into the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • I don’t give the slightest fuck who provided the middleware for the cloth physics, stop impeding me from playing the game to show me this shit every fucking time I launch it.
  • Continue and New Game are often the wrong way around in the main menu. Why would you have New Game at the top/default selection position? How often would someone be clicking that as opposed to Continue?
  • Unskippable dialogue and cut-scenes. I’ve read devs describe cut-scenes as a reward for the player achieving a certain milestone. I see them as punishment. Especially so if I want to replay the game. It’s a game, not a movie. Leave me the fuck alone already.
  • It should be forbidden to sell a game on Steam that requires an account and launcher from Ubisoft or whoever. If you sell it on Steam, you use Steam, and if you wanna use your own shit then you don’t get to use the Steam storefront and must forgo all the advertising and exposure you enjoy there.
  • Walk-and-talks, especially when my normal walk speed is like a sprint compared to that of the NPC in question.
  • Narratively, my character is a saviour to a group of people who provide me with weapons and ammo to help me save them, but the cunts charge me for it?? “Hey thanks for single-handedly saving us and fighting the tyrannical evil empire, while you’re out there risking life and limb for us please use our cool weapons and bullets! That’ll be 500 credits, cheers!” Motherfucker? What are you even spending it on? WHERE are you even spending it?
  • Fake endings. I was playing RDR2, and thought I was coming to the end of the game, all signs pointed to an imminent ending. So I was mentally in a place where I was ready to pack up and uninstall it, just had to finish the last few quests, already wondering what I’d play next. Then there’s an entire 500-hour chapter that comes after. So I keep going, and am constantly thinking “surely it’s just another quest or two…” but it just never fucking ends. Had I known or expected all this extra shit, it would be different. But I was already halfway out they door before you called me back in for another week’s worth of the same malarkey.
  • Time-wasting as a core mechanic. I love No Man’s Sky, but so many of the quests in that game involve literally waiting 24 real-world hours for the next phase of the quest. Which, when completed, leads to another 24-hour wait. Who exactly does this serve?