ColeSloth
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- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 3 days ago:
I dunno, man. I never knew anyone who had a yellow light PS3 and the only ones I read about were from people who had kept them in enclosed cabinets. I also watched a very in depth 2 hour documentary on the 360 rrod and it wasn’t due to ati.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 3 days ago:
Fat free water
- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 3 days ago:
Wiis and ps3’s weren’t crapping out, and the 360 failures weren’t due to ati. This meme is dumb. Dumb in the bad meme kinda way.
- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 3 days ago:
I always heard that was tsmc’s decision.
- Comment on Becoming a veterinarian is hard 4 days ago:
“By your races combined; I am Captain Human!”
- Comment on Chicken TACO 4 days ago:
Update it to him holding a taco as well.
- Comment on FFFFFUUUUUUUU 4 days ago:
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Gotta use the proper f7 u12 to be OG.
- Comment on Fresh 4 days ago:
Regular people, sure. But some firefighters that work in cities with a lot of highrise apartments will keep tubing in their turnouts for this. Super low odds of needing it, but a couple feet of rolled up tubing is lightweight and doesn’t take up much space.
- Comment on Beat down with the sickness 1 week ago:
Like, why’d she have to be such a bitch?
- Comment on On trees... 1 week ago:
Yes. I made mention of this in a reply to someone else as well. I’m not sure if my teacher (like 30 years ago) told us wrong or if I simply remembered it wrong.
- Comment on On trees... 1 week ago:
I learned it nearly 30 years ago in school. I just did a search and found a link about it, though.
Also, seems that either I remembered wrongly, or my teacher made a mistake, but it seems it was most of the worlds coal; not oil, that came from all the piles of trees from that period.
- Comment on On trees... 1 week ago:
Also cool that for a period of like 60 million years, nothing decomposed dead trees. As they would die or fall over, they’d just stay there, piling up. This is where most oil came from. The massive amounts of trees stacking up before bacteria and fungus evolved to decomposed them. Imagine 60 million years worth of trees just lying around.
- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 1 week ago:
Yep. Usually the only PS3 issue that happens is when the drive wears out, eventually. I think that turns into a big issue because 8 believe the drive is “paired” to the PlayStation, so you’d have to move over the control board on the drive to the replacement drive. If you don’t swap those you have to do a bunch of custom firmware bullshit.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
Fakespot became defeated years ago and became useless on Amazon.
The best method I’ve had is to ignore any off brand looking product that’s been for sale for less than a couple months, but has tons of reviews, and when I pick something, sort the reviews by newest first and read those ones.
Usually the most paid reviews and fake reviews are close to when a product first starts selling. If the thing has been for sale for a little while, odds are that the most recent reviews are mostly from real people. Also, sometimes they will sale a higher quality item the first few weeks it’s for sale, and then start selling the item with cheaper parts on the inside. Like earbuds with good innards getting swapped out for cheaper drivers and processors.
- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 1 week ago:
I know exactly the cause of this. The 360 got a bad rep because of the red ring of death fiasco bricking the consoles. All because of a few design flaws, mostly around the processors assembly that took them quite a while to figure out the cause of, and even longer to do anything about.
Then the even bigger nail in the coffin of Blu-ray beating out HD DVD, and a PS3 being pretty much the cheapest blu ray player you could get.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 1 week ago:
Yeah, inflation is a thing. But so is increasing volumes in sales with low cost distribution of the product.
After a game is made now, the only cost is distribution now, and games sell in larger volumes than ever before, making more money than ever before. A game like BL4? Even if they spent $300,000,000 making the game they only need to sell 6,000,000 copies to recoup costs at $70. BL3 has sold 18,000,000 copies. A huge profit, even if most of those sales were on sale prices. BL3 was made and advertised with a 140 million dollar budget.
- Comment on The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May 1 week ago:
I got it free from epic a few years ago.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 2 weeks ago:
Tien vs krillin is kind of debatable, but they still both bald, along with Roshi, so…
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but non profits are bullshit in almost every instance. From the guy running a women’s homeless shelter near me that has 6 rooms but never has more than 2 occupied, one 9f which has lived there for years and seems very “friendly” with the guy running it, while he denies everyone else that tries to get in the place, but keeps collecting money, to all the large non profits that pay their people running it hundreds of thousands a year.
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 2 weeks ago:
Except the easiest thing in the world is just as the youtube guy said. If you use a cast iron or carbon steel, the seasoning doesnt really wash off as much, so you don’t have to re-season the thing every time you want to use it. My cast iron pans stay seasoned, even if I wash them with soap. SS doesn’t really have any benefit over carbon steel, and only a benefit over cast iron in that it’s lighter. If you want a lighter pan/wok, there’s little benefit over getting carbon steel.
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 2 weeks ago:
I like the heat retention of a good heavy and smooth cast iron best, and you don’t have to season it very often at all. I pre heat it, add a little butter or oil, and do my cooking. Only way to go if you aren’t cooking a steak or burgers outside. Eggs slide like new Teflon.
- Comment on No, Steam wasn’t hacked, and your account details are safe 2 weeks ago:
It was put out that everyone should change their passwords. That kind of info for like 90 million steam accounts would fetch a much higher price or ransom than some personal info on a bunch of people like names, phone numbers and an address.
- Comment on No, Steam wasn’t hacked, and your account details are safe 2 weeks ago:
I had assumed it was BS as soon as I saw the price of just $5k.
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 2 weeks ago:
Upvote the comments in the Google play reviews that mention full features in fdroids version so they climb to the top of most helpful reviews.
- Comment on In a few years, new smartphones will be as big and heavy as the first cell phones. 2 weeks ago:
I believe in your stardom. Bring it back!
- Comment on In a few years, new smartphones will be as big and heavy as the first cell phones. 2 weeks ago:
They still make them. You can just buy jncos right now. Jnco.com. they’re just still stupid expensive.
- Comment on Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation 3 weeks ago:
You’re just speaking of dedicated emulator systems? I’d agree with those numbers of yours then. I was just speaking of what people use to emulate old games in general. Almost everyone just uses a pc, laptop, or cell phone. The numbers for dedicated systems that look like retro Gameboys and stuff like that are outnumbered by like 100 to 1.
- Comment on Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation 3 weeks ago:
You can say 9 out of 10 buying a raspberry pie are setring up retro pie for emulating, but 98 out of 100 people emulating aren’t using a raspberry pie to do it.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 3 weeks ago:
That should be irrelevant to the crime. The sentencing shouldn’t be effected by factors such as that.
- Comment on xkcd #3087: Pascal's Law 3 weeks ago:
How do you think vehicle brakes had always worked? You think lightly pushing your foot on a pedal brings the 4,000 lb car to a stop with farts and whistles?