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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man you said it. I despise discord. My gaming group will post things in the chat, and if you ever want to look at something again it’s a pain in the ass to find it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything old is new again.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once took a taxi downtown with my family when we were in a different city, and the drive home was twice as much as the drive there (second driver took a different route). My dad challenged him on it and he backed down an accepted the same fare as the first driver.

  Same company, same rates, just a dbag driver

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not this quarter’s problem, silly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's important to get a good interest rate⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be both

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My unpopular opinion is that whatever you record should consider the format it’ll be viewed in as well as the orientation of the subject in the video. Is it going to be viewed on a phone, one handed, while someone is eating or pooping? Then vertical might make sense. If the subject fits better in a vertical video, then that makes sense as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The multiplayer shooter in DK64 was so fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dice poker was Witcher 1 and 2. Was fun! Then gwent came and I was hooked on that too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it’s an older toilet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a new release so maybe this doesn’t count but against the storm is excellent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please don't let this be Gene's legacy.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Andromeda ship was such a cool design, one of my favorites.

  And I remember really enjoying season 1 of Andromeda in college, while also recognizing that it wasn’t really a “good” show

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨subs > dubs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I watch everything in English with subs for this reason. But I can’t usually do that for anime because the subs don’t always match the dub and that’s distracting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I often play old games that have compatibility issues with windows 10. Most recently FEAR required a .dll from a site for a stable framerate.

  People keep saying “gaming works” on Linux but are they talking about modern games? Do old games “just work?” I have very little free time to fart about with fixing too many issues with an old game. How well does this stuff work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has HP printers always been this bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked for HP for a while in college. HP Rep. It paid like 14 an hour when minimum wage was 6 and I just got to stand around in best buy or office max, etc, selling printers and training staff on features. It was retail but without all the bullshit like cleaning the bathrooms or running the register or needing to hit sales targets, etc. It was a real kushy job.

  About halfway through my time there HP started pushing ePrint, or other cloud features, and ink subscriptions, etc. That was about the time I think their quality really started to nosedive. Printers have always been printers (brother notwithstanding, but now it’s starting to slip with inclusion of more invasive drm and ink subscriptions) but before the onset of cloud based stuff, it seemed, I dunno, better? Not great, but better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says 'we dug our own grave' with the Cybertruck as he warns Tesla faces enormous production challenges⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, don’t disrespect Lego like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I started using duck duck go a few months ago and have felt like my search results are a lot more useful since.

  The maps function on it sucks though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it did launch on ps2 too so could have been

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  GameCube not N64

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s also in civ 6 but I know that’s newer. I just love his soothing voice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like getting fired as a CEO is a negative. They leave with a golden parachute and get hired elsewhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Waivers can’t totally exonerate someone from all harm caused

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any time you're told that the weak and vulnerable are responsible for how bad things are, rather than the rich and powerful, you're being lied to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems more like one person who could lift the couch one handed is sitting on it yelling at the person who can’t lift it by themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My father in law went to a heat pump instead of propane this year. No natural gas where he lives.

  But he also dropped 20k on a solar system to power it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Duolingo for Spanish but also practice with Spanish speakers. I also click on the forum stuff for info on grammar, because I don’t think the grammar really comes through in the app if you don’t already know the gist of the rules. Or I look it up in a Spanish text.

  But the vocab practice i do find helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a brief period of time when chrome launched it seemed faster to me. I also liked the way it had a clean ui compared to others at the time. Used it for years, and it just got worse and worse.

  I switched to Firefox a few years ago and it’s much better imo. But I remember feeling like chrome was really good for a little while.