BigPotato

@BigPotato@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  From my reading of the article, that was a hypothetical. Not to say it hasn’t happened multiple times but I’m pretty sure that “may” was doing some heavy lifting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Limited Run has asked Nintendo to pull Gex Trilogy from the eShop as it doesn’t work on Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, a necessary warning about the water at Jerry Garcia’s house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually joke “The Polish in me knows how to drink, the Irish in me doesn’t know how to stop.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineer creates first custom motherboard for 1990s PlayStation console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah. Always good to hear.

  That said, I need a PSOne ODE. My stack of PS1s still run fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I said “I sent a video recording of this a month ago and received confirmation. Do you not have that?” and got back “I never got that.”

  “Alright, got it. Thankfully it’s not my problem anymore but you know where yours is.” and left it at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once had a broken headlight and also broke pockets, so I grabbed some packing tape and made a new one. I was at an AutoZone and the guy looked at my car, looked at me and said “that won’t last past the first storm” to which my response was “it’s held up for three months. I’ll take my chances.” and it held up until the seals on the transmission blew out after driving it across the country again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not going to find a weapons maker with an unproblematic background (part of the problem with sourcing arms for your SRA meetup) but IMI certainly has a bad one.

  They’ve also got a number of totally iconic weapons though. Separate the art from the artist and all that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am not a builder… but that does not seem right⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Use stud finder /beep move it two inches /still beep/ move it further /still beep/ move it again /still beep/. “Stud finder must be broken” Get another stud finder /still beep but the whole section again/ “I need to know what’s behind this wall before I just bolt this TV to this fucking thing” /cut away the drywall/ “I better make this look like something stupid for fake Internet points…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steamdeck or....⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with a primarily physical Switch library and more than 100 Switch games, the Switch cartridges aren’t even satisfying to put in and harder to store or display than consoles of old.

  Even the 3DS just feels easier and more substantial. So, despite the Deck’s lack of a cartridge slot, I don’t even think the Deck really loses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t need to be, as long as you disclose your bias.

  Reviews of VIM will inherently be biased by interest level in keyboard only navigation. No one can critically review anything entirely without bias unless we allow for reviewers to admit their biases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mazda false DMCA takedown notice Home Assistant App⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You jailbreak your 2032 Mazda CCX-900 (the smallest car they offer, a limousine) to use the EU firmware so you can utilize an open source app, suddenly the display changes to KM/H and the car demands you sing the French national anthem before it will start and all so your car doesn’t dial into to Mazda corporate to let them know you’re currently going to the store for beans and rice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s already ROM hacks for MK64.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They said 20 years ago. We literally had ‘use a paperclip to turn on the computer on the test bench’ as the standard practice. Designing things for people to do them wrong was very much not the style at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But the aliens were humans who came before/after you because humans made a thing that made them destroy the universe so everything is stuck in a time loop where humans have to… Stop other humans from fielding too many stars or else they figure out how to loop the star field again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That was just /r/subredditsimulator

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got my hands on Shantae Risky Revolution. Where should I upload my checksum too?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My order actually got delayed today by like two months, hilarious to hear yours made it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s terrible. Your English is better than his. Just because there’s some sliver of sense doesn’t mean he even did it on purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Commas can be used to identify parts of the sentence that can be cut out e.g. “… wisdom to cut your taxes in half … If Canada becomes the 51st state.”

  Now, here, the comma was used for a list so it shouldn’t have been used that way but I’m sure his meth head brain probably got lost partway or the AI bot that mimics his speech patterns is just that dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the only thing I remember about Reach is the last mission anyway but thanks for the heads up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  John Halo and the Marines are Marines and not Soldiers. Though, I’m not certain Halo ever shows a non-Navy Servicemember in 1-4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Available as optional extras

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben Shapiro's sister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is terrifying to link to after what you just said

  But they are great boobs and that’s what’s important. I do this not for me, but for us all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In heat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, first part of any fresh Fox setup is changing the default search engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I’ve been using it for over 20 years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, be that guy, correct incorrect information. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While putting in a new generator is absolutely a better idea, that means it’s not the original car. Plenty of classic car (and computing and video game and music and any hobby) enthusiasts run original hardware on purpose. Where’s the fun in building an Apple IIe if you use a flash drive instead of the hard drive? Where’s the soul in listening to The Four Tops on a digital recording instead of the vinyl master? Why play Sega on a flash cart instead of the original cartridges? Why drive a classic Civic if you’re trying to drop a K20 in there?

  New stuff is objectively better. A 4Cyl Mustang makes more power these days than a V8 from the 90s, more so for older models. You have to be a little irrational to put that amount of time into running something just because it’s older.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Microsoft had a similar stance around the Xbox One timeframe! It worked out great for them.

  Just don’t talk about it, Nintendo, that’s a better PR strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, a lot of those women were probably traumatized in the same wars their husbands were (for different reasons, obviously) so they probably trauma bonded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there really only a few New 3DS exclusive games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but there’s only one handheld with DS/3DS emulation in mind and it’s not cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This speaks for itself⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it was definitely still colorful in, like, 2018. Don’t know why they picked 2009 as the year.