UpperBroccoli
@UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 2 days ago:
Not shown: perfectly normal JD Vance humping the backrest from behind Trump while violently stuffing his face with a cold cheeseburger.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 1 week ago:
not understanding why I’d have to kill everyone around after making this choice (Maman Brigitte for instance)
That actually happened to me, too. Luckily, I didn’t mind too much, but yeah, it was a bit of a surprise.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 1 week ago:
Love it to pieces. Paid absolutely no attention to it before it was released, and due to some friendly advice from an online mate, waited a few months before picking it up, when most of the really bad bugs were already ironed out.
I love pretty much everything about it:
- The score. The music is just so fantastic.
- The settings. Brilliant. Any RPG that isn’t set in a plain vanilla fantasy world already has a big advantage when it comes to my affection, but this setting is just super cool.
- The representation. Absolutely not in-your-face, yet so much there.
- The world building. I think they paid absolutely absurd attention to details, like “where does everyone’s food come from” and “where does everybody’s garbage go”.
- The story. I like it.
- The characters. They feel relatable and their motivation makes sense, which is not always the case in many games. I find myself caring about (some of) them.
- The quests. I like them.
- The combat. It started out okay, but now, it is so much fun. I absolutely love what they have done with it after 2.0. I love being able to actually throw people at each others. I love the various melee finishers. I love the cyberware. I love using the wrist rocket launcher to blow up attacking cars. I love being able to throw knifes and axes without constly having to craft more. I love all of it.
- The mods. I love what dedicated modders have done to make a good game into a really really great game. There are such fantastic mods for this game, it keeps bogging my mind.
So yeah, love it to pieces, and absolutely one of my all time favorite games.
- Comment on Interview — Nana Visitor and Open A Channel: The Women Of Star Trek (Part 2) 2 weeks ago:
I had not heard of this book. I just read the interview, both parts, and I must say, I did not think it possible, but I think I love Nana Visitor even more now. I will definitly buy and read her book.
- Comment on Hmmm... 2 weeks ago:
My god that was quick.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
No spooky eyes, no extra limbs, no eery smile? - 100% real, genuine photograph! 👍
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 4 weeks ago:
(re)Ditched Windows on my PC a while ago, still have to use Windows at work. Just checked my work laptop running Windows 11 (standard laptop, not a “Copilot+PC”) - sure enough, that Recall shit is installed and active. Disabled it, and made a post in our main company Teams channel with screenshots. Will be interesting to see if there are any reactions to this.
To find out if it is active in Windows 11, open up ‘cmd’ and use: (typing this from memory, hope it is correct)
dism /online /get-featureinfo /featurename:Recallto disable it, you need a ‘cmd’ instance with admin rights:
dism /online /disable-feature /featurename:Recall - Comment on Ding, fries ain't done 4 weeks ago:
You can just imagine the zombie like voice wailing “Haaaaaambeeeerdeeeeeers!”
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
I’m reasonably sure this is not entirely correct. My understanding is that a replicator works similar to a transporter, in that it turns pure energy into matter according to a known pattern.
- Comment on Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations 1 month ago:
It probably doesn’t matter. This type of battery is not all that interesting for things like electric cars, rather more so for things like grid energy storage on a massive scale. Think 1000s of these in a large building, getting charged during the day with excess solar energy, releasing it into the grid at night. Stuff like this is what has been missing to make even better use of renewables.
- Comment on There exists a position inside the earth where it is possible to cook a perfect pizza just by leaving it there 1 month ago:
There is this restaurant on a volcano on Lanzarote, in the “Parque Nacional de Timanfaya”, where they cook with the heat from the magma below. I am sure you could cook a pizza with that, as well.
- Comment on Bees 2 months ago:
There are different kinds of wasps. Where I live, out of the many many kinds, only two are annoying in that they are aggressive and try to get your food. All others are chill and will leave you alone if you leave them alone. We had a nest outside our house one year. Often times, our paths would cross. A wasp would collide with us, just sit there in the air for a second, then fly around us. No time to chat, gotta get food for the hive. Also: bees and bumblebees will just take the day off if the weather is shitty. Wasps? MUST GET MORE FOOD. Hailstorm? Tornado? Lightning strikes five yards away? No excuse.
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 2 months ago:
Will it shut down after the seven years, telling you that the software running on the TV is “no longer supported”?
- Comment on Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee” 2 months ago:
To my understanding, it has always only been usable with a subscription, so…
- Comment on Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee” 2 months ago:
Is this like an… idiot tax?
- Comment on How to treat a man 2 months ago:
Better prep the burn ward!
- Comment on Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones' 2 months ago:
Are they wrong though? These are the geniuses that buy Trump-branded bibles they’ll never read.
- Comment on Everything Star Trek Revealed at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 3 months ago:
A Star Trek live action comedy series? That is truly boldly going where no man has gone before, unless we count [Star Trek series you never liked].
- Comment on Groundbreaking barium titanate solar panels are 1000x more powerful than existing panels 4 months ago:
That article - and especially the title - seem misleading. To quote (emphasis mine):
The result surprised even the research group: compared to pure barium titanate of a similar thickness, the current flow was up to 1,000 times stronger, despite the fact that the proportion of barium titanate as the main photoelectric component was reduced by almost two thirds.
I am sure this is exciting and very important research though.
- Comment on Liz Truss loses seat as ex-prime minister becomes biggest scalp in Tory bloodbath 4 months ago:
The real enemy arrives by yacht and limousine, not in a small boat. The rich are the people killing this country, no one else.’
That guy knows what’s up.
- Comment on "Cool" and "hot" are both compliments 4 months ago:
There is a quote I like by famous character actor and certified psychopath Klaus Kinski who once said to his audience (translation mine):
If only you were hot! Or if only you were cold! But you are lukewarm, and I spit on you!
- Comment on We cater any event! 4 months ago:
Yes, they serve a double feature of rum and rosswurst.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 months ago:
UpperBroccoli really wants Microsoft gone after it pisses him off everyday for years
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 6 months ago:
I had one that had the same form factor as a gameboy. It was black, the screen had a resolution so tiny you could not really make anything out, and it was almost impossible to get a stable signal. But I loved it when I was 12 years old, because I was only allowed to watch tv for an hour every day, and nobody knew I had that tiny TV which I bought from the money I made delivering flowers. I still have it in a box somewhere.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
In an email obtained by Electrek, Musk said he wanted Tesla to be “absolutely hard core” about layoffs, threatening to sack executives whose subordinates “don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test.”
Everyone should just quiet and let him do everything on his own, that is bound to skyrocket the revenue!
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
Not necessarily. There are a lot of scams involving charity. Here’s a small, ad-hoc made-up example to illustrate:
- Buy cheap artwork from obscure artist for $500
- Wait a while
- Buy an expert expertise that says your art is super revolutionary and worth $5.000.000
- Donate that super important piece of art to some charity or museum or whatever
- Write off $5.000.000 in taxes
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
We don’t have enough systems in place to prevent the rich from taking more than their fair share.
If we did, there would be no billionaires.