SippyCup
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- Comment on 22 hours ago:
I played it twice when it came out, and several times since then, once or twice with every major update. Don’t judge me I love cyberpunk settings.
It’s a completely different game now. A much better experience. It’s still quite possible to make the game ridiculously easy for yourself. Hackers will have an easier time than a street samurai, and if you put the time in to do all of the side quests you’ll quickly level to the point of unstoppable brute force merc anyway. But, the core experience is good, the expansion adds a lot, and is worth playing through even if you don’t do the rest of the game.
I say this as someone who, in spite of how good I wanted the game to be, could recognize that the released product, and even the game several updates in, was deeply flawed. I didn’t have the issue with bugs many people were having, but still it felt unfinished and unrefined. As of 2.1 I can confidently say it’s a good game, even if you’re not a freak for a criminal underserved cyberpunk setting.
- Comment on 23 hours ago:
Holy shit that ending hits hard.
spoiler
You’re abandoned by everyone you cared about, the few that remain are so changed they’re hardly recognizable, and you’re alone in a city that eats people alive. I think I had a few million eddies and literally every apartment in town, V could survive by never going outside. But with nothing left to live for what’s the point?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Got lots of 65 year old factory or construction workers, do ya? And I’m talking about laborers, not supervisors etc.
Yes.
The oldest guy on our seniority list has had one job his entire life, he’s 72. He refuses to retire. The entire first page of seniority is guys in their 60’s. To be clear, if they’re on the seniority list, they’re not supervisors, they’re machine operators, welders, paint line guys, and tradesmen.
I, at 40, am one of the younger people in the building.
We recently started sucking up as many students as we could for the trades jobs because of how dangerously close to retirement most of the workforce is.
These jobs are not nearly as bad as people think. It’s not construction, which absolutely can and does destroy bodies. Factory work is engineered around being ergonomic and safe. If for no other reason than there simply isn’t the workforce available to replace people that leave young. But there’s actually lots of reasons. It’s legally required, it’s watched closelt by more than one federal agency (at least it WAS…). The factory literally can’t make money if these guys are getting injured all the time, and it’s way easier to make something safe to do than deal with constant injuries.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
You’d be surprised. Most industrial jobs are not all that physical anymore. I felt the same as you did at your age and I spent 20 years grinding jobs I absolutely hated because I too had no ambition coming out of high school. I ended up bouncing around call centers while trying to find something I enjoyed at college enough to be successful at, all the while being passed over by people who actually enjoyed what they were doing.
I’m a tool maker now, I do a little troubleshooting, a little machining, and my job is immensely satisfying. It’s not for everyone but that’s every job.
Honestly even if you’re opposed to industry, I wouldn’t bother with an expensive education until you have some idea of what you want to do. Find some place that’ll give you an entry level job and provide tuition reimbursement, get your core studies out of the way while you figure stuff out.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
What? Intelligent people get fooled all the time. The NXIVM cult was made up mostly of reasonably intelligent women. Shit that motherfucker selected for intelligent women.
You’re not immune. Even if you were, you’re incredibly dependent on people of average to lower intelligence on a daily basis. Our planet runs on the average intelligence.
- Comment on Beans 1 week ago:
I WISH. hahaha I’m in danger
- Comment on Beans 1 week ago:
I love eggs. I eat an omelette every day. Lots of butter. Yumm
- Comment on Valve's invite-only Deadlock has an even more exclusive top-secret hush-hush version 1 week ago:
The best times I had with any PVP shooter were always in the middle of the day on weekdays. It was always a bunch of working age guys like myself and that was the only time they had to play. Dudes were always friendly, games were always fun. 3pm Eastern hit and the fun was over, if it was Friday you were done playing for the weekendb unless you stayed up really late, even then, it was never as good.
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 1 week ago:
The man loves 3 things. Beer, himself, and trucks. He’s clearly drinking the first and fucking the other two, hard to judge a man who’s obtained the kind of success in live that allows him to indulge in his hobbies.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 1 week ago:
Yarr, there be an alternative. Though some might’n be thinking acquiring such booty be illegal.
- Comment on Rev up those 3D printers! 2 weeks ago:
Oh noooo… Which frogs tho?
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 4 weeks ago:
A great one at that
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 4 weeks ago:
Since monkeys tend to hit the same keys repeatedly, rather than trying them all out at random, I’d say your second order monkey business is actually more likely to succeed than the first set of monkeys ever typing out Shakespeare is.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 4 weeks ago:
“we should hear both sides!” Is and always has been an argument from people who know they are wrong, who want to pollute the available information from the people who are right.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 1 month ago:
Seems like a dedicated person might be able to prove that. Go through the available data and see what % of leaked accounts actually point to a real person, or even a unique person. If it’s mostly bots you’d see that pretty quick
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 1 month ago:
This implies that you can both see where the electrons are and where they’re going. Obviously that’s impossible.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 1 month ago:
mass effect and the first few dragon age games had great acting, Kingdom come has great acting, most of the Sony exclusives have great acting, it’s out there. It’s just rare.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 month ago:
We produced everything to spec and on time, thanks.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 month ago:
Back when I was a fabricator I made some of the critical components used in Amazon stores. Amazon was incredibly particular about every little detail, even on parts that didn’t call for tight tolerancing in any conceivable way. They, on several occasions, sent us one bad set of prints after another. Which we could only discover after completing a run of parts. We’re talking 20-30 thousand units that ended up being scrapped because of their shitty prints. Millions of dollars set on fire, basically.
They became such a huge pain in the ass to work with we eliminated every single SKU they ordered from us.
- Comment on DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy 1 month ago:
Right, but the data you get from that test is pretty broad. One test will create a background for an entire family. You only need to do one for one child. Or if both parents have one, or a sibling of both parents have done one, the children of that pair also no longer needs a test to see their background.
- Comment on There is a curfew in effect 1 month ago:
Sir I am at work.
So obviously I’ll take a nap
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 1 month ago:
I want you to know a few things. First, you saved me a Google, so I appreciate that. Second, I am working overtime to support a department that isn’t working at the moment, and so I have very little to do. (Long story) I was real excited to slap on my headphones and listen to an hour and a half long rant about fallout 3, only to discover that I left them at home. And so I am terribly disappointed.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 month ago:
Oh I’m sure, classic top gear is crazy accessible. There are multiple hours long compilations on YouTube of some of the best crazy shit they did. I just wanted to parrot Clarkson.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 month ago:
And on that terrible disappointment, back to piracy.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 month ago:
I have fewer issues with the jellyfin app on my TV than I do with literally any of the streaming apps on the same television. My only gripe with jellyfin is there’s no PS5 app.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 month ago:
Join us
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Land is land. We don’t get any more. Some land is inherently more valuable than other. We should be disincentivizing ownership of land unless it’s being cultivated or contributing in some way.
By saying that farms don’t pay property tax, we’re creating an avenue for billionaires to create “farms” and skirt taxes.
Instead what we should be doing is guaranteeing that crops will sell. Pay the property tax, use the land, and if your harvest fails at market, then the government covers the gap. But not before. I’m even cool with the government buying the seed and feed. That’s all renewable and contributes to a bountiful harvest. Having taxes to pay on the value of the land encourages it’s use, and pushes the wealthy billionaires away from wanting to own it just cuz. They’ll naturally look for the least valuable land if they just want a big ass estate. Who cares if they build a mansion on a pile of worthless rock?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
If you’re retired or disabled, you’re not working a farm.
If you are working a farm, then you should be paying taxes anyway.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
You realize there are literally dozens of examples of dense urban environments flooded with small private businesses right?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
If that was satire, it was incredibly well done. If it’s red sincere, it’s a great example of why property taxes should still apply at a certain point.