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- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 15 hours ago:
The McRib is actually an awful example for this, because McD’s primary deciding factor is the price of pork. When pork prices drop, McD revives the McRib. They want to manufacture them as cheaply as possible. Then when the prices start to climb again, they pull it from the menu. That’s why they don’t do big “it’s coming back on this date, and leaving on this date” announcements ahead of time, because those announcements would affect the pork prices as pig farmers would anticipate the upcoming large McD orders, and subsequent dips when they stop selling.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 1 day ago:
I lowkey considered getting a second SD, just to keep it plugged into my TV 24/7. I cart mine back and forth from work and home, and the minor inconvenience of packing it into my bag each morning had me considering a second purchase.
But then I remembered I’m fucking broke.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 day ago:
Nope. Throuple is dating, threesome is a one-time thing. Like if my wife and I have a girlfriend, we would be a throuple. And if we all sleep together, it would be a threesome. But saying “throuple=threesome” is like saying “couple=sex” when the two describe fundamentally different things. One is the relationship between people, and the other is just a physical act.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 days ago:
Yeah, the benefit to streaming is that you can have much larger libraries. I have +5000 songs on my most commonly played lists, and that’s not even my full library. My devices are already full enough with things like game files (emulators), video files (locally downloaded from my Plex/Jellyfin server so I don’t have to stream video on the shitty work WiFi), and videos/photos from daily life. If I can store my music elsewhere, of course I’m going to do so. I’ll keep one or two common playlists automatically downloaded, but the rest gets streamed.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 3 days ago:
I’m choosing to read it as “we only bought it to get kernel-level access to millions of computers. Don’t worry about why we want that.”
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 4 days ago:
Nah, if this was GTA, more agents would have spawned in front of him just off camera, and plowed into him with their cruisers.
GTA’s crazy cops were started because of a coding bug. The game devs wanted cops to navigate to the player then brake, before hopping out of their cruiser to arrest you. The astute programmer has probably already seen the error here… The cops navigated to the player and didn’t start braking until after they plowed into you at full speed. Then once you were laid out on the ground, the cops would hop out of their cruisers to bust you. The devs forgot to add any kind of “brake before reaching the player” distance to the player’s location, so the cops would just run you down at full speed. But during play testing, the devs discovered that the players thought it was a lot of fun, constantly dodging the wildly homicidal cops. So they left it in, and GTA was born.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 4 days ago:
Due to Steam’s Autumn Sale putting the DLC anywhere from 30-50% off, you can currently get the complete game for the low price of only… $993.79.
I wish I was kidding.
Screenshot of the Steam store page, showing the “Add All DLC to Cart” button with a total of $993.79. Most of the DLC is priced down anywhere from 30 to 50%. - Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 4 days ago:
At this point, I see pirating The Sims as a moral imperative. There’s no reason the full game should be ~$1500.
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 4 days ago:
The most common issue I have is due to my TLD. There are some poorly coded sites that require a .com, .org, or .net TLD before you can click the Submit/Next button…
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 4 days ago:
As someone who hosts a lot of things: Fuck email hosting. Just get your own domain for a few bucks a year, and use an established provider to host it.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
It was officially unsupported, but it still works just fine if you use a third-party metadata provider. There haven’t been any breaking changes on the backend, so (unless sites change things) it will continue to work fine.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
You can also use Book Bounty to integrate LibGen support into Readarr. It’s a workaround for one of Readarr’s biggest weaknesses, as torrents historically aren’t great for ebooks.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Yeah, the wonkiness is particularly apparent on .cbz files. I got a color Kobo to read comics, but .cbz files don’t natively support metadata embedding. (It’s basically just a .zip file, so you could embed the data in the file… But the Kobo wouldn’t read it without actually open in the file.) Getting the comics to actually list the author and series has been a big struggle.
Oftentimes, comics will outright disappear from the kobo’s book list in Calibre, meaning you can’t even manage them at all; Pushing the file again doesn’t help because it’s already on the device, but Calibre can’t read the database so it’ll try anyways. The only solution when it happens has been to completely factory reset the kobo. Which is… Not a great solution.
- Comment on Australia’s under 16s social media ban could extend to Reddit, Twitch, Kick, Roblox, Steam, GitHub, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord and even dating apps 1 week ago:
I mean, Steam does have a large social aspect as well. Community content is often aimed at the 16+ crowd. Hell, I’ve been called the n-word by 11 year olds multiple times on Steam. Denying that Steam has social media is just disingenuous.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
Glad to hear you like them! I’ve been using Cleanuparr since before it had a GUI to configure things. And Huntarr is the only reason my library backlog has any chance of filling out; I have lots of old movies and shows that never really get new posts, so Sonarr/Radar would never have an opportunity to grab them from an rss feed.
- Comment on Will Ivermectin Help? 1 week ago:
Yes, and the graph reflects that. The visible prevalence of left handedness increased when we stopped trying to beat the demons out of left handed children. Teachers would beat kids’ knuckles with a yardstick if they caught them writing with their left hands.
It’s not that there were suddenly more left handed people; Those people had always existed, but got beat until they used their right hand instead. When we stopped beating them, they became more visible.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 week ago:
Yeah, this is like saying “skin cancer rates have increased dramatically in the past 30 years!” Well yeah, because now we have the technology to detect it earlier. That “things increased” stat ignores the complementary “but deaths decreased dramatically” stat that immediately follows it. Before, we didn’t know people had skin cancer until it was killing them. But now, with preventative screenings, public awareness campaigns, etc, people are more likely to get checked before it is a life threatening issue.
It’s the same thing. Detection models got better, so detection rates went up.
- Comment on How Chrono Trigger Taught Me The Word ‘Epoch’ 1 week ago:
A more direct translation would be along the lines of “Phoenix’s Tail”, but even that is misleading because it’s referring to the tail feathers. The Japanese version didn’t specify the individual tail feathers, the same way English wouldn’t designate the individual hairs on a cat’s tail. A more accurate localization may be something like “Phoenix Flight Feather”, but that’s a bit of a mouthful (and would take up a lot of room in your game menus).
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
*arrs are becoming a pain for all the malware named as good files confusing rad/sonarr. Qbit knows not to download .exes, and the like, but sonarr doesn’t know to delete them and look again.
And this is exactly why I run Cleanuparr alongside my *arrs. It integrates extension blocking, blocked/failed/stalled retries, and even has crowdsourced blocklists for malware. Between that and Huntarr (which automates manual searches, because Sonarr/Radarr don’t continuously search for missing media,) and my *arr stack is running better than ever.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 1 week ago:
Until someone does a repair using a non-conductive replacement part. If your ground is running through your sink, and your sink springs a leak, there’s a non-zero chance that the new install will be PEX instead of copper. Still up to code from a plumbing standpoint, but now people in the upstairs shower are getting shocked because the upstairs outlets are tied into ungrounded plumbing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The bank that exclusively deals with members of the US armed forces? You’re surprised that they donated to a conservative?
- Comment on be gay, do crimes (in space) 1 week ago:
Was it ever confirmed to be intentionally drilled? Last I heard, they were still in the “it could have simply been a piece of space dust moving insanely fast” part of the investigation.
- Comment on “JUST BECAUSE I HAVE THE VOICE OF A MUNCHKIN FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ DOES NOT MEAN THAT I HAVE TINY LITTLE MOUSE BALLS! BESIDES, EVEN IF I DID, CORRELATION DOES NOT PROVE CAUSATION!!!” 1 week ago:
He looks like someone is slowly but steadily sliding grapes into his ass, and he’s trying not to react until he figures out how he feels about it.
Did I enjoy that? Maybe? No? Actually, I think so? Hmm, better wait for the next one to be sure. Nope, no, definitely didn’t enjoy that one. But it did feel kinda good…
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 week ago:
It’s a hard choice between D and G for me. G gets all of the southern US cuisine that Europeans are always blown away by, along with texmex, traditional Mexican, street tacos, Louisiana seafood, Cali and Florida seafood, etc… But D gets India, the Mediterranean (maybe even Italy? I can’t quite tell on this map), Korean, Japanese, south china, etc…
If I wanted to commit to consistently good food, I’d go with G. But if I wanted a wider variety with a broader spice palette, I’d go with D.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
Know what can be automated a lot easier than cars or planes, and can carry orders of magnitude more people with much less fuel usage? Fucking trains.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 2 weeks ago:
But let’s be honest, we all know we would behave like the aliens from Independence Day - mercilessly conquering and harvesting alien worlds and spreading destruction across the universe.
This would be true, except that Star Trek assumes a truly post-scarcity world where nobody needs to harvest alien worlds. Hell, the capitalists (Ferengi) are depicted as ruthless and conniving (oftentimes outright cartoonish) villains most of the time.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I started with TNG two years ago. I’m now halfway through season 4 or Voyager, just from watching an episode every few days whenever I have time. Eventually I’ll move on to DS9, before digging into the movies (which I have simultaneously heard are incredible and hot garbage, depending on the individual user’s preferences) and the newer stuff.
- Comment on Senators Press Amazon’s Bezos on Unfair Scheduling Practices Hurting Workers: Amazon’s “just-in-time” scheduling leaves hourly workers with volatile schedules, uncertain paychecks 2 weeks ago:
My job gives the part-timers schedules on Wednesday, two weeks in advance. According to the part-timers, that’s absolutely unheard of. They say the scheduling is one of the nicest parts of the job, because they can plan more than a few days in advance.
We’ve also had part-timers basically crying when they had to call in sick. Like dude, you’re trapped on the toilet; please stay home. We don’t want you here when you’re sick. We’ll deal with the staffing shortage, just focus on recovering.
How the hell is that not standard? People have lives outside of work.
- Comment on Beginners Questions about Audiobookshelf, DNS and nginx 2 weeks ago:
That’s called split DNS. You can probably use that term to figure out if a particular router supports it. Basically, you would tell the router “if a DNS request for a specific URL is coming from a local IP, use a different (usually local) DNS table”. So like you can tell it “if a device asks for this URL, route it to this local IP instead.” So the DNS request never actually leaves your network.
It can be handy for cases where you don’t always want to be reliant on an external DNS server. For instance, if your internet is spotty. You don’t want your Jellyfin to stop working just because your internet went out; Everything is local, so it should be able to connect. But if you’re only using an external DNS provider, it won’t be able to connect without internet. So split DNS will allow you to connect to local services even when your internet is out.
The big downside to split DNS is that you often run into DNSSEC (DNS over https) warnings. Since the URL was intercepted before it actually reached an external DNS server, the traffic isn’t taking the path that the service “expected” it to take. So it may throw some warnings, or refuse to connect because it thinks your traffic is being intercepted, (because… Well… It is being intercepted… By you.)
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 weeks ago:
2 was where the series really peaked. The first did some new things, and brought some fresh life into the shooter genre.
2 expanded upon it, and had a much better story. It was also in the heyday of matchmaking game lobbies, so it was easy to boot up the match finder and jump into a game with someone. Probably half of my Steam friends list came from playing this game and just vibing with people on voice chat while we ran through the side quests.
The prequel was… Alright? I’d put it about on par with the first game. It didn’t bring anything new or exciting to the table, but it was good at what it did.
Then 3 was just bad. It felt really cringey, in a “how do you do, fellow kids” kind of way. Like it was trying too hard.
And now 4 sounds like more of 3. The lead dev sounds out of touch, and the game sounds rushed.
