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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA IV Is A Snapshot of the World Before It Changed⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really even recall the “web” being one of the rougher places. It was Usenet and IRC, aka places where you could actually deal with other people directly, that were the livelier area. They were also more fun for that exact reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Using Ai to build power plants that will be used for AI to build more power plants that are used for AI to make a bunch of slop. TECHNOLOGY!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like riding a bike, you’ll be on it in no time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and it was more like $60 at the beginning of the year before all the tariff bullshit. So, do keep in mind that the build quality isn’t going to be incredible, but my daughter has been using hers for months and with no issues other than having to learn how to send texts T9-style and the GPS navigation is a little annoying to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought her a Nokia 2780 Flip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My daughter switched to a Nokia flip phone and has been enjoying it. So even some gen z are over the bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also why I have never considered the Switch a portable system. It was a hybrid that was never quite a “real” console or a handheld, and thus made compromises on both ends. I personally never used the Switch undocked, I’d have rather they sold a fixed model with no screen or joycons that just plugged in.

  The real reason that Game Gear was so power hungry is that it was just a Sega Master System crammed into a handheld. This is why it felt wildly better and more advanced then the Game Boy. Sega did the same thing years later with the Sega Nomad aka a Genesis crammed into a handheld.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with a 40 hour work week, this can be how it ends up. With a 60 hour work week, I’m surprised you can even fit in the cleaning. It’s rough. I don’t many recommendations anyone else hasn’t already mentioned (try to work less hours, which may not be possible). I think you need to, somehow, try to fit in a small window of time that is just for you. Even if it means giving up a small amount of sleep. I had to do this to retain some sanity. I found that trying to prep my meals in batches saved me some time as well. I used to work 40 hours a week on paper, but there was also an hour unpaid lunch and 2-3 hours of daily commute, so I was gone from home 12 hours a day. I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and the only thing I can say that as the kids get older it gets easier. When they can feed, dress, and entertain themselves, it makes it much easier. Also once they eat adult meals so you aren’t making several different things at once. Hang in there man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did too, but my Dad ended up buying me one of those tiny handheld TVs with a 1" screen instead. It was more a novelty that anything, it sucked down batteries faster than an actual Game Gear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The battery life was hilariously bad, it was almost the defining trait. It was made especially prominent since it was being compared to the OG Game Boy which could go 20 hours on four AA batteries. The GG could only go about five, if you were lucky, on six AA. Mine basically lived plugged into the wall with a long extension code so I could use it from anywhere in my bedroom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeleton⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so fucking crazy, I love it. The fact that they already have a previous model on the market you can buy is so surreal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamepad for Linux Gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been using my Sony DS4 gamepad (wired) with no issues, requires no setup. DS5 gamepads also work well, but I had extra DS4 controllers just sitting around. I greatly prefer them to any of the Xbox gamepad personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel both of these strongly for the same reasons, also GoW had all the sluggishness of a Souls-like which immediately made it not fun to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt that way for the first couple of hours and then the parrying “clicked” with me. Also you get some items/skills that make parrying easier/stronger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only good side of E.T. is that it kick started the implosion of Atari which lead to me getting many games super cheap in the following years. There was a local store Zayre, which later changed the name to Ames, that constantly had Atari games on heavy sales. After the NES released, I picked up a bunch of games for $5 each. Of course, it was hard to enjoy them knowing the NES existed and I didn’t have one yet :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no limit, but I am also a big fan of Daggerfall and thus clearly insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried it and it was good, but not worth the money to me. Since that time, everything has been going more and more to shit, so while I am not there yet, everything else could eventually get shitty enough that I will maybe then be good to pay monthly for a search engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be a min-maxing hoarder that never used stuff. In all honestly, I should probably try to be more like that minus the hoarding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I still disagree that it was a decent game, it perhaps could have been if given more time (it was famously made in less than 6 weeks), but building this frustratiing POS on the biggest movie of the day made it a kick in the balls to every excited kid, myself included.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I made it clear I was a kid in the 80s and yes it was very bad. It was the worst game I owned on the Atari and that was the opinion of all of my friends. Of course, I didn’t expect it to be famously bad, and didn’t hear about all of that until the mid 90s with people talking about it on the internet which has blown it out of proportion. It was almost certainly not even the truly worst game on the Atari, but it was the worst and most frustrating game that I played. I’d play Yars Revenge over it any day and I don’t even particularly care for Yars Revenge as it did get very old after a while (2600 games were generally not known for their depth).

  As a side note, everyone always focuses on the worst games for Atari, usually E.T., but I mostly try not to think about those. Late in the Atari life, it got some surprisingly decent games that based on the early stuff, you would think impossible on the system. It got very decent ports of Mario Bros and Commando. It got an excellent (for the time) pinball game Midnight Magic, it had a decent wrestling game Title Match Pro Wrestling. These are the games we should be talking about, fuck E.T. forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No sane person thinks that Indiana Jones is the best game on the Atari 2600. It was a confusing mess of a game that no one understood. Funny enough, I still have both E.T. and Indiana Jones carts and they still work. You can;t kill pure evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. It was not fine, it was crappy game that was probably most kids first licensed home video game for the biggest movie of the year. Everyone hated it. There is a reason that I somehow ended up with multiple copies of the games. Friends actually left them at my house and no one would admit to the extra game being theirs!

  That being said, I don’t think it is the worst game of all time. At most, it is the worst game on the 2600 and even that is a stretch. I’d argue Superman 64 for the N64 is a worse game by all measures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday update from the Prime Radiant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The books are good-ish, but are wildly different from the show and I am not sure I can wholeheartedly recommend them to people just because they like the show. IMO the books, as written, wouldn’t not be able to be made into a show that most people would want to watch. And yet, I only tried watching the show because of the books and didn’t stick with it because of how different it was. It could be worth your time, but it’s not a slam dunk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF BIT ME?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a coworker that had bats take up residence in his attic and he wasn’t allow to remove them. That was all fine and well (not really because of the horrific noises) until they gnawed through the drywall and started pouring into his house. I can’t get the image out of my head of him swinging a tennis racket at them as they flew around his living room. It was right out of an 80s comedy except he had to live with the results. In the end, he just moved because he couldn’t do anything else. From that point forward, I decided that I would tell no one about bats if they wormed into my home and would make sure they wanted to leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF BIT ME?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often wondered about what a person can legally do if bats have moved into their home. My initial crazy thought was to get some new “pets” that are bat predators. Who wouldn’t want a house filled with racoons, snakes, and venomous spiders?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF BIT ME?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what’s more alarming here: the bat bugs or the people willing to steal fingers out of spite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what car did you learn in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I learned to drive on two cars because my parents were divorced: my Dad’s Ford Ranger (manual) and my Mom’s silly “talking” Chrysler Laser (it literally talked to you, felt weirdly futuristic see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_alert ). I never really had a problem with using a clutch, it was the last of power steering on that truck that sucked. I made sure that I never bought a car without power steering after learning on that truck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By recipe, I don’t mean some written down rigid list on ingredients and processes, I mean more in the way of each distinct type of chili. I also have perfected my various chilis over decades and only one, my white chicken chili (which barely counts as chili IMO), has cumin in it. I am sure your chili is great, but I’d almost certainly prefer mine as I consider it perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s interesting in that none of my chili recipes have cumin as an ingredient, so I’d say that is far from essential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, here is my tl;dr of the last part of the story from the comics. The gist is that after the snap, every remaining hero + Dr Doom do an all out attack on Thanos along with all the “cosmic” super bosses (Galactus, Chaos, Order, all sorta wacky beings) and they were going to win until Doom tried to steal the gauntlet and fucked it up. Thanos kills every hero and traps the all cosmic weirdos and then becomes the new “God” of the universe. When he does that and leaves the gauntlet sitting there, Nebula (that he had been torturing) grabs the gauntlet and tears the whole universe up and takes over. In the end, Dr Strange saves Thanos and convinces him to help fight/trick Nebula and restore the universe. I am sure I missed stuff, but it was pretty crazy. One of the more fun things I remember was Wolverine sticking his claws right into Thanos through the neck and for a sec Thanos thought he was dying until he remembered he could essentially just make himself “not dead” and then he turned Wolverines claws/bones into Play Doh.