kboos1
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- Comment on Now that the DOW is below 50,000, are we allowed to care again? 1 week ago:
It’s important to everyone, but it’s not so important that we should ignore pedophiles having sex with kids.
- Comment on YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows 2 weeks ago:
Interesting because all of my first aid instructions say not to slap people on the back. Why should I believe this over instructors and doctors?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Pam is already up Dump’s dumper
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 2 weeks ago:
You could never really build a better PC for the same price, consoles were always $300 to $400 cheaper than the equivalent PC at launch by design. Pre gen4 consoles really had to compete with Arcades and gen4 to gen 6 really only had to compete with each other. Gen 6 and after now have strong competition from PC and mobile.
PC suffered from a lack of eco system, cost, and complexity. Consoles were sold at a loss at launch because the software was tied to the proprietary hardware and they could make their money back by offering exclusive games and pay to play online.
Now consoles are just under powered custom PCs and Steam/GOG have built eco systems for PC to make PC gaming more friendly and now Steam is building hardware to make PC gaming more affordable. Plus with cloud gaming everyone can stream just about any game no matter what hardware they have.
Nintendo will probably hang on the longest with their unique hardware and IPs that will never ever get ported to another system, at least not until Nintendo no longer builds their own hardware.
AI and Cloud gaming will probably be the biggest thing to revolutionize the gaming industry and probably the most destructive since Atari over saturated the market. At least in the short term.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 2 weeks ago:
So Sony said something similar about milking it’s current customer base more by charging more for services/software and not really offering anything new in return. Console gaming maybe dead or at least the next generation will most likely be the last.
I don’t see consoles surviving for much long with so many things working against them like AI, cloud services, mobile offerings, PC alternatives, and increasing hardware costs.
Also if AI can predict what I’m going to do and do it for me then what if that’s not what I was going to do. It would suck the joy out of actually doing the things. Single player games probably don’t matter as much but feel like it would ruin PVP like overly aggressive aim assist.
- Comment on The purpose of many company emails is not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. 2 weeks ago:
The best is when you send an email and they reply in a chat or don’t reply all. Makes my spidey sense tingle
- Comment on The purpose of many company emails is not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. 2 weeks ago:
I always send meeting minutes so I can remember what we talked about and to prove that expectations were clearly communicated or an email to prove that I communicated that there’s a serious issue and forces someone to acknowledge it.
- Comment on Remember when car controls weren't complicated 2 weeks ago:
True and I’ve thought about it, but it’s nice when these things are built into the design of the vehicle and isn’t just tacked on. It gives a since that it’s meant to be there.
- Comment on Remember when car controls weren't complicated 2 weeks ago:
I put an android auto radio in my 17yo truck and a 1500w inverter, only things I wish I had was heated seats, heated steering and 4x4.
I would love to get a new truck with these features but I’m concerned that getting those few things would mean having to deal with all of the bullshit of modern cars. Plus spending twice as much that essential just moves me from point A to point B.
- Comment on Anti-Woke means asleep. A pictorial example inside. 2 weeks ago:
Sleepy Don
- Comment on He should abstine 2 weeks ago:
Sleepy Don
- Comment on Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been thinking of canceling PS+ anyway. I’ve had it since PS3, but I don’t play on PS5 much anymore and the only reason I’ve kept it is my son occasionally plays the PS5.
Sony just gave me a good reason to cancel.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 weeks ago:
That actually sounds disgusting, also something you mind find in 4th grade lunch dare
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 weeks ago:
But if I take you novel as inspiration and created a new novel then I’m not eating your novel
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 3 weeks ago:
Thanks Klara, I 100% believe anything posted on the Internet
- Comment on Home renovations 3 weeks ago:
Sure, if you want the battery to short out and start a fire.
Cut the tips off then drill out the screws so they break off the next time they use it
- Comment on There are no accidents 3 weeks ago:
Indeed my good person, now that we have proven that fart accidents are real, let’s go back to farting and blaming it in the dog
- Comment on There are no accidents 3 weeks ago:
Interesting theory, except that if you can fart on command then you probably won’t have to worry about accidentally farting.
- Comment on There are no accidents 3 weeks ago:
I’m confused. Do you mean that you’ve never accidentally farted or are you saying that we should all try to intentionally intensify our farts and own it?
- Comment on McDonald Meme Monday. Even though it's Thursday. 3 weeks ago:
Should I risk it?
- Comment on Moving it around made it skip 3 weeks ago:
120sec anti skip
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Cycle? This isn’t even 10 years ago, this is the same generation. I think you just proved that it’s a spiral downward
- Comment on Lulz 3 weeks ago:
Apparently Trump watched Bad Bunny instead of Kid Rock
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 4 weeks ago:
So your argument is that you can’t have a utopia if you can inherit your parents belongings?
I would also argue that the accumulation of goods and hoarding resources would not be tolerated. So if you’re rich before the fall you’re probably not now. But my assumption is that if you can justify owning lots of land by something other than greed then you probably won’t keep/get it.
Yes land would be a finite resource and would be closely regulated.
Star Trek is a dream that will never come true because it assumes that all humans would be rational and reasonable. That’s just inconceivable.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 4 weeks ago:
Do people fantasize about that? I would think that the writers and show runners should get the flak for DISC, that was a terrible redemption story, “The only why to stop this war, is more war”, like wtf were they thinking?
List of captain’s major misdeeds from the top of my head-
Sisko was accomplice to murder and many war crimes by his crew. Didn’t go to jail and actually became a god.
Can’t think of any serious crimes Picard committed and got away with. There were a couple times he disobeyed orders but it was usually to save or protect someone or something, and that was few and far between.
Janeway broke the prime directive every Tuesday, except when she was stopping someone else from breaking it.
Kirk broke the temporal prime directive and the regular prime directive, routinely disobeyed orders, stole the enterprise, and wasn’t afraid to step into some morally gray areas. He got positive results, so he got demoted and promoted and demoted and got promoted to desk duty.
Pike hasn’t really stepped out of line except when he help DISC escape the rogue AI thing and breaking the temporal prime directive.
Archer was stubbling into trouble by mistake and there weren’t really any rules for him to break but I can’t think of any major crimes.
Freeman wasn’t really onscreen much but she doesn’t seem to be the start a mutiny, shoot first and start an galaxy wide war type.
Worf would never dishonor federation or his family.
Riker wasn’t on screen much but he does seem like he would get into some trouble, although when he was #1 he doesn’t seem like the mutiny and start wars type either.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 4 weeks ago:
DISC did a lot of bad things to Trek just for shock value. But in a utopia there still has to be rules, Burnham committed probably the worst crime in the Trek universe, she disobeyed a direct order, started a mutiny and opened fire on an alien ship, which started a war killing millions. The only reason she got out of prison was because her boyfriend from an evil universe broke her out of prison under false pretenses hoping that since she started a war in this universe that she was just as evil as her counterpart. How messed up is that? Then her redeeming moment is she seized command of the ship and starts a civil war and threatens to blow up another species home world to end the war she started. That’s some cowboy shit right there. All because he has unresolved child hood trauma. She deserved to got to federation vacation colony for life.
Kelvinverse would have been great as a big budget sci-fi franchise if it wasn’t set in the Trek universe. You can pretty much ignore Kelvinverse movies and pretend that it was just a fun experiment.
SFA and SNW are just trying to undo the mistakes of DISC.
PIC got a lot of things wrong but shared trauma from an unprovoked attack by the Romulans hacking Androids and forcing them to attack people would trigger mass panic and fear that it could happen again, I don’t think that’s far fetched.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 4 weeks ago:
A utopia will never exist because a utopia implies that everyone and everything is perfect, but this will never happen because human instinct and diversity won’t allow it. In Star Trek this utopia was started after WW3 followed by massive genocide followed by people just trying to survive. So there was a hard reset for humanity.
For Picard’s vineyard, it’s a family legacy and heirloom, so he gets a pass. But if you want your own vineyard and there’s enough land then you get one.
Here’s where Star Trek kind of falls apart, someone has to mine the raw resources that can’t be replicated or do menial tasks that no one would want to do even 200 years from now. How does that work? If the work you do still equates to social ranking and resource allocation then does the steel worker also get prime real estate next to the president of the federation?
I love Star Trek but it’s just a dream that will never exist, the idea of Star Trek could never exist just based on the simple fact of the fans can’t even agree on what it is. To me it’s Sci-fi adventures in a world where people can be open about who they are but also none threatened or threatening about it, where everyone works together to accomplish a goal, where doing what you love is payment enough.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 4 weeks ago:
It’s definitely easy to poke holes in the logic and suspend disbelief for so long. At the end of the day it’s an idea that if all basic human needs are taken care of then what would we do?
The replicator is also the trash collector and dish washer. When you’re done with your food you just put the left overs back into the replicator and when you “relieve yourself” it goes back into the replicator. Want new furniture? Replicator. Want new clothes? Replicator. So on so forth.
The only thing that is in short supply is energy, so there have been occasional mention of energy rations or credits that can be traded for services. There are still some resource limitations and you have to work or be productive and contributing member of society to gain access. But if you wish to sit around until you get bed sores then you can do that, you will probably be ignored and be an outsider and get visits from healthcare workers.
- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 4 weeks ago:
I will repair something if it’s swapping out a part and considering if what I’m repairing is overall worth repairing. Something’s just aren’t worth disassembling and attempting to fix and now lots of things are built in ways that cause them to break even further if you tried to disassemble it. A lot of things are glued together or have fragile clips that break.
Being handy isn’t hard, you just have to try and then go buy a new one if you can’t fix it. The worst parts are getting the tools, buying is fun but expensive, and then if people find out that you can fix it then they will start asking for favors.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 4 weeks ago:
Wait which bridge?
Like DS9 where everyone is all over place and shouting to be heard? Like NX01 and TOS where everyone is facing away from each other and have to spin around to make eye contact because the cap likes to look at the backs of people’s heads? Like DISC where everyone is spread so far apart (like they have cooties) and away from the captain that she can’t even remember who’s on duty and everyone but the helms women and the cap have to stand the whole time? Like VOY and TNG where everyone has assigned seats and can actually see the TV (view screen)?