skulblaka
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- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 16 hours ago:
That already happened and they already C&D’d it according to someone else in this thread
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 2 days ago:
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 1 week ago:
Sting Shard trap also works great, I just threw one of those at every minion spawn and then they die in one Needle hit after. If you stack poison on it then you probably don’t even need the follow up hit but I don’t remember if you can have the Pollip Pouch before this fight or not.
Sting Shard is great in general though. Does 2x Needle damage in a trap you can place in midair, can be poisoned with Pollip Pouch for even more extended DPS, is AoE-capable and can hit multiple enemies, and is cheap enough to refill at 7 shell shards. It’s been my primary red tool so far all game, though I just got to Act 2 recently and I’m hoping to find something better here.
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 1 week ago:
Go west and south when you find the rain
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 1 week ago:
Last Judge was the only boss so far that almost completely filtered me from the game and I think the reason why was because of how very little warning you get before the big spin. I think like an extra quarter of a second on that startup animation would go a huge way toward making her way less annoying. Took me two days to complete the fight because I kept getting so tilted by getting hit with the spin.
The runback wasn’t difficult at all but it was very annoying. You can avoid all enemies on the route except for a single drill fly, but it takes a whole 30 seconds or more to make the run back to the boss fight. Don’t fuck up your platforming though, the sand worms do two damage, so missing a landing means you’re stuck spending the first 10 seconds of the fight trying to Bind with your cocoon silk if you want to survive more than one single hit (two, if you found all the act 1 mask shards).
To be honest I ended up finally defeating Judge by strapping on the Pollip Pouch and sticking her full of poison straight pins. I regret nothing and I do not consider this to be dishonorable.
- Comment on A little memorial at the local dump 1 week ago:
Go set up a trail cam out there before the event
- Comment on I wish there was a system to verify that a webpage was written by an actual human before showing me it 1 week ago:
Half of Microsoft’s documentation is just fanfiction anyway
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 week ago:
Come to my house and I’ll play you some of my CDs
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
If you could sell this for $500 or less you have yourself a customer
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
That’s basically unenforceable unfortunately. Search engines are basically made to be gamed by the way they function. SEO up to a certain point is what makes your website actually findable, it has just gotten out of hand.
- Comment on Thanks satan 1 week ago:
It’s provocative, it gets the people going
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 weeks ago:
This is good advice.
I didn’t figure 90PSI to be all that dangerous, we use a cheetah tank at my job sometimes for seating tires and that fires at 120PSI, but it’s through a much larger orifice - so it wouldn’t be as loud as through the valve stem. Losing the valve core is also a real possibility.
I, a professional dumbass and mechanic, would probably pull the cores at any pressure up to but definitely not exceeding 100, and may very well regret my decision to do so. Any normal people who value their safety and don’t deal with tires on a daily basis, and don’t have a stash of a thousand spare valve stems 20 feet away, should exercise more caution.
Thanks for calling me out on that, I probably don’t respect lowish high pressures as much as I should. I’ll try to keep an eye on that (from behind my safety glasses).
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 weeks ago:
Somebody doesn’t like wearing their PPE and hasn’t lost any eyes or fingers yet about it
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 weeks ago:
If it were up to me to do so, I’d remove the valve core to let the tire vent some pressure. Might still recommend some safety glasses for it though because if you don’t have a good grip on that core it’s going to fire itself out of the valve stem like an air rifle pellet.
If you don’t have a valve core removal tool then you can also just press down on the tip of the valve core with a small screwdriver or something, but you might be risking some damage to the core doing that, and you’re going to be sitting there an awful long time listening to it psssshhhh it’s way back down to 30. Even if you do damage the core it’s nothing that isn’t fixable at a tire shop though.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 weeks ago:
If it blows itself off the car during travel because you hit a pothole the wrong way, it is definitely a dire risk to life and limb. It’s less about the impact of the tire itself at that point and more about the fact that you’re basically guaranteed to suddenly swerve off the road.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 weeks ago:
For the non car-folks in this thread :
Normal tire pressure is about 30-40 PSI and a bad rupture can kill you or break your bones even at that pressure if you’re standing next to the tire.
This person has just installed four bombs on their vehicle that will go off at the slightest inconvenience. A 90 PSI car tire is an imminent risk of death to the driver and everyone around them. Do not let your friends or family do this.
- Comment on Metal genres 2 weeks ago:
Where do Powerwolf fans land on this list? Because I am one but I have genuinely no idea if that gives me cred or if that makes me the FNG.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 2 weeks ago:
I am firmly convinced that we will continue to receive sporadic Terraria updates until Red literally dies
- Comment on irl shiny 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 weeks ago:
Sure, and I’ve also had my share of cursing at poor documentation.
If that’s the case then your AI is also going to struggle to give you usable information though.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 weeks ago:
In my left hand, I have a manfile, written by the very same people who wrote the tool or language that I’m trying to use. It is concise, contains true information, and won’t change if I look up the same thing again later.
In my right hand, I have a pathological liar, who also kinda sorta read the manfile and then smooshed it together with 20 other manuals.
I wonder which of these options is a more reliable reference tool for me? Hmm. It’s difficult to tell.
- Comment on Bungie CEO Pete Parsons retires: With Destiny 2 sentiment at an all-time low and pressure from Sony growing, Parsons has decided it's time to 'pass the torch' and head for an exit 4 weeks ago:
Yep. I didn’t have a huge issue with them charging for new DLC. If the DLC is good then fine, devs gotta eat.
When they sunset content that I paid for and tell me it’s no longer accessible, that’s when I dropped the game like a hot potato. Should have requested a refund, actually.
- Comment on Bethesda's re-releases and remasters are getting outta control. 4 weeks ago:
I can assure you with absolute certainty that satire has been an established tradition for a very long time before 2008
- Comment on vehicle conditions 4 weeks ago:
Florida (and twelve other states besides, but of course Florida is on this list) straight up just doesn’t have inspections. If you can bolt a license plate to it, it’s legal to drive, road safety be damned.
Georgia somehow does require inspections and yet still allows this trash on the road, which might be worse somehow, I can’t decide.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I fix cars for a living every day.
reliable
Maybe, compared to a BMW or other “luxury” car marketed to rubes. But a Honda or a Toyota would totally eat VW’s lunch in regards to reliability, at half the purchase price.
relatively easy to repair
The VW Beetle is famously easy to repair, basically every modern VW model sucks ass. It needs some proprietary tool to access half the vehicle on more than half the models. I do not like working on them. We also get wonderful examples of German Manufacturing Precision™️ where you have a half a millimeter clearance to remove a part. This was worse in older VW’s in my experience (the Germans really took to AUTOCAD like fish to water when that became common, methinks) but it still happens.
comfortable interiors
Actually totally agree here, the interior of most modern VW’s is pretty nice. Shame that doesn’t extend under the hood.
VW also got caught straight up lying about their emissions testing a few years ago so that also destroyed basically all trust that I had in their brand. They’ll sell you a car that runs, but there’s really no knowing if the numbers that it reports are actually accurate.
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 4 weeks ago:
A complete lack of all moderation, an owner / management team who studiously ignores all the child abuse on their platform because it is profitable to them to ignore it, and a legislative and judicial system that is unwilling to prosecute businesses for anything in general and child abuse in particular.
It’s a perfect microcosm of the American condition, really.
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 5 weeks ago:
When people complain that their parents were able to afford an education and a home off the back of a single part-time income… yeah that isn’t exaggeration. You really could do that in the 70’s-80’s. Now it takes 4 full-time employed unrelated roommates sharing an apartment to make rent every month.
I don’t know if you were present in the “millennials just need to stop eating avocado toast and pull themselves up by their bootstraps” conversations, but all the rampant hate for the Baby Boomers didn’t come from nowhere. This is why it exists. Our parents (and their parents, depending how old you are) had the easiest and most luxurious existence that has ever been possible in American history, ever, and then pulled up the ladder behind them. When faced with the fact that they’ve made the life they lived impossible for following generations, the popular response is to blame the children and call them lazy.
“When I was your age, I walked into a car dealership with a smile and a firm handshake right after high school graduation and that’s all it took to get a job. A year later I owned a home and was married expecting a child. It’s easy, you just don’t want to work.”
No grandpa, because you and your buddies decided the purpose of your life was to extract all possible value out of everything and leave behind a shriveled up husk of a country, not one single independent detail of that story is still possible.
Kids these days don’t even know the future that was stolen away from them by their own parents or grandparents.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 5 weeks ago:
Oil and petrol companies are some of the richest and most politically connected industries in the world. Each person who rides a bike is a person who does not spend money on fueling a car.
I just assume that Exxon/BP/et al have thrown blanket bribes at every politician in every country to be generally against bike lanes for whatever reason they can pull out of their ass, so long as they don’t come right out and say “BP has paid me directly to decry bike lanes”.
- Comment on We shouldn't do this drunk 5 weeks ago:
God damnit
- Comment on We shouldn't do this drunk 1 month ago:
