jballs
@jballs@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 2 days ago:
Solar can’t be owned by people and not be completely controlled by a huge company.
Think you accidentally added an extra 't
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 2 days ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Day 611 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
Single player it’s fun too. I can’t help but feel it doesn’t have a lot of replay ability to me personally once i get out of the early game. By summer it just becomes the standard checklist for me.
This is crazy talk. There’s always so much to add and improve!
- Comment on It's a classic 4 days ago:
Yeah that’s wild. This dude scarred a generation.
- Comment on The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic (my article!) 4 days ago:
My neighbor was a shithead. There were lots of places where masks were mandatory, so she got herself a “protest mask” which was a decorative mask - almost like a thin chainmail - that didn’t actually do anything. Stupid people are assholes.
- Comment on I made a replacement for my broken fridge handle 5 days ago:
Yeah I got my first printer something like 5 years ago and it was much more tinkering than the average person would probably want to put up with.
I bought a more modern printer recently and it’s a night and day difference. For the most part, you can just tell it to print something with substantially less manual intervention.
- Comment on I made a replacement for my broken fridge handle 5 days ago:
Nice! I’ve got not metal or woodworking skills, but I do have a 3d printer. I’ve been doing these types of repairs lately and it’s just soooo damn satisfying. I replaced some broken pieces of a shoe rack the other day and felt like a god among men.
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 1 week ago:
My Algorithm’s Gone Apeshit
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 1 week ago:
Mama says that MAGAts are are ornery because they got all them medical issues and no health care.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 1 week ago:
Candace Owens isn’t a politician. She’s a useful idiot that says controversial stuff and makes conservatives feel good about themselves because surely if a black lady says stuff they agree with, then that’s almost the same as having black friends and therefore they can’t be racist.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 week ago:
I had to put a jumper on the motherboard to do a hard BIOS reset on my son’s PC, and format the hard drive and do a fresh OS install. There are reddit threads and YouTube videos of people doing the same. I consider that bricked, but I suppose your definition could be more extreme.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 week ago:
Battlefield 6 was the best-selling game in the U.S. in 2025.
Wow that’s surprising to me considering how it required Secure Boot enabled, which bricked a lot of people’s PCs. I installed the beta for my son and thought “there’s no fucking way the average gamer is going to be able to do this.”
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 1 week ago:
Nice article. I had no idea GoldenEye was rereleased a few years ago! I’ll have to check it out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My name is jballs and it’s been 0 days since I’ve gone down.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 2 weeks ago:
Damn that’s a wild ass story. I just finished reading Michael Connelly’s The Proving Ground which touches on the topic of liability when it AI encourages crimes. I thought the story was a theoretical scenario that could maybe happen in the future. Didn’t realize this shit was already happening - and even more fantastical that the scenario in fiction!
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 2 weeks ago:
As a registered Republican woman from Texas with five children and two dogs, let me just say that I am astonished!
- Comment on Stardew Valley 10-year Anniversary Video 2 weeks ago:
Dammit… Now I’m gonna have to play Stardew Valley again for the next few months.
- Comment on Trending 3 weeks ago:
Did she get fired too?
- Comment on Now that the DOW is below 50,000, are we allowed to care again? 3 weeks ago:
Aw man, Scam Blondie’s song didn’t age very well.
- Comment on Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting 3 weeks ago:
“pepper spray was deployed”, you know that just sort of happens sometimes. Gotta keep an eye on that stuff or it will just go deploying itself all over students 'faces.
- Comment on Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting 3 weeks ago:
I know you’re joking, but I just wanted to point out one of my pet peeves and why your statement would never be released. In all these cases of police harming civilians, the writer (whether it be journalists or the school in this case) always switch to a passive voice.
They never say “we injured them” or even “police deployed chemical weapons.” It’s always the passive voice “pepper spray was deployed.” As if the pepper spray just up and decided to deploy itself, that crazy silly stuff!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Dude was out here trying to throw shade at the US only to admit he prefers to eat a slightly rinsed asshole.
- Comment on Womp womp womp. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it is. I saw that movie for my 12th birthday and it still holds a special place in my heart.
- Comment on 💀🌈🙏🌈💀 4 weeks ago:
That actually kinda makes sense though. He was saying he didn’t want a relationship, just the sex part. I’m sure Charlie Sheen would have no problem finding people to have sex with that didn’t require payment, they would just expect a relationship as part of it.
As opposed to other dude, who just was gay and was trying to sound like he wasn’t gay.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Seems like the article mentioned Steam numbers, which is probably a bit off considering most people are probably still using Battlenet.
- Comment on Must be nice 4 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine that would be comfy. That’s a lot of weight on the ol’ bean bag.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 4 weeks ago:
That guy was super well spoken and had a good message. I’m surprised I hadn’t heard of him before. Always nice to see the Streisand Effect in action!
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 4 weeks ago:
“It’s important to differentiate between clinical addiction and problematic use,” he added.
“I’m sure I’ve said that I’ve been addicted to a Netflix show when I binged it really late one night, but I don’t think it’s the same thing as clinical addiction.”
Yeah, I dunno what article that dude read. Or didn’t read, apparently.
- Comment on Reddit chess 4 weeks ago:
No that’s not Murphy’s… oh you sly son of a bitch. Almost got me!
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 4 weeks ago:
Shawarma is the closest I’ve found, but it’s not quite the same. Gyros usually are made with pitas, which isn’t how the kebabs I used to eat were made.