SuiXi3D
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- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 2 months ago:
It’s your word that their word is to be trusted, or even exists at all. No better than ‘Hey, I know a guy!’
I’m just saying that all of the evidence, or lack thereof, that I’ve ever seen doesn’t amount to a plane crashing into the building.
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 2 months ago:
Your word vs a mountain of video evidence that all disappeared. Sure.
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 2 months ago:
It certainly wasn’t a plane that hit the Pentagon.
- Comment on Americans rack up $19 billion in credit card debt in one month 3 months ago:
Not this guy! Been (slowly) paying mine down.
- Comment on How does a SO feel different from a very good friend? 3 months ago:
My wife is different than my friends because we literally live together. All decisions are made with the both of us in mind. As a result, we know each other better than just about anyone else, and that level of emotional intimacy is tough to find anywhere else. Don’t get me wrong, I have a few very good friends as well, but I don’t talk about the same things with them as I do my wife.
Having an honest to God companion to share the ups and downs in life is amazing. The ups are sublime, the downs help us both be more introspective and end up bettering ourselves.
- Comment on What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue? 4 months ago:
Language is fun like that. Kinda like how ‘literally’ can, and often does, mean ‘figuratively’, which has the opposite meaning.
- Comment on 1.1 History 5 months ago:
Right, but how quickly? And does that rate change in different places? If so, what causes it to change?
- Comment on "I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel" — US cost of living has skyrocketed since 2020 5 months ago:
Inflation has gone down. Doesn’t mean the prices have. In fact they specifically keep going up, because it seems that literally every business has decided the only thing that matters is how much their CEO is worth.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 5 months ago:
What, are you just gonna not have insurance? Something could go wrong! You don’t wanna go bankrupt because of a health problem, do you? Also, we can’t guarantee you won’t still go bankrupt with our insurance, but you won’t have to pay for basic drugs! Maybe…
- Comment on Why is that on the internet, people assume you're a male from America, but if you're a vegan on the internet, people assume you're female? 6 months ago:
Then who was phone?!
- Comment on linguistics 6 months ago:
Probably because they understand that all language is made up and they all change constantly. There’s no hard and fast rules.
- Comment on Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide 6 months ago:
Hey, some people learn from their mistakes. Hell, my first PC build (23 years ago…) was DOA because I had inadvertently bent a pin on the CPU, and it got smashed when I tightened down the cooler. That was an expensive mistake, but one I certainly learned from.
- Comment on Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide 6 months ago:
And people repairing their own stuff is always a good idea. People learning how to maintain their electronics is never a bad thing! Everyone should pick up a soldering iron at some point. :)
- Comment on Read Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo welcoming Activision Blizzard employees to Microsoft 7 months ago:
Or Disney will buy EA. And then Amazon will buy some other company. And then Tencent will buy everyone else. All hail our Chinese corpo overlords. @_
- Comment on For Puma sightings you’ll have to go straight to their site now as Roosterteeth moved Red vs Blue off YouTube citing decreasing ad revenue. 7 months ago:
And, as far as I’ve always known, those apps are awful. I haven’t checked in awhile though.
- Comment on For Puma sightings you’ll have to go straight to their site now as Roosterteeth moved Red vs Blue off YouTube citing decreasing ad revenue. 7 months ago:
So, rather than having some revenue coming in from YouTube, they’d rather force everyone to use their own website? Do they not understand that not everyone watches YouTube on a computer? Some exclusively use the YouTube app on their phones, TVs, or game consoles.
I dunno. It’s not as if it costs them anything to host the videos on YouTube. Seems odd to completely cut off a revenue source like that.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 7 months ago:
Or folks like myself that refuse to get a TPM just to run a worse OS. I’m fine with Windows 10.
- Comment on [Survey] Can you tell which images are AI generated? 7 months ago:
16/20. I would imagine I err’d on the side of assuming art was AI made rather than human made. AI generated photos are too ‘smooth’ looking.
- Comment on Cyberpunk patch 2.01 now available 7 months ago:
…the link literally goes to CDPR’s website. Or would you rather they not post patch notes?
- Comment on Cyberpunk patch 2.01 now available 7 months ago:
The game has a graphics preset for Steam Deck now, but I wouldn’t take that to mean much.
- Comment on Gone too soon 7 months ago:
If time is relative that means there’s no such thing as too soon.
- Comment on The US electrical grid is in desperate need of upgrades, watchdog warns 7 months ago:
Stick a windmill up there, that aughta do it!
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 7 months ago:
…role playing games - y’know, the ones where you play a character and a story happens around them - are older than video games and, in fact, are some of the oldest video games. Saying story doesn’t belong in games is a disservice to the medium of games, both video and tabletop.
- Comment on Chevy Chase Bashes ‘Community’: “The Show Wasn’t Funny Enough” 7 months ago:
And indeed, was funnier when he left.
- Comment on Drug mimics exercise in mice, raises metabolism, increases endurance, burns fat 7 months ago:
Well, waste energy is expelled as heat so… I bet they heat up. Kinda like how if you take a stimulant that raises your heart rate but you aren’t doing anything at the same time, you tend to feel warmer.
- Comment on I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal 7 months ago:
It’s weird - when I played at launch, I had precisely one bug that impacted my gameplay. Other than that, the game ran pretty smooth and was a joy to play.
Now mind you, I was playing on a PC with a Xeon, 64GB of RAM, and an RTX 2080ti. Nothing ram badly on that system three years ago. Nowadays the older CPU, slower RAM and admittedly older GPU without all the newest bells and whistles (DLSS Framegen I’m looking at you) can’t quite measure up to the latest titles.
Cyberpunk, at launch, was great. For me. Specifically for me. I loved it and still do. But this article hits a point for me that I’ve been struggling to find reason to write about without feeling like I’m ignoring people who primarily play on consoles or can’t afford a nice PC. Regardless…
Man it fuckin’ sucks how you can spend a huge amount of money on a new GPU and then four months later a new one comes out that blows it out of the water. New hardware is so much better and - because all the game devs are using that hardware to design their games both on and for - systems like mine that are still fairly new can’t run the latest games at high settings anymore.
It used to be that if you ponied up the money for a high-end rig, you could expect decent performance for years to come. But I guess blowing a grand on a GPU these days just means you’ll be doing it again in a year or something, instead of the decade or so before.
I’m not saying my PC is bad. Most of what I play runs excellently. But when I spend a grand on just a GPU I expect that GPU to run the newest games at high settings for a long time. Jedi Survivor, Starfield, both run like crap on my system. Never mind the 2TB NVMe drive everything’s installed on.
But I’m just bitching to bitch. Ignore me.
- Comment on Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead 7 months ago:
Both of those ingredients are cheap, and Xantham Gum in particular is used in gluten free baking recipes a lot.
- Comment on The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died 7 months ago:
They did!
- Comment on Microsoft's next-generation Xbox pitched as a "cloud hybrid" console 7 months ago:
Guess how I’ve been playing Starfield on my Xbox One? I’ll give you a hint, it starts with a C and ends with Loud.
- Comment on This is Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a new controller 7 months ago:
Meanwhile I haven’t bought a physical game in like, a decade.