lobut

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lobut,

lol when I went vegan I used a lot of meat substitutes to get me over it. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good though!

lobut,

I hate the Steam Deck! /s

I mean, I’m half joking but I used to sleep in bed and now I waste like 2-3 hours on Balatro instead of falling asleep at an appropriate hour.

lobut,

I love the 24 hour clock and living in London, UK I used it all the time. However, I remember one time I bought movie tickets at lunch for 17:30 and my brain thought it was for 7:30pm and I called my friend at the last moment saying: “you have to leave work early if we’re gonna make it!”

lobut,

Just like how the Supreme Court justices wouldn’t take away Roe V Wade …

lobut,

I just bought it based on this alone. Early-access and FPS games aren’t typically my thing, but I like the cut of this person’s jib.

lobut,

I feel like an idiot. I read “bear” and tilted my phone and squinted and all that. Time to go sleep.

lobut,

Carbonara

lobut,

Yup. I’ve just been purchasing games without the Verified tag now because I’ll just be like: “yeah that seems like it’d work and it typically does”.

I made the mistake of installing Stardew Valley on it for 1.6. Oof, I’m playing it everywhere. Very bad when you can’t handle your addictions well.

lobut, (edited )

Don’t be embarrassed that you thought better of someone. That’s their failure, not yours.

lobut, (edited )

Yeah, I think the only take away is that they’re not Trump sycophants like Aileen Cannon.

It’s not quite the needed win, but it’s still something :/

lobut,

Yup, I didn’t buy the Steam Deck to do 4K ray tracing at 120FPS. I bought it so I can pick up any Steam Deck Verified game and play it without relative issue. Being able to suspend the game immediately and just knowing things work beats fiddling with Windows on a handheld.

lobut,

How much of that is the NHS getting now? /s

Devout Christian Mike Johnson shows up to hush money trial to defend a guy accused of cheating on his wife with a porn star (www.vanityfair.com)

House Speaker Mike Johnson describes himself as a Christian before anything else. He has said his “faith informs everything I do.” He has told people curious about his views to “pick up a Bible.” His wife reportedly runs a counseling service whose operating agreement, which he himself notarized, states, “We believe and...

lobut,

I was gonna say this was on par for the modern Christianity as we know it. I don’t think death threats are very Christian either but it seems that’s been par for the course now.

lobut,

Urgh, it makes me wonder why people do videos like this and think that Poilievre is going to be able to “fix” all this.

Then again, yeah, if it’s propaganda it’s just about sowing doubt.

lobut,

It’s weird because most hate it. I remember when Michael Moore’s movie came out and even those in red states were gathering together to say that if we let this go on then we’re complicit!

Then I think I remember Fox News and the right-wing going on a blitz. “Death Panels” and shit

youtu.be/JPa19PgTxZc?si=_M9f1k4noEEr0XJN

Look at this disinformation campaign. This is what pisses me off about this “both sides” bullshit. Also, whenever any comedian jerks themselves off about speaking the truth and being philosophers going off on woke when they shut their mouths about shit like this.

lobut,

I think making the rich mingle with the normal people more would be beneficial. It’s harder to dehumanize the poor when you’ve met them. Can’t call them lazy or stupid and just not “wanting” it enough when you see them work as hard as you and not getting as far.

Although, I think the way things are it’ll never happen though. Nepo babies would dodge everything even if something like this were to occur.

lobut,

You’re absolutely right. I was trying to get what I hoped was the salient point out of the person’s post.

I knew a few guys in Europe I think maybe Austrian or something where they came from lots of money but went to school with “others” and they seemed pretty well-adjusted. Although, they have a lot of the other advantages that you’ve listed as well.

lobut, (edited )

Weren’t Republicans crying about HIPAA (fixed spelling, thanks!) and shit earlier when asked if they got vaccinations? You guys actually care about sensitive patient health data or what’s up?

lobut,

Bullshit. I’ve seen Pulp Fiction and I’ve never noticed that.

lobut,

I didn’t think that was an “agreed upon” thing. I thought that’s what the big deal with Shamima Begum was. Seems like a nightmare.

lobut,

Wow that was a great informative post! I didn’t realize there were so many stateless people.

lobut,

I don’t see myself as too much of a loner or anything but I had a friend call me out of the blue during lunch and I just kept thinking.

Why oh why are you not texting me?

I’m horrible.

lobut,

The accounts are so important that you’re willing to lose sales in that many countries?!

lobut,

First time watching Lemmino and I’m an instant subscriber now, it was a great video. Not gonna lie the bait at the end was really enticing and I hope that this does get solved soon!

lobut,

Off to get Acaster’s next partner.

lobut,

I was upset because I bought my Oculus headset before Facebook acquired it and then forced me to have a log in of theirs.

I decided not to have a Facebook account for a reason. Mainly because I don’t trust the company with my data. As enticing it is to have a VR headset and I would love to for their price … … I just don’t want to give Meta any more of my cash.

What’s happening in VR now is that Meta is licensing their Horizon OS so maybe other manufacturers can make their own headsets with Meta’s OS on top. That introduces another problem because I don’t trust that their OS isn’t spying on me either …

lobut, (edited )

I think it helps not just in sales but also in terms of player count. I think just having it swarmed with the number of HellDivers makes it more alive too and gets other people more into it.

I’ve also purchased this game like three times. I bought it on PS5 so I could give it to my brother to play. Bought it for myself and for a friend of mine.

lobut,

I thought I remember them selling off big properties a few years ago and wanting to go crazy with NFTs. Selling off Tomb Raider, Deus Ex and stuff.

You can tell with those decisions it’s really about management. There was also all sorts of drama with FF15 behind the scenes.

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I really didn’t like FF7 Remake and I really wanted to like it. I’m a fan of the original and I liked the FF15 game despite it feeling a bit rushed and unfinished at the end and even with the battle system.

I think you do have a point about the action battle system. There’s something about it that just feels imprecise and unsatisfying compared to games in the new category it’s in (although I enjoyed FF15, so you can’t trust me)

What really bugged me is the cinematics/voice acting and story. I just finished GoW4 and Ragnarok back-to-back. I’m not expecting every game to be like GoW, but the cutscenes and stuff in FF felt so corny and cheesy after playing a game like GoW.

Also, they seem to milk Sephiroth to death. If this was a three part series, I didn’t expect to battle him once in the first game and let alone see him as much as I did (I thought the mystery of Sephiroth would have been a teaser for later games). Also, no idea what’s going on with the death clouds.

The game itself looks gorgeous though. I felt if I sent screenshots of the this game to myself as a kid, I’d have my mind blown.

lobut,

You still in love with Trump, eh?

lobut, (edited )

That’s rather infuriating. I thought I heard stories about this and how certain food banks had to restrict students because the abuse was so high. Apparently it’s a “tip” that’s been passed around to international students.

lobut, (edited )

Nope. My message doesn’t indicate that it is an ongoing issue. Not sure why you’re asking me for proof either.

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A former manager described Musk as a “pigeon CEO”: “He comes in, shits all over us, and then leaves.”

https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-tesla-manager/

@fuck_cars

lobut,

What a brave man! Let’s give him 52 billion dollars then.

lobut,

My ex had a massive crush on the Rock. So we’d go see every movie. I was happy that she was so excited and it was a great time. Like you said, I’m not watching a Nolan or Scorsese movie and my expectations were pretty much met. I honestly couldn’t tell you the plotline to Rampage or the Skyscraper neither.

lobut,

Morning beer? Everything alright?

lobut,

I’m on your side. Mainly because I was also really hoping for some sort of revival of Heroes of the Storm :P. Seriously, Blizzard is not the same company I thought I loved growing up.

However, I did watch someone on YouTube that talked about working Gears of War and execs of MS were less than helpful.

I think it’s Laura Fryer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=69gs773bZRI

It has been many years ago though. Blzzard and Activision definitely could use a change of leadership in my opinion.

lobut, (edited )

Here’s just an apropos of that, but one of the earlier companies I worked at in Canada was a Software Consultancy, like over 15 years ago.

Companies would and did reach out for things like a competition to enter and we’d have to code it up. The typical way it “used” to work was the big shots get a lot of money and they get a bunch of fresh out of UofT or UW grads to work hard to get it done.

Well, guess what, they screwed the pooch on this competition. For some reason, they rejected or didn’t collect ANY of the email submissions that were valid. So they couldn’t even pick a valid email to declare the winner. The company was furious and said, this isn’t our problem and we’re not going to manufacture a winner. So what my/that company did was it did log errors for invalid emails. They basically chose a winner from people that wrote invalid email addresses. I can’t remember but it was something like person@example.co.m. Why did they not do client-side and just relied on server-side? I don’t know. I wasn’t directly on the project. Anyways, they gave the prize to someone that did a typo.

lobut,

There’s going to be two Batmans?

lobut,

Outer Limits did it too: www.imdb.com/title/tt0667983/

The Sentence. It stars Niles from Frasier (David Hyde Pierce)

lobut,

“most evil company in the gaming industry”

EA backs away slowly

Btw, we all love Valve and the Steam Deck but Valve ain’t clean either.

lobut, (edited )

I’m all seriousness everyone, take many breaks and there’s lots of wrist and hand stretches online.

Also, a vertical mouse have helped my carpal tunnel. If you don’t know what that is, use the Magic Mouse for a little while and it’ll kick in.

lobut,

I’ve spent a small fortune on split keyboards now, it never came to mind for some reason. Definitely helped too.

lobut,

They did it on CNN. I remember some Republican prick saying, “you know why we’re not racist? Obama.”

It just so happened that the racists got outvoted. Their party really seized upon being racists though.

lobut,

People retiring? Remote work?

It’s really sad that it’s ripping up communities in small towns though. Housing is just ridiculous.

lobut,

Not sure why, would have been a pretty cool addition to the universe.

I can imagine nowadays people saying it’s “too woke” though.

lobut,

I mean unwavering heterosexuality is pretty sweet.

But I mean, twenty bucks is twenty bucks.

lobut,

If you poor people could just do more and survive on less but still somehow spend just as much, then the employers would be fine. /s

lobut,

I say this a lot, but I’ll do it again. We should always speak good of the dead.

Joe Lieberman is dead. Good.

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