ColeSloth

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ColeSloth,

Apple doesn’t even make a 4k macbook…

ColeSloth,

Damn it. You beat me to posting this. Seen em in concert like 20ish years ago, too. They were fantastic.

ColeSloth,

God I wish they would have all played nice and made just one more album.

ColeSloth,

They play some, still. But not a lot. At least not in the US. They’re playing in Vegas in April this year and that’s it. I remember back the first time I saw them. Think I paid like $20. Good times back then.

At current there is not much shot of an actual tour (Serj doesn’t want to) and there’s just been those two songs in 2020 since 2005. There’s always hopes or hints or speculation of a new album, but really it just doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen.

ColeSloth,

I’m actually shocked at how small an amount of people have t-mobiles. It works fantastic and never drops in my area, which is a whole lot better than the cable net I had. My phones are t-mo so the internet (its a gateway they give you, so modem/wifi in one) is $30 a month with no taxes or bs. Straight $30. I think it’s $50 if you aren’t a t-mo cell customer.

ColeSloth,

Not by much. My average ping on cable was around 30ms with no packet loss. On t-mo 5g it’s usually around 50ms with no packet loss.

Fifty is still a good ping. Even for fps gaming. Stuff doesn’t get dicey until you’ve gone over 80. As further, I’ve had no gaming issues at all with it.

ColeSloth,

Fast wise I’m at around 50 ping with no packet loss and over 400mbps.

Non “speed test” website wise, I will get over 30MB/sec downloads when I’m pulling in a game download from steam, so I know mine at least does over 280mbps in the real world.

I’m sure “location, location, location” on this, and it will vary a lot depending on your area and congestion in that area.

ColeSloth,

I also game online and have no lag or jitter(unless it’s server side and everyone is complaining). Like I said before. I have good ping and zero packet loss. Sounds like you had a bad wifi set up.

ColeSloth,

That’s all the way through the gateway using its wifi, too. I’m sure if I plugged in the ethernet cable and skipped the wifi it would shave off like 10ms.

Can’t beat it for just $30 a month.

ColeSloth,

Safer? It’s like half the monthly price, has a ping/latency of around 50, and speeds over 250 mbps with almost no downtime. It’s just been a good option.

ColeSloth,

I’m on t mobile in a small city. One big enough that I had charter cable internet before I switched to 5g on t mo.

ColeSloth,

I get you for your area, but that’s not the case in my state. Also, t mobile has the largest 5g coverage area nationwide by a large margin. Like, not even close. Area wise Verizon and at&t combined still don’t match it.

ColeSloth,

Like I said, that’s your area(and thats 4g from the att. Not the much faster 5g). Doesn’t change that you can look up coverage data from any source you can find. 5g coverage is completely dominated by t-mobile for nation wide coverage right now.

Now cell coverage for 3/4g and just keeping cell signal; Verizon all day.

ColeSloth,

Did I even mention what stayed I was at in this thread?

ColeSloth,

Then my next question would be why you think a states size has anything to do with getting good 5g coverage and speeds?

ColeSloth,

Why do you possibly think that a states size has anything to do with where they place cell towers? Cities barely even care about what state they sit in. Hell, Kansas city is in two states. Cell towers are just put in populated areas. Not populated states.

ColeSloth,

Fun fact. When I was a kid, the “standard” was 10%. So food prices have shot up faster than inflation, but you’re still tipping 50% more than what the norm was when tipping was already well established.m, even if you ignore the expensive food you’re tipping for.

ColeSloth,

Big time rip-off. Entire album was only like a minute long.

On the plus side, after listening to this garbage, all my other music seemed to sound better than ever. Guess something so bad renewed my appreciation for the good stuff.

ColeSloth,

I’m down voting you for butchering the quote.

ColeSloth,

Above this, I recommend this state of Georgia vs Denver Fenton that is a word for word and sound for sound actual court stenographer transcript reading. Hilarious and insane that this went down in a real court setting. I believe the judge got a bit of a reprimand for it, but was allowed to continue being a judge.

ColeSloth,

You only bring the one lit cigarette in with you, and the shower gun is in a waterproof box attached to the wall. We care for our guns.

ColeSloth,

I play one game at a time until I beat it or decide it isn’t worth playing. I’m currently playing Black Flag for the first time and am about 35 hours into it.

I’m still holding interest, but it’s pretty damned repetitive and full of fetch quests and check boxes.

ColeSloth,

I like the sea stuff more than the land stuff (which is crazy repetitive as well. Go to dock, unlock view points, beat up guys to open the pub, do a couple contract missions, grab the few collection things lying about etc. Like 50 places where you do the exact same thing.) But the ship fighting is fun, even though boarding the enemy ship portion is boring.

At this point I just want to hit the story line, get the last few upgrades to my ship in hopes I can defeat the legendary ships that have been whooping my ass, and I’d like to get all the little rocks collected I need to find out what’s behind the door on the assasins island.

ColeSloth,

The entire game is pretty shallow to me, but the sea stuff to me is still fun. Funnest part.

ColeSloth, (edited )

Thanks for ruining what’s behind the door, dumbass.

*apparently that’s not what’s behind the hidden door. He was talking about the armor shown earlier in the game.

ColeSloth,

Oh. That armor. Ok, I rescind my “dumbass” remark.

ColeSloth,

Break a leg? Get sick? Get old? Breathing still has you covered.

After Abortion Ban, Texas Teen Birth Rate Rises (www.texasobserver.org)

A 15-year decline in Texas teen birth rates slid to a stop—and converted into a modest increase in 2022, the year after the state Legislature implemented what was the nation’s strongest ban on abortion, according to new report from the University of Houston’s Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality.

ColeSloth,

While it is obvious that it would happen, the demographics skew things a bit, since by far the increase was among Hispanic women, while white and black women still showed a decline. I say skewed because Texas has the 2nd or third highest per capita population of Hispanics, so to get a more accurate data point, you would want to know how the teen birth rate of hispanic women from other states was instead of the total of any race.

While it’s a certainty that Texas laws have caused more unwanted teen births, it would be nice to have more accurate data points.

ColeSloth,

Sounds more like being fucked with for lulz. Like walking around drinking blue Gatorade out of a windex bottle.

Where's Our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Review? (IGN denied review code) (www.ign.com)

In a bad-vibes moment, they’re denying a huge outlet like IGN a review code. No matter what I think of IGN in particular (nothing good tbh), that’s not something I can find a real explanation for other than “We made DC’s Gollum and want to avoid bad press as long as we can”.

ColeSloth, (edited )

So they could be in a game world with like 50 other people?

*turns out it’s just a 1 to 4 person game.

ColeSloth,

But what if I like cold roasted chicken?

ColeSloth,

Well he’ll yeah I do. But… I also kinda like not getting food poisoning, so there’s that.

ColeSloth,

That’s because it’s the wrong avatar. We need a sweet ATLA game.

ColeSloth,

Yeah, but screw the corner spots. I always click all four corners and like three other random spots before I get into a game.

ColeSloth,

Yep. I’m glad I quit playing LoL a long time ago, when it stopped being fun and everything got typecast to very specific roles. I used to be able to do great in any position there was as teemo. Fun times.

ColeSloth,

I’d pick I up if there was an actual storyline/something that needs to be accomplished and not just an open sandbox where the point is to just build and upgrade.

ColeSloth,

Yeah. It’s so crazy what ends up going viral sometimes. Over 5 million in a weekend for an early access from a no name company (essentially) is just nuts. Who knew a pokemon rip off with guns was going to cause such a big haul.

ColeSloth,

Now also make it illegal to sell physical copies of games that need day 0 patches/downloads to make them work.

I still kick on my original nes every now and then. 20 years from now when you dig out your old copy of borderlands 3 and there’s no longer a download available, you think you’ll get to play through the game?

ColeSloth,

Or even worse, the disk doesn’t even have the damned game on it to begin with. It just sets up to start the game download.

ColeSloth,

They aren’t extremely rare at all, bro.

ColeSloth,

Thirty years ago my grandmother was carrying my 1987 nes down some stairs and her sock caught on a nail. She fell down the stairs, broke her hip, two fingers, a toe, shattered her left arm in 9 places around the elbow, suffered a concussion, and was in icu for two weeks, plus a trip later 500 miles north to the Mayo Clinic to get an extensive nuts bolts and plates surgery to save her arm from being amputated.

The NES survived unbroken and still works to this day. Tecmo Super Bowl is still the best football game.

ColeSloth,

Really? That game was awesome and looked fantastic for its time. It was kinda hard, but not like The Lion King hard.

ColeSloth,

Yes indeed. Grandma isn’t doing the best anymore, unfortunately, but she’s 92 now and still going.

ColeSloth,

Not until proven guilty. Don’t you remember the US legal motto? No, not the one about different sets of rules for rich people. The one about innocent until proven guilty.

ColeSloth,

I got a steam deck for this. It’s helped a lot.

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