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Chicken posted...

This isn't about the done-ness of the yolk, they're talking about the crispy layer under the egg when you fry it for too long. Gross.

I want my fried egg to taste fried. if I wanted a poached egg I would just poach an egg.

kirbymuncher posted...

I mean... you have the solution right there, and if you're not using it you only have yourself to blame

I already use several adblockers and have tweaked and optimised them for the best experience on sites I care about, and I still fucking hate that this is even a thing

If some motherfucker is shooting at you for no reason other than to rob you and you're sitting there safe in a bulletproof car, maybe it's still alright for you to conversationally be like "you know, this is kinda shit right?"

DnDer posted...

Explain more about the last part. That feels like it would violate EU laws if they suddenly rescinded whatever consent you granted for something else.

How does that sinister trick get pulled off?

You're saying you don't want that website to track cookies directly, but consider how many other agreements you've already unwittingly accepted by that point, how many ways your privacy is being completely trampled on by every device you own and all the accounts you've signed up to. You're saying I don't want this website to store a cookie so that it remembers what I did on that website specifically, but by all means google can continuously record everything I say and do and my location and curate advertising for me based on this absolutely disgustingly large body of information it's been collecting.

That's an absolute best case scenario, btw. That assumes these websites are engaging in good faith and that the cookie rejection button actually does anything, and clearly many of them don't.

The entire GDPR thing was a total disaster. The net affect it had was make websites more annoying to use.

That's on my list of games that I admire and also never plan to play.

Factorio is also on that list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQD6S6v4TyU

Lukey_Bug posted...

Kinda need more context. Who is this?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mixLXaSDmqo

Instagram/youtube/tiktok influencer who seems to pop up everywhere. I believe he is/was a GP. He's good looking and charming and for the most part his content seems to be about dismissing myths in medicine.

TwoDoorPC posted...

disregarding you're asking for a portable brick that has 2 hours battery life, nintendo have never prioritised matching other consoles hardware specs. they march to the beat of their own drum and it works for them. if you want a portable ps5, then get a ps5 and use remote play.

I mean there's already the steamdeck for one thing. If dorks want a high powered portable device, there you go. That's the answer.

I get severe Andrew Huberman grifter vibes from this guys content, but as a layperson his advice seems pretty grounded and reasonable.

Bangkok street food egg > british chef "perfect" egg

Crispy around the edges, bubbly, yolk still runny

Why do you think it works that way?

The Switch has consistently outperformed every other console on the market for around the last 6 years. They will retire the switch when its dead.

MisterPengy posted...

Ya know it could have worked if it was introduced early and developed. Not just randomly near the end of the series "Oh yeah these two are descended from major, ancient ninja clans that no one has ever mentioned"

I suspect that the writers don't necessarily want to do this but studios/publishers pressure them to keep upping the stakes.

Bleach did the same thing. It wasn't enough that Ichigo had a big spirit power. No he had to be the chosen one with part-everything blood in him by the end.

How could I forget social media? Where to start an end on that one?

Maybe the worst part is how AI has galvanised AI into being mass propaganda machines for sinister foreign powers.

Or how it has given everyone a voice on every issue, and allowed them to shout and drown out the voices that actually have a stake or expertise.

There's really nothing quite like the ego of mediocre successful men.

The sheer confidence it must take to have a 2-second hot take on something as complex as this and really truly believe you are contributing to humanity's knowledge of the problem.

There's this client I have who inherited the company from his daddy and listening to him give his hot takes on how apps should work is a daily ritual in patience.

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Even sailing the seas is more annoying than it used to be. I honestly don't even really know how to be a good sailor anymore.

Look at how objectively worse everything is.

Cable cutting doesn't exist anymore. You used to pay X for cable, now you pay that same X for various streaming services, which requires managing a half dozen different platforms simultaneously. So I guess it's neat that you don't have a $80 cable bill now, you just have 7x$12 bills. The old problem of "never anything on to watch when you want to watch it" is replaced with "the things you actually want to watch are not covered by your subscription"

Everything is monetized and less and less people are just contributing for the community. You're either paying a premium for what you used to get for free or you're being assaulted with eye-watering ads in every bit of visual real estate.

Pointing out the above fact will have dorks on gamefaqs.gamespot.com tell you that you should be using various adblockers, missing the point altogether

Forums are dying and reddit is taking over. do you want to discuss anything, or do you just want a community of clueless morons updooting content that they think is good? Because that's what you're getting.

If you're in the EU, I hope you enjoy getting a pop up to accept or reject cookies on literally every website you click on, only for that consent to be completely ignored later on.

Even porn sites have taken a hit. Is amateur porn even a thing anymore? Everyone is an influencer. All porn content is curated for search engine algorithms.

You want a game guide? I hope you like it split up into separate webpages for every item you want to collect which link to individual youtube videos that you still need to read anyway.

Searching for things on search engines is a mess of ads. You want to find the best gaming monitor? Well here's a bunch of companies that paid google to advertise their monitors, that's what you wanted right?

What the fuck is up with Amazon product names? Why is the actual product name a continuous string of keywords? comfortable chair ergonomic gaming chair back support pediatric gaming chair customizable chair for gaming

Every article on every website is designed for algorithms to read rather than human beings. Oh you want help with photoshop to fix your picture? I think the answer you were looking for is "Photoshop is a tool that lets you edit images..."

Who can tell what the good and useful content on youtube is anymore? You don't get to see the things you subscribe to, you don't get to see how many downvotes something got. Have an automotive issue? Need help fixing your oil filter? Well I guess you just need to watch the video that was primarily designed with the goal of making the most people click on it. "Pro Mechanic can't BELIEVE what this CLUELESS customer did to his Bugatti Veyron". Just take this content and eat it bitch.

Look at all the sand flying. Every single one of those cops was unloading their mags.

They love this shit

darkmaian23 posted...

the "where the hell do I go" factor both made me quit fairly early on.

Confused about this. The game gives you a map marker and thinly veiled waypoint arrow to follow. How did you get lost, lol

Ghost of Tshushima was the best mediocre game I've ever played.

On paper, so many of the things it does are completely mediocre. Cookie Cutter plot, same old action/stealth mechanics we've seen before, big open world with collectible quests, blah blah blah.

But the execution of all of this was just...supreme. So fucking beautiful, so fucking smooth, so satisfying. The lack of UI was so welcome in a game this pretty. Just really nice quality of life features everywhere. An absolute joy to play.

It's what Assassin's Creed always wished it could be.

She's gone so far off the deep end it's unreal

Perfect example of how being terminally online warps people's brains

Oh, so you're saying that last month when I sent you the files and instructions to create the SSL certificate you just ignored it, and now your portal has gone down and it's urgent because your customers are shouting at you?

That sucks dude, truly sorry for you

Crimsoness posted...

Are the straights okay?

Of course not.

What you should trust instead is this random twitter account that reposts facebook screenshots

Republicans lack the critical thinking skills to understand that social media is overrun by russian trollbots, so when they see opinions being expressed like this they think it's normal.

Mystereave posted...

The funny thing is, when all's said and done, Sasuke didn't even actually do many bad things.

For his kill count, Deidara was himself already "kill on sight" anyway for being in the Akatsuki, Itachi already had one foot in the grave as it was, and Danzo's death was arguably a net positive given everything he'd done.

He certainly made threats, but basically didn't follow through on any of them.

Didn't he try to kill karin and sakura?

It just didn't feel earned at all. Sasuke was a straight up dick to him from the beginning, there were less than a handful of moments where he wasn't an outright cock.

And then the entire rest of the show is devoted to Naruto trying to save his "best friend". It never felt like it made any sense.

To recap, here is the entire sasuke timeline:

• is a dick
• is a dick
• is a dick
• shows something approaching basic non-hostility
• is a mega dick
• is an unbelievable turbo dick
• flies straight off the edge of human decency into mass murderer territory
• lmao im cool now all good

Sigh

Oh -_-

cjsdowg posted...

I guessing they would go WOKE, and make a power female character at the center of everything.

I mean...that's exactly what buffy was

Try being a manga reader.

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Giacomo_Hawkins posted...

I still wish the custom magic system of Morrowind would be used in the modern Elder Scrolls series. Absolutely game breaking, but so much fun.

I never played it, but I remember how broken Oblivion's magic system was, and how much that was nerfed in Skyrim.

I think they generally made all the characters older which is a good thing

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Cringed internally at the memory of Kendra. IPpretty sure buffy even did a Jamaican accent at one point.

I'm not saying I want one, but it seems like one of those inevitable things. So what would they change or make the same?

For one thing, so many of the themes would have to be entirely revamped. Buffy was a pretty "woke" show for its day right? It tackled social issues and inequalities in a way that seems admittedly seems naive today. So a remake would have to do the same through the lens of a zoomer.

Buffy was 14 when Angel fell in love with her, he was 24 when he turned and 241 as a vampire. So that entire relationship is out of the question right there.

Wesley was a 33 year old teacher trying to hit on an 18 year old high school student, that would have to go.

The entire cast was cis and white. So would they redesign existing characters or introduce new ones?

Buffy was all about girl power, but her entire world revolved around falling in love with and apologising for these terrible men.

The crappy karate...would that stay? I mean that's integral to the entire show, but it's so stupid.

You know what, the more I think about it the less I like it. Maybe Sabrina the Teenage Witch answers that question.

Nevermind that twitter is literally 75% russian bot propaganda and has been sowing discontent across the west for the past decade

No no, the real issue here is that someone made convincing lewds in tay tay's likeness.That's where we draw the line

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1011666426715766784?lang=en

This is the same guy

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-shares-anti-trans-content-twitter-2023-6

elon, what

pegusus123456 posted...

IIRC, I think that's more because Wesley is being extremely annoying about it.

And let's be real, Cordelia would have eaten that dude alive if he were a hundred and thirty.

You're not wrong, but the in-universe canon is that she's 18 and he's 33 (just checked). That's pretty weird let's be real. I'm 36 and wouldn't consider dating anyone younger than 25, nevermind sexy dancing with her at the school ball

Also don't forget, buffy was actually 14 when he fell in love with her

I was literally watching buffy season 3 last night and there's this amazing scene at the dance where Giles tells Wesley - a grown adult implied to be maybe 30 - to hurry up and dance with cornelia already because she's 18, implying it's fine because shes legal. Then literally 2 minutes later he refers to the students as "children".

Tv sure was different back then

Here are the correct thoughts to have:

- it's ok for Steve o to enforce a boundary
- it's ok for maher to smoke pot if he wants to
- no one is owed anything here
- kinda weird that he wouldn't just not smoke pot for one hour though
- who wants to listen to Steve o anymore anyway

One evening I decided to learn how to do it. First solve took 2-3 hours.

Over the next fortnight I continuously did it until I got it down to under 60 seconds.

I lost interest after that. Going from 60 seconds down to 10 is significantly more difficult and tricky than going from one hour to 60 seconds.

Don't ever let anyone fool you into thinking its a smart person thing. If you can memorise a half dozen button inputs for your favourite tekken character or beat pretty much any dark souls boss, you are smart enough to do a rubiks cube.

Playing KOTOR again makes me realise, literally 4000 years pass from these games to the events of the movie, and nothing has changed whatsoever. Blasters, droids, lightsabres, space travel, starships. It's all basically exactly the same.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Not a movie, but when Simon punches Rossiu in Gurren Lagann. It was freaking incredible, if you're into over the top anime stuff. It looks stupid as hell out of context, but as the culmination of three quarters of a season, it was absolutely perfect.

Not just in that it was over the top (though it was) but as a narrative element and the way it played into the themes of the show, it literally could not have been better.

Long story short, the show is about human spirit being capable of literally anything, and goes to outrageous extremes to demonstrate it. About 10-13 episodes prior, Simon and his mentor had recently developed an asymmetrical relationship when Simon begins to view his mentor as a rival who was winning, leading to self-doubt, leading to losing the battle. The Mentor then straightens him out with an over the top punch. Simon and Rossiu's relationship in the latter half of the series develops in exactly the same way, but with much higher stakes and a lot more complex, so Simon straightens him out in kind. It's a cyclical narrative structure that seems to prove the bad guy's point about the human spirit, but... GAAAAAAH I WISH I HAD TIME TO GUSH THIS SHOW IS SO FREAKING GOOD.

Goddammit am I going to have to watch TTGL again? It's every couple of years at least

I think there's been a massive shift in the past decade or two in terms of human interaction, the pandemic just accelerated it. People have their heads down and mind their own business more than they used to.

Whether it's rude or not depends on your perspective, I think.

An example is in the gym. People used to talk to each other more, work in sets with strangers, shoot the shit. Now everyone is on headphones and ignores each other. In some circumstances this might feel anti social, but in other circumstances it might feel more respectful.

Irony posted...

Ya

So, how is it?
trappedunderice posted...

Is it free to download i might try it out

Sadly it's premium. Like $10.

Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2EfnTc_Eg

Context:

Celestial dragons are basically this aristocratic ruling class that no one is allowed to harm. Doing so will literally call down an entire navy fleet to destroy the island if you dare. They're all pieces of shit, and main character Luffy here just had to watch one of them harm his pal to decide to clobber him.

Probably doesn't count, but Luffy punching the celestial dragon was the first thing that came to mind for me.

Kinda curious to try it but then I remember that 90% of that game is reading text and making dialogue choices, and maybe thats a bit silly on a phone.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68667664.amp

Interest in Trump Media has also been fuelled by individual investors, as opposed to Wall Street firms, many of them apparently Trump supporters.

Investing in nonsense to own the libs