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I am more worried about the weirdo who is picking up and bagging her crap after she shits outside. Like, you know in some sick way they are getting off on it.

Texas should rename itself from "The Lone Star State" to "The Blue Ball State"

You can only do the "where is guy/girl going to get caught masturbating this time?" joke so many times before it gets tired.

I always say that AI/Automation/whatever is not going to replace jobs, it is just going to make them more efficient so that less people can produce the same output. Even in programming that is true. Ever use Spring Initializer to build a Spring Boot application? That is AI. It does 90% of the "bitch" work, and you fill in the business logic and fix any bugs in what it produced. So instead of having a team take 6 months to build a program, you can have one person do it in a month.

Personally, I am happy not having to spend hundreds of hours manually typing in hundreds of lines of code like we did 10-15 years ago.

If you want proof about how incompetent the government is...

Back in 2004, a judge was shot and killed in her home by someone she sent to prison. Chuck Schumer did a search on an application I used to work on (this was before I worked on it though, I was hired during the "fallout"), found that he can find the personal information of every government employee and freaked out. The government forced us to opt-out all VIPs from our system.

Fast forward 10 years, the CIA buys use of our application. In using it, they notice that a bunch of government employees are missing, and demand that we get them added in. We remind them of said law from 10 years ago that prevents us from adding them back in. They basically go "oh..." and I am pretty sure they still use that application to this day.

Fucking morons, the lot of them.

Sahuagin posted...

of the tiny list of NES RPGs I've ever played it left the weakest impression. (basically loses only to FF1.) if I played these games again today I'd have a different opinion.

I actually remember liking the game a lot as a kid. Even to the point where I had rented both FF1 and DQ1, and was actually disappointed when my parents got me FF1 for Christmas.

NES: I know a lot of people have a soft spot for it, but Legacy of the Wizard is a confusing, unfairly hard, mess. I get it is probably one of the first open world "metroidvania" RPGs, but it just does not work. They are trying to do way to much with the limited NES abilities. Runner up goes to Faxanadu, which is apparently from the same series.

SNES: Probably Drakkhen. I see a lot of people say 7th Saga as well, but I didn't think it was that bad. At the very least it is pretty innovative.

Genesis: Either Super Hydlide or Sword of Vermilion. I'll give it to Sword of Vermilion just because it is rather boring instead of "So bad it is good" like Super Hydlide.

Reading this guys feed, he seems like the perfect definition of an incel.

As for her, she looks like just about every girl I lived near in grade school. But I grew up in a rural farm community. However, everyone had the typical "mid western" American accent. Not the type of person I date, but whatever.

As for Tomboys, who gives a fuck? People have interests that don't fit their gender, bid deal.

LinkPizza posted...

I think Im talking about the ones who play it everyday for like a year, or until the next one comes out. Paying $20 a month for just that seems like a lot

Most people aren't going to care though.

How many people have subscriptions to stuff they don't regularly use? That is why subscription services are being pushed so hard.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

That would just be their justification to push for full cloud storage and streaming play. Don't have to worry about storage space when you're not storing anything locally.

I doubt that would happen in the near future given that even gigabit internet has a hard time playing streaming games without a very noticeable hit to latency. It is why Stadia failed so hard and no one gives a crap about Playstation Plus.

But subscription services like XBox Game Pass? You bet your ass they will push that hard. Difficult to make people justify paying $60-$70 for every game that comes out. But $20 a month for access to all the games? People will pay that easily even if they are just buying it to play CoD. It is why they are so popular. Minimal effort for maximum profit.

GRTooCool posted...

How long has this been a thing? o_o I feel dumb for just realizing it now.

Pretty sure it just started this year. Someone in the marketing department probably just looked at a calendar and went "March 10th... Mar 10... MARIO!!! Do it!!!"

Like I can't remember it being "celebrated" before this year and I have literally played and beaten every Mario game (outside of some of the "sports" games).

Revelation34 posted...

Rao's is absurdly expensive.

Carbone's is even more expensive.

I never had Carbone's, but Rao's was way to greasy for my taste. My go to is usually Newman's or the Wegmans Italian Classics.

SilentSeph posted...

RIP awesome repeatable Dry Bones near the merchant :(

Despite that, I was still able to hit the level cap post-game with less then an hour of grinding.

With the Exp Booster of course.

adjl posted...

They're still growing, but there are substantial diminishing returns in terms of player experience. Paying hundreds of dollars for a very marginal increase in visual fidelity isn't overly appealing. Meaningful growth now is going to be more along the lines of rendering more entities at once or otherwise having games that are more computationally complex (which is generally more of a CPU thing, as I understand it), or improvements in form factor like what the Switch did (which the Steam Deck has followed up and the PS Portal has quasi-mimicked).

We are basically getting to the point where graphics aren't really going to improve at a significant margin anymore. The only real improvements from 10 years ago are higher resolutions and frame rates. Compare that to the jump from 1974 - 1984, 1984 - 1994, 1994 - 2004, and 2004 - 2014. All of those are way more significant, and arguably an equally huge leap in fidelity. We are also at the point where we can't make processors any smaller while maintaining the same speeds. So a lot of what we are getting are software improvements like "Ray Tracing".

So while I don't think consoles will become "obsolete", they will likely be very different 10 years from now and arguably unrecognizable. We also aren't going to see the price drops like we used to, since I don't think they can be made any cheaper then they are now and companies no longer want to produce them at a loss to push sales of software since most titles are getting multi-platform releases.

And of course, Nintendo will do their own thing because they hold the spot as the largest gaming company worldwide:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1197213/market-value-of-the-largest-gaming-companies-worldwide

So yea, Nintendo won the console war people...

I would disagree on the 2D front, even as a fan of 2D Sonic. 2D Mario is just in a class of its own, nothing compares to it. 2D Sonic is easily in top 5 2D platformers though.

3D Mario easily beats out 3D Sonic, but pretty much everything beats out 3D Sonic except maybe Bubsy 3D. That doesn't make 3D Mario good though, just better by default.

To be honest, the only reason I ever notice DST is usually when I go grocery shopping on Sundays and I wonder why the clock in my car is off by an hour. Then after a few minutes my brain kicks in and goes "oh yea..." and changes it to what it should be. If it weren't for that, I would never know that it was happening.

boomer thing I have ever heard of.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/123aea3e.jpg

I literally just clicked "view my statement", WTF???

If a 12 year old game is your most demanding, then most decent laptops should play it. I would error on the higher end since "I just want to play X on it" usually leads to "Why can't I play game that is 5 times more demanding than X?" a year or two down the road. A gaming laptop might not be a bad idea since you can get some decent ones for less than the price of a new graphics card. Steam Deck is also an option if you don't mind messing around with dev mode to do anything other than play Steam games.

wwinterj25 posted...

Tea. Earl Grey, two sugars and milk. I don't like Coffee.

Same, but no sugar or milk, I prefer it black.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Be thankful because the place where my GF's sister works only gives them a $25 card.

Oh, I am. Usually we just get a bag of snacks mailed to us, but this time we exceded pretty much all of our goals this year so the management went extra.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

you can just use a coffee table for all of those other things too

I am a 40 year old adult, not a college student. I want to keep things a little better looking in my house...

adjl posted...

If you don't have and do need a coffee table, coffee table. I'm guessing you've already considered that, though, and otherwise it sounds like the liquor cabinet will be your best bet.

I already have a coffee table, but I am in the process of remodeling my living room. I hadn't considered getting a new coffee table since I like the design of the one I have, but it is just a table. No actual storage. It also doesn't have the adjustable top like this one has which is a nice addition. Would mean I don't need my couch PC setup.

I always felt that non-realistic games age way better. Go back and play some "realistic" games from just a few generations ago and you will see what I mean. Meanwhile, the games that went with a more unique art style look way better even under a modern lens.

It is like CGI vs. animatronics for movies. CGI from even 10 years ago looks really bad, but movies that used animatronics from the 80's still look good today.

I think the "Retcon" was kind of stupid (they could have just ignored it like The Dark Knight series and nothing would have been lost), and the visuals where way to bright and shiny. Otherwise it was fine. Never had a desire to watch the second or third movie though.

adjl posted...

There really needs to be legislation holding sites responsible for damages caused by ads they run. That companies will insist that it's not their fault that their advertisers distributed malware then turn around and whine about users blocking ads is really just pathetic.

I think we are well and truly past this point, but if ads where basically what they were back in the mid-late 90's (just one or two banner ads that a site got money for every click), I wouldn't use an ad blocker. In my eyes, ad blockers are a requirement so I don't need to buy a new computer every 6 months, not a "nice to have".

I will say that as much as people ignore them, the French know how to do comics right (Bande dessine). But yea, American content has just fallen out of favor for me. But the difference is I was never a fan of Manga outside of very few exceptions.

He is like the Minecraft guy, he made his money then got out of the business. I didn't really care about what he said, and I enjoyed Fez for the 3-4 hours it took me to beat it, but it wasn't anything I was aching for a sequel to. He can sit in his room with his millions and just stay out of society for all I care.

The election of 88 I guess. I remember my 1st grade teacher making a big deal about it.

This one was pretty memorable, just because a power transformer blew up right near by bedroom. That and we didn't have power for over a week and had to huddle around a radio for entertainment like it was the 1940's all over again:

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2023/03/03/rochester-ny-ice-storm-1991-what-happened-a-look-back/69963383007/

To be honest, I don't really get "scared" much. Haven't in a long time. I have been described by my friends as "having a death wish". Like probably one of my scariest moments was someone tried to rob me (or at least I think he did) and my response was basically to just give him a "get the fuck outta here..." and walk away. Like if someone points a gun at me I would probably look at them deadpan and be like "Just get out of my face, idiot!"

I'm happy, because I don't have a wife. :)

Nade_Duck posted...

i dunno why but i always pictured PO as a tall silent bob.

..not so fat tho.

Speaking of middle/high school: There was this guy I used to go to school with who was mostly quiet, until you talked to him about subjects that interested him, then he would go on these long winded, rambling rants. He was tall, glasses, always wore a Tool shirt (probably owned like 20 or 30 of him) and despite the fact that he was way smarter than anyone else in school, he pretty much spent all of his teens and 20's in college. In fact even though he was 2 or 3 years older than me, he was still in some of my college classes because he just wanted to take the same classes over and over again to prove how smart he was.

I always imaged that was PO.

GranTurismo posted...

In some crazy cases, the b/f or husband might have came on seen and tried to beat you up. Have seen some crazy YouTube videos. Did you ever think the husband might do that? You shoulda called the cops right there. No idea why you didn't just do that. What happened though, no way it wasnt 100 percent her fault? Have heard of people buying dashcams cause other people in car accidents won't admit fault

She backed into my car when it was, or all intents and purposes, parked. I had just started it up and was about to move it when she tapped the back end. Again, I wasn't going to involve insurance since it was just a tiny scratch that was barely noticeable, but she was trying to blame it on me. The only reason I could think was that she was going to try and get me to pay the $20 to cover up the scratch on her car? IDK.

GranTurismo posted...

what did you end up doing in that case though? It was like 0 percent your fault right?

She tried to pull the "It's not my fault!" card and I basically snapped at her and told her to call the police and have them get a statement if she was so sure of herself. She ended up calling her husband who, after hearing us both out, essentially agreed with me. Stupid thing was it was just a scratch on both our cars and I wasn't going to involve insurance anyways since the time and paperwork was more effort then just covering it with some touchup paint. She just pissed me off by trying to blame everything on me when it was clearly her fault.

No, people in my area are usually pretty calm drivers. I have only really snapped at people 2 times in my adult life and only one was at a driver who hit me but refused to admit responsibility.

I think this was in either 9th or 10th grade, I had a friend who would bring an apple for lunch every day, fill it with random substances (milk, applesauce, soup, chili, etc.), then we would go to the stair well just outside the cafeteria and throw it against the wall above the stairs just so we could see it splatter and drip down onto the stairs. Did this for months and never got caught or in trouble.

The last time we did it, he brought a bottle of blue modeling paint. So we filled it with that and threw it against the wall. Paint splatter was there for the rest of the year, they didn't even try to paint over it until summer break.

badjay posted...

What's the machine to the left of the knives?

Looks like an ice maker.

Honestly they take up so much counter space they don't seem worth it. Especially since full size dishwashers are usually pretty energy and water efficient, unlike stoves (which is why toaster ovens are totally worth it, especially if you live alone or with one other person). As much as I love using a dishwasher, I could absolutely live without one and just wash by hand if I needed to. My dad has never used a dishwasher in the last 40-50 years, he just washes all of his dishes by hand every night.

LinkPizza posted...

The automated voice thing seems like it might suck

Also, did they not have digital boards before? Even McDonalds have those

The Panera near me did the AI for ordering thing when they don't have enough staff. It actually works suprisingly well as long as you don't treat it like an actual human and more like a robot with voice recognition.

It COULD reduce food waste by lowering prices during non-peak hours and encourage people to buy up the extra food before it goes bad. Similar to how some grocery stores reduce the price of meat that is going to expire in a couple of days.

But we all know that is not how this is going to go.

Vampire_Chicken posted...

Some senior managers, sacking people to slash the wages bill is the only way they know how to manage and they think it's the only thing they need to know.

Good management is like a strainer. CEO's shit on you from high, managers strain that shit and only allow some of it to reach the level below them. Repeat until whatever is left hits the employees.

Bad management is like a funnel. CEO's shit on you from high, managers funnel it all down to one person until that person is overflowing with shit, and they get replaced with the next shit bag who is dumb enough to sit under them.

I think your first (and only) problem, is you are buying something off of Facebook.

My work gives me two "volunteer" days every year. Some people spend one on a "Day of caring" with the big local charity. I usually use it spending a day at the soup kitchen for the nearby shelter, or helping an elderly person clean their house. I would volunteer at an animal shelter, but that is the "default" for a lot of people so they end up having way more volunteers then work for them to do.

adjl posted...

I remember thinking I was so much cooler than everyone else for being apathetic about politics. Those were good times. It's a pity that high school ends so fast.

To be fair, I was super political in high school and most of college. Getting a minor in Political Science was enough to turn me off of political discussions for the rest of my life.

Metalsonic66 posted...

It's weird; when I watch a YouTube video or play a game on my phone with Bluetooth headphones, I can notice a clear delay between what I'm seeing and hearing. But when I play a game with a Bluetooth controller, I don't notice any kind of input delay.

They are using better technology in the controllers then in headphones. An audio delay is not a dealbreaker, most people can accept it for the convenience of bluetooth. The same is not true for controllers, any noticeable delay (outside of pro players, who will spend hundreds of dollars on a high-end controller anyways so they aren't the target market) would absolutely kill any benefit to them being wireless.

Edit:

Oh, yea...

?

Does that mean that everyones wages across the board get increased by 690% to compensate (Like is supposed to happen when minimum wage is increased)?

If so, then hell yea!!!

Glob posted...

To be fair, I did once get a job when I told them I was lazy in the interview.

There is a difference between being lazy and not actually doing your job.

Lazy is finding the quickest and easiest way to do your job with minimal effort. Depending on the job, that can be an asset.

Not doing your job is...slacking off and not doing your job. No one wants that.

Must be Fanatical didn't pay their AWS bill.

No, I usually wait until the weekend they are due. Last year I got a refund for the first time since Trump took office, and I might actually get one this year. But it probably won't be much. Like $50 at the most.

Better then owing $400 the previous year...

Yellow posted...

I'm into software/electric engineering

Yellow posted...

Idk seems kind of dumb to work for $15/hour and then pay $40 for 1 hour of labor on my end.

Let me just say (not as a dig, more as for your own benefit), that I hope you are still in school because that is WOEFULLY low for your skill set. I was making $15/hour, 20 years ago for an internship at a small company. Starting rate for a Software Engineer is almost 3 times that now.

My car came with free oil changes for life, so I have just had the dealership do it for the last 10.5 years. I did it once on my previous car, but it wasn't something I would ever do on the regular. More of a "yea, I can do it, put that notch on my belt" thing.

That is why I call everyone who doesn't like video games a nazi.