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| Topic | It's funny that people blame economic woes solely on Joe Biden. |
| Dikitain 06/11/22 12:39:18 PM #14 | People blame the person in power for everything, especially if they don't like them. In other news, dog tongues are wet. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Why does it seem like so many bands biggest hits are among their worst songs? |
| Dikitain 06/11/22 12:37:11 PM #50 | BlackScythe0 posted... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT7x1NvGf5k I have so many questions that I don't think they will fit into the character limit of one post, and I doubt I really want the answers to them. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Why does it seem like so many bands biggest hits are among their worst songs? |
| Dikitain 06/10/22 3:37:44 PM #4 | The Smashing Pumpkins are my favorite band of all time, but even I will admit the majority of their best songs (with the exception of some songs on Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness) are their hits. The rest of them feel like filler. And this is from a band that regularly releases 20-30 b-sides with every full-length album. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | I have added to my PC gamer girl station |
| Dikitain 06/08/22 11:05:39 PM #19 | agesboy posted... also Curious what it is if you have a laptop screen and two monitors of equal size horizontally? Because I pretty much see everyone with a dock use that setup. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Would you date a woman who is a lot more successful than you? |
| Dikitain 06/08/22 4:59:40 PM #7 | Hell yea, financially independent women are a huge turn-on for me. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | nickelodeon all stars shadow drops voice acting update |
| Dikitain 06/07/22 3:50:09 PM #8 | They already gave the game away in a humble choice bundle which means it has been dead for a long time. It wasn't even the "featured game" of the month they did it in. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | So can we still not ask a woman her age? |
| Dikitain 06/07/22 11:11:31 AM #5 | I pretty much never ask anyone their age, you can usually get a general idea based on looks. That is good enough for me. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Have the high gas prices made you change your driving habits? |
| Dikitain 06/06/22 1:08:24 PM #10 | I am going on a road trip next week, so no. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Heres a shower thought for you. |
| Dikitain 06/06/22 7:51:49 AM #7 | I was at this weird micro-brew bar once, and they had a beer with cilantro in it. I was the only person in the group who could drink it without dry heaving. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Which of these foods is the most overrated? |
| Dikitain 06/05/22 5:46:43 PM #104 | ParanoidObsessive posted... The funny thing with lobster is that it was original "poor person food" in the US. Before the Civil War it was mostly poor people and servants in the North and slaves in the South who would eat it. There was also a case in 17th century Maine where prisoners where complaining about "cruel and unusual punishment" because they were being served lobster for too many meals. Can't imagine that happening today. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Is HalfLife2 still the pinnacle of linear storytelling in an FPS? |
| Dikitain 06/05/22 5:14:59 PM #36 | Metalsonic66 posted... Not in the version I played Probably had auto-run on. Lots of games from the time had that as the default because "why wouldn't you want to be running all the time in this game with first person platforming?" That was also around the time when moving with the arrow keys and holding alt to strafe was still the default. I remember that was the default control scheme in the original version at least. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Is HalfLife2 still the pinnacle of linear storytelling in an FPS? |
| Dikitain 06/05/22 11:38:18 AM #5 | While I don't think either game was bad, I think the popularity of Half Life 2 and Halo 2 is the reason that most FPS games made between 2005 and 2015 were absolute crap. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Peanut Butter |
| Dikitain 06/05/22 11:30:16 AM #16 | VampireCoyote posted... Bananas are another 10/10 Does that make peanut butter and banana a 20/10 food? Because I agree. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | PC Users: What game controller(s) do you use? |
| Dikitain 06/04/22 9:25:21 PM #8 | Used to have a 360 controller, but the X button started dying on it. Probably could have fixed it, but the battery pack was starting to go as well and they discontinued the brand I was using so I upgraded to the newer Xbox wireless (but I play it wired because the wireless drivers aren't working for some reason and I haven't had the time/energy to look into it). I also have a logitec PS2/3 controller I use on occasion, but it only plays wired and I don't like how "light" it feels. Still, it is reliable and a good backup. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Why didn't anybody tell me about Mystery of the Druids sooner |
| Dikitain 06/04/22 2:17:34 PM #3 | The cover isn't even the half of it, game is straight up weird. There is a part where you have to poison a homeless person to steal a coin from him so you can make a phone call in a phone booth. And you are a detective BTW. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Which of these foods is the most overrated? |
| Dikitain 06/03/22 2:50:34 PM #25 | Definitely nachos. Everything else I can see the appeal in even if I don't go as crazy for them as other people. Nachos are like the basic bitch of Tex-Mex food. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | It bugs me how shows will alter a characters appearance when they are exposed... |
| Dikitain 06/03/22 11:19:56 AM #26 | VampireCoyote posted... What I hate is when the villain seems like some kind of mastermind that has meticulously planned things but then when theres a single thing that they didnt expect they just give up and try to activate some self destruct something or start yelling and smashing things. They basically stop being intelligent or at all composed and just flip out with no backup plan. Psychologically that makes sense. People like that want to believe that they are geniuses and have thought of every contingency plan. When they get proven wrong, they lash out because it is completely inconceivable to them that they got outsmarted. *cough*Trump*cough* --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Diablo Immortal |
| Dikitain 06/03/22 6:51:49 AM #27 | DocDelicious posted... People are saying minimum of $75-100k for one fully upgraded character. To grind to the same point apparently it would take a few years of play time if you get insanely lucky with gem rng. Blizzard has it backwards, you shouldn't be forcing people to grind to add armor to your character; you should be forcing them to grind to REMOVE armor. Make the nude set the most expensive armor in the game, and the best. That will make you way more money. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | It bugs me how shows will alter a characters appearance when they are exposed... |
| Dikitain 06/02/22 3:34:58 PM #10 | I prefer that, because it tells the viewer something without overly explaining it to them. It is the biggest problem I have with modern movies. A 5 minute scene with a character should tell the viewer everything they need to know about them, not half an hour of dialog and backstory. Leave that shit in books. Show, don't tell. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Freddie Fucking Mercury |
| Dikitain 06/01/22 2:55:06 PM #3 | Thunder bold of lightning, cast it on my enemy! --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | New Delorean Pics Debut... |
| Dikitain 06/01/22 1:35:54 PM #32 | Black_Crusher posted... But wouldn't opening the doors make the car a lot wider, even for a short time while they're going up?Not much wider than opening a door normally would, and that would be wider longer because the door doesn't move above the car like it does with the gull wing design. Again, the problem isn't the mechanics of it, it is the fact that doors are essentially two hatchback trunks that need to open and close constantly, which causes them to fail pretty quickly in the car's life. Hell, the trunk on my first hatchback car had to have the mechanism replaced 8 years in, these could need replacing in half that time. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | What are you getting from this vending machine? |
| Dikitain 06/01/22 6:44:16 AM #5 | 11110111011 posted... tetanus --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | My company is converting to unlimited PTO |
| Dikitain 06/01/22 6:40:59 AM #7 | dragon504 posted... The "needing to be approved" caveat is the bad part of it. Seen of a couple of snippets from people whos work places converted to unlimited to unlimited pto and rarely ever approved it. Hope it works out for you.I am not worried about that because you still needed PTO approved when we had limited. And we know the "bad" months are quarter end months (March, June, September, December), which managers have to make sure most teams are still running at or close to full capacity. Plus, managers have had this policy for several years now, they have just decided to give it to the employees due to most of us being remote/WFH. LinkPizza posted... Hope it works out... But I think I'd like the regular version more... Yea, like I said my biggest thing now is going to be remembering to take PTO. With limited PTO I had my manager in my ear telling me "You need to take some PTO because it is July and you still have 3 weeks left" or something like that. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | My company is converting to unlimited PTO |
| Dikitain 06/01/22 2:08:54 AM #1 | Basically, you can take as much PTO as you want as long as your manager approves it. So there is no sick time, floating holiday, vacation, etc. You just tell your boss you will be taking time off and you are good. On the one hand, I like it. On the other hand, I am probably going to be the type of person who doesn't take any time off and no longer has the "use it or lose it" incentive to do so anymore. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Anyone else hate when their company hires people straight to manager? |
| Dikitain 06/01/22 2:01:04 AM #5 | Not really, no. My current manager was hired from outside the company and is 4 years younger then me. Conversely, his boss worked his way up from junior developer to his current position over the last 25 years. I think both of them deserve their positions about the same. I care more about if you can do your job rather than how you got it. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | i found this really cringe website |
| Dikitain 05/31/22 9:15:44 PM #20 | Did I just time-warp back into 1995? I didn't know people still updated their geocities sites. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | New Delorean Pics Debut... |
| Dikitain 05/31/22 5:53:30 PM #30 | Black_Crusher posted... IIRC Lambos had doors that slid straight up, but the Delorean had gull wings that opened up and outward. I'd imagine this would be a total pain in the ass design in tight spaces like a parking garage. Not really, cars like that sit pretty low to the ground, so with the doors fully up it probably doesn't make it any bigger then say a F250 pick-up. The biggest reason they stopped using that design is that car doors are heavy and the opening mechanisms can fail. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | New Delorean Pics Debut... |
| Dikitain 05/31/22 3:03:40 PM #24 | DragonClaw01 posted... But it does have gull wing doors. That is a fad that I wish wasn't making a comeback.That is like the #1 defining feature of a Delorean. Without them, you can't really call it a Delorean anymore regardless of who manufactured it. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Is it over 90 F today, by where you are? |
| Dikitain 05/31/22 2:35:45 PM #9 | 89 right now, just under. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | 84 year old woman gets college degree after dropping out in the 1950s |
| Dikitain 05/30/22 11:32:16 PM #15 | mharbenedict34 posted... Fat shaming is still a thing in 2022? Fat phobia needs to stopWho is shaming? That is you projecting your insecurities on me. Honestly who didn't gain some weight during covid? --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | 84 year old woman gets college degree after dropping out in the 1950s |
| Dikitain 05/30/22 2:29:17 PM #11 | Dexter Holland got his PhD in Molecular Biology in 2017. And about 80 pounds in covid weight based on recent pictures. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Do girlsdo yard work? |
| Dikitain 05/30/22 2:10:59 PM #43 | I would get out of yard work as a kid by running over random things and breaking the mower. Like I can't tell you how many times I strait up bent the mower blades or how many tree branches I obliterated. After about 5 years and 30 mower blades (and probably half a dozen mowers), my parents finally got the hint and wouldn't let me mow the lawn anymore. Funny thing, as an adult I love yard work. At least doing it as much as my body allows. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | What keyboard are you using? |
| Dikitain 05/29/22 1:03:14 PM #24 | Work: Unicomp Model M Gaming PC: Logitech K350 wireless, it is actually my second one, been using them for almost 15 years at this point --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Looking at porn in public... |
| Dikitain 05/29/22 12:54:00 PM #10 | Never really had a desire to. I don't think I have ever been in public and thought "Gee, I could sure go for some porn right now!" If I am watching porn I am home. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Smart Appliances |
| Dikitain 05/29/22 8:59:35 AM #2 | What counts as a "smart appliance" nowadays? Pretty much everything electronic has a computer of some kind in it and has some form of programming to be "smart". Even something simple as a fuse is meant to prevent you from burning down your house if you do something stupid electrically. Microwave ovens have essentially been smart appliances for the last 40 years so if you have one of those, you have a smart appliance. Being a "smart ass" aside, no. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Supreme Court ... something something |
| Dikitain 05/28/22 11:05:11 PM #27 | darkknight109 posted... @Dikitain If you want to be specific, you live in a federal liberal representative democratic presidential constitutional capitalist republic, and you can continue adding as many descriptors onto that as you want. The difference is that Presidential Republic is the official term for our form of government (as well as most governments in North and South America, plus parts of the middle east) , where as everything else you described is just random descriptors, some of them redundant, others not even forms of actual government. Presidential Republic simply means that the executive and legislative branch of governments are both electable by the people, as opposed to a Parliamentary Republic where the "executive" (prime minister) is picked by the legislative branch. Or a Constitutional Monarchy which is a Parliamentary Republic but with a Monarch that holds no actual power (England, Canada, Australia, etc.). Or Saudi Arabia which is an Absolute Monarchy. Or Russia, which is just fucking weird. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Are buffets worth it for you personally? |
| Dikitain 05/28/22 6:59:57 PM #28 | When I was younger and could eat anything I wanted and as much as I wanted without consequence? Sure. Nowadays I would much rather have a specific meal reasonably portioned for a normal person. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | PC Users: What mouse are you using? |
| Dikitain 05/28/22 6:55:27 PM #12 | I have a Kensington trackball for work, so that I don't damage my wrists. For my gaming PC, it is a cheap wireless gaming mouse, the brand name on it is...Zelotes? IDK, the brand name part has kind of worn off. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | How do single people deal with all the freedom |
| Dikitain 05/28/22 8:37:35 AM #25 | I have been in a few long term relationships and most of them end in me getting really depressed. I do have those "I wish I wasn't single" moments 5% of the time, but the other 95% is great. Like today, weather sucks, so I am just going to go to the comic book store in a few hours, get some burgers on the way home, and watch porn the rest of the day. It is awesome! --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Can't watch the Baseball game because it's on AppleTV. |
| Dikitain 05/28/22 7:12:47 AM #5 | Revelation34 posted... Baseball doesn't have touchdowns. It has goals.I thought it was baskets. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | When was the last time you flew? |
| Dikitain 05/28/22 5:56:20 AM #20 | Commercial: February 2018, to Ft Lauderdale for a 4-day weekend. Private plane: August 2021 --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Supreme Court ... something something |
| Dikitain 05/27/22 9:35:26 PM #17 | darkknight109 posted... Do you vote for your leaders? Congratulations, you live in a democracy. That is not what a democracy is. That is a republic. We live in a Presidential Republic. Granted, some things at the state/local level are voted on in a democratic way, such as school budgets, propositions, etc. But there really hasn't been a pure democracy in the world since ancient Greece. Otherwise we would be voting directly on every piece of legislation that goes before congress and I am pretty sure we don't want that. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Supreme Court ... something something |
| Dikitain 05/27/22 3:02:18 PM #10 | Blightzkrieg posted... And yet Bill fucking Cosby got his conviction overturned but not these guysBecause the Bill Cosby case was a matter of the prosecution being idiots and offering a plea deal in the civil suit, then using the conditions of the civil suit to convict him on criminal charges. That is a clear violation of the 5th and 14th amendments no matter how you look at it. It is why the criminal cases are always done before the civil suits. If the prosecutor had done it the right way, Cosby never would have been freed. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | I need advice? Jobs, life, etc |
| Dikitain 05/27/22 2:40:50 PM #3 | Honestly, while I understand #3 isn't the most ideal, it is probably the best option. I don't know what your relationship is like with your mom but it does give you time to search for a new job and apartment without being in a time crunch. Plus you could stay in the same area as your girlfriend (and maybe your mom would be OK with her staying there as well?) --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | I have a hard time playing FFXIII's battle system |
| Dikitain 05/27/22 8:10:21 AM #31 | agesboy posted... https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIII-2 Yea, the only real problem I had when playing it was the occasional crashing, and that was fixed with the 4GB Patch (which most PC gamers know is safe to run on pretty much any game). In fact, the only game I had any issue with in the trilogy was Lightning Returns. It felt like the laziest since it was (I am pretty sure), running in a PS3 emulator and didn't have any HD patches applied to it. It also defaulted to the Japanese voice acting, which was odd considering it was the only game in the trilogy to do that. Like, I know the English voice acting is bad but come on... --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Do you see yourself living to 100 Years of Age? |
| Dikitain 05/27/22 1:41:44 AM #20 | Nah, people with office jobs are lucky to live past 70. I'll just be glad to out-live my father and uncles. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | I have a hard time playing FFXIII's battle system |
| Dikitain 05/26/22 5:28:25 PM #26 | Metalsonic66 posted... It's better than VIII thoIt really isn't, not by a long shot. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | Do you like spicy food? |
| Dikitain 05/26/22 3:46:12 PM #30 | Yes, but habaneros are about my limit. I want it spicy enough to clear out my sinuses, not burn a hole in my pants every time I fart. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | McDonalds Super fan celebrates 50 years of eating Big Macs |
| Dikitain 05/26/22 11:22:21 AM #11 | I wonder if he is so well known at his local McDonalds that they have his order ready for him before he even walks in the store. Like, does he just walk to the counter, swipe his card, and they hand him his big mac? --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
| Topic | I think Chris Roberts is the problem with Star Citizen |
| Dikitain 05/26/22 10:58:34 AM #9 | Crowdfunding is definitely the problem. I have backed a few projects. One of them was a scam (developer went dark and never offered refunds), two of them took 3-5 years after their due date to deliver, and the other 2 actually went well. However, the ones that went well didn't even offer crowd funding until they had a finished product and needed the money for publishing. They also are "experienced" in crowd funding projects and have a good record of delivering on time or only a few months late. Star Citizen sounds like a great game if it is completed as promised, but that any reasonable person knows can't be done in the deadlines they set, or with the money they are asking. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... |
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