CaptPretentious @ CaptPretentious @lemmy.world

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Okay hear me out...

Mars Olympic Winter games. If we can make ice we can have competitive figure skating but don't only have to deal with 1/3 the gravity they have here so we can see some really cool stuff.

Is it practical, hell no. In fact it might be the dumbest reason to go to Mars. But the event would be awesome.

I personally agree. I think it's being somewhat overhyped. If step one is physical access to get things rolling... like for sure some machines are in more public areas than others. But for me, someone would have to break into my house first, then access my machine, just to run exploits later. The exploit is pretty massive, but I think needs to be tempered with "first they need physical access". Because physically controlling machines has always been number 1 for security.

6th grade I really started paying attention to the pledge of allegiance in really what something like that meant. I question why I was pledging my allegiance to a flag every morning. It wasn't my choice I was told to do this. And that didn't feel right to me until I stopped.

In high school. Noticed the various branches of the military would never leave and were always trying to recruit. I noticed in the kids around me behavioral differences, as they were hyped up to join the military. But my great-grandfather who is in the military and was on Normandy Beach... He wasn't hype about the military. My uncle who is in the Navy barely speaks of it. And my other uncle who was in the Vietnam war... Seemed rather traumatized by the whole experience. And George W Bush and everything surrounding 9/11, the definite WMDs that totally existed.

Also in high school I got to meet foreign exchange students. Made friends with a bunch of them and got to learn about how things are in various parts of the world that really didn't add up to the things that I was being told.

Then in college and post college, thanks though like early YouTube and even early Reddit, I got to learn a lot more about the world than anything grade school had ever taught me.

Nothing like developing trust issues after taking a massive shit I suppose.

ITT: A lot of Lemmy users showing their true colors. Someone asks for help, for information, and y'all decide to mock.

OP: one button does a full flush, the other does a half flush. In your picture, the button on the right, does the half flush. Button on the left, does the full flush. Full flush is usually just x2, though I don't think that's a hard rule.

Dear TSA,

The human body is mostly water. And it's way more than 3 oz.

Son of a bitch your right. All my posts got restored! I ran one of those scripts that went through and deleted them all... and sure as fuck I can find them if I search for my reddit account name.

Then following up by threatening to sue all the users who deleted the comments they made and left

Sir Reginald. Reggie for short.

My work has moved to a "hybrid" model, aka forcing people into office. I was in 2 weeks ago... And caught COVID. For over a week, existence has been... Not great. I do not feel like myself yet. First day in a while I even played video games, and it took a lot of effort. My breathing is way better than it was a few days ago. But my mind is still so... Cloudy isn't the right word... It's like if your brain is normally powered by your local power grid... It's now powered by a AA battery that you found in the junk drawer. There are things I can't remember to things that I know I know very well. There were days I woke up drenched in sweat so I assume I was running a high fever for a few days.

All that to say is I wish we weren't at this point we're covid still a thing. We had an opportunity to eradicate it. I did everything right. I got all my shots, I got boosters regularly, and even when I was forced into office I isolated away from people but it wasn't enough.

Yep.

I came here to make a 'my router uses BSD btw' joke.

PfSense!

Hopefully AMD doesn't pull an Intel and get complacent and spend over a decade doing basically nothing (at best) or or delivering subpar parts (at worst)

Humans have been field dressing animals for thousands of years... And you think this is going to stop somebody?

Anyone raised in the country, hunts or fishes, is not going to blink at this.

I only listen to two, usually while diving

• Distractible
• Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald

It's just people shooting the shit. Just friends chatting.

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one thinking this!

I play the crap out of this game when I was a kid. What an absolute fever dream. You find bosses that are already dead, angry tempura shrimp, you want some zombies dance... You turn into a monster for some reason... Trees have faces. It's wild. Highly recommend.

They're not even all at the same angle... 😫

There's a bunch of game studios that think they need to use ring zero to prevent cheaters. And basically the user is just told 'trust me bro' that they're not going to mess up your system.

https://youtu.be/LY2hG-_asKU?si=R8UAcZ4fQAR8Mlic

Riot games just recently added it I believe.

I personally refuse to play any game that is ring zero. And this big outage is a clear example as to why it's a bad idea to give random devs unlimited access to your machine.

Oh you can add so much more on Apples entry. For a fun read, I suggest doing a web search for 'Apple anti-suicide nets'. Apple and nestlé are among the top of my list for companies I morally cannot support due to human exploitation.

Yes technically they are making games but if a large part of your core audience doesn’t want to or can’t play the games you’re making then to them you aren’t really making games. Cause from my perspective

Just because they don't cater to you, don't mean they aren't making games. I need to you follow this, they are, in fact, making games. Your opinion of reality does not change that. It's not a matter of perspective. It's a quantifiable fact, they are making games. We can measure it, we can observe it. A game does not exist simply because we're not interested in it. Fifa and NFL games exist, despite my lack of interest in playing them. But they exist regardless. If I apply your thinking to myself, I could say Bethesda doesn't make games... which would be an incorrect statement.

And finally, Counter Strike and Dota... pretty much any given day, are among the top 5 games actively being played on Steam. At this exact moment on Steam, there's 7,024,911 In-Game, 725,884 are in Counter-Strike, and 387,447 in Dota. That's 15.8% of all active players at this exact second are playing a Valve game. That's almost 1 in 6 people actively playing something in Steam right now. And I'm not even adding the number of people right this moment that are also playing some of their older titles, as thousands right now are still playing older version of Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2. I bring this up, to your incorrect statement "large part of your core audience doesn’t want to or can’t play the games you’re making". https://steamdb.info/charts/