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dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️ @ dual_sport_dork @lemmy.world Posts 31Comments 2,651Joined 2 yr. ago
dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️ @ dual_sport_dork @lemmy.world
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Always remember: The people who apparently faked the moon landing, are concealing the existence of a ruling class of lizard-men, are putting 5G microchips in your water, and have a functioning secret one world government operating in hidden tunnels and dark smoke filled rooms are also the exact some chucklefucks who couldn't cover up the Watergate scandal.
Make no mistake, those in power absolutely are out to get you but mostly for the purposes of making themselves richer and remaining entrenched in power. The one and probably only factor working in our favor is that many of them are in fact working at cross-purposes.
But that domain's apparently for sale for a cool $10,000 USD. What a bargain.
My current bugbear is "guesswork," although in my case this is in the context of the marketing bumf that my vendors and manufacturers slather their products in.
Apparently in the corporate world, the only purpose of guesswork is to "take it out of" things. Take the guesswork out of this, take the guesswork out of that. It seems at this point you are guaranteed that any time "guesswork" appears in a sentence it's going to be preceeded or followed by it being taken out of something, as surely as U always follows Q.
Once you notice the pattern (it doesn't take you long if you're sitting in my seat) the lack of originality becomes deeply irritating.
"Fast paced environment" is the one that always gets me, because that's just explicitly admitting that their organization is a total clusterfuck but somehow this inevitably gets put in the bullet points list because some bozo apparently thinks this is a positive thing that will make people want to work wherever-it-is.
All it means is that you'd better show up wearing roller skates because management is going to expect you to be in three places at once all the time.
Especially when the poster does not disclose that it's AI.
The perpetual Youtube rabbit hole occasionally lands on one of these for me when I leave it unsupervised, and usually you can tell from the "cover" art. But only if you're looking at it. Because if you just leave it going in the background eventually you start to realize, "Wow, this guy really tripped over the fine line between a groove and rut." Then you click on it and look: Curses! Foiled again.
And golly gee, I'm sure glad Youtube took away the option to oughtright block channels. I'm sure that's a total coincidence.
W/e. I'm a have-it-on-my-hard-drive kind of bird. Yt-dlp is your friend. Just use it to nab whatever it is you actually want and let your own media player decide how to shuffle and present it. This works great for big name commercial music as well, whereupon the record labels are inevitably dumb enough to post songs and albums in their entirety right there you Youtube. Who even needs piracy sites at that rate? Yoink!
Still I have one (1) in a stairwell in my house. So far I've left it alone, partially because it also has a stupid piece of stair molding blocking part of its cover plate but mostly because I have never in all my years found any reason to plug anything in there.
Somebody probably originally intended it to be for a vacuum cleaner or something, but even the corded ones I've owned have had cords more than long enough to reach both ends of the stairs from a selection of other nearby, non-stupid outlets.
Those white power redneck types are all protestants (baptists, or some other evangelical wingnut strain) and most of them have a vehement anti-Catholic streak. A black pope would just confirm to them whatever-the-hell conspiracy shit they already believe about the Catholic church, so it'd more or less just be spitting on a forest fire anyways.
Not that the Vatican shouldn't do it anyway, though.
We can only hope.
I get where you're coming from, but in certain fields I don't think that's going to fly too far.
The guy selling me a sofa, I really don't care if he has a bachelor's degree or not. My doctor? Yeah, I kind of think he needs to have legitimately completed medical school.
That, and the bloom has certainly been off the rose with most big name Nintendo properties over the last couple of cycles. Tears of the Kingdom was just a retread of Breath of the Wild but without the benefit of the formula being fresh and arguably worse in quite a few respects. Pokémon has been an archaic frustrating insult to the player's time and intelligence since the 3DS era, arguably before. Echoes of Wisdom should have been a $15 eShop title. Super Mario Wonder managed to simultaneously be underwhelming, rather grating, possess zero replay value, and pales in comparison to Odyssey. Etc, etc.
It seems Nintendo is getting paranoid and conservative. Creativity is dead over there, and mostly the only moves they're making are safe and samey cash-grabs, which is a strategy that I don't think has much long term potential. This is really the first time ever I have no interest in a new Nintendo console nor any of its games, and Nintendo's continued fan- and customer-hostile behavior that's really ramped up over the last several years also pitches in to make this an easy no sell for me.
They did disclose it, though. I got popups every time I logged in for weeks warning of the imminent additional cut Apple was going to take from donators/creators, which explicitly spelled out that payments made via other platforms would not be affected by this cut.
Maybe they were prevented from doing so in the iOS app, but they sure did it everywhere else.
This is exactly it. It feels like about 99% of the crap these companies are pushing has no reason to be an app. Patreon is already primarily a web page. I guarantee you everything anyone cares about in the app you can do on the mobile version of the web page. Without being locked to the App Store/Google Play, and on (practically) any device. Isn't that what these companies should want in the first place? Totally device and platform agnostic, ready for the maximum amount of suckers potential paying customers to be able to access it?
Whatever driver Windows hands you for your nVidia/AMD card is likely to be hilariously out of date. If the driver it gives you is the one with the bug that's bugging you, you won't have a choice.
I sort of get it, but also "Half Life game ends with G Man time-freeze BS and a random abrupt cliffhanger that will not be resolved for years, if ever" isn't exactly an unexpected outcome for anyone who's interested in Half Life.
You may as well just watch a Youtube LP of Alyx anyway, since I imagine the majority of players do not have the equipment to play it themselves.
If the cliffhanger at the end of HL:2 Episode 2 annoyed you, the one at the end of Half Life: Alyx will annoy you even more because it not only returns to that moment but the G Man uses reality warping shenanigans to overwrite what happens in it, and replaces it with a different cliffhanger.
Son of a bitch and his unforeseen consequences, indeed.
On the bright side, this also circumvents the need for the original events of Half Life 3 to happen, since Valve has consistently said they were not willing to make it as it was originally drafted (especially now since Marc Laidlaw leaked/released the entire plot online). So now I guess they're free to do something new with the story direction... Whatever that might be.
Just for one example, it's well known that they sell their hardware at a steep loss just to try to entice people to get locked in to their ecosystem. Meta's plan is to get VR devices into people's homes and then figure out how to spy on them to make money off of it afterwards, and in the bargain use the piles and piles of cash they make from Facebook to squeeze out any competitors and become the defacto monopoly in the VR market.
For this blatantly obvious reason I always recommend that nobody buy a Meta/Facebook VR device, ever, for any reason, no matter how "cheap" it is.
Let Zuck Zuck continue to lose money on it until he either goes broke or gives up. This is a rare case where deliberately not buying a product from the dominant player in the market can literally help the entire scene as a whole.
And I also have a VR headset and VirtualBoyGo if I really feel like giving myself an authentic headache.
I'm with you on it being fascinating, but this also has the same drawback as the stock camera in my Qidi which is that the frame rate is ass. And mine actually manages as many as 6 or sometimes even 8 frames per second!
I imagine this is in no small part due to the video compression happening in the dinky SoC on the printer's mainboard, and obviously it prioritizes timing the print head moves over everything else. When my printer is idle and preferably showing a largely black frame (i.e. the internal lighting is turned off) the framerate rockets into the 30's. I've toyed with the idea of splitting the camera out onto a separate board since it's only USB internally and can be unplugged and the wire rerouted, but thus far I haven't cared enough to overcome my laziness in setting it up.
To be fair I also have a GoPro that's usually not doing anything productive. If I really wanted to go whole hog I could adhere one of its little mounts in there somewhere and power it off one of the USB headers. I'm sure there's enough clearance inside the case for it, and then we could print at 4K60.
I'm much more interested in whatever mechanical contrivance you're printing parts for, there.
People also lost their shit over the PSP Go being digital distro only in a physical handheld console, and lost their shit so hard that Sony of all people walked it back with the Vita and built cartridges back into the spec. (And it became retroactively excusable once it was discovered how easily the PSP/Go could be hacked, and suddenly the Go was the desirable model for emulation and, er, backups. But that's neither here nor there. Under its intended use, within its original lifespan, it was a stupid idea.)
If you ask me the entire point of a game console is to be a dedicated platform that you stick games in and it always works. If I wanted to fuck around with downloadable only content, games that are only keycodes, patches, day 1 DLC, always-online DRM, and the inevitable day the servers all go dark I'd just game on PC. Which, come to think of it, in these modern times is exactly what I do anyway. I have game systems dating all the way back to the Atari VCS which I can to this very day if I feel like it slap a cartridge or disk in and they play. To me, there is immense value in that. Without that, there's really no need for the "real hardware experience" for me. I can just emulate if any title comes out that I truly give enough of a shit about that I must play it. Anything else is just selling you a rental, but at full price. I find that immensely distasteful.
So I have zero interest in the Switch 2, and thus it will be the first Nintendo console in history I don't own, or aim to own (I do not have a Virtual Boy, much to my shame and embarrassment.) I imagine I'm not the only one. Nintendo's been trying very hard to lose the plot, which for a company as profitable and famous as they are takes a real concerted effort. Congratulations to them, then, if that's the goal -- What we are witnessing here is very possibly the beginning of the end for big N.
Why does it look like someone had to hastily edit a dick out of it in the bottom center?