Sir Arthur V Quackington @ ocassionallyaduck @lemmy.world

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Try Floorp.

Also, maybe don't compare clean chrome install to FF with a half dozen extensions installed. Extensions like Greasemonkey run literally any script you tell them to. An errant line of code and there goes your memory.

Try again, apples to apples dude.

Floorp is literally running with tons of optimizations and is shifting to the standard FF release instead of long term support build in their next major release. The optimizations though are like front and center, and it has TONS of privacy toggles and features.

That comparison is... Self serving let's say.

I will learn how to make an orbital rocket just to fuck this things day up.

No, night is already too bright. You are not ruining this for me further.

These have always existed though. AirBnB isn't an app listing, but offers nothing to that equation. Cabin and event space rentals have been a thing for decades. You don't see Wedding Venues needing AirBnb you know?

True. Gamepass just takes that much further I think. Gasoline on the fire so to speak.

Yea originally I hoped all the Overwatch shorts were building to something.

But no, the overwatch "plot" is just random erratic threads going all over the place. Fuck that.

Every other hero shooter has been similar, and most don't even get close to having unique enough characters or an interesting setting to care. Concord at least have the character part it seems,but the gameplay and well, everything else is just meh.

You'd have to be pumping up quite a bit I think to reverse through the residential transformer with just your little generac home unit, but you may be correct if there are no one way circuits or backfeed fuses. Even so, hopefully it wouldn't kill. Home voltage stepped up would lose its amperage and be like an extremely anemic taser potentially.

I'd love to hear from an electrical worker on the topic, but yea, it's the amps that kill more than the volts.

THANK YOU for seeing the writing on the wall. I keep reminding people of this.

Gamepass is unbeatable value. But if you give it market share you better believe after they jack the price a few more times, games willvstop providing a disc at all and just be "Gamepass exclusive" in the sense youvcan only subscribe to it, not buy it.

Extended stays and many hotels have in-room kitchenettes which is more than enough for me, but to each their own.

AirBnb is just a pain in the ass that hardly saves you money anymore. It's often the same.

You want nice clean sheets, fresh linens, and nice amenities that go with it? Get a hotel.

You just absolutely have to have a home or flat vibe? Well be ready to do apartment laundry, sweep and vacuumvand make the beds and clean all the dishes and only enter and exit between these hours because the keypad doesn't recognize you otherwise...

Greedy fucks ruined AirBnB because the company encouraged it and let them do so. And then fucked over the guests too many times. And now I'd rather stay in a reliable location than deal with the absolute hassle of their company or their company's shitty clients.

Good riddance.

Exactly this. It's so insanely selfish and pretty illegal.

That said, 120v backfeed is unlikely to kill and linemen kind of expect and test for residual current because of accidents like this causing falls, but it doesn't mean it's okay, and the chances of hurting someone are still non-zero.

I did also mean first party content. To my point though was that popular mods were often also rolled into titles as officially sanctioned expansions later on. But first party titles also featured significant amounts of unlockable and customizable content. This didn't begin with the monetization era.

Travelling, but start by looking up Doom wads and Duke Nukem Build engine mods.

These were so plentiful they were put into compilations, and the best were even repackaged with the game in later releases.

Again, tons of playformers and fps titles would previously offer characters as unlocks as well as customization equipment. The Tekken series up through 5 had SO MUCH GEAR. Virtual Fighter up to VF 4 EVO. Fighting games were actually huge with this, and only Soul Calibur seems to have kept it around a bit. They still sell customizatipn packs I believe, but they offer FAR more out of the box than average.

Could list more but unfortunately about to lose signal.

Sorry man, this is just counterfactual.

I'm glad you feel this way I guess, but before you were born and well into the PS3 and 360 gen, games were still releasing with tons of cosmetic unlocks.

The RPG leveling system of Modern Warfare and the push to tie in game unlocks to your online progression dovetailed with selling skins and cosmetics across the industry. If you were a gamer on the PS2 and the 360 era the difference was like night and day. It's why people were bowled over when games like Spiderman included so many costumes because the pressure to monetize these would normally be massive.

But somehow, they included dozens of unique designs and outfits without it bankrupting the company. Just like the decades of games prior to the DLC era had. Like magic.

You're not getting that the microtransaction system replaced free unlocks in most devlopments.

Fighting games used to let you unlock costumes through gameplay. Dozens of them per character.

Now you buy sets of 5 for $12.

This spoken like someone who never experienced mods and entire unlicensed expansions to games being made well before DLC was a thing. I'm sorry but again, this is counterfactual to the reality of decades of PC gaming prior to the launch of the Playstation and Xbox stores where everything was locked down and customization was turned into DLC.

I still can't believe we sell fucking skins for guns. It's so callously exploitative.

Somehow it existed for decades prior to DLC and online shops existing.

The Timesplitters series was practically founded on having so many characters and variants to unlock.

This argument just doesn't hold water.

You are the threat to games like Monster Hunter being fun and having community armpr unlocks for free.

This exact goddamn attitude is why execs think things like the costume selection in Spider-man on PS4 is a waated monetization opportunity.

I reset my Android TV to stock before the ads, block all updates, and just run Plex and Netflix when I choose.

Probably going to take it further in the future and just use a little android media stick and nuke the SmartTV is entirely because of how badly it lags.

Absolutely insane how badly AndroidTVs perform after a year or so of ownership. If I could revert the core software updates I would.

Also, wifi causes the entire TV to become a laggy unusable mess. Has to be plugged in over ethernet. Absolutely unbelievable.

Its cool well just message the maintainers of Android to improve it, I'm sure it's a mistake. Lemme go check who who's behind it... /s