StarkillerX42

joined 2 years ago
[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

So much corporate beer...

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

$100 off of a $2000 replacement, the rest of which will have to be done out of pocket. "We're down with offering a recall, but we had to make sure it lines our C-suite's pockets first."

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

By your own argument, CS2 is worse than Overwatch. CS2 removed over half of the maps, features, and the gameplay is way worse. Overwatch gameplay was pretty similar, although switching to 5v5 has its problems. It ran the same on the same hardware. The biggest change was the economy which doesn't affect gameplay. I feel like I completely lost access to CS, but I played OW2 for months until the gameplay problems with the meta became more apparent.

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

He who controls the yeast controls the universe, and I control the yeast.

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That's me. I stayed home, avoided events, and waited to go to restaurants until cases were down. When I did go places, I went when it wasn't busy and sat outside. Avoiding COVID wasn't rocket science, all you had to do was follow the basic principles of disease prevention.

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The video in the other comment is great, but doesn't really get into how useless this "tool" is for everyone. We never had a shutdown before the 80s, and they have turned into annual talking points. Each shutdown the rules are a bit different depending on length and if partial budgets get passed. Defense sometimes gets its own budget passed so they don't shutdown.

In a shutdown, federal employees don't work. It may sound like this will save the government money because people won't get paid for their non work. This isn't true, a vast majority of government employees continue to get paid, so the government is spending money it doesn't have and no work is getting done. Government contractors don't make new money during a shutdown. Large government contractors anticipate this and will plan a 14 day shutdown into their budget so they can keep working. This means they just have to over bill the government the rest of the year. Smaller contractors are the ones who actually get screwed out of pay and work, and usually subcontractors of contractors as well.

If it sounds like this doesn't help anyone, you'd be right. It's a bit of political theater that was more or less invented in the 80s so that congress can make the sitting president (probably from the opposing party) look bad. Government spending is never more inefficient than during a shutdown, so if you actually cared about spending, you would avoid them no matter what.

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)
[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Irishman. The fact that I lost 3 hours to that pointless slog is so painful I'd rather just forget all about it. I'll never get those 3 hours back, but at least the regret will be gone.

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago

To be fair, the pi's have always been famous for low quality sound cards, so there's plenty of hats that can add the functionality.

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just stopped buying liquid soap in favor of bar soap about a year ago. It lasts longer, cleans way better, uses no plastic and has almost 0 waste.

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

I HAVEN'T BEEN RUNNING WITH THE PACK FOR A BIT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN DOING MY OWN THING BUT NOW THAT YOU'RE HERE I HOPE YOU ALL WELCOME ME BACK AWWOOOOOOOOO!!!

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Remember that Martin Scorsese's last big movie was The Irishman, so he isn't saving the movie industry either.

Also, Hugo was based on a comic book, so kind of hypocritical.

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