joelfromaus

Thanks for the explanation! That’s great!

Can I get an ELI5 for what happened in the comic?

“Cancel culture is running rampant!” - Peter Dutton discussing Peter Dutton, probably.

No McDonalds but there is a Buy’N’Large Mega Mall that covers 50% of it.

Looks like my posture.

If you like the Left 4 Dead games definitely check out the Left 4 Speed parody animations. My mates and I still quote them to this day!

Left 4 Speed: https://youtu.be/pnRVIC7kS4s

Left 4 Speed 2: https://youtu.be/M1uVi41I1oc

I always walk my dog after I finish work in my steel capped work boots. The times that I actually do walk in my sneakers is so weird, like I’m not used to not having weights on my feet while I walk.

Before I go into this I want to preface that I love Sea of Thieves (SoT) and it is almost definitely my most played game.

It’s funny that SoT is a culmination of pretty much all of the worst parts of gaming business culture lately and is still a great game. It’s a game as a service, has a cosmetic micro transaction store, premium currency, predatory micro transactions (change character appearance or ship name), released with bare bones features and constantly introducing bugs with every update. And yet it’s also one of the biggest success stories using all of those components. It wasn’t abandoned like some games as a service cash-grabs, the game has quadrupled in features and content, the cosmetics are (mostly) kept well on-brand for the universe and the team regularly communicates regarding both success and failures.

With all of that in mind; ever since I started playing SoT (a week after release RIP Day 1 eye patch) I’ve had a few mates, who’ve never played SoT, tell me it’s a shit game and that Skull and Bones will be a much better game in a ~~month~~ ~~year~~ when it comes out.

I’m always excited to see good games produced even when I’m not intending to play them but Skull and Bones certainly seems like it’ll be another cookie cutter POS game shat out to claim tax on the loss and shut down some time after. Thank goodness we have at least one good pirate game that’s still going strong.

You guys are awesome! I’m still loving the experience offered by Mlem. Thanks for all your hard work.

I stopped using wired headphones before I had a device without a headphone jack.

I found the cord infuriating, always seemed to get caught or tangled on things, always making sensitive skin contact (like just beneath my jawline) where I was forever readjusting it and sometimes the cords lifted the headphone out of my ear.

Conversely, I’ve had three pairs of wireless headphones. First pair didn’t like getting christened in the washing machine, second pair is still going strong and third pair are AirPod Pros I bought before a flight for the noise cancellation which are also going strong. Maybe I’ve outsmarted the whole of Apple’s engineering/marketing department but I’ve never felt like the sets I’ve had are underperforming on battery life and have no reason to buy sets to replace the working ones I have. The small conveniences, like not being tethered to my phone and freedom from cords, have absolutely made the change to wireless worth it to me.

The biggest and most obvious downside against wireless headphones is compatibility and price.

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[softly] Don’t.