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Topic | Following the rules is stupid. |
shadowsword87 06/09/24 2:35:55 PM #3 | Yeah I make more money than him just doing my engineering job. |
Topic | What games is everyone playing these days? |
shadowsword87 06/08/24 2:49:00 PM #4 | Hades 2, Animal Well, and I'm really curious about Battle Aces when that comes out. |
Topic | What is the last full album you listened to? |
shadowsword87 06/03/24 10:50:17 PM #8 | ASTROPHYSICS - Cute Tragedies |
Topic | Are there any games that depict americans as the bad guys? |
shadowsword87 05/27/24 4:54:59 PM #19 | Spec Ops: The Line |
Topic | Will you be buying Paper Mario TTYD |
shadowsword87 05/25/24 5:14:42 PM #40 | Nah not for $60. |
Topic | Have you tried the Grimace shake yet? |
shadowsword87 05/16/24 3:33:47 PM #11 | No I value my life. |
Topic | fast food french fry prices are the most absurd out of all the price hikes |
shadowsword87 05/15/24 4:06:55 PM #17 | Frozen fries in the oven are garbage, I want those suckers greasy. |
Topic | Apple just did a stock buyback... (or recently, IDK) |
shadowsword87 05/11/24 11:23:57 AM #2 | The best way would be to have already have apple stock. |
Topic | Hades 2 baybeeeeeeee |
shadowsword87 05/07/24 5:08:50 PM #9 | Wait, really? That actually changes things for me. |
Topic | Hades 2 baybeeeeeeee |
shadowsword87 05/07/24 3:22:11 PM #6 | I'll happily wait, I'm glad that people are enjoying it though. |
Topic | This is why people buy consoles/prebuilts |
shadowsword87 05/05/24 9:42:12 PM #24 | Sahuagin posted... now that I think of it, what does buying a "prebuilt" do that avoids these problems? you avoid putting it together at first but it can still fail and need repair. prebuilt or not, the components can fail, require diagnosing, and replacing. If I purchase a prebuilt, and it doesn't work out of the box, I can send it back and get it replaced/repaired happily. And prebuilt PCs are still modular, yes. I can swap out my GPU happily. |
Topic | This is why people buy consoles/prebuilts |
shadowsword87 05/05/24 2:15:02 PM #22 | Yup, I bought a prebuilt for my last computer. I could have spent a few hours putting it together, and then 4 hours fixing what I did. Or I could just have someone hand it to me all complete happily. |
Topic | Can someone explain the difference between sound output in Watts? |
shadowsword87 05/02/24 5:57:45 PM #5 | FatalAccident posted... Basically trying to settle an argument between a friend of mine who says sound bars are unnecessary in modern tvs as you cant tell the difference. I can tell the difference between my sound bar and tv, but idk if thats just me. Surely a 60W speaker cannot match the quality of a 360W speaker? Also surely in modern tvs you definitely can tell the difference because tvs are getting thinner and thinner so speakers are less and less powerful? Just send them a link to the frequency response for a random TV, and then a random sound bar. The physical shape of a speaker effects its response, so you have little speakers that are better at higher ranges and bigger speakers that are better at lower ranges. Despite all of our advancements in super cool speakers, we're limited by the fact that humans need moving air to hear, and it matters how much physical air we move. |
Topic | It kinda makes me sad to see GameFAQs finally dying. |
shadowsword87 04/29/24 6:46:44 PM #49 | People hang out in personal discords now. |
Topic | Hello? Is this place still on? |
shadowsword87 04/26/24 9:14:38 PM #4 | No. |
Topic | What's up not CE? |
shadowsword87 04/25/24 4:31:05 PM #12 | I'm completely lost in Balatro. You shall never find me past as many jokers as I can shove in a deck. |
Topic | What books are you reading? |
shadowsword87 04/24/24 9:19:43 PM #28 | ParanoidObsessive posted... It's kind of like Tolkien, where The Hobbit is more lighthearted and aimed at a bit of a younger audience, and then Lord of the Rings winds up being a much more serious and mature story. Sword in the Stone feels like a much lighter story than the ones that follow in the rest of The Once and Future King. Yeah I can absolutely see it now that I've finished that section. Lots of kids parables and not-subtle life lessons on government and warfare. I can really see the a WW1 influence too. |
Topic | I REALLY hope this isnt politics because it's huge: FTC just banned non-competes |
shadowsword87 04/23/24 9:17:12 PM #17 | Hell yeah I'm happy the FTC did something, I don't know if this is technically in their power, but that's amazing anyway. |
Topic | Did canned tuna fish change colors? |
shadowsword87 04/21/24 5:48:52 PM #7 | Tuna's one of the few ocean farmed fish, and its meat is colored based on what it's eaten. You probably just got a tuna from a different part of the ocean. With stuff like farmed salmon they feed the fish a certain diet to keep the meat the nice pink customers like. |
Topic | They called my Zuckerberg topic horny posting!! |
shadowsword87 04/20/24 11:59:36 PM #53 | A much stronger fact is that games are changing things, a guide doesn't work for a game that's being updated/patched. |
Topic | spaghetti sauce is just gravy |
shadowsword87 04/20/24 1:06:17 PM #6 | Listening to a britsh person call curry "gravy" still just makes my brain explode. It doesn't make sense and it never will. |
Topic | They called my Zuckerberg topic horny posting!! |
shadowsword87 04/19/24 3:27:52 PM #6 | Damn there goes the feet appreciate topics, since the mods can't control themselves. |
Topic | They called my Zuckerberg topic horny posting!! |
shadowsword87 04/19/24 3:15:14 PM #3 | Wait is hornyposting now illegal too? |
Topic | Favorite dishes from Japanese cuisine? |
shadowsword87 04/17/24 8:57:44 PM #13 | SomeUsername529 posted... I really hope you're comparing ramyeon to instant ramen, in which case whatever. But I can't help being judgmental when people compare it to actual ramen. Ramyeon is fine but it basically just does one thing while actual ramen has so many varieties and flavours. They're both wheat noodles my man. There are different flavors, yes. But saying ramyeon is all one thing is ignorant to korean noodles. |
Topic | Favorite dishes from Japanese cuisine? |
shadowsword87 04/17/24 8:40:33 PM #11 | captpackrat posted... I think I tend to eat more Korean food than Japanese. Korean ramyeon is way better than Japanese ramen, and I think I like kimbap better than sushi. That's because korean food has the flavor of chinese food, but the convenience of japanese food. |
Topic | Favorite dishes from Japanese cuisine? |
shadowsword87 04/17/24 5:36:39 PM #2 | Omurice is nice and good Oyakudon is a super simple dish Plus I'll never turn down some gyoza. |
Topic | 2 liter sodas use to be cheaper than 21 oz bottles |
shadowsword87 04/16/24 2:59:58 PM #14 | I've transitioned into teas, it's fairly cheap stuff. Not the same caffeine and sugar infusion, but, works enough for later in the day. |
Topic | im so exhausted |
shadowsword87 04/16/24 2:57:24 PM #3 | With how my industry is going right now, I'm feeling a good 'ol quitting or firing is coming up. We'll see, I've also gotten a few places I'm interviewing at. |
Topic | What books are you reading? |
shadowsword87 04/15/24 7:30:40 PM #18 | I'm reading The Once and Future King by T. H. White. Once I got over the slow intro, it's actually a decent book, and I'm enjoying myself. I also learned that Merlyn has a gun in his shack, which is nice. |
Topic | Lmaooo we can't post about politics here anymore |
shadowsword87 04/15/24 3:26:10 PM #6 | I'm... kinda ok with this right before the election. |
Topic | Why do we even need electricity? |
shadowsword87 04/08/24 9:16:35 PM #6 | Pro tip. A small nuclear warhead detonating over a large area at around 300miles above the surface area can create a wide-ranged EMP. This will cause most electronics to freak out, but then settle back into their everyday behaviors. However, the power grid needs to be within less than 1% of its frequency of 60hz before the systems automatic shuttof occurs. This can cause a cascading brownout that eventually shuts off the power grid itself until different region within seconds as the carefully monitored loaded systems are completely thrown out of balance. This will require a trained professional to drive out to each location and fix the system, one breaker at a time, at every junction box. If any of the frequencies are misaligned by 1% when the new two power systems entwine, it can cause the cascading brown out all over again. This is all public information too, it's just a matter of looking it up. |
Topic | what are your thoughts on rapid charging for phones? |
shadowsword87 04/06/24 6:21:01 PM #9 | Rapid charging damages your battery slightly, I'd recommend not using it daily. |
Topic | How is RFK Jr supposed to be siphoning votes for Biden? |
shadowsword87 04/06/24 11:42:35 AM #5 | Nightwish posted... I think the GOP is fucked. Yeah, I don't know how they're handling all of these fires, it seems like via dying. |
Topic | AMD or Intel? |
shadowsword87 03/29/24 8:18:19 PM #2 | Intel makes their own chips. |
Topic | Ai art looks better than "real" art |
shadowsword87 03/29/24 10:38:20 AM #45 | Revelation34 posted... Copyright infringement probably. It's transformative, not simply copying and pasting things. |
Topic | Student loan/Credit card debt |
shadowsword87 03/22/24 8:57:33 PM #4 | Student loan's way higher than that. |
Topic | Why did trickle down economics not work? |
shadowsword87 03/22/24 2:54:36 PM #3 | They do, it's just that the supply lines for luxury private planes and luxury boats are already hilariously expensive so it's just another thing. |
Topic | Ai art looks better than "real" art |
shadowsword87 03/21/24 4:46:59 PM #9 | Yellow posted... it's just shameful that you thought you could get away with it. I was showing that AI art can do more than the awful generic AI art that's being plastered on every shitty mobile game. I was fairly clear about that. Yellow posted... Why is this boat so small? I thought it was a bucket personally, but I could see a boat. Yellow posted... Why is this boat empty? ??? |
Topic | Ai art looks better than "real" art |
shadowsword87 03/21/24 4:04:37 PM #7 | Typically what I see is bad AI art, not someone taking time to specify perspective, scenes, color palates, styles, and everything that makes one artist actually stand out from another. |
Topic | Ai art looks better than "real" art |
shadowsword87 03/21/24 4:02:31 PM #5 | agesboy posted... the problem with AI art (beyond the obvious moral and legal questions, as well as the dumb little mistakes it makes) is that it often looks way too uniform. I know it's a very vague complaint but it really does look soulless, once you've looked at enough Ask it to generate it in a different style then. I was able to generate fairly realistic oil painting of a harbor by asking for it to be textured with a palette knife. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7558f026.jpg |
Topic | I bet I'm the only one who bought Metro, Stalker and Atomic Heart |
shadowsword87 03/19/24 3:30:45 PM #5 | Play Pathologic 2 if you want to see how deep it can get. |
Topic | Mark my words, in the next 5 years AI will become the #1 issue in politics |
shadowsword87 03/14/24 10:27:29 PM #12 | Generally I've found that people really only care about 3-4 hobbies, and then after those they sort of fall off caring. I'm not a craftsman I don't go out and rebuild desks with hand crafted wood and carefully make sure things are smooth. I don't make sure my clothes are built from labors of love from seamstresses. I make sure my RPG book writers and artists are fairly compensated, because I've got a love for the craft. But most people who play RPGs don't, they just go off of the newest DnD edition. To declare that everyone cares about how the sausage is made in their specific industry is wishful at best. Individuals can't care about that raw number of things they use or think about on a day-to-day basis. What I have seen is the fervor die down now that photoshop has an AI button that's legally sourced. I haven't seen any company come out and declare that their artists shall never push that button, and artists shall never push that button. Most have, saw it was nice, and then used it or not depending on the situation. |
Topic | Costco may restrict food court access if you don't have a mem card |
shadowsword87 03/06/24 10:58:06 AM #10 | I think there's a law around here that says you're not allowed to sell booze that requires a membership card, our Sams Club will let anyone 21+ buy alcohol and also go into the food court. I wouldn't be surprised if that's also a requirement. |
Topic | Soo is Trump going to win again? |
shadowsword87 03/05/24 4:48:06 PM #34 | Texas has been pulling more and more high tech production towards them, that's where most of the jobs are for my field. There's a nonzero chance that it flips with all of the moving. |
Topic | Starship Troopers |
shadowsword87 03/02/24 9:34:53 PM #7 | WizardofHoth posted... some of you really need to go read the original Starship Troopers novel. A lot of stuff is different from the source material. The real question is if it's good or not. Honestly, I read the book, it sucks. |
Topic | I cancelled a car maintenance trip I had had scheduled for today, because of a |
shadowsword87 03/01/24 7:51:35 PM #5 | For the record, if your check engine light is blinking, find somewhere to get it looked at immediately. That's the "oh no" level. |
Topic | Wendy's testing an Uber like "surge pricing" digital menu |
shadowsword87 02/28/24 2:46:51 PM #36 | They have since walked the claim back. Surprising exactly nobody. |
Topic | There was a shooting at my school today |
shadowsword87 02/27/24 8:40:53 PM #9 | Jesus fuck, does the school have any therapy setup for the staff and students? |
Topic | Goodbye. |
shadowsword87 02/26/24 6:48:36 PM #25 | THEGODDAMNBATMA posted... I think it's really fucked up that we never heard from SomeThomas again and that legitimately leads me to the belief that he probably died. I occasionally check on his tumblr account to see if he's done anything, and it's still quiet. |
Topic | Jon Stewart is evil and stupid |
shadowsword87 02/24/24 8:19:48 AM #11 | If you watched that and took away that Trump's the only solution, because Biden's bad, my man, you've changed not John Stewart. |
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