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At least they don't get in your teeth, unlike popcorn kernels.
You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off
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Matt Damon
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...What? Why would I turn my computer off unless there's some specific reason to power it down? It doesn't need to rest - it's a computer.
Any theoretical longevity you could potentially gain in turning it off (fans and such) is going to be offset by the wear and tear of frequently charging and discharging capacitors.
I think you're anthropomorphizing a big box of electronics.
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What is with vegetarians/vegans who still eat fish? I’m no biologist but I’m pretty damn sure that’s still meat. Am I wrong or are these people just hypocrites? Either way it annoys me more than it really should.
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I think it's the long-disproven myth that fish can't feel pain. Fish have a CNS which automatically means they can experience pain, but scientists in the last decade have discovered that fish have nociceptors which means they 100% can feel pain. Vegetarians who eat fish knowing this are hypocrites. Vegans do not eat fish.
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I get mad whenver I go to sleep and dont even get to have a dream or even a Night Mare its nothing but blank unconscosness. that's just "being dead" i dont want it or like it.
skykiii
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Just gonna dump more of my autism on this topic...
First, the phrase "meet cute." Even after reading definitions I still don't quite get what this means--in usage it seems to mean just any time a guy meets a girl in fiction.
Secondly, so in the past I've had discussions about times a video game port was better than the original. I was reminded of these because last night I watched a Youtube on this subject...
.... In both those old convos and that youtube video, there's a dumbass who says "any game you can play through emulation, because you have filters and savestates and such."
Like, even if you allow an emulated version to count as a "port," this defeats the entire purpose of the discussion--which is to learn about things like whether or not you're better going for a PC game or its later Sega Genesis port, or finding out interesting ways games differed between platforms.
Imagine if you made a topic called "what is the best video game ever?" and some jackass said "the game that only exists in my head, because it can be whatever I want it to be." That's pretty much what people who invoke emulation in this context are doing.
(That reminds me that I should also say a word against PC gamers who use the "PC gaming is better because mods" argument).
First, the phrase "meet cute." Even after reading definitions I still don't quite get what this means--in usage it seems to mean just any time a guy meets a girl in fiction.
Secondly, so in the past I've had discussions about times a video game port was better than the original. I was reminded of these because last night I watched a Youtube on this subject...
.... In both those old convos and that youtube video, there's a dumbass who says "any game you can play through emulation, because you have filters and savestates and such."
Like, even if you allow an emulated version to count as a "port," this defeats the entire purpose of the discussion--which is to learn about things like whether or not you're better going for a PC game or its later Sega Genesis port, or finding out interesting ways games differed between platforms.
Imagine if you made a topic called "what is the best video game ever?" and some jackass said "the game that only exists in my head, because it can be whatever I want it to be." That's pretty much what people who invoke emulation in this context are doing.
(That reminds me that I should also say a word against PC gamers who use the "PC gaming is better because mods" argument).
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Where's the lie tho?
skykiii
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I know you're probably joking.... but you underestimated that I'm an Arch-Autist from the Church of Autistology and prime Killer Tomatoes fan.
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I had a more spergtastic post but I decided to shorten it to essential points:
1. Games that get mods tend to already be some sort of hit in the first place. When I posted in the "Shit Games That Could've Been Good" topic, my first pick was a PC game.
2. Mods are like fanfics--people making them tend to already like the base product and want to add to it. While mods meant to fix bad or broken games happen, they're comparatively rarer. More likely, if you don't like the game, the mods aren't likely to fix your issues with it.
3. Mods can't fix fundamental problems with a game's design/structure or especially narrative. Like imagine if you really like some VN but can't stand modern anime art and wish it looked more 1980s. Sorry, without a big budget, that's not getting fixed.
Or an example I've brought up before: I never could stand Ultima VII's game interface, and I wish it played more like Ultima V. I think I have heard of a fan project to remake Ultima VII but in a more U5-style interface... but that's a remake, not a mod., because its literally porting the game to a completely different engine.
4. Ultimately, you should judge games based on what you actually bought and paid for. Judging a game by fan-made mods is like judging a television show by its fanfiction. Because ultimately, the official product is what matters, especially if there's any chance of them getting sequels or whatever--that sequel is gonna be based on what the actual creators said and did, not what the fans did. I could totally write an alternative version of the Star Wars Prequels that is better in every way, but it'll never be Disney's canon, so why bother?
5. The idea that console games can't be modded is, nowadays, patently untrue. Breath of the Wild has mods. There's an entire website dedicated to console mods--its called Romhacking.net
Matt Damon
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I judge games based on how much fun I have with them, whatever that might entail. Anyone who does otherwise is missing the whole point.
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Vegetarians don't eat fish; fish are animals and animal flesh is meat. Pescatarians are the people who eat fish, but no other kind of meat. That would be like a vegetarian saying they're a vegan, yet they still eat eggs, claiming that chickens aren't hurt over them.
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No shit, but there's retards who think they're vegetarian but can still eat fish.
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I was just thinking of something from my childhood after watching a video about kittens. Oddly enough it has nothing to do with kittens. It just popped into my head for some reason. Likely because my grandmother had brought in a pregnant cat at the time. And well... Brains work strangely like that.
When I was about ten this awful white trash family moved in on my street. Hamgalaxy mom and three kids. The mom seemed hillbillyish even though this is a very urban place. They had some kind of accent but I never asked where they came from.
One of the kids had what I now know was phenylketonuria. It must have been treated early because she seemed normal. Just really hyper and had a restricted diet. She was seven. The other girl was four. And there was a three year old boy who was definitely a little slow and very poorly supervised. The mom just expected other kids to watch her kids while she beached herself on the porch with her other trailer pig relatives that came and went. And since I was always the oldest non-teen on the street I was always the one that had to watch out for the smaller kids. This was back in the late 80s/early 90s when small kids still ran around outside a lot.
The three year old had a rat tail and a pompadour by the way. He looked ridiculous.
The four year old totally didn't belong in this family. She was extremely smart and articulate. I didn't even know she was four until the mom told me. I figured she was around my age but really short like one of the boys in my class was. I think she was smarter than me.
Unfortunately, she had some medical issue going on that I didn't understand. She was obese and had acne. The acne was pretty bad and she told me her mom didn't use medicine and instead would just pop them. She was always poorly dressed in rags compared to the seven year old. I think maybe the mom thought she was ugly because she always wore clothes with holes and a lot of time it was the same shirt for days.
Eventually they moved away. But I still wonder what happened to that poor kid who was born into that family. I really liked her and felt bad for the way she was dressed and how bad her acne was. The fact that you'd popped pimples on such a young child instead of taking her to a doctor. I just hope that this girl did well in school and made something of herself.
When I was about ten this awful white trash family moved in on my street. Hamgalaxy mom and three kids. The mom seemed hillbillyish even though this is a very urban place. They had some kind of accent but I never asked where they came from.
One of the kids had what I now know was phenylketonuria. It must have been treated early because she seemed normal. Just really hyper and had a restricted diet. She was seven. The other girl was four. And there was a three year old boy who was definitely a little slow and very poorly supervised. The mom just expected other kids to watch her kids while she beached herself on the porch with her other trailer pig relatives that came and went. And since I was always the oldest non-teen on the street I was always the one that had to watch out for the smaller kids. This was back in the late 80s/early 90s when small kids still ran around outside a lot.
The three year old had a rat tail and a pompadour by the way. He looked ridiculous.
The four year old totally didn't belong in this family. She was extremely smart and articulate. I didn't even know she was four until the mom told me. I figured she was around my age but really short like one of the boys in my class was. I think she was smarter than me.
Unfortunately, she had some medical issue going on that I didn't understand. She was obese and had acne. The acne was pretty bad and she told me her mom didn't use medicine and instead would just pop them. She was always poorly dressed in rags compared to the seven year old. I think maybe the mom thought she was ugly because she always wore clothes with holes and a lot of time it was the same shirt for days.
Eventually they moved away. But I still wonder what happened to that poor kid who was born into that family. I really liked her and felt bad for the way she was dressed and how bad her acne was. The fact that you'd popped pimples on such a young child instead of taking her to a doctor. I just hope that this girl did well in school and made something of herself.
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You're not wrong. The companies do encourage this shitty behavior. All the same, the customers are still at fault.
Absolutely! Our society in general rewards, and in some cases even praises, immoral and anti-social behavior while also reinforcing blind conformism and tribalism. It's a bundle of awful contradictions that's supported by TPTB.
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I usually give the benefit of the doubt for poor service. Maybe they're having a bad day. Maybe they're distracted. Maybe they've spent the entire day getting shat on by everyone who came through the door and are on their last nerve.
It takes active malice before I'll start Karening out.
I had my last computer on 24/7 for something like 10 years. It doesn't hurt it. And if you have power management set up reasonably, it barely consumes anything at all.
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I'm sure it's been said before, but the fucking essay before any online recipe. I'm here to see how much salt to put, not read your family history.
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They are maximizing search engine optimization. It sucks, but I understand it. Scroll, scroll, scroll, recipe. I forgive them if they have pictures of every step of the cooking process and a tidy recipe at the bottom. I don't mind that they make money off of this recipe (both the actual recipe and the "recipe" of SEO).
I hate people who review recipes negatively who have changed every single important ingredient. "I didn't have eggs so I substituted oil and ranch dressing and it didn't come out right"
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My complete lack of SEO knowledge is gonna show, but can't they put all that shit after the recipe? I'll give a minor pass to the sites that add a "skip to recipe" button though.
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I used to do that, but ever since the covid lockdowns customer service has become absolute dogshit. It gave everyone a handy list of excuses for why nothing ever gets done. I went to a dealership that had my car in their garage (repairs done) for almost a month before anyone fucking bothered to call me, and that was after I called in to schedule an appointment and when I drove up to drop off the car, I found out no one bothered to record the appointment in their system. I can understand being busy, but being busy would also imply you would want to get fixed cars out of your limited space. I won't name the exact dealership, but it was a major American brand dealership. I'm so fucking done with American cars and everyone who services them.
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based.cooking shouldn't have any of that bullshit.
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Most of them now have "jump to recipe" buttons at the top.