KoboldCoterie

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

There’s very cheap cable holders for VR applications that attach to your wall or ceiling (non-destructively) and hold cables above you. I used those above my desk to hold the headphone cables, so the cable runs up the wall behind my desk, and then over my head. Keeps it off the floor and away from everything else.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

If they shifted back towards the GW1 formula, I’d be at least semi excited about this. That game was great for its time and there really aren’t any other MMOs that have gameplay like that.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

Reply to them with Matthew 6:5-8:

5 “Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward! 6 But whenever you pray, go into your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. 7 When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

<span style="color:#323232;">catch (Exception e) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Exception.autofix(e);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

Done!

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

Sounds like a change of employer is in order.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

In many states, being forced back to the office after working from home for a long period allows you to collect unemployment if you quit on those grounds. Check your state’s requirements. IIRC it has to be demonstrable to be a significant burden but it can count as constructive dismissal.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

Most of them are already 13+, so really this is only extending that by 1 year. It’s performative. Also he’s going to make everyone under 14 want to create accounts now just in hopes that the company doesn’t delete it and they can sue for their $10k.

I wonder what qualifies as ‘social media’. Is a Steam account ‘social media’? Its social features tick most of the boxes.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

35-year-old is a US army veteran and seventh-grade math teacher

Sounds like he’d be better than Trump by a mile.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

As long as the advertisers and corporate bullshit stays on the for-profit solutions and doesn’t start bleeding into everything else, this is fine. Hopefully they’ll act as a wick and draw the corporate interests to themselves.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

It sounds like if he hadn’t tried to push the envelope, and had just taken his free room and left it at that, he might have gotten away with it for longer, or at least wouldn’t be facing jail time now. This is a wild story!

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/b41d4a6a-d422-4005-a111-7e7855a6e173.png

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

I will never not upvote a comment that includes an interrobang.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

It’s honestly embarrassing that our political landscape has been reduced to this.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

Not to mention that even backing it in the first place is just going to give republican media more talking points to galvanize people against Biden/Harris in the 2024 election. Poorly thought out and poor timing. I’m personally in favor of stricter gun laws, but I don’t think this one has much chance of taking effect, so I’d rather they hold off until 2025 at least before trying to push it.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

They spent $11.25 BILLION on stock buybacks in 2022, from their $235.7 BILLION in revenue. But yeah, I’m sure a $13 million fine is really going to show them!

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

It’d honestly be hilarious if all the creators just started rebranding their fan projects with Palworld Pals (or any other similar IP). Start shifting the discourse away from Pokemon. I’d love that.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

I take this to mean you aren’t familiar with this fad, so allow me to blow your mind:

https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/38b6e997-4d7a-4da8-97da-7d198cb22832.jpeg

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

For better or for worse capcom is doing this shit in nearly every one of their games so i kinda expected this shit

And if we stop shitting on them for doing it, we let it become normalized.

Denuvo is a cancer

This pretty much sums up the topic.

Optimisation. It is poor apparently. Nothing new really as far as pc games go.

It’s actually a lot worse than that. It’s been a while since I played something that had this level of problems. The fact that it’s CPU-based performance is actually the bigger issue because it doesn’t matter how beefy your graphics card is, you’re still dropping a ton of frames in that city specifically. I can run the game at 144 FPS until I go to that city, then it drops to 40, which is just outrageous. Gaming PC build logic has for a long time been to prioritize a great graphics card over a great processor (assuming you’re building with a budget and not a ‘money is no object’ type build), because that’s what matters for games, but suddenly with this one specific game, the processor is the bottleneck.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

To add to that, the DLC thing really pisses me off particularly because I bought the game last night, and there was no DLC. The DLC didn’t show up until a few hours later, and by that point it was too late to refund it. Kind of felt like a bait and switch, because normally I wouldn’t buy a game at launch if they did that shit.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

…your character’s penis. Wait, what are we talking about?

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

It’s very easy for NY to go after the bus companies when they have a law on the books to use, and very difficult for a state to go after another state. It’s the fastest way for them to get results - if the bus companies think there’s more potential risk for doing it than they stand to gain, they’ll stop, it’s just business for them. It’s politics for Texas.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

“It’s being mocked so much it’s almost a meme,” she said. “I think a lot of those jeering secretly don’t want to be left out of things if this turns into a GameStop.”

This line especially is funny, because the majority of the people who bought into the GameStop thing ended up losing their money because they didn’t sell when it was up, or bought in too late. The loss denial from that is what led to the whole Bed, Bath & Beyond stock BS which led to many more people losing money. I think the people who “don’t want to be left out” if Reddit goes that direction have a very rose-tinted view of what happened there.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

I got that invite, too, despite having not used my Reddit account for over a year, and having relatively little total karma and no non-deleted posts, so it probably is just an account age thing. Or they tried all of their preferred targets, didn’t get enough takers, and started lowering their standards. I sure didn’t bite.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

During the pandemic, my son orchestrated a prank wherein during one session, the entire class kept telling the teacher she was on mute, despite it not actually being the case, and she spent the whole hour-long period trying to solve the non-existent technical problem. The responsible thing to do would probably have been to put a stop to it but I was just so impressed by his ability to coordinate this with 30 kids that I just couldn’t.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

Did you even read the article we’re discussing, or are you just reading the comments and getting mad?

1. No decision has been made. This is simply a judge denying the companies’ motion to have this thrown out before going to trial.
2. This is very much different than “the gun market” being indirectly responsible. This is the equivalent of “the gun market” constantly sending a person pamphlets, calling them, emailing them, whatever else, with propaganda until they ultimately decided to act on it. If that was happening, I think we’d be having the same conversation about that, and whether they should be held accountable.
3. Whether they’re actually responsible or not (or whether any group is) can be determined in court following all the usual methods. A company getting to say “That’s ridiculous, we’re above scrutiny” is dangerous, and that’s effectively what they were trying to do (which was denied by this judge.)