lka1988

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I've been playing Total Annihilation the last couple days. The 1997 game that you can still get on GOG for $5. I had it as a kid and played all the time.

My son has been wanting to play it with me, so I gave him a quick rundown on "skirmish" mode earlier tonight. He caught on pretty quick. It can get brutal though. Hopefully I can get the network muliplayer working so we can play together.

Worth every penny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Jordan Petersen is a trash heap and making a bad faith argument.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

EA's Real Racing turned into this pay-to-play shit. I genuinely enjoyed that game back when it came out, then everything started to get monetized and you had to do various things fairly often if you wanted to make any sort of progress.

Why can't I just have a fun realistic racing game that doesn't try to cram "upgrades" that cost real money down my throat?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Games that require daily participation to make any sort of progress are a non-starter for me. I have other shit that's far more interesting than fake anime tiddies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm talking more about the people that just post videos "oh no, I didn't know, pls accept me 👉👈🥺"

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

$100k down

Fucking LMAO

"Yeah, before you buy, we want an amount of money you will never have at any one point in your entire life before we consider thinking about suggesting a mortgage to you"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have two great example of this.

1-
Last month, the mountainside behind our house was set on fire. The neighborhood was evacuated as the fire burned ~20 acres. The inferno came within a few hundred feet of our house, and I watched it creep closer as we stood at a park across the main road. My only thoughts were "we are OK, we have resources that we can tap into if necessary" (the burn scar can be seen from over 20 miles away).

2-
Last week, my wife's ex nearly robbed her of a literal dream-come-true because he decided to be a giant fucking manchild and throw his new marriage into the trash. Several months prior, I had spent ~$450 on non-refundable tickets (thanks ticketmaster) for two back-to-back live shows as a birthday gift to my wife, based around the fact that the kids were going to be with bio-dad during that time. But because of his antics, we had to get the kids a week early (not mad at the kids, we missed them). We scrambled to find childcare, and luckily my in-laws were able to take the kids for two nights in a row so we could hit those shows as planned. But I wanted to murder that man. I still do, but that's beside the point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Sounds like my ex. The most easily-fixable things would cause her to fly off the handle. Non-issues like turning on the wrong burner; shit that could be resolved completely within 5 seconds if they would just take the time to shut the fuck up and think about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

So, an energy vampire

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm willing to accept former Trump voters into the ranks of reality.

My only conditon: get on the ground and fucking beg for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh my god

I played that not too long ago. The muscle memory is still there 😂😂😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Before LCDs it was plasma which until the the late 2000s had more technical advantages over LCD Refresh rate, contrast. LCDs couldn't really match them until the 2010s

glances at Sharp Aquos 1080p LCD TV from 2007 currently in living room

still works really well

fucking 80 lbs

 

I'm in the process of getting my Home Assistant environment up and running, and decided to run a test: it turns out that my gaming PC (custom 5800X3D/7900XTX build) uses more power just sitting idle, than both of my storage freezers combined.

Background: In addition to some other things, I bought two "Eightree" brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare. One is monitoring the power usage of both freezers on a power strip (don't worry, it's a heavy duty strip meant for this), and the other is measuring the usage of my entire desktop setup (including monitors and the HA server itself, a Lenovo M710q).

After monitoring these for a couple days, I decided that I will shut off my PC unless I'm actively using it. It's not a server, but it does have WOL capability, so if I absolutely need to get into it remotely, it won't be an issue.

Pretty fascinating stuff, and now my wife is completely on board as well; she wants to put a plug on her iMac to see what it draws, as she uses it to hold her cross-stitch files and other things.

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