When I was still playing Nintendo games up to the switch, my games were physical.

On PC I have steam. But I still have various install discs from years gone by.

And I have various CDs, DVDs and blu-rays.

I don’t have any streaming subscription services. I canceled all of them a long time ago

Hold on, that’s a real photo? I thought it was a joke or something!

8th or 9th for me. 8th just feels epic. But I started Doctor Who on Netflix with Chris, so the 9th is nostalgic for me.

That excuse won’t stop them from being fired. Just because you can does not mean you should.

My first homelab server is running unRAID. No real complaints from me. It’s been running for years no issues other than the crap hardware it runs on (i7-3770, 32GB RAM). I have some file shares, docker, and some VMs. The UI makes it really easy to do stuff, especially if you don’t want to have to research and manage everything.

To me, it is a false equivalence. Sport cards are based on people. Though I’d give you, they could just be bound by team and year instead of being random. But like, when Ken Griffey Jr.'s rookie card came out, no one could have guessed what would happen there.

And MTG is a game that’s constantly evolving. Here, I think the randomness was a planned mechanic that helps keep the game balanced and interesting (or it did like 30 years ago when I played). Might be a different story now, but doing a broken meta deck just was far less likely. Getting an assortment of colors encourages, especially new players, to try different approaches since each color (again, at least in my day) plays very differently.

But these blind box things are largely made to just be a fad. They’re created, hoping they’ll catch on with a demographic, to generate money… and landfill waste. You can go into a card shop and buy/trade/sell sports cards, or game cards (MTG/Pokemon). After the hype for these blind box toys, there’s no more demand. They create scarcity for the sake of driving sales. They employ psychologists for this type of stuff. These aren’t like the coin machines back in the day, where you could actually see the toys. They know that if you could see what was there, sales would tank.

Sports cards are a piece of history, a physical note of what was for a given player at a specific time. MTG/Pokemon are games. In both cases, you could just collect, but there’s more to them. But with the blind box toys, they’re just physical loot boxes. They exist only to be collected. Much like Beanie Babies back in the day. Or literally anything that’s ever called it’s a collector’s item or an investment… It’s just garbage. But now, they add in a known addiction mechanic to it, and target kids and AGGRESSIVELY advertise. You can call them all dumb, sure, that’s fine, I haven’t collected MTG or baseball cards in 30 years because I share a similar sentiment. And I’m not ignoring the tactics, the card games, or sports cards also employ… I do think they could change, and should change, but they won’t. But I believe they are less predatory, but not above criticism or review themselves.

In 5 years, is anyone going to care about a Lububu? No. Does anyone care about the crap my mom collected in her youth, no. But the things she liked to collect, when she walked into a shop, she could see what they had and buy exactly what she wanted. No tactics, just dumb things she liked. Same when I collected Amiibo. I could see what I was buying.

I’m hoping I’m making sense. Just because one thing is kinda sketchy, doesn’t mean it’s fine for another thing to be completely sketchy because “people are just having fun”. It’s not fun when someone goes into financial ruin and you pivot to “well, that was your choice,” because that’s now how addiction works.

Betty Crocker does shrinkflation and you go after the consumer. Way to blame the victim there.

Do you have, in your cupboards, the ingredients to make a German chocolate cake, a pecan cake, and a carrot cake? No? Why not? Swap any of of those for a spice cake, or angel food, or gingerbread… You can’t??? Why not? A trip to the store and have exactly what I need to make any or all of those. I don’t have to pay for extra ingredients that are just going to sit, take up space, and go bad. Do you know how much it would cost to buy all the unique ingredients to make any of those cakes? And you used to get a reliable result too for look, taste, quantity, and quality. But with shrinkflation, that’s gone out the door.

Also, ignoring the fact, so many recipes start with a box from Betty Crocker, and then using something they do regularly have at home and use, they add their own little twist on it. Or just use one of those boxes as a base because not everyone has that stuff sitting around or even has the space to store it.

Lastly, flour is one of the most dangerous ingredients to have just sit around in terms of food safety.

But yeah, shame the customer…

There is so much wrong with what you said.

First, kernel anticheats absolutely get bypassed. Second, kernel anti cheats are only a Windows things, and potentially not for long. (Not that they couldn’t be.) Valve makes games for Windows and Linux.

Ring0 crap, is one of the most insecure and potentially dangerous pieces of code you can willingly install on your machine. You’re trusting a company, to have more access to your machine than you do. Software you don’t get to see the change log, or know what it’s doing. And you’re really banking that the people who are writing this code know what they’re doing. Any especially now with the influx of AI, You’re really hoping that the access you’re giving them to your machine wasn’t ‘vibe coded’ (honestly you probably was). And when they mess up, and trust me they will, they wreck havoc on your install. See crowdstrike.

A Klingon would, if the Owl(s) proved themself/selves in battle and brought honor to their family. They’d be a worthy foe, and worthy of Klingon respect.

Just curious if you’ve seen one in person or just online.

Cuz I didn’t like how they looked online. But seeing them in person was just a whole another thing. I’ve seen a few, My personal opinion is the proportions are just off in every way. It’s bigger than you’d think but also it looks like the cab is a lot smaller. It reminds me of toy vehicles you give like 5-year-olds. If it was just an RC car, I probably be fine with it.

I’ll be honest, outside of Reddit/Lemmy I know exactly nothing about him. I just always assumed he was yet another far-right extremist podcaster. Like Andrew Tate, but allowed to be in the US. Side note, it took me forever to figure out who Andrew Tate was, because I think people thought I was trolling when I asked “who is this dork?”.

That’s a picture worth saving. For the inevitable post some Republican will make about how peaceful they are. And how ‘mature’ they act. Reply with this every single time, watch these people in the photo get disowned so fast by the people they associate with.

Well, it’s a sci-fi show, so reality hardly matters. The larger, recognizable themes matter. And having a cohesive style gives a stronger story/character. In SG, often for someone to know what belonged to whom, you had to wait for someone to verbally say it, which goes against the “show, don’t tell” approach in storytelling.

And I think rooting certain aesthetic choices made by the various species helps make a more cohesive story, especially considering the amount of lore SG brought. With how much of the show ties back to Earth, for this show at least, it would be interesting to tie various things on Earth to various alien races (like pyramids, castles, etc.), more than just various names.

Encourage, no. Just preparing for the inevitable.

Steam isn’t what had the issue. It was the payment processor. You can tell because multiple digital storefronts all died at the same time.

The last time I was there the dollar menu meal still existed I think. Fairly certain the last time I was there was probably around 2011/2012, to pick up some chicken nuggets for some kids.

The last time I went there regularly, you could buy two full meals for less than 5 bucks (or at least really close to it). And even that was overpriced. This is a place that has insane profit margins, but will yell at employee for putting an extra pickle slice on anything. And there’s some low quality pickles to be honest.

Being serious, what is /e/ ?

I’m not so sure it’s $18 an hour. I think it’s just $18 a day.

None of this was a real relationship. It was all Internet drama. Can I take a guess everyone involved is a teenager?

Unless there’s real plans to meet up in real life, none of this goes anywhere.

Not too belittle teenagers, we were all teenagers at one point. Emotions run high, and added weight and meaning to everything. I knew plenty of girls back in the day, that had an “online relationship”, even including online family (parents, siblings, etc). Knew a few guys back then too who were “dating” someone on the internet as well. Absolutely all of it went nowhere. None of them talk to each other anymore for one reason or another.

I can say for certain that it did hurt one relationship, because one of the girls I spoke of, I was actually trying to date. While there were other issues as well, she actively prioritize her fantasy online relationship over ours and that was certainly a cause of us splitting. I was none to impress and neither were her parents with the dedication to the fantasy.

Online relationships, are basically the same as work friends.

Also ‘Scarlett’ said she’d rape ‘Mark’… Then gets called a cunt… And your wondering if you should have defended ‘Scarlett’… Did I get that right? And then used slurs of some kind. Because if I followed that right, then no you should not have defended ‘Scarlett’ and ‘Mark’ is very much in the right. At best those two sexually harassed him, and should be grounded by their parents, and have their internet taken away.

Until a power outage. Or drive failure. Or a virus. Or errant attempt to remove the French rm -fr. If that happened… would you bury the drive in a funeral?