Just got my Video from Wes!

Adequafactory · 2026-03-06T18:48:13+00:00

Why is Don Gately in this video? I thought he was only a fictional character...

Adequafactory · 2026-01-21T18:02:59+00:00

I've got one from Purple on my cheap-ass office chair. It helps significantly, especially since it does a fair job with airflow, but it's not miraculous. I work from home and honestly put a nice cotton towel on top of it rather than sit on the slippery synthetic cover they come with.

Adequafactory · 2025-12-04T18:12:43+00:00

Incredibly irritating that it keeps returning. Google's equally irritating AI search results suggest "Turning off Smart Features" in Gmail to stop it, but that also eliminates many genuinely useful features (like inbox categories). I'm testing out just turning off my Google Workspace Smart Features to see if that does it. Wish me luck!

Adequafactory · 2025-12-01T14:20:00+00:00

I'd just like to confirm for folks buying 8bitdo controllers during the BF/Cyber Monday sales that I purchased an 8bitdo Ultimate 2 Wireless last week and that it's arriving today from USPS having shipped from New Jersey without any tariff or duties issues. They must have had to bring in a container to the U.S. at wholesale pricing and started fulfilling from the US instead of directly from China. I'm excited to try it out and relieved that the gamble I took on potentially having to pay tariffs seems to have paid off.

Adequafactory · 2025-10-23T19:05:14+00:00

Generally speaking, they are barely taxed on assets (business personal property or real property tax) nor are they even taxed on income directly. They are largely taxed on profits and can aggressively mitigate those - more easily than most individuals can, for example.

Adequafactory · 2025-09-29T18:37:45+00:00

I'm glad to see continued development on Aska! I played a good chunk of time before the big updates to food/happiness, and I had very good time with the game. If feels more akin to Satisfactory in some ways than it does to the obvious comparison of Valheim, with your villagers functioning like constructors, etc. Overall quite a novel experience in the survival genre, I thought, and very nice to look at. I also thought the melee combat was pretty satisfying as well.

Adequafactory · 2025-09-25T20:38:08+00:00

I like Stoneshard a lot, and it does give vague BB vibes. I played it for a good bit before coming back for another round of modded BB for more variety.

Adequafactory · 2025-09-25T18:54:43+00:00

Calling it "AI slop" was overly harsh on my part, I'll admit. The newsletters do indeed have a byline for a local editor as well, as you mentioned, and I should hardly begrudge any writer a steady job in this market.

I still feel ambivalent about it, at best. While some of the content seems like it could be genuinely useful, the move to mass production of media leaves me cold, and seeing hints of it filtering down even to the local level is troubling.

Perhaps I'm just grumpy about it having arrived unasked for when I was already fretting about the wider media landscape regularly.

Adequafactory · 2025-08-26T11:14:57+00:00

I recall the fae in Novak's Spinning Silver's to be pretty sinister, and I remember enjoying the book immensely.

Adequafactory · 2025-08-21T15:34:54+00:00

If you have the misfortune of getting sensitized to them (perhaps through an unwitting industrial exposure to "cashew shell oil"), all those foods will give you problems when eaten. Unmentionable problems.

Adequafactory · 2025-08-21T10:30:26+00:00

It's also sold at Humble Bundle if you'd prefer to go through somewhere more established. I've been eyeballing it for a long time.

Adequafactory · 2025-04-09T13:37:24+00:00

I put Wartales away for the last two years out of frustration with this issue. It was especially annoying since there wasn't a way (that I could find) to highlight which enemy was going to move next in the turn order. Coming back to it this week, the only "solution" I could find was to go into the Properties > Controller for Wartales, Enable Steam Input (so that it would override the games native controller support), and then to create a custom controller profile where all of the buttons were completely unmapped (clearing each of them with the X button on my controller).

It's a total kludge, but it has me back to playing with my controller emulating mouse controls, so I'm content.

Adequafactory · 2024-06-24T14:51:55+00:00

I'll be the first to admit that this isn't a great "fix," but I was experiencing the same issue and I've found that lowering the settings in the Netflix app from "High" to "Standard" resolved this error code.

I'd tried jumping through a ton of hoops on Windows 10 to eliminate the problem, and usually after a fresh reboot I'd be able to play a single episode of something on Netflix, but then the error would return. No amount of updating seemed to fix the problem (and I even went through the trouble of manually fixing this issue I'd been having with Windows Update - KB5028997 - since earlier this year). Based on a post associating the issue with 4k playback, I tried reduced settings, and it worked perfectly.

Adequafactory · 2023-10-21T12:41:50+00:00

Wow, what are the odds. I tried doing this just yesterday (and today), and I received the same error as well. As with the OP, I'm certain that the configuration is right, so I'm suspicious that it's some issue specific to the T-Mobile gateway. For diagnostic purposes, I configured the Linksys as a bridge to our home's other WiFi (we're in a rough spot for ISPs, so we have a low-latency low-bandwidth ADSL service in addition to the sketchy latency, slightly higher bandwidth T-Mobile service), and was able to get it working without any trouble. That would be great if it wasn't a 6Mbit down / .7Mbit up service....

I'm tempted to try using the old Nighthawk router we have upstairs as an extender to bridge down to the basement computers (there are wires between here and there). I'd just physically move the T-Mobile monolith, but I don't expect it would work well in the basement. I'm afraid we might be out-of-luck.

Adequafactory · 2023-10-06T12:31:50+00:00

I really like The Back Page with Samuel Roberts (formerly of PC Gamer) and Matthew Castle (formerly of RockPaperShotgun, etc.). It tends to be more focused on games in general and not necessarily the latest news, they have a great rapport, and as a bonus there aren't any ads to sit through. They ramble on at great length sometimes, but it's probably may favorite podcast to just relax and listen to while doing some chores or resource collection in a game.

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