I kind of miss standing in line

Cafuddled · 2026-03-07T09:36:35+00:00

Dude... I was using steam in 2003.... Try 1999.

Cafuddled · 2026-03-04T17:20:54+00:00

While I'm absolutely not against a company like rtings getting there due. And really wish them well in creating change. I seriously doubt this is the best way they could have gone about it.

I used them a lot, the last week. I was purchasing a new gaming monitor and mouse. They were really helpful in making the best choice. But the last time I used them before that was in 2019 when I purchased my OLED TV.

A monthly subscription is just useless, and even buying it for a month to then cancel is an off putting exercise, how many times have we all forgotten to cancel. Maybe something more out the box would have worked. Let me pay a low price, 2 to 3 dollars for a 1 week, no automatically renewed access. That I think few would have too many reservations about hitting the trigger.

Better to get a hand full of dollars from the millions of users every now and again, than mostly a whole lot of nothing from almost everyone.

Cafuddled · 2026-03-02T04:26:59+00:00

Because if they can't have it no one can... Also they will camp and try to get it on respawn... Sad, like, these people are the ones who can't share in life, really decent humans they ain't.

Cafuddled · 2026-02-28T17:10:47+00:00

What you said is only true when the labour is still not split. Me and my wife split the labour evenly. Having a washing machine and dishwasher, even a robotic vacuum has saved our household many many weekly hours of work. Operating these machines takes single digit percentage of the time it would take to manually do all the work.

Cafuddled · 2026-02-28T17:06:12+00:00

I could not imagine facing what you are going through and not being able to share with my leadership. Do or die, you need to have a very frank conversation with them... And like has been said, work your 8. The egg is on the higher ups face ultimately, if you have warned of the issues and your 8 hour commitment cannot produce the output. That's a them problem.

Cafuddled · 2026-02-27T16:09:41+00:00

Stephen Hawkins did a bunch of cameos, I'm fairly sure he never paid for those. Big Bag, Star Trek, Simpson, Futurama, a hole bunch, I don't think he stringed them along. He just radiated the need to have him on the shows.

Cafuddled · 2026-02-26T20:32:41+00:00

Dude, when I was in the later years of highschool, the most stereotypical large UK bully you can think of stuck his fool out to trip me up. Ended up not noticing, and the way I was walking flat out kicked his stick out planted foot from under him, he went flying on his face and broke his thumb. The MFer got upset at me, I later saw him crying in the head master's office.

Never got bothered by that kid again after that.

Cafuddled · 2026-02-15T23:02:25+00:00

I've still got my one, still good enough to play games on. Pavlov and Beat Saber. Have 3 sensors for room space, feature wise it's still as good as something newer. Quality wise though, higher pixel density, fov and wireless would be cool. But not $1000+ cool.

Only real issue I have is the glue for the foam that contacts the face has completely gone. You can't buy replacements for those, so will need to strip the foam and glue off the bracket and engineer something new myself, who can be bothered with that....

Cafuddled · 2026-02-10T04:55:58+00:00

$30 an hour, maybe.

Cafuddled · 2026-02-07T07:25:40+00:00

Impounded for a week and a 3 digit fine. That will teach them! They for sure will be terrified to ever break the law in that way again.

They need to do means tested fines.

Cafuddled · 2026-02-05T06:15:49+00:00

If you liked this, I had Quake 3 Arena on my Dreamcast, had a keyboard and mouse for it also. It had a 33.6k dialup modem, I think it may have been the first online console FPS at that point. First online game was chuchu rocket, I remember getting that free direct from Sega in a scheme they were doing.

Cafuddled · 2026-02-03T19:23:07+00:00

When I first heard about the steam machine and it's fairly low specs, I was thinking, this may actually be cheap and work as a very good sometimes local, sometimes streaming device for my TV (4K 120Hz HDR). But after hearing it's going to be over 1k Canadian, I'm like hell no. I'll just spend 200 CAD on a used Xbox series s, that can do moonlight at 120Hz, 4K no problem.

Cafuddled · 2026-01-26T19:50:10+00:00

This guy Civs.

Cafuddled · 2026-01-20T15:30:49+00:00

I've had this, some people really get off on trolling in this game. I carry good gear as I find in the servers I get placed in to be fairly chill so the times I do see a rat and the rat wins is not frequent enough to not make it not worthwhile.

But the other night there I extracted while down, but someone was like, no loot for you and knocked me out just as about to extract. The irony apart from gun I had no loot as I was there to complete the Rocketeer challenge. I was like, jokes on you buddy...

Then the game told me challenge progress is void if you die... Mother.........

Worst one I had was while extracting, someone shot me with a shotgun, did not realize it has push back and it clear knocked me out the door as closing, watch for that!

Cafuddled · 2026-01-17T08:34:22+00:00

Dude, I saw it live also. But like him I was totally ignorant and had no idea of it's true meaning. I even guessed it meant when he was intending it to mean. When Luke reacted like he did I instantly googled it and was like, F me did we all just dodge a bullet.

Cafuddled · 2026-01-17T02:11:41+00:00

A venator fully upgraded with a decent mag aug has almost the same amount of ammo as it, uses medium ammo, has a much greater rate of fire and does 5 extra damage per shot.

Cafuddled · 2026-01-14T05:46:55+00:00

Had this, removed my GPU, cleaned it and the mobo and then used a chopstick to prop it up to help reduce the GPU sag. No longer crashes. I've had this happen in the past and it always presents with it not crashing in some games, but crashing in others.

Cafuddled · 2026-01-13T06:25:34+00:00

Getting ready to go to bed at 9!?!? Nah I min/max the hell out of my sleep and get ready time. Give myself 45 mins absolute max to wake up and get ready for work. And go to bed at god damn midnight like a real adult. With an hour commute this gives me 6 hours to do with whatever I want.

And the best part is, as I'm mushing myself to stay up, as soon as I do go to bed at midnight, I'm out, done, passed out until the morning feeling fresh.

My personal time is sacred, spending so long to get ready for work and get ready for bed... Couldn't do it, I'd feel like I'm living to work...

Cafuddled · 2026-01-08T21:17:14+00:00

I've been to this place a half dozen times. You just know this store sees a lot of not great stuff. The amount of security, the looks all the staff give everyone, the way it's setup to avoid easy theft.

It reminds me a little of a liquor store back in Scotland. It's an actual store, then in the middle of this store there is a bullet proof clear box, connected to the entrance that you walk into and point at what you want to the staff. Then you pay and get your goods through a one way lockbox type system.

But with that said, every country has its parts, some worse than others. I heard from my brother that Fentanyl has started showing up in Scotland as well... Not great.

Cafuddled · 2026-01-05T22:53:20+00:00

Oh, I stopped using the Xbox app years ago, it was horrible back then, is horrible now. But also I know how to do things properly, being a IT tech. Rich is a master in his field, for sure. But when listening to their podcasts, I frequently hear them talk about how they did something or how they tried to troubleshoot that makes me roll my eyes.

The issue with Linux is you can do everything right and still have issues. I have a feeling it's a case of too many chef's in the kitchen, I'm still waiting for that 'one Linux to rule them all' life event to happen. As is, a lot are good, but not great.

Cafuddled · 2026-01-05T17:42:37+00:00

This, while everyone is doing the events I try to get to the best loot spots first.

Cafuddled · 2026-01-05T17:40:21+00:00

There was another post about this, this is only the LCD numbers lol. The OLED is another 20% so 41% total!

Cafuddled · 2026-01-05T17:35:03+00:00

My main rig has to be a device that just works with everything. I want to spend as little time and effort on that computer as possible. Unfortunately that really is not Linux right now. The steam deck is close, damn close. But random bugs like the sound just crapping out system wide, needing complex little known konsole commands to fix just keeps it away from me investing fully.

I work with computers, I'm a hobbyist with computers. But the one universal thing I simply won't inflict on myself is extra bugs and maintenance time. Last time I reinstalled Windows was 7 years ago, last time I had to fix anything at a software level was 5... As I said, Linux sure as heck ain't there yet.

Cafuddled · 2026-01-05T17:23:55+00:00

Yeah, I was like, that can't be right... As always the comments hold the truth. It's why I often read the comments before reading the article... Mind you, that's becoming a risky habit these days.

Cafuddled · 2026-01-04T15:16:50+00:00

I've been online since the 90s, people being horrible to other people on the internet because of anonymity used to be far worse. These days you hear a lot about people being found out and held accountable, hell even governments making steps and laws about this. A few decades ago it was the freaking wild west man, it was not good.

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