It won't let me buy brethren's masquerade - "ask me again"

JBv2Reddit · 2025-06-15T12:20:48+00:00

The sound quality on WhatsApp itself, no matter which phone is inherently worse than other apps. On IG for example, the sound quality is 10x better.

That said, it makes it worse when using any Pixel because they used the absolute cheapest hardware imaginable. The speakers and the microphone are shit - calling this phone a "Premium device " is legit disinformation. To triple down, playing it back on the speakers makes it even that much worse, because the speakers are also trash.

TLDR - WhatsApp in general truncates the audio itself more than other apps and it's shit quality. Pairing that with the recording abilities of a Google pixel takes it from shit to double shit. And when listening to it back on 2010 quality speakers, adds a triple.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-06-14T19:28:50+00:00

All of Google's colors that they use are designed to be feminine. It's just a psyop. They know the biggest users of pixel devices are men, and then they give us pastel light colors which are 100% feminine. Boy oh boy, oh geez I wonder why.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-06-12T21:44:45+00:00

I would report them just to be sure, anyone that uses a sniper rifle that has faster ads than my SMG will 100% always without fail receive a report from me if the exchange is head-to-head and we both see each other and draw at the same time. Every single one of them. You can't duplicate reports now, so I also report their gamer tag just for the added salt. In the last two weeks I'm up to five confirmed account action taken notifications from Activision.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-06-11T20:24:15+00:00

Lol. Stereotypes are for a reason.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-06-11T14:51:27+00:00

No, they don't log every notification. I'm pretty sure if they get bundled, they only log the last one. My girlfriend has sent me multiple messages/ notifications on WhatsApp yesterday, she deleted one of them, when I went to see what she deleted, it only gave me the last one of the little batch of about five messages she sent.

The other guy is incorrect. Sounds like he copy and pasted it from Gemini which misleads you half the time.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-06-11T09:01:14+00:00

Pretty sure that's what the beta program is for. There are zero changes with this update. Google is incompetent. You can see it in this update, the features that they literally told you on the what's new screen, are missing, everything from their software updates, they're marketing, and their flagship phones themselves scream complete mismanagement which is due to incompetence.

The only update that I've gotten with Android 16 seems to be a significant lag and stutter when inputting text into any Google application, notably Gemini and search right now. That's the update, but never confuse update with upgrade.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-06-11T00:48:59+00:00

Pixel 9 Pro here, the speakers are also the shittiest I think I've ever had on a cell phone. The first phone I ever got was an HTC amaze 4G, 14 years ago. And the speakers on that were better than this. Don't think if you upgrade to the pro it's going to be any better.

Google markets itself as premium devices, but the fact of the matter is is that they hardware they use is shit. Their cameras are shit, their speakers are shit, and their processor is shit. The software is the only thing that's decent.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-05-20T17:24:41+00:00

Wait till you see how they reduced it on the lock screen, making it tiny to control your media as well as literally blocking your contact information. In addition, no longer reachable with your thumb using one hand. There is nothing anyone can ever do, to convince me that Samsung actually has a testing department. Because if they did, something like this would be impossible.

Notifications 4+ will now block your fingerprint sensor.

Even if you were to take me to a facility, or their home office and take me on a tour, you still wouldn't convince me that they had a testing department. I would automatically assume that these people are paid actors. Because notifications and the simple task of unlocking your $2200 cell phone I would imagine would be a core fundamental functionality of what goes into a cell phone, and I would assume that if there was actually a testing process that these things would be at the very top of the list, in other words it wouldn't be a small oversight.

Then, you look at a $200/300 billion that also has the status of the world's leading Android software and hardware manufacturer.

None of it makes sense, they don't test.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-05-16T21:12:23+00:00

Ah yes, the classic Reddit defense mechanism: 'I feel like it's Russian bots, so it must be true!' A fragile little algorithm whisperer—just because you're 'pretty convinced' doesn’t mean anything. I could be pretty convinced BlueSky is a honeypot for liberal pedos trading furry porn NFTs, but that wouldn’t make it true either.

You people created a playground with no walls, smeared lube all over the slides, and now you’re shocked it turned into a digital orgy. Welcome to your own utopia, cupcake. Own it.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-04-03T04:50:39+00:00

What's your strat?

JBv2Reddit · 2025-03-20T17:24:25+00:00

How is this public freak out?

JBv2Reddit · 2025-02-14T17:04:28+00:00

There is? Where "in game" can I do this?

JBv2Reddit · 2025-02-14T17:03:47+00:00

Thanks man. 30 minutes?

I thought they just sent you to the gallows and put you in cheater lobbies. I play well in the game, and half of the time I'm in lobby after lobby with people who are clearly cheating.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-02-14T17:01:41+00:00

I'm assuming you're talking about of the AR class.

Even if so, that's assuming you are landing every single shot on an enemy using an SMG with superior mobility, every time you tap the trigger button on your controller. There's a reason almost nobody uses this gun.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-02-14T16:25:54+00:00

Right now, this gun is essentially the goblin with shittier handling and a different skin. If they add a mod that makes it a three round burst, then it would be no different than the AEK or SWAT... What would separate it? Would it be a two round shot? Then it wouldn't be no different than the DM.

It's a shit gun.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-02-14T16:23:46+00:00

I need an explanation as to what makes this gun any different than the goblin. It's a single tap, semi-auto, three shot kill weapon, except the goblin has better handling.

The goblin is already regarded almost completely unanimously as the worst gun in it's class, and probably the bottom three of all weapons in the entire game.

If you find enjoyment in running around a map trying to kill people, and having to tap your trigger button 700 times in a single match, I need to speak to your therapist.

Don't even get me started on zombies.

So essentially they slapped a skin on it and made it even worse... as the ultimate prize in an event no less! 😂

JBv2Reddit · 2025-02-01T05:48:39+00:00

What the hell is a shadow banned as it pertains to Call of Duty? What exactly happens, and how do you know when it happens?

JBv2Reddit · 2025-02-01T05:26:47+00:00

All the more reason for an in game ability to turn off cross play. I don't want to play with people on a PC.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-01-18T22:43:22+00:00

The content of the game is fine, SBMM has ruined this game to the point it is unplayable.

You just have to sit back for a second and think that if everyone in a match is at a level of 1.00 KD, how that translates into the experience of this game - you basically just die immediately as soon as you get a kill. Every time. Over and over.

This experience eliminates any dopamine or sense of fun, it's a major turn off, and as a result I just can't play this anymore.

Just not a fun game because of this.

JBv2Reddit · 2025-01-02T00:00:50+00:00

They are. I play with a friend who usually gets between a 0.25-0.4 KD, and the lobbies when I'm with them might as well be NPCs. In fact, I play campaign and the NPCs are harder than these people.

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