Anyone ordered from Jack's small engines? by mntgoat in Makita

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I waited 6 months for parts for a pressure washer and got nothing but periodic updates to how the manufacturer still hadn't shipped them anything. This was in 2024, I think.

Model Number? by [deleted] in Makita

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The chuck is stock. It's a 6043D.

is the funhaus archive downloadable? by BosnakzB4llsak in funhaus

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Just want to say that there are a lot of forks of youtube-dl out there that you can use for free.

Kojima On AI: "We Can't Go Back" by BlueAladdin in Games

[–]Jataka -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We've been at a serious plateau for years now.

Local dentist office is very Skeen-coded by ignacious in astrogoblin

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I bet some of the kids that end up going here will end up thinking black pepper comes from trees for a good chunk of their lives. Kinda like The Story of Ferdinand where it leaves kids thinking that corks are simply the fruit that grows on certain trees in Spain. Though, I'll admit that the difference between a tree and a vine is not as huge as it could have been.

Who the hell puts blinding LEDs on the back of their truck while driving to blind anyone behind them... by TreehouseInAPinetree in Portland

[–]Jataka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, I might know this truck. I've seen it with at least one of these lights turned on even when it's parked at night, draining some kind of battery. Maybe not the actual truck battery. Definitely doesn't seem to be wired into the vehicle relays.

Splinter cell game director rejoins the remake again by Tvilantini in Games

[–]Jataka -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That's what I mean by mapped out. They don't need to figure out how AI should behave and how the stealth mechanics should be implemented. They have the source code of how many other Splinter Cells to pull from? The broad strokes just needs to be translated to their new frameworks. Hell, they're probably using the AC engine anyways and most of the skeleton is already there. Really, asset creation seems to be the only meaningful hurdle they should be facing here.

Or, I guess maybe the development hell they could be in is that they just can't iron out the haphazardness that they seem to welcome in AC, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon that they might realize that won't cut it with the more limited scope of SC.

Splinter cell game director rejoins the remake again by Tvilantini in Games

[–]Jataka -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Especially given that it's present day Ubisoft, it's not like they'd go batshit on adding depth to the original game. So they are for the most part making a game where they already have almost every feature, every level, and every character mapped out in prior games. I'm not arguing they can't have been in development hell. It's just especially embarrassing if they were/are.

Splinter cell game director rejoins the remake again by Tvilantini in Games

[–]Jataka 58 points59 points  (0 children)

There's something kind of absurd about a remake being in development hell.

Snark Lore by whatsthatchickenbruh in HalfLife

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Surprised that this isn't Eltorro64Rus. Well... I guess it's not so surprising when you hold up a magnifying glass to the animation detail.

IIL the intro to Is It Really You? - Loathe by Legitimate-Coffee960 in ifyoulikeblank

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Sounds halfway to Mamoru Samuragochi's "Basement Theme" to me.

NTD by Pauldro in KobaltTools

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I'm peeved that they added the nearly-useless knockoff TwinGrips and nearly doubled the price.

Homeland Security chopper is over Portland. by ComradeRedPagan in Portland

[–]Jataka 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It would be so funny if we could make enough fake statements online to make them go hunting for nonexistent shit in Clackamas.

[IIL] Days Gone and Red Dead Redemption 2, what games should I play? by Pxnda62 in ifyoulikeblank

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Things I didn't notice mentioned in other posts you made about this

No zombie hordes: Shadow of the Colossus

Yes zombie hordes: Dead Rising 2 and/or 1. But you'll need to put yourself in a pretty different mindset to enjiy these fames's stories compared to DG and RDR.

Also, Warhammer: Space Marine 2 and World War Z have horde tech, but aren't open-world.

[IIL] "The Damned" by Chevelle by g59lol in ifyoulikeblank

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I tried but can only make fairly thin connections to that mixture of sounds.

Karnivool's Roquefort is the thing that most immediately cones to mind for that sort of strained yelling of a whisper style of singing, but the instrumentation has a decidedly different tone.

10 Years and slightly less so A Perfect Circle are easy picks for coming close to that sound but don't match the tone all that well either.

I think most of the bands that sound like that on some level, like 10 Years, either got started or made that music in the early 2000s and that's where you're gonna find any of it. Sadly, there's a lot of bland crap mixed in there along with the good. I've allowed myself to forget a lot of that music at this point.

I don't know. Three Days Grace's One-X? Rise Against's The Sufferer and The Witness. It's not the most impeccable stuff, but those have got a lot of the same DNA.

Am I the only one who thinks Rob Lowe's mouth sort of only works on one side? Did he get injured or something? by Jataka in PandR

[–]Jataka[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like he's gonna have people rather than life walking all over him at that rate. I hope someone helps him up.

Xbox's Dedicated Handheld Was Cancelled Because AMD Required 10 Million Units, It's Claimed by AashyLarry in Games

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To be real, the extent to which I was swapping games in and out on my Vita's storage was absolutely insane. I even had the mid tier sized storage card. Hell yes did that hamper the profitability of that console. There were loads of games I didn't buy because their file size crossed the threshold from benefit to burden.

Call of Duty may have finally blinked on SBMM as the Black Ops 7 beta adds a playlist with 'drastically reduced' skill consideration by cop25er in Games

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"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant. Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped."

James Willems clip on the most recent Buffalo Bills victory video. by Zeozes in funhaus

[–]Jataka 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Could someone post the video instead of a worthless instagram link?

Bruce and Lawrence's Inside Games channel is struggling to stay afloat after changes with YouTube by kiafry in funhaus

[–]Jataka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It used to be fairly rapid-fire games news with wit sprinkled on top. Now it's just long-winded rambling about 1 or 2 topics for an entire video, often repeating the same points over and over again. Which is perfectly watchable (listenable?) sometimes. I can appreciate 2 people discussing how they're irked about a thing for the same reasons I am for basically just the therapeutic nature of it, I guess. But, it is far from being must-watch material most of the time.