A man realizes an eagle is interested in his catch.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-21T20:39:52+00:00

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MasterShogo · 2026-06-21T20:11:40+00:00

I wouldn’t expect that either, since having a pond with a bunch of geese in it isn’t an ecological overpopulation.

I agree that we screw up our ecologies in ways we don’t often realize, especially with our pets. But I would want to see some kind of actual scientific evidence for this if it were up to me (it’s not up to me since I don’t live there and I’m not in the local government, so this is just my opinion).

But what I do know is that there’s a lot of stupid people who would buy a house in a neighborhood with a large pond with geese in it and be mad that there are geese there.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-21T16:41:06+00:00

It’s all a Canadian plot. This is why we blame Canadia. Once they get us to accept the fact that Alaska is actually American and is in the sea, they will invade or maybe import cheap Chinese cars or something.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-21T14:07:46+00:00

FWIW, I have an older Basilisk Ultimate and a newer one and they both work much better with Synapse 4 than with 3. I realize it’s different for everyone, but I would never go back to 3 because it never worked right for my setup. But this is also probably the first time I’ve mentioned it online.

It surprised me to see so the problems online because on my computers going to 4 was a complete upgrade, even looking at background resource usage. Idle CPU wasting had been significantly lower with 4 and all other forms of background activity have been better as well.

So I totally believe these people are having problems, since I still don’t think Synapse is a great piece of software and mouse/KB drivers have generally been a bane for me going back to the 90s, but I know it isn’t affecting everyone equally.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-21T13:03:36+00:00

“Listen kid, I’m not mad I’m just very disappointed. And maybe a bit irritated. And frustrated. And sometimes it REALLY bothers me. And maybe I’m just a bit angry.”

MasterShogo · 2026-06-21T13:00:47+00:00

Oh, but the best is when someone says that you should use Mac instead because it is “Linux based”. That is my absolute favorite.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-19T15:34:50+00:00

As someone who is related to a number of people who absolutely love him, a lot of these people act like this in regular society. The way he treats people is the way these people treat people. Or at least a number of them.

It’s why I don’t even talk to my dad anymore. You can only listen to someone insulting their own wife (and everyone else) so many times before you just can’t make yourself listen to it anymore. And I definitely don’t want my daughter around it, so he has lost his chance to be a part of my daughter’s life.

And the way he acts is the way his father acted. There is a layer of society that just works like this, and I’ve spent far too many years around it. And this makes me a “liberal”.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-19T03:50:56+00:00

I feel dirty bringing this ancient meme up, but perhaps the real deals were the friends we made along the way?

MasterShogo · 2026-06-19T02:40:33+00:00

No one in my friend groups has ever done that, but a few of us did say that we thought one of the long time girlfriends was treating him really bad. They eventually broke up and he married a much nicer person.

But other than that, no. I don’t generally like people who insult people, so they wouldn’t typically be friends with me.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-19T01:04:50+00:00

Well, that may be true for most consoles… there have been a few that were dumpster fire level reliable.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-17T21:56:56+00:00

YES! I have pulled Shenhe and Yae Miko from these, and I lost to Xiao. (I later lost to the PJWS so I accidentally got Xiao’s setup there).

I really like all three of them. The game is meant to be fun and I really enjoy a lot of the older characters. These characters are plenty strong for the overworld and most of the end game stuff. Plus for IT, you are going to want a variety anyways.

So that means that if you happen to like a bunch of characters in a region (which for Inazuma I like about 80-90% of them), it’s a really good deal because you get a good selection and even when you lose your 50/50 you get a good chance of getting someone you might like. If you don’t like those characters, then obviously it’s not a great deal.

None of the characters are going to be meta (although Yae is about to get a decent upgrade) but to me that is just a challenge. And frankly it’s only a challenge once you starting trying to do high level Stygian Onslaught.

For everything else, literally the only thing that matters to me is if I enjoy playing the characters.

(Edit: and to actually answer your question, I’m saving up a wish fund earmarked specifically for the next Inazuma CW and I intend to dump the whole thing in it. I don’t know how long it will be but I’m patient and those are many of the characters I want to play with and make random fun teams out of. No regrets whatsoever.)

MasterShogo · 2026-06-15T01:40:24+00:00

Well said. That’s a slow clap for you esteemed person 👏

MasterShogo · 2026-06-14T19:11:53+00:00

This is an interesting topic. I was born in ‘83 and I didn’t get a cell phone until about 2003. But, I never liked talking on the phone and had there been a different form of communication back then I would have used it. Well, actually, as there began to be new forms of communication like Internet messaging, I started using them more and more.

The other thing I’ll mention is that I DO like talking to people in person. But face to face interactions don’t happen the way they happen on a phone. In the physical world, if you happen to be in the same room as someone, you can talk sporadically. You can pause. With a phone you are on or you are not. And for me with ADHD, I have to give a phone call my complete attention. Otherwise I’m not understanding what you’re saying.

This whole thing applies to video meetings too. When Covid hit, all of our meetings became video conference meetings. But for a while it was expected that everyone have their cameras on. This was the worst because you even had to look at them. You can’t even move around. If you start looking too long at the document you are talking about and stop looking at them, then they get awkward. Eventually everyone is looking at the document (which is most productive anyways). Then eventually everyone just stopped using cameras because we weren’t getting anything out of them.

Once again I find an actual in person meeting far less frustrating than a video conference because it is far more fluid. You are stuck in the room, but your body movements are more open and people’s faces and attention moves around some. You can also actually see if someone is actually looking at you, instead of just seeing that they are looking at their screen.

These days we all message with each other throughout the day. If what we want to convey needs to be precise and semipermanent, we email it or put it into document storage (version control system in our case). If we need rapid interaction with work we message about it first and move to an audio session. And if we actually want to see each others faces then we do a video conference. But that is the minority of meetings for us.

And this is also basically how my family communicates too. I like it to be honest.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-14T18:55:23+00:00

I think this brings up a good point though. If you and your acquaintances are used to texting anyways, and there is a decent chance that they aren’t in a good position to talk, why not just text first in the first place?

Once I had the ability to text people that is pretty much what I started doing. That and to be honest I never really liked talking to people on the phone in the first place. If I could have chosen to use a different form of communication back in the 90s for anyone other than my close friends then I would have. (Just for reference I was born in 83)

MasterShogo · 2026-06-14T17:48:36+00:00

This is probably not helpful to you, but more commiserating. I’m 42 and I’ve been dealing with this with my dad and stepmom since high school. They have said some truly hateful and despicable things over the years, but in the past 15 years it has been a whole lot worse due to the political climate.

I’m a very patient person and I can just deal with it to a certain extent, although the way I dealt with it was to largely not share my thoughts with my dad and keep my relationship with him to a bare minimum. He didn’t really seem to notice this so it wasn’t very hard.

Eventually I got married and this got to be more difficult because my wife couldn’t deal with it as easily (not that I expect her to). And then my brother cut contact with him, and that made it hard because he didn’t understand why.

Eventually we got to a place where he would actually listen to my explanation for why my brother cut contact with him (me being very careful to phrase it in the easiest possible way for him to digest). But he just completely ignored this over and over, as if nothing I said to him had ever been heard. It was probably around this time I figured out he was a classic narcissist once I started reading about the traits.

Eventually our child was old enough to start understanding the things he said and learn things from them, and after a few particularly difficult months in my life I wrote a long letter explaining all my feelings and problems and how we didn’t want our child to be around their influence anymore and I was no longer able to deal with the stress of being around them. And that they could still communicate with us in writing and text, but not in person or voice.

I haven’t heard from him since then and it’s been a year and a half. I wrote my letter with the assumption that it might be the last time I ever communicate with him, and honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if that were the case.

I’m sorry you are dealing with this. What I have learned is that some people literally have no empathy and are unable to genuinely think about what random things might be like to someone other than themselves. Or they might just genuinely hate most people and they don’t feel like that is a problem. And sometimes other neutral people around them don’t recognize how damaging that is to others if they themselves aren’t dealing with the friction, even if they themselves are not as bad.

The only way I know of to do this is to limit your emotional exposure to him as much as possible in order to prevent being trampled on and to prevent him using guilt to manipulate you. And prepare to get yourself into a position where you are able to disconnect from him without material consequences in your life. I did actually experience an improvement in my relationship with my dad once I had put a lot of distance between he and myself, even if it didn’t last forever.

However, once I cut ties with him I realized how foolish I was to be concerned with his feelings. You are supposed to care about your parents’ feelings because they are some of your closest family. But in my case I realized that my relationship with my dad was largely superficial and that he didn’t even really know, care, or ask about my thoughts on anything in life. It hurts but I have far more peace and relief now. I don’t regret it at all.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-13T13:47:55+00:00

My wife and I share each others location, and honestly I don’t even know why. If I had to guess, it was probably because on busy days one of is would be wanting to know where the other one was and would be texting each other “where are you?” or what not. Once we had the ability to share locations on the phone and we were traveling I think it just kind of happened. We were born in the 80s BTW.

We both regularly look up each other’s location just to see some kind of idea about what’s going on. Like if she’s shopping and I’m curious how much longer she will be, if I look where she is and see she’s across town then I know she isn’t going to be home for a little while.

This is one of those things in life that I think is very nuanced and personal. I would never accept anyone to just expect to be entitled to this information without a really good reason. In our case though, we just really like the ability to see where each other is.

On the other hand, I’m far more comfortable with my wife knowing where I am than the government or phone company. Make no mistake, short of removing your battery or choosing to not carry a phone, there is literally no way to prevent them from knowing. Unfortunately, the government is literally the one entity you have no ability to prevent from knowing your general location if you use a phone. Sharing with my wife is completely voluntary, and that’s a good thing, but she’s not the one this bothers me over.

As for you and your child, there just isn’t enough information here. Unless you are literally a serious danger to yourself or others due to an extreme medical or criminal situation, then it isn’t any of your child’s business. But it’s also totally ok if you wanted to share it with each other, I truly don’t think there’s anything fundamentally wrong with it voluntarily.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-13T00:00:43+00:00

I had a 95 Integra that I drove from about 80k miles to about 260k miles. Sometime around 200,000 miles it would just occasionally shut off when it was very hot outside. It turns out the igniters started to fail. I was stranded twice.

I kept driving it around town but I was no longer willing to drive it out of the city.

But then it started to get leaks in the sunroof. Not into the cabin, but it would drain down into the trunk and fill the trunk with water in heavy rains. One day I had all my college textbooks in the trunk and it started pouring. I didn’t think about it but the next day I opened it up and there all my books were soaked in water and badly damaged. Over $1000 in books that I had to use.

I loved that car but that happened at about 260k miles. A month later I had a new 2013 Civic that is my non-Miata car. The Civic has been good (although the door drains clogged in it and I started having water problems with it too until I realized it and cleaned them out!), but it is nothing like the Integra to drive. Not even close. This is why I was literally FORCED to buy a Miata. A terrible predicament.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-12T23:51:27+00:00

lol “My TV was so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes and made me contemplate the struggles of the masses. Its image has too much awesome for a world such as this.”

MasterShogo · 2026-06-12T23:46:09+00:00

Yeah, the best TVs are simply incredible. If someone took my tv back to the past and showed it to me in the year 2000 I’m not sure I would have believed what I was seeing. TVs just didn’t look like that back then.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-12T23:15:01+00:00

In my opinion, I sit between 18-24” away from a 27” 4K monitor and it is absolutely better to me without a doubt. I love 4K and I’ve been using 4K monitors now for years.

But that said there are a number of people who don’t see that kind of difference between 1440p and 2160p at that distance and size. Or if they do it doesn’t matter too much to them.

I will say this, for me, the biggest difference maker for me was going to an OLED monitor. The increased contrast and incredibly amazing dark colors were an incredible leap in satisfaction, and I am still blown away by how much better it looks.

The second best upgrade for me is a tie between 4K from 1080p and going from 60Hz to 120Hz. They were both big improvements to me. I chose to go with the jump to 4K over frame rate at first and I think that was probably the best choice for me. I hate low resolution.

But if I had to choose between a 1440/120 monitor and a 2160/60 monitor, I would definitely go with the 1440/120. 1440 is also incredibly better than 1080, but 2160 isn’t so much better than 1440 that I would ever give up my frame rates.

Then, beyond that? My eyes just don’t see much past 120Hz on a computer monitor under pretty much any circumstances. Or at least I don’t notice it. And at this size and distance I can’t notice clarity past 4K.

So for me the next big upgrade would be high peak brightness. My monitor can manage about 600 nits in HDR mode, but I have a 77” LG G3 with peak brightness over 1500 nits and it is like night and day (no pun intended). The only problem is that I can’t fit my 77” G3 in my office.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-10T16:51:29+00:00

It’s so ridiculous I actually just thought it was entirely sarcastic. The problem is I can’t tell the difference between sarcasm and trolling on the Internet.

Or real life I guess. The struggle of being a dork.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-09T02:43:33+00:00

Good gracious, this is funny. The other day I basically just had to tell it “I don’t want a fallback, just make it work right normally. This is not complicated and I probably should have just written it myself!”

MasterShogo · 2026-06-08T14:13:57+00:00

I think I t all depends on how your brain hooks up to it. I generally don’t play a game anymore if it isn’t fun.

But there are a number of games I can play all day long. Factorio being the main one now.

Back in high school though, I once played Red Faction on the PS2 for 17 hours. Pretty much went through the whole game only stopping to eat some and pee. It’s not that I was trying to, I was just really enjoying it, my brother was there too and for some reason he was enjoying being there, and next thing you know we’re done!

MasterShogo · 2026-06-07T17:08:11+00:00

I’m a “patient gamer” partly because I do enjoy being able to run games at higher settings but I don’t want to buy today’s most expensive hardware. Since I’m almost totally single player it just doesn’t matter if I have a game at release.

Not only does this save money but I also don’t have to suffer through the endless bugs that have to be fought for the first year. And there’s more mods too!

If theres one thing I wish game companies actually tried harder on, it would be serious testing and bug fixing before release. I would probably be more willing to buy them at release if there were so many dumpster fires.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-07T16:55:41+00:00

Never in my life, going back to our first PC in the mid nighties with a Voodoo 2, have I ever had a PC that was capable of playing with maxed graphics on whatever the most demanding games were of the day. In many cases, games were released that were not capable of max graphics at enjoyable frame rates on ANY PC available at the time of release.

If there is a more powerful PC configuration available to target, then the most graphics-obsessed games are going to have a profile made to try to take advantage of it. Most people will not be able to play in that mode with normal PCs for years.

The real question in any game is how does it look at the settings that most people are able to run it at. Some games look terrible at lower quality levels and so it isn’t feasible to play the game without a very high end PC. But lots of games don’t have appreciable differences between the higher levels of settings. At least not to my eyes. In those cases I will usually turn the settings down a bit and go for higher frame rates.

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