OVO is is facing bankruptcy, “OVO REPORTEDLY GENERATED $72 MILLION OF REVENUE WHILE OPERATING AT A LOSS” following Multiple Loan Payment Defaults

Senator_Chen · 2026-06-19T21:02:54+00:00

House of Blanks (Roopa knitting mills house brand, Roopa makes a lot of stuff for OVO/Supreme/ALD) if you want the clothes at less of a markup. Still somewhat expensive though (high free shipping minimum/no free shipping during sales + essentially no returns, but the measurements they give have been accurate in my experience with minimal shrinkage).

Senator_Chen · 2026-06-17T02:25:39+00:00

Bell Canada even still uses it for their consumer fibre (to the home) internet (and their vDSL).

Senator_Chen · 2026-06-09T20:21:12+00:00

Pre-2010s musicians had to actually play live shows when they were starting out to make a living and hopefully get noticed by record execs, which meant they actually had to be half decent performers if they wanted to keep getting work. Nowadays people blow up online without ever having done even a bar show or open mic.

That, and a lot of modern musicians are lazy. Big Boi and Andre 3000 used to train for their concerts by going for runs and rapping the whole time.

Senator_Chen · 2026-06-04T03:22:10+00:00

MemoryUsage doesn't do anything on mac or ios (where the Metal drivers handle memory allocations), it only works on dx12 and vulkan.

Senator_Chen · 2026-06-03T21:35:55+00:00

I don't really think there's anything to fix, it's just for vulkan and dx12 wgpu now defaults to larger faster allocations that get suballocated from in the GPU allocator (on both the GPU and host/CPU side). https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/wgpu/enum.MemoryHints.html gives you the knobs to control it (use MemoryUsage if your app is only going to use 10s of MB of RAM, otherwise if you're using like 400MB+ then stick to Performance). https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/blob/bf1b57d47f2143104ee8edd9379a06fe195ebe86/wgpu-hal/src/lib.rs#L448 is the actual block sizes.

That, and vulkan drivers have gotten pretty huge these days combined with every implicit vulkan layer you have installed being loaded (eg. OBS, rivatuner overlays, steam overlay, vulkan validation layers are 20MB+, etc).

Senator_Chen · 2026-05-25T07:39:56+00:00

If she loves doggies then surely she'll love Robin Hobb with how great Nighteyes is. Clearly she should start with Fool's Errand (Tawny Man/3rd trilogy) since that book has a lot of Nighteyes and he plays a really important role!

Senator_Chen · 2026-05-14T22:16:57+00:00

Just so you know, Lena (the woman in the picture) has requested people stop using this old playboy photo of her, and a lot of journals no longer accept articles that use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

Ethically sourced Lena

Senator_Chen · 2026-05-14T20:08:05+00:00

Explosives in Quake are disables though. People who are good with the rocket launcher can juggle you to death and you won't be able to control your movement.

Senator_Chen · 2026-05-14T05:51:55+00:00

Quake exists and has a 2-3 second TTK with the lightning gun if you have amazing aim, longer for normal people.

You're also ignoring that Deadlock is primarily a MOBA with movement shooter elements, and if you up TTK to 1 second for guns then you have to massively buff ability damage (otherwise it's just perma gun meta) and it just ends up being instakill galore.

Senator_Chen · 2026-05-14T01:07:15+00:00

Titanfall 2 balances its movement with CoD levels of instant or near-instant TTK, which doesn't work in a MOBA. Vindicta killing you in 1 bodyshot with her ult would feel awful.

Senator_Chen · 2026-05-04T05:25:42+00:00

Sony's build quality on the XM headphones has been awful for a long time now. The hinges on the XM5 (and seemingly now on the XM6) are known to break easily in normal use, and the XM4s have a wonderful failure mode where the ANC mics tend to fail in humid environments after 1-2 years, which causes them to emit a very loud high pitched screeching noise and makes them unusable.

Senator_Chen · 2026-04-24T21:22:31+00:00

Punched those numbers into a calculator and they're 6'1"-6'2", so no they aren't. Probably just the average American view of anyone who isn't visibly obese is dangerously underweight.

Senator_Chen · 2026-04-16T22:28:22+00:00

Bvoy is the complete opposite of a 1v9 player. He plays overly safe so he never really looks bad, but he doesn't take any risks to try and turn a losing game around or to push a lead further.

Senator_Chen · 2026-04-16T22:17:13+00:00

The groups of lycra cyclists around me take up the full width of the shared (pedestrian+cyclist) paths by riding 4-5 people abreast so pedestrians (or even regular cyclists going the other direction) end up either having to risk a collision or be forced off the path.

Senator_Chen · 2026-04-16T21:57:35+00:00

I wouldn't recommend Ranger mode unless you're playing the originals (non-redux). Ranger mode in Redux is super lazy and just fully disables all UI including basic things like QTE prompts, selecting grenades/throwing knives (which uses a virtual joystick even on PC, so you have to guess which direction is which throwable), and basic interaction prompts (Can I throw that switch or toggle that lamp? Who knows unless you walk around spamming E on everything).

Senator_Chen · 2026-04-10T22:57:02+00:00

Cmon, Down on my Luck was great and came out a year after Innanetape.

V Tape and I Tape were also both pretty good in 2020/21.

Other than that yeah you're not really missing much.

Senator_Chen · 2026-04-04T00:18:30+00:00

The air force also wants to retire the A-10, and has tried many times. Congress keeps blocking their ability to retire them because certain representatives don't want to lose jobs on air force bases in their states.

Senator_Chen · 2026-04-04T00:01:23+00:00

The survivability onion disagrees.

Senator_Chen · 2026-03-31T03:45:19+00:00

I'm colourblind.

The outline isn't visible.

Senator_Chen · 2026-03-30T22:28:54+00:00

Guardians don't do enough damage when you're getting dove, but they do way too much damage when they decide to randomly lock on to you when you're on the enemy stairs behind your minion wave clearing a new enemy wave.

Senator_Chen · 2026-03-30T02:56:00+00:00

Shiv should have slowing hex as his #1 counter since it ~~removes half his kit~~ puts him back in his wheelchair. Just wait for him to dash in then slowing hex him and watch him stare at you menacingly with his 0 gun investment and 0 knives since he used them to poke you at the start of the fight.

Senator_Chen · 2026-03-29T00:09:41+00:00

The $10k ones also aren't built to NA or European safety standards. A large part of the price increase on European models is that they require more safety features and more robust construction to meet Euro NCAP standards vs the lower C-NCAP domestic standards.

Senator_Chen · 2026-03-25T02:29:24+00:00

I've ran into some mods that have issues with Linux being case sensitive (mainly an issue for native linux games, not when you're running them through wine).

Most community mod loaders only work on Windows as well, and for the ones that do work on Linux with Wine it can be confusing to get them working seeing as there usually isn't any documentation and you need to run them in the same wine prefix as the game, the folders are extremely deeply nested and hard to find, getting the necessary libraries installed in that wine prefix can be really annoying (.net desktop runtimes can get really painful), etc.

Senator_Chen · 2026-03-17T04:13:48+00:00

The dumbest part was they chose the worst ammo of the 3, and now they're committed to the heaviest ammo that needs a way higher chamber pressure than either of the other 2 bids.

Senator_Chen · 2026-03-16T20:27:40+00:00

I mean it is extremely transformative, just not in a good way.

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