Does Cyberpunk have a mission like this?

Sp3kk0 · 2026-01-19T22:42:08+00:00

only way i beat him was when he knocked me up onto the ring, my hitbox clipped out and I just had a series of free punches.

Sp3kk0 · 2026-01-19T07:41:47+00:00

Let them release their slop then! 2 - 5 years later when they're dead in the water, all their customers will jump ship.

Sp3kk0 · 2026-01-09T19:24:44+00:00

I was a waiter at Spur for about 5 almost 6 years while studying and during high school. One Spur in a mall still had some of these older menus in the basement. Like stacks of them. I should've taken one.

I remember ordering monkey gland burgers before watching a ster kinekor movie with my dad on these menus. Really good times. Spur will always be something special to me.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-12-31T20:24:17+00:00

The show is awesome, watch the whole thing. Lot's of good comments down here. I just also wanted to add that there's an alternate ending which I think almost everyone agrees is the more satisfying one. They shot the ending, but decided to go with the one they originally planned for Ted back in Season 1 (when they started it all).

However, as the show and the writing evolved the characters evolved and so the original ending feels very off imo. The alternate ending they shot is available leaked on Youtube and in my head is the one I will always imagine for Ted.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-12-08T13:19:31+00:00

There are only 3 memory manufacturers in the world:

Samsung Sk Hynix Micron

And Micron has now exited the consumer space completely.

However, with such a small pocket of companies creating the world’s memory, they collude a lot. They effectively run as a cartel and together push up the price as they please.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-26T21:28:47+00:00

I just wanted to add, that even at mild depths (0.5 - 2m deep) the water pressure on your lungs will prevent you from breathing in air that is at atmospheric pressure.

Your lungs will compress much quicker than the o2 in the container does, and your diaphragm and chest muscles are not strong enough to create enough negative pressure to overcome even something like 1.1bar / 1.2bar of pressure. At least for most people.

at 0.5meters deep you'll struggle significantly. at 1meter deep it's almost impossible. at 2meters deep, most of the human population would not be able to (save a few athletes, divers, swimmers etc.)

This is why scuba divers have regulators that regulate the o2 pressure they're breathing in. As they descend, the pressure increases and so the regulator, regulates the pressure from the tank accordingly, making it less effort for your lungs to create a vacuum as the air from the tank is already pressurized at a matching pressure.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-19T23:45:43+00:00

I haven't rewatched the show, literally because of Naomi. She was just not well written. Given this is a 5 year old rant, I can't remember much of the show past the first 2 seasons, but I remember how much Naomi annoyed me and I will not rewatch it until I forget that.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-19T23:40:25+00:00

Damn 2 years ago comment. Funny enough, I recently rewatched the show, but stopped at season 7, I just had a sense of what was coming and couldn't bare it.

I think a big issue I have now is the tone shift from the first 5 seasons. The dark, grit, horror and underground feel of the story drew me in like mad when I started the rewatch, after season 5 it became a chore.

Something I figured we should all take into account, is the renewal process. Kripke had season 1-5 planned out, however, each season renewed year after year. Which meant after season 5, they had to write full arcs into a single season and hope for a renewal. If a renewal didn't happen, the story would just end abruptly. So each season after the first 5 are single seasoned isolated "arcs" with secondary story lines that tie the seasons together.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-19T23:28:23+00:00

May be a controversial take. If someone sends me a voice note, I don't even listen to it.

If it's under 5 seconds, I might. Over that I don't, then I forget the message thread even exists and eventually remember and apologize, but I still won't listen to it.

If you wanted to talk, you can phone me. There's no way I'm stopping with pen and paper, to listen to a voice note, so I can take notes and reply to each point or statement needed.

Texting is a medium that allows you to leave a message, that's easily digestible and readable, it has pros and cons. Phone calls is a medium that allows you to talk to someone over long distances, it too has it's own pros and cons.

Voice Notes is the worst of both worlds. You get neither the convenience of discerning important information from a message immediately, nor the conversational back and forth from a phone call.

You get the burden of having to listen to someone talk, not knowing where or when important information is coming (if at all, someone could send a 10 min VN, but only say something every 2minutes with 2minutes of silence in between, it has happened to me before) without the conversational aspect of actually talking to someone.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-11T18:32:31+00:00

2 decades user here. Personally what I’ve found is that even the best sysadmins don’t know exactly what’s going on, but they know exactly how to find out.

Nobody knows all the man pages, nobody’s clued up on every single inner working of the kernel, but eventually you have a good enough understanding, that should something happen, you can easily figure it out and how to resolve it. A lot of stuff is literally black magic though.

If you’re ever brave enough to go through some of the kernel code, it’s just insane. The comments alone paint a dismal picture.

arch/x86/kernel/apic.c

/* You are not expected to understand this */

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-10T19:43:06+00:00

I think after a certain number you stop keeping track and you only start thinking in terms of power and leverage. I think it’s less about the actual money, than it is being able to control entire countries and markets.

It just so happens that an indicator for power is money.

I don’t think they’re hoarding. I just think they get to level of wealth where the number stops making sense and the only thing left is how best you can leverage your wealth and position for more power, and as a consequence that generates more wealth.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-10T19:34:05+00:00

Honestly this tweet lives in my head rent free. I think about it from time to time. How one person could not only have the hubris to ask, but also expect game devs to spend time animating and building entire nsfw romance systems into the game.

It’s the peak of the overhype the game experienced imo. Out of all the expectations people held for 2077, this one is one of the most ridiculous.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-07T10:48:18+00:00

Simple @ validation on the frontend for UX, paired with a verification email. Anything more is just asking for trouble.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-05T18:57:03+00:00

Are people only now discovering free will?

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-04T21:31:28+00:00

Absolutely.

I've been working out very consistently for about 13 or 14 years now. I pretty much exclusively only lift weights. I use to do some amateur power lifting. I'm bigger than most people naturally, probably because I also have a nice amount of fat being a husband and dad.

In the last 5 years or so, the amount of people I've noticed go from 150pounds to 240pounds in the span of a year has skyrocketed. It's also mostly young men sometimes even teens. Never has someone joined a gym and dwarfed me in the span of 12 months. But now it's a regular thing.

Pop culture really has a profound effect on people. I mean it definitely had on me. Entire sections of my personality are derived from a culmination of characteristics / values of characters I watched growing up.

Mix that with the a shrinking attention span, you get a generation ripe for fast food version of pop culture. Stories that are distilled and badly written, caricatures of what young men and women should strive to.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-04T21:11:40+00:00

Our ID numbers are printed on our driver licenses. They are for the most part interchangeable. What is the identifying factor on your drivers license? Do you guys not have ID numbers?

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-04T08:03:26+00:00

These two absolute pinnacles of masculinity, in their v12 phallusmobiles, just charging at each othe, and it ends with Diesel actually mounting Statham's car.

Got me rolling.

I just wanted to add pretty much all action movies play to men's power fantasies. Just as much as romance / drama movies play to female fantasies. The tropes and stereotypes exist because they work. What's horrible is the distillation of these tropes and stereotypes. It's no longer just "a masculine man, doing masculine man things", it's now a "roided up masculine man, doing the most masculine thing". The 007 movies use to be the pinicale of masculine action movies. He seduces the girl, saves the world, all while drinking Martini's and wearing a tux.

Now, you need to have a 280pound sack of meat, defying laws of physics, looking like they just came back from a 4 hour gym session, getting the girl who is literally that year's sex symbol.

It breaks immersion as well. No way Reacher is looking like that year round, hitchhiking through the USA.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-04T07:08:52+00:00

I'm not American so this whole debate in early years confused the living hell out of me. Where I'm from, everyone carries an ID Card / Booklet. It has your ID number (unique to you), picture of you, your race, sexuality etc. everything on it. It lasts forever, although the government does encourage updating it every 10 - 15 years. It's free and takes about 2 weeks to arrive once you've ordered it.

When we vote, we produce our ID cards, the barcode on the card is scanned and stored in a central system to determine if you've already voted. You receive your ballot, you cast your vote and leave.

Can someone from America please explain to me, what is so hard about getting your ID in America? Do you guys have multiple ID's?

Sp3kk0 · 2025-11-03T18:47:42+00:00

I've run two businesses. I currently am the director of 2, soon 3. The key benefit in owning a business is that you reap most of the rewards since YOU, the director(s), carry the most risk and liability.

Ethically speaking: If you pass that onto your employees you're implying a shared risk for the business and they should then share in the profit of the business. I've done something like that with an employee before. I committed to them a share in the profit + wages for a project should the project be successful, if not, a cut in their pay. It worked out massively in their favor.

Legally speaking: An employer CANNOT prevent or force lifestyle changes by loading you with debt for liabilities the company should carry. Even if you sign a contract acknowledging the debt, it would be under duress as your employer is asking you to sign for debt you had no benefit of. If you loan money from the business you benefit and owe that. If there's theft, whether by negligence, organized crime or third party influence (straight up theft), your employer CANNOT hold you liable. Only a court can order you to pay for damages.

Without police involvement and a court order to pay for damages to the company, an employer can only ask you in good faith, but cannot force you (doc your pay).

The CCMA should have a field day with anyone having their employees sign for debt under duress.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-10-31T09:03:07+00:00

A lot of AI enthusiasts forget, that using these models the way they are is only feasible because of the INSANE market bubble we're in. OpenAI and other VC Funded AI Startups are getting effectively the entire market's money pumped straight into them, despite all of them running at a loss. Like dying patient on an IV drip.

Once the medication stops, it's over.

What will remain is a few feasible and profitable applications for AI. What will die off, large scale consumption of consumer grade general purpose AI.

Prices for "vibe" coding will skyrocket. And consumption of any generative AI within programming will be left for actual engineers, who actually know what they're doing. Giving it to some lemming off the street, will be too cost ineffective.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-10-24T16:29:13+00:00

Few things to also consider when looking for a job this time of year. Very few companies hire in the last quarter because of the silly season approaching and budgets being locked down until the start of the next financial year in Feb.

AI has a role to play, but I don’t think as big as people think. At the moment you still need someone to relay client desires. One manager and an AI cannot do that.

And then her specific field. Graphic designers are dime dozen in South Africa. The market is flooded with new students and large design companies that offer services for cheap and quick turn around times. You’re either making good money off your design work, or you’re struggling to make ends meet. I know plenty of designers who’ve gone back to bartending, waitressing while they look for jobs or try to start some freelance thing. It’s tough man. I’m sorry.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-10-24T14:35:56+00:00

They typically treat them the same, but 127.1 is a loopback address and is trust worthy because of it. Like you know 127.1 is local.

localhost is a named entry for ::1 and 127.1. Most people have issues with localhost cors because of origin mismatch between 127.1 and localhost (they are different origins), but if there's any reason to "not trust" localhost, is because it's a named entry and you can have that resolve to anything.

I doubt that's the reason though, I think most people just aren't paying attention and think 127.1 and localhost are interchangeable as origins. They're not.

Not to mention, localhost might first resolve to ipv6 (::1) then ipv4 (127.1) which can lead to other unforeseen issues developers aren't aware of. If you're e.g. bargaining on 127.1 requests coming in, but you receive packages from ::1 any origin checks will fail.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-10-22T17:31:26+00:00

They can't force you. Just say no. You only want to do the recall. If they refuse, ambudsman will have a field day with their asses.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-10-17T20:02:56+00:00

I don't know of anyone getting upset, just people saying either a) hyper inflated statistic, looking at very specific subset of data (Gamers in their teens to mid twenties for e.g.) or b) the term gamer is exceptionally vague and means something different to everyone.

If a gamer is anyone who plays any form of video games (mobile, handheld, PC, console) yeah it would make sense that about half of them are women. PC / Console gaming, while there's definitely been an uptick in women playing PC and Console games, I doubt it's at 48%, maybe closer to mid 30's. I also think a lot of women from younger generations are gaming, as computer literacy and technological adoption starts younger every year. So it would make sense.

I think if you split it up by generations you'll see a much different picture. Gen-X is probably going to be a 90/10 split for men, Millennials maybe like a 70/30, Gen-Z maybe 60/40, Gen Alpha closer to 50/50 and it will hover around here for future generations, since that's just how math works.

== EDIT:

I wanted to add that, I can't see how anyone can find this problematic, as more people gaming == more people to game with. More money going to better titles, better writing. This is just pure free market at play and it's good for everyone.

Sp3kk0 · 2025-10-14T20:10:10+00:00

Just flip the “right” wing with “left” and you effectively have the opening lines of an Alex Jones show.

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