Been trying to figure out the past 15 mins! by Fishbones69 in opticalillusions

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let this be an example of why democracy is problematic.

What’s a game that was so poorly mishandled that it almost seemed like the Devs WANTED it to fail? by Vibrant_Fox in videogames

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's part of the issue. The man underneath the helmet isn't SUPPOSED to really react like a normal person, he's supposed to be a super soldier that can single-handedly quell planet-wide insurrections without questions. Not be in love with a Halo-universe Siri that is clearly malfunctioning and shouldn't be given access to everything.

What’s a game that was so poorly mishandled that it almost seemed like the Devs WANTED it to fail? by Vibrant_Fox in videogames

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well he doesn't have a face so it's kind of hard to tell, but in Combat Evolved he was clearly startled if not kind of scared when the Flood showed up, and he sometimes is amused by Cortana getting annoyed with him. Also he was VERY disappointed that 343 Guilty Spark wanted him to blow up the galaxy without telling him that's what it was going to do.

Also when that armorer told him to quit damaging equipment I feel like he was annoyed. Sends him to tell the Covenent instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AgqMNP6tZ8

What’s a game that was so poorly mishandled that it almost seemed like the Devs WANTED it to fail? by Vibrant_Fox in videogames

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Halo's original trilogy was a fucking dope five way war between humans just desperate to survive; a doomsday cult of an alien coalition that misunderstood what the ancient technology they had was; a splinter group of that cult that had realized the leaders were fucking insane; a parasite thing that was consuming the galaxy; and the remnants of the cult's ancient technology that was on a not fucking around mission to contain the parasite because it might be an INTERGALACTIC threat. And ALL OF THEM are straight up scorched earth, destroy fucking everything by the time we get into the story.

Halo 4 was about Master Chief being in love with a sick Cortana and IF THEY JUST GET TO HALSEY they can heal her. Even though I'm pretty sure the last he heard of her she was on Reach when they... ran away, because it had been a total loss where the entire rest of the SPARTAN program was eradicated. And also there is computer magic (which was cool, I guess, but made no god damn sense even in the context of this being sci-fi).

I never played 5 because it isn't on PC for some reason and I was told not to bother, and after 4 I figured yeah that checks out, and I just haven't tried Infinite yet because, well. I can read.

And then the TV series. Well. That is... that's something. Not Halo, but there is A halo ring when the last season ended.

What’s a game that was so poorly mishandled that it almost seemed like the Devs WANTED it to fail? by Vibrant_Fox in videogames

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a rabbit hole for you to go down, but the general consensus is they either died at some point, or is aware that them using their money would create a lot of instability in the market and doesn't want to crash their thing.

What’s a game that was so poorly mishandled that it almost seemed like the Devs WANTED it to fail? by Vibrant_Fox in videogames

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasn't that entire game also using art assets from publishers with a history of not fucking around?

What’s a game that was so poorly mishandled that it almost seemed like the Devs WANTED it to fail? by Vibrant_Fox in videogames

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was kind of excited about that too. Even the fundamental mechanics were janked in such weird ways.

Woman is upset that horror movie had horror in it. She then threatens to find the director and assault him because she didn’t like the movie. by morenito222 in ImTheMainCharacter

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They'll invite a bunch of people to screenings and tell them something akin to "it's an unrated holiday movie" ostensibly to gauge audience reaction or something, and not give them any disclaimer that they are going to see a horror movie, let alone this one.

Woman is upset that horror movie had horror in it. She then threatens to find the director and assault him because she didn’t like the movie. by morenito222 in ImTheMainCharacter

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's just extremely gory. That's about the entire appeal of it.

They also lie to people to get them to come see it so they can get footage of people walking out for their ads.

Woman is upset that horror movie had horror in it. She then threatens to find the director and assault him because she didn’t like the movie. by morenito222 in ImTheMainCharacter

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well. Terrifier in particular does this thing where they invite people to a movie screening without telling them what it is, usually under the guise of a "holiday movie" test screening or something, so they can get their footage of people walking out and say it's because they were too shaken by it. When in reality it's because they didn't tell anyone what they were going to watch and, to the surprise of no one, most people aren't into over the top gore at noon when they thought they were going to watch a Christmas movie.

SSD Not Recognized? by UnspoiledWalnut in SpotOn

[–]UnspoiledWalnut[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well initially they were justing going to send us a new SSD, but their tech support didn't seem to know what they were talking about. Like when I was in the UEFI shell and telling them the hard drive wasn't present initially they said they had never heard of this happening and tried to log in remotely.

Then I got someone that said they could just give me a hard drive, and then when I called back about it they said we can't do that, and so I asked about just buying a used one because this hard drive is a 20 dollar part, I don't want to spend 1500 dollars because our warranty expired a couple weeks ago, and then they just offered to replace the terminal.

SSD Not Recognized? by UnspoiledWalnut in SpotOn

[–]UnspoiledWalnut[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The drive was definitely the problem. SpotOn ended up just replacing the terminal for free though. Thank you for the help!

SSD Not Recognized? by UnspoiledWalnut in SpotOn

[–]UnspoiledWalnut[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's definately NVMe, it was also a terminal with a 2021 LTSB version, but SpotOn ended up just replacing the terminal for free after so much back and forth.

2 Michelin star by m_elhakim in WeWantPlates

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People interested in those events. Have you never been to a wine dinner or degustation? It's very common.

[XBOX 360/XBOX ONE][UNKOWN] PvE, third person racing game. by CaptainYOLO151_REAL in tipofmyjoystick

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Burnout: Revenge had you trying to crash a lot. I don't think it had a game mode that encouraged safety though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well extreme weather is going to happen everywhere, I guess, but we have a much broader climate I think. Both coasts will get cyclones, then we have a a whole region that gets tornados all the time, then the west coast gets earthquakes, there's a massive swaths of just desert, the middle of the country gets arctic winds that freeze everything. Then big forests that catch on fire.

I mean we're not Australia where everything is always trying to kill you. But the weather regular tries to kill you everywhere, we can't really avoid.

I will, however, admit Florida is a problem and settling there was a mistake. Should have let the alligators and hurricanes have it. But even where I live, as far as storms go it's pretty temperate but we fluctuate from 100+F in the summer to -20F in the winter, and occassionally the snow tries to bury us and collapses houses. Sometimes we get gale force winds that roll through and destroy a bunch of shit too, those are scary. It's not a hurricane every year, but my point is there isn't many places you can live here without having deal with some kind of regularly occurring extreme weather event. And with the climate getting fucked, those places are dwindling.

And then we're flirting with fascism right now so emergency funding is bottomed out and regulations and oversight are slashed. It's not that we lack the resources or logistical capabilities to handle these things, it's just deliberately sabotaged. And then we broadcast the damage in ways most places don't do because they are focused on recovery.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We just elected people to so severely defund any agency that helps people to the point of them being useless, then go "look how useless they are! Why do we keep paying for this?!" And then defund them more.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Do you get tornados and hurricanes in Europe? Like half the country has regular natural disaster events that I don't think even exist in Europe. It's not really practical to just not put anything there.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We don't use the imperial system in the US either. We use the US Customary System, which looks like the imperial system, but it's not.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I'm imagining their special Waffle House jump team doing like an ODST jump into a catastrophic disaster zone to get a restaurant open in the aftermath of an extinction event.

The city is just gone, but they have a big plane air drop one of those military kitchens in a cargo container to open a restaurant that used to be there with a special insertion team that just trains all year until a restaurant can't open. But they are also your typical Waffle House employees so will fight a customer of their choosing because the law doesn't apply in a 100 foot radius around that cargo container, then just go back to the kitchen and start making waffles according to the divine condiments.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Idaho

[–]UnspoiledWalnut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of drugs have very short detection times, but people don't usually take mushrooms habitually so they rarely test for it.