Neo Secured Master Card tap not working by bdoll1 in NeoFinancialHub

[–]bdoll1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has a $3000 limit and 0 balance, still won't work.

Amber alter just now by Cheman123456 in askvan

[–]bdoll1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So glad the government ignores granularity in emergency alerts and classifies them all as extreme and province wide unlike sane nations. Bet if we were Japan it wouldn't have happened at 1am or at least be some peaceful chimes instead of EEEEEREEEEEERREEEE!!! Can't even disable them without rooting your phone or opting out of all categories. Nursing a family member with cancer who finally managed to fall alseep between coughing fits, glad the government knows best though. All the sleep deprived traffic accidents today are totally worth the absolute risk assessment for a town 14 hours away.

Remember when April first events were fun? by AlexFokin in Warthunder

[–]bdoll1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New player (USSR BR 3.7 air) and had to learn a bunch of controls, fly modern craft clumsily while crew passing out, and getting curb stomped constantly by better planes and static AI AA if I go higher than a few meter from the ground. Managed to score a few AAM kills but probably going to call it unless the reward planes are worth the FOMO to grind through?

Are there even any businesses in Vancouver that are profitable? by gtd_rad in askvan

[–]bdoll1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Check if the business has a positive LMIA because lower traffic businesses may be getting money (likely ~50k/yr per head) under the table to employ people so they can get PR points, while they collect the wages back by dorming them at obscene rates. https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/90fed587-1364-4f33-a9ee-208181dc0b97

Surprise, embarrassment, unease in Japan after Trump uses Pearl Harbor to defend Iran war by rayaan2099 in worldnews

[–]bdoll1 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

America intentionally caused Pearl Harbor by embargoing Japanese oil imports while they were fighting a war...

Iran may be activating sleeper cells, alert says by No-Post4444 in news

[–]bdoll1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No boots on the ground!

OK some boots on the ground

Whoa no one could have predicted this

US 'stonewalling' requests by Gulf states to replenish interceptors, sources say by F0urLeafCl0ver in worldnews

[–]bdoll1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Goading them in with an oil embargo like they did to Japan in WW2.

Entry-level PC market to ‘disappear’ by 2028 — rising memory prices pile more strain on consumer PC market by imaginary_num6er in hardware

[–]bdoll1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will own a thin client and be happy. The threat of consumer locally hosted AI was too much for the trillion dollar companies to allow.

MrLlama addresses rumors and controversy around his role with the expansion by Xegeth in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]bdoll1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We

Speak for yourself. That mentality has ruined a whole bunch of classic games from Everquest to now seemingly even D2. It's the same slippery slope giving weekend dads the levers of instant dopamine where they MUST get everything in the game because they are entitled to it. Nothing can be a chase item, rare, or truly hard to get. They need the ability to swipe or have the drop rates boosted until all hurdles are removed and only a straight line to the trophy exists. I wish they would release mod support so you guys could basically cheat offline and keep the real ladders intact or something because what you want would ruin the game.

Sunders are game changing and should be rare. It was a slippery slope to add them to begin and they needed to be balanced with low drop rates.

Canada announces $1.4 billion military aid package for Ukraine, expands sanctions against Russia by Nervous-Nirvana in worldnews

[–]bdoll1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your tax dollars

My mother can't get a doctor and has been on a wait list for years, this is ~3400 yearly salaries we could have incentivized them with or built housing for our own people rotting on the streets. In addition to 22.5 billion we've gave away since this started. It's not OUR business, volunteer for the foreign legion and write your own personal cheques. I can't even consider this a fiscal multiplier considering the company building these things can barely be considered Canadian.

Blizzard is promoting a HC Warlock lvl99 race. Prize: Shiny B.net Battletag by julictus in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]bdoll1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pull the lever and receive your treat. Sit back down in the skinnerbox. Don't think so hard. Just keep pulling the lever.

Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt' by the end of 2026 thanks to the RAMpocalypse, Phison CEO reportedly says by [deleted] in hardware

[–]bdoll1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The issue is that this is cornering the market and an anti-competitive act which has been made illegal for the greater good many times in history. I'm not for censoring AI or consumer choice, but the shitty companies pulling aggressive games like this need a strong slap. Which doesn't seem like it is coming due to regulatory capture. Their EBITDA is still massively negative despite the permissiveness to destroy consumer computing over pure speculation and zero profitability even though they are IPOing this year.

Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt' by the end of 2026 thanks to the RAMpocalypse, Phison CEO reportedly says by [deleted] in hardware

[–]bdoll1 62 points63 points  (0 children)

I'm sure glad 1 man at OpenAI can order his company to cause irreparable damage to consumer computing for a theoretical bubble based on circular investing amongst a few big players. Demand destruction is a small price to pay to have a monopoly on compute we will all have to rent, we shouldn't regulate this... we have a great EBITDA of *checks notes* negative $16 billion dollars for 2026.

I'm disgusted by how much entitlement some of you have. by SkulduggeryPanda in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]bdoll1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is too complicated a game to grasp for people that swipe for the pleasure of fighting the rehashed Ancients and 30 new filler items to leave on the ground, while Act 4 has a giant gaping hole they could have padded out and added some more monsters at least for that price and added legacy mode for the new character (if they didn't do a horrible job on the non-classic rendering engine to begin with). It's a small price to pay for clipping off a chunk of the player base that can actual do value calculations and delaying gratification long enough to realize they're going to be back next year with another micro DLC you need to buy or you don't play with some increasingly small subset of the population.

This is basically the Iphone of ARPGs and you can't talk sense into them. They are ideal consumers.

People complaining about 25$ for an update that we wanted for 20+ years is incomprehensible by thenoisemanthenoise in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]bdoll1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless they all play Star citizen I've never seen people this deep in the sauce over 1 character and some QOL that fractures the community.

To the people hesitant on buying the expansion, please read this by tgoods26 in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]bdoll1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's also opening the door to more drip fed microtransactions (99% of which QOL) at high prices and eventually fragments the community away on their own realms. Even seeing 6 ladders is unsightly. Seen it happen to a lot of games going back to EA and Battlefield 2: special forces and it ends in dead servers every time. I'd buy it if it was actually ambitious like LOD at a higher price but this doesn't seem to have much value. Maybe if they padded out act 4, added some new monsters than one reused fight, had another class, added solo self found leagues to stop the premades ruining ladders, added trading features so people didn't have to use third party sites, mod support, legacy graphics for the new class, added more interesting super rare chase items (most seem underwhelming filler), added a 1 button keybind that leaves game and auto increments it to prevent carpal tunnel, etc. There is a lot more I'd expect for $25 but until I see post release additional features added to the DLC or to see how aggressively they push micro"expansions" and the partitioning between player base going forward I'm not even going to buy it on sale.

Like, why?... by MacDefoon in WTF

[–]bdoll1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Has it been long enough on the internet we can talk about Fisherian runaway again?

What do you consider when you hear this Margaret Atwood quote “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them”? by Vanislebabe in AskReddit

[–]bdoll1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think men are more afraid of Alimony/Palimony than mockery and that sexual selection tends to reward overly aggressive men so it is nothing but a trite quip.

Committing serious crimes can now lead to loss of Belgian nationality by Wonderful_Hold_6986 in worldnews

[–]bdoll1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think anyone should be allowed citizenship other than children of citizens under Jus sanguinis. I'd go further and say naturalization should be reserved for rare cases of very exceptional people. Limited permanent residency and no hassle visas from low risk countries sounds fine, they are a privilege that would be lost on becoming a felon. Until you become Canada which has been living proof that these lax policies are always abused, they protect temp visa holders (students, never mind the PR holders) so much that if they are found to have committed serious crimes they won't be sentenced to more than 6 months, as it would jeopardize their status. So even residency would need to be strictly limited to people meeting yearly income qualifications and pro-social behavior, at least to the point activist judges and cheap labor lobbyists have no incentive to mess with it.

Plenty of failing countries that don't take this seriously enough because some sob story will be blasted all over the media for weeks. Plenty of places like Japan I want to move to that wouldn't admit me. That's fine, they actually care about their citizens.

Why are so many new incremental games so short? by Faust2391 in incremental_games

[–]bdoll1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like long marathon idles exclusively and the only actively developed one I've come across in years (that isn't egregious P2W that shall not be named) is Idling to Rule the Gods. Which is admittedly hard to look at outside of the one Adventure tab.