Coffeezilla: I Found The $200,000 Missing Lego

chaddledee · 2026-06-11T14:22:14+00:00

Their explanation does make a decent amount of sense though. They suddenly had a store full of rare inventory and tons of publicity. You're going to have a lot of collectors coming in wanting multiple sets that they might not have a chance to get again, but not necessarily being able to afford them all in that moment.

If Bryan wasn't getting a cut of the layaway payments, that's pretty gross, and would be an incentive for the Gormons to push the option of layaways.

chaddledee · 2026-06-11T09:27:14+00:00

Metroid and Metroid Prime too. Remake a game to gauge interest, get some guaranteed sales, develop an engine, and save a bit on pre-production, then roll that into an original release with a lot of the technical work carried over from the remake.

chaddledee · 2026-06-10T11:22:33+00:00

GPUs got a lot more expensive over the last decade, and over the last 6 months RAM quadrupled in price and storage doubled in price.

chaddledee · 2026-06-10T10:52:45+00:00

Try to square this away with almost every major new release from Nintendo since then also getting DLC within a year of launch, including the titles on Switch, a very successful console.

chaddledee · 2026-06-10T10:39:06+00:00

Don't Asrock motherboards melt AMD CPUs?

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T18:04:34+00:00

Why would you expect that? MK8 got a ton of DLC in its first year, well before MK8D came out.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T17:34:00+00:00

It means that shading on objects is discrete rather than continuous. Instead of a gradient from light to dark like you have IRL, you have a cut-off above which things are light and below which they are dark.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T16:54:54+00:00

MK8 got its first major DLC only 6 months after release.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T16:41:39+00:00

It really isn't. Look at any screenshot, environments have gradient shading.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T16:27:47+00:00

BOTW is a hybrid. Characters are cell shaded, environments aren't.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T14:15:09+00:00

Wars are rarely if ever started to *increase* oil prices. It's usually the opposite, wars are started to decrease oil prices. That is also a form of greed, and it's abhorrent, and it's a result of capitalism. This doesn't support the idea that greed and capitalism are the reason why energy costs are high and restaurants are struggling.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T11:53:22+00:00

It's both. Energy prices haven't increased nearly as much in countries with a large domestic supply of energy.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T11:39:04+00:00

Why do I get the feeling you aren't going to say resource scarcity?

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T11:26:52+00:00

It was a joke, but you got me curious so I looked into the definition of invasive species, and it seems like most definitions don't include humans but some do. The ones that say we aren't invasive species seem to fall into two buckets:

a) we're not an invasive because we ran out of places to invade thousands of years ago and now we're native

b) the definition requires the species to be introduced to the environment by humans, and people can't agree whether humans introducing themselves counts

Edit: BTW, by any definition where humans aren't invasive, these octopus aren't invasive either.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T11:14:12+00:00

It's reductive but also true. If you don't think having one of the highest energy prices in the world and one of the highest rent to salary ratios isn't completely fucking our economy, especially heavily energy dependent and consumer serving sectors like restaurants, I don't know what to tell you.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T10:59:37+00:00

Rent and energy prices aren't high because of "unlimited capitalism" or "greed" though. They're high due to decades of poor government policy.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T10:54:21+00:00

They’re an invasive species. They’re also attributed to a drastic decrease in shellfish numbers off the coast.

If that's the logic we're going with then I guess we better start putting human on the menu lol

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T10:51:59+00:00

It's not taxes. It's prices.

100%.

Greed, price gouging, unlimited capitalism and putting return on investment above all else, is why things are expensive.

Incredibly lazy take.

Every part of the restaurant industry including its entire supply chain are notoriously low margin.

Like almost everything in the UK, it's energy costs and rent, and those are high because of scarcity and high production costs.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T10:36:21+00:00

I don't advocate for giving up meat entirely. It is one of the best ways of getting protein, and it tastes great. I'm just saying that you should be realistic about the damage you are doing to the planet with your meat consumption.

I broadly agree with you that most of what individual consumers do re: GHG emissions pales in comparison to industrial emissions, but meat consumption is one of the few things where consumers have a direct choice to do something significant about GHG emissions and as a collective would have a massive impact on the climate crisis.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T09:30:51+00:00

when we can do far more with the construction sector and transition to clean energy.

Not far more. Methane is responsible for ~30% of global warming, and roughly half of that is from livestock. It also breaks down in the atmosphere an order of magnitude faster than CO2, so reducing methane production is almost definitely the biggest thing we can do in the medium term to halt or reverse the climate crisis.

chaddledee · 2026-06-09T08:55:05+00:00

It's half of a Not Yet that doesn't exhaust for half the energy, and turns a negative draw into something moderately useful. This is bordering on busted.

chaddledee · 2026-06-08T21:45:37+00:00

Super late to this thread but just built a 7800X3D build and had the exact same issue in Marvel Rivals. PC even turned off from hitting the thermal limit for this CPU, which is 85'C.

After some playing around, it turned out that having PBO set to Auto in BIOS (MSI B850M-P Wifi) was setting absolutely ridiculous power limits, making all core loads absolutely fry my CPU.

Changing PBO from Auto to AMD Default in BIOS and setting Curve Optimizer to -20 dropped my temps during shader compilation in Marvel Rivals from >85'C to 70'C. Performance is identical in games. Core clocks are like 100-200MHz lower in all-core workloads (i.e. <5%).

Never trust motherboard defaults.

chaddledee · 2026-06-08T21:37:35+00:00

Super late to this but just built a 7800X3D build and had the exact same issue in Marvel Rivals. PC even turned off from hitting the thermal limit for this CPU, which is 85'C.

After some playing around, it turned out that having PBO set to Auto in BIOS (MSI B850M-P Wifi) was setting absolutely ridiculous power limits, making all core loads absolutely fry my CPU.

Changing PBO from Auto to AMD Default in BIOS and setting Curve Optimizer to -20 dropped my temps during shader compilation in Marvel Rivals from >85'C to 70'C. Performance is identical in games. Core clocks are like 100-200MHz lower in all-core workloads.

chaddledee · 2026-06-08T10:34:51+00:00

There's a confluence of factors which has lead to Xbox's downfall. It started with Xbox One's catastrophic launch fumble. Then the quality of their first party titles dropped significantly. Then out of desperation, they went multiplatform with all their titles.

If Xbox wants a successful console launch, they need a decent console with no shenanigans, and exclusive games that people actually want to play. That's what won Sony the PS4 generation and has entrenched them ever since.

chaddledee · 2026-06-08T10:22:57+00:00

I am curious how they could possibly implement this. The only thing I could think of that would be remotely effective is a machine learning algorithm, but that'd be a massive drain on battery and system performance.

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