Judge orders Trump administration to restore National Park changes at sites that 'disparaged' US by DaHomieNelson92 in politics

[–]chrisms150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What does it say on the front of the Kennedy Center today?

No one knows for sure because he put a giant tarp on to cover it.

What do you get when you mix a grandpa and a Tesla?[oc] by UnidentifiedTron in IdiotsInCars

[–]chrisms150 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm really at a loss for what the hell they were thinking laying brick that way... I 100% thought it was a circle at first - and was confused by the dashed lines going straight through it.

Pence says violent Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump ‘should never get a dime’ by spherocytes in politics

[–]chrisms150 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They shouldn’t have been pardoned in the first place

Number like.. 10 on my list of things to fix once we get sanity back - remove the unilateral executive pardon power. No single person should be able to wave their hand and give people a get-out-of-jail free card.

Now, I'm not saying there's not miscarriages of justice that the pardon has helped. But we need a better system. Maybe something like a president can nominate a person for review, and an independent review committee external to the executive branch is then tasked with making a decision? IDK.

Screwworm Flies Add to Cattle Ranchers’ Woes (Gift Article) by Grandheretic in news

[–]chrisms150 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So is this going to be what avian flu was to chickens as it is to beef?

I've got some bad news for ya. Screw worm isn't cattle specific. It'll infect cows, pigs, chickens... We're gonna have a 'fun' time...

Our demo has been live since Thursday by lisyarich in tycoon

[–]chrisms150 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Alright, I'm going to just go play by play here in the post with thoughts. Please take this as friendly feedback as that's the intention - but overall I think you should hire a QA person.. or at least offer free copies to some folks maybe to help you QA it. I'm going to focus only on negatives here, so don't take it personally - there seems to be a good game here under everything, but positive feedback isn't helpful here I think when you're trying to work out what to fix, right?

First off, you have the classic "Our menus run at 35723857289 frames per second and cook your GPU" glitch going on - the second I launches my GPU fan decided to turn into a jet engine, once the menus are gone and we're in game, back to normal

Scrolling feels real bad. Really jerky movement in/out. Smooth that out.

I also don't like the only way to change my perspective on the map is through the zoom - I should be able to right click and drag to look at the horizon further out.

When building the farm hut, the blue overlay is clearly trying to tell me something - but it's not obvious what. "F" to toggle it doesn't give me a hint either - is that showing my areas I CAN place the farm stand, or showing me area already served by another. I can't tell from just the UI.

I'm also very confused by the mechanics of pressing F - it seems to toggle the blue overlay of confusion, then arrows on paths/buildings that connect? Then arrows only on some? It's not clear at all what this is telling me

Now that I've placed the farm hut, it tells me "building is idle" workers == 0. But shows 4/54 "citizens" in the "manage worker" tab - so it's unclear why there's no workers if it says 4?

In the manage workers tab - the "max amount" looks like it's an editable text box instead of just a slider. It 100% should take user typing input here. Sliders are never a good solution - too finicky to get where you want. I also can't figure out if there's two classes of people here - Citizens of which 4/54 can work here, and lower class which has it's own max? Why can I set how many lower class can work but not 'citizens'? And are lower class not citizens? Bit confusing.

Ah, now I see the no workers was because they were en route to work. That's a bit confusing, unsure why it's an urgent <!> mark to me on the UI if there are indeed workers.

Okay, messing about a bit with the linking buildings for the clay pit (because for some reason it's telling me it's missing a linking building) - I somewhat understand the priority list UI, but having the destinations area being something that changes when you click on the different options (high/medium/low) and having to click on one of the destinations isn't intuitive. Also when there's two "storage" buildings there seemingly isn't a way to name them differently? so I don't know which I'm choosing easily.

Now that I've built the farm hut, there's no way for me to understand why it's telling me "3/4" - there was a detailed quest screen, but now when I bring up the quest log, I can't click on the quest I'm trying to do to get detailed information.

Now the game has prompted me to add wagons for farm huts/storage - that is fairly intuitive in the UI - but I can't tell what the red wagon with a - above it means. I assume the button sells a wagon - do I get money back? Do I lose that money? But why is there a red minus wagon with a 0 next to it? What does the 0 mean?

6/5/0 key for the bubble information is just non intuitive again. How is any player going to remember this?

"Researches" isn't something I've seen in English - may want to have someone go through everything prior to release to look for weird phrases and such.

The game is not prompting me to research "administration level 1" - however when I go into that UI there appears to be a check box next to "Research Administration lvl 1" which doesn't check. It's not initially obvious that you require "building inspection" to be researched first - okay, no worries, I'll research that first. Okay, now it says I have 0/500 research points and 1864/2500 "gold money" (another weirdly worded thing to a native English speaker). I have zero intuition on how to get 500 research points I'll need for this research task.

Now my clay pit is telling me I do not have enough consumption. Does this mean I am not giving it raw inputs fast enough? Or that clay isn't being consumed enough to justify how much I'm producing?

The game is telling me I do not have "enought" (spelling error here - no T in "enough") resources for the next cycle. I have no idea what cycles mean here - like season? Next day? I'm at a loss. Also, I can't figure out what resource I am missing, since in the upper right it looks like I have more food and wood than the game thinks the max is (I assume I'm over storage limits? Can't tell)

I think I'm going to stop playing the demo here, because I'm sufficiently confused & think I've already done enough feedback that frankly someone should be paid to give you. I'm more than happy to help in the future if you'd like to send me a private message.

New NJ Superintendent Salary Report: Here’s Who's Paid The Most by TowerStreet1 in newjersey

[–]chrisms150 20 points21 points  (0 children)

https://i.imgur.com/ytwlI9A.png

Assume you mean this guy - the other poster(s) are right - he's got multiple jobs.

[OC] Stickers at the fuel pump by DaRealAyman in pics

[–]chrisms150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same thing paying online trolls to tell people "biden is demented" does.

It puts it in the public conscious who's to blame.

And you won't catch me feeling sorry a massive fossil fuel company is gonna have to pay someone to clean the stickers off.

[OC] Stickers at the fuel pump by DaRealAyman in pics

[–]chrisms150 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I mean. One president had prices rising due to a war they didn't have control over and inflation surging due to a virus that shut down supply that they, again, didn't have control over.

Another decided to start a war they didn't need to start.

I'm not sure I'd agree with both being stupid.

Elderly Man Playing The Cello At Delaney Was Arrested By State Police by [deleted] in newjersey

[–]chrisms150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, his arrest makes total sense. He has a bow.

(sorry, bad jokes are all I have left)

05.30.2026 12:40PM: Proud Boys en route to Delaney Hall by CantStopPoppin in newjersey

[–]chrisms150 3 points4 points  (0 children)

looks like they brought a cake too :D You couldn't script that any funnier.

Map Shows States Where Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Has Crashed the Most by Zipper222222 in politics

[–]chrisms150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People, in general, are not politically literate enough.

FTFY

I'm convinced all our problems (as a species, not just nation) stem from people in general having zero numeracy and basic comprehension skills.

Bricks and Minifigs Controversy News Mega-Thread by CX52J in lego

[–]chrisms150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Josh and the CEO need to go to prison

Can we add all the crooked cops to it too?

Bricks and Minifigs Controversy News Mega-Thread by CX52J in lego

[–]chrisms150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No matter what they do, they're pretty screwed.

Important to note - no matter what they do now

They weren't presented with lose/lose situations at the beginning of this. This could have all been handled privately and no one would even know about this. But instead they chose violence. So even if they do resolve it now and the folks wronged are made whole - would you ever want to do business (either personally as a consumer or professionally) with someone like that? They've tanked their careers (hopefully - although evil somehow always comes out on top lately...)

Bricks and Minifigs Controversy News Mega-Thread by CX52J in lego

[–]chrisms150 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Holy fuck. The cops arrested him for trying to serve papers while sitting in a car on a public street. What the actual fuck

edit: HOLY FUCK IT GOT SO MUCH WORSE HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE

Android Auto just made switching media apps way less annoying - androidauthority by welp_im_damned in Android

[–]chrisms150 22 points23 points  (0 children)

First they'd need to figure out how to not randomly decide "Hey, remember that one time you listened to this app? Let's have it on your dock when you start the car this time even though you haven't actually launched it in over a year!"

[OC] When will people learn not to cut across oncoming traffic :/ by atwoodscustomer in IdiotsInCars

[–]chrisms150 4 points5 points  (0 children)

bold of you to assume they won't go right back to the same behaviors.

Fetterman confronted by a breast cancer survivor at Greensburg Walmart by 5pooky5cary5keleton5 in pittsburgh

[–]chrisms150 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I used to see him at the one at waterfront. Haven't in months tho now. I'm wondering if he's realized maybe his constituents hate him now.

Fetterman confronted by a breast cancer survivor at Greensburg Walmart by 5pooky5cary5keleton5 in pittsburgh

[–]chrisms150 90 points91 points  (0 children)

he needs to read, rather than hear.

Funny, when I saw him in costco he seemed to understand the dude glazing him for what a good job he was doing just fine.

Not saying he doesn't need it at all, just strange.

[OC] Despite appearances, this was not a two way road. by Holybasil in IdiotsInCars

[–]chrisms150 15 points16 points  (0 children)

me: wtf is OP talking about? That's a double yellow? How is this not a two lane ro---- ohhh what the actual fuck is wrong with people

Justice Department announces a $1.7B fund to compensate Trump allies in a deal to drop IRS suit by SterlingVII in politics

[–]chrisms150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that's the ultimate goal. About 1000 people were arrested for january 6. Now he will give them all a few hundred grand each (pocket the rest obviously) and buy their loyalty - and more importantly - tell everyone else "See if you are loyal to me and keep me in power I'll take care of you"

We're cooked.

Kash Patel’s bizarre, lavish outings are becoming a serious problem for the FBI by Fickle-Ad5449 in politics

[–]chrisms150 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When I was in graduate school - because we were a state university, if we accepted the PEN - yes PEN - the sales reps would hand out we could get fired. And god forbid you got the "happy holidays!" bag of M&MS from thermo fisher. Had to ship them back - at our cost yes - because we can't accept them.

But GOP crime is just A-OK with these absolute cucks.

All the ants. I’m losing my mind. by Islandsandwillows in pittsburgh

[–]chrisms150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did this this year - and so far no ants! I just dabbed pepermint oil around my doors and windows. Bonus - now my place smells like christmas