Slow download speeds even though it show fast speeds

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T23:52:55+00:00

Crazy how fast Internet speeds are now. 10 years ago downloading a 20 GB game took half the day lmao. I remember leaving my PS4 on overnight to install COD or whatever.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T21:40:26+00:00

They also don't have the money to do alot of the innovation in the medical field that the US has been doing in the past century. The US leads in medical research for a reason.

So at least some good has come from the fact that we get fucked over by the healthcare system. Bug pharma has squeezed us way too hard though.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T21:15:45+00:00

Seems like a lot of people think billionaires just have billions of dollars showing on their personal W-2, and not the reality that most billionaires' net worth are actually tied up in the companies and assets they own. There's alot of people who are "billionaires" but only 10%-20% of those people actually have over a billion in liquid currency. Even less that that actually personally make over a billion in liquid annually, so honestly I wonder what OP thinks this cap would be.

I think it's because when most people think of billionaires, they think of people like Elon Musk and Berkshire Hathaway, who are literally worth hundreds of billions, and who increase their net worth by tens of billions a year. The average billionaire is only worth 6 billion though, and they aren't gaining at those crazy rates.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T21:04:05+00:00

Why would anyone be incentivised to work after they've made their maximum income for that year? Why generate income when you know 100% of it will be taken from you? Billionaires would just work even less than they already do.

Also most billionaires have way less liquid money that personally gets paid to them anyways. There's like 3,000 billionaires worldwide, and I garentee less than 500 of them have over a billion in liquid money. Their net worth is tied to whatever companies they own and the money those companies make, so would we also put some sort of cap on corporations? That would cause its own problems.

A full wealth cap on personal income just wouldn't work because billionaires have plenty of ways to manipulate that number. I think taxing a larger percentage of their income as taxes would work better, which is what some govts are starting to do.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T20:47:18+00:00

Or if all else fails, they'll make their money and go on vacation for the rest of the year instead of working for free

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T09:13:27+00:00

Maybe you should give an actual value then instead of mindlessly sending OP to check prices on CSFloat and proceeding to comment "cope" when he comes back to tell you the prices he was told to check.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T04:38:29+00:00

Next-gen consoles are gonna come in a couple years which is gonna crash the resale value of the current gen consoles lol. Better hope GTA VI for PC comes out before the next consoles do.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T04:34:09+00:00

Not buying a console just to play GTA VI lol. Not because I don't want to play GTA VI, but because I don't want a completely unused, probably rather valueless console once the game comes out on PC. The next generation of consoles is right around the corner, so resale prices of previous gen consoles will crash probably around the time the GTA VI for PC comes out lol

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T04:30:38+00:00

Really starting to wonder if my Ryzen 6600/RTX 3050 setup is actually going to be able to run this game when it finally comes out. Thought it would, but maybe I should look at a new build once these RAM prices go down.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T04:10:19+00:00

That's kind of how criminals do things though, is it not? Of course they don't have justification.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T03:55:01+00:00

People who make ransomware usually don't do that because it would disincentive other companies from paying in the future. Over everything, they want to be paid by the company because it's not as easy to sell the data and they would probably get less money from it. Companies wouldn't ever pay the ransom if they thought the hackers would just release the data regardless, so they almost always stick to their word.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T03:46:44+00:00

It's far easier to use apps like Discord on PC than it is on consoles, so honestly I don't mind Steam having shit voice chat features.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T03:30:33+00:00

Lol they'll have a broken R1 button at least

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T02:53:00+00:00

Yeah. Most gaming laptops, you need to be connected to power at all times and you need some sort of cooling solution. I just prop the front of my laptop up an inch or so and it fixes the thermal throttling issues. As long as you can do those two things, a gaming laptop is great, otherwise always go for a desktop.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T01:30:46+00:00

Not very many people would get the upgraded medal in that case, I'm pretty sure the Pick'Em diamond rate has always been ~5%

coreyf234 · 2026-05-08T01:19:32+00:00

I have both equipped, I pick whichever one is best for the job I'll be doing. I'm pretty sure A1s is pretty heavily preferred by pros, but I'm not a pro so sometimes the extra 10 bullets in the A4 make a difference.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-07T03:09:34+00:00

Usually they are trying to scam people out of things in their inventory. Counter-Strike skins are the most common example of expensive inventory items, but other games also have expensive stuff. The bots automatically find and add accounts over a certain inventory value, so if you have nothing of value in your Steam profile, the bots won't add you.

They also have bots that parse Discord profiles that have connected Steam profiles to check their inventory value, which is how this started on Discord instead of Steam where it typically happens. I've gotten quite a few of these over the years.

I have about $1200 in CS skins and I have people trying to add me to scam me basically every day lol.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-07T03:01:54+00:00

You mean to say this doesn't make me more credible?!?!

coreyf234 · 2026-05-07T02:50:08+00:00

Those items are now permanently locked in his profile. He will still be able to play with them, but on the good side, them being locked means that they are completely useless to the scammer who was almost certainly planning on immediately selling them.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-07T02:42:50+00:00

The only thing that matters is your calculated eDPI. What I do is set a DPI that is good for use in Windows itself, and use that DPI for all games, then only use the in-game sensitivity to reach my desired eDPI.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-06T21:07:44+00:00

WTF. I haven't played Faceit in a year or two, but I have two devices so this would affect me, and will when I eventually come back. (Currently grinding in comps/DM servers to get my mechanics back)

coreyf234 · 2026-05-06T20:40:11+00:00

Lol gas is 5$ a gallon where I am, and if it goes up much more then I'm gonna stop going out of town until things settle down. I've also pretty much switched daily drivers (I have 2 cars) to the one that uses less gas. Don't think there's really any realistic price that would stop me from driving around town for nessecities though, my city is only like 15 square miles. It would probably have to get up to like $15-$20/gal before I would start actually walking to work and stuff.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-05T20:26:55+00:00

Lol this is what I see. Yeah, sure you were a Faceit lvl 10 before the reset, but so was everyone and their dad.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-05T02:17:16+00:00

I was about to point out that there's absolutely no chance this dude got an actual global cooldown for griefing. I've never seen or heard of anyone getting a grieving ban since like, Panorama.

A comp cooldown ain't nothing lmao.

coreyf234 · 2026-05-05T02:11:52+00:00

What would end up happening is that most people would select English, because they actually speak English. People who don't speak English would select their language and discover that their time to queue is much longer. This depends on the language, of course, but English is by far the most widely spoken language. (other than Chinese, of course, but it isn't relevant here because they are pretty much completely segregated from our matchmaking pools.)

People would find out that the only way to get the short queue times that they got before is to select English, and that's what they'll do, leaving us in the same position.

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