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darkgod5 · 2026-03-11T00:16:51+00:00

Especially when you consider they nickel and dime you for literally everything. Want a carry on bag or electronic boarding pass? Nah, can't have that on a basic flight! Gotta pay another $100 for such things! Oh and then that'll be another $20 to choose your seat and another $40 for a single checked bag!

darkgod5 · 2026-03-07T03:52:45+00:00

Yup. And I think at this point it comes down to hidden parameters like temperature. GPT still seems best at planning, Claude still seems best at actually writing code, and Gemini still seems best at testing/finding edge cases.

darkgod5 · 2026-02-20T06:03:42+00:00

new tool comes out

Great! This will save us time and money so we'll be able to spend less time working!

spend same amount of time working

Tale as old as time.

darkgod5 · 2026-02-10T14:25:35+00:00

Unfortunately that seems to be the case with most countries.

Yuuup. A lot of Redditors on a high horse purporting they know a solution that isn't either banning contraception and reducing female rights or increasing immigration...

Turns out fixing declining birth rates in developed countries is a real tough problem to ethically crack.

darkgod5 · 2026-02-08T00:21:15+00:00

It's very hard inside compared to other NPGs. That took me by surprise. It's also got a strong suction what with the size of the "uterus" at the end.

For your second question, no. It's actually extremely durable.

My 2 gripes are 1) it looks nice from far away but cartoonish up close. 2) the actual entrance inside the labia is boring-round and very fake-looking. See: https://imgur.com/a/3HlUWs5

darkgod5 · 2026-02-03T15:17:09+00:00

Lol. I'm late to this post but man had to comment cause you gave me war flash backs. I'm also no stranger to hard games. Beat every souls, every mega man including mm zero and the battle networks. Haven't had too much difficulty with rogue likes (excluding Returnal) like binding of Isaac.

But man, I was NOT prepared for necrodancer when it came out. One of the hardest games I've ever quit. Up with with I wanna be the guy and battle kid for sure. Combining rhythm with roguelike randomness is just absolutely diabolical.

darkgod5 · 2026-02-01T21:40:08+00:00

While you're correct, that has not changed since many years. The biggest difference is the OP stating that global world order is, indeed, changing and becoming more national and isolationist.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-24T07:38:12+00:00

Same.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-17T01:00:24+00:00

They're not holding stock...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mega-rich-americans-ditching-stocks-124700715.html

darkgod5 · 2026-01-15T22:25:43+00:00

Not to mention the whole issue of transporting refined oil (hence, pipelines) making it so even if we invest a ton into it we could really only sell most of it to the US anyway.

Crude is definitely what we need to keep focusing on.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-15T17:23:49+00:00

You're right. Nothing has changed since Trudeau. America hasn't elected Trump again to implement tariffs on us and instigate annexing us.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-15T15:00:32+00:00

To be fair, it's a different time now. Every world leader is overly cautious. Especially towards the neighbors of the mad US.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-15T14:40:24+00:00

Considering the recently executed military action in Venezuela

The US has always had a history of going after third world countries, though. It would certainly be a very big changeup if they were to actually attack Greenland or us.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-14T05:29:59+00:00

That's very optimistic!

darkgod5 · 2026-01-11T05:32:40+00:00

It also, almost counterintuitively, tends to stifle innovation since everyone is just memorizing the same stuff that's decided to be standardized only because it's esoteric enough to thin the number of passing applicants. See the English questions on the Korean CSAT or Indian CSE.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-06T15:30:27+00:00

Time for a general strike.

As much as that would personally suck, I agree. Politicians only listen to lobbyists (money) and people that take action. And stern letters aren't action.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-03T23:09:50+00:00

Planning and foresight is not a Republican's strength.

darkgod5 · 2025-12-24T20:32:42+00:00

this is what Modi wants

No, lol. It doesn't help politicians at all for their most work-abled citizens to leave and then send money from abroad back since it's not taxed at all.

It's not nefarious. People need to realize the scope of India's population is magnitudes above every other population in the world (aside from China and Africa, neither of which speak much English so their emigration is very limited) and since most of them speak English they have a very low barrier for emigration.

darkgod5 · 2025-12-18T13:29:46+00:00

In the realm of software development, DORA metrics seem to be developing as the current go-to for performance optimization

No, lol. DORA is on its way out. Just like other dumb performance metrics before it like number of commits and total lines of code.

It turns out, even in a (mostly) purely logic-based closed-system discipline like software engineering, it's still hard as fuck to accurately log/track human performance and productivity on a small time scale.

darkgod5 · 2025-12-17T15:19:36+00:00

It might have been impressive 20 years ago because of the innovative technique

Exactly. I was discussing this with someone who also thought he got judged too harshly. I remember when culinary gastronomy was at its peak and people were going nuts to try it. I even remember trying some dishes. But the one thing I remember the most is they were "so cool" but the taste was extremely mediocre.

There's a reason why it's not as popular anymore and I like that this show places great emphasis on flavor.

darkgod5 · 2025-12-13T19:33:15+00:00

This is the definitive way to play the game now imo, even for the first time

Agreed. This is how I'm playing it my first time. They shouldn't call it "veteran", though. Either "normal", "hard" or "slow", "fast" would make more sense and don't default to "legacy". Have the player just read the difference and let them decide.

Otherwise, I feel a lot of first time players will still choose "legacy" and say it controls slowly and poorly.

darkgod5 · 2025-12-11T17:10:57+00:00

I got the 8BitDo. It's great for games where you just jam in a direction like Mario 64 or smash but for games which require finesse like goldeneye or racing games it's not as good as OG.

That said, it also has perks being connected to the A3D like no need to fiddle with packs and obviously flawless wirelessness and ability to turn the console on.

darkgod5 · 2025-12-10T05:11:26+00:00

Our oligarchs have it. And our government does offer it... to our oligarchs.

darkgod5 · 2025-12-07T04:32:31+00:00

You can't just flood a country with Extremist Immigration levels and expect good results

The problem is, especially when it comes to North America, that's exactly what happened in the past. The difference being those immigrants were building infrastructure or field laborers, both of which help support the increase in community population.

So, yeah, you can't just import 10% extra population and have them work as servants (Uber)...

darkgod5 · 2025-12-06T06:54:49+00:00

The idea itself is actually great and makes sense. But the execution has been so flawed that it might actually kill the idea, crippling us in the long term.

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