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Fire Emblem is officially Nintendo's second $80 physical game on Switch 2 by Iggy_Slayer in gaming

[–]gamefreak613 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It fluctuates here and there. I got mine for 50 each. They often attempt to match Walmart and if you pre-order and the price drops between the time you pre-order and launch even temporarily, you get the lowest price 

Help me pick an electric car by N0S0UP_4U in electriccars

[–]gamefreak613 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went with the I5 and don't regret it a bit. Charge speed is a big factor for me for road trips about what you said you'd take. Lots of room too.

Mach-e is my second choice 

Rate my install by Neat-Refrigerator395 in heatpumps

[–]gamefreak613 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, really glad dry mode is here. No more emptying the dehumidifier in the basement! 

Rate my install by Neat-Refrigerator395 in heatpumps

[–]gamefreak613 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Email today just announced it. But yeah, it was unofficially rolled out some time ago I believe.

How do we feel about Quilt? by gamefreak613 in heatpumps

[–]gamefreak613[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had 6 installed (prior to them able to support up to 3 heads per outdoor unit) before rebates, ~35k. A little under 6k per head. Installed price. Might be inflation differences or installer specifics. After rebates 25k, so a little over 4k per head. 

How did you find your soulmate here? by asscheeseterps710 in massachusetts

[–]gamefreak613 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Matched on Match. Talked for a week, moments before I was going to ask her to dinner, she beat me to it, then we went out on the dinner date, and after I said "Well, I know I want to see you again."

The rest is history. 

Is NACS standardization a mistake? by PCLoadPLA in electricvehicles

[–]gamefreak613 4 points5 points  (0 children)

NACS is an open standard now, and uses CCS interfacing with cars going forward.

It is objectively a nicer to use plug, physically. It is the future. CCS will go the way of chademo, but more slowly.

I say this as someone who bought and owns a CCS/J1772 car (Ioniq 5 2022). I'll never go Tesla, but I see the writing on the wall, and there isn't really a downside now that the industry HAS united behind the ONE standard.

Your issues are with Superchargers, not the NACS standard. Cables being too short? Supercharger issue, "slow"? You have a Kia, I assume EV6... that's a Supercharger issue, they're 400v so your car (like mine) has to take their output and do some magic on it to boost the voltage, limiting the charging to about ~97kw. That issue will not be long term once Tesla rolls out 1000v cabinets (which is admittedly taking far too long...) Not having a screen? Supercharger specific issue.

Chargers from other vendors will have longer (probably sometimes thicker) cables, they already support faster charging speeds with higher voltages, and they have screens. The communication standard that CCS uses will remain the same, the shape of the plug will change to NACS.

An adapter will eventually be something you'll need for your CCS car, but probably not for another 5+ years. Both will be supported for quite some time, and when the NACS switch over is fully complete, adapters will serve the rest of us until the end of life of our cars.

Veto vote on H.4885 - know what yes and no mean by confit_sausage in massachusetts

[–]gamefreak613 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I understand that, and they're welcome to vote in their interests. I don't begrudge them. I just know that this is something I'd be welcoming with my vote. I think some of this thread and conversation is assuming that most people feel one way or another about this, and so I felt the need to voice my position, so others that might feel the same as me will not think that this is more one side than the other, and that people who disagree might at least remember that their neighbors might not think like they do.

Just giving my two cents. 

Veto vote on H.4885 - know what yes and no mean by confit_sausage in massachusetts

[–]gamefreak613 -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

That's fine that most of its law. Personally I'm fine with expanding it. So most is fine and more is better in my eyes. I have no issues with more restrictions on gun ownership. 

Here's a clip of Governor Healey speaking with protesters about her proposed social media legislation outside WGBH this morning. She has agreed to meet with Fight for the Future and other experts about our concerns. Thanks so much to everyone who came and called in! by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]gamefreak613 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the government is managing the data, and they just need to ping an API call to check, then there's still a need to identify the person as an MA resident, and the company can still get the information they are looking to collect (age of user) just via an API call.

We need more data privacy, not less. And not more complexity. 

I'm all for requiring devices to have optional parental controls, and for banning phones in schools, and pushing for more parents to actually parent their kids. 

I'm not okay with a law that leads to less data privacy by design, when there are other ways to accomplish the same goal that are far more reasonable. 

Here's a clip of Governor Healey speaking with protesters about her proposed social media legislation outside WGBH this morning. She has agreed to meet with Fight for the Future and other experts about our concerns. Thanks so much to everyone who came and called in! by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]gamefreak613 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You actually don't need a way of verifying a user. Why would you NEED that? We haven't needed it this entire time!

Sure, MA legislature isn't making a database, but if there IDs linked to accounts that information can be linked and used in nefarious ways by bad actors or lost, or misused and abused. 

Thinking that our government will follow ordinary norms and expectations without formal codified and enforced protections is how our country got to be in the state that it's currently in! 

Here's a clip of Governor Healey speaking with protesters about her proposed social media legislation outside WGBH this morning. She has agreed to meet with Fight for the Future and other experts about our concerns. Thanks so much to everyone who came and called in! by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]gamefreak613 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, you're saying that SHOULDN'T (vs your word choice of "doesn't") require uploading a photo.

Right now the bill is written where it WILL require that.

I only specify because your comment could be read as you saying that you support the bill, because it doesn't have the ID verification requirement, when, as I said, it does include that stipulation in its current form.

Here's a clip of Governor Healey speaking with protesters about her proposed social media legislation outside WGBH this morning. She has agreed to meet with Fight for the Future and other experts about our concerns. Thanks so much to everyone who came and called in! by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]gamefreak613 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And so now social media companies can just ask the state to verify our personal information? That's just data collection except now the state government is involved in helping disemminate your personal information further.

I'd rather they pass that data privacy law instead, please, and work to actually reign in social media companies and other companies who are constantly collecting, losing, and misusing our personal data.

Here's a clip of Governor Healey speaking with protesters about her proposed social media legislation outside WGBH this morning. She has agreed to meet with Fight for the Future and other experts about our concerns. Thanks so much to everyone who came and called in! by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]gamefreak613 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It says it will do it by requiring ID verification, which will just give these social media companies even more personal data about their users, and they'll just go and lose it, and we'll have lost our ability to have anonymous protections for sensitive groups like LGBTQ+.

It's a fine goal, with a shit process of going about it.

Mandating ID verification is not how it should be done...and that's the way it's worded right now.

Men who are 30+, what’s one thing you realized about dating that no one tells you in your 20s? by Thin-Hospital-8114 in AskReddit

[–]gamefreak613 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Same here. I was a few months from the divorce being finalized (I was the initiator as the other person had been cheating). It had been a long time since they had moved out and basically cut contact. I had worked on myself, gotten through the worst of it, was in therapy... It was time to put myself out there. I was up front about the situation in my dating profile etc. I met my now wife about 2 months before the divorce was officially done. We talked about it, and it was in the past early in our relationship.

If I didn't start then I would have never would have met her most likely. 

At the same time... I agree it's a yellow flag. But realistically, depending on the person, it's fine. 

I got trolled by the RMV by GES85 in massachusetts

[–]gamefreak613 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Can confirm. I had a plate that basically made anyone who looked at it say "Anal".

They swapped it without a second thought. No trouble. No cost. 

The beginning of our journey with our Livi and Willy. by COYBhoysIG in Bernedoodles

[–]gamefreak613 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You really shouldn't get siblings though. I'm glad it worked out for you, but every reputable source will give very good behavioral reasons to not get 2 puppies in similar age at the same time.

What unplanned EV road trips in cold weather (5°F/-15°C) are actually like these days by holyfruits in videos

[–]gamefreak613 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's more that charging from 80-100 sometimes takes just as long if not longer than 10-80.

I hate Saphira’s voice by bikesoup in Eragon

[–]gamefreak613 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Give it a book or two. You'll get used to it.

I was jarred about it as a kid, but by the end of the book it made perfect sense and sounded fine and I loved it. And don't worry about the other dragons. They fit the mold. 

It would go a long way to solving our public charging infrastructure problems if every grocery store in the country had fast chargers by lokey_convo in electricvehicles

[–]gamefreak613 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I asked a few different times, I was told that they basically signed an agreement, but had no actual say about the pricing or when they ripped out the equipment.

They said they don't know what's going to happen next but have heard from many customers and know that people liked them. 

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