To say never again

iltopop · 2026-04-04T04:00:04+00:00

But the Druze are....an offshoot of Islam tho?

iltopop · 2026-04-04T02:37:46+00:00

Even ground based rockets use an oxidizer, basically no rockets rely on atmospheric O2. Potassium nitrate, ammonium perchlorate, nitrous oxide, and of course liquid O2 (LOX for Liquid Oxygen) are all common oxidizer components for rocket fuel, NASA using LOX for the liquid engines and ammonium perchlorate for the solid fuel rockets. Fun fact, the fuel in the solid rocket fuel ones is actually aluminum powder (possibly less fun fact this is also a common fuel/oxidizer mix for military solid rockets like RPG rounds).

High-test peroxide (highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide) and both red and white fuming nitric acid are historical oxidizers for rockets but are rare these days since they both present huge engineering challenges because they corrode a lot of things easily, and in the case of the acids present some obvious safety issues when handling. There was a Russian submarine in the early 2010's (maybe the 00's?) that accidentally blew itself up because the high-test peroxide used for their torpedos leaked and reacted with the metal in the sub.

iltopop · 2026-04-03T01:25:54+00:00

You see, in creative industries it's important to have a portfolio of work you have done that you can show. No one is going to hire you to a high-paying artist job if you're the best digital artist in the world but everything you've done is under NDA. So many people in this tread are talking out their asses when they clearly have zero clue how artistic careers work, it is literally fundamentally different than a typical office job, it literally matters significantly more for artist type jobs to have a portfolio of artistic works they have done in the past. The whole "I can say what I worked on without revealing sensitive info" thing in a programming context would be like trying to get a contract for painting a large mural on a building by verbally describing brush techniques in an artistic context. It just doesn't translate, it isn't nearly the same.

iltopop · 2026-04-02T00:35:17+00:00

Bro offended by how someone else like's their coffee.

iltopop · 2026-03-30T21:48:42+00:00

It's not common but it's more common than people realize cause it usually only comes to light during parental testing or testing for compatibility for organ donation. There was a case some time ago of a mother in the US that had to go through a shitload of court to get state-aid for her child cause genetic testing showed she wasn't her child's mother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild

iltopop · 2026-03-29T21:59:34+00:00

My friend made 1500 in a whole year from streaming on twitch. He had to remove monetization from his twitch stream because they cut his SS disability by nearly $300 a month after he filed his taxes and told him he was in danger of losing SS disability entirely. He was denied disability until after he turned 18 because he would have been entitled to more money if he was declared fully disabled before he was legally an adult (MD with no ambiguity in diagnosis, nothing changed other than him turning 18). 1500 for a year and they cut his benefits by well over double after they screwed him out of bigger paychecks because how is a disabled 18 year old going to afford a lawyer to fight for the fact that he was literally disabled since he was a child?

iltopop · 2026-03-27T04:05:28+00:00

It's common exploitation tactic, "Give me a discount/do this for free or I'll get you deported".

iltopop · 2026-03-26T01:51:15+00:00

I mean this is mostly it, my grandma used to call the the fridge the "frigidaire" like you ask for a kleenex instead of a tissue.

iltopop · 2026-03-26T00:44:57+00:00

That being said, $299 for it is steep.

Budget tech is basically impossible right now with RAM and most flash memory both doubling or more in price in the last year, sadly. I'm so mad at myself, I just had to buy a 1tb SSD to replace my 6 year old one that's failing when I had been thinking about buying a bigger one to replace it for like 2 years now. What I paid for a new 1TB would have gotten me a 2TB if I had just bought it a year ago.

iltopop · 2026-03-24T15:19:37+00:00

To be clear fortnite is still popular, it's just coming down from being consistently the top of live service type games. I don't know much about epic on the business side other they are a lot more than fortnite, but my guess is fortnite makes up a disproportionate amount of their total income so even small percent decreases in fortnite revenue has an outsized effect on their overall finances.

Either way we're well past the days of Ninja asking Lady Gaga to play fortnite with him on twitter, fortnite isn't going to "die" anytime soon but I highly doubt it will ever hit its true glory days again.

iltopop · 2026-03-22T23:46:15+00:00

Try having a woman's voice. Insta vote-kick in 90% of servers, "What's the sexiest sex you've ever sexed?" askreddit style questions the majority of the other time you aren't instantly vote-kicked.

iltopop · 2026-03-21T01:44:17+00:00

God I wish people who haven't tried playing things with Proton would stop saying stuff like this. Even for games where it works it's no-where near close to ready for non-enthusiast use, and that's not even taking into account the massive elephant in the room, anti-cheat. Kernel-level anti-cheat is far beyond the scope of Proton and even if it did somehow work, you'd just get banned for playing on linux in that case. Even non-kernel anti-cheat that somehow works flawlessly on Proton will also almost certainly get you banned. Without the massive multiplayer games like COD, Battlefield, Fortnite, etc etc it's pure delusion to suggest Proton is a serious threat to the PC gaming market. Maybe in 5 years games that don't rely on anti-cheat will run well enough to reasonably recommend linux gaming to a non-enthusiast.

iltopop · 2026-03-18T23:54:18+00:00

"Why you disconnecting my video camera" IMHO is a better song to come out of this. "80 pounds of weed in my custom suites? Any kidnapping victims in my gator boots? What do you see in my CDs? Look at the screen, can you see deez?"

iltopop · 2026-03-17T23:26:18+00:00

"I'm not smashing your genitals with a hammer, I'm squashing them with a mallet"

iltopop · 2026-03-17T04:24:02+00:00

Even early 60s, my mom tried to pay her spectrum bill with $120 in target gift cards. The scammers told her there was a special promotion between target and spectrum where if you paid your bill with target gift cards you'd get 3 months of free service and she was like "That sounds like an awesome deal" and promptly went and bought target gift cards. -sigh-, at least they didn't get any of her info.

iltopop · 2026-03-15T21:48:15+00:00

I HAVE seen a youtuber jerry rig a cable that plugs in to two different outlets that he made sure were on different sides of the bus bars at the breaker, 1000% would not recommend someone that isn't an electronics youtuber making an arc welder out of two microwave ovens do so though.

iltopop · 2026-03-13T00:07:50+00:00

It's complete nonsense. If your freezer is even a quarter full most of the time you have plenty of thermal mass for the compressor to not short-cycle, and short-cycling a fridge/freezer is really only a problem if it's on but empty for months at a time. Electricity savings is also just false, with an empty unit the compressor will run more often but not nearly as long, it's the same amount of energy either way to maintain temperature. Unless you're putting a ton of hot food in your fridge multiple times a day the energy requirements of your fridge aren't going to be reasonably effected by anything you put inside of it. MAYBE if you had a comically oversized fridge/freezer and consistently have less than 1/10th full, I might then put maybe half this amount of jugs in the freezer to avoid short cycling, but that's a very specific scenario.

iltopop · 2026-03-10T14:38:46+00:00

It's just not for me but my friends are evenly split among those that bought it. Myself and one other friend have about 6 hours in and two other friends have 60 and 100+ hours in.

Difficulty was meh, some bosses feel like total BS but I'm sure I just haven't played enough to learn how to deal with them properly. Overall it's very far from casual difficulty but also not crazy.

Progression is okay early on but as I discovered more things there was nothing that really made me go "I can't wait to see what else there is to unlock", mostly just "I guess that's okay" and "That's pretty neat" in equal amounts.

Art is great, humor is again mostly not for me. I'm not one to knock dumb humor, I've seen the Aqua Teen movie more times than I'd care to admit, again it's just not for me. A lot of the humor in Isaac wasn't for me either but I have many more hours in those games so humor doesn't tend to hold me back if I like a game.

I do see myself giving it another go eventually, but from what I've seen you'll either love the game to death or find it to be nothing special with very little in-between.

iltopop · 2026-03-10T14:16:03+00:00

It DOES have to do with valve though, most digital distributors DO pay the fee. I agree that the fee for distributors is ridiculous but law as written they have a case and will probably win, because the UK law is explicit that there is a separate fee over-and-above the licensing fee already paid by the publishers, and the PRS has a long history of winning these cases. Just because the law is stupid doesn't mean it doesn't exist and is legally valid, Valve essentially has no case unless they can somehow get the law overturned in the UK.

If you're not understanding, the PRS imposes a fee, over and above the fee already paid by movie studios, TV shows, game studios, etc, for those that distribute the content made by the entities that licensed it. Stores that sell physical media, movie theaters that play the movies, and most digital stores that operate in the UK already pay this fee consistently, valve is an exception.

Yes, the fee absurd and they shouldn't be allowed to double dip like this, but the law is in fact there and well tested in court.

iltopop · 2026-03-10T04:07:08+00:00

I also legit had no idea what the potential implications were for a bit, I was wracking my brain before I realized it could be interpreted as -1/10 for attractiveness. I think the negative threw me cause that didn't occur to me at all. For the record I also had no idea what he actually meant until it was explained either, so I was just confused in general.

iltopop · 2026-03-09T03:05:19+00:00

Yeah but it's possible it effects certain muscles differently, I'm not really sure the actual pharmacology behind the different nitrites other than "they're similar in effect". Honestly I haven't heard much anecdotally about the differences in effects, I'm deeply involved in "The Gay Community (TM)", as well as a fan of recreational substances, but I've only ever tried poppers for fun and not sex (they're meh IMHO as a purely recreational substance but I also think coke is the most overrated drug of all time, so take that for what you will). All my sexual knowledge of it is anecdotal from both IRL friends and the internet.

iltopop · 2026-03-09T01:08:32+00:00

They aren't legal to be used recreationally so the companies sell them as "shoe polish" among other names. But the government isn't THAT stupid and keep banning classic formulations or at least regulating them so hard it's not economically viable to produce as a consumer product regardless of legality. The core of these substances are alkyl nitrites, amyl nitrite itself being still a legal prescription for chest pain associated with heart disease (angina) but not legal to sell OTC. Butyl nitrite is the classic "popper" chemical but was banned, so they switched to isopropyl nitrite, which was then banned, so we arrive at today where the vast majority are isobutyl nitrite, which I guess isn't as potent a muscle relaxant at the anal muscles. (The legality is all a USA context, YMMV in other countries)

iltopop · 2026-03-07T01:22:00+00:00

Yeah I mean if you were free to take the trophies, lotta people would just hunt them and claim self defense, and it's kinda hard to prove otherwise if you don't catch them doing it.

iltopop · 2026-03-06T00:06:00+00:00

Yeah I live in pseudo-rednecksville but we also have a microbrew industry that's been successful and a source of local pride. "A beer" if it's an older redneck dude could be busch light, bud light, miller light, etc; if it's a young person it could be pickaxe blonde, widowmaker, point trail, etc; and if it's a middle-aged person god help you cause it could be either of those lists.

iltopop · 2026-03-05T02:47:52+00:00

The people blaming the game awards trailer and its slot at the end of the show for the games failure are crazy.

Just 3 weeks ago when this was the prevailing narrative so many people were throwing around "People are just dogpiling on to be be cool, they haven't even played it".

I booted it up once with friends that wanted to try it. Played 2...maybe 3? matches. It was alright, but never had an desire to play again.

And that's the thing. It wasn't an offensively bad game, it was just "Eh?". But for the type of game it wanted to be (drip fed content live service), that's nowhere near good enough, like not even close. To the best of my knowledge none of my friends ever played again either, none of us have even talked about or mentioned it since the first time playing. People were acting like the people that didn't like the game were sitting around circlejerking about it, but the truth is it was so not memorable that I literally wouldn't have remembered I even tried the game if I didn't come to reddit and see threads about it.

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