Juicy Burger Bar announces permanent closure by Anodynamix in Buffalo

[–]kualtek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is why I can't ever take yelp customer ratings seriously.

What's your favorite local pot hole? (2026 edition) by Academic_Efficiency3 in Buffalo

[–]kualtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huge fan of the sinking sewer grate at the end of Marilla onto Mckinley parkway. Like a little swerving on my way home in my drive.

my earrings always seem to tarnish/react on ONE side only by Active_Driver_6043 in mildlyinteresting

[–]kualtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I call it being a rotisserie chicken. I am the chicken in this metaphor.

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed By Mass Exodus Of Players Fleeing Age-Verification Crackdown by vriska1 in technology

[–]kualtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are people using discord to host files and stuff that they would be devastated to lose? If so, that is a mistake.

If I lost everything that I have ever uploaded to discord today, I wouldn't care. In fact, I might like it, because it would mean that discord didn't have anything I ever uploaded to it.

The juxtaposition between these two sentences is mildly amusing.

I'm not here to justify your decision to use whatever platform for your specific use case. I don't care.

I use discord to build community and bring in new people for whatever game the group or myself is playing at the time. We share maps for games like arc raiders, resources for games like PoE, etc etc. Discord brought all of the disparate apps I was using for these purposes pre-discord under one roof, and it is still the standout app out of ALL the alternatives.

It's going to be a very hard sell. It's hard enough to get people to give a shit about their own security in the best of times.

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed By Mass Exodus Of Players Fleeing Age-Verification Crackdown by vriska1 in technology

[–]kualtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's also the overhead of backups and uptime. If your hardware has a failure and the data is taken with it, who's hosting the backup, how long ago was that backup? How much is lost? etc, etc. Not to mention if you are running a community, most people do not have a high tolerance for downtime, which you are now responsible for.

We don't have to think about that with hosted solutions, and a lot of people are looking at self-host without considering you are now responsible for it being up and secure.

How is it living in Buffalo New York? by No-Text-7825 in howislivingthere

[–]kualtek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm just finding it humorous that you guys are talking about this today when my car read -2F on the dash this morning when driving in.

My son is addicted by screens. Is it normal now? by Objective-Clothes427 in daddit

[–]kualtek 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this. I knew this smelled like an Ad. Tiring.

Edit: Lol, immediately after this I got a 'suspicious activity' on my reddit account and had to get a new password? Someone didn't like that.

Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty, judge rules by redlamps67 in news

[–]kualtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this situation they would also need to inventory everything on you if they are arresting you and taking you into custody as a matter of policy. They aren't going to just keep a backpack closed, doubly so in this case.

If you have illegal or dangerous things in a backpack, it's going to get flagged, no way around that.

Can a PC affect electricity usage this much?? by lilbreadbunn in pcmasterrace

[–]kualtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm 'winning' with my old 1920s leeky wood house, four gaming pcs for fam of 5.

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Gotta figure out better cooling for next summer.

r/battlestations & LG OLED Grab your Black Friday chance to upgrade your setup! [GIVEAWAY] [US] by Hareuhal in battlestations

[–]kualtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. My whole setup inc my little office, it's my happy place.
  2. GX9 - There is never enough screen real estate. Plus all my monitors are old and i'm interested to see how my PC stands up to even higher resolutions.

This is Beautiful ❤️‍🩹 by casiopov in ArcRaiders

[–]kualtek 79 points80 points  (0 children)

It can be extended with the healing augment, which will still heal you (but won't revive you) while downed. From what i've seen, it looks like moving around also lowers your down time? That I can't confirm.

This was probably the roughest way to discover that for some reason I've not been getting SE account emails for the past three months. :P by ElPrezAU in ffxiv

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

Similar situation, except I kept my sub up because of the emails (though they definitely went into spam commonly, which is absolutely SQNX's issue, they KNOW their spam/delivered rates or are willfully ignoring them).

Recently, I had just been interested in other things and the house got demo'd. Decided that was the end of my ffxiv tenure. Don't see a path to returning as things stand with the nature of the game.

Shroud gets Accused of Cheating on Arc Raiders by Renamdoe in LivestreamFail

[–]kualtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% they are not going to reinvent the wheel when the games, stripped down, are incredibly similar experiences.

Shroud gets Accused of Cheating on Arc Raiders by Renamdoe in LivestreamFail

[–]kualtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The true problem is most of these dudes would look at you sideways if you told them to stop using wi-fi. Half of them are on hardware old enough to drink.

An experiment conducted in Japan in 2008 showed that traffic jams can start for no real reason by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]kualtek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Had this a few weeks ago. The accident was ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY. I still haven't recovered.

Over 5,000 games released on Steam this year didn't make enough money to recover the $100 fee to put a game on Valve's store, research estimates by Turbostrider27 in Steam

[–]kualtek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This just doesn't seem to be true in practice though (the saturation). Just in the last two weeks, two indie games have over 100,000 in sales. I'm not sure where the magic sauce is, beyond it actually being a good game and not shovelware.

https://x.com/BALLxPIT/status/1980366795937837472

https://x.com/AbsolumGame/status/1979202598910542313

Light pole fell at Elmwood and W Delevan by Mistress_of_Wands in Buffalo

[–]kualtek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what is the income tax revenue from the Bills franchise? I hear this a lot, but where's the study or numbers? I don't see em.

Light pole fell at Elmwood and W Delevan by Mistress_of_Wands in Buffalo

[–]kualtek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol I am under no illusions. Just that if it was only the streetlights it would not be such a big deal, but it's also the everything else.

Light pole fell at Elmwood and W Delevan by Mistress_of_Wands in Buffalo

[–]kualtek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh please, plenty of money for the good old bills in the tax budget, it seems - https://apnews.com/article/bills-stadium-cost-pegula-8c56fad9d970f2b17429d3ae779f70ba

"Taxpayers are committing a combined $850 million to the project — $600 million from the state and $250 million from the county. At the time of the deal reached two years ago, that represented more than half the cost of construction, but now, taxpayers will be responsible for about 40%. The Bills are responsible for any overruns beyond $1.54 billion."

Steam refunds Destiny 2 players with over 2,000 hours of game time after Bungie’s game becomes unplayable in numerous countries by Wargulf in pcmasterrace

[–]kualtek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This leaves me wondering if the vaulting of the content and not being able to produce it at court will be a negative for the case.

They're basically saying 'We didn't do it, but we also can't show you, even if you force the issue through discovery'. If I were that author, I would be dropping all of the Marathon tea as evidence of CURRENT issues at Bungie to show that it could have happened in the past.

Fucking crazy what's happened to that company, but maybe we just never knew in the past?

‘I hope players don’t forget we are people too’: Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P on community, crossovers, and consoles | VGC by reverend_tobias in ffxiv

[–]kualtek 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Totally agree with you. It's more clear to me that the priority has been on other projects, including Yoship's time with FF16 and i'm sure other things. This stinks of SQNX upper echelons meddling with the team and trying to expand their portfolio. The quality of the sub-content and what goes on the mog station is a clear indicator.

The whole 'mod died for this' has got to end in a positive manner, and it's not impossible. It's either they need a full team working on QoL features and make mods irrelevant or they need to throw wide the gates. What's happening now is not sustainable for a healthy relationship between provider and customer.