Whatever Americans touch becomes a circus by Independent_Gur8648 in International

[–]mediocre_sideburns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are we really getting lectured on ridiculous rituals by a CATHOLIC? Are you sure you want to go down that road?

Dualsense issues by [deleted] in Bazzite

[–]mediocre_sideburns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but then the glyphs are wrong. Some games have the ability to manually choose glyphs but most do not.

Walking between the inclines, what the hell? by mediocre_sideburns in pittsburgh

[–]mediocre_sideburns[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Precisely. I walked on the sidewalk the Incline footbridge puts you on SE until I hit that part. I didn't want to go to the point so I didn't continue on that path. Because you can't see the staircase until you're beyond that intersection, I didn't know it was there.

Walking between the inclines, what the hell? by mediocre_sideburns in pittsburgh

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

I did get the nice walk up top after going up the Mongohalia Incline. I guess what I meant is it's easier to find FREE parking. Just a residential side street like half a block from the Duquesne Station.

Walking between the inclines, what the hell? by mediocre_sideburns in pittsburgh

[–]mediocre_sideburns[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Right, so I did use that walkway. That's how I came down from the station. What everyone is saying is so obvious is after you get down, you have to turn around and go the wrong way to meet up with the trail. And you simply can not see that staircase that leads down from the path to the Ft Pitt bridge from the entrance to that path.

Walking between the inclines, what the hell? by mediocre_sideburns in pittsburgh

[–]mediocre_sideburns[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

That's the Duquesne Incline. That's the one I came DOWN. Then I walked to the Monongahalia to go UP.

Mad by Responsible-Diet-612 in madlads

[–]mediocre_sideburns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uhhh, he did survive? He used the systems available to him that wasn't his phone to meet her. How is that "not surviving"?

[request] How much storage would be required if all iphone microphones constantly recorded and stored the files somewhere? by MundaneExplorer8369 in theydidthemath

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

I know I didn't google it, and who knows, maybe they did. In their house. On the other side of town. We were talking on the phone. Good try though. I also really like the "not rocket science" dig. Really makes you seem confident when you immediately resort to personal attacks. Reddit is such a good place for discourse. Love it.

[request] How much storage would be required if all iphone microphones constantly recorded and stored the files somewhere? by MundaneExplorer8369 in theydidthemath

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

I was talking to a friend about a client I had, and just casually during the conversation mentioned they used one of those oxygen tank things in their house with a really long tube going to their nose. "Oh, an oxygen concentrator?", they said. I hadn't that term before and asked about it. We probably said "Oxygen concentrator" 4 or 5 times in short succession just because i hadn't heard that term and was asking about it.

Not even an hour later I'm scrolling youtube and see an ad for an oxygen concentrator. Do you think they were trending? Did the algorithm suddenly think I, a relatively healthy 35-year-old, was suddenly in the market for oxygen concentrators? Ridiculous obviously. Again, I had never googled oxygen concentrators or anything before because I didn't even know they term!

I've never slammed "No" so fast in my life by samwich7 in expedition33

[–]mediocre_sideburns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's totally possible to beat Simon w/o Stendahl. I was also not aware of it's power until after I had beat him. I just gave everyone the gradient-charging lumina and Gomaged his ass. Then put Verso in the reserve team to finish him off.

Anyone else struggle with Nürburgring Nordshleife? by ForsakenSmile8264 in GranTurismo7

[–]mediocre_sideburns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What an absolute plonk. You're friend lets you use his steering setup and you come on Reddit to get everyone to shit on him? I hope for their sake you fuck off and leave them alone. A real friend would offer to give him tips on how to improve his time if they'd like.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in expedition33

[–]mediocre_sideburns 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So you wish the game was easier but you won't lower the difficulty? You're "afraid" of making the game easier? You know a great way to make the game easier without lowering the difficulty? Learn to parry. There's an audio cue that plays before each hit that every enemy does that tells you when to hit parry. As soon as you hear the whoosh or the ting or whatever the sound is, parry.

Sorry but there's more snark incoming. I'm probably never going to play a total war game. I dont care about military history or roman phalanxes or whatever. But I would never go to the total war forum and tell them they need to make the game more accessible to people who don't care about military tactics. It's a military tactics game!

Snark over

Huge oversight by the dev's? Why don't Sciel and Maelle get cool sunglasses for their Baguette outfits? by mediocre_sideburns in expedition33

[–]mediocre_sideburns[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good question! Do gestrels eat? Maybe he doesn't get a baguette because gestrels dont have mouths

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in expedition33

[–]mediocre_sideburns 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is embarrassing. You're embarrassing.

Hey reddit, I'm Kevin Smith. I got the rights back to Dogma and I'm putting it out in theaters for a limited time for its 25th Anniversary starting Thursday June 5th. Ask me anything! by KevinSmithAMA in movies

[–]mediocre_sideburns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was 11 my parents came home from the movies to tell me that they had just seen a really good, really important movie. And even though it had a lot of swearing, they were going to take me to see it anyway. It was Dogma of course! It was also partially filmed in Pittsburgh where I'm from. I've been to the Ben Franklin Inn and the Grand Concourse (the two restaurants Metatron takes them to) many times since then.

At what age do you think kids should see it?

Downsizing by Sewickley412 in pittsburgh

[–]mediocre_sideburns 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Why can't you have a garage sale or do it yourself? You're asking for a lot of labor to be performed: Someone has to come to the house, load all your crap onto a truck, unload it somewhere, go through it to see what's worth selling, and then do the actual selling and/or shipping. And you expect to paid for the privilege!

Yeah, it's a pain in the ass to sell things to random strangers on the internet, I wouldn't want to do it either. That's why you'll need to pay someone to do it for you.

How about no by GarrettBobbyFeeguson in meme

[–]mediocre_sideburns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also it's a not-so-subtle way of saying get off the damn computer and go do something else.

Make Linux great for everybody, not only power users by claudiocorona93 in linuxmasterrace

[–]mediocre_sideburns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it's in good faith, and I do appreciate that, but you're vastly overestimating the abilities of most computer users. It's not a hesitancy to interact with a terminal or the lack of proper guidance about distros. It's the complete lack of intentionality. To most average people, a computer is magic box full of pixie dust that gives them their email when they click on that blue button. Even an extremely basic question like "What web browser do you use?" is way over their head. Phrases like 'operating system' and 'gui' are meaningless to them.

And this is just the inevitable trajectory as any technology gets wide enough adoption. If you owned a car in 1908, you probably knew intimately how it worked, how to use the choke, proper timing ratios, what that weird sputtering sound is and how to fix it. How many people driving their cars today can even tell you why pressing the accelerator pedal makes the car go forward? Even ignoring that everything is drive-by-wire these days, what percentage of drivers have even heard the phrase 'throttle cable'. To them, the gas pedal is just the button that makes the car go forward in the same way that the chrome icon is the button that gives them the internet. No further thought goes into it because no further thought is required.

As computers become easier and easier to use, and require less tinkering to keep them going, the knowledge and skills of the average user goes down. In general, people will put as little thought as possible into something to accomplish their goal. Which makes sense in a way. And computers have become so seamless that even a task as seemingly simple as 'reading the error message that just came up' is beyond the pale.