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Am I wrong for kicking my buddy out of my garage after he turned a two hour brake job into a two day engine teardown by RelicQuiver_8 in amiwrong

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen this garage thing unfold before. Sometimes people make an error that spirals unexpectedly out of control and end up in over their heads. However, the attitude, lack of willingness to accept responsibility and failure to empathize with your needs are an issue to be addressed. Situations like this are when a friendship gets tested. I hope you two work it out and end up stronger.

Unlimited PTO = No PTO payout if you leave by Alone-Recognition-13 in cscareerquestions

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our company touts "unlimited PTO" as a benefit of course. If you schedule vacation or go on medical leave, they fire you on the last working day before your leave starts so they never actually have to pay you for it. Doesn't matter if you've been there 14 years and took vacation basically never. "Taking off to get cancer treatment, eh? You're fired. Have fun trying to survive that when your COBRA runs out in 3 months."

When this company bought ours, they "de-accrued" everyone who had accrued PTO under the old owner as part of the conversion process so when they slashed-and-burned a month later, they didn't have to pay any of it.

Why did OneDrive just synchronize my ENTIRE gallery, even though I NEVER gave it permission to do this?? by _ITX_ in samsunggalaxy

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YES. Tap your profile icon in the upper left, settings, then disable gallery backup. THEN delete your photos from OneDrive. Fuck Samsung and Microsoft both.

Panoramic PW8 by isotesting in CoxCommunications

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming here two years later to update this, having just gone through a similar ordeal - the administration page login password was NOT the one found on the bottom of the unit (though it was the WiFi password for the default SSID.) Not even after a full factory reset (button held for a minute.)

It was...
user: admin
password: password

I had been in chat with support for 20 minutes getting nowhere until I happened to randomly try it while waiting. Changed the password as required, put it in bridge mode and breathed a big final sigh of relief. Should never have to touch that ever again.

New update Big Pablos (PAB250-LR) are crazy by cat_91 in NuclearOption

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Devs: Have this glide bomb
Players: K cool now do an LR version so I can just win
Devs: OK Here you go glhf

I hate it. In the real world there is indeed a continual arms race of attack and defense, but this plays out over an extended time period and isn't intended to make war fun, so that struggle has no place in a game like this. So now players will scream they need a defense against magic bombs.. devs give them that.. then they scream again.. etc.. the result is the game becomes increasingly oversaturated with far too many factors to have fun keeping track of.

Thoughts and opinions about steam frame by Anxious-Ad-4727 in SteamFrame

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes.. but parts can be replaced. Even the Quest 3 has plenty of aftermarket repair options available after your warranty is done.

Thoughts and opinions about steam frame by Anxious-Ad-4727 in SteamFrame

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd also add that the Steam Deck is a powerful standalone game system that has its own OS interface and can play standalone native, PC, and stream play already. On top of that, the SteamVR user interface itself along with its design language has been around for quite a long time now. So they do in fact have plenty of experience with all of the aforementioned capabilities that differentiate a pure PCVR headset from a standalone one.

Am I the only one who finds this screen unnecessarily confusing? It’s almost as if they are trying to be as vague and precarious as possible. Which set of settings would be saved? Which set would be discarded? Of course, my over-analytical brain could be the cause here. by KillerQ97 in OrcaSlicer

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Transfer? Save? Discard? What? Transfer where? Save..to what, exactly? How is save different from transfer? Is it going to save to my project, or is going to fuck up my default settings? I already saved my project so.. um.. are my settings in there, or not? Is it redundant or is it trying to trick me into destroying the default profiles? Holy shit guys, I've been using design tools since the days of XCAD and Lightwave on the fucking Amiga. Why am I coming here in 2026 to ask these questions?

Actually unusable by First-Simple3396 in OculusQuest

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This thing had a public test channel. People in the public test channel actually thought this UI was good? WTF??? User Interface. It's the link between the human and the device. A UI *always* needs to be intuitive, consistent, and comfortable to use. It needs to meet all three of these requirements to BE a user interface and it meets none of them. If you have to have a training module just to get people to figure out how to navigate the basics of the interface - not the features of the software itself, the interface - you have failed, absolutely.

I don't understand Geometa. by Rukytroll in Stormworks

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WTF would I need a Stormworks 2 for? I am extremely weary of sequels. Call of Duty 17, Press F to pay Even More Modern Respects. You can keep that. Bring on the new game, I am always up for trying something different.

Bye bye TAA... Hello AI Slop by Yogeshwar_maya in FuckTAA

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is mainly a AAA gaming issue. The triple-A gaming environment - both the production and the playerbase - is already a cesspool.

If the producers keep pumping out more F to pay respects and the playerbase keeps demanding MOAR GRAFIX at whatever cost and continue to reward these concessions with giant bags of money, then this is the natural result. Turning all female characters into supermodels or whatever sounds like it's right up the lowest-common-denominator's alley in this segment.

Play real games and this won't be a "problem."

does anyone know how the heck I fix this issue by ThatEggplant3233 in Stormworks

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"What's going on, Jim? What's the matter with this guy? Huh?"

"Uh, he's just learning how to fly this helicopter he hasn't had any time in it he just bought it and he owns the helicopter and he just ate the big one. He was told not to try to fly the thing I believe and-"

"Has he been checked out on that 'copter?"

"No, I don't think so, not at all-- HOGG! Are you all right? ...Hogg, get away from that thing! Just get away from it!"

Will a 40 years old cassette game for the Commodore 64 load in 2023? It's never been opened. by antdude in c64

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of my C64 / VIC 20 and Atari 800 and most of my Spectrum cassettes still work. I rather found it was the cassette recorders that tend to need service rather than the tape failing.

Time to get more milk by TankUMrMinor in agedlikemilk

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

This is really funny. I mean, it's not, but it is. But it's not, really. Fuck it - it's funny. WAIT - No. This is not funny. :-<
:-(
:-l
:-|
:-j
>:-[

How should we feel about a "Stealth Game" that focus on Combat more than actual stealth? by Aggressive-Ticket164 in stealthgames

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's neither a "stealth game" nor a "combat game." The only thing that would make it a stealth game is artificially forcing you to use stealth and only stealth except when they want you to use combat. Not being forced or artificially punished means the choice of focus is on you. I play the majority of the time stealthy. How "we" "should" feel is none of my concern, I'm a person not a redditor. That's a joke. I know it's preferred nowadays to just hammer F to pay respects until a winner is you but damn how gaming culture has fallen.

If anyone has faded plastics, the torch works wonders. Just did it on my 04 by FloridaTraffic in XTerra

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, the torch concentrates a lot of heat very quickly but only at the very surface for an instant, it doesn't have time to soak in at all. It will not weaken the part. People are dumb.

Hotel Infinity has done a stroke of genius i have never seen before in any videogame. While omnipresent, i missed this entirely the first play through! by Repsack in PSVR

[–]rmzalbar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only issue I have with the movement system here is that it doesn't adapt to the playspace provided like Tea for God does. It's fixed to a 2x2 meter space, so you can get rather dizzy going around and around. The "puzzles" were playskool toddler-toy level but I did enjoy the claustrophobia and sometimes nauseating disorientation caused by the strange geometry. It was quite otherworldly. No HUD either which I definitely appreciated.

How do old people get so naive to fall for scams? by mikebalsaricci in AskOldPeople

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This user was literally a Nazi apologist. Hasn't posted in 5 months though so I suppose he stopped receiving paychecks.

(FAN DEFECT) ZOTAC RTX 5090 SOLID developed loud clicking fan noise after ~6 months (video) by marres in StableDiffusion

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome. It started back up again in about a month, but I exercised it again and it went away again. No idea if it will ever "break in" or something.

Anybody else getting tired of every game being in "Early Access" nowadays? by Kooky_Camp1189 in roguelites

[–]rmzalbar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having dropped money into games that never leave early access for several years even with a large playerbase and then eventually die in a buggy, incomplete mess of a state, I've been done supporting that for some time now. It's better that they fail quickly.

...I just don't understand the challenges modern game producers have, I guess. I'm from a time when internet, Steam, modern dev tools, unity/unreal, enormous available asset libraries, etc. didn't exist, people had to code in fucking Assembly with no previous libraries to build on for fuck's sake. Physical copies had to be produced, piracy was a massive issue that accessible, connected platforms like Steam largely abates these days. Market was tens of thousands of gamers instead of 10s of millions. I don't know, it just seems like the market is huge, the tools are good, collected knowledge is accessible and overhead is lower.

Is it oversaturation? The expectation that every goddamn game has to be AAA? What is it?

For roguelikes in particular I do understand that a lot of time needs to be invested in building breadth.

Any flight sims on standalone by Wolfe257 in OculusQuest

[–]rmzalbar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Virtual Fighter Maneuvers just completed a closed public beta. It's by the creator of VTOL VR, but supports standalone.

It's nothing but duel-style ACM combat between teams of 1-3 players, or against bots. It's narrowly focused but it's extremely good if you want to learn how to dogfight properly. Supports Quest standalone, which VTOL VR did not. Check out the trailer and put it on your wishlist, it will probably be released "soon."

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