newthrowaway20

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Crime is legal.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

CEO's only say this shit when they've already broken the law. I have no doubt in my mind this dude has committed war crimes.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The pipe bombs have been an ongoing conspiracy in the MAGA movement. So they probably just picked up some rando to try and kill the narrative.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 29 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

Samantha might have won this fight, but I guarantee any employee who ends up looking up this name is immediately going to throw her application in the paper. Unless she ends up working for Prager-U or some bullshit like that

Like who in their right mind would want to work with someone like that?

Edit: of course it's an orchestrated stunt specifically to target a trans teacher. God damn it just fucking kill me already.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Hillary Clinton's mouth to blame for everyone's disdain of Hillary Clinton.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Surprising to who, exactly?

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

And all our electricity bills went up for this.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Google is adding a new app to company-managed Pixel phones, which allows IT admins to see all the RCS messages sent and received on specific devices.

Honestly I thought this was a thing already. Never assume that your company owned phone is private, never ever access your personal account on your work device.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

By completely de-duplicating our data, we were able to reduce the PC installation size from 154GB to 23GB, for a total saving of 131GB (~85%).

Jesus Christ that's a lot of duplicated data.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Used to be that disk jockeys also got to pick what they played to an extent. Now it's all just predetermined lists nationwide brought to you by iHeartRadio. But yeah. Crazy to think how quickly things changed.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Used to be we would share mixtapes.. I really miss that. It was an intimate social interaction that we've entirely lost with modern streaming.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I miss the days of people having their own bespoke collection of their favorite movies and shows. Everything is homogenized now. At least when I pirate, I'm still building my own personal media library. And I never have to worry about the show I like being removed later.

But I'm not gonna lie. The quality drop off in content caused by streaming services I think is a bigger issue

Netflix activity tries to make content that's not actually good enough to watch without browsing a phone. Second screen content, they call it. And I guarantee someone in a finance role realized they could make way more by doing just enough to keep people, rather than try to actively create amazing content, because it's soo much cheaper to not pay for good writers, or good set designers or actors when you could just find someone who's good enough. I think it's because the money people spend is recurring, linked to the service as a whole, and not linked to the individual work.. users have to vote by watching now, and some of the best stuff I've ever seen is also some of the least watched.

 

If you aren't aware, the Ghost Stories English Dub is one of the most insane dubs ever made. It's incredibly offensive and racist and bat shit insane at times and it's probably one of the funniest things I've ever watched. Scamboli Reviews has a great summary video about it. If you have time, it's worth watching this anime at least once in your life.

 

The Gold Saucer is sure to be fantastic, and I'm excited to see the date scene. But I'm particularly interested in how they do Barret and Dyne's encounter. I hope they expand on that whole moment.

 

Can we discuss the start of act 2?

I made it a point not to roll back my saves for any decision I make. So far, I've managed to save the tiefling's at the druid camp. Being a tiefling myself, I want to see them make it!

This made me all the more excited to see all the tiefling's that I'd saved make it this far. And boy were there a lot of them. So many people I recognized from previous conversations or quests. I was thrilled! And they of course remembered me.

I say all this to emphasize how hard it hit me when I wasn't able to protect Isabel. That whole interaction blindsided me so bad. And my initiative roll was horrible for all my characters, I ended up being paralyzed and they just slaughtered her in 2 turns.

It was a freaking gut punch, the likes I haven't felt in a game in years. All those innocent people, turned to monsters, then forcing me to put them down.

My main character was always so optimistic before this. This interaction is gonna make me change the way I play and the decisions I make going forward, just to really add to the impact of him losing all those people he cared about, thinking the decisions he made led to their death.

Is there anyone living the good life with their tiefling friends in the Last Light Inn? Anyone who saved Isabel? Because my character just lost his people and is a broken person now because of it.

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