scops

joined 2 years ago
[–] scops@reddthat.com 20 points 12 hours ago

Because when they stretch past the multiple year mark and households blend, why pretend they are a hookup?

[–] scops@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been hoping for a grounded reboot since the third game. SR2 had my favorite story in the series. I didn't need to see the gang turn into an empire.

Just give me a found family story about goofy assholes turned ride or die comrades fighting other gangs and maybe a corrupt local law enforcement agency or something. I don't need futuristic fighter jets or superpowers, just solid gameplay, fun good guys and bad guys, and a good sense of progression that ends with the Saints being capable but not ridiculously overpowered.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm a system administrator and went to a conference a couple weeks ago. The first day was a Tech Track day meant only for the people who would be managing the application. We heard a lot of, "We're not replacing the human being, we're making their job easier!"

The next two days were more for the C-levels who were shopping for new XaaS applications and the tune immediately changed to, "Why have a 1000 agents when you could have 50?" There was some token line about how you could pay those 50 more and they could feel more like valued employees, but I knew the ears around the room had turned off by that point.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

Always crazy seeing a The Big Hit reference in the wild

[–] scops@reddthat.com 18 points 3 weeks ago

When I had my first dog, I drove a Kia Soul and would put the back row of seats down when I took him places. Depending on the circumstances, I might let him in from the rear hatchback or one of the rear side doors. One day I called him out to the car and was standing beside the open rear passenger side door. He came tearing down the path at full speed, rounded the car and leapt-- into the closed back door. He yiped, looked at me like he was offended, then hopped in the open door.

OP, I feel you pain. My current dog ate a toy, too. Only it wasn't his toy, and I don't have any kids...

$4300 emergency vet visit later, my girlfriend and I are much better about cleaning up after playtime.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

I can snap with my right hand all day, but for some reason, my left hand just never gets the appropriate sound to come out.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

Fuck yes, Fight for NY was amazing. I love the idea of a fighting game where you have to end the fight, not just knock the other guy's health bar down to zero so he falls over. So satisfying to put your opponent down with a haymaker or chucking him in front of a subway train

[–] scops@reddthat.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

The only one, rather

[–] scops@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't scores fall earlier than that as more people utilized their credit lines and their credit: debt ratio changed? I'm sure the impact is much less than missing payments, but I think that would be an important thing to monitor for trends

[–] scops@reddthat.com 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you want to approach it from the opposite angle, check out John Green's Everything is Tuberculosis.

In the Pre-Industrial Revolution period, TB was extremely commonplace and seen as a romantic disease that killed slowly but made the sufferer more beautiful and artistic. Different theories said that going to more humid (like seasides) or dry environments could help one treat or beat the disease. In reality, this sometimes worked because TB tends to be more common in population centers and the real aid was just getting away from others.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 43 points 1 month ago

AP News has picked it up now at least.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 17 points 2 months ago

even if those pedophiles were in his party

I disagree with you on this. I fully believe that Biden is enough of a status-quo type that he would withhold the documents if there were enough names to significantly damage the current Democrat hierarchy.

I respect the job he did while president, but Biden wasn't rocking the boat any more than he had to.

 

From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

view more: next ›