lounge

[broken sigil]

Lmao

Ok I'll stop

[pearl elk]

video tutorials on your watch

[broken sigil]

I haven't seen any smartwatch that I liked before and this one caught my attention because it doesn't look like a classic smartwatch

Reminds me of gshocks which I love

[median wraith]

but I like the display I have to say

[broken sigil]

Amoled

Looks so nice in person

[median wraith]

were typical to have here this smarthwatch https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Nk5SEBARL._AC_UY741_.jpg

[pearl elk]

smarthwatches are the best watches

[broken sigil]

I actually love Casio watches, old and new ones 😅

[proud jay]

that's definitely big though

but might also be tiny arm

[broken sigil]

I have stickman wrists

[proud jay]

See this doesn’t look huge

imo

[median wraith]

damm son, this clocks today

[proud jay]

I don't like those big ass watches

I bump them into everything

[median wraith]

they have 1200€ ones too

[broken sigil]

Mine was like 300-320$ here, not too bad

[proud jay]

mine was 167 euros

it's not the best, but it's good enough

[median wraith]

I don't pay that for a clock

[pearl elk]

lol thats nothing... 25 million
https://hips.hearstapps.com/esquireuk.cdnds.net/16/26/640x496/gallery-1467036798-screen-shot-2016-06-27-at-31345-pm.jpg?resize=980:*

[proud jay]

well, also activity tracker

and heart rate

[median wraith]

I mean, got that for 20€

[proud jay]

in portable format like a watch?

[median wraith]

Xiaomi

[median wraith]

look what you have done to my amazon

[proud jay]

they look like shit, have smol battery and no gps though

at least the cheap ones

[median wraith]

that's true no GPS

[proud jay]

but I'm happy with my watch

[median wraith]

how many days the battery last ?

[proud jay]

depends on usage

like maybe 4 days of normal usage

if I use the gps a lot it becomes shorter

[median wraith]

somehow my Xiaomi last 15 days with the sensors active

[proud jay]

well the sensors are always on

[median wraith]

well, you can disable those

[pearl elk]

my watch lasts like 12 months on its battery 😛

[proud jay]

maybe the polling rate is low?

[median wraith]

like the heartbeat

[median wraith]

smaller screen, smaller problems I bet

[proud jay]

also possible

[median wraith]

the old one were better on that side, also even smaller screen

the new models are worst from what I read

[broken sigil]

😂

[proud jay]

well they always wanna cram in more useless features

[broken sigil]

I bought my sister one for like 70$ from xiaomi, doesn't have GPS but actually seems pretty decent, sensors looks pretty accurate
And around 14 day batter life

Mine is like close to 24 ish

xiaomi makes good products, I love their phones
been using 12t pro now for a year, had 11t before it

[proud jay]

could probably double the battery life if I turned off always on display though

[lofty lark]

I don't wear watches but that things pretty fancy lookin

what's that JFMAMJJASOND about months

[broken sigil]

yeah 😅

there are like hundreds of watchfaces to choose from

download apps, etc...

[lofty lark]

I saw JASON and thought it was your full name or something

[proud jay]

no his full name is Blue Man

[broken sigil]

lol

[proud jay]

typical croatian name

[lofty lark]

No middle name? or is his middle name?

[proud jay]

his middle name is MidJourney

[broken sigil]

There is also this but I haven't tried it

Lol

[proud jay]

is there deja integration?

[broken sigil]

Nope

I should make a deja app for it lol

Description: ever wanted to be insulted on the go? Then look no further

[pearl elk]

deja app that can talk to you while youre out in the world

[fluid bloom]

the terrorist watch was part of the quintessential army gear

[zinc wagon]

is it just me or does get funnier the more i watch this lmao

it actually sounds like some redditors arguing on r/programmerhumor lol

[woven wing]

"You throw words around like webscale and sharding but have no idea what you're talking about"

[zinc wagon]

"Mongo DB handles web scale. You turn it on and it scales right up" 🤣

[broken sigil]

just noticed... but what the hell is that disgrace to humanity

[empty dune]

That's just his arm hair man don't be rude

[zinc wagon]

me reading any cpp legacy code

[broken sigil]

I mean the blue thing that looks like a keyboard 😂

[empty dune]

That's the pimple, come on man

[broken sigil]

That... that right there is what's wrong with the internet and people in general^

[woven wing]

Looks like a Lily58

[zinc wagon]

wym? it's makes perfect sense to argue online on a realistic human feature

those damn liberals giving women fuzzhair, how dare they

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/you-got-a-point-jodie-walton-jbtzxclsv-ya-know-what-hold-on-gif-16819500

[empty dune]

Do you not know that WAHMEN don't have ICKY HAIR?

[broken sigil]

I wish they would port the damn game to PC like they did the first one

lmao

[empty dune]

When i was a kid, people would wear calculator watches to class to flex on others

[broken sigil]

New horizon game
"new"

[zinc wagon]

this watch is cool af and everyone agrees with that. anyone who dont is just in denial

[broken sigil]

ahhhhhhh autocorrect yet again

[woven wing]

https://keyhive.xyz/shop/lily58

[broken sigil]

oh hell nah

I would lose one of the halfs lol

[empty dune]

That's a woman, not a WAHMEN, wahmen 🍵

[zinc wagon]

yeah women is like a big no-no now apparently

[empty dune]

Also jokes aside, mad props to anyone who keeps long hair, i shave my head everytime my hair grows past a certain point on my shoulder because it just becomes so goddamn annoying to keep it

[woven wing]

Women won't be real until they make anime real /s

[zinc wagon]

western politics are the funniest thing ever. on far right, they think women having a realistic amount of facial hair is a crime against humanity while the far left think gendered words are a literal human right violation

[woven wing]

I just want to buy a house but mortgage rates are like 8%

[empty dune]

Oh here's something funny i learnt the other day, a nerd who's also an incel is called a braincel

[zinc wagon]

truly there's something wrong in our society

[zinc wagon]

what is a mortgage btw? here you just buy a house and it's yours...is it like some kind of tax?

oh interest right

thank god it's a criminal act to force interest here lol

[woven wing]

You borrow money from a bank to buy a house, and then you pay back the bank with a low* interest rate, and if you don't pay it all back the bank is like "haha, my house now"

[empty dune]

Aren't there currently people on both sides extremely mad that starfield has a pronouns setting?

Wild

[zinc wagon]

god that's honestly really awful...

[woven wing]

Where do you live without interest rates?

[zinc wagon]

intrest as a concept should be forbiden. like it makes the rich richer and the poor poorer

[empty dune]

Viva la elgerie

[zinc wagon]

algeria

[woven wing]

I'm too american, let me look that up on a map

[zinc wagon]

muslim countries in general do not have intrest since it's forbidden by the religion

[woven wing]

Ahhh

[empty dune]

Not American enough, you know how to use a map

[woven wing]

It's forbidden in Christianity, too but...

[zinc wagon]

again the argument is this #lounge message

[zinc wagon]

i understand why state and the church was separated but maybe it was separated too much...😅

[unreal ether]

TIL Algeria is a Muslim country

[zinc wagon]

lmao what!?

[unreal ether]

My geography knowledge is really shit 🤣

[empty dune]

Same. And then i remembered the jannisarries were a thing and went ohhhh

[zinc wagon]

half of africa is muslic bruh how'd you mess up so bad!

[unreal ether]

My dumbass thought Algeria was South America lmfaoooo

[empty dune]

Wait

[zinc wagon]

huh!?

[empty dune]

Algeria is in Africa???

What

Okay im American apparently

[fathom wadi]

you guys have to be trolling

[empty dune]

No i legit was thinking Algeria = europe

[unreal ether]

Nope, just genuinely lobotomized when it comes to geography lol

[zinc wagon]

at least i can understand that since algeria uses french for like everything

but south america

i..

[fathom wadi]

I'm genuinely shocked. I mean, geography is a lot to handle but I dunno... you would think some of it would stick

[zinc wagon]

waw that's impressive tbh

[empty dune]

Im honorary American

[unreal ether]

Europe would have been my second guess

[zinc wagon]

i thought you were indian

[empty dune]

@woven wing how do i get a green card?

[woven wing]

Pack fish in Alaska

[empty dune]

I am but clearly my map knowledge says otherwise

[fathom wadi]

https://tenor.com/view/globe-revolution-earth-spin-gif-11415271

[zinc wagon]

im curious what made you think algeria is in south america lol

[empty dune]

Smooth, frictionless brain. Very effective at deflecting knowledge

[unreal ether]

Prolly because of Argentina having a somewhat similar name.

And I've been thinking about Argentina a lot.

That and I'm completely smooth brained in geography. Was my worst subject

[unborn lotus]

https://youtu.be/V1508wboZXk?feature=shared

[empty dune]

Is your grandfather an electrical engineer in Argentina?

[woven wing]

The warcrime one is better

[empty dune]

Everything is better with warcrimes!

[zinc wagon]

ah fair enough ig

[unreal ether]

No

[woven wing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSs6LgypxOE

[unreal ether]

It's absolutely not fair enough. You don't have to lie to make me feel better about my abysmal geographical knowledge :P

[empty dune]

I have a part Armenian friend who's great grandmother was ACTUALLY an "electrical engineer" in 1940s Germany

It's wild

[zinc wagon]

lol well i tried to be nice 🙃

[lofty lark]

Through 5 years of college, I never owned a dedicated calculator I don't recall every owning one in elementary through highschool either but that's too far to remember accurately. Well, I know I didn't own one in highschool. Before that is a mystery.

[fathom wadi]

When I was at school we went on a geography field trip. I stole a can of coke from a shop and someone told on me. So I was banned from ever going on field trips (which meant I could never pass my GCSE qualification), and I was forced to sit at the front of the class facing a map of South America. So I memorised all the capital cities of every South American country. One day the teacher, who literally hated me, was picking on me so I interrupted her and started reeling off every capital city. She kept telling me to be quiet but I carried on anyway as she was a complete bitch who had no place teaching children. She was an awful teacher.
That's my geography story anyway.

[unreal ether]

My geography story was a lot less interesting. I hated it so picked history for my humanities subject in year 9. My history teacher was also awful though and also literally hated me so we have that in common :P

Crazy that you needed field trips for your GCSE though

[unreal ether]

You go to #programmer-hangout you aren't allowed to be nice under the laws of programmers!?!??

[fathom wadi]

I hated history back then. I accrued over 30 detentions in a row because I refused to do my homework.
Then one day they asked us to write a story based on a historical event. So I wrote out this really good story about Vietnam and two soldiers who were hiding because they were lost and scared. Who tried to survive in vietcong territory for months. Then eventually they saw a plane dropping papers and when they read it they said the veitcong had given up and the meeting point was in the local city. When they got there it was a stronghold and they were butchered. My history teacher loved it. But I had no interest really.

[unreal ether]

Most of my school detentions were for forgetting to get my planner signed. Such an odd requirement. Yet surprisingly common

[fathom wadi]

we had this custom at our school. We would take a syringe full of hydrochloric acid and squirt a bit into someone's blazer pocket so their planner turned from blue to pink. Kind of a dangerous thing to do looking back but it was funny 😄

[cloud ocean]

Howdy bois

[unreal ether]

Howdy

At least I take solace in the fact that my geography isn't as bad as the person I went to school with that didn't believe Madagascar was a real place

[unborn lotus]

We don't have detentions but a mark for behavior. Mine was lowered in highschool because of skipping too much school. But I was just at home playing Oblivion and not a care in the world lol

[unreal ether]

Ours was always a 20 minute lunchtime detention. Which was extra annoying. That was half of lunch, and when you try to go get lunch halfway through lunch, all you manage to get is dried out scraps

oh don't get me wrong there were many suspensions. I just wasn't a recipient

me neither

[lofty lark]

"You've been skipping school, so we're suspending you from school for a week."

[unreal ether]

one amusing thing a lot fo the less well behaved kids did was climb the gate at our school

[zinc wagon]

you see, i break rules. i like to use volitile all over my code in c++ 😎

[chrome gull]

LMFAOOO

[unreal ether]

That's scarier than my geography knowledge 😆

[unreal ether]

please do not read my answer to this

[lofty lark]

In school suspension was the best. A week of being secluded from other students and just reading books all day long? Yes please.

[unreal ether]

thank you for your cooperation

[unreal ether]

our school had to give weird names to everything. It wasn't an in school suspension, you got sent to the "behavioural improvment centre"

[chrome gull]

too late

[unreal ether]

even typing it out makes me cringe

[zinc wagon]

we have that too!

[unreal ether]

https://tenor.com/view/peace-out-gif-22295199

[chrome gull]

😭

[zinc wagon]

and it stays on your file and some people actually failed to get jobs because of it

[unreal ether]

sounds a tad harsh

how come?

[chrome gull]

because... you have detention?

suspension?

same thing

[unreal ether]

the only thing that would ever stay on a permanent record here is expulsion, and even then jobs do not give a shit

[zinc wagon]

"hmm so you have the skills that fits our needs, you're super social a have an amazing teamwork skills. but you sadly, you got kicked from school for 3 day in middle school so we will reject you're application"

[unreal ether]

that's absolutely wild

[chrome gull]

is suspension a common thing?

like in schools around the world

[unreal ether]

yeah

[chrome gull]

damn

deffo not here

[unreal ether]

where is here?

[chrome gull]

india

[unreal ether]

ah, what punishment systems are common over there?

[chrome gull]

and you won't ever get expelled unless you did something really, really wrong

[chrome gull]

https://tenor.com/view/beating-impact-it-hurts-gif-16410837

jk lol

just reprimanding

at least for students older than 15

[unreal ether]

for us in the uk it was always Detention > in school suspension > suspension > managed move > expulsion

[zinc wagon]

it might be because you have the same punishment is issued for missing 4 classes in a row and having a night fight

[chrome gull]

detention is unheard of here

no one does it

[zinc wagon]

and they dont state the reason why you suspended so employers assume the worst

[unreal ether]

well they are clearly of equal severity 🤣

[unreal ether]

yikes

[lofty lark]

I got suspended for something someone claimed I did. Even though it was off school grounds. And I wasn't even in the city at the time. I was in my moms car, in another city, on the way home. My parent's weren't happy at all at the school, and I still got suspended regardless

[zinc wagon]

the the things are ran makes complete sense and if you think otherwise no you dont

[unreal ether]

huh? im not following 😭

[chrome gull]

how does that even happen?

they just follow baseless claims?

[unreal ether]

suspension can be so bs. sure most of the time it's deserved but you quite commonly get bs 0 tolerance stuff, where someone stands up for themselves and gets suspended.

[zinc wagon]

see? that's why you are not allowed to comment on how algeria likes to run things

[ornate orbit]

I think it will very soon be feasible for someone to enact large population measures and be able to prove that the next generation of life in the form of artificial life should thrive in the place of humans

[unreal ether]

ohhh, is it one of those governments that really doesn't like criticism?

[empty dune]

Sounds like our glorious leaders

[lofty lark]

Pretty much. That school had a lot of pretty bad kids 😅

[zinc wagon]

yep. they once upon a time jailed for criticising leaders. now they found that ignoring is more effective lol

[lofty lark]

That bus stop was basically an unofficial MMA ring 😅

[unreal ether]

✨ ignorance is bliss ✨

[chrome gull]

damn bruh I couldn't even imagine that

which country was this in?

[empty dune]

How? Our glorious leaders don't like feedback either!

[unreal ether]

our school was quite rough. always loads of drugs and knife related stuff.
By the time I got my GCSE's the school had constant police patrol.

[chrome gull]

nah nah I was replying to Vazu

[zinc wagon]

you got school buses? i had to take an hour walk to my school

[unreal ether]

The sparkles add to it :P

[lofty lark]

There were fights that involved slamming the other kids head into the side of the bus and they went scot free. I get suspended tho for something someone else did while I wasn't even in the city 🥲

[unreal ether]

most of the bad stuff at our school was just kinda sad.
I could name you 2, 11 year old drug dealers that sold some of their parents stash.

[lofty lark]

^ my middle school gamer tag.

[unreal ether]

missing a _420BlazeIt on the end there

[zinc wagon]

you should've crushed your enemies in that bus so they wouldn't get you suspended

[chrome gull]

damn bruh where was this?

my gamer tag was (and still is on xbox) GamerKing885

there's no way I'm paying to get that changed

[zinc wagon]

xX69420IgnoranceIsBliss02496Xx

[unreal ether]

That's like every user here that never sends a message in the server but dm's me asking "hey are you a gameplay programmer"

[chrome gull]

I will just live through the cringe

[empty dune]

Am i the only one who had a mildly decent gamertag as a kid?

[chrome gull]

your username lol

[unreal ether]

i bow to the gamer king

👑

[empty dune]

She's joking

[chrome gull]

please don't

[chrome gull]

right

[lofty lark]

East coast of the US

[chrome gull]

I am very stupid if you didn't realize it yet

[chrome gull]

weirdly fitting

[unreal ether]

i thought you were slightly bonkers

[empty dune]

Oh yeah i got one today

[chrome gull]

(idk what east coast is)

[empty dune]

Ill do it for you

[chrome gull]

cries in no DMs

[unreal ether]

is that because you don't allow dms?

discord is wacky

[chrome gull]

lmao

[empty dune]

The deed has been done

[empty dune]

✨ FLORIDA ✨

And Tennessee

[lofty lark]

No kid ever has a decent gamertag

[empty dune]

And part of ohio

[chrome gull]

florida? heh?

[empty dune]

Basically the coast of USA facing the Atlantic ocean

[lofty lark]

The eastern coast of the United States

[unreal ether]

true. all of mine were awful

[zinc wagon]

you dont know florida? the state of crocodiles?

[empty dune]

The other side facing the pacific ocean is called west coast

[chrome gull]

tell us, we shall judge

[chrome gull]

yes that I know ;-;

[empty dune]

||floppytechie||

[chrome gull]

ik what it is, just not sure why he responded to that message with "Florida"

[empty dune]

||I liked floppy disks as a kid||

[chrome gull]

that sounds pretty decent

[unreal ether]

has anyone here ever tried the username "DROP * FROM SCHEMA" for funsies

[empty dune]

That's cause Florida is on the east coast - _-

[chrome gull]

my reddit username and gamertag are two of the worst usernames on the planet

[empty dune]

When i was a kid and thought i was being big brain, yeah

[zinc wagon]

cant blame ya. to be a florida man you have to earn it

[empty dune]

Oops

[unreal ether]

✨ FLORIDA ✨

[empty dune]

Wrong reply

[chrome gull]

I actually went by "GamerKing885" on Discord itself for years

[zinc wagon]

✨ FLORIDA ✨

[empty dune]

Cha cha real smooth

[chrome gull]

✨ FLORIDA ✨

[zinc wagon]

my first ever account was just my name and "bob" at the end for whatever reason. i was not very creative

[chrome gull]

that is wayyy better than GamerKing885

believe me

okay tbf yeah name's not good

[zinc wagon]

no wait i just said the sentence in my brain and forgot to type it out

[chrome gull]

😭

[empty dune]

✨ FLORIDA ✨

[chrome gull]

I've upped my username game somewhere in the last 3-4 years

now I have 2 internet personas and various random usernames that I can't change

[ornate orbit]

thats pretty mild

[chrome gull]

you'd be surprised by how long I went by that

[empty dune]

Yes but with one crazy stunt you can become a Florida Woman instead!

Equality in insanity 🌸

[empty dune]

Lmao

I wanna actually put that in now

[zinc wagon]

we all do really

[chrome gull]

wait what did you do

[chrome gull]

is that a photoshop? inspect element?

[unreal ether]

Sorry im still reeling from the inconsistency of the unreal documentation so must share this again

[empty dune]

Lmaooooo

[zinc wagon]

hehe >:)

[chrome gull]

ah yes, the unreal documentation, famous for being very useful and consistent

[unreal ether]

An Iskander never reveals his secrets

[white oxide]

meet Bill

[unreal ether]

i like bill

i have a bill next to me right now :D

[lofty lark]

I can't even use Vazumongr in a number of games because it's "profanity"

[empty dune]

Bill

[white oxide]

there is only one bill

and he is getting a twitter feed to express his thoughts

🙂

[chrome gull]

an Iskander is a... russian ballistic missile system

[regal pecan]

Obviously the missiles are named after Iskander

[chrome gull]

hehh how??

[white oxide]

we all love bill right?

[lofty lark]

i have no fucking clue and it pisses me off to no end

[empty dune]

Don't be silly, iskander is obviously a missile defense system instead

[unreal ether]

also have two of these succulents. They are also cat safe

be careful, some succelents are toxic to cats

i know you mentioned nibbling

https://www.petmd.com/dog/emergency/poisoning-toxicity/are-succulents-poisonous-cats-and-dogs

[empty dune]

Yes
Yes but spicy

[zinc wagon]

im also a turkish cuisine

[unreal ether]

most of the common ones are fine

[chrome gull]

yeah I've had times where I couldn't have GamerKing885 or slightlybonkers as my username cuz of profanity

[lofty lark]

I think it's the mong part, but a lot of games allowed Warmonger but not me.

[unreal ether]

also you must pay the cat tax and show us the nibbler

[chrome gull]

I had to think of a username again

[lofty lark]

And LoL is atrocious. My friends name was literally Dickwad 🥹

[chrome gull]

my EA account is called absolutenutcase for that very reason

[chrome gull]

what does mong mean?

[lofty lark]

I have no fucking clue

Nothing as far as I know lol

[chrome gull]

lmao checks out

[white oxide]

yeah the Echeveria is actually all pet friendly

[lofty lark]

But that seems to be the part I have to break up to get my name through

[white oxide]

bill will NOT be happy if he is munched on, but

[lofty lark]

either throwing a space or a 0

[unreal ether]

It's used as a term meaning idiot, but is very derogatory, and has its roots in some deep racism iirc

[chrome gull]

ahhhh then it makes sense welp

[empty dune]

Yes origin is still a thing lol

[chrome gull]

I use it to play Battlefield 2042

[chrome gull]

it's not

[empty dune]

It's called EA desktop now

[zinc wagon]

there's an EA store still.

[chrome gull]

"EA Desktop App"

[empty dune]

I pre-ordered that garbage 😭😭

[lofty lark]

in what language?

[unreal ether]

I'd have to imagine it sees warmonger as a word, but your username as spam surrounding an attempted filter bypass

[chrome gull]

lmaooo I got it on sale @ 75% off

i think

[unreal ether]

Heard it commonly in the uk

[empty dune]

Im a huge battlefield nutcase

[unreal ether]

Not sure of the term is used anywhere else

[regal pecan]

Likely a mere dictionary whitelist

[empty dune]

Played the shit out of battlefield 3 and 4

[zinc wagon]

we didnt have online banking when it was launched 🙏

[chrome gull]

I like 2042, haven't really played much of the other ones

[chrome gull]

...in 2020?

[empty dune]

So i was pumped for bf2042, especially because star wars battlefront 2 DIED to create bf 2042

[chrome gull]

played all the campaigns from BF4 to BFV tho

[unreal ether]

Yeah probably

[empty dune]

But it turned out to be hot garbage

[zinc wagon]

even in 2021. now we have like a local version of it

[unreal ether]

Me too

[zinc wagon]

paypal, mastercard and the like are still not allowed here

[unreal ether]

I was so sad when it launched

[chrome gull]

I still watch the 2042 reveal trailer from time to time

it's insane how good it is

[zinc wagon]

you can get it. just need to travel to a whole other country 🙃

[chrome gull]

hawww??

[empty dune]

I still can't believe they killed battlefront 2 to make that toxic radioactive shit

[unreal ether]

It looked like it was going to be BF4 but better... it wasnt

[chrome gull]

how do you do international transactions then?

2042 is actually decent rn

[unreal ether]

I still like that they included the rendezook

[chrome gull]

but idk I paid like $5

[zinc wagon]

old people refusing to acknowledge tech ig

[chrome gull]

sooo

[empty dune]

Yeah but you couldn't do rendezook at launch

It was fucking infuriating

[zinc wagon]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont-invincible-gif-27194608

[chrome gull]

that trailer is how I know what a rendezook is

[chrome gull]

so steam? paypal? nothing?

epic games?

[chrome gull]

really?

[empty dune]

I paid 60$....

[zinc wagon]

learned the hard way that steam doesnt allow you to send friend requests to other account without paying 5$ first..

[empty dune]

Yeah, you wouldn't believe how stupid it was

[zinc wagon]

i play the free weekly games which is cool

[chrome gull]

ooooff

[empty dune]

A HOVERCRAFT could kill multiple tanks, apcs, choppers etc

[chrome gull]

oh yeah I've seen those videos

thing could scale buildings

[empty dune]

Oh yeah those things were magic

[chrome gull]

you could try it now, it's really fun

[chrome gull]

so you don't have a steam account?

[empty dune]

Fueled partly by my rage and tears. And the rest by the rage and tears of everyone else who pre-ordered that crap

[chrome gull]

no marketplace?

[chrome gull]

I have 140 hours in the game lol

$5

got my money's worth

easily

[empty dune]

I sure didn't

[white oxide]

wut game?

[chrome gull]

do you play it now?

[empty dune]

My fury is not at the money lost

[chrome gull]

Battlefield 2042

[white oxide]

oh lol not an FPS player really

[empty dune]

It's at the fact that battlefront 2 DIED because of it

[chrome gull]

checks out

[white oxide]

only ones i play are the GTA series, RDR, and fallout. nothing really else

[chrome gull]

I got Battlefront 2 free from EGS

[chrome gull]

I see, solid games

[empty dune]

It's an amazing game

One of the best star wars Multiplayer games

[chrome gull]

not a star wars guy lol

haven't played or watched a single piece of media related to star wars

[empty dune]

Heretic

Lol

[chrome gull]

it's just not my thing ;-;

...because you are not a guy?

[empty dune]

Laura secretly has a lightsaber armory

[white oxide]

tbh my home network sucks so bad online FPS games dont work for me

[empty dune]

Headcanon confirmed

[lofty lark]

do you see stars in their pfp? no, it's musical notes didn't realize you said star wars

[zinc wagon]

Literally couldn't buy a game legally ever

[chrome gull]

I am a stalker

[white oxide]

observation

[chrome gull]

this is what I do

[white oxide]

i too knew this

[empty dune]

Shadow of chernobyl

[white oxide]

and my new succulent is more social than i am

[lofty lark]

Who let the cat out of the bag now?

[chrome gull]

I have a slow but stable ethernet

works for me

[white oxide]

i have DSL

[empty dune]

Give bill his own lightsaber

[chrome gull]

what's that?

[white oxide]

0.3MB a second

[chrome gull]

bruh

[white oxide]

down

0.045MB/s up

those are the MAX

not average

[chrome gull]

it's still wild to me that up and down are not equal for the rest of the world

[empty dune]

Where are you? In the middle of the pacific ocean?

[chrome gull]

point nemo

[white oxide]

outside dallas of all places

[chrome gull]

😍

[empty dune]

Im pretty sure SATPHONES have better data transfer rates

[chrome gull]

???????

legit no international transactions? how does your country's economy survive?

[white oxide]

it doesnt

[empty dune]

I was gonna say that but thought it would be rude

[zinc wagon]

our country is enforcing a system of self fulfilment. pretty much out president said: you either create stuff to survive or dont

[empty dune]

Instructions unclear, created 29 offsprings instead

[chrome gull]

that is... so... weird?

why would you deny globalization

[zinc wagon]

supposedly that's temporary until we save up enough money or whatever. but considering how we keep giving money away and forgiving dept im not sure what's the plan anymore

[white oxide]

lots of tall trees nearby which then requires a big tower to get the dish over them

[empty dune]

Our country joined that club about a decade ago lol

[chrome gull]

save up money for what?

I find most people from shitty countries
every country ever

[white oxide]

all countries are shitty, whats shitty about them is the only difference

[empty dune]

Somehow i knew Algeria's economy is shit but not the fact that it's not in Europe

[zinc wagon]

idk! i remember hearing about great plans, increasing job opportunities, increasing the quality of living and education, blah blah blah. im still waiting for that plan execution

[zinc wagon]

tbf that was an easy guess

like 70% of world's economy is shit

[empty dune]

Not really a guess, i play terra Invicta

That's how i knew

💀

[chrome gull]

just another pipe dream then

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/earth-spin-gif-26127190

[zinc wagon]

so you missed the fact that the biggest country in africa is indeed in africa? impressive

[empty dune]

.... Yes

[zinc wagon]

yep and that's why im planning on ✈️

if i get a job...and a visa

[empty dune]

Like i said, smooth frictionless brain, very good at deflecting Armor piercing knowledge rounds

[chrome gull]

me too man, me too

[zinc wagon]

how'd you know! that's supposed to be our secret

[chrome gull]

https://tenor.com/view/why-are-you-why-are-you-gay-pepe-julian-who-is-gay-you-are-gay-gif-15004128

[chrome gull]

I was soo ready to leave to sweden but shit really hit the fan when I tried to execute the plan

[empty dune]

Hey that rhymed!

[chrome gull]

profesnol wrapper

[zinc wagon]

oh wait so you guys are from india yeah? is it true that india is changing it's name to baharat?

[chrome gull]

no

[empty dune]

Oh god

[chrome gull]

it's not

[empty dune]

It's

Complicated

[chrome gull]

you can't just change the name of a country because you feel like it

[empty dune]

Most probably not gonna happen

[chrome gull]

that's ridiculous

[empty dune]

But you never know

[zinc wagon]

ah bummer it would've been a cool history throwback

[chrome gull]

ohh THAT is why it's called Turkeiye now? I thought it was just out of respect

from the whole earthquake thing

[zinc wagon]

and btw baharat means spices, yeah?

[chrome gull]

no lmaooo

[zinc wagon]

is that like a native hindi word or did originate from arabic

[chrome gull]

it means india in many indian languages

[empty dune]

The problem isn't really the external identity changing, it's the internal one. India is a word that doesn't appear in any Indian language. Bharat on the other hand, does. In hindi.

[chrome gull]

ahhh okay

weird stuff

[zinc wagon]

in arabic it means spices. since back in the day arabs were trading spices from india

[zinc wagon]

huh that's really interesting

[chrome gull]

really? damn

that's neat

[zinc wagon]

it really is! that's why i said this #lounge message

[chrome gull]

Spain calls itself Espana (sorry for the no accent) for example

[empty dune]

That's the point, that's why India is accepted. It doesn't favor any one ethnicity. And india has innumerable ethnicities. Calling it bharat is overtly pushing dominance of a single ethnicity and that's not okay

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/spices-gordon-ramsay-uncharted-herbs-seasoning-gif-23344256

[chrome gull]

lol that completely flew past my head

not a politics guy but some of the things the goverment plans to do is insane

[zinc wagon]

egybt is great example of a country name being extremely different from what the people actually calls it (it's pronounced messer)

[chrome gull]

why is it so important to spend millions of dollars to change the name

of your country

[empty dune]

It doesn't really matter what anyone calls it tbh, it's the underlying message this is trying to push. That india is only for one ethnicity and the rest can convert or gtfo

[chrome gull]

why are they becoming so hitler-like bruh

[empty dune]

Im not joking, this is literally what's happening here right now. There is a "correct" ethnicity according to one group. And that group happens to be the majority power in the current government

[zinc wagon]

huh on twitter it's seemed like a pride thing mostely. people were just too proud of old india that they wanted to bring the name back

[empty dune]

Nope, that's the correct ethnicity people

[chrome gull]

wait what? which ethnicity is that?

[empty dune]

Seriously? Which party is on power now? Don't tell me you don't know

Anyway, screw politics

Im already sick, this will just make me depressed

[chrome gull]

we just use the names that the countries call themselves

(I literally don't understand politics)

[zinc wagon]

whenever i talk about politics i just mostly vent because if i keep to myself then i might actually just explode

[chrome gull]

I am like so ignorant to everything that's happening around me politically

I literally couldn't care less

[empty dune]

Im past that, just waiting for the nuclear strike on my city

[zinc wagon]

this is one of the few cases where ✨ ignorance is bliss ✨

[chrome gull]

why would your city in particular get nuked?

[empty dune]

Various reasons

Reasons i don't care to delve into

[chrome gull]

prolly lol but I legit don't have anything to add when it comes to political conversations

I'll be like "ahh yes, the prime minister is doing things"

[chrome gull]

checks out

[median wraith]

They are magicians of wealth

Damm, that sounds like some show on discovery

[zinc wagon]

yeah. my favourite trick is making billions of dollars just disappear

i doubt that

[chrome gull]

https://tenor.com/view/counting-money-money-eat-gif-7860266

(that's me)

yum

[zinc wagon]

you dont have the technic required. you'll need to be fast and lowkey about it. and then somehow remain in power for another 20 years in a row

[median wraith]

20 years ? what country is that

[soft night]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSQK6cXTKCU some say 3d print replacement is the thing of now

[chrome gull]

at least our guy will leave his post next year

(to my understanding)

why laugh

[empty dune]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-democracy-i-love-democracy-gif-13935227

[chrome gull]

this is honestly the most I've talked about politics

ever

[empty dune]

https://tenor.com/view/obi-wan-kenobii-jedi-master-your-new-empire-rage-angry-gif-16384996

Now THIS is fun politics

Star wars politics

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-i-am-the-senate-gif-10270130

[chrome gull]

like I said I won't understand any of this

[empty dune]

Im just quoting star wars right now

https://tenor.com/view/palpatine-treason-star-wars-emperor-gif-8547403

Revenge of the sith is unironically one of my favorite star wars movies

Second only to rogue one

That's not how you spell ponkkis

(i kid)

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/sauli-niinistö-theautocrats-itse-valtiaat-finland-politics-gif-20023557

[empty dune]

https://tenor.com/view/obi-wan-im-not-brave-enough-for-politics-talk-politics-not-brave-gif-19473033

https://tenor.com/view/obi-wan-kenobi-jedi-master-star-wars-another-happy-landing-landing-gif-17180367

[white oxide]

oh id love to make billions vanish, id magically have a new home, working company, and Bills 1 through 20

[proud jay]

Split keyboard

Lily58 to be precise

[broken sigil]

is that like a "build it yourself" type thing?
I don't think I could ever get used to a split keyboard

[white oxide]

bill has been asaulted

[unreal ether]

Was this a cat based attack?

[white oxide]

all signs point to yes

there are 2 hole marks about the size of my cats teeth

[fleet tangle]

What is bill?

[unreal ether]

Bill is the brutally attacked succulent seen above

[fleet tangle]

I have no idea what that is.

[white oxide]

it is a succulent, a small plant that can survive the most of the black thumbs out there

also low light

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echeveria

[fleet tangle]

I guess it was a little too succulent for your cat.

[white oxide]

yeah but bill is mad

and my cat has negative braincells

[unreal ether]

somehow i doubt that dishwasher liquid is going to make my pc run faster

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/wut-what-huh-uhm-confused-gif-16433684

[broken sigil]

lmao

[unreal ether]

can someone please send me a very real air conditioning unit please

its like a bajillion degrees in my room

my room is poised in such a way that the sun bears through the window all hours of the day.

[white oxide]

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/diy-air-conditioners/

[unreal ether]

it was bad today. 29 degrees, but with the sun laser being focused into my skin, and 2 pc's running, it was easily 35 in my room.
no joke i was working from home, and ended the day with sun stroke, without even having to leave the house

[broken sigil]

This sarcasm almost sounds like Laura lol

[white oxide]

its 37C outside rn in the shade

[unreal ether]

The UK really isn't built for this heat. No AC, and houses that are designed to trap the warmth in

Definitely going to have to buy a personal AC unit.
Every year we are getting mad heatwaves that last quite a while.

I'll be £200 lighter, and my room will be a lot noisier, but sun stroke while WFH is ridiculous 🤣

[unreal ether]

holy jesus.

where do you live? the core of the earth?!

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/texas-gif-24404828

[unreal ether]

I guess that's to be expected from a desert then

[white oxide]

"the only place where you can look farther and see less"

[unreal ether]

counterpoint: space

[white oxide]

its a joke from the "texas the experience play" https://www.texas-show.com/

"i saw my dog running away for 3 weeks"

[broken sigil]

lol

[white oxide]

ive seen FAR worse in comic form no less

[broken sigil]

https://youtu.be/K4bYpfoPkBM

[empty dune]

Eyy, a fellow scam citizen

[broken sigil]

It took my a good minute to realize what you mean 😅

[empty dune]

Lol

[broken sigil]

If it wasn't borderline uplayable I would actually play the damn game

[empty dune]

Same

I have two ships that i can't even use because it crashes so much

Maybe my grandchildren will get to enjoy my avenger titan

A family heirloom if you will

[broken sigil]

lol

Have Starfield, have it installed but haven't even launched it yet
Curious if it's good, have to get around trying it

[pearl elk]

Typical Bethesda RPG tbh

the shooter bits are better but yeah, player physics are complete jank

its like stepping back in time to the early 00s just with slightly better graphics 😛

[broken sigil]

lol

[pearl elk]

I really love Death Stranding, its probably my favourite open world type of game of more recent times. I just love the climbing, the falling, the exoskeletons, awesome stuff but yeah Bethesderr lol

The fact it has actual actors helps too, Starfield is like watching a dubbed movie

[broken sigil]

I watche DS on yt since I believe it was ps5 only for a while
I actually really liked it

might grab it and play it myself on PC

[pearl elk]

If I could have a more shooter orientated Death Stranding, bit like Uncharted, that'd be perfect. I dont mind stealth as an option but it tends to be a highly favourable option rather than sort of a 50/50

RPGs tend to suffer that, shooting is always "the hard way" when really if youre like a gunslinger type you should be able to clear a room before most of em even draw

Its usually the guy with the rifle on the balcony who gets a pot shot off before falling over the edge 😛

I remember in Dues Ex trying to rock the SMG without the stats you ended up shooting the ceiling 5 bullets in because the recoil was so insane

[broken sigil]

Damn I actually never finishe the last Dues Ex, kinda wanna play it again 😅

[pearl elk]

I should finish Thief tbh lol

I played the System Shock remake demo, that was pretty solid

[broken sigil]

and another game which I liked but never played lol

[unborn lotus]

I almost finished Thief 3, it was great

[pearl elk]

wait Thief 3 was just called Thief right

where Thief 1 was Thief: Deadly Shadows

[unborn lotus]

Hmm no thief 3 is deadly shadows

Thief 4 was just thief

And it wasn't that good

[pearl elk]

soooo confuse

almost like trying to watch Marvel movies in the correct order 😛

[unborn lotus]

Or star wars shows

[pearl elk]

apparently the kiddos watch it from episode 1, such spoilers

[unborn lotus]

I also saw ep 1 first

Then 4...all I had was the tv

[sweet rose]

I just came here to say

FUCK ADOBE

[empty dune]

Is that a sentiment or an instruction?

[pearl elk]

I think youre gonna get it from Adobe whether you want it or not 😛

[sweet rose]

both

[pearl elk]

I let Windows Store put my games in a default folder which is Xbox Games on C right. No other apps can access that folder, like AMD or Steam, gg MS

Wondered why it wasnt showing up in AMD Adrenaline, curious bout my average FPS

One rule for them, one for everyone else sigh

[pearl elk]

I got Starfield for $1 and lol... yeah barely got it to install

reason its in the default location is because the install failed... as usual 😛

Had to do a dance, login/logout, do the thing then finally it worked

Not as bad as previous though, Ive had to completely reinstall a game before because windows update killed the game update

I have no idea how a company the size of MS fails so hard at making a digital store

[pearl elk]

Hire no one to do the job and ignore all criticism

Reminds me of those companies with no complaints department

Pretty sure Starfield login is basically GFWL, its using my old icon from back in those days hahaha

[chrome gull]

why did windows decide the name of my user folder without asking me

I hate the name it chose, it's HALF of my name

I want to change it without wrecking my PC

[pearl elk]

I still have issues with long directorys on windows, if I download an UE branch and put it anywhere but the root drive its always too long

[chrome gull]

just ask me what name i want for the user folder

it's not that hard

I will change it

[pearl elk]

Looks like Bethesda thinks we'll be using black plastic garbage bags in 2330

[chrome gull]

looks like I finally get to play Starfield today guys

my PC seems to be working fine with new RAM sticks

[pearl elk]

I saw that new weird Dell memory on FB earlier, CASS, chonky ass memory

[median wraith]

Noo, maybe are like the new "plastic bottles" we got that are made now of sugar plants materials

[pearl elk]

Nah its more like Bethesda just said "what are we gonna do with all these Fallout assets now"

Not sure what people are on about with performance issues either

but my rig is all AMD so maybe I just got lucky

5950x & 6900XT

[chrome gull]

installing windows 11 is a nightmare

[timber viper]

thats not enough

you also have to prepare for adware emotionally before starting to use it

[pearl elk]

Its so Edgy

[chrome gull]

I did use rufus

but didn't set it up correctly eheheheh

I had to remake the boot drive

I also managed to change the name of the user folder without ripping my PC apart so that's a plus

I installed Win11 like 20 times this week lmao

I had 2 boot drives

one Rufus and one Official

[timber viper]

I installed two win11s in the last month
are you okay

[pearl elk]

is that two win11s or 11 win11s?

11 sounds more correct in MS numeracy

[chrome gull]

BRUHHH 😭

[timber viper]

[chrome gull]

haw?

[timber viper]

i pity to client for using win11 though

[unreal ether]

?wah

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/waaagh-warhammer40k-orks-charge-gif-14893692

[chrome gull]

turns out asus' "free winrar" is just a trial version of winrar...

siiigh

installed armory crate to claim it

idk I like it

don't know why

[empty dune]

ive been using win 11 for years now, havent seen a single ad

[pearl elk]

thats a lie, windows update asks you to sign up for Office 365

[empty dune]

oh, i thought you meant ads like the ones on facebook

yeah there's one drive ads and office 365 ads

when you first install it

[pearl elk]

after a major windows update it comes up with the blue install screen after reboot

[empty dune]

huh? no, ive had it come only once

and that was when i installed

[pearl elk]

It only comes up for the big windows updates not little security patches. Last one was like 22H or whatever

22H2 its right there on your image

if you install that the ads will come up

[empty dune]

funny thing, a few months ago a windows 11 update bricked my laptop. not because of the update itself but because windows kept trying to install vega drivers on my radeon chipset

and by funny, i mean it was extremely infuriating

[pearl elk]

yeah that update brought up the blue screen on mine

BSODs arnt blue

[empty dune]

its the "lets setup your new device uwu" screen im assuming

[empty dune]

BSOD means Blue screen of death

[pearl elk]

new to windows lol

[empty dune]

its in the name

[pearl elk]

yeah and they aint blue since ages

[empty dune]

what

ive had BSODs like a couple month ago

it was blue

[empty dune]

its always been blue

the font doesnt look prehistoric anymore

but its still blue

[empty dune]

this is just the system theme wtf

[pearl elk]

I just dunno how someone who installed windows 11 twice didnt see the blue installer screens

[empty dune]

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-annoyed-stöhn-oh-no-oh-nein-gif-24943313

[pearl elk]

BSODs are beyond the fucking point

the point is that MS advertises when you install, theres no way to skip it because its built into the settings menu for the OS

[empty dune]

there's a "Skip" button right there, you dont have to sign up for one drive OR office 365

its a 10 second experience

[pearl elk]

OOBE the b means Blue in this case?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/whats-the-report-give-me-an-update-whats-the-update-whats-going-on-whats-the-news-gif-16490273

[pearl elk]

then no

thats not it

its the rest of this menu which I cant find because no one screenshots it

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-an-ad-thats-an-ad-jimmy-thats-an-ad-jimmy-south-park-south-park-gif-21350739

[empty dune]

i havent done that but i could count one one hand the number of times ive seen one drive and office 365 ads in all the years ive been using it

[empty dune]

this is the system recovery menu.....

[pearl elk]

I KNOW

I cannot find the image because blue screen and windows = what

all images of BSODs

[chrome gull]

it's gone, purged

[pearl elk]

fuck internet searches suck ass

[empty dune]

https://tenor.com/view/sacred-text-star-wars-luke-yoda-gif-16551138

[chrome gull]

in the BIOS?

what?

[pearl elk]

https://www.tenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/209726d1537387099-custom-install-windows-10-a-windows_10_custom_install-49.jpg

comes after this

[chrome gull]

didn't happen to me

I just installed Win11

like 10 mins ago

[pearl elk]

least my image has the date I installed as proof not just the word of a rando interweeb 😛

[empty dune]

why are we arguing about this? this is literally a 10 second experience where you tell MS to fuck off and it collects data on you sulking in a corner because you didnt give consent

[pearl elk]

you tell me, all I said was it had ads and everyone dive bombed me

[empty dune]

i didnt, i agreed with you

[pearl elk]

MS simps 😛

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/list-amazinggrace-court-watching-scroll-gif-13488308

[chrome gull]

say I hypothetically will operate a business with 20 people, 5 of them are programmers but everyone needs to access the project files. do I buy VS licenses for all 20 or just the 5?

I'll also prolly use Azure DevOps like I am rn

[pearl elk]

apparently we are the only two people on the planet who have seen the ancient ad texts

[chrome gull]

never seen one

[chrome gull]

yes lol

[empty dune]

they dont mean normal ads, just one drive and office 365 ads

[pearl elk]

Access granted: were giving you a free trial of
Microsoft 365 Family

[chrome gull]

uninstalled both of them the moment the PC booted up

[pearl elk]

oops

https://betanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/microsoft_365_nag_screen.jpg

thats the image

it comes up after you install an update but maybe you already sub

[chrome gull]

btw it's hilarious how much MS tries to persuade you to not install chrome

I got 5 prompts

[empty dune]

nope, i only had it appear once

after clean install

[chrome gull]

they were legit begging me to use edge

[empty dune]

edge is actually faster than chrome at this point

[pearl elk]

yeah I only had it once after the latest update to 22H2, onedrive always comes up

[chrome gull]

the UI is bleh

prefer chrome

[empty dune]

im not even joking chrome is so goddamn bloated its not even funny

[chrome gull]

bloated?

[empty dune]

i can have 50 tabs open on edge

if i open 10 on chrome itll cry for mommy

[chrome gull]

damn

[pearl elk]

I dont use Chrome anymore, Google made it so they can disable extensions without your permission then they lock you out of modifying all your extensions

[chrome gull]

even with the memory booster thing enabled?

[chrome gull]

heh when did this happen

[empty dune]

yes, its awful, i dont even have it installed anymore

[fleet tangle]

You need a licence per person who uses VS. If they don't build (it includes bullding) or edit code with vs, they don't need a licence.

[pearl elk]

apparently its always been there, they disable extensions to protect you from malicious extensions they allowed on their store

but theres no way to undo the disabled extensions

[chrome gull]

I need to find a new browser but I am lazy

[chrome gull]

never came across it

[fleet tangle]

telnet

[chrome gull]

but I have like 2 extensions installed

[pearl elk]

I had the bad luck of downloading an adblock which got bought by a dodgy company

[chrome gull]

soo only programmers need a license?

[empty dune]

edge. literally, just use edge

[fleet tangle]

You don't need a vs licence to use, say, discord do you? That might be built with VS (it prboably isn't)

[empty dune]

edge is not internet explorer

[chrome gull]

noooo I don't like it

[fleet tangle]

Ironically, Edge isn't edgy enough.

[chrome gull]

I see

thanks

[empty dune]

why? because people said edge bad?

[pearl elk]

I still use a chromium based browser, Brave, just dont need to download dodgy adblock extensions

[chrome gull]

personal preference lmao

idc what people say

[empty dune]

ah okay then

[chrome gull]

the UI is bleh, there's ads and MSN

it looks ugly

[empty dune]

there's so many people out there who still think chrome is king

[fleet tangle]

I use Chrome and have no problems.

[empty dune]

its irritating

[chrome gull]

ik it isn't but I can't find anything else to use

[empty dune]

opera is a pretty good package tbh

[chrome gull]

plus almost every browser is made with chromium anyway

[chrome gull]

exactly, me too

[empty dune]

even edge is chromium

[pearl elk]

hows the ads on Youtube these days?

[fleet tangle]

Don't get any.

[chrome gull]

ik

[pearl elk]

whoo you must have a good adblocker not the dodgy one I got my extensions blocked for

[fleet tangle]

Well it tries to load them, but fails.

[empty dune]

i just paid for premium

[chrome gull]

moneh

[pearl elk]

Brave skips em entirely guys

[fleet tangle]

I have uBlock

[chrome gull]

I don't even use YT that much so

not worth it

I can watch a 2 second ad whenever I need to watch a video

no problemo

[chrome gull]

mine's adblocker

[empty dune]

i use YT a lot for unreal studying lol, so premium is like paying for idk, a udemy course for me lol

[pearl elk]

yeah uBlock was one of the good ones

[fleet tangle]

uBlock is the "we're starting again and making it bettr" version of adblocker.

[chrome gull]

none of the tutorials I watched gave me an ad

or i don't remember it

[empty dune]

probably this lol

[chrome gull]

whatever lol I can stomach an ad

ugh why is Starfield so... big?

[fleet tangle]

I get a shit ton of ads on my phone though

[empty dune]

thicc

[fleet tangle]

Chrome on android doesn't support extensions. 😦

[chrome gull]

I have adguard on my phone too lol

[pearl elk]

yup, I hate using my phone sometimes

[chrome gull]

system-wide

[empty dune]

i get so many notifications from fucking food delivery apps on my phone its infuriating

cant even mute them cause then ill miss delivery notifs

[chrome gull]

I turn almost all notifications off

[pearl elk]

I dont mind ads actually, if they are well presented, its the pushy ads I dont like. If its more like oh we have this cool product, maybe you could check it out but when its nudge nudge nudge constantly

[chrome gull]

you can disable by categories yk?

[empty dune]

doesnt work on zomato

never did

[chrome gull]

ahh team Swiggy here

tho I barely use it

and it's becoming shitty as fuck

[empty dune]

my food delivery app flirts with me more aggressively than the people i meet on dating apps

its

wild

[chrome gull]

lmao

almost all of my notifs are off

[pearl elk]

look at that nice... juicy, creamy...

cheesecake

[chrome gull]

I get one unwanted notif and the entire app's notifs will be turned off

[empty dune]

its worse than that

this is tame

[pearl elk]

oh no

[unborn lotus]

More attention then recruiters trying to get you on linkedin? 😆

[chrome gull]

LinkedIn is abysmal

god

it sucks so much

[pearl elk]

recruiters are the only ones who pay for full linkedin right

[empty dune]

okay between linkedin and food delivery apps, i dont know which one is worse

[chrome gull]

I thought it'd be good for connections and all

I hate it

🤮

[fleet tangle]

This is why I'm not on LinkedIn

[empty dune]

every app is a dating app now. including linkedin

its

ew

[unborn lotus]

I mean it is good for connections, just that recruiters try so hard...it's too much

[chrome gull]

(cries in single)

[pearl elk]

I have alot of good contacts on LinkedIn, more than any other social media network

[chrome gull]

the posts man

the posts

just brag if you want to

[fleet tangle]

I heard a funny description of LinkedIn the other day, it's a reverse dating app where hot women flirt with incels.

[chrome gull]

no one cares

don't try to hide the bragging

[deep glen]

thats onlyfans

[pearl elk]

sounds like an Elon Musk joke

[unborn lotus]

Bragging for what?

[chrome gull]

"achievements"

[fleet tangle]

Except the incels pay up on that one 😛

[pearl elk]

I cant even use X anymore, every time I try to click through it hounds me to login

[chrome gull]

X?

[pearl elk]

artist formally known as Twitter

[empty dune]

the carcass of twitter

[chrome gull]

ohh right right

I forgot

I have an account

sleeper account

[pearl elk]

I hate calling it that tbh but it seems to be the standard now

[chrome gull]

only viewing, no posting

I like watching people fight over nothing

the other day I saw this guy throwing a tantrum because Starfield has the option to select pronouns

[pearl elk]

I dont like logging in to see public posts

[empty dune]

yep, i saw this too

[chrome gull]

fair enough

[chrome gull]

it's hilarious

[pearl elk]

I saw that too, I chose they/them and I think it auto changed my voice to female... not the expected result. I just wanted to be a they/them masculine character

[empty dune]

lol, starfield assumed your gender

[chrome gull]

apparently I can't add a beard to my (I think) male character

there's no option

I like beards :((

[unborn lotus]

The one in cyberpunk was better. I played with no pants on

[pearl elk]

doesnt seem quite right does it, almost like they added it with no real thought put into it

[chrome gull]

I am disgusted by nudity lol

all kinds

won't elaborate

[empty dune]

i dont have a high opinion of bethesda to start with so to me its all funny

[chrome gull]

BGS is love for me

(as evident by my pfp)

never played Skyrim

[pearl elk]

I thought it was funny just the guy screaming about it then I found out it doesnt even work properly which makes his anger all the more hilarious tbh

unless I just missed the voice option somewhere but I went to Enhance and updated my pronouns, possibly fixed it. Unless that female I hear breathing occasionally is me not my crew mate

[chrome gull]

ohh yeah lmao the character can't speak in starfield

how'd you determine the voice to be female

[pearl elk]

Its all confusing, its not like you hear people talking about you, least I havent yet

so far the NPCs seem pretty binary gendered to me

its retro futurism though so the transhumanist angle isnt really explored at all

[empty dune]

oh fun fact, ark survival evolved mobile is getting a huge upgrade to the switch version

so now you too can be on the receiving end of warcrimes, on the go!

[pearl elk]

isnt there a Switch 2 coming 😮

[empty dune]

apparently

probably next year end is my guess

[pearl elk]

matrix awakens demo runs on it by all accounts

[empty dune]

it better, the switch is an abomination when it comes to specs

[pearl elk]

Wonder what the specs are, its abit odd Nvidia would keep it quiet. I mean they dont have to say its in the Switch but I guess it might have been obvious if they said they have a new Tegra

[pearl elk]

Yeah its an odd one, Ive definitely had issues with AMD drivers in the past with Rage (the game) thats why I moved back to Nvidia but eventually Nvidia got abit shit with huge drivers and lots of telemetry junk so I moved back. I did hear some people on 6900XTs had their cards die from bad drivers but I havent had an issue, XFX isnt exactly up there in terms of longevity of components

[chrome gull]

bruh why is Starfield refusing to go past the boot up screen

what do you mean 🥲

[empty dune]

Discrimination

[pearl elk]

perfect score 5/7

[chrome gull]

lessgoo awesome

ooh it loaded

apparently I need GeForce Experience

even tho I had drivers

[pearl elk]

GeForce Inexperienced

[empty dune]

Shush it's his first time

[pearl elk]

needed to give Nvidia your location to boot Starfield

they'll be over in acouple of days to talk to you about The Way its Meant to be Played Program

[chrome gull]

it works after I installed it then welp

[empty dune]

I identify as a jupiter class battlestar so i didn't have any problems either

[chrome gull]

come onnn

it's in my blood

it'll take time to undo it

F

[empty dune]

https://tenor.com/view/battlestar-galactica-gif-25797525

[chrome gull]

it's so dim tho

[pearl elk]

its even harder for the bruhs who wear bruhs

https://tenor.com/view/john-cena-smile-mlp-my-little-pony-crop-top-gif-17058832

[chrome gull]

yeah but it's weird

I started a new save lol, want to experience the whole thing from a non-RX 580 perspective