Recent content by Captain Suave

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    Home Improvement

    Anyone who has tried to hire a tradeseman recently is acutely aware of this. I can barely get plumbers or electricians to return my calls because they have as much work as they want at almost whatever they feel like charging. At this point if you've got a job less than a full house remodel it's...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Frankly it's wild that we can find these things at all. It's an ice ball less than 400 km in diameter and ~8 billion miles away.
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    I was born in '79, late Gen X. My sister is younger and her cohort loved both shows. You're welcome to have an axe to grind against them, but they were popular and culturally relevant for a generation's worth of kids and young adults.
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    You're out of touch. Lois and Clark and Smallville were massive.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Copyright in general has been perverted from its original purpose, which was to be a temporary restraint to allow creatives to profit from their work for a modest time. Copyrights were supposed to last 14 years with an option to renew to 28, then everything reverted to public domain since the...
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    Computer Issues

    Same. If you can execute a tiny bit of discipline, this extension works wonders. Lets you sort and group tabs by HTML reference in a vertical list without keeping them loaded in memory. Easy bulk loading/unloading. (Firefox only) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    What code, though? The back end of these games are giant databases running on enterprise SAS platforms on AWS. It's not like you can just fire that stuff up on your windows machine.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    If you're talking about in-game dynamic content, the answer is cost. Tokens in high volume are expensive. Also, the tech is moving so fast that the feature set is borderline unstable over the timeline of game development.
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    Household Major Appliances

    Top loading Speed Queen.
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    MMA Thread

    That's very fortunate for him, but he and his family still have a rough road ahead.
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    Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve

    Discontinued; you'd have to try ebay. Prices look like $50-100, which is highway robbery considering I got mine for $5. It was tempermental as fuck the last time I tried using it. Other solutions work a lot better. Try the Moonlight app if you have any kind of android-derived TV.
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    Woodworking

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    The Video Thread

    Wait, there was a guy in that video? That should have been named, "If you look closely, there is a pineapple guy in this video."
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    Chat GPT AI

    I think there's a lot of this combined with "get off my lawn". I remember when people used to think our brains would rot when calculators became ubiquitous and we stopped using slide rules, too. And then again when we had the Internet instead of the library If you're not using your brain at all...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    My daughter is 10 and loves Stardew Valley.