wreckedcarzz

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

just as long as you aren’t in a barbie world…

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

After I parted ways with faith as a kid, the holidays have always seemed very… ‘adults who still believe in the tooth fairy’ sort of thing. I haven’t actually celebrated since I was very young, and tbh it’s either a faith-based thing (which I don’t believe in, obviously) or it’s a cash-grab for corporations to unload back stock while acting like they are actually ‘so excited for the holidays’.

While I didn’t see a decline or hesitation around my neighborhood generally the last few years, my folks have been less and less giddy as time goes on. A couple years ago they bought their tree on the 24th. It’s like the excitement has weaned and they are just doing it because ‘we have always done it’, which again imo is stupid because you are stressing yourself out (and physically hurting yourself) by decorating the house, buying a tree, etc for something that they are only doing because they feel obligated. I’d happily take an extra $100 as a gift and free up an afternoon by not having to buy, haul home, decorate, and 10 days later dispose of, a tree. Same with house decorations, the neighbors aren’t going to care if we don’t spend 2 days cursing under our breath, stapling our fingers and almost falling off the room.

I dunno, it’s just so foreign to me. Any other time if a fat man burglarized your house, ate your snacks and left mediocre gifts as compensation that you’d return the very next morning anyway, you’d be pissed. But apparently it’s totally normal because it’s cold outside now.

shrug

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

ootl is twitch expanding into the amateur porn market orrrrrr

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

YOU NEVER LET ME DO ANYTHING FUN

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

grabs power cord “au contraire, it is only I that will do the talking”

yanks

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

I dunno, have you ever had diet coke spewed onto you from and by a horny teenage vagina?

(hello fbi)

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Foreskin 👌

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Ah yes, thanks for offering to pay for my therapist so we can pick up where we left off. The cost is $200 a session, with weekly sessions.

Will that be PayPal or check?

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

“oh, like, my god, Brittany just bought two new Bentley Continentals, one in pearl white and one in sunset red, just so she can match her car with the color of the sky. she didn’t get one in radiant black since nobody goes out at night, that’s when the poor people come out!” -my assumption of how TV shows like this go

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Best I can do is weekly payments at 39.98% interest, beginning on the service date.

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

You never ate captain crunch, I see

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Turn that off with (on pixel / aosp) Settings, Location, Location services, turn both to off.

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

With the prism project ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM ) along with things like 641A ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ), G doesn’t need to send anything. The nsa is already swallowing it whole.

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Does Dell… not offer a way to update the bios via flash drive or network? The fuck? Every board I’ve ever owned had the option to at least flash from USB.

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Like this, obviously

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Isometric exercises! Care to join me?

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Can confirm. Had stroke at 21, family at my side as they called 911, and I vividly remember thinking “I’m not going to be able to pay my bills for a couple weeks, this is awful”. Oh, awful it is, but instead of not paying my bills for a couple weeks, it’s until I die.

I was aware that I had high bp, but it’s not a big deal, right? Only old people stroke out. Why is it suddenly really heavy and hard to move? Uhoh…

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

I went in completely blind, knowing just the name and it’s a future shooter. It’s cool, I did side quests as they became available (ignoring storyline) and I think that’s the best way to do it, vs story first then side.

I’m disabled so played with a mouse only (kb for menus etc). I had a good time start to finish, and I only fucked up one side-quests (kinda mission design, kinda being an idiot). I haven’t played in a couple years, want to see what the new content is, just been hooked on other games.

I know the game “fell short” of hype but idc because I was interested and very very intentionally ignored all the hype bullshit. I feel I got my money’s worth, and enjoyed everything so far (story complete, all side as of 2y ago).

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Well, have you tried not spawning on explosives? smh

💥

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

I’ll smell you. I’ll smell you so good.

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

imagining a body builder applying purfume after washing off at the gym

“I WEAR IT BECAUSE I’M NOT A CHILD. YOU WANNA GO?!”

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Explain plz

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

laughs in games (that others actually play)

…too soon? :p

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Not really, unfortunately; the last time I checked, over half the games I regularly play had major issues, such as no multi-player, graphical corruption, etc.

I’d hop off windows but it’s still not viable yet.

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

As I recall off the top of my head, gta5 (buggy), the division 2 (anticheat), the entirety of Forza Horizon 3+4 and Halo Wars 2 (since they are MS Store titles)… I want to say watch dogs legion (uplay) but tbh it’s been a bit and my memory is fuzzy. Also since proton is for steam, I assume EA/Origin, which wipes a dozen games with one swoop, too (modern NFS, The Sims, Burnout, Battlefield…).

I’ve got a bunch of older games too that I keep installed for nostalgia, but haven’t looked at their playability scores; stuff like (all listed are non-digital copies) NFS 2 through Most Wanted (2012), GTA 3 / VC / SA, Midtown Madness 1+2, System Protocol One, TDU 1+2 (with third-party multi-player support thru TDU World launcher)…

I think the rest of my currently installed games should work ootb (no mp/steam managed or GOG / physical copy/new enough that I don’t think they’d need patches or workarounds…). But with over 7k gameplay hours logged on the Forza Horizon series alone, there’s a lot I play daily and losing just a couple would be too much. I’m out of the ‘tinker until it works’ phase, I just want things to work, ya know?

Edit: I’m also not sure how deeply ingrained the MS account stuff is, but also Horizon 5 (steam) and Halo MCC + Infinite (steam) too

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Imagine getting salty about a light-hearted comment

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

I just woke up thinking about this; I have looked very briefly at Bottles (containerizatiom for games and programs), and I actually think it claims to do EA/Origin if I remember the screenshots correctly, but that was about a month ago and I totally forgot to look deeper. Still doesn’t check off everything but it’s still progress if so.

I’m currently latched into windows 10 until eol and I’ve been trying to switch to *nix for two decades now, but something has always been too much of a hurdle (dog war flashbacks meme of the wifi driver hell of the mid-to-late 00s) and I end up giving up, restoring from a backup and waiting a couple of years to do it all again. It used to be fun, genuinely, but yeah at this point I want someone else to do it these days and tell me what’s broken, I just want to enjoy my time these days. Troubleshooting and trying potentially solutions for a few days just to get nowhere isn’t the joy of learning that it once was.

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

cries in being home-bound by a disability and needing to pass time until my early death

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

The initial comment ended in a :p and my argument are valid as I’ve tried dozens of times to switch myself but alight sweetie, be mad~

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

“works on my system, non-issue” helps no one

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Re: FH4, ms store and steam versions are incompatable, and I’m not replaying 3.5k hours to get back to where I’m at (eat shit and die, devs, it’d be easy as fuck to do but you’re little shitstains and lifting a finger that you don’t absolutely have to is far too much effort, we know). I know this because I got the steam version on release to find out that all my progress is magically gone. Thank fuck steam has refunds now.

Halo Wars 1 is on steam, but 2 is not :( (and it’s the far superior game, imo).

I’m basically looking for a system that scans my existing games, gives a “yes it all works” or “no and here’s why”, that I can use to actually migrate. Other comments deep in the tree go over this but tl;dr I’m so tired of being excited and hopeful and drop a week+ into it just for a showstopping problem and I revert to the windows system backups. I’m tired of being the guinea pig, ya know?

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

I’m old hat with many distros, and the ‘yay tinkering’ is gone, replaced with ‘just fucking work’. I want to enjoy my time :p

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

I have been progressively disliking Windows since 7 - I feel it peaked with Vista, tbh, I was incredibly excited for that OS and even was a beta tester and provided feedback. I hated 8 (never owned, but I worked on customer’s machines that had it and 8.1). I dove into 10 the day it went gold and it’s been a ‘oh fuck, what is this shit’ ever since. 11 I tried for a month before reverting to 10 (yay disk imaging!) and I don’t know what I’ll do when 10 goes eol in like 18 months (for this desktop anyway, see below).

I’ve used Win from 95 all the way through 11, and I started trying and in some cases using Linux distros starting back in… 03? Knoppix was my first, then Ubuntu and it’s various flavors, straight Debian, Arch and it’s many spinoffs, Fedora… I want it to work. It’s the project car in the field with “potential”. It could be great. But every time you try and work on it, you find something weird, some oddity, some gotcha, and give up and let it sit. Until next time. Rinse and repeat.

I installed W10 Enterprise LTSC a month or so ago on my ThinkPad (non-gaming), as it is supposed to get security updates for much longer, as I understand it. I tried to put Fedora on the ThinkPad, but the Snapdragon X55 modem doesn’t work, and that is the reason I got this machine, so that’s DoA. There are fixes but they are for older versions of distros and literally none of them work (again, install *nix, try to make it work, get frustrated, revert). It’s like, unless you’re in this very boring typical user status, as soon as you step beyond that, it’s nothing but frustrating. And I hate that - again, I want this to work, but it just doesn’t. I have years of similar stories, and I’m just like… I’m trapped in this cycle of wanting to enjoy a system that fights me every step, for one reason or another. So after almost two decades of it, I’m like ‘it just doesn’t work until I see proof otherwise, and I’m going to be stuck until that changes’.

Super frustrating :(

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

I listed off a bunch in another comment in this tree

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Imagine you’re chilling at the park and all the sudden some asshole rips your dick off and eats it

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

This dudes a mushroom

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

I can relate.

I mean uhhhh

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Dude really needs to grow some hair. I could use that forehead like a magnifying glass in the sun.

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

BTS is a Korean band, apparently. You’re welcome.

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

And a space after the first colon

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

I know acer is pretty shit, but in 2019 I was looking for an all-amd gaming laptop, and there were two whole options in the entire (new) market: one from acer, or one from asus. The Acer had better specs, prices were somewhat similar, so I sat on it. 6mo later, it drops from 2.7k to 1.4k and I jump. I wanted a mobile gaming machine to be similar to my desktop threadripper build. It was decently close.

Support is shit at L1 but if you get a L2 rep, they actually know wtf you’re on about and are very helpful (my display had very visible edge backlight bleed, a second panel too. third was perfect.). I had bought the extended warranty + on-site repair, not trusting depot techs. Shouldn’t have been needed, but I wanted the machine, properly.

Would I do it again? If I had to (if only a couple amd cpu and gpu options exist). The speakers are trash, the screen bezel is literally an inch in all directions, it gulps 300W from the wall when gaming, the system can’t run full-bore on the battery (gtav, maxed out, unplug and 45fps becomes ~3 and after a couple seconds becomes hard powered off). There is only 1 NVMe slot while the Intel version has 2 (second is sata m2 for the amd). There was never any gpu driver updates from acer, and the official ones cause screen corruption after waking from sleep, forcing the use of hibernation. But still, it’s a desktop 2700, a desktop Vega 56 (though power limited), it’s fans could send a man to the moon, it can have 64gb ram, 1nvme, 1 sata m2, and 1 2.5" sata drive, and it’s all user accessible. And as a bonus, you can kill someone by clobbering them over the head with it, at like ~8 pounds and ~19 inches diagonal, 1"+ thick.

So I want to hate it, and I don’t love it, but damn it is a beast of a machine, from acer, which up until then I saw as complete dogshit machines. There’s at least one person working in their Predator line that actually cares about a good user experience. I won’t be recommending them for all but the most edge-cases… but for the edge-cases, it’s alright.

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

This wasn’t even a customized machine though - it was off the (Amazon) shelf, just really high-end for the time. Afaik they didn’t offer any variants with more ram or storage. Just Intel or amd, with nVidia or amd. You got more storage with the Intel version, and the second slot as NVMe, but that was it.

The asus was likely a better built machine, but as being one-or-the-other, specs trumped niceties.

E: also lol you posted this like 6 times

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Throw a nsfw tag on that, you’re getting way too excited and causing quite a mess

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

As an American stumbling in here from /all with no German language skills, Google says:

1: What are you currently doing? 2: I’m studying dual. 1: Did you just call me [an] eel?

From what I can gather in a minute of attempted research, there is a pun that is lost in translation.

Otherwise haha yes eel very good (someone call security and have these gentlemen escorted out, they are speaking nonsense).

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Thanks for the explanation :D

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

no UwU

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Huh, I don’t remember making this comment

wreckedcarzz, 6 months ago

Car: check engine light turns on

“well fuck you, too”