Gaming
guyrocket
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I own a couple actual vintage arcade machines and paid less for them than this. If you shop around you can find deals.
I also have one of these 1up cabs and it is definitely not like vintage. Software may be the same but it is using a modern monitor not a CRT. I think I paid around 300 for it several years ago. Not full size.
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Miss me with this pussy shit, removed!
You need to punch up your comeback game? I gotchu!
Someone called you a motherfucker? "I found out yo momma so UGLEE her blowjobs count as anal. And she LOOOVES giving me "anal"."
Someone called you a rebel without a cause? "At least I'm not a removed without a dick."
Some comebacks that work for almost anything:
Did you think of that YOURSELF, Einstein?
You're dumber than you look.
You're not the brightest bulb in the pack, are you?
You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you?
Did your mommy tell you to say that?
Are you always an asshole or only on Fridays?
Are you sure you know what all those words mean?
I’ve been called worse by better.
You go out in public with that face?
Your village called – they want their idiot back.
You’ll never be the man your mom is.
Which circus did you escape from?
Which zoo did you escape from?
Which ape cage did you escape from?
Your ass must be pretty jealous of all the shit that comes out of your mouth.
Grab a straw, because you suck.
I don’t have the time or the crayons to explain.
If you were a spice, you’d be flour.
It’d be awesome if you used glue instead of Chapstick.
Technology
How a fed up carpenter found his stolen power tools — and 15,000 others
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Thank you, Nima!
Jokes and Humor
Tape
guyrocket
4 months ago
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What age do you have to be to get this joke?
Kids probably think its a sexual reference.
Technology
Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Its all yo momma's fault!
World News
Wealthy white men are UK’s biggest transport polluters, study finds
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Wealthy white men from rural areas
Farmers?
News
Cooking
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Some of the best steak I've ever had is ribeye fried then baked.
Above instructions (and site) CANNOT be beat. Buy prime ribeye if you can.
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Stirlon? Is that stirlon silver?
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Maple syrup is awesome. Peanut butter and maple syrup is better. Peanut butter, maple syrup, and mixed nuts is best.
Ask Lemmy
Given the resources to accomplish it, what wildly impractical project would you finally pursue?
guyrocket
4 months ago
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I would finally build the dome home I dreamed of in college. Myself, no contractors.
Planning might push this in other directions like an earth berm home or similar. I might also consider some hybrid designs. Alternative housing is really interesting and uncommon.
guyrocket
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If the difference were only a nominal % I might agree with you.
When I bought the Complete Calvin and Hobbes the price at the local bookstore was about twice the online prices.
Mildly Infuriating
Best Buy Membership "discount"
guyrocket
4 months ago
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They're actually earning the nickname Worst Buy.
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Do you want free? Ask in the piracy mag.
guyrocket
4 months ago
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I appreciate local bookstores and brick and mortar B&N...BUT prices.
Unfortunately online is much cheaper than in store.
guyrocket
4 months ago
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I know some shit is unavoidable. But I really do think about clicking on links that seem questionable to me. I try to prevent but also know this is an imperfect strategy.
guyrocket
4 months ago
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?
No Stupid Questions
[US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options?
guyrocket
4 months ago
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I'm not exactly an expert so please research all of this further, but my understanding is that you have a few options. In no particular order:
- COBRA. I know it's expensive ($800 / mo or more) but you're still getting the "group" discount your employer gets. Cheaper than buying insurance on the "open market" without getting your employer's group discount.
- Major medical. This is health insurance but only covers major incidents. No preventative care. Shitty but better than worst case medical problems bankrupting you.
- Open market insurance. Just buying straight from a health insurance company. Very expensive. Try Obamacare first.
- Obamacare. This has different names in different states. Tiered costs based on income. You'll want to research how it looks at income because this might inform the timing of leaving your job/current health insurance.
- No insurance. Terrible option, but you can go to the emergency room and they have to treat you.
- Other insurance. I believe some places like Costco (Sam's club?) offer health insurance for businesses.
The whole thing is a confusing mess and no options are perfect.
Have you talked with other small business owners? Do you have connections to the business community that could explain what they do? If you don't have anyone to network with about this, FIND some people. Even just by walking into their business and telling your story. Many communities have business incubators or other networking for startups. At least one mentor could make a HUGE difference for you.
Is starting the business and ramping it up for some time THEN quitting possible? This could make sense for a lot of reasons, not just health insurance.
If nothing else, you could work long enough to save up 6 months or a year of COBRA and then quit to do your business full time.
Best wishes!
guyrocket
4 months ago
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I LOVED TA back in the day. I recently bought it again off Steam.
Streetwear
There was very little wind in the 80s/90s as a result
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Break like the wind
Unpopular Opinion
A burger being "100% Beef" is not a good thing
guyrocket
4 months ago
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If the meat is not ground then there is no question about shady practices.
Do you have a better way to know when ordering food at a restaurant?
Unpopular Opinion
A burger being "100% Beef" is not a good thing
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Honestly, anyone selling ground meat is kinda sus to me. There are reasons steak burgers are uncommon and it is not because they taste worse.
Why grind meat?
Unpopular Opinion
A burger being "100% Beef" is not a good thing
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Do you put the ground beef into the blender? No? Mix the blended stuff into the ground beef (in a bowl)?
Sounds interesting but I think I need to understand better before I try it.
PC Gaming
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Did you mean to link to a creative commons license?
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Atari 2600 gamez! Very cool. I still have my 2600 and the TV I used when I was a kid. Both still work.
Also, so glad someone put arcade games on their list.
guyrocket
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Ultima IV !!! Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
I played that on my Commodore 64 and waited a loooong time for the (actually floppy) disk drive to spin up.
I bet most people here don't know any of the Ultima games.
guyrocket
4 months ago
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So. You'd rather hear your coworkers shit?
Isn't almost any sound better than that?
guyrocket
4 months ago
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I consider myself warned.
Hmmm...
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Has no one seen the movie?
guyrocket
4 months ago
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I would prefer a REAL girlfriend to a square headed girlfriend. Stuck. In the woods.
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Fuckin SHUT UP!
We don't want to give those MS assholes ANY ideas.
Technology
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Degoogle instead.
Technology
Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy | Mozilla privacynotincluded
guyrocket
4 months ago
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IDK much about it, but this exists:
Technology
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
guyrocket
4 months ago
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Beautiful.
How to get more absolute shit from Goog?
People Twitter
There are no guardrails in life
guyrocket
4 months ago
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I think this Clippy needs to make liberal use of the word "dumbass".
Looks like you're trying to eat dirt. Do you want help, dumbass?
Nostalgia
guyrocket
4 months ago
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There's an app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grisu.yakbak
guyrocket
4 months ago
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If you consider hardware functionality, IDK why people buy consoles at all. The sky is the limit for what I can do on even a low end PC and there are significant limits to functionality on consoles. Not to mentioned the walled garden you're forced into with consoles.
Make money from software, there's little profit in hardware.
Technology
Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline
guyrocket
4 months ago
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The interwebs existed long before Google. They will continue to exist long after Google.
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
It's so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees
guyrocket
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I'm torn between feeling bad for monkeys and being glad the little bastards are dead. Monkeys can be a major pain in the ass.
Sounds like dehydration is at least part of the problem. I assume they can solve that with howler monkey water stations. Maybe those should just be jungle wildlife water stations.
Mine is the computer. I continue to be amazed at what we can do with them.
Right now it seems like its "A.I.". Still big now are the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Recently we had COVID 19. What's next?
Most are probably too young to remember but nanotechnology was supposed to be the most super amazing thing ever.
[https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eefAdADos4w&list=OLAK5uy\_kN2dMTgBJKfPNJ2LByQkHL6Cz4lEUW\_08](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eefAdADos4w&list=OLAK5uy_kN2dMTgBJKfPNJ2LByQkHL6Cz4lEUW_08)
Related question: What cloudy temperature will melt as much as 35 F and sunny?
Trying to set this up for some healthcare stuff I want to keep private. Finding this to be very difficult, mostly because I can't find anonymous, secure email. Any advice welcome.
Trying to set this up for some healthcare stuff I want to keep private. Finding this to be very difficult, mostly because I can't find anonymous, secure email. Any advice welcome.
Phones could allow much higher security if they supported 2 factor authentication. This could be face/fingerprint along with a typed or swiped password. This seems like a simple solution that leverages software that is already implemented. Just make it an added option in addition to the existing one ETA: Sorry for the duplicate posts, I was getting error messages. Pls use this one. I am surprised there is confusion about what 2fa is. Here is a simple definition: [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/security-101/what-is-two-factor-authentication-2fa](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/security-101/what-is-two-factor-authentication-2fa)
Judas Priest's new album, Invincible Shield, will be coming out 3/8/2024. [Official Video for Panic Attack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPaGqGzdY0)
Judas Priest's new album, Invincible Shield, will be coming out 3/8/2024. [Official Video for Trail By Fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YqZuo1WKk4)
I've listened to this station on and off for many years and wanted to share it. I am in no way affiliated with them. Just a happy listener. Enjoy! [https://hardradio.com](https://hardradio.com) Apologies if this post is not allowed, please let me know and I'll take it down. Thx.
I'm looking to buy more CDs and expand my depth and breadth of metal music appreciation. Instead of "greatest hits" I'd like a studio (or live) album that is a shining example of a great band. I'll start: [Ratt: Out of the Cellar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Cellar) [Listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxTnnpG8MTM&list=OLAK5uy_mgeO61TWf0C8TcB2hu2VDGC0GPRcQXE9E&index=2) This was Ratt's breakthrough hit and debut album that put them on the map. Several hits on this disc like "Round and Round". Also a couple great songs that were not hits like "Lack of Communication" and "I'm Insane". Edit To Add: Some great responses below, thanks! Please feel free to ponder further and add to your response or respond again with other bands!
I would like to recommend Vector Pinball to anyone with even a passing interest in video pinball or video games. I find this game to be very impressive, even more so as a free app on F-droid. I need to send this dev some cash, I have probably put \>200 hours into this game and I am really enjoying it. **Things I like:** Physics are perfect. 8 boards Each board plays very uniquely. Great depth of play, the boards are complex and take some work to unlock/see everything. Addictive. Some boards are very difficult. Unique look with vector graphics. Reminds me of Tron. Pretty good music. **Things I don't like:** My phone doesn't have pinball buttons. Doing that on the screen is a bit awkward. Workable but awkward. The ball can pass between your flippers with no chance to hit it. Often normal for pinball, this always annoys me. I think I should always have some chance to hit and save the ball. Show me my score and high scores as soon as I finish a game. I should not have to press a button or wait for the scrolling to see these. 9/10
[T Pain - War Pigs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhjIs2Htzdc) This has been blowing up on "another social media site" and I'm just curious what lemmy metalheads think.
[Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water](https://apnews.com/article/plastic-nano-bottled-drinking-water-contaminate-b77dce04539828207fe55ebac9b27283)
It can be anything: Scary, funny, confusing or embarrassing. What happened that stands out most in your mind?
The Biden administration will subject dozens of drugmakers to inflation penalties, the White House said on Thursday, in a move that would reduce out-of-pocket costs for Medicare recipients. President Joe Biden's signature Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes a provision to penalize drugmakers for charging prices that rise faster than inflation for people on Medicare, a government program for those age 65 and older and the disabled.([https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/dozens-companies-raised-drug-prices-faster-than-inflation-white-house-says-2023-12-14/](https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/dozens-companies-raised-drug-prices-faster-than-inflation-white-house-says-2023-12-14/))
As asked
If you are a classical music lover, what are your top 5 classical composers and why did you choose each one? As I work through my Mozart box set I started asking myself this question. [\#music](https://kbin.social/tag/music)
[Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong](https://apnews.com/article/journalists-ai-counterfeit-writers-479cc3869c0638df5bbb26d4b1e4f18f)
Not at all sure my stock kb is doing me any privacy favors.
Kbin seems to have many open source and programming experts. And probably many experts in A.I. . I am curious about learning to use and develop (train?) an open source A.I. as a learning exercise. I am pretty technically savvy, but depending on your definition, probably not a programmer. I've built my own PCs several times, I worked in SQL and studied a couple object oriented programming languages in school for a short time. Also limited Visual Basic experience years ago. I know I could just play around with ChatGPT or whatever other tools exist but I want to delve more deeply.
I want a new motorcycle. Maybe an electric one.
I see from [this Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) that the fediverse has a LOT of other stuff going on like Friendica, Pixelfed, Streams, Peertube, etc. Does my kbin logon work across the fediverse or do I have to create multiple logons across the fediverse?
Hello retrogaming! I'm looking for advice on a simple joystick that will work well on my Win PC for arcade games in MAME and other games like Road Redemption. I tried this: [https://www.8bitdo.com/arcade-stick/](https://www.8bitdo.com/arcade-stick/) but didn't really think it is worth $90. And more complicated than I need. Thanks in advance for any ideas.