So "I was stable enough to buy a whole cake and get my friends together, now I'm going to make sure everyone can have a slice" is anti-american or something now according to this idiot?

The "fuck you I got mine" crowd is really trying to convince struggling people to enjoy the suffering huh.

Usually the stuff that is in "announcements" or has an @everyone on it gets a vomit of reactions because general users can't actually send messages in those channels. Plus it's fun. You don't see it in normal chat messages though, just announcements and stuff like this.

There is a very real aspect to the thought of "Kill myself??? Do you know how much of a pain in the ass that would be?? Nah, I'll just wait it out"

"So you're not suicidal?" Oh, no, if it was just me maybe, but there are friends and family that would be really upset and I don't want to make someone clean up that mess, they don't deserve that.

I'm on vol. 3 of "Y the last man". Pretty good so far, though some of the commentary is a little dated

It's a symptom of someone obsessed with wealth but with no actual taste. That's always been trumps thing. Money or the illusion of money. He has more money than you, just look everything is gold, you don't have gold stuff unless you have money, right? It definitely is the "style" of someone who never left the 80's.

Reminds me of those I've seen who are dead broke but they still try to make themselves look rich by wearing a pound of gold jewelry that came from their relatives.

My guess (I don't know if this is actually right) is that the battery is showing a lower charge while under load. So when it wakes up to do it's little periodic checks/activity (could be trying to fetch updates, could be scans, could be cleanup, idk) it draws additional power and the old battery can only support that load for so long.

Explanation based on theory as I understand it: Using an analogy, batteries aren't a cup full of electricity that just gets sipped or dumped, they're closer to a water balloon with a little valve. The system may only use a little water at a time, but the "battery full" percent is the measure of how much pressure is in the balloon to push the water out. So when the valve is mostly closed (phone is idling) the pressure is pretty normal, slowly dropping. But as batteries age when you open the valve further you start to realize the battery can't actually push out the pressure you need (the balloon has stretched out). The pressure drops, to the levels it would be at if the balloon was brand new, but almost drained. The valve closes more as the device demands less power, and it seems like the expected pressure returns to normal, because the balloon can handle that lower pressure demand.

In short "New battery almost dead under load = old battery mostly charged but under load" but "new battery charged with no load = old battery charged with no load" which is why you see the slingshotting on the battery graph.

The "game to end all games" was one I heard a lot too. It always confused me because it's really not possible. Even if they got every single person who matches their genre (flight sim, transit sim, space combat, exploration, space themed FPS, "living world" games, etc.) there's just no way to make it as big as people were claiming. Minecraft and Roblox are built on the "it can be anything" idea and even those aren't the "game to end all games".

Star citizen has always seemed like a bait and switch of "give us your money for "what if's" and dreams of possibilities" but with no real plan to deliver. There's some cool tech that's come from it (like the distributed servers with live interaction between them) but it just feels more like a scientific R&D lab that's desperate for investors than an actual product in progress. I bought it in 2014 and checked it out once, but anyone who believes in it as much as the developers has too much money and too little sense.

This is the way to do it. "Oh this looks neat" Early Access "....into the wishlist until it's done."

Either it'll be finished and good, finished and bad, or a flop and I saved my money. There's no reason besides FOMO to buy it.

It gets the axe because, like a lot of support roles, if it works then it's "what do we pay you for" and if there's a bug then it's "what do we pay you for". Any time that there's a leadership member doing bean counting instead of actual product quality it's one of the biggest targets for the funding axe.

"We just won't program in bugs", oh okay sure buddy.

"AI can catch all the bugs", uh huh.

"Customers won't see most of the bugs, it's not worth the time and money", yep.

"What do you mean players don't invest time in something that can break for no reason", that's what we told you months ago.

"QA should have caught this, how did we miss this??", there's two QA and they've been pulling 80 hour weeks for a year, they did. it got put in the backlog to hit arbitrary deadlines.

"This bug is unacceptable, what does QA even do?" gestures at pile of hundreds of other system breaking bugs that they caught before this one edge case that got missed in the dumpster fire of development

Sunk cost is a hell of a drug. I'd bet if we could see their actual revenue you'd see the shift from individual purchases to more and more whales sinking money into it, that's what they're banking on. It might have started as an ambitious project, but it's definitely a full blown grift with some "keep up appearances" icing on top.

And this recent stream showed everyone that the icing tastes like shit.

As a guy, these apps suck. I've met a few people on them, but it's very obvious that they are deliberately hiding matches and people that are your type behind a paywall. It's not in their best interest to show you people that have the same interests as you, it's better if they bundle them all up and slap a big fat price tag on the front.

People are starting to realize these apps aren't about hooking up or making connections, they're about squeezing desperate people looking for love into giving money for the promise of finding it.

Any "secure system" with a deliberate backdoor (no matter who it's for) is not a secure system.

May as well rant about it here.

Whenever someone say about trump "But he's a good businessman!" As some sort of defense, I get immediately annoyed. He is an absolute garbage businessman. He has failed or run so many businesses into the ground. He made a casino go broke, you know the business that thrives on basically just letting people come in and throw their money at you and leave?

What he is good at is lining his own pockets. He goes into anything and lies, cheats, and schemes, then shovels as much money into his pockets as he can before someone notices and the bills come due. He makes deals with contractors, then refuses to pay, then drags them through courts until they give up and claims he got a discount. That's not "good business" that's theft. It's despicable and gross.

Every allegory we have for a corrupt, lying, thieving businessman is embodied in Trump. He is not good for business. He's good for himself until the business fails then he moves on to the next persons pile of money to steal.

And that's what he is doing as president. He is selling the country piece by piece to line his own pockets, then once everything goes belly up he'll take his money and walk away.

Fuck Trump.

Smurfing on a dating app is a level of masochism I didn't think is humanly possible. Those apps are already soul grinding enough.

After reading all the comments about wanting his life to be over and the counters about feeling bad for him etc. I think ive come to a conclusion on how to ethically handle him.

I'm going to laugh. I'm going to laugh at how foolish he looks having a stroke on stage. How despite all of the terrible things he has done to this country on a socio-economic level trying to line his pockets and stay in power, he is standing up there, feeble and barely coherent, looking like he simultaneously shat himself and forgot his name, I'm going to laugh.

Because if he wants any semblance of dignity, any ounce of respect, he needs to admit that he is done and bow out.

"But he is still human, have some empathy" No, why should I? This man has engineered tearing the country apart so he can put his grubby hands all over it and smear it in his own grease. And he is still trying to keep doing it!

What I see up there is an old man trying to walk across the freeway, with a dozen people telling him not to. And he is not only ignoring them but lifting his nose high and walking out into the road anyway. So when I see that mack truck hit him like it did on that stage, I laugh.

There's also a vocal minority of just really pessimistic people on here. Politics I don't mind as long as it's a discourse about not only what is bad but what can be reasonably done about it.

I've been in several discussions where I add "look at community, we are strong together" and it's immediately beaten down with "the world won't change things are shit and always will be, be mad and angry about it, I'm mad and angry at you".

It's the internet, I'm not surprised. But I've definitely had to disconnect myself for a bit some days after severe reactions from people just to remember it's just strangers on the internet.

It's not all the time, but for some discussions that promote inclusion and understanding to be met with the hard "I don't agree so you are human garbage" can be an awful whiplash sometimes.

"Oh who the fuck am I offending!? The Nazis??"

Just reminded me of that quote from the Hellsing abridged series. Extrajudicial murder is still not good.

I think I can speak for most Americans (and as someone who owns stocks) fuck the shareholders.

Just remember, every time your insurance goes up, every time you see teachers stressed and struggling, every time you debate going to the doctor because of the cost.

They said "we can't afford it".

Remember who approves this, and vote their asses out. This isn't a representative democracy, it's been taken over by scam artists favoring their own interests.

"All the engineers said my "screen door on a submarine" was "stupid" and would "sink the ship", so I fired them and hired new engineers!"

• CEO of now defunct "Screen Door Subs Inc."