ryepunk

joined 4 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

In the mid 2000s I was buying a bunch of CDs from bands I thought I liked just because I had some money since I was working for the first time. And I bought a pearl jam live album and it was easily my most hated album. Never played it, when I ripped the songs into an mp3 player I skipped all of them.

I think the only song I enjoy from them is "do the evolution", because it has a pretty dope animation music video.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

May we all remember fondly the one time america got what it fucking deserves.

fuckin-deserve

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Apologies I wasn't aware that was a slur. I'll do better.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Literal gobblederemoved. Some tax credits and vague promises of stopping price gauging. Along with a complete shift to the right on foreign policy and immigration. She won't touch the Palestinian genocide with a 6000 mile pole until after they're all dead and then just blame Bibi for being so evil but alas what more could they have done?

Any leftists who think they can shift this neoliberal Ghoul to the left are delusional. She's going to be the second coming of Obama replete with an excuse for why nothing good can actually happen while everything turns to dust around us.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

These people have literally zero media literacy. If the subtext isn't directly in the text (and even then they still have even odds to miss it) then they will whiff on it get mad over some arbitrary woman or black person numbers within the game rather than what characters within the game actually do.

I'm pretty sure Doom 2016 won't be on the list because fun dumb shooty game, when it's got an obviously anti-capitalist message right there, with evil billionaire turns himself into a robot while getting the planet hooked on hell energy so earth doesn't go without it's treats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Working out inevitably leads to pulling something, a month or two of recovery where all gains disappear and I feel worse. I'm going super slow this time, but I regularly do alot of exercise at work so I'm just as likely to pull out my back or shoulders there, and I'm really just starting to fall apart it feels like. Bad knees, ankles hurt, shoulders ache, back is sore, hands ache if I grip too much. I feel like I need months off just to not hurt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If your definition of immunity is "doesn't kill you", sure it doesn't kill you. Usually.

But if you take the typical idea of immunity as "immune to this disease once you've had it" then catching covid does not make you immune at all. With some people catching it within 3 months or less of a previous infection. And given the rising evidence we've seen of how long covid occurs at startlingly higher rates from subsequent reinfections, it's laughable that you would even consider the notion of immunity to covid at all. It has proven to move faster than we can adapt to it naturally or with science.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Is this bait?

Do you know where you are?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I played original dota just within warcraft 3 TFT, so it was without skill based matchmaking. And it was mostly about the same I'd say. Sometimes you get people absurdly good, and sometimes you get people horrendously bad. I never played Dota 2 ranked matchmaking. Always just unranked, usually all random. It was intensely try hard and usually made me more upset than full of joy. So I quit when they broke all random years and years ago (2017 maybe?), also my wrists can't handle that much mouse clicking anymore so it was for the best, physically and mentally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sunbreak is extremely good, the ability to have two switch skill loadouts and switch between then in a second is game changing for some weapons. I don't play long sword so I can't comment on what it does for that weapon though.

The new monsters are super fun fight and it requires you to eventually get very good at knowing your op counter bullshit to win the final monsters they added a year after release. Maybe some people don't like that but I had a blast with dual blades.

Replaying on ps5 now trying to learn charge blade.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I think Ubisoft makes amazing games that are really excellent value once they're on sale for like twenty or thirty bucks. And by amazing games I mean turn your brain off slop that does one thing well, a couple things okay, and tries maybe 3 more things poorly. I usually play one from a few years back every couple years to scratch the itch of Ubisoft explore-a-thon, and then that leaves me burned out on their style for at least a year or 4.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

There's a video of some streamer playing the game saying "and overall I think it's a pretty fun enjoyable title" as the speeder bike falls through the level into the infinity and crashes the game. chefs-kiss

 

So you might have heard that Calgary is currently under heavy water restrictions due to a feeder water main suffering a catastrophic leak that flooded parts of the city, a 2m wide pipe. They initially told us to expect at least a week for repairs to be finished. But as of yesterday we learned the damage is more severe and expect another 3-5 weeks of water restrictions.

It has sucked, and the only thing that was bearable was maybe we could all better understand how to limit our use of essential resources. Well except that significant portions have refused to believe it and increased water usage. So we've been running on a thin line to barely not exceed water reserves for the city.

And the main thought going through my mind is the inability of our government to handle it because there are certain assumptions that have been made. Chiefly that we cannot allow this to impact the economy, or local businesses. So theyre exempt from the water restrictions, although several did take steps to help. Notably my employer, the largest grocery store in Canada, has been completely silent and hasn't even bothered to donate water bottles or something to help offset the water limits on people.

Any attempt to ask for the city to have businesses shut off to prevent the loss of our water has been met with a cry of liberal piggies explaining how they could not possibly survive without their paycheques... Like there is no thoughts that maybe we could just pay people to not work and they could preserve the precarious water situation by giving people an easier time? I also fully expect most of them refuse to go without brunch or fancy dinners out on the town. Treats before anything else!

Basically there is no vision for better solutions because everyone needs to work to get paid and any attempt around it is shouted down as impossible. It is further hindered of course by the Alberta provincial government being so far right wing that the very idea of even asking them for assistance is a fools errand when our premier is highly likely to promote conspiracy theories about the water main break.

This also is further proof of the failure of western powers to bother with maintaining basic infrastructure to ensure this shit doesn't happen. Supposedly the pipe was checked in April, but this is literally a pipe installed in the 1970s and so considering all the issues they're discovering (but not disclosing, which just feeds the conspiracy narrative), the maintenance has been far below sufficient to say the least. But because it is underground it is out of sight out of mind.

Sorry for the rant but nobody in my home or work wants to listen to me. And I've needed to get this off my chest and my work has conveniently given me far more hours than I can comfortably handle in the next 3 weeks so I'm not in a great state of mind.

Death to Canada.

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