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

Or how to identify misinformation when you've got two or more rival nations flooding their feeds with bullshit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Is Pedro Pascal generally pretty jacked? I remember him looking buff for Game of Thrones and he's probably getting into Marvel fit for the F4 movie, but it seems like he leans more towards trim or dad bod, depending on the role. I'm thinking of Last of Us or maybe the second Kingsman movie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Man, I wish that was the case at places I worked at. My last company would give you stipends for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Try to spend that stipend at a convenience store because you don't eat breakfast and just want some coffee and a snack for later? Screw you, we're deducting from your paycheck for that.

I had a coworker who got caught on the wrong side of that policy. Since then, he'd always max out his stipend at every meal. Apps, desserts, etc. He'd get a second entree just to take back to his hotel as long as it wouldn't put him over the limit.

He probably cost the company hundreds extra because they wouldn't reimburse him for a bag of chips one time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Yes, doubly funny because he would star in the Martian in a very similar role the year after Interstellar came out

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I felt so defeated when I went to pick up some medication last night which was $100 instead of $60 which it had been the previous month. I asked if there were any coupons available and the pharmacist said that was AFTER the coupon price. $100 for 15 pills.

I've been paying out of pocket for this med for years since my insurance company determined I had reached the "lifetime benefit limit" for that drug. I submitted an appeal earlier this year and was shut down. I've talked to my doctor about alternative drugs, and he said pretty much all the rest have significant side effects.

And after this week's elections, I'm sure it's only going to get worse over the next four (or more) years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Seems like a good move for everyone. If you like the Civ series and have wondered if there was a decent fantasy or sci-fi version, Endless Legend and Endless Space 1 or 2 have you covered, respectively.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good catch. I was drunk when I wrote that comment on my phone. Either I misread the release date or I mistyped it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Meh, the best way to play RDR was back in May ~~2014~~ 2010 on an Xbox 360.

Remake RDR1 in the sequel's engine you lazy bastards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An improperly wall-mounted LCD isn't a huge falling threat unless there's a child or pet under it though.

I would expect most injuries from tube tvs would be muscle related from lifting them, with the occasional severe shock from those who were brave enough to open them up for repairs but not smart enough to discharge them properly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You beat me to it, because I was looking for evidence to support the dick pics thing. I can't find any source I would be comfortable vouching for. Just a grain of salt there.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dunno about TN, but in NC, a Weapon of Mass Destruction is a legal term referring to anything designed to harm more than one person simultaneously.

This led, for example, to a local headline about a man holding up a bank with a WMD because he used a sawn-off shotgun.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think he's complaining about movie trailers. He's talking about the Coca Cola and 12 year old M&Ms advertisements that run for 10 minutes BEFORE the theater plug and trailers start.

When I went to see Deadpool and Wolverine, I think the projector fucked up and we had to watch the ad loop twice. When the movie finally started 25 minutes late, people cheered just to see the Marvel logo

 

From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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