Tool_of_Society

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by Tool_of_Society 3y ago
I multibox games so I have quite a few systems you would qualify as "old as dirt" My secondary system is a sff hp/compaq business machine with an i7-3770 and 16 gb ram SSD GT1030 w/gddr5. It's my go to computer for
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by Tool_of_Society 3y ago
The Mig top speeds quoted always involve a plane that had no ordinance and was essentially empty. Even then the plane couldn't handle mach 2.83 for longer than 5 or so minutes due to heat generated by air friction damaging both the eng
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by Tool_of_Society 3y ago
If any of that was true I wouldn't be able to easily purchase MDMA, LSD or dozens of other synthesized drugs. The reality is that the user base shifted to MDMA based products and other options such as valium or xanax. Quaaludes aren&#x
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by Tool_of_Society 3y ago
Long ago a friend's car battery exploded. The car was an early 70s chevy nova so there wasn't much in the way of electrical system to check. Everything was good and the next battery lived +5 years with no changes. Always figured t
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by Tool_of_Society 3y ago
I was just thinking that Junkrat's bomb reminded me of stuff I used to do in TFC.
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by Tool_of_Society 3y ago
Dude I was a double conc jumping master. Then they destroyed conc jumping and other fun stuff :(
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
My friend's 2016ish VW jetta straight up uses proprietary bolts and shit in it. He and I are the type to do all our own car maintenance but his car has pushed my patience beyond anything I've seen prior...
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Yeah I had a whole slew of servers saved that I would regularly play on. If I was in a serious try hard mood I had a selection of servers I'd check. If I was in a half as I'm drunk and want to play I had a group of servers for tha
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
HoTs used to do that when I played. You would sometimes get a survey asking you to rank the cooperation of teammates, communication etc. Looking back I sure felt a lot less salty after a loss when I got one of those surveys. Unfortunately B
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
HoTs failed miserably at both the fun part and the skill based match making. Sometimes I had more fun losing but those were exceedingly rare cases that generally involved a friend or two in the group. I still played the game chasing those r
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
I had a week straight of terrible matches that were almost always lost at the loading screen. There's only so much you can do if the map is bad for the heroes on your team or your team has a terrible composition while the enemy team ha
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
I mostly played on an unstable terrible dial up (under 300ms was a fantastic day). When I played on a t1 line my K/D was always higher than at home. Maybe packet loss was my ultimate foil?
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Sometimes I would get into a near trance like existence where I just had an uncanny ability to predict the location of my opponents. Sometimes I struggled to tie my shoes. In high school some of us would play duke nukem 3d after classes wer
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
I was really ridiculously good with the AK out to sniper range. So you totally called it :P
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
I played HoTs for several years up to a bit after Blizzard stopped developing the game (2-3 years ago?). The match maker in that game has always been a hot mess. It was never fun to be given a team of F class heroes while the enemy team had
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
What Valve has done to TF2 has been an absolute tragedy :(
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Back when I played Counterstrike and Team fortress classic in the late 90s I would occasionally get banned from a server. The only cheats I used were headphones and way WAYYY too many hours of play time. I couldn't even tell you how ma
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Gotta satisfy the stockholders and all they care about is the earnings in the next quarter...
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
I would like to point out that prior to the EPA rivers and lakes catching on fire was a yearly thing in some sections of this country. Yes pollution is still a thing but it's NOTHING like it used to be.
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Indeed we live in a world where someone taking a dump in a remote region of the amazon can tweet about it and I can instantly read about it from my couch.. It's astounding as a mere 4 decades ago such news as the amazon poop would of t
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
This is also a fair point as the USA after WW2 was the only first world nation with an untouched industrial base (that was recently upgraded thanks to the tax payers). That gave the USA an insurmountable advantage as the rest of the world r
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Probably because income inequality is at an all time high in the USA. When 1% of the population has +60% of all wealth.... What's gumming up the works are the billionaires who have more money than whole countries using that power to ge
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Indeed none of this is new. The extra complexity of modern software and hardware causes issues to pop up far more often than in the past. I mean for fck's sake remember when the early Pentium CPUs had dividing issues (Pentium FDIV bug)
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
None of this is new. I can tell you stories of similar experiences going back into my childhood in the early 80s. I know people who can tell you airline stories from the 60s that are similar.
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
People always like having someone to look down on.
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Yes but they get crushed by the owners in the various industries. THe money/power these companies wield dwarf anything the employees could bring to bear. Unions would help this issue but they've been successfully slandered and des
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Cash is better for that reason in the USA.
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Simple solution for the employer is to report to the IRS the employee making enough tips to put them over minimum wage. It doesn't matter if the employee even made those tips. Employees can complain to regulatory groups but it won&#x27
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Yes it's generally assumed that you're making at least a percentage of the sale as a tip. Most of the bigger employers automatically report your CC tips and an assumed percentage of cash tips. "unusually" low tips report
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by Tool_of_Society 4y ago
Well the USA does spend the most per capita on health care. Meanwhile other first world nations pay about half that and get mostly better results...

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