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by vel0city 4mo ago
> I don't want to be forced to accept an anticheat for games. I don't want to be forced to play with cheaters due to some people's philosophical concepts of what software I should be allowed to run on my computer when ther
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> Does Overwatch have a bigger cheating problem? Yes, considerably. One can also look at Counterstrike running on Valve's matchmaking which uses userland cheat detection versus Faceit's kernel level anticheats for the exact sam
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> I want to preface this with the fact that I’m not a gamer. So you're prefacing it as someone who has never really dealt with the games you like to play getting totally infested with and nearly unplayable with so many cheaters in p
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by vel0city 4mo ago
I agree. A lot of people assume rational actors and don't understand "meme magic".
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by vel0city 4mo ago
Honest question: is listening to The Chronic evidence you traffic illegal drugs? If my family members ever go missing I'd hope the cops knock on the doors of everyone relevant to their lives. Neighbors, friends, pastors, teachers/
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by vel0city 4mo ago
I've personally experienced it on at least six different car infotainment systems by four different manufacturers where the stereo will start playing whatever was left on, you turn the volume knob but the whole thing is still loading s
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> to make it undesirable to keep money in them long-term We could just continue to enforce the 20% penalty indefinitely to get rid of the concept of these accounts turning into retirement accounts. FSAs benefit the upper-middle-class and
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> wait until the whole thing is unresponsive due to heat or a bug Chances are if the whole thing is unresponsive due to heat or a bug the volume knob isn't going to actually change the volume as well. Its not like the knob is the ac
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by vel0city 4mo ago
But for a ton of people that amount is extremely variable. Do you plan on getting into a car accident? Do you plan on getting an appendectomy in June when making your elections the November before? Sorry doctor, getting cancer wasn't i
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> $600 could get you a beast of a machine Maybe if you get in your time machine and go back a few years. Not today though.
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by vel0city 4mo ago
Back then it seemed like a lot of the big games actually bothered having local multiplayer support.
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> Taking away physical discs from consoles means the worst of both worlds....they are essentially locked to that hardware. This isn't necessarily true, it really depends on how they go about implementing the sales. The question bein
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by vel0city 4mo ago
Being a media player was an integral part of Playstation since the PS2 era. The PS3 was essentially the thing that really pushed Blu-Ray over the line to really cement Blu-Ray as a movie format over HD-DVD. Movie playback has been a thing f
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by vel0city 4mo ago
Who would buy movies use a TV subscription service from a laptop computer manufacturer? Or a company that sells telephones? What, are they watching movies on their old Western Electric Model 102? That'd be ridiculous.
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by vel0city 4mo ago
So your local TV provider's limitations should limit the advertising for all TVs sold? This actually made me look up some of the specs related to the feeds. Quite an interesting read. They apparently are delivering the main feeds in 21
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by vel0city 4mo ago
It sounds like you're talking more about systems that supposedly disengage some cylinders while the car is cruising. Some engines with that kind of technology have been known to damage cylinders for multitude of reasons. That's ve
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by vel0city 4mo ago
I mean Rocket League is game focused on matchmaking through an online platform. Its main game types will stop working when that platform goes away. That's just the kind of game it is, its not like playing Lego Star Wars at all. I see p
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by vel0city 4mo ago
Supposedly the master stream from FIFA is in HDR, so if the colors are washed out its probably a bad conversion with your TV provider or TV. I do agree its insane to me we're still not at 4K coverage for world major level sporting even
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> The census designation of rural is very stringent and you basically need more cows than people to meet it. Not true. The census actually doesn't really bother to define rural other than "not urban". So then it comes down
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> Being surprised at a $68 bill at Popeyes just expresses you don't have a family to provide for I have a family to provide for. I'm surprised at a $68 bill at Popeyes. Taking my family there is normally a good bit less than th
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by vel0city 4mo ago
Who is out there paying a 20% tip at a Popeyes?!
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> A 5pc chicken tenders, Mac and cheese, and a large drink is $25 before tax. What region? Putting that same order together for a location near me is $16.23 after tax. Putting in the address above (45 N Orange Blossom in Orlando, FL.), t
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> Most of the US is not a city Nearly half is entirely unpopulated. Once again I don't get why that matters about the discussion of school busses in general. Rural areas cover 80% of Europe by area. Its not like rural areas are a un
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by vel0city 4mo ago
It makes the phrase "most places are not a city" extremely misleading in terms of talking about school busses. The extreme majority of school busses and kids going to school do so in urban areas, i.e. in cities. Like, sure, over 4
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by vel0city 4mo ago
a) it happens all the time Source: actual statistics instead of just second hand reports from a single bus driver. https://www.ghsa.org/resource-hub/school-bus-safety-action-p...
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by vel0city 4mo ago
Yeah, we need to further normalize and require people never spending any time outside. I'm sure that'll go well for our society. The world will be great once we wealthy people move to the giant dome cities where we can rid ourselv
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> in the US most places are not a city Most people in the US live in urban areas. Most US citizens live in cities. The urban population of the US is about 80% of the population. I do agree most students in the US arrive by bus or car, bu
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by vel0city 4mo ago
I'm happy Mario Tennis is back with the ability to play actual full tennis matches again. I skipped the last one. The story is kind of meh, but the mechanics of the tennis matches is fun. Its not like I play Mario Tennis for a deep sto
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by vel0city 4mo ago
So you do think that I'm likely to steal a car because I've got some magnets on a fridge? When the neighbor's car went missing I should be the prime suspect because I shop at Rock Auto from time to time? You do want to live i
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by vel0city 4mo ago
> it's the obligation of our elected officials to keep the American people safe So if it's the main goal to keep people safe, we need to ban unhealthy foods and massively restrict the operation of automobiles. We need to massiv

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