But what about the actual MGS 4 that came before Peace Walker?

I love how hard this comment goes

I hadn’t played many games like that, I liked the combo.

At the risk of sounding like I’m making excuses for wanting to see the tiddies, the storylines of the different characters is fun to navigate. But yes.

don’t sleep on Hunie Pop, it’s actually pretty fun.

i work for a big OEM that makes touch screens usually put in places like hospitals, airports, POS systems, etc. commercial devices not consumer. As part of my (remote) job, i have to validate solutions on all of our products. I get a lot of DHL deliveries of stuff directly from our factories. This includes what the industry called “IDS” monitors: “Interactive Digital Signage”

Anyway, I’ve got a 55" 4K IDS hanging in my bedroom and use it with an Apple TV 4K and sometimes my Steam Deck for gaming. It’s definitely not good but it’s not that bad either. The response rate isn’t great, and the picture can’t stand up to an OLED, but it’s better than some of the cheaper TVs in the same category for size and resolution. Our newest models have more even backlighting and a better contrast ratio, but those aren’t even mentioned in our spec sheet. That said, It’s also VERY expensive compared to consumer devices. It’s so dumb, which is great! It also was designed to last a decade always-on without failing, also great! But even if you could buy one as a consumer (you can’t) you almost certainly wouldn’t consider the value proposition worth it. $5k for a touchscreen TV with relatively bad picture and response rate? You’d get one of the highest tier consumer TVs for that money… with the tradeoff being that it’s absolutely jacked full of ads and user-tracking malware.

There really isn’t a “good” solution here. I only use this because I have to have it for my job, but also it was free and works good enough for me relaxing in bed. I play games on a gaming monitor that also isn’t very smart, so it works out for me. If TV OEMs offered an amazon-kindle-style ad-free version for ~20% more i probably would do, but i think they find the tracking and ads more valuable than a one-time purchase with no strings.

for real

lmao, sadly this is mostly probably because this photo was taken in like november or something, and the angle is decent. a single block down and it’s not a pretty sight from both litter and the unhoused population portland (and the whole state, neé the whole country) refuse to stop abusing.

Saying he’s intelligent is giving him a lot of credit for simply not being nearly as fucking dumb as trump.

Me, after my soul-sucking devices are stolen on vacation: “oh no. I’m free.”

Are we fucking cooked? Is this going to start a series of retaliatory strikes that brings about the use of nukes? This shit fucking sucks.

I don’t disagree with your sentiment, but I think NYC would be off limits because it’s his “home” where he “has the tallest building because of 9/11” and other dumbass beliefs. Basically, he wouldn’t want to harm his precious Trump Tower.

LA though? Yeah, he might just fuckin do it.

i started a new job (remote, with a chill af boss) that only offered 2 weeks of vacation after the NPO i worked for got bought by a for-profit and i forecasted that we’d be stripped of our 6 weeks PTO accrual (I was right). I stored up my first year’s PTO so i could use it in march for a week-long vacation we usually do for spring break. in january i learned that it’s apparently wiped clean on Jan 1. I now, weirdly, use 0 hours of PTO in a year, but I always take time off when i need it. probably adds up to more than the 2 weeks i’m supposed to have. but i got burned by the rules so i’ve decided i don’t need to play by them. so yeah, i’m not “just accepting it”

Yeah, they curate their service with people they specifically invite. At least for a while, no idea if it’s still this way, every channel owner on Nebula was a part-owner to the service and had a vote in major platform decisions.

I think this rules, personally. It makes me feel great about subscribing knowing that everyone there has a vested interest in the platform as a whole succeeding and producing worthwhile material. On the flip side, there are really good channels on YouTube that I wish were on Nebula, and I think would be a good fit, but there’s not really a process for suggesting them to the platform for invitation.

Nebula is an invite basis

i often buy books on a DRM’d store or a paper copy, but then download the epub to put on my e-ink tablet so i don’t have to deal with the shitty DRM’d app it would be stuck in.

I’m travelling to Florida right now and I can’t view pornhub or any if it’s owned brands, which is a lot of adult content right now. It’s apparently like this in 17 states. That’s a self-imposed block, but it’s because those states have ID check laws that are so invasive that they’re rather not serve to those states.

i only recognize bleem as two possible things. dropout.tv’s Brennan Lee Mulligan or the company that emulated playstation games on the dreamcast, got sue by sony and won, setting the precedent that emulation is a legal process, but folded under the weight of the lawsuit anyway.

Lmao… let’s start counting the laws he hasn’t broken. I’m so done with trying to care about each instance of him breaking the law. He’s unfit for office, has been impeached twice, and he deserves only jail for as long as his miserable heart will last.