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MIDItheKID

@ MIDItheKID @lemmy.world

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  • The deepest strategy e-sport you've never heard of.

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  • This game is still a staple at LAN parties. And yes, LAN parties are still a thing.

  • Anon needs a good response

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  • I have a sister in law like this. She's really cool and we generally get along but God damn is she hard to deal with sometimes.

    There was one instance where it was our niece's birthday and we had made this shitty balloon arch for pictures. When it came to the end of the party and we needed to break it all down, I knew that a bunch of the balloons had like confetti in them. She was helping with the breakdown, and I had dealt with these before so I was like "watch out for the confetti balloons, try to cut them open near the know and let the air out slow, and do it over a garbage can incase it pops. They will shoot confetti everywhere if they pop and it's a pain in the ass to clean up" and she just turned at me with tho most vitriol "ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO MANSPLAIN TO ME HOW TO POP BALLOONS?!" and I was like "Okay jeez, was just trying to help"

    Not two minute later I see her with a pin just popping the balloons off of the arch. Fucking confetti everywhere. I turned to my wife, who saw the exchange and I was like "yeah I'm not helping clean that up"

    This is the same woman who screams about body shaming etc, and when she expressed interest in one of my friends who is Japanese said "He's hot but it's too bad he probably has a small dick". Like... That's racist AND body shaming.

    We agree on a lot of things socially and politically, and like I said generally we get along, but she also complains very loudly about how she can't keep relationships sustained and it's like... Yo, all you do is vocally complain about how men are the source of all problems. But you also want to be with one?

    Like, look... I'm all in support of feminism, but it should be about rising women up, not chopping men down. I didn't choose to be born with a penis. Why am I automatically an enemy? I'm an ally.

    Fuck.

  • Microsoft reveals major price increase for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues

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  • I work for an org with ~1700 Surface Laptop 7 ARM deployed. They are actually really nice. Managing them with Intune is a breeze (including BIOS management), and Windows ARM is actually getting 3rd party app support now (Thanks, Apple!)

    Yes, yes. Microslop, I know. But we are talking end user computing here.

  • YSK that a dirt-cheap pair of lab goggles can save you from crying while slicing onions

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  • "Onions make me sad, a lot of people don't realize that. When I'm cutting onions, I'm sad. Because the plight of onions, it's sad. But people don't realize I'm actually crying - they think I'm just reacting."

    Mitch Hedberg

  • The U.S. government is spending $88 billion a month in interest on national debt, equal to its spending on both defense and education combined

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  • I got got this way with some bonds that my grandmother bought me when I was born. They were some kind of long term bonds that took a very long time to mature. I had no idea that I even had them, they were in my parents closet or something, and my parents completely forgot about them as well. I was like 35 when they gave them to me. At that point they had been fully matured for a very long time, but because of inflation, the buying power of the money earned actually made them worth less. I forget the exact numbers, but it was like:

    $100 matured to $200

    But a quick lookup with an inflation calculator, $100 from the year I was born showed that it had the same buying power as $280 now. So the $100, while going up in number, actually went down in value. Certainly better than keeping the $100 under the mattress, but that sucked.

    Oh and it was significantly more than $100. Nothing near life changing amounts of money, but probably money that I could have used earlier in my life - to help with student loans or something. When there was less inflation.

  • Anon gets scammed

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  • When I was 19 I was in a band with this really strange kid. He was super charismatic though, and just seemed to make friends with anybody he met. One of those people happened tk be this 40 year old bus driver. We went over his place one time to smoke a joint, and he showed us his grow room. This was in like 2005 or so, so all very illegal. He got in my face about not telling anybody and how I better not be a narc. Anyway... Then we ate some pot brownies and watched a movie. The brownie I ate wasn't doing anything so I ate another and learned a very important life lesson about edibles. If you're not feeling the first one, don't eat the second one. I was high as fuck. Banished to the shadow realm, some light say. Took a few hours to regain my composure and walk home. It was a weird fuckin night.

    So yeah. Probably anecdotal but "what do school bus drivers do when not driving a school bus?" - grow weed, and eat pot brownies with teenage punk rockers and watch movies.

  • I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years.

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  • Joints look good! I would maybe look into cleaning the contact pads on the bottom of the cartridge though. It may work fine now, but those things can corrode and it looks like yours may have already started. A liitle preventative maintenance could extend the life by quite a bit.

    Side note on soldering - isn't it crazy how easy people make it look in YouTube videos and what not? Like, they always just heat up and flow so perfectly and so quickly on the first try every time. I guess it comes with experience. It took me a long time to get the hang of it, and I still can't do what those folks do. Anyway, your solder looks great. Proud of you, too.

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  • Farquaad lineage.

  • YSK: thisismyip.com (website to display your IP) had inserted new code to its website that is detected by Kaspersky antivirus and Fortinet as malicious; Here are some alternatives to use instead

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  • Glad somebody else posted it. Glad it still exists. Some of the internet is still hilarious and amazing.

  • Call for donations for Lemmy.World

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  • I'm doing my part!

  • What is that one software that you are using for 10 years and still loving it?

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  • WINAMP WINAMP WINAMP

    It really whips the llama's ass

  • How do you respond to "hey, how are you" when you feel like garbage?

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  • I like to follow it up with:

    "Someone's dream"

    "Living the dream" is sort of a sarcastic way of saying "not awesome", and the follow up is a "but it could be worse" - kind of eases the tension a bit. Like "I'm hanging on by a thread, but I'm not starving or homeless, so all things considered, I'm doing fine"

  • Can we see a photo you took recently?

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  • It's called Black Emperor and it's awesome. It's an "Indie Arcade Game" which is a thing that is starting to pop up, and I am here for them. I hated the direction that arcades were going in - which has been shitty phone games on gigantic touch screens.

    Black Emperor is a game where you are a dude on a motorcycle, there is a throttle button, and the wheel to go up and down. The challenge is that the screen is moving along and you need to stay on it. Too fast, you die, too slow, you die. But you have to also stay on the path or you slow down. There are also dirt strips you need to boost through. It's almost like a modern Excite Bike, but super challenging and awesome.

    Oh, also the top front of the arcade cabinet has some big ass fans, and when you pick up speed they blow in your face. It's sick.

  • Charlie Kirk bullet analysis finds no conclusive link to rifle found near scene

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  • The front fell off.

  • Can we see a photo you took recently?

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  • Valve veteran slams Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for laying off 1000 people while making 'as much money as possible… and hey Tim, Gabe's better at that than you'

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  • "Epic is technically paying us to use it, and we still won't use it"

    I think it's because it feels like an obvious bait and switch. We've seen it so many times over the years. Services reel people in, get them hooked on their platform, then enshittify them with ads and paid subscription tiers etc. Like everything that Epic does just seems so desperate, and that makes me belive they can't be trusted. "Please bro. Please install Epic. Bro I'll give you free games. I swear bro, I won't start scraping your data and selling ads. Trust me, bro. Please"

  • Removed

    WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?

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  • I've known people who have had the same issue and they not only turn it neon green but turn on mouse trails to an extreme degree. If you draw a little circle with your hand it's very easy to spot.

  • We need to make informed choices

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  • I use my slow cooker here and there for convenience, but I feel like no matter what I put in it, it just tastes like slow cooker. Not that it's bad, but strangely similar even when I use completely different ingredients.

  • We need to make informed choices

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  • Or do what I do and wash things as you cook only to realize that you're going to need the thing you washed to finish whatever you're making. You get to do 3x the cleaning per 1x cooking.

    This is easily avoided by doing a tiny bit of thinking with a pinch of foresight.

    I am not a smart person.