• 0 posts
  • 8 comments
Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 4th, 2025
  • It’s become a meme, especially with the delays. But, GTA has mostly knocked it out of the park release after release. Yeah 5 is missing some stuff that was in 4, but then the detail in the map and 4 characters and the fun story it’s still solid.

    My only concern personally is that GTA online became a massive cash cow for Rockstar and I’m concerned about their commitment to the single player. I think the delays kind of indicate that they’re still putting in the work to make it a good game so I’m hopeful, plus RDR2 which came after was an amazing single player experience still.

  • They didn’t have cheap and decent mcdonald’s to compare too. At the tail end of it their parents were buying it if they had any. You and I are basically the crotchety old people who used to say “You used to get a burger and a drink for a quarter!”. I mean shit, fries and a drink used to be an after thought, now they basically double the price of a meal. The cheaper items like a regular cheeseburger, with pickup selected are 2.99 each at my local mcdonald’s. If you select the meal it makes it two cheeseburgers (so $6) and fries and drink for 11.89 for medium. Medium is barely any fries and drinks still cost them almost nothing yet it’s just about double.

  • I’m not going totally “Amish”, but I’ve become a cranky bitch about technology nowadays. I was very passionate about tech throughout my teens and early twenties. Since then, I’ve watched every major tech company go to shit. Services I used forever go to shit or die. Companies harvest more and more of our data in creepier and more invasive ways. They went from “don’t be evil” and creating interesting new tech or shaking up an industry (Google fiber, for instance) to doing anything as long as it saves a dollar.

    The only thing giving me any hope or interest in this space is FOSS and hosting things myself. It was confusing to me at first and still is in some ways, but not only can I solve my own issues, I can offer a lot of it to my friends and family. Having 10 different streaming services and finding where a show is within them is expensive and annoying, but I’m enjoying managing a library and hosting it on jellyfin. Then I can tell a few people, hey get jellyfin and type in this url, I’ll find whatever you want. I recently setup seerr so now they don’t have to feel like they’re bothering me when they want something, they can just request it (and see what’s new, upcoming, where something already is streaming if they already have that service, ratings, etc). Yeah it doesn’t support the show or movie but it’s a much more enjoyable experience. I stopped paying for Google drive and have all my pictures and videos (which is what used up all that space) syncing right to my PC, which then backs up to jotta cloud (not foss). I got off windows entirely (except at work) and use Linux now. I’m probably going to setup nextcloud and get a few people on there soon, since i have the space and it’ll save them a subscription.

  • I’ve ranted in past comments, but pretty similar here. Got a pre-built that was supposed to be 64gb but came with 32. Got a refund for about 100 to pick up another 32 (at the time that’s about what it was and it saved me the return process), bought the wrong thing so the two sets wouldn’t play nice and then ram started going out of stock and spiking in price the same week so I never fixed it.

    Ended up giving one set to a buddy last week so… saved him 500 bucks i guess lol.