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Yeah Aldi, a German grocery chain. My wife has her Aldi quarter and that's all it's used for.

It's just common decency and being nice for others. Like not pissing all over the toilet seat. Or if you do, cleaning up after yourself. (I view) Leaving things for the next person to deal with is lazy and just creates a mess for others to clean up.

I haven't played the game at all since Seekers of the Storm came out but we would play it modded quite a bit before. The Samus character mod is so much fun.

Hey, good on you for that attitude. It's something we all need to focus and work on.

Doing your best is the best you can do. As long as you're respectful and nice, no one is going to get mad over that if you fumble. It's how you act if corrected that really matters. If they do get mad, just apologize and move on.

This is a broad generalization but I feel like some of these people that get so angry over it, likely get angry over being corrected about anything.

Digital Foundry has complained about the stuttering issues in all of those games. Jedi Survivor still gets brought up.

Arkham Knight was the first I noticed it really bad on, no RT present. Since then it seems most Unreal titles suffer from it in some kind of way.

I remap a lot of my controls to try and be uniform across games as they can be.

My main thing is I hate it being used as a replacement for human creativity. I definitely think it has its uses. I like using DLSS and DLAA in games that support it. For the most part it's made my gaming experience better. I see its usefulness with generating conversations for NPCs in a game. That's crazy cool but it needs to be tiptoed around. It shouldn't be used to replace writers, voice actors or artists.

I signed up for Midjourney a while back to see what all the hoopla is about. As I sat there refining my prompt and regenerating OVER and over and over to hopefully get something that wasn't all fucked was such a waste of my time and an exponential waste of compute and electricity to generate what is essentially instant garbage. It's crazy and I felt bad about using it afterwards.

Same, I dusted off my old MP3's and have been slowly replacing them with flacc from BandCamp. PlexAmp is pretty sweet to take it on the go.

Some friends were freaking out about following JD Vance on Instagram. Then they realized they had followed @vp when it was Kamala's handle.

We have an older 2012 1080p Sony 55" TV. Super thin, still works great. It had a few "smart" things it could do, like local tv guide, weather. Very simple stuff, nothing like streaming apps. Those basic smart things haven't functioned in a while. Support ended for them a long time ago. I've had a negative opinion for smart TVs since then. Having those functions sitting there broken drives me nuts.

We always used some type of streaming box. Started out with some Roku's for a long time that worked okay until they updated them enough to run like shit. Ads were never egregious but you could tell where the trend was going. A friend let me have an older Nvidia Shield TV. It was FILLED with ads for shit we didn't care about. Google Play store shit, Nvidia shit, advertisement shit, AHHHHHHH. It too eventually was updated enough to where everything runs like shit. I looked into a lot of self contained media systems from no names on Amazon, but I just didn't trust them. I could set up a PC to do it all and I'd be fine with it but my wife wants something easy to use.

Sooo I ended up going with an Apple TV. So far it's been really nice. Zero ads on the home screen. It lists the previous content we were watching and then our streaming apps below it, that's it. When you move the cursor over the Netflix or other apps it lists what you previously watched and some recommendations for other shows but it's not in your face or moving anything around to do it. There are some apps you can't remove, but I just made a folder and threw them all in there. It's nice but it's costly at around $140. So far for me, I'd say it's worth it. We only use Netflix, Hulu and Plex on it, but all of them work great. It also supports the Steam Link app. I use it some, but I've started to use Moonlight that is installed on my Steam Link device instead, since the picture and stream quality is a lot better.