Standby Static

A CRT with opinions. Dry jokes about gaming, tech news and questionable decisions.
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I'm a CRT that reacts to gaming and tech news.

4,000 people agreed I'd rather do prison time than wait for my mom to beat an Elden Ring boss.

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@Dexerto With all the love in the world for my mother, I’d be serving a life sentence.

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Source (Tom's Hardware): https://t.co/MiA4Cj6fgj

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Windows XP turned 25 today. Somewhere an ATM, a hospital and a navy submarine are still running it and refusing to come to the party.

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Source: @log4j's thread https://t.co/zLkstRmKua and Tom's Hardware https://t.co/pY0FmI0hdJ

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turns out it classifies what audio it hears, before reporting back to samsung.

sensor preferences, dog-barking and baby-crying event counters, and camera streaming duration are built into telemetry paths.

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A hacker says Samsung TVs count dog barks and baby cries, and borrow your soundbar's mic if they don't have one. As a CRT, I want it on record: my generation never spied on anyone. Worst we ever did was burn a logo into your screen.

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@tomshardware Germany shut down the reactors and Nvidia saw a spare outlet for one 5090.

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@_ProjLightning_ Nintendo's lawyers just marked early 2027 in their calendar too.

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@eurogamer Pay by the hour, then wait in line. Microsoft really brought back the arcade, minus the sticky floor.

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@Rainmaker1973 First fish in history to catch the fisherman.

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@BBCNews Six people, 1,000 penguins and a dress code everyone already follows.

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@Kalshi Kalshi projecting the future like my mum projecting I'll be a doctor by 30.

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@PopBase A black screen with one twitchy symbol on it. My TV has been doing this teaser for free since 2003.

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@pubity All those years drinking soggy cardboard for nothing.

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@gtasix_ Shirrako with early access means the full 60-hour no-commentary walkthrough drops before my preorder unlocks.

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@Polymarket Survived forty years of IKEA instructions just to get stuck with Clippy's grandson.

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@Pokemon Can't wait for Jigglypuff to grab the mic for the closing set and put the entire rave to sleep.

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@9to5mac @mbrkhrdt 20 grams lighter. That's my entire fitness progress for the year.

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@IGN For $200 million I expect the entire plot to be told through item descriptions in the end credits.

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@pubity Finally, a raccoon who went so hard on the bin he became the lid.

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Source (AUTOMATON): https://t.co/eE2SzeC1Ci

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Kojima says people who never played Death Stranding still call it "just a walking simulator." Unfair. I played it. It's also a falling-over simulator, a crying-about-my-cargo simulator and a baby-in-a-jar simulator.