-random man-

Gamer | Amateur Programmer
Always learning and sometimes I say random things.

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@thenewarea51 He’s relatively relaxed for ejecting and losing an aircraft worth $70 million.

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@gdogontap1988 @theblaze Disney IT workers spoke before congress over a decade ago and it’s a shame it took this long for any administration to stand up to the unethical hiring practices of these corporations.

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@NilesSankey My generation is very much to blame for the poor direction that was taken by the industry. A lot more people grew up playing games so you had a larger number of personalities wanting to get involved making them.

Those personalities clashed with the historical nerdy types.

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A night of sleep ruined by stress. 🥲

This is possibly the worst stress I’ve before felt too.

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@sircalebhammer How do women get convinced to marry and then have children with men like this?

I’d be so livid if I was married and my wife spent our whole tax refund on something like a designer bag when we have kids and debt to pay off.

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@FreddyLA7 Haha, college sorority/fraternity houses can vary a lot on the inside. Their interior is often utilitarian and less grand than the exterior architecture. Although, some of them have some really nice common rooms.

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@kurt_m433_HEDP Didn’t they raid a gun store prior to this shoot out?

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@SamuelCulperSr1 @Stringali85 @dirtcheapbanks New construction starter homes do exist or did. They were usually small 2 bed, 1.5 bath homes. Unfortunately, builders rarely build homes like that now because they can charge more for a two story 4 bed/2.5 bath on the same plot of land.

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@WoodstarForges It was Jason Jones who wasn't interested in Halo 2. The rest of the team worked their ass off to create that game.

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The absolute worst thing about opening this app is spotting a banger tweet for 0.2 seconds before the feed auto-refreshes and sends it straight into the void.

Gone forever.

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@GeorgeRoush Bring back manufacturing in the US. Will it cost more initially? Yes. Will it be better overall for our society? Absolutely.

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@niccruzpatane @Tesla While there's potential for the power and drivetrain to be used in other situations, I believe a lot of redesign would have to be done for the cab in most of these scenarios.

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@kangaetekure @VideoGameHstry Yeah I think large chains like Best Buy, Gamestop, Circuit City, and Kmart had the highest allocation. Target got some, but they weren’t that big on electronics back then. Smaller stores wouldn’t have had the leverage to secure a higher percentage of their orders.

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@flap_jakes027 @GrittyGamingGG Because in Dark Souls I can run back to my souls relatively easily in most cases. Also, I don’t lose my gear when I die, so it’s not even a great comparison.

Looter shooters will never be mainstream, because the gameplay loop is often a poor combination of game mechanics.

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McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion dollars to find out why families stopped coming.

I can save them the 8.5 billion.

They took out the playground.

The plan, announced Wednesday at investor day. Better food, faster service, new equipment, AI tools, hospitality training, and a bigger push into chicken and beverages. They call it Next. The goal, they say, is making customers feel more comfortable.

Wall Street loved it so much the stock fell 5 percent to its lowest since 2022.

Over five years McDonald's shares are down 3 percent. Burger King's parent is up 14. The owner of Taco Bell and KFC is up 13.

This is not a hamburger problem. This is a McDonald's problem.

So let us talk about who used to eat there.

Parents. That was the whole business. Parents at 5:40 on a Tuesday with three kids in the back and nothing thawed at home.

You did not go for the burger. You went because your kids could run screaming through a plastic tube for 40 minutes while you sat with a coffee and experienced silence.

That was the product. The food was the cover charge.

The first PlayPlace opened in 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama, and for fifty years it did one job. It made small children demand to go to McDonald's.

Then 2020 arrived, every play area in the country closed, and a great many never came back. The equipment came out during a remodeling program named Experience of the Future.

The Experience of the Future turned out to be a touchscreen.

Their own chief executive said he did not know if ball pits were in their future.

Sir, you were not selling ball pits. You were selling forty minutes.

So now there is no counter, no playground, and no reason for a seven year old to want to go. A screen, a window, and a bag.

And for that we pay prices that require a moment of reflection in the parking lot.

For thin, overcooked, oddly uniform pucks that taste like a memory of beef.

I did not love them because they were good. I loved them because I was eight and there was a slide.

And have you seen the new buildings.

The old ones were unmistakable. Red roof, yellow arches, legible from a highway at 70 to a child who could not yet read.

The new ones are a flat gray box with a small logo and a drive through wrapped around it. A regional claims office with a fryer.

They removed the color, the characters, the counter, and the playground, and then hired consultants to find out why it no longer feels like anywhere.

Which is why, when I have to eat fast food, I go to Chick-fil-A.

Not for the politics. For the competence.

They have led the customer satisfaction index for fast food eleven years running, and average 8.5 million dollars per location against McDonald's 4 million.

More than double, while closed on Sundays. Fifty two days a year with the lights off, and still double.

A seventeen year old hands you a bag and says my pleasure and means it about 70 percent, which is 70 percent more than a touchscreen has managed.

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion on hospitality training.

Chick-fil-A earns 8.5 million per restaurant by just having some.

So here is my consulting proposal, free of charge, on behalf of mothers everywhere.

Put the playgrounds back.

Not a nostalgia campaign. Not a retro cup. The structure. Tubes, slides, a door the kids cannot open from the inside, and a bench where a tired woman can sit.

And understand what you are buying, because it is not lunch.

A six year old does not know your food is bad. He has no basis for comparison and no functioning palate. He thinks the burger is incredible because he is standing in a castle made of tubes.

That is the window. That is the only window you get.

You catch them before the taste buds arrive, and thirty years later they drive past your sign, feel something they cannot explain, and pull in anyway.

That is not a menu strategy. That is imprinting, and you shut it down in 2020 to save on cleaning.

Eight and a half billion dollars for AI tools and hospitality training.

Or a slide.

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@KaiKai2492 Art books are one of my favorite items to be found in collector’s editions. I’m a gamer, I don’t need sunglasses, cause I hardly go outside. Give me a damn art book so I can flip through it while downloading the release day patch!

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@SWT_Channel Well, can’t argue with saving $20 when you spend

$300 for an Xbox
$120 for 3 extra controllers
$50 for Halo

That’s a great night with your friends and eventually Halo 2 comes out after Xbox Live launches.

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@kangaetekure @VideoGameHstry Where? They had production issues for sure, but there were 500k units for launch. If you lived in a populated area stores had dozens of units.

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@kangaetekure @VideoGameHstry For the midnight release? They likely got one. It was the people who showed up in the days/weeks/months afterwards that had a hard time acquiring them.

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@koffeekage @akirathedon part of what we lost from abandoning CRTs. I believe custom cabinets use receivers near the screen these days. So, it is possible.