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Why eggs are selling for over $9 a dozen in some places—and when prices are expected to drop in c/news

[–] CaptPretentious 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It might come down a bit. Look at all the price hikes since 2019, prices are not going to come down.

Keep it simple in c/memes

[–] CaptPretentious 3 points 1 day ago

mgmtconfig

Never heard of that, will be looking into it

Keep it simple in c/memes

[–] CaptPretentious 54 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Honestly, fuck Ansible.

It's the dialup of automation tools. It was probably amazing 10 years ago.

It's YAML is awful, it scales terribly, it's so fucking slow at literally everything, it gives people who have no clue what they're doing a false sense of confidence.

The number of times I've seen app teams waste the time of support groups and engineers because something went wrong and they didn't have the knowledge to know why and need to waste so many man hours having other people solve it for them. I (the engineer) was added to a chat that had 15 people in it because they, after running ansible, saw errors in their server... So clearly there was a problem with the server... At no point did they question there Ansible job.

Of the various tools I've used, I prefer Salt. The YAML is slightly less ass and it's so much faster while also seeming to scaling better too. It by no means is perfect.

TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban in c/[email protected]

[–] CaptPretentious 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Smoking is bad, we ban it. Fuck you I'll do meth!

Might be hyperbole, bit this is some dumb stuff and really to me does just how addicted and short sighted people are. I didn't give a shit why they're banning TicTok, instead of taking this opportunity to free oneself from an addiction, you just going all in for the childish "fuck you, you can't tell me what to do".

Are users for this other app, beholden to China's social credit score system, because of so, I'm getting some popcorn....

Paying taxes to fund new stadium for the Denver Broncos? Not a fan in c/denver_post_comments

[–] CaptPretentious 3 points 2 days ago

This happened in Minnesota some years ago. Team threatened to leave if tax payer money want used to build a new playground for the Vikings to continue losing in.

"Family Size" has no meaning anymore in c/mildlyinfuriating

[–] CaptPretentious 16 points 4 days ago

I'm afraid to ask how little it had before, because the amount i see are rookie numbers.

There were probably people with terminal illnesses holding on so they could catch the finale of their most-beloved TV show, Game of Thrones, and who died horribly disappointed. in c/showerthoughts

[–] CaptPretentious 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Alright, you're just wanting to be stubborn. You literally didn't say when and where, just vaguely "the show". I was sincere of you knew when and where I'd watch it again, but you couldn't cite anything specific.

Fake vegans in c/[email protected]

[–] CaptPretentious 25 points 6 days ago (3 children)

cloying

adjective

excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree

Neat, new word.

There were probably people with terminal illnesses holding on so they could catch the finale of their most-beloved TV show, Game of Thrones, and who died horribly disappointed. in c/showerthoughts

[–] CaptPretentious 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The marriage to Drogo was an arranged marriage, to help Viserys get the crown.

There's a difference between who traditionally were her enemies and Ramsay's enemies... And it's medieval times. Again, she really only had it out for oppressors. She went through many areas w/o slaughtering everyone.

The whole mad queen, which might be foreshadowed in the books, was not in the show. The Mad King, the thing everyone pointed too, was caused by Bran. The "Mad King" was just fine. Just like Hodor was just fine until Bran came along. But because he never is like "oh hey guys, yeah, turns out the mad king saying "burn them all" was actually my fault" so the myth/legend around it always going to happen due to "reason", at least in the show, falls apart. From my understanding, the books do foreshadow more of Daenerys's madness and its possible edits from D&D end up casting her in a very different light. Which just echo's how shit D&D were/are.

There were probably people with terminal illnesses holding on so they could catch the finale of their most-beloved TV show, Game of Thrones, and who died horribly disappointed. in c/showerthoughts

[–] CaptPretentious 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I disagree. Now I've never read the books, I only know the TV show. She took out slavers, oppressors, just generally people that would be the villain archetype and there was never some big reveal that actually anyone she was taking down wasn't just that. By that same logic, my great grandfather is a bad guy because he helped take down Nazi's in WWII, a group most would agree, were the bad guys.

She flipped at a sound of a bell against unarmed, innocent citizens who didn't even know who she was.

But by all means, I'm down to watch Episode 1 again, what scene exactly foreshadows her going genocidal?

There were probably people with terminal illnesses holding on so they could catch the finale of their most-beloved TV show, Game of Thrones, and who died horribly disappointed. in c/showerthoughts

[–] CaptPretentious 9 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Honestly, /r/freefolk really have a nice list.

The quality of writing tanked.

Multiple story threads from all the way back to season one went literally no where (like the patterns), Arya and the Faceless Ones. So many characters who just blinked out of existence because D&D forgot they existed and they didn't directly server the plot (like literally everyone following Bran around for so many seasons).

Characters started not acting like themselves. Daenerys went from the savior of the people to mad queen... a roll that better fir Cersei, in a blink of an eye because of "bells". Cersei nukes a chunk of the cities. Daenerys earned the title 'Queen of Meereen' from her campaign in Slaver's Bay. Bran was shown to be the villain and it's literally never addressed. He has wild powers and doesn't use it. Seems to go from an innocent child on a wild adventure to positioning himself as king.... instead of anyone else that would have made sense. "Who has a better story"... FFS, EVERYONE. And D & D seemed to forget the "Mad King" was saying "Burn them all" because Bran, yet again, fucked with someones head.

D & D forgot where Westeros was... Also forgot about the Iron Fleet

Cersei dies by brick to the head... (just more pointing out the lame writing). Contrast that with like, Eddard's execution.

Just go to /r/Freefolk... Season 7 and 8 were shit. Because D & D wanted to abandon GoT to go do Star Wars. HBO had more money for them, told them they could do more seasons. Naw, last 2 they phoned it in with 2 "seasons" there were the length of 1 and the quality of the aftermath of a night out of drunk taco bell binge eating....

Donald Trump Says Gulf of Mexico Will Now Be Called 'Gulf of America.' Congress Is Already Prepping Legislation in c/news

[–] CaptPretentious 10 points 1 week ago

You're not wrong... especially since he feels the need to plaster his name on everything. But don't give him ideas....

On that note, can we collectively change "trump card" to being a bad thing?

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My love letter to Baldur's Gate 3 and Larian Studios (self.baldurs_gate_3)

submitted 1 year ago by CaptPretentious to c/baldurs_gate_3

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I'll try to keep this short, sweet, and to the point.

I, like so many of you, love this game. Possibly more than we should. But for me, before this game, I had truly lost most of my interest in video games as a whole. Every year, various problems get worse and 2023 was the final straw for me. Ever increasing greed (Blizzard, Unity, EA, just every studio really). To say they came out in a lazy, incomplete, greedy state undersells it I feel. I truly feel we're still on the brink of another video game crash. Because the crash wasn't just one game (E.T.) but was the general greed and terrible quality of the industry back then. Pushing new products (games, consoles, accessories, etc.) just to push new products with crazy turn around time all in the name of profit. And this year, just stacked with all prior years, I had enough.

This game is so good in all the right ways. The writing, the acting, the world feels alive. NPCs respond differently based on who you are and what you've done. Even banter between your party. A truly impressive amount of thought put into things allowing you the player to really play however you want. It's not a mad loot carousel because your character power isn't based on gear directly and is tied to the character which allows for far more interesting items. There's no greed either, no stupid 'sEaSoN pAsS', no excel spreadsheets worth of 'versions', no subscription, no shop using real money for gear/cosmetics, no 'planned DLC' that's obviously content they cut out in order to sell back to the consumer. Heck, this game supports multiplayer... REAL multiplayer in that I don't believe you ever actually need a dedicated server. I believe you can do direct remote, split screen co-op, and LAN play... what other game in the last decade does that?

It reminds me of how games used to be before Bethesda broke the seal with horse armor.

BG3 is just a complete, high quality game, for gamers. It feels like it was made with love, care, and respect. And playing the game brings me joy.

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[SPOILER] Where to find EA information (self.baldurs_gate_3)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CaptPretentious to c/baldurs_gate_3

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Are there any good collections anyone might be aware of, for EA information or datamined information.

I'm curious to see what ideas got scrapped and how things changed. I know of a few things, like a little on Daisy. How certain abilities were actually going to be handed out.

But places like Grymforge really elude to something... there's a bunch of stuff hints that something might be near. From whatever caused some of the destruction you see. Because I refuse to believe it's all a vague reference to Yurgir.

And then there's some MTG pictures I saw, that list someone has potentially the main villain, in the very least a bad guy, and in the current game plays a very different roll.

Edit: Added spoiler tag just in case

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Only 'complaint' with BG3 (self.baldurs_gate_3)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CaptPretentious to c/baldurs_gate_3

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So, after playing many hours and just recently starting Act 3, there's been one thing that's been bugging me and I finally have it sorted out.

The whole "rarity" attached to gear is really dumb and misleading.

It's using the overly used grey/green/blue/'purple' coloring and naming that's common and many other RPGs. But in those games, it's somewhat reflective of rarity... which is what it's described as in BG3, the rarity of an item. But it's a lie.

Example Periapt of Wound Closure is an item that's sold by a vendor. How is it rare? As far as I can tell, there's just one in the game. But every named item I have, there's just one in existence.

I think labeling things as common/uncommon/rare/ etc. is wrong and thus makes people think certain items are better simply based on the 'color' of the gear instead of considering what the gear does. I've already had this conversation with multiple friends who absolutely think they're going to give a "stat stick" to their caster, because they're so used to Blizzard's way of thinking. Or that they 'needed' new gear because they leveled up and now must replace gear asap (even in Act 1). The fact I showed videos of some guy soloing the game, or beating the game as lvl 1s, or a video of some guy causing havoc by chucking potatoes and only potatoes... falls on deaf ears.

I think if the naming was swapped from 'rarity of item' to 'quality of enchantment' it would make more sense, but I still think it's not necessary. Or if it was standardized to like normal gear (nothing special) remains grey, gear that's just slightly enchanted (like +1 Sword) is green, and all unique named items are blue. Since you certainly can get lots of grey, fewer greens, and only one named. But that's just an idea.