Pet peeves: The return (Part 10)

So one of those friends who started XIV has reached and finished the Vault.

:slight_smile:

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The good news: I was too late to buy a brutosaur.

The bad news: I was too late to buy a brutosaur.

The duality of man personified.

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Skyrim is crashing

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skyrim is crashing.
whiterun is kill
balgruuf say ā€œno.ā€
fus-ro-dah

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Doing adventure mode in Vampire Survivors has dragged me back to ā€œthe beforeā€ days (before I had any shop upgrades)

wait, I just realised that means we’re probably going to have an american voice Katarina du Coteau and made myself sad

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hasnt she always been though? shes voiced by tara platt as is and my lady edelgard can do no wrong (yes aerilen seiros is impressive too)

Might simply be on its way out. It happens.

I tend to use mobile phones until they’re falling apart. My last one’s battery life was diabolical and the screen was cracked and it had a habit of randomly restarting.

You could probably send it in for repairs or whatever but i don’t feel guilty aboit a new phone every 5/6/7 years or so. I had the first samsung galaxy for like 10.

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as much as the name ā€˜Katarina du Coteau’ is a delightful mess of different areas of Europe (Katarina is eastern European and du Coteau is obviously Brazilian) it just feels wrong that one French character (Fiora Laurent) be outrageously French and the other is just American

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I… hmm.
Actually don’t know how long I’ve had this phone, anymore. Maybe getting on for 10 now, actually?
Hmnn…
Fine, I might consider it. Bah.

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I did not do all the anniversary event secrets. This will haunt me.

Got my Nokia in 2011. Can never unplug it for more than a day now but it still serves as a suitable alarm and 2fa code taker.

Meanwhile this smart phone, which is a year old, is already breaking down,

Granted being dropped frequently probably doesn’t help but I stand by the ā€˜old is better’ in phones cases.

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I do the same. I’m on my second smartphone, and this one’s lasted like…7-8 years so far. Can’t go more than a day without a recharge, but it still holds up mostly okay.

I could get a discount on a new one through my corpo but all of the new ones seem like they’re packed with AI bollocks, so I’m hoping my current phone will last until that bubble bursts.

the AI integration push is kind of mad. it’s all anyone is advertising in terms of features for tech at the moment

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I stupidly ā€œupgradedā€ my phone when the chance came. My old one was great!

This new one is okay. But the battery dies MUCH faster than the old one :frowning:

Just a casual reminder that planned obsolesence is anti consumer, exploitative and actively stifles innovation.

In a world unshackled by corporate oligarchy and business interests we’d have phone batteries lasting for weeks at a time, lightbulbs lasting for decades, to say nothing of unimaginable strides in healthcare.

What sounds like a conspiracy theory was out in the open and instead of pursuing prosecution of those responsible we collectively shrugged and bought more, worse products, wasting finite resources.

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To be fair the AI on mine is alright. Makes brushing other people out of photos quite easy and it looks half decent 75% of the time.

still offended by that btw. it was a good picture of us and idk why you needed to brush me out

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MoP really eating better than any other expansion for transmogs with the last few months. Burnt 19k badges on cosmetics alone. worth it