jeems

joined 2 years ago
[–] jeems@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Well, they made an offer to John Oliver to become a mod.

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, many users of hardwareswap were not thrilled to hear they'd be moving to Discord.

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I needed a lawn mower for my tiny patch of grass so I went with Ryobi. I've since bought/been gifted Ryobi for every yard tool I have.

My drills and impact driver are DeWalt. Way better than the shitty Black & Decker drill that I got in a free gift from work.

 

Show off your favorite songs from PlayStation games!

First off, I have The Men of Intelligence from Dynasty Warriors 3's Battle of Hei Fei Castle, on the Wei side. It's my favorite track on an album, and it really sets the tone for one of the final battles in the game that is absolutely brutal on harder difficulties.

Next is Oltanis Orbit - Gemlik Base from Ratchet and Clank (2002). It's a great blend of ambient and funky, and that opening note as you get the overview shot of the level is just perfect.

Finally, I'd like to share Boldan - Silver City from Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando. It captures the level's vibe perfectly, and it benefits a lot from headphones. The intro switches sides a few times, which is a cool detail that my mono CRT couldn't show off.

All three of the songs come from albums that I think are full of other great songs, and I highly recommend you check them out if you like what I've posted.

Now it's your turn!

 

This is a detail that I've always appreciated about the early Ratchet and Clank games and it was cool to find someone giving it some love

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Company was bought by a VC group with no experience in the industry. They spent their resources in all the wrong places, leading to alienated employees with no morale. They were also behind on office rental payments.

We had no formal IT or standard laptop hardware or software. One team decided they were all done after their director left. The CEO decided that they were colluding and fired them all at once. Nobody else was cleared for that project's SCIF, meaning nobody could contact the customer over secure channels. Additionally, their drives were encrypted with personal passwords that were never turned over as the employees had no proper exit process.

Between that and my team slowly leaving due to morale, they lost 2/3 of the few contracts they had, along with the technical expertise responsible for them.

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I work in cybersecurity.

I picked computer engineering at the recommendation of my last math teacher in High School. I spent the majority of my childhood and teenage years playing with one form of technology or another, so I figured it made sense. I had a non-linear college career, but at the end of my 4+1 (accelerated grad school) I reconnected with one of my freshman roommates who graduated three years prior, got a job where he worked. That place fell apart after a venture capital group purchased it (seems to be a consistent story...) And ended up following one of my friends/former coworker to my current job.

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The worst part to me is the people still on Reddit complaining about the blackout because "you can scroll past the ads", which completely misses the point

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

The different-but-sameness of a long 7 is really interesting to me as a New York transplant. There are so many cookie cutter shopping centers. Some of them have housing and movie theaters, but they all feel like the same thing in different layouts.

I've driven out to Brambleton via Evergreen Mills Rd a few times and while I enjoy how empty it is, the scenery is pretty depressing.

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sly Cooper would be fantastic on modern hardware. Thieves in Time is a lot better when emulated because it fixes the game's most glaring flaw compared to the PS2 games: load times. I can only imagine a Sly game designed to be run off an NVMe drive with modern graphical capabilities. I wonder how its art style would be adapted to higher fidelity.

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

So far I like Thunder the best, with a similar breakdown for Connect and Liftoff. Wasn't a fan of Jerboa. I miss the design of RIF is fun.

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is my current PlayStation merch collection

These are the games I own cases for. I have a few PS1 games in one of those CD binders.

Truthfully, the most I've played of any game to the right of Sly Cooper on the top shelf is like, 20 minutes of Resistance. I got some of them from a friend who was trying to get some money at the time. The PS2 games are all ones that are dear to me.

I also have a wall of Devil May Cry stuff. It's multiplatform these days, but mentioning it since it started on PlayStation.

[–] jeems@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I just checked and RIF is pulling posts. I'm not logged in but it's pulling posts. Bizarre.

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