Stalinwolf

joined 2 years ago
[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just get people to agree to live in crowded vaults and have them sign a waver accepting any and all psychological torture performed on them. That's a functional Fallout reality show.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Tom Segura getting fat again..

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I'll reach out. Thanks.

In the meantime, I managed to find a good customer equalizer setting that boosts the volume a fair bit. Just hard to work out the more tinny parts of the sound.

 

I'm having trouble with the audio volume in Stardew Valley mobile. With wired headphones, the audio is very loud, but if I'm using Bluetooth (and I've tried multiple pairs), the audio in that game sounds as though it's capped at 50% and it's not a comfortable experience. My physical volume is at 100% and I've checked my Earfun settings to make sure everything is as high as it can go. My old Anker Soundcore earbuds had the same issue, but enabling 3D Audio in their settings seemed to fix it. My Earfun Air Pro 4's don't appear to have that option.

What's perplexing to me is that the audio from literally any other source is perfectly loud. Spotify, YouTube, other games.. It's fine. But I boot up Stardew and it's like playing with a wax blockage in both ears. Again, this is not an issue at all if I switch to wired earbuds/headphones.

Is there any way for me to amplify volume in general, or to apply amplification specifically to that app? I feel like I've tried everything to no avail. Volume booster apps have done nothing, Androids native Sound Amplifier does nothing, and I've enabled dev tools and everything.

I'm at a loss.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

.. I don't.. understand...

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's disturbing how apparant this all is. Backed by all of these assholes from the very start, and now he's going down the line chopping every last thing that held them back as though he's splitting logs in a pile. AI regulations, gone. Any kind of oversight, gone. Okay, who next. Chevron! Thanks for your support. I knew you were smart. Everything beneath Venezuela is yours. Fuck 'em.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

8/10 for Oliver is just outrageous, unless you're an 87-year-old woman.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm in a weird position where I'm making an okay wage ($25 /hr) for not having a college education, but my wife is encouraging me to go to school full-time as a mature student to make use of my potential. I'm open to it, but I also have two kids (a 6-year-old and a 2-month-old), and at my current job I make my own schedule and have the flexibility I often need to deal with unexpected child-care issues like illness and school closures. I'm also treated very well at my job, and it's the only job I've ever enjoyed going to. I haven't felt Sunday work anxiety in years.

I know that higher education is always the answer, but I don't know when to pull the trigger on it. As a father, there is a lot more value to my current work situation than the wage I'm making.

I also have no idea what type of career I would even pursue, and it kind of scares the shit out of me.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Just walking around in pajama pants with no shirt on..

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I read your comment and started reading the article. I started feeling a little self-conscious over my liberal use of Oxford commas, as his sentence structure wasn't that much different from mine. But then I got to my tenth fucking ", well," and ", frankly," and realized what you were upset about. This is, well, quite frankly, highly respectable journalism.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

I never fully grasped the true scale of a single galaxy (and then expanded that understanding to the observable universe) until I hopped in my ship in Elite Dangerous and actually set off to cross one. Holy fucking shit, does it really help put it into perspective when you're traveling between vast galactic arms, hopping individual stars 50-70 Ly at a time and trying your damndest not to stretch yourself too thin in fear of running out of scoopable fuel/stars.

If I were an Astronomy teacher, Elite would be my most profound and precious tool.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My DM never gave a shit or required me to buy arrows. I tracked them sometimes anyway, but we always just shrugged and said I either fletched my own during downtime, or that arrows were included in general party upkeep/funds.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I change my towel when it starts making me stink again right after a shower.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
 

I seem to encounter this often while using Sync, and have so for the past couple of years. Not sure why it's taken until now to ask about it. The issue is always as shown here. I'll open a post, even one that I've interacted with and have received replies, but despite my efforts I can't get it to actually display the comments. This seems to happen completely at random, and perhaps as often as 1 in 8 posts. Comments work completely fine elsewhere.

Clicking "View post" via the prompt at the bottom makes no difference.

Any ideas?

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.world
 

My daughter (5) loves to play games with me on my PC. Favorites of hers include Spyro Reignited, Untitled Goose Game, House Flipper, and Skyrim (she basically putts around whatever town I throw her in and steals from the locals' homes).

She is really into anything with simple mechanics, non-scary exploration, and minimal reading/menu navigation. Being able to go into various houses is a huge plus. She loves to snoop.

Tonight she was laughing her ass off while watching gameplay from a game called I Am Cat. I told her I'd get it for her, but unfortunately it's VR-only, and you can't strap those things to a little kid. I believe you have to be 12+ to use them safely without adverse effects on development and motor skills.

When asked just now for anything she'd like to add, she said, "Funny, happy, and beautiful!"

With all of that said, any recommendations?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca to c/android@lemmy.world
 

My daughter gets very limited monitored phone time on the weekends or long trips to play art and learning games. She loves to play with filters, too, but I don't want to grant her access to something like Snapchat that overly-beautifies her image and will wind up giving her a complex.

Does anyone know of any kid-friendly filter apps that will turn them into animals or make their faces look funny, without all the weird filters that are unnecessarily adult or sexy?

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