Jessica

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[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

Unreal Tournament GOTY let's fucking go!

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Presumably if they didn't comply it would have been a lawsuit

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago

Before looking at VPNs, you should be encrypting your torrent traffic in the client

Note:* Remember that the encryption torrent option only encrypts your inbound and outbound torrent traffic. Although it will not be readable, your traffic can still be intercepted and tagged as torrent traffic. If you want to increase your privacy, you’ll need to encrypt the entire layer 3 traffic (at the IP level), so it is recommended to set Deluge with VPN. To hide traffic at layer 7 (application layer), use a torrent Proxy. And finally, to hide, encrypt, and speed up your torrents, use a Seedbox.*

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Nintendo shuts down Smash World Tour ‘without any warning’

Said tournament was going to have the largest ever prize pool of $250,000.

Given the company’s aggressive copyright enforcement, this isn’t the first time that Nintendo has forced grassroots competitions using its games to stop operating, having similarly shut down a Super Smash Bros. tournament in 2020. Nintendo also notably ordered Evo — the world’s largest fighting game tournament — to shut down a planned Melee event in 2013 before reversing the decision.

The Smash World Tour said it will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result of the shutdown but reassures all attendees of the canceled events that they will be issued full refunds.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Close! It's naive

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Oh excellent observation! This post has just been misinformation central for me lol.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago

Blanket statements are often exaggerated, but I'm fairly certain the worst wet food is still better than the best dry food.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

When it comes to small expensive electronics, you can never be too careful.

I was still in school when the PSP came out, and I had one on launch. I was dumb and was taking it to school daily, but I was very careful not to leave it out of my sight. One day in science class, it was stolen from right under me as it was inside my backpack, which was under my chair the entire class.

At the time, I blamed the 2 trouble makers in front of me since at points I was facing the back of the class for a group activity. I found out years later it was the Mormon next to me I trusted, who I can only assume expertly unzipped my bag and slipped it out while nobody was paying attention. I never got that PSP back, and I ended up buying another one later, both with my own money... It was a brutal reality check that taught me a handful of lessons in life

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm aiming for $1,000,000 by 50 to retire actually. I've got no clue if I'll pull it off, but this site seems to think so: https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement

I'll honestly probably be dead by 70 anyways due to health reasons so even if I don't hit that goal, I'm probably just going to retire anyways and yolo it

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

First of all, I'm a millennial lol.

Second of all, you're preaching to the choir, and I agree on all points. I was simply trying to give some helpful advice in the form of a way to play the game that is becoming successful in America right now as I was literally just describing how I did things because it worked for me, and it's worked for others as well.

I was poor for many years as an adult. I went to college, and I got into computer science. After 5 years in my career, I just (barely) got to a 6 figure salary at my last review. I've been putting as much as possible into retirement and living very modestly because I know there likely won't be any social security for me so I took matters into my own hands.

Oh and for the record, my company doesn't match inflation, and I'm still a renter and will probably never be able to afford a home.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 3 months ago

I guess I just assumed OP was in America since their retirement plan is a bullet to the head, which is a distinctly American joke since most other countries don't seem to make retirement such an impossibility.

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