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[–] Generica@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 15 hours ago

Oh man idk how to react. It's been only 3 years & I'm still not sure lol

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago

Nothing major. Back in highsch ool my best friend had convinced me to buy CS:GO on Steam so we could play together. I basically never played it unless he was playing since I was never a huge fan of those types of games when doing online PVP (unlike him). I haven't played it in a really long time, with no plans on playing since it just doesn't interest me.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ceramic pans. Thankfully I only bought one.

[–] meneervana@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yup. I own a few of them and they all are falling apart basically

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 15 hours ago

The Le Creuset kind? Thought they were buy it for life

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ctr +f "cybertruck": 0 results

Good job everybody!

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ctr +f "cybertruck": 1 result

Lol you moro...oh, okay

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 23 hours ago

There's two results now!

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Pfff as if i could afford to make that mistake

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

? I enjoy mine very much. In what whay do you regret it?

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm only partly kidding. I do play from time to time, but not as much as I thought I would, hence the "regret". Nostalgia is a powerful drug.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago

Steam Deck emulation takes care of that itch for me.

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

CGPgrey's AI and his self driving cars videos.

Definitely made some poor choices in life due to these that I could scream into a pillow. The future is always unpredictable, and while behind the scenes I'm sure a lot happened to improve both of these technologies, more than a decade later the use cases of both are still the same - grifting investors.

[–] Probius@sopuli.xyz 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Can you clarify? Are you calling CGP a grifter, or did he just make a wrong prediction?

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, was half asleep when I wrote that.

CGPgrey did make a ton of prediction on the future of these 2 technologies, but did overestimate their potential in the near future. That much is evident 10/8 years later. The only thing they really excel at is getting money from starry eyed investors, which you can then run away with. Same as it was back then.

[–] Brutticus@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

I like CPG gray as a content creator, but he did do that and the Royals video. I dunno. libs were really starry eyed back then.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

KSP2

Can't get it refunded now

That's definitely a lesson

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[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

the thin plucked eyebrows (2000s).. I'm now trans masc and wish i had them back lol

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 54 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Pretty much anything Elon Musk. I used to be an Elon Musk fangirl up until 2018, then each successive year was like the cutscene of Crash Bandicoot having all the boxes he's missed falling on his head.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

I'm definitely one of those leoy but it took me until a couple years ago to start disliking him since I was a lot less active on social media and keeping up somewhat on news other than what I'm interested in. Definitely wanted one of his boring company flamethrowers when I heard about them but now I'd ironically wanna torch one of them.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 10 points 1 day ago

I enrolled in Aerospace Engineering in 2018 because of Musk.

Part of why I never graduated was the gradual loss of faith in the person who had inspired me. Although he has actually never changed.

[–] polle@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With 2018 you are waaaaaaay ahead of the most other people.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

2018 was when he called the diver a pedo? That was the moment for me. I thought he was an awkward nerd trying to make electric cars a thing against all odds, an underdog. That was the moment I looked more into him and saw how wrong I was.

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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Chia cryptocurrency. My dad got into it, and the price was mooning. Gave me an excuse to build a new PC and learn linux, so I thought it was a worthwhile investment. Sunk a decent chunk of change into hard drives that I still have laying around, but I'm using several of them and have a sweet gaming rig that I would've built eventually anyway and had something to talk to my dad about. So basically, just out the cost of some drives. All in all, it was a calculated risk that didn't pay off but was still fun.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought touch screens would be a fad. I dont fall for hype but thats because Im an idiot, not because Im smart.

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[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stalker 2.

I didnt just buy the game once, I paid for a "collectors edition" with a bunch of physical merch that I wont see until may or june. and even briefly volunteered to be a community mod. sifting through waves of hateful filth from hostile actors within the "community". there is a LOT of Russian incited hatred against the game because of the fact the game was Ukrainian

I got incredibly hyped for the game because I had been waiting for it since the late 2000s. watched it die and come back from the dead, and it looked awesome.

the sad reality was that it needed more time in the oven, and I dont think they had a choice. I think they were forced to release it in the state that it was because they couldnt afford another year of no sales and surviving off investors and pre-orders. so what we got was like a 7/10 and it needs a lot more work.

and the political situation in their country where as many as 1/3 of the staff still live and work, is tenious by the day, they are absolutely fighting World War III over there. and some countries are trying to stab them in the back, telling them to just go surrender and get murdered..

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

My only real gripe with it so far (only 6 hours logged because I've been waiting for improvements) is the performance. Like when I installed kcd 2 now I expected to have to go in and turn down some settings because the first one was quite heavy to run. But no, right out the box it runs amazingly on all ultra (with dlss enabled as a caveat). I'm just waiting for some random youtuber to say "oh the deva forgot to set this one flag in the level editor and now it runs three times better".

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Not stuck anymore but I was for like a month. I bought Pretty Litter cause multiple drag queens I liked told me to do so. That is the worst goddamn litter I have EVER used in my life. The smell was horrendous, the dust was so so bad I actually couldn't even be in the next room when my partner did the litter because of my allergies, and our house looked like a fucking beach. Fuck those people. (And shame on me for falling for goddamn ads)

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah it's marketed as being able to detect urine irregularities in cats so it changes colour with their pee. It also supposedly "locks" in the smell which, to their credit, I couldn't smell the cat shit, all I could smell was dust.

It's also made of silicone which, you know, not meant to be eaten so I'm sure that's great for cats to have in the fur they clean with their mouths.

I really didn't do my research on this one.

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