I work in coinops, when you play Street Fighter 2 your fingers are millimetres from rat shit, I'm not easily disgusted. But this machine is absolutely disgusting

Why is there foam glued to the places that get caked in cat litter? How are you supposed to clean it?

You're not. You're not supposed to clean this.

It's rubber. The inside of the litter robot globe, where the cat shits and pisses and scratches with their fingerknives, is a rubber membrane. It's grippy matte black rubber. Why is there rubber in this? This is awful. I'm not having a good time. These are irredeemably filthy machines. These cannot be made clean. I've scrubbed and scrubbed but how the fuck do you clean scratched-up rubber. No. This is bad.

Figured someone would've had one of these all the way apart to give it a good scrub, saw a five minute video guide, turns out it's someone taking five minutes to explain that you can take the globe off the base and then take it outside and hose it down

She's never had the globe apart and I am judging this dirty, dirty lady but apparently, judging from the lack of disassembly instructions in the manual or even online, this is the standard of cleanliness for the Litter Robot

See this is what we've got now, Omega Paw rolling litterboxes, no alt-text 'cause I'll describe them right here. They are FOUR PARTS. They have NO CREVICES. They are made of VERY SMOOTH PLASTIC. You roll it 90 degrees to the right and all the clean litter goes through that sifting grate and into a chamber. You continue rolling another 90 degrees and the poop is on the inside of the roof, and the floor's facing you. Bang on the floor and anything sticky falls down onto the inside of the roof. Roll it back 180 degrees to the left and all the poop is now in the drawer, tilt it a little bit more and the clean litter comes back outta the sifting grate.

I figured the Litter Robot would be This But Turns Itself and hoo boy would that be Much Much Better. I could buy literally ten of these rolly lads for the cost of one litter robot

This is a Litter Robot 3. Three fucking versions in, and it's got THIS MANY CREVICES

How many crevices did version 1 have?!

Here's the thing about incredibly overpriced machines, if this were $200 then all the reviews would be like "You have to remove ten threaded-into-plastic screws to clean this thing and instead of sliding litter over the smoothest, most impermeable, most odor-rejecting plastic it's got a fucking RUBBER liner in it" and it'd be one-star across the board, but if you've just dropped FIVE HUNDRED AMERICAN DOLLARS on a litterbox you're 100% gonna talk yourself into believing that you've made a wise purchase

Taking this thing apart to give it a scrub and WOW am I glad I didn't pay full price for this

This is just, Amazingly badly designed

Seriously have you seen how much they're asking for these things, it's absurd. You can buy five toilets for the price of one of these litter boxes.

Motor works, seems to complete a cycle OK, but the seller said the weight sensor was all abollocks. It's entirely possible that it's just filthy and it'll all work fine once I give it a good scrub but worst case scenario a brand new sensor is like thirty bucks

You might well think "Who would pay $60 for a pre-owned litterbox" well let me tell you that these machines cost upwards of half a fucking grand and it's not just a pre-owned litterbox, it's a *broken* pre-owned litterbox

I bought a secondhand Litter Robot and it's full of some other cat's shit

also this ai didn't seem to understand the whole continuity-test-useless-on-EMs Thing of 🐇 why is my meter beeping, i can see that the contacts aren't touching, what the hell is going on, 🦝 you know coils and transformers are just fucking wire right, the beep's just going the long way round

Just saw a dude post chatgpt output after feeding it a schematic and manual for a Williams EM that won't score 10 points, it spent a thousand words explaining its reasoning before giving him a selection of things to check continuity on

in the time it took to read its output, never mind set up the prompt and ingest all the schematics etc, he could've followed the wires on the actual schematic using his eyes

“We will not separate the enablers from the fascists”: two weeks ago, i wrote an essay dismantling the “separating the art from the artist” line of thought would-be progressives use to justify their financial complicity with the fight against trans rights.

https://aria.dog/barks/why-you-got-insulted-for-harry-potter/

Also earlier on in the thread I was going lol third-person cameras give me problems, I'm starting to think it ain't third person cameras it's this game specifically, the environments are gorgeous but they absolutely don't fit the camera

The dialogue in this game is so bad, like it's so so so so bad

Back in '97 that was normal, we knew this was a Japanese game and they didn't give very many shits about translating stuff properly back then, but come on it's 2026 and these are talkies now, between someone writing the line and someone reading it aloud there should've been someone who noticed that the language in this game is chatgpt-quality flavourless gunge, it's borscht for words, it's linguistic Soylent

My husband was made redundant from his role as Art Director last week. We currently don't have any income and not much savings after a difficult year, and I can't work full time due to disability.

I have some tileset assets on itch.io available, some compatible with GB Studio, Playdate, and RPG Maker MV. If you were thinking of buying some, now would be an extremely good time to do so.

https://teaceratops.itch.io/

This time last year, I did a run-down of the things I get offered on Facebook to solve the problem of my current body:

https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/hate-your-body-forties/

meanwhile ubuntu was like, let's make it brown. For every bit as blue as windows is, let's make it brown. Let's make it all REALLY fucking brown.

This thread: middle aged man remembering when the computer was brown and you didn't even have to smoke