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- Comment on Why does Australia tend to ban or censor video games? 3 days ago:
Look I’m not saying that’s literally what happened to me but
- Comment on Why does Australia tend to ban or censor video games? 3 days ago:
Way too many holes in that game mate keep it pg
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Samba is indeed an annoyance, at least in the initial setup. In good faith though, does windows just work? Because there’s a habit for windows updates to break file sharing pretty regularly, not to mention permissions issues.
There’s a lot of work people put into windows that they just don’t realise because they’ve been in the ecosystem for that long. Having been on both sides for a bit now, Linux requires a hell of a lot less regular maintenance than windows needed. Sure I’m a power user, but I think that Linux is getting better and better all the time for general users.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The answer is user awareness, brand loyalty and fear of the unknown. Windows is the devil you know, most of the people I game with are scared of the instability of Linux, despite it being roughly equal if not better.
I think standardizing the user experience, making things less scary and generally more welcoming are major hurdles, but the good news is that should come with time and a larger userbase.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s normal to fear death, but constant worry is perhaps excessive. If we’re talking about literally every day, that’s too much.
In a mechanical sense, worry is a motivator for action. You should worry about death somewhat, because that means you avoid dying. Worrying beyond the point of practicality means your life is going to be less enjoyable.
If you can’t leave it alone, like the thought is hounding you, it might be time to visit a mental health professional. Even if you’re still functional, there’s no reason to not improve your living experience where you can. Don’t do that to yourself.
- Comment on Is it even possible to drop 20 lbs in a month? Are there any diets for people who want to go to the extreme? Kind of like celebs do for roles? 2 weeks ago:
No idea, but any diet that involves weight loss will also need you to quit beer entirely.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
There’s certainly a good start to the series, but fair warning, most of them are very similar and you can’t really play them one after another without burning yourself out. Still, interesting to see how the series evolves over time.
- Comment on Looking for a game where reading an immersive in-game manual is one of the main gameplay aspects 2 weeks ago:
Tunic!!!
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 2 weeks ago:
Look I’m mostly in infrastructure and I don’t know much beyond core principles behind software development, I can’t really cast stones. But yeah they can be surprisingly ignorant sometimes.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game 2 weeks ago:
Fingers crossed it actually comes out
- Comment on Greenland stands up to bullying by Australian mining company 3 weeks ago:
Same mate same
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I think I’m a bit confused and I was probably a bit tired last night. To recap I think they are probably going down the line where eventually you’ll have games removed from your psn profile similar to how they removed the movies from licensing issues. I’m certainly not buying a new console while they are going down that road, no new games I don’t have physical ownership of the media it’s on.
Steam has a history of not removing things that you’ve already bought which I think is crazy important for consumer confidence. PlayStation feels like it’s shooting itself in the foot so hard with this, I have no idea why they think it’s a good idea. I mean obviously short-sighted money bullshit, but you’d think they’d understand the importance of long term planning with their 6th console.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
yes? that’s pretty much what’s going on.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They totally could but that’s a hell of a line to cross. Not so much the online only stuff, but like literally everything? Why actually buy things at that point?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
They are a physical token of ownership mainly, which is very important as Sony has demonstrated that will happily remove content you’ve bought because licensing ran out. That’s a huge boundary to cross.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 4 weeks ago:
Exploring the vacuum between the ears of these people apparently
- Comment on Single player games 4 weeks ago:
I AM THE GREATEST!
- Comment on I'm gonna ask the simplest complex question ever. What is happiness, to you? 1 month ago:
Happiness is a tiny moment where, just for a brief second, everything seems right. Maybe things aren’t so bad, maybe everything will turn out okay. It’s inconsistent, fleeting, unreliable, and it might be the most beautiful thing we’re capable of.
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 month ago:
Aer: Memories of Old was pretty excellent. I think the scale might be not quite what you’re looking for, but the inspiration from Zelda is very apparent.
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 1 month ago:
Good news, I hear you can probably get a castle for fairly cheap. Only problem is you have to maintain it.
- Comment on GTA 6 Developers Announce Rockstar Games Union 1 month ago:
Can’t be that hard to make something close honestly. It’d be work, but with the right open source methodology and a little bit of love, you could get a lot of people involved really quickly I imagine.
Actually that does still sound hard but fuck it.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 2 months ago:
I’m not going to look this up, because I’m expecting that there’s a number of reasons, but you can pretty much point the finger at supply and demand of components, as well as inability for companies to scale production, and the fact this is likely a bubble.
Think about it from the standing of a ram manufacturer. You’re already pumping out as much product as physically possible, or you need components or materials from other vendors. You aren’t just sitting on idle machines, if there’s a market what what you’re doing, you’re going to push as much of it as you can. All of a sudden, you can charge more because there’s a ram shortage, but you can’t scale up your business because with this rise there’s likely to be an equal fall in the not too distant future, and scaling up production is a slow process. Even if you did, there’s a strong possibility that you’d be restricted by other bottlenecks.
It’s a huge business risk for not much reward. Better to take the win, do what you can try maximise it without exposing yourself to potential losses.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Linux barely needs a CPU.
I’m joking, but if you loaded up a lightweight distro on that it’d probably be fine
- Comment on What's your opinions on film critics and film snobs?? 2 months ago:
I kind of am a bit of a snob, but long past the idea of something being good means it’s allowed to be enjoyed. I’m more interested in how stories function, how things are put together etc.
It’s a hobby. Not essential, but very little technically is.
- Comment on Splinter Cell designer says “one of the difficulties with modern stealth games” is realistic lighting, as environments are now so much “harder to read” 2 months ago:
Chaos theory still looks amazing, and that was on the unreal 2.5 engine with hugely prebaked lighting. Just legitimately do that again.
- Comment on Should street racers who accidentally kill people really go to prison? 2 months ago:
Ah but what if I’m all about the private prison industry?
Ty have fixed the typo
- Comment on Should street racers who accidentally kill people really go to prison? 2 months ago:
Manslaughter is a crime for a reason. Extreme purposeful negligence that caused a literal death is a decision they made, and you shouldn’t be ideally rehabilitated to avoid the situation happening again.
- Comment on Why don't people complain about Gary Stus? 2 months ago:
I’ve had thoughts about this for a while, and my conclusion is that the problem with Mary Sues isn’t what people actually say it is.
The problem with characters that are hyper competent, likable to everyone in the text, perfect in every way, is that we’re somewhat hardwired to hate those people. Jealousy, finding them boring, hating them for the effect they have on the story, whatever you like. Characters like that are often even specifically used as villains for that reason.
The way to balance hyper competence is with some genuinely huge flaws. Light is an egomaniac who is constantly nearly being caught out. Iron man is a narcissist with a huge drinking problem and emotionally unstable. Superman is a huge dork with confidence issues. Spiderman is lower class.
There’s a kind of karmic balance that’s struck, therefore it works better in people’s minds for a number of reasons. It helps humanize them, it better matches people’s lives experience, it makes the character pop.
Here we get to the main problem: Writers are phenomenally bad at writing women. It’s cultural at this point. Women are rarely if ever depicted with internal struggles, ideals, or even flaws beyond superficial ones. If they lack that depth to achieve the aforementioned karmic balance, they can’t become well rounded characters. You essentially nailed on a power fantasy to a wooden board. I would argue that weakness is where the huge systemic sexism comes in, but I digress.
Case in point, my understanding is in the new superman movie his cousin shows up, pretty much the same power set, and she’s just a huge mess. I’ve not seen an iota of Mary Sue accusation about that character, because she’s balanced in that way. Wonder woman might be a better example as a main character, because she has concrete flaws, and they actively have consequences in the story. Her inability to navigate the world and it’s rules is both a blessing and a curse for her, and the story reflects that. Harley Quinn gets away with so much, but people don’t mind because she’s a nutcase.
Something like Rey, not only does she not really have flaws, she barely has a character. It’s not entirely one dimensional, but poor Daisy ain’t got much to work with here. Because the story is suggesting we should like and root for her, but not giving us much to actually humanize or relate to her, we tend to reject that mentally, and it often bothers us that the story insists that she’s the real deal.
Korra from LoK is a slightly different case, where the character has flaws, but the story often fails to honour their consequences. If she’s constantly screwing up, but never really being punished for it, if feels fake, like the story is cheating, and people hate that as well. I personally think it might also have something to do with how the show structures her emotional growth through the series, but I don’t want to get down that rabbit hole.
I think there’s an ease of writing men that comes with practice, as a society. Just like stories have the heroes journey, artists have colour theory, and character writers can write flawed men. There’s a whole world of good male characters to draw inspiration from. I just don’t think we’ve gotten there with women yet.
- Comment on Is this how girls behave when they like you? 2 months ago:
Ooh that’s a tricky one. There’s a lot of different ways to flirt, it all depends on a few things. I’ve also never had to write this down so I’m working backwards from my own learned experience here.
Flirting is pretty close to just acting regular around someone, at least in the context you’re talking about. You need to work with implied intent, like she is with going out of her way to be around you.
First, be yourself. I know that one gets thrown around, but it’s incredibly important that you don’t suddenly start acting like someone you’re not, or do stuff you otherwise wouldn’t. If they’re flirting with you, they must like you being yourself already, and if they don’t like you being yourself, it wasn’t worth pursuing anyway.
Obviously, as you don’t know if they’re into you, you don’t want to come on too strong. In general being playful is the key, slowly becoming more comfortable with them as time goes on. Keep it fun, easy, at least initially. Light teasing, jokes, a bit of eye contact. Whatever is most comfortable for you. Sounds like she’s cool with being a bit assertive, so you might have this part easy.
In general, I would make sure they know you appreciate that they’re around, especially if they’re putting themself out there to you like you suspect. Smile at them when they turn up. Go out of your way to initiate conversation and hang out with them in turn. Comments/compliments on they way they go out of their way to spend time with you, stuff like saying it’s good to see them when they turn up. Veil it as jokes, or just be upfront with it. Be a bit warmer with how you talk to them, maybe a small gift. You want the subtext to be that you’ve noticed they put the effort in, you appreciate it, are into it, and willing to reciprocate. This is also key because this signals to them that you’ve taken their intentions as flirting, and if they weren’t going for that, they have the opportunity of de-escalating.
Keep compliments generally about stuff they have control over, stuff they’ve obviously put effort into. Jewellery, hair, clothes, how they act, their competencies. Don’t go for stuff like body or attractiveness until way way later, like after a date or two.
You can also leave casual touching a bit later, generally after you’re actually on a date, things have been going well for a good while, or if they already break the touch barrier. Women get to be a little looser with that, but if you’re a dude it’s incredibly easy to come off as creepy if they’re not 100% into it. Keep in mind there’s often a power imbalance, testosterone will likely make you stronger than someone without it, so by default women need to be careful around men. It’s important she feels comfortable around you, coming on too strong can really torpedo things. It should be fine by the sounds of things, but just to be sure you know.
If all is going well, at some point you’ll have to turn it from subtext to text. That is, you’ll actually have to say to her face that you’re enjoying this, and want to spend more time with her. Dating is a different topic, but similar rules apply. Don’t leave it too long, but it sounds like it’s already going well, so it should be fine.
Take it easy, enjoy yourself. You might mess up, consider it an education for next time. It’ll get easier as you go.
- Comment on Is this how girls behave when they like you? 2 months ago:
It definitely can be. Question is, do you know how to flirt back in an appropriate manner?