doomcanoe

@doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t often have other viable options. Long before most of us were born, the infrastructure was created so you could drive anywhere in the country, and other forms of transportation were marginalized.

  Having a car in America is honestly the door to the greatest freedom of movement available to you. It’s no suprise people here start to conflate cars with freedom.

  Getting most of us to realize the car centric world we live in restricts our freedom is like trying to wake someone up from the Matrix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon daydreams⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there might be a bit of a wider spectrum of jealously than “not at all” and “I will fight you for even looking at my partner!”. A little jealously is normal, even in healthy relationships. We are all human after all.

  Giving anon the benefit of the doubt, I would hazard a guess that they wanted a “healthy level of jealousy”, as a treat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon daydreams⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I agree with you. It is a bit “teen romance drama” style love, but it’s pretty clear from where I’m standing that anon’s whole list is just different ways of saying “I want to be loved” (don’t we all?). It may not be a realistic love, and it may be unhealthy if those are the standards they demand for their partner 100% of the time in real life. But as a day dream, we have all had these overly dramatic and impractical fantasies. There are literal media franchises, enjoyed by millions of people who otherwise have very healthy relationships, based on this exact form of wish fulfillment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are under the assumption the scientists listened to the bean counters. I on the otherhand think it’s more likely that any (mad) scientist who could make dinofrogs via genetic manipulation would intentionally splice the ability to self-transition into their creation.

  “Demand I make my dinofrogs infertile will you!? I’ll show you… I’ll show all of you!!!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, I thought you were only able to tag out or were forced to swap on death. Did me and my brother spend all that time taking turns when it was actually true co-op!? (Tbf, I was always Donkey, so this is more of a “him problem”, but still!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨naruto therapy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a weeb shoehorning that shit in. At least shoehorn in the superior stereotypical shonen (dbz)

  Lol, okay buddy baka

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does people doing things that upset others also upset you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll take “broad questions that can only be answered in context” for $200 Alex.

  Seriously, ask me this question on 10 different days in 10 different ways and I’ll never give the same answer.

  Even in the context of your vanilla perfume hypothetical I don’t have enough context to answer. How severe a reaction, what percentage of the population is affected, where is the perfume wearer at the time, why hasn’t it been banned and/or what makes me an expert who’s oppinion is worth a damn, etc etc etc?

  From what little info I have on the hypothetical, no, I wouldn’t be upset. I didn’t see anyone being harmed, the perfume wearer wasn’t doing anything illegal, and I’ve got my own shit to deal with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …but you can’t make it think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody poops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that one, yeah… no fuckin clue. Maybe a cyberman from Dr Who, but like… wearing a suit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody poops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m thinking the silhouette of a classic Area 51 style alien.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tim Sweeny! Is that you!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got my beliefs sorted, I want to be able to express myself however I choose. Including using censored curse words if I so choose.

  And my point is, as I’ve said a few times, that I find it funny how censorship has gone from “polite” to “offensive”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I don’t “not want to swear”, what if I want to used self-censored curse words? Should I sacrifice my freedom of speech to appease others?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the circumstance, I completely agree. There are certainly many cases where censoring yourself is giving away your power and freedom of expression.

  However, it’s not disingenuous to say that if I want to censor myself, for any reason, on the internet I will likely be shamed by folks who want to assert their values over mine. And in such I am once again giving away my power to the people who want to dictate what I do with my life.

  Perhaps I want to do it because I find it funny. Or perhaps I want to do it because I’m trying to emulate a classic comic book speech style, which often had to use censorship because they were being controlled, but now has become a recognizable convention. Or perhaps I want to do it simply to assert my right to speak how I choose, as I already mentioned, despite the “higher authority” of the crowd. Which as you already mentioned, f*%king sucks actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always find it funny how cursing used to be “contrary to polite speech”, and in doing so you were asserting your freedom of speech.

  But now, on the internet, self-censorship is considered “uncouth”, freedom of expression be damned. So now you will be attacked if you say “I’ll F*%Kin talk however the f$$k I wan’t Sh*thead!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh, chill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think this post is about being tailgated in the passing lane, instead of the crazy amount of (usually truck) drivers that tailgate in every lane and on every road, then it’s very likely you are the problem being discussed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon discovers cigarettes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No offense was taken, I though adding a little Futurama quote would show that it was all supposed to be in good humor. Sorry if I came across as defensive, offended, or otherwise offended you with my response. It was not my intent.

  Was just adding my 2 cents as a 90’s kid that the “smoking is cool” propaganda and marketing still existed, and was still effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon discovers cigarettes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a child in the 90’s, I found it cool. Hell, I still find the “last bent cigarette before going out in a blaze of glory” or the “smoking melodramatically in the rain” scenes in old movies to be cool tbh. Marketing, like nicotine, is a hell of a drug.

  Cheers to your moral superiority tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon studies Buddhism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly you just failed to grasp Jesus’s message. And truly I say unto you, there shall be no pizza but through him, and occasionally at work to prevent unions from being discussed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨photosynthesis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that, and the fact that he was a real person and she is a fictional character who represents the idea of ‘‘scientist’’.

  It’s like comparing Elliot Ness to Batman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe it's just a human thing.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100%

  That being said, dogmatic belief systems, which tend to be common in religion, seem to act as force multipliers in this regard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please choose one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A community, forged by a shared desire to see software and technology be free, open, and driven by passion.

  With members who usually find their way here fleeing the profit driven enshittification that so often stifles this pursuit.

  And for some unknown reason, they are mad at a company that pursues aggressive litigation against free and open passion projects that were the very embodiment of the community’s shared values…

  Well that’s just a fucking mystery if I’ve ever seen one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not “haha” funny, but rather “aha” funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but review bombing a perfectly good game because you wanted or expected something else seems a little much.

  You’re not wrong. And DA:V not “being the same as prior iterations” is actually kinda the norm for the DA series anyways. That being said, expectations play a huge role in enjoyment.

  So if the publisher wants to pull out an old franchise to play off expectations to generate hype and drive sales, then they should expect the backlash when they deliver something that fails to meet those expectations. It’s a double edged sword.

  That doesn’t mean it’s a bad game, or that people shouldn’t enjoy it. But it’s also fair for fans of the old games to review it from their point of view. That’s not review bombing, that’s just how opinions work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncanny sandwich⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering how you thought they weren’t joking, I’d say yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heartthrob with the flying elbow⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be skeptical of Lucifer’s insight on this. By his own admission, he has never actually used Bazzite, and is basing his opinion on a single argument he had with one of the many dev’s in another post. To quote Lucifer directly :

  I don’t have an accurate sense of how much you’d have to learn about bazzite, so I’ll have trust you on this

  Obviously switching to Linux will cause you to encounter new terms you won’t be familiar with, or terms you are familiar with used in new and novel ways, devs and users will be opinionated and have arguments over these terms (and everything else an opinion can be had on frankly). And Lucifer’s concerns on this front are not without merit, but he is overstating the severity in this case and painting a wildly inaccurate picture. And you don’t actually need to gain a deep understanding of all these terms anyway. (Right away or at all depending on your goals)

  But through all of that, what really matters at the end of the day is how useable is it, and how solid is the community surrounding it. And on that front I can say Bazzite has been hands down the easiest distro I have ever used for plug and play Linux gaming, and the community has been endlessly helpful and beginner friendly. I’d recommend it fully, and if you hop into their Discord, or read over their homepage and guides, it quickly becomes apparent how hard they work to make it beginner friendly.

  There are some good alternatives, Mint for example is a very easy distro to make the switch from Windows. As is Pop_OS!. And with how easy steam has made running games, it’s harder to find a bad choice in general nowadays.

  To shift topics, I’d say the most important thing to a “smooth switch from Windows” is less the distro you choose, and more the Desktop Environment. (Which, for the point of this recommendation, is the catch all term for what your OS “looks like”, where the “Start Menu” is, where your “tool bar to switch apps” is, etc) For a new Windows convert, I’d say find one that uses “KDE”, as it is very similar to Windows. Bazzite offers this when you are downloading the installation image. But it’s quite popular, so many others will anyway.

  Sorry for the extended rant, hope this initial mess didn’t make you less likely to try Linux! I was a Windows convert just a couple years ago and can say it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made! Feel free to ask any questions, or hop over to the Bazzite Discord to get some helpful insights!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and if you click enough links on Wikipedia you always wind up at logic, math, or philosophy. At some point, you are going to have to read new words to learn new things. And it will get increasingly technical as you go deeper.

  But bazzite devs don’t just leave you up shit’s creek with a turd for a paddle. They still make installing and gaming on Linux far more accessible than the majority of other distros. With a significantly smaller learning curve. And provide solid guides for new users that use beginner friendly language.

  And therein lies the crux of my problem with your argument. Scaring folks away to seek out another distro where they will almost certainly have to learn more to get started is hurting your stated cause. You claim to be fighting the good fight against “unreasonable barriers of entry”, but you are causing more than you are solving. Over a very ignorable term.

  When it was just you arguing over the value of the term with the dev, okay, whatever. But when you throw a new user asking for help out to sea because you had an argument that has no bearing on the significant reduction to the barrier of entry to Linux gaming that Bazzite provides, you are shooting your own goal in the head.

  You didn’t care that they used a single term that might cause confusion, you didn’t care that a person who was looking for help on getting started with Linux gaming was asking about installing one of the most beginner friendly distros, you wanted to win an argument and hold a grudge.

  Maybe you don’t even see it yourself, the road to hell is paved with good intentions after all, but the obvious outcome of your actions directly go against the goals you claim to have.