Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 19 hours ago:
The devs were not told what needed to change even after asking, so they tried to remove anything that they suspected could be taken the wrong way, asked for reconsideration or clarification, but receive none.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 19 hours ago:
The game being banned for a misunderstood piece of placeholder concept art in a Steam approval preview build, which was both removed, and explained. Then Valve refusing to reconsider it and rejecting all attempts to clarify their objections.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 20 hours ago:
Looks like it has triggered someone’s “we can’t be seen backing down!” reflex at Valve
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
Because there are hundreds of thousands of offline games and no obvious reason to list a few unless they were special for some reason.
Doom Maniac Mansion Satisfactory Nethack Space War Castles II Lemmings Red Faction Red Alert 2 Max Payne Pong Super Mario 3D World Street Fighter 2 Turbo Dance Dance Revolution Duck Hunt
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Are you listing games of a specific type or for a specific system?
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 weeks ago:
Well, it’s primarily my coding laptop, so I prioritize the OS that has the best tooling for my needs there. Gaming is just a happy secondary option on the machine. :)
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 weeks ago:
Take your aggressively rude snobbish attitude elsewhere.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 weeks ago:
I run Windows normally.
How long does your Window box function without updates? How long does it remain safe? Historically, a few months at best until they bundle telemetry in a new way. Then you need to find another rando dude’s github for workarounds.
Anyway what you are describing is literally a hassle that for me is just not worth it. I can do all that and set up and update group policies for updates over and over oooooor I can literally spend less mental energy figuring out how to configure my drivers on Linux.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 weeks ago:
I have a Windows laptop specifically for gaming, but I end up using my Linux coding laptop for games in the end.
It’s less hassle figuring out how to enable nvidia drivers on xorg in GNU linux so that I csn use Proton emulation than to deal with this weeks clusterfuck of windows update trying to make me turn on ads and spying and trick me into using a microsoft.com account to log in.
I am not joking.
The windows still has some dust on it from when I did some house renovations months ago, because I haven’t been bothered to use it.
- Comment on Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries? 1 month ago:
You kick at empty space. Dumb move! You strain a muscle.
You kicked a doorway with an open door, a broken door, or no door.
- Comment on Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up? 2 months ago:
If Wikipedia had balls
- Comment on Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up? 2 months ago:
If this is your reaction to a thoughful response, you are not going to find deep discussions anywhere.
- Comment on Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up? 2 months ago:
The Fallacy of the Beard
Get your opponent to concede a point by burdening them with defining a strict threshold. Break their claim into smaller and smaller components and keep zooming in until you are looking at such tiny things that their original claims seem overblown.
This man has a beard! Does he? Yes clearly! 20mm hair on chin!
Would he have a beard I mean an actual beard if it was 5mm? No that’s just stubble! Where does it become a beard, at 10mm? I guess!
So a man with 9mm hair has stubble? Yes! And he grows one measly millimeter of chin hair in on one of the hairs and BAM WHOA he has a beard now?
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 2 months ago:
It’s not about consistency. It’s about “I want therefore it is my divine right and other people aren’t valid”
- Comment on To refer casually to briefs-style men's underwear, is it Tidy Whities or Tighty Whities? 2 months ago:
Tiddy Widdlers
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 2 months ago:
licks screen
210
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 3 months ago:
I grew up with analog clocks and can read them at a glance.
For the most part, I don’t really care precisely about minute. E.g. the analog clock in my kitchen is only used to tell me that it’s “roughly 2 minutes past 5 soon” and it’s enough for me to put the potatoes on.
If I need to know precisely whether it’s 16:03 vs 16:04, I use a digital clock. Though mostly because my analog clocks are not precisely synced at all times.
Back when analog was the norm, nobody cared about a minute here or there unless they had some specific profession. Like, the bus came “15:15 ish maybe 5 minutes early maybe 10 minutes late”. Today the schedule says “15:17”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It’s negging.
Manipulative bullshit insult with a half-excuse tacked in.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Archive level Blue-Rays sound interesting!
But note that any drive based solution with RAID or anything runs into the problem that the drives all age at the same time. Once one drive fails, the others are close to failing also.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Hard drives aren’t rated for 30 years, though. Even in optimal conditions, they’d deteriorate.
- Comment on I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump? 3 months ago:
Because US officals only let law apply to poor people
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 3 months ago:
Best: reshape reality as I wish at any time
Worst: spontaneous inexistence
- Comment on How long would it take for a ball rolling across the room to bounce off the wall and get back to you - but the room has a time traveling portal halfway through? 3 months ago:
Assuming it comes back through the portal, and it took 4 seconds with no portal.
Your stopwatch will measure 4 seconds when the portal is there.
A stopwatch in the ball will measure 4 seconds when the portal is there.
If you want to take stepwise measurements based on your clock, the ball will be at time 1 sec before going through the portal, time negative 1,767,225,598 when it hits the wall, 3 sec after it exits the portal second time, 4 sec when it reaches you.
- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 4 months ago:
Stay off redpill forums or pickup influencers. They will put ideas in your head that isolate you and make you unlikeable and lonely, and vulnerable to macho grifts.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 4 months ago:
Nethack
Tetris
OpenTTD
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 4 months ago:
Or 4. none of this is up to any of those people it is not their job or within their right.
- Comment on Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun 4 months ago:
If you first hack off the fun, then sure. Buying the fun back in tiny pieces is technically adding fun?
- Comment on Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before" 4 months ago:
Not obviously, but it sounds like she is making a connection you don’t know what is.
You should ask her to explain what she means, so you’ll either understand that oh it was sexist didn’t think about it like that, or disagree on some knowable point.
- Comment on Ross Scott Gets A Second Chance For His ‘Stop Killing Games’ Crusade 4 months ago:
Never have I felt so annoyed that my country isn’t part of EU. Wish I could give a vote.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
While that answer is correct, “professional help” isn’t a thing most people can just pick up from the grocery store, so to speak.
Knowing what type of help to ask for, getting affirmation that they need help at all, how to describe the problem, whether it has any other known names, etc are very valuable resources that people can only really get from asking friends or online forums.
I need to go through my GP to get “professional help”, and the waiting list for non-urgent appointments are 1-2 months. I would for sure be stuck for months or years in “stressed or burnt out maybe rest some” if I tried to bring up that my inner voice is mean to me.