Cethin

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based Red Dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, that’s maybe worse. If you’re using it to say something bad about someone else, that means it’s a bad thing and should be condemned. The people who it is actually meant to apply to (in its original meaning) then see them, as a group, as a thing that is insulting to even be associated with.

  It’s wild how hard critical thought is for some people while discussing a word about intelligence…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s made to change anyone’s mind. It’s made for people who recognize the issue and are angry at the lack of progress. It’s just a but of funny stress relief for those people, while also saying “yes, it’s and issue and it sucks.” It’s a “preaching to the choir” movie, and the choir appreciates being preached to sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly about climate change, but I don’t think you missed it if you thought Covid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  GamePass doesn’t work because it uses a proprietary encryption method for all the games. It’s why you can’t mod them (unless explicitly allowed by MS, which then decrypts the files to be modified). The games almost all work perfectly well on Linux. It’s specifically an issue with the GamePass platform, which was designed by MS to only work on Windows. It’s MS making the choice to not allow it to work anywhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good! I couldn’t tell. I thought it could be an appeal to popularity saying they’re good games because they sell well, not they sell well regardless of them being repetitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched to Linux probably about two years ago. I was annoyed that GamePass didn’t work (because MS specifically handles it in a way to make it not work). Then I just stopped caring. If I want to try a game, there’s other ways to (🏴‍☠️). MS specifically crested their software to not work where I want to be, so they don’t deserve my money. I’m not going to pay my captor to keep me there. I’d happily pay for it again, but they need to meet me where I want to be, and they easily can if they choose to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that Mega Evolutions are one of the greatest iterative improvements speaks to how stale it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t contradict what they said. It being popular says nothing about quality, variety, or effort. In fact, it may be counter to them, as your example of CoD indicates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a first date⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it depends on how OP said it and what exactly they said. There’s a certain type of anime viewer that women (rightfully) are worried to be around. I’m sure this wasn’t the only thing that happened, but when they said anime it confirmed everything she was thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibes based cooking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, cooking normally doesn’t require rising. Baking usually does. Knowing how chemicals react and how yeast acts is important. Cooking is mostly just about flavor. You should know about the Maillard reaction and burning, but as long as the flavors are good (and you don’t cook something that’ll make you sick) then you’re going to be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it were commentary, they’d talk about it. It just is, and it can’t change. They just copied what they know without considering why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I didn’t like it. A think a lot of it comes down to two things: Do you care about the writing and the world they’ve built? If so, how critical of it are you (or alternatively, have you seen the sci-fi tropes done well).

  Starfield has some really bad world building. In particular, it doesn’t understand why we use sci-fi, and why it’s tropes are interesting. it’s to create an anologue of our world and to break it down, criticize, and point out it’s flaws and ways to fix them.

  Starfield is the least critical writing I’ve ever seen I think. The Earth is destroyed, and instead of using this to discuss us destroying the planet right now, it’s just some technobable that has no parallels. Also, when fleeing Earth, they don’t try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn’t an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can’t change anything and no one wants to either.

  Starfield doesn’t understand sci-fi. Fallout does a better job as a sci-fi series than Starfield does. If you’re still interested, the gameplay is also slow and boring and there’s almost no interesting stories or characters. Continue if you want, but I regret spending time on it for the price of $0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get the Balatro addiction stuff. It’s a good game, but after you’ve played it a few times it gets boring. Sure, “number go up” but it’s like people have never played a video game before. There’s so many Skinner boxes that, at least for me personally, it becomes numbing. I also don’t easily get sucked into other manipulative addicting things in other games though, so maybe it’s just something wrong with me.

  What makes you continue playing Balatro after you’ve “figured it out?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Heroic Launcher, Lutris, Bottles, or just launching them through the command line if you really want to for some reason, are your options. Heroic I just started using and it’s great. It’s especially good for games from other stores, but you can add anything to it. Lutris is pretty good, but you have to add everything manually (which you’ll have to do no matter what for what you’re asking about). Bottles is functional, but it is much harder to use than the others, but probably lighter weight if that matters to you at all (and I’ll tell you now, it doesn’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a TV without researching⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t need to travel over HDMI. That to move signals from one device to another. If the hardware that is outputting the display signal itself wants to insert other data into the signal it’s receiving, it can directly. It doesn’t need to send it through another cable. It’s probably modifying an signal received through HDMI (or other cable), but it doesn’t need to send the modified signal again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The comment above says they want to replace their W10 desktop, so it isn’t what they want. If it’s what you want then fine, but I was writing the comment for someone who wants a desktop, not a console. If you want a console, go ahead and wait or use Bazzite. If you want a desktop then the best options are already available and SteamOS isn’t going to be it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s mostly fixed at this point. I have AMD, but I’ve heard Nvidia is handled better now. Nvidia keeps everything closed source, so everyone is fucked, but support is improving. Make a Bootable USB of Garuda (or whatever distro you choose, but Garuda Dragonized I’d expect to have the drivers) and try it out. It’s very low effort to try.

  AMD open-sources everything, so their stuff works everywhere. That’s why FSR is always available, because it works on any device and is open source, so it’s easy to support. DLSS only works on Nvidia devices and requires a lot more effort for developers to support, so they often only do it if Nvidia pays them because it costs them money to implement an extra solution and not everyone will even be able to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the driver thing is pretty much solved at this point. If you have AMD there’s literally nothing to worry about. If you have Nvidia, you’re probably also good to go, but slightly less guaranteed.

  Something you might not know is the drivers come packaged with the kernel, so you literally never have to worry about updating your drivers. They’re just there in the background up to date. It awesome.

  The experience with Linux is so much smoother than Windows because the system manages most things for you. All your applications will be updated by the package manager, so you don’t need to go to websites to download updates. Graphics drivers are just there. Everything is just handled for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s built on top of Arch. The distro I’m using is Garuda, which is also built on Arch, and there’s a gaming version that includes everything you need to play games immediately. No one should use SteamOS probably for a desktop. They should use something like Garuda. SteamOS is for a console-like experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, you don’t need SteamOS for a desktop. Just download a more widely used desktop distro. I use Garuda, and it’s great for starting up gaming.

  SteamOS will be great for a console-like experience out of the box, which is not what you want for desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But don’t seek it through Better Help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My bet is this is fake. A large part of incel groups is making sure no one seeks help, so they stay longer. If you demonize therapists then that’s one more path to then existing removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No one needs to “offer” Proton. It’s available freely for anyone. I think some people think Proton is a Steam thing. It isn’t. Yeah, Valve did a lot of work on it, which is great, but it isn’t limited to them. Vlave has essentially unlimited resources, and I’m happy they spent some making improvements for WINE, but GOG does not have nearly the same resources. I wouldn’t expect them to put their effort into that. Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally, give a copy of all the documents to your lawyer to release in the case of your death. Multiple Deadman switches are better than one, especially one that’s controlled by a person and not just hoping your cloud service doesn’t go down after you’re dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, they finally got around to me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the warning yesterday and then nothing happened. They just threatened me and then didn’t follow through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a call-to-action, you always need the /s. Some people will see it and listen if you don’t. Sometimes you can get away with leaving it off, but not if you’re telling people to do something bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea of an explosion is. That’s what this thread is about. It’s not just about meltdowns, which, like you said, is very low risk, and lower than ever from what we’ve learned in the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not the top one in the typical usage of the word “nuclear energy.” Sure, it is nuclear energy, but that normally refers to electrical infrastructure, not nuclear weapons. Nuclear electricity is pretty much always just heating water up in a safe and controlled manner, and using that to spin a turbine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be weird, but I like the look of a full but chaotic bookshelf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My post was removed because it was not political?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many others celebrated though, especially at Sauron’s.