ProdigalFrog
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- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 17 hours ago:
Deltachat and Jabber/XMPP are good decentralized/federated alternatives to Signal.
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 1 week ago:
Anarchism is the only ideology that says “Don’t give me power, instead spread all power out as much as possible to prevent dictatorships and ability to exploit others”, and from historical records, when it’s able to be tried it works like it says on the tin.
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 1 week ago:
The USSR were authoritarians cloaking themselves with leftist words, the non-authoritarians refer to them as red-fash or tankies, and we don’t consider them to be actually left, just power trippers who want to rule with an iron fist.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 weeks ago:
I also had some difficulty getting it working on my rig, and I’m not a big fan if Debian’s documentation, as it often does assume knowledge, which makes it harder to follow along and feel confident you’re doing the correct steps.
Ultimately I switched my only Nvidia system to standard Linux Mint to have access to their easy to use Nvidia driver installer, which makes upgrading or downgrading the driver a 1-click process.
- Comment on METRO 2039 | Gameplay Trailer - Renegade 2 weeks ago:
Personally my favorite is the first game, but I was overall disappointed with the second game. I felt it was a somewhat dramatic step down in writing quality, and though there were some amazing set pieces, the latter half of the game felt like a bit of a slog to me.
The 3rd game has even worse writing IMO (especially the colonel’s dialog), but I was surprised that, for the most part, I enjoyed the gameplay most of the way through, and found the travelling aspect to be quite neat. I had more fun with it than the 2nd game, at least.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 weeks ago:
The Nvidia driver in the Debian repos is virtually abandoned, though thankfully the Cuda repos hosted by Nvidia support Debian now, and give Debian users access to the latest drivers, like 610.
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- After a two year hiatus due to the Stop Killing Games campaign taking up their time, the next episode of Freeman's Mind 2 has been released! [Episode 20]youtu.be ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Men are generous 5 weeks ago:
Whether or not a poster considers themselves racist is irrelevant from the perspective of the moderator, their job is to keep racist material from being submitted to their communities, and if someone is unwilling to adjust their perception of that content even if the community ties to inform them why it’s not good to post it here, that is the user’s problem, not the moderator. If they get a perma ban from that community, they still can post elsewhere with the knowledge that that type of content isn’t popular here and choose whether or not to keep posting it.
If they still refuse to reevaluate that type of content, keep getting reports on their content, and an admin instance bans them, then at worst they’ll have to make a new account on a different instance. throughout all of those steps the user has the opportunity to try to understand on their end why their posts are getting this negative reaction. If they decide that everyone else is wrong and continue posting things that are perceived as racist, then that’s on them. 🤷
- Comment on Men are generous 5 weeks ago:
Yes, the Zuckerberg thing was racist, but it’s also what I’d consider an example of some of the tamest and most common racist jokes. It’s very common to hear from people of all skin tones, and before the last 10 years or so it was extremely common. Most people I know would just roll their eyes at it
Doing apologia for racist material, and wanting moderators to go real easy on people who post it is an odd stance to take.
The user was temp banned for racist material, complains about it being called racist, other users explain why it’s racist, and they dismiss their explanations entirely. If they are not willing to acknowledge that it’s racist, they’re likely to post more racist things that they think isn’t racist. From a moderator’s perspective, that’s not someone you want in your community, as your users don’t want racist stuff showing up their feed.
The user was shown why their stuff was racist, it’s now on them to learn from that experience, or not. If they don’t, they’re going to keep getting banned if they keep posting that content. It’s not terribly relevant to a moderator that a particular user is incapable of understanding their content is racist even ever being informed of it.
- Comment on Men are generous 5 weeks ago:
Notice that the user who received the temp ban went on to complain about it, and even after other users explained why the memes were racist (including the zuckerberg post that you also agree is racist), the user dismisses the racism entirely and just says “not arguing everyone has to like the memes.” They are showing zero ability for self-reflection and refuse to acknowledge the memes were racist.
I still would’ve given a permaban based on the evidence at hand, were it my community. You can disagree with that and give them more and more chances, but posting one blatant racist meme which is indisputably racist (even you agree), shows that we’re not working with some innocent lamb who just isn’t keeping up with modern dog-whistles.
If someone had only posted the LOTR meme without that previous history, then I would give benefit of the doubt, and just remove it and explain why.
- Comment on Men are generous 5 weeks ago:
Their previous history of racist posting was pretty clearly taken into account, it wasn’t some random nerd who happened to get misconstrued.
- Comment on Men are generous 5 weeks ago:
Strange, how is it that you can see the posts that were deleted?
I assume I can still access them due to being an instance admin, that’s how I know what they were.
What’s racist about that?
I explained how that imagery is used by racists, and the previous racist meme is a good indicator it was posted with racist intent.
- Comment on Men are generous 5 weeks ago:
Notice that there’s 2 posts that were removed for racism. The other one was posted 15 days prior, and was an image of a black mark zuckerburg with a comment below it implying that that was the version who steals data, which is clearly a racist post. The moderator who removed it added the comment “Next racist post gets a ban”.
The post with the Cueta post that got them banned was an image of an invasion from Lord of The Rings, equating the Cueta migrants as essentially a ‘barbarian horde’, which has traditionally been used by right-wing media as a racist scare tactic to make their viewers see non-white migrants as evil hordes who are ‘invading’ their country.
Both memes were clearly very racist, but despite that, they only received a temporary 1-week ban (I would’ve given a perma-ban for such blatant racism, myself).
- Comment on Thief vs. AAA Gaming - An Essay 5 weeks ago:
Gloomwood is the only close spiritual successor, but its been in early access for a long time (though it does still get substantial updates).
- Comment on Thief vs. AAA Gaming - An Essay 1 month ago:
Eh, I dunno, I think it’s possible to be fairly objective about the merits and downfalls of newer or older designs without nostalgia influencing it too much.
A different essayist made a semi-related point that, there was a certain period in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, where games were getting bigger budgets and better tech that allowed them to really expand their scope and possibilities, but with relatively little oversight from shareholders/CEO’s who would in later years essentially force higher budget games to fit a more generic mold for mass appeal. That era did seem to have a more risk-taking nature to it, which at least in the AAA space today, is a bit more muted.
That’s not to say there weren’t plenty of janky flops, if anything most of them probably don’t hold up, but the ones that do really show off what creative freedom combined with higher budgets could bring.
Today we have the indies who’ve brought back that creative freedom and resulted in some real bangers, and there are still some AAA stuff that slips through the cracks with some more risk-taking stuff (Death Stranding would be a good example, I suppose), but it does seem for the most part that AAA today is very much tending toward playing it safe, which can make things feel a bit samey or stagnant in that space.
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- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 1 month ago:
I actually played the OG Doom right before Dark Forces (it was what reminded it me to try it), and while the first few levels of Doom are fun enough to the point where I beat the first episode, I very quickly lost interest in episode 2, as the level design begins to get really maze-like and sprawling, and the monster closets get old. Episode one gave me all the Doom I needed, personally.
While Dark Forces is definitely very Doom-like, it added quite a lot to the experience over Doom that drastically helped to keep my attention. The addition of a story with cutscenes to provide context for the missions, the specific objectives that needed to be completed, and the far less game-y level design was drastically more interesting to engage with. I just really liked the set-up of each mission being an infiltration, with sometimes requirements to then escape back to the extraction point.
I also noticed that none of the missions in Dark Forces are really that long, they kinda felt like bite-sized missions, which kept any one mission from overstaying its welcome.
Overall it’s just a much more fleshed out, more intriguing take on the doom formula.
- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 1 month ago:
Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995).
I had it growing up as a kid, but could never beat the third level so I shelved it and forgot about it, until a few days ago when I decided to try it with The Force Engine which adds mouselook and some quality of life features.
As an adult, I finally was able to figure out that 3rd level, and appreciate the cool setup for the missions (in a way, it’s kinda like Andor).
Was absolutely blown away by how much I enjoyed the combat and level design, had an absolute blast from start to finish, and now consider it one of my favorites.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 month ago:
From what I recall the 2nd game is regarded by some as the weakest in the series, while the 3rd is considered quite good, so if you don’t click with the 2nd’s school theme and anime tropes, you may want to skip to the 3rd one.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 month ago:
Valkyria Chronicles 2 and 3 are PSP exclusives, if you liked the first one on PC or PS3.
There’s a couple decent Jak & Daxter exclusives, too.
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 month ago:
They feel fine to me, and are a little safer to use for noobies in some positions since they have progressive resistance.
I believe they are also considered better suited to the elderly or those who sustained shoulder injuries in the past.
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 month ago:
It’s quite possible to do resistance training at home, and it’s particularly affordable if you use resistance bands, which also take up extremely little space.
- Comment on Whispers in the Moss - A very odd JRPG released in 2024 that was made entirely with BASIC and MS-DOS ASCII / BBS ANSI art | Ladiesgamers 1 month ago:
I felt the same way about the dialog when I tried the demo. I love the art style, but the dialog was just a bit too put of place for me.
However, the author mentioned in a reddit thread I found that his skills improved quite a bit over the 12 years he spent making it, though ultimately decided not to re-do the art and dialog from the start of the game as it would’ve taken too long, so I’m guessing it might start feeling less out of place as the game progresses.
- Whispers in the Moss - A very odd JRPG released in 2024 that was made entirely with BASIC and MS-DOS ASCII / BBS ANSI art | Ladiesgamersladiesgamers.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Whispers in the Moss - A very odd JRPG released in 2024 that was made entirely with BASIC and MS-DOS ASCII / BBS ANSI art | Ladiesgamersladiesgamers.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That behavior with Linux is absolutely real, and it’s very weird that it hasn’t been fixed in over a decade. It’s due to the default OOM (out of memory) killer being way too conservative with killing an application when the memory is completely full and disk swapping. Some people have solved this with an app that watches for OOM situations and acts with more decisiveness to kill an offending application before it swaps and brings the system to a halt, called EarlyOOM.
That still isn’t quite as good as Windows handling though, as Windows can generally handle those situations without killing the application at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sometimes software is just… Done. Feature complete and sometimes still just the best way of doing something. It’s a rare thing, but sometimes happens.
I guess a good example is WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS; it’s to this day a great WYSIWYG word processor, and the most feature complete TUI word processor for people who like distraction free writing, and there are still proponents meticulously documenting how to get it working and integrated with modern OS’s so that it can access modern printers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Amazingly, Windows 11 still has some settings menus directly from Windows 3.11, which is from 1992.
