ā¦Also, I tried Ubuntu and Mint and Fedora and some others (ages ago). Didnāt like feeling like everything I wanted to do was stepping on the toes of some software that was trying to manage it for me, but not how I wanted or I just didnāt want it managed for me.
I tend to alternate between Arch and Gentoo every few years. Sometimes Arch feels like itās making assumptions and doing things its way more than I want, but then Gentoo takes ages to install or update anything, is a bit more fiddly. Iāll probably go back or maybe try out Funtoo again but for now I donāt have a CPU that wonāt melt if I try to compile things (laptop-only booooo v.v!!) sooo Arch for now. :3 š¤·
spoilerThe article states that Sonny āgroomsā Marie to be a housewife but sheās clearly written to want to be. Thereās a difference between ālook, these games are gross because you the player/player character coerce some poor girl into slaving away at home cooking and cleaning and raising kids for youā and ālook, these games are gross because the writers made a character wanna be a tradwife with a job.ā
I had other stuff written but apparently didnāt post any of that. Bleh. Tired now, not gonna agree (nor stop getting silently downvoted, gotta love that) anyway. Off I go ƶ/
Maybe it couldāve been clearer about that, then? I felt like it was really pushing the āGuyās a fuckinā cop-lover!ā angle really hard to the point of skewing the facts a bit just to stress it.
Specifically, Open Season. Gross game, but not this big scary glowing radioactive thing and probably not the actual most reactionary game of the nineties. Articleās kinda crap, really; the whole point is āa prick hired a prick to be involved in a prickish game.ā
[Sarcastic ātranslationā] tl;dr: A lot of people who are relatively well-placed to understand how much technology is involved even in downvoting this post are downvoting this post because theyāre afraid of technology!
Just more fad-worshipping foolishness, drooling over a buzzword and upset that others call it what it is. I want it to be over but Iām sure whatever comes next will be just as infuriating. Oh no, now our cursors all have to change according to built-in (to the cursor, somehow, for some reason) software that tracks our sleep patterns! All of our cursors will be obsolete (?!??) unless they can scalably synergize with the business logic core to our something or other š“
Idunno where you got the idea that Iām for slurs or against disabled people but itās kinda insulting, especially when you took āsometimes said as a derogatory wordā and ran it like itās the whole point or the article over the complaint that got its own paragraph (the Pulp Fiction bit) and shared the same sentence the disability bit is in, or the one that got the whole rest of the article (that itās vaguely unprofessional). In fact Iām getting more irked every time I go look for evidence that Iāve misinterpreted it. Reading through a couple crap anecdotes to one that actually says something, we get a VP smirking at the name, which makes me wonder whether that personās just a hateful prick smirking at a disability term or one of the many who giggle at any reference to anything associated with sex. The other three are just āsome people dislike the name.ā I conclude that the article does not take issue primarily with the name being an abusive term and wonder why youād say that.
I muchly dislike careless use of abusive terms (Iāve probably got an essay or two ranting over the usage (and existence) of ācrazyā and āinsane,ā for example) so I really donāt disagree that abusive terms should be treated much more seriously.
My entire point was that the author seems to be throwing things at the wall hoping something sticks, not seriously worrying some spooky scary BDSM critter (hi, itās me :3 ) is gonna tie them up (of course not, the ropes are for me :3 ), nor that anyoneās getting bullied by the toolās name or itās irritating old wounds or really anything at all. I donāt think theyāre taking any of this seriously. If the termās abusive in a way that canāt be neutralized by taking it from abusers and making it something else (an arguably valid thing to do) then thatās worth actual serious discussion and not just part of one sentence in a six-page essay.
tl;dr: The article barely even mentions anything about disability and, I think, does so more as an excuse for itself than out of any serious concern for anyone. My complaint/point is, to be clear, exclusively that the article is crap and not that abusive terminology is okay. The article has failed to demonstrate any actual problem with the name itself other than handwavey āsome people sayā that itās vaguely unprofessional.
This really isnāt the article it wishes it were :-\ It kinda reeks of āIāve picked a thing I want to argue and now Iām going to make up an argument for itā down to admitting that good sources arenāt available (which makes me wonder whether there are no good sources at all or just no good sources that support the authorās argument).
Bonus unpoints for the BDSM reference, just because I hate seeing that term held up as a negative or scary kind of thing and I feel like and/or choose to believe thatās the point in such an unprofessional article, rather than simply meaning āLook, it means sex stuff and thatās unprofessional.ā So there. Nyeh! š
Also, I donāt think Iāve ever heard anyone who actually used or contributed to the GIMP (or intended to) complain about the name. Iām interested in seeing some actual data on that, if there is any. Personally I wouldnāt particularly mind a name change but I canāt say whether itād get more attention and interest than itād lose to irritating people accustomed to the current one.
There are mods for the first to make it more blaster-friendly! The impression I get is that blasters are much more effective in t he second game and are, itās claimed (steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=16ā¦), viable even for Hard playthroughs.
Iām playing on Normal; itās mostly reasonably easy. Paying a bit more attention to keeping my defences in order would probably serve me well but Iāve not hit any walls or anything like that.
Knights of the Old Republic 2 :3 Iām doing a blaster Jedi run. Itās pretty neat, actually :3 I think Iāll play the first game next. Kinda want to get back into City of Heroes if this laptop runs it well and maybe only if I can acquire at least one adventure-buddy-critter to play it with š¤ š¤·