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Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3

Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.

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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.

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While I had some fun playing torchlight 2 with a friend back in the day, in reality I never got on with the entire genre (or its sibling the Looter-Shooter)

It’s like

Every video game is on some level a skinner box, but arpgs and lootershooters are the most transparent and cynical about it, idk. Well no, the SECOND most transparent and cynical about it, MMOs still take the cake.

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I guess this means I’ll finally get to actually play it

My playthrough on release got aborted midway through act 3 because I was using mods before official support and the constant updating and mod breaking eventually destroyed my savefile.

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Who put the kitten meme in a Japanese adult animation?

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Is history repeating? Didn’t this happen like 2 years ago?

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Yes

You can expect them to drop at maybe one more good product, as going public is what companies do when they want to raise a lot of funds for some project

But after THAT, when it turns out that the new product is just… Making money instead of making ALL the money, the investors will take over and from then on it’s fucked.

But yeah RPi has alternatives now. No need to tie yourself to them when they DO sink.

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Y’all debating if DPS or Healers are bottoms and sleeping on the bottomest role of all, the Tank.

Being a Tank is all about getting a train run on you until you can barely move and then leaning in for some aftercare. And you do barely any penetrating. It doesn’t get more submissive than that.

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“You shouldn’t do [y] either, you idiot, you absolute fucking buffoon. You should instead do [z, which costs a fortune and/or requires you to restructure your entire life]”

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Described: Why whenever I figure something out myself after posting a help thread, I’ll write a whole report on what I did before it got fixed (because often I’m just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks, and I never know what exactly moved the needle)

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Me too actually

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If it’s Linux related say “open a terminal and do sudo rm -rf /” for similar life-ruining effects.

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To give google 1(one) droplet of credit, the enshittification didn’t come from them alone. In fact I’m fairly sure that if they could get their way, the page would still return useful results, only, JUST below all the paid ads. SEO Spam doesn’t help THEM either.

The problem is… A lot of the “good” results on google came from like. Enthusiast websites. Webforums. And… Reddit.

Enthusiast Websites are much rarer now. They got consolidated into media conglomerates and then closed down. Only a few remain.

Webforums are in a similar zombified state, most got vored by “social media” and Discord (P.S.: if you are a dev or artist or whatever and use a Discord server as the main helpline/download source for a project you’re doing, fuck you very much, you are the ACTUAL worst <3), which aren’t indexed by search engines.

Then Reddit got Spez’d, so THAT avenue is fucked too.

Fedi isn’t indexed by search engines either (AFAIK), so you can’t do the old “<Search terms> reddit” trick replacing reddit with lemmy. It won’t work.

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Now you remove Britain as well, and the healing can begin.

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Plus they could announce the rebrand by replacing the weird dog chewing on a brush with the same weird dog lifting weights

Hitting the GIM.

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Brushes with bellpeppers attached to them

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Libre Graphics Manipulation App

LiGMA.

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Gruntflip sounds dangerously close to cuntflap.

Anyway I’m about to turn 30, but it’s not like I was ever one of the cool kids. As a teen/young adult I was a dork. (still am, it’s just that when you’re an adult no one gives a shit)

So I’ve instead been watching the evolution of the inscrutable language of young people from afar for a very, VERY long time.

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(…) or Immoral or makes me Fat, as a Brazilian popstar once sang.

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Is there a Lemmy community for hazbin/helluva?

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It’s just a self-portrait I made. Idk about wholesome.

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pblhrrrrft

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They hate themselves as well No one hates a furry more than other furries. etc etc

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Asking me to do this is something you do at your own risk. Though if you mean it… Drop me a DM.

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Hunny it’s time to visit a psychiatrist

If you aren’t undiagnosed, then you are more of a unicorn than my fursona is.

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I always circle back around to SRB2. It has been beautiful to watch it grow over the decades.

Israel Responds to Move to Recognize Palestinian State by Withholding Funds (www.nytimes.com)

Israel will not transfer much-needed funds to the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the decision by three European countries to recognize a Palestinian state, the country’s finance minister said on Wednesday, as its foreign minister denounced the European moves as giving “a gold medal to Hamas terrorists.”...

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(adding to the reasons people already cited: Israel is where the us launches its imperialist attacks on the middle east from, so they have a strategic reason to keep it around)

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Oy could you let me know when the plasma 6 version is done? This seems like a great tool.

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It’s almost like having your only strategy be “we are slightly better than the alternative” leads to the alternative racing you to the bottom and you being shit as well.

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I’m willing to bet that, like Linux usage statistics, Steam Deck had something to do with this.

Anyway, I wish I could switch to Wayland, but back when I used it it caused a dozen programs I use everyday to get very crashy.

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After doing some sniffing: Yes AND no

The default “gaming mode” that the Deck boots into is running wayland, specifically valve’s own gamescope compositor which has a lot of workarounds and breaks from wayland’s spec to allow for better gaming performance.

When you quit out to “desktop mode” it loads into KDE Plasma with X11, although with recent changes to Plasma, it may well be that the desktop mode will change to being wayland based too.

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Sorry I’m a little horse.

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Glad I’m not the only one who went “… Like the music?”

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Aw yisss, someone else using SUSE

I tried a lot of different distros, but SUSE’s YaST tools are the shit. No distro has anything quite like them.

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I feel like a lot of the reason people are hesitant to hop into Linux is because of how everything that goes “under the hood” requires a bunch of terminal commands and text file changes.

Ironic, then, that I learned how to Linux the hard way – In distros that expected exactly that from me. I cut my teeth in Arch and its siblings and sure, I can do that.

But it’S SO MUCH FASTER AND EASIER to just click a few buttons and then shit just works. YaST is bliss.

Like. DUDE. I don’t have to edit some files and then clench my asshole for 55 seconds while rebooting when I change a few entries in Grub.

And Zypper actually CHECKS what processes are running and what packages you’re installing, and actually tells you if you do or don’t need a reboot, instead of a blanket “hmmmm we updated, should probably reboot but idfk, that’s your problem now” which is what both apt and pacman gave me.

Quality of Life, it’s really underrated.

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Neoliberalism.webp

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Likely the PS2. Simply for the breadth of stuff it can play.

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It’s a Party in the DnD sense. Gotta have enough pancakes for the Cleric, the Barbarian, the Bard, and the Paladin.

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(you can resume being gay after the house is clean)

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Imma be honest. I never used Snap. I had left ubuntu long before they started rolling it out.

That said, hearing they redirect apt calls to snap instead feels – A bit too microsofty for my tastes

Like, when you use a flatpak (or even a snap!) in a non-ubuntu distro, you’re not forced to use it. And if the same package exists on both the repo and on flatpak/snap, you CAN choose to get it from any of the three sources. Forcing people into snap is weird and scummy.

I have heard that snap is slower than flatpak, but also that it can do some stuff flatpak cannot, but again, didn’t test enough to know it.

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Dark Souls has more in common with Castlevania than with anything “RPG”.

As for Diablo type games, I personally call them “looter RPGs” as a retroactive term. Because the “looter shooter” genre that popped up about a decade after diablo is literally just Diablo but FPS.

Genre names are wack anyway. The “[other game]-like” moniker will always be more descriptive and clear, plus being a reminder that every new thing in video games is a refreshed take on some pre existing thing.

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Idk if common. It does happen tho.

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Coati

It’s like a Raccoon but it speaks either Spanish or Portuguese (that is to say, native to South America)

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As if long mosquito would ever allow his minions to produce something with even a passing resemblance to public transportation.

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No it’s the main minion of the baddie from Smash Bros. Brawl.

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Others must share in my pain. I cannot be lost alone.

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