Maybe it’s inserted into media on purpose, training us like a subtle shock collar to hesitate if somehow, one of the commoners manages to get within range of an authoritarian boss-man.

/Crazy conspiracy lol

This looks like an episode where Big Bird realizes all the really neat grown-up jobs he was telling the kids about this whole time don’t really exist, and he just realized the sheer soul-crushing disappointment of the corporate workplace. :( lol

So the State seizing land and demanding tax was really just a ploy to support their vampire masters. I knew it!

Sometimes (often?) at your own peril!

To anyone else following, if you’re mucking around with “I am Root/Admin. OBEY ME!!” you had better have important data backed up!

I once thought an unlisted BTRFS snapshot was an orphan folder taking up space. No permission? Nonsense! Obey my commands!

Suddenly not even terminal commands worked. (“Command ‘cd’/‘ls’/whatever not found”)

. . . it was the “writable snapshot” currently mounted, and the system was so borked it couldn’t rollback, and I needed to completely reinstall.

Fortunately I had things backed up on another drive. Live and learn! But that could have been TRAGIC.

Naaron (Nay-ay-ron)

That’s not a cost that kills you.

For real.

Some folks have a vice where they can’t start a single day without a fancy grande latte or whatever, but mostly when I see that, it’s middle-managey types that make more in a month than I’d ever see in my account at any given time.

How many skipped small vanilla cold-brews or boba teas (+a tip for my fellow working class ✊) buys an average healthcare deductible or car repair beyond my DIY abilities? Heck let’s lower the bar…An oil change?

Just filling the tank costs like 8 enjoyable refreshing coffees. What a lame exchange rate!

Even if we struggle, it’s still okay to enjoy things once in a while.

Super helpful! Thanks! :D

Figures like that are still mind boggling. Like…“We put dudes up there!!!”

I’ll never stop being awed and impressed by space and just about anything humanity has done with it.

Especially because from the ground just looking up there, you can almost convince yourself it’s not that far, and if you just believed hard enough, you could simply reach out and touch it.

Many don’t turn around and try making a start-up game though, most just burn out of the industry forever.

I think a big reason for this is because they need to have some kinda airtight clandestine OPSEC if they want to work on anything themselves that they plan to show anybody.

It’s been common practice for AAA’s to say “Anything you make while you’re employed here at all is ours.” Sometimes even if you’re not AT the studio when you do it.

They just simply assume entitlement to your creativity.

So, quit and make that indie darling, right? But then you need a financial “runway” set up, which sets a hard time limit on production and adds a ton of stress, and you’d better hope it sells well enough to make back the lost income.

The indie successes we’ve seen are nothing short of extraordinary, but also a textbook example of survivorship bias in action. For every success, there’s a million projects that never got off the ground, much less sold successfully.

Facing all this…I celebrate the efforts that beat the odds, and love genuinely good games that simply didn’t sell enough to keep the ball rolling.

But I don’t fault anybody for just going into something more stable before burnout hits, and they would be destroyed from the inside out.

…mmm, Riot maybe?

Like thanking that dude for breaking up with Adele since her breakout album was basically a breakup album. If you’re into Adele. Lol

A phallic jape

This is written like one of his “agents” is also in charge of social media posts lol.

Roll it how far each time? Are you saying roll 10x the distance of itself / i.e 10 complete rotations?

"HAW HAW HAW!!!"

So far I’ve heard Marvel Rivals is pretty based. Good on them! That’s awesome. :)

Oh no, grandma’s Windows box she lets your weird cousin use is sending out shady Russian personals hookup spam again! 💀

Switch your (grand)parents to Linux Mint today!

Great to know!

Both games I really want to play. For some reason I thought Marvel Rivals didn’t do kernel-level? I’m likely wrong haha.

But I loved the original Helldivers. I just really don’t want to have to install a “just trust us, bro” rootkit to enjoy the clearly excellent sequel. :(

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed player here with an Nvidia 3000-series GPU.

Gaming with Steam, GoG (Heroic Launcher), and even disc games installed with Bottles has been a smooth experience with VERY few if any tweaks or fixes needed.

Except for VR (where Monado is making strides!) we are THERE. I’d highly encourage trying it out these days.

Unless you gotta play the latest AAA hyper-competitive monolithic server games with kernel level anti cheat but…at that point might as well have a burner PC. X_X lol

Cool, I’m glad to see UI that makes tech look fun and hopeful again instead of barebones corporate-flat, spartan rectangles.

“Oo look, they come in muted pastels and you can round the corners!”

Pfftftfttft…

I feel the same way! I think a lot of hate for Vista was just instability and high system usage.

I feel like things have definitely come a long way, where my KDE machines can have pretty glassy UI without crunching the whole system.

I also really liked ME before XP, where there was a heavy emphasis on personalizing and theming.

flat boring look of today is very bleak and dystopian looking imo.

100%. It feels very corporate and like any artistic touch was forcibly extracted from it because trends say that aesthetic hurts readability or something. Blegh.

It’s like the UI equivalent to that “Memphis techbro” art style with the freakish flat purple people with wonky arms and tiny heads.