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I mehhed out on Outer Wilds because of Brittle Hollow and Hourglass Twins. Great game certainly, magnificent atmosphere, clever-in-a-good-way plot and premise, just not quite for me. Watching my daughter play through it was more fun than playing it myself.

I thought about playing the good and bad endings of Undertale, but it started to feel like work so did not. Plus I estimated that the Sans fight would’ve made be break something.

MacBook Air

Which model? :) The current Macbook Airs don’t have fans.

What kind of noise does that emit in idle and during high cpu usage?

Nobara is superb for gaming.

Manjaro is one of the few that tries to package sway and i3 (even if the editions are community-based) into a coherent whole. Those editions are not great yet, but pretty good and might become great one day.

Online games don’t typically have many concurrent connections, though, do they? Just the one.

Edit 2: Linus is worth 150M+, not exactly giving that away either.

Given the magnitude of his contribution, he could be a multi-billionaire, calling loudly for cage fights for his wife to beat up Zuckerberg and Musk. Then again, Linux probably wouldn’t have been as successful if he had gone that route.

I think it’s safe to say though that he’s no communist or probably not even center-left in the economic sense. I mean he did deliberately and permanently relocate to USA from Finland in the 90s. Also his father is a Swedish People’s Party politician, and that party is the best kind: classic liberal.

Isn’t that comment pretty toxic though, even if it’s toxic for the viewpoint that (I suppose) you support?

Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.

I mean I agree 100% with what he’s saying too, and also how he’s saying it, but I wouldn’t call this exactly mild.

Are you using Windows without a license? Is that still possible these days?

edit ah, activator and debloater. Isn’t that somewhat close to pirating it, though?

Yep. This is why the voice of the people should generally speaking be ignored. This is also why 90% of people should be ignored when deciding economic policies.

Outer Wilds is a game I won’t ever forget.

Me too, but because I mehhed it so hard that I was unable to finish it. Nice vibes though and fascinating premise, but the gameplay sucked for me and the story wasn’t compelling enough to counter that.

And I barely failed to get a refund in time :-|

Did jews do terrorist strikes on German population during and before WW2? Genuine question: it wasn’t easy finding data on this.

9 days after writing a completely one-sided article about a complicated, almost century long war, declaring his own weakening mental state a person is deemed no longer fit to be called “director”. Seems fine to me. I got a similar reaction to when Russia attacked Ukraine, and I wouldn’t have been fit to lead anyone during that few first months either. I barely got even the simplest things done.

I’m sure there’s plenty of things for him to do in this world below that position, and perhaps he can try a high position again later.

It should be noted that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is still going on, and is in a huge risk of ending badly, and the Gaza crisis is diverting attention from that much larger conflict. It’s not unreasonable to say that the Gaza war is an offshoot of that war: Iran, Russia and Hamas saw an opportunity and took it and now this is happening.

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This is of course subjective, but I feel like introducing a new monster type is far less impressive or impactful for a series you passively watch compared to a game where you have to beat that monster.

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Well no, not perfectly. America is a large place, and some states are less fascistic, some more. The constitution is markedly anti-fascistic.

The things they (some of them/the activists) are demanding and which I feel are overcorrecting (i.e. go past just equal rights) include demands by legislation to force the pronoun issue; demands for overriding by default the will of parents when deciding healthcare (psychological and physical) of their children; demands of bathroom/dressing room usage and demands of being allowed to participate in sports in the series they identify as instead of in the series their body is. These are not black and white issues and I’m not claiming that they are.

Thing is, demanding merely equal rights for trans people is not quite enough, because some of the things they need/want are things that nobody else needs. So I think it’s not quite honest to say that they just want equal rights. In this way LGB rights are way simpler, because as far as I can tell they just wanted the exact same things as straight people already had.

But I want to reiterate that where trans people et al lack equal rights their fight is 100% legit, without any question.

That’s a great non-popular opinion! Personally, I thought that episode was the only one worth watching, especially after playing the actual game. The other episodes had great acting and direction, but they were mostly just a rehash of what I’ve seen before and that’s boring.

Yeah, I’m aware of that dog whistle and will try to avoid it. But a fact is that LGB rights have mostly been cemented in all the non-regressive parts of the world, and the rest of the letters (well, T at least) are still fighting. Some parts of that fight is legit (like I said elsewhere, demanding equal treatment is 100% fine), but some of it overcorrects.

But this thread was asking for non-popular opinions, so I guess I scored here. Here’s another: I don’t think being called transphobic is a much of an insult. Trans is weird and it’s normal to feel weird about it. Translating that feeling into denying their rights is deeply wrong, nevertheless. I believe trans activists should work on this angle more (perhaps they do already? I don’t follow them enough to know for sure), I believe that would win them support more easily from a wider audience, when compared to a strategy that demands acceptance on top of mere tolerance.