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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Any time I realize the optimal path is really boring or tedious.

  Like, imagine you could sell junk to vendors for money, but for some reason you get more money if you sell them one at a time. Spending five minutes splitting inventory stacks sucks, but it’s 30% more gold and that’s the difference between the cool sword or the basic sword.

  A made up example, but hopefully gets the point across.

  Related: long travel times with nothing interesting or challenging happening. I remember playing some shitty MMO and you had to like run through a building, go up an elevator, and down a long hallway every time you wanted to learn skills. Just five minutes of nothing. Gotta juice those playtime stats, I guess.

  It’s different if there’s stuff to do en route. Monsters to fight or whatever. But when it’s just jogging? Very disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Managers are often idiots in over their heads. AI is really aggravating that problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m a Grok guy,” said Vance. “I think it’s the best. It’s also the least woke!”

  What a fucking idiot. Really wants everyone to go back to sleep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did have a coworker that was both a picky eater and didn’t cook. She’d order seamless (GrubHub) for most meals. That’s got to be like… $30/meal, two meals a day so $60, seven days a week, ~$400/week? My monthly food budget is like $200. Plus she’d go out drinking. Guess that adds up. That’s like $100k over five years.

  She also had an expensive gym membership she didn’t use and was too shy to cancel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of my peers should be rich enough to retire, but fell victim to lifestyle inflation. Sure they’re making $250k/year, but they moved into a $5k/mo apartment, go on expensive vacations, and just do whatever in their day to day. I don’t know where their money goes. Maybe they are secretly investing.

  Meanwhile I live like a goblin on less

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Business Idiots. Ed Zitron wrote a whole thing about how many business leaders are out of touch with users and their own products. They live in their own little pocket dimension with each other, and only really care about shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, display port worked fine. It was when I plugged the second monitor in to HDMI I realized the problem. And then couldn’t get online to search for issues.

  I had to tether the desktop to my phone over USB to get a network connection.

  I later installed pop!_os , tested all that stuff, and it worked out of the box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  After booting, test WiFi, BT and audio functionality.

  This is an important step. One time I boldly just installed without testing anything in the live session, and discovered that HDMI and Ethernet didn’t work. Woops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like do-gooder derogation. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation )

  Someone doing something good? Fuck them. They think they’re better than us?? Where do they get off??!?

  A lot of people are trash and are emotionally invested in both the way things currently are, and that they are a very good person

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I played GW1 back when it was new. I remember it being a lot harder than gw2, but I might’ve just been bad at it. Gw2 is very forgiving though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The song, “Uplift the Dream,” is one of 20 tracks on an AI-generated album specifically designed to rally support for eliminating Ohio’s property taxes.

  Ew. But AI is also selfish and soulless, so I guess it’s on brand for people not wanting to pay taxes.

  Americans to be taken aback at their taxes. Property values have exploded over the last few years, causing some homeowners’ tax bills to grow by hundreds or even thousands of dollars annually

  Am I too unsympathetic that I don’t feel like $100/mo is a big burden? People’s rent goes up by as much, but I don’t expect these people are in favor of freezing the rent.

  Then we’re going to have to starve the beast, and that’s the expression we use — starving the beast.

  I’m pretty sure starve the beast is a well known conservative slogan , but it really should flag someone as anti-american and also a fool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No luck for me:

  /home/myuser/Games/er_reforged/ERRv2.0.1.1-541-2-0-1-1-1762909215/ERRv2.0.1.1/internals/modengine/bin/me3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.39' not found (required by /home/myuser/Games/er_reforged/ERRv2.0.1.1-541-2-0-1-1-1762909215/ERRv2.0.1.1/internals/modengine/bin/me3)
  [RED]Error:[/]
  me3 failed to launch due to error code 1: Unknown
  

  Not finding a lot of hits online for this problem. I think updating glibc can be kind of dicey?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Capital needs to pay people more if they want people to spend money. Sadly, food shelter and health come before video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some things I want to know about that may or may not be considered advertising. Stuff like a band I like going on tour, or a video game I’m interested in releasing.

  Maybe in your world those could just be like opt-in newsletters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a fancy desktop PC recently so I’m not in the market. Otherwise I would consider it, but only if the desktop environment was usable for general computing. I believe it is, but I’m not sure if its version of Linux would be best for like software development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Give him the ability to divest his wealth first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3167: Car Size⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It bugs me when people refuse to acknowledge they’re being a selfish prick. At least have the strength of character to look someone in the eye and say “Yes, I’d rather you die than me”. Fucking cowards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gop is like a clock where only the minute hand is stopped and the hour hand is flapping all over. Sometimes it’s kind of correct, but not for the bigger picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks interesting. I didn’t really like convergence when I tried it, and the randomizer wasn’t as fun as I hoped for me.

  It says it’s easy to install too, even on Linux. Anyone done so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamepad for Linux Gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the one I have. They don’t make them like they used to. The Logitech controller I had in like 2008 lasted for ten years. The new one’s right shoulder button stopped working after like two.

  The good news is they honored their warranty and sent me a new one for free.

  But then the left joystick stopped going all the way up+left.

  But then honored the warranty again! That one is still kicking.

  So the lesson is: keep your receipt if you buy Logitech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot about the guy I worked with that said he was going to Palantir. We were like “but what if they have you doing awful things?” He was like, big shrug. He was always friendly to people in the office, but I guess that’s as far as it went.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you talked to a lot of tech workers? I feel like there’s a set of left wing ones, a larger set of libertarian types, and an even larger set of people who are shockingly ignorant of politics and history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s capitalism for you. The owners get all the profits. The people doing the actual labor get a salary, which is as low as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a bit ridiculous that our government would sooner use Discord than a federated social media alternative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a simple site with RSS, or a web forum if you really need interactivity, were all pretty much hammered out 20+ years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s that bit in Baldur’s gate 2 where some NPCs decide they can take you on, die, and then reload the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Catholic Priest Charged Over Calls to Bomb Mosques and Shoot Muslims in Neo-Nazi Chatrooms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this, why do so many racists argue that they’re not racist?

  I think because they have a simple, shallow, understanding of the world.

  They believe racist is bad. But they don’t really know or accept why.

  They believe they are a good person. Axiomatically.

  Thus, they cannot be racist because racist is bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is modern Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to break into the mainstream when the mainstream is increasingly owned by rich assholes. They have a lot of influence over culture. Not total control , but enough that many people who might have found punk instead brain rot through their day in Spotify or tiktok or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How new is your computer?

  I found Pop!_OS worked out of the box fine on my new desktop.

  Mint had problems, but worked fine on my older computers.

  Back up any important software (like, on a separate drive or online). Get a couple flash drives. Try out mint, popos, bazzite. They’re all free so it doesn’t matter that much if you don’t like one.

  I don’t recommend trying to dual boot on one drive because windows is a rude room mate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it would be pretty funny if jesus did return and cast all these rich assholes into the lake of fire. Because they fucking deserve it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Innate spell resistance is hot.

  Still mad about

  spoiler

  Her appearance in bg3. I fixed her! She wasn’t evil anymore in my game!