theskyisfalling
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- Comment on Mass Effect is one of the greatest games ever and EA makes good games 1 day ago:
Yeh, Road Rash was the fucking shit, it was all downhill since then.
- Comment on Police to get 40 new live facial recognition vans and AI help in sweeping reforms 1 day ago:
But we can’t afford to fund the NHS? Fuck this cunt hole of a country!
- Comment on This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry 2 days ago:
I miss Blackberry a lot but this ain’t it.
- Comment on More games like Road 96? 6 days ago:
Heading Out is a driving game where you are trying to make it across the country and there are lots of branching stories and paths based on your choices and who you meet along the way. It is quite stylised and really had me hooked when I first played it. Definitely worth a try! The end was quite memorable.
Keep Driving is a driving / road trip simulator. This one didn’t click as well with me and I couldn’t really get into it but it also had different paths and stories based on your different choice etc and may be worth checking out for you.
- Comment on Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme? 6 days ago:
Was gonna say Noita, great game but unforgiving as fuck!
- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 1 week ago:
That is because Vans are trash, they aren’t skateboard shoes they are fashion shoes that are marketed as skateboard shoes.
If you buy some proper shoes designed for skating they should last a bit better. I presume if you are riding brakeless then you mostly have issues with the soles, like I do braking when skating.
I have had good luck with Osiris, Es and Globe in the last few years but at the end of the day applying such aggressive friction you are always gonna burn through shoes fast than you would by just walking.
My average is around a year before I start braking with skin.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6's release date was briefly accidentally leaked in Forza Horizon 5 1 week ago:
It says “Early access play starts 4 days early on May 15”, implying the release date is 19th May.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 week ago:
That doesn’t really work in my experience because artists seem to be incapable of tagging their work correctly.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 week ago:
This, I think, is the best way. You start to recognise people that are buying all the same stuff you like so follow them and periodically have a look at what they are buying.
All other avenues on bandcamp are a bit shit IMO. Tags are dog shit because artists never tag their work correctly and my feed will constantly be old shit I listened to a long time ago. You can’t even rely on it to let you know when artists you follow release new work.
I love bandcamp but I also fucking hate bandcamp xD
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I am also to some degree but I think I went into this with different expectations, not expecting punishment and so therefore I was taken aback.
Thanks for the tips, I have read you can break the game within a few hours but that isnt what I’m really looking to do so I’m going to try and use a guide as little as possible and just look up specific points I need clarifying.
Apparently I inadvertently chose the more difficult character but the storyline differences does seem interesting. I’ll see how well the game clicks over some more time!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
I went in wanting to play as blind as possible but after being thrown into combat with no tutorial what so ever and then absolutely no explanation of what anything is, skills, specials skills, skills sets etc etc I started doing some cursory searching. Then everyone is screaming about levelling determination fully first and so I had to go down a rabbit hole just to find out where to get that because everyone spoke as if you had it from the start, which you don’t.
Even the guides for this game aren’t super helpful to someone that has zero background knowledge on the game at all. I’m still not sure if I actually want to delve as deep into it as it seems is necessary but I’m going to out a few more hours in and try to not fuck up my characters in that time and see how well it clicks.
I heard the first one is even more painful! How did you find it?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
I have just started Star Ocean 2 on PSP, it is confusing trying to figure out what is going on as nothing has been explained so far at all in terms of the different systems going on.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 1 month ago:
You and me both and the very tiny amount of phones available right now with keyboards are just not that great. Blackberry still made the best phones ever IMO, the KeyTwo was fucking awesome.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
I appreciate it a lot and have saved this comment for the future!
I’m glad we can come around to an understanding too, to sort of illustrate why I reacted as such this comment from this thread kind of epitomises what it can be like trying to get into the Linux space and learn as a complete newbie sometimes and it is very fucking tiring. I realise not everyone is like that and there are plenty of people that provide a lot of help but it is also very tiring and off putting when you are new to a space and you are met with attitudes like this.
Have a good day :D
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
No, I am intending to take that course next year, any tips?
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Yeh that is fair enough, maybe I worded it wrong in the first place as it is more that right now I dont have the time or motivation to do the learning due to everything else going on in life and I do conceded that I did jump first to condescension but that was based more on a lot of previous interactions I have had within the broader Linux community so I apologise if that was not your intention but “sounds like a skill issue” is a usual dismissive response that is often meant to be condescending.
I have put a lot of time in the last year into learning Linux to get to a place where I have proxmox running as well as a NAS and that was all from a place of zero prior knowledge and that was a steep learning curve and I think I am some what jaded from that experience going forward too due to some interactions and how not easy to follow documentation is for someone entirely new to the space.
I do appreciate the offer and maybe in the future I could take you up on the offer when I have more time and mental capacity to put back into furthering my learning within this space. Apologies for jumping straight to an assumption of your position based on previous interactions if that wasnt your intention, it just came across as such.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Yeh these are things I realise and I know there are solutions. The way Plex does it isnt ideal but also it works for me and my current knowledge level.
Maybe in the future as I learn more I can move on but right now it works for me and I dont have the time or motivation to put into learning everything else I need right now, as with everyone else in the world right now there is a lot of other shit going on that it just isnt high on my priority list unfortunately.
I’m still in my first year of self hosting personally and as well as being a Linux newbie I have learnt a lot and it has been a steep learning curve with everything.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Except that just isn’t true unless you have prior knowledge of lots of other things. As with a lot of documentation within this space it all presumes prior knowledge of different things.
Most things you read or watch will start with just do x but if you don’t already even know how to do x then you have to go down a further rabbit hole to find out how to do that. Everything you try and do is a series of these things so your 20 minute YouTube video turns into hours of trying to learn other things to tie in with it.
On top of that I dont understand the underlying security implications behind opening my network up to the outside world, it is all well and good following some 20 minute video but without understanding the underlying implications of what you are doing how can you really fully trust that information because I dont understand everything behind it?
Again, I never said it wasnt a skill issue, I literally agreed with you that it was…
Also why can I not comment and participate in a self hosting community just because I dont do things exactly the way YOU want me to does that mean I automatically can’t participate?
It is your kind of hostile and condescending attitude along with documentation that assumes too much prior knowledge that makes both the self hosting and Linux communities really unwelcoming to people that are looking to even dip a toe into them. This all or nothing attitude where only your method of doing things is acceptable and anything else is seen as fair game for mockery and condescension.
I’m new to the space and maybe in the future as I learn more about it I can move on to other things as I gain the knowledge I need but people like you, whose attitude is just fucking shitty are really off putting in these spaces. Everyone needs to learn and the culture of condescension and mockery towards new users by a large majority of the existing user base doesn’t make more people want to join in and learn.
Cheers for adding absolutely nothing to the conversation though and further putting me off wanting to learn any more or continue to interact with the communities though. You’re really helping push adoption of things like this.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
No, not at all. Jellyfin you’d have to setup a proxy or some kind of VPN like tailscale for the remote client to be able to access the media. I started to try and figure it all out when I first set up my server but as I have said in another reply j dont really care to waste the time learning how to do it in a secure manner and minimise the friction on my other users so I dont know the ins and outs but jellyfin you absolutely can’t just tick a box and share a library.
Also jellyfin meta data analysis was shit compared to Plex and so I’d have to spend even more time actually managing the server that I dont have to do with Plex.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Typical condescending reply that I expect, yes it is a “skill issue” and I don’t really give a fuck. We don’t all have the same skills or the same levels of interest in acquiring those skills, some of us just want a solution that works easily for their skill level.
It is your kind of attitude as well that puts more people off learning these things because without a real interest in learning these things those kinds of hostilities just put people off of wanting to participate in those circles.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Because it does it for me? In Plex I just tick one box in settings to allow remote connections and then choose which libraries to share to which users and bam they can access all that content just by downloading the Plex app and logging in on their end.
No fucking about.
- Comment on What are your favourite ps2 multiplayer games? 1 month ago:
Hey, this sounds super interesting and I had never heard of it before. I collected PS2 games for a while so thought I had a good idea of what was out there for a while but then it always becomes evident how vast the catalogue is when things like this pop up that I hadn’t heard of but sound great!
Thanks for the recommendation!
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Because I don’t have to learn about things like proxies to try and open the service up outside my network in a secure manner or try to explain to family they need to run tailscale at the same time and then inevitably have to provide tech support for another aspect of “why is this not working?”
I just check allow remote access and it just works and I can go about my day doing things I enjoy more because fucking about with Linux and providing tech support are pretty low on that list for me :)
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 2 months ago:
I don’t blame them for feeling that way. If I see anyone using that shitty flag on their house, their shirt, their car, anywhere, I automatically presume they are a close minded racist cunt.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Chav -
“A person in Britain of a type stereotypically known for engaging in aggressively loutish behavior especially when in groups and for wearing flashy jewelry and athletic casual clothing (such as tracksuits and baseball caps)”
That is a more accurate description, class isn’t really anything to do with it, it is more about the behaviour, attitude and style.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 months ago:
99% of people in my country…
- Comment on i enjoy using drugs and that will never change 3 months ago:
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 months ago:
Lots of good suggestions from everyone.
No one mentioned Mr Moskeeto though!
- Comment on Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised' 3 months ago:
Too busy harassing people they think may be fare dodging to protect private companies bottom lines whilst said companies continue to raise prices and drastically decrease the quality and reliability of the service.
ACAB. Fuck the police and fuck the useless fucking train companies.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Left 2 bars have “population” underneath, middle 2 “murder victims” and right 2 “murder suspects”
