doomcanoe
@doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 days ago:
We don’t often have other viable options. Long before most of us were born, the infrastructure was created so you could drive anywhere in the country, and other forms of transportation were marginalized.
Having a car in America is honestly the door to the greatest freedom of movement available to you. It’s no suprise people here start to conflate cars with freedom.
Getting most of us to realize the car centric world we live in restricts our freedom is like trying to wake someone up from the Matrix.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 week ago:
You are under the assumption the scientists listened to the bean counters. I on the otherhand think it’s more likely that any (mad) scientist who could make dinofrogs via genetic manipulation would intentionally splice the ability to self-transition into their creation.
“Demand I make my dinofrogs infertile will you!? I’ll show you… I’ll show all of you!!!”
- Comment on naruto therapy 1 week ago:
Just a weeb shoehorning that shit in. At least shoehorn in the superior stereotypical shonen (dbz)
Lol, okay buddy baka
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll take “broad questions that can only be answered in context” for $200 Alex.
Seriously, ask me this question on 10 different days in 10 different ways and I’ll never give the same answer.
Even in the context of your vanilla perfume hypothetical I don’t have enough context to answer. How severe a reaction, what percentage of the population is affected, where is the perfume wearer at the time, why hasn’t it been banned and/or what makes me an expert who’s oppinion is worth a damn, etc etc etc?
From what little info I have on the hypothetical, no, I wouldn’t be upset. I didn’t see anyone being harmed, the perfume wearer wasn’t doing anything illegal, and I’ve got my own shit to deal with.
- Comment on Zelda BotW vs TotK - which one should I buy? 3 weeks ago:
It’s actually refreshing to see so many people supporting TotK—that’s not always the common opinion.
Honestly, both games have a lot to offer, and they’re both spectacular in their own right. But given your concerns about time, I’d actually recommend BotW. Both games are designed in a way that lets you “play at your own pace” and then wrap up the main quest whenever you feel like it—or not.
But TotK takes that concept to another level. There’s so much more to explore, the mechanics offer an incredible variety of possibilities and skill expression, and if you’re planning to dive into a game for months, TotK is definitely the one to go for. The game constantly encourages you to think, “What if I tried it this way?” or “Would this crazy idea even work?” And you can easily lose yourself for hours trying out different things, which is a ton of fun!
That said, this also means TotK is more “padded,” which is saying something since BotW already had its fair share of filler content. But while the expanded mechanics give you fresh ways to approach the game, their freedom opens the game up to repetitive strategies and exploits that can become tempting to use just to “get through” a puzzle anytime you get stuck for is longer than you find fun. Which can start to happen more and more the longer you play.
Frankly, TotK is the kind of game I wish I had when I was 12 on summer break. But as an adult with limited time, it just makes me wish I had more time, much more. It’s kind of like Minecraft in that way.
BotW has similar issues, but to a much lesser extent. It’s a more focused game with fewer opportunities to “cheese” puzzles, and it doesn’t have as much content purely designed for messing around with mechanics. Most of BotW is made up of puzzles, events, or dungeons that you can complete in one go, giving you a satisfying sense of progress in a shorter time.
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 3 weeks ago:
…but you can’t make it think
- Comment on Hypothesis: Modern retro-inspired indies are much more enjoyable than the retro games themselves 3 weeks ago:
Was gonna say, I was playing Morrowind earlier today.
- Comment on Hypothesis: Modern retro-inspired indies are much more enjoyable than the retro games themselves 3 weeks ago:
Your point more or less comes up alot in discussions around Lord of the Rings compared to modern fantasy novels. There are a lot of people who, while the appreciate what it did for the genre, find the novels dated and feel like they have seen the ideas too many times and/or done better elsewhere.
Though on the flip side, I personally find sometimes it just takes a few hours to “see past the age”. For example, I was introduced to Fallout by 3. The show made me want to try the originals, and after a few hours of struggling through the ui and dated graphics, it started to “click”. Now the original only competes with NV in my list of favorite Fallout games. Had a friend who had basically the same experience with the original KOTOR.
- Comment on Everybody poops 3 weeks ago:
Oh that one, yeah… no fuckin clue. Maybe a cyberman from Dr Who, but like… wearing a suit?
- Comment on Everybody poops 3 weeks ago:
I’m thinking the silhouette of a classic Area 51 style alien.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Tim Sweeny! Is that you!?
- Comment on minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶 1 month ago:
I’ve got my beliefs sorted, I want to be able to express myself however I choose. Including using censored curse words if I so choose.
And my point is, as I’ve said a few times, that I find it funny how censorship has gone from “polite” to “offensive”.
- Comment on minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶 1 month ago:
What if I don’t “not want to swear”, what if I want to used self-censored curse words? Should I sacrifice my freedom of speech to appease others?
- Comment on minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶 1 month ago:
Depending on the circumstance, I completely agree. There are certainly many cases where censoring yourself is giving away your power and freedom of expression.
However, it’s not disingenuous to say that if I want to censor myself, for any reason, on the internet I will likely be shamed by folks who want to assert their values over mine. And in such I am once again giving away my power to the people who want to dictate what I do with my life.
Perhaps I want to do it because I find it funny. Or perhaps I want to do it because I’m trying to emulate a classic comic book speech style, which often had to use censorship because they were being controlled, but now has become a recognizable convention. Or perhaps I want to do it simply to assert my right to speak how I choose, as I already mentioned, despite the “higher authority” of the crowd. Which as you already mentioned, f*%king sucks actually.
- Comment on minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶 1 month ago:
I always find it funny how cursing used to be “contrary to polite speech”, and in doing so you were asserting your freedom of speech.
But now, on the internet, self-censorship is considered “uncouth”, freedom of expression be damned. So now you will be attacked if you say “I’ll F*%Kin talk however the f$$k I wan’t Sh*thead!”
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV appeals for no more war in first Sunday blessing 2 months ago:
No more wars is the coldest take ever
I’d call it “an oldie but a goodie”.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 months ago:
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 3 months ago:
I own a pair of these. Depending on the game, they add a lot of value to my Steamdeck. But for everyday computing, they are actually very impractical.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 3 months ago:
100%
That being said, dogmatic belief systems, which tend to be common in religion, seem to act as force multipliers in this regard.
- Comment on Please choose one 3 months ago:
A community, forged by a shared desire to see software and technology be free, open, and driven by passion.
With members who usually find their way here fleeing the profit driven enshittification that so often stifles this pursuit.
And for some unknown reason, they are mad at a company that pursues aggressive litigation against free and open passion projects that were the very embodiment of the community’s shared values…
Well that’s just a fucking mystery if I’ve ever seen one!
- Comment on Ten reasons to avoid Amazon | Ethical Consumer 4 months ago:
Sounds like your turn to step up to the plate then huh?
- Comment on Ten reasons to avoid Amazon | Ethical Consumer 4 months ago:
Very true, but I assume you don’t mean “then why bother at all” right?
And if I’m correct in that assumption, then I figure we can agree that mitigating what you can is still a worthwhile endeavor?
- Comment on Ten reasons to avoid Amazon | Ethical Consumer 4 months ago:
- Comment on Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" 4 months ago:
but review bombing a perfectly good game because you wanted or expected something else seems a little much.
You’re not wrong. And DA:V not “being the same as prior iterations” is actually kinda the norm for the DA series anyways. That being said, expectations play a huge role in enjoyment.
So if the publisher wants to pull out an old franchise to play off expectations to generate hype and drive sales, then they should expect the backlash when they deliver something that fails to meet those expectations. It’s a double edged sword.
That doesn’t mean it’s a bad game, or that people shouldn’t enjoy it. But it’s also fair for fans of the old games to review it from their point of view. That’s not review bombing, that’s just how opinions work.
- Comment on Uncanny sandwich 5 months ago:
Considering how you thought they weren’t joking, I’d say yes.
- Comment on Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta 6 months ago:
I would be skeptical of Lucifer’s insight on this. By his own admission, he has never actually used Bazzite, and is basing his opinion on a single argument he had with one of the many dev’s in another post. To quote Lucifer directly :
I don’t have an accurate sense of how much you’d have to learn about bazzite, so I’ll have trust you on this
Obviously switching to Linux will cause you to encounter new terms you won’t be familiar with, or terms you are familiar with used in new and novel ways, devs and users will be opinionated and have arguments over these terms (and everything else an opinion can be had on frankly). And Lucifer’s concerns on this front are not without merit, but he is overstating the severity in this case and painting a wildly inaccurate picture. And you don’t actually need to gain a deep understanding of all these terms anyway. (Right away or at all depending on your goals)
But through all of that, what really matters at the end of the day is how useable is it, and how solid is the community surrounding it. And on that front I can say Bazzite has been hands down the easiest distro I have ever used for plug and play Linux gaming, and the community has been endlessly helpful and beginner friendly. I’d recommend it fully, and if you hop into their Discord, or read over their homepage and guides, it quickly becomes apparent how hard they work to make it beginner friendly.
There are some good alternatives, Mint for example is a very easy distro to make the switch from Windows. As is Pop_OS!. And with how easy steam has made running games, it’s harder to find a bad choice in general nowadays.
To shift topics, I’d say the most important thing to a “smooth switch from Windows” is less the distro you choose, and more the Desktop Environment. (Which, for the point of this recommendation, is the catch all term for what your OS “looks like”, where the “Start Menu” is, where your “tool bar to switch apps” is, etc) For a new Windows convert, I’d say find one that uses “KDE”, as it is very similar to Windows. Bazzite offers this when you are downloading the installation image. But it’s quite popular, so many others will anyway.
Sorry for the extended rant, hope this initial mess didn’t make you less likely to try Linux! I was a Windows convert just a couple years ago and can say it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made! Feel free to ask any questions, or hop over to the Bazzite Discord to get some helpful insights!
- Comment on Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta 6 months ago:
Yeah, and if you click enough links on Wikipedia you always wind up at logic, math, or philosophy. At some point, you are going to have to read new words to learn new things. And it will get increasingly technical as you go deeper.
But bazzite devs don’t just leave you up shit’s creek with a turd for a paddle. They still make installing and gaming on Linux far more accessible than the majority of other distros. With a significantly smaller learning curve. And provide solid guides for new users that use beginner friendly language.
And therein lies the crux of my problem with your argument. Scaring folks away to seek out another distro where they will almost certainly have to learn more to get started is hurting your stated cause. You claim to be fighting the good fight against “unreasonable barriers of entry”, but you are causing more than you are solving. Over a very ignorable term.
When it was just you arguing over the value of the term with the dev, okay, whatever. But when you throw a new user asking for help out to sea because you had an argument that has no bearing on the significant reduction to the barrier of entry to Linux gaming that Bazzite provides, you are shooting your own goal in the head.
You didn’t care that they used a single term that might cause confusion, you didn’t care that a person who was looking for help on getting started with Linux gaming was asking about installing one of the most beginner friendly distros, you wanted to win an argument and hold a grudge.
Maybe you don’t even see it yourself, the road to hell is paved with good intentions after all, but the obvious outcome of your actions directly go against the goals you claim to have.
- Comment on Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta 6 months ago:
My issue isn’t with the definition, but with the implicit assumption that it’s well known or easy to understand, as well as the way it is used.
Bruh, they literally link to their definition, right there where it’s first mentioned on the home page… You literally copied the link when you copied their first paragraph in your previous comment.
You may not like the way it’s being used, but you can’t get any further away from “assuming it’s easy to understand” than a link to your meaning.
And on that note, you said you couldn’t find a definition of Atomic on Fedora’s site… So I clicked just one link from your posted link their and found this.
Atomic - The whole system is updated in one go, and an update will not apply if anything goes wrong, meaning you will always have a working computer.
I read your posted argument from earlier, and I want to believe you when you argue your goal is to make Linux more accessible. But the reality of your arguments seem to tell a different story. You seem more interested in dying on a pointless hills while dissuading interested converts from trying what is one of the most stable and user friendly distros I’ve ever tried.
Linux is going to have a LOT of terms a new user will have to learn. The idea of a cloud native image may cause a misconception, but no more so than any of the other myriad terms a new user will have to learn.
- Comment on What's the best super nintendo game based on a movie? and why is it alien 3? 8 months ago:
It was crazy that they got that to run on a SNES.