SpookyBogMonster

@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When real life generates the shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even then, Jerry was always the weakest link on Seinfeld

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's *your* favorite way to play old games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My use case is that this Mini PC acts as a living room console, and I like the Emulation Station front end, and that Emulators more or less work out of the box.

  But my big issue with it, is that Steam has effectively been broken on Batocera for a long time now. So, if I could run all of my ROMs and more modern stuff via Steam, all on one OS, that would be great

  How would Bazzite fair in a living room console kind of use case? What is setup like? Especially for emulators. Could I have it boot straight into a front end, like ES or Lutris?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's *your* favorite way to play old games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a mini PC running batocera, which has been great! It’s hooked up to the TV and can run up to PS3, and even Switch, though I haven’t been able to get a Switch emulator running yet.

  And I can technically do Xbox360 too, but 360 emulation is in a sorry state, in general. And it’s even worse on Linux, because there’s no native Linux version, so batocera has to run the 360 emulator through Wine.

  Other than that though, it’s great! Considering dual booting Steam OS to play more modern stuff, as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something we all can agree on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Really use your noggin for this one.

  Why would the Russian and Chinese governments want to influence a small collection of web forums with no real influence on the wider world?

  No, they’re not here, they’re on Reddit. As are the US and Israeli governments, for that matter. Online influence campaigns are carried out by governments in places where they’ll be most effective, and by more than just your spooky oriental despotisms.

  Now, why might .ml users, in general, be generally pro-china? The people who made Lemmy as a platform, and the folks who were first to adopt it (instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear), were ideologically Marxist. Specifically, Marxist-Leninist. Marxist-Leninists, generally, support the existence of actually existing socialist States, as being socialist.

  Contrast that with a Maoist position which rejects these States as not being socialist

  You can take that ideological position or leave it, it doesn’t really matter to me. But what’s the more likely explanation here?

  That the people who made, and first adopted, Lemmy as a platform tended to have a certain ideology, and so the early instances, like .ml, have people with a broadly shared opinion on a certain topic?

  Or that the Chinese government, who probably had no damn clue what Lemmy is, is actively devoting money, and hundreds of people to influence a tiny speck of a Web forum where some nerds circle jerk about Linux, instead of focusing on influencing Facebook or Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usernames are very personal ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  xXEmoXOstrichXx

  Holds up spork >:3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah Tesla only incidentally makes cars. Their accrual business is being a Carbon Credits dealer. Which just goes to show that the whole concept of carbon credits is nonsense. Climate change can’t be solved by market mechanisms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Baby girl, the “tankies” (what does that word even mean anymore?) That you’re so scared of, made the god damn platform you’re on!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you to the workers who actually programmed, tested, and implemented the thing*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m most stoked about RSS integration. I miss Firefox’s old RSS features

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is a Total Grift⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Digital Avatars in teams arent actively destructive to the internet, the environment, and people’s grasp on reality.

  I think you’re universalising a personal grievance, without fully accounting for the impacts of Metaverse bullshit, which was never practical or feasible to begin with, and the AI Apocalypse sweeping the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this kind of vague, “kill your local pedophile :)” sentiment is often just an anti-LGBT dogwhistle and makes me uneasy.

  If someone is going to post shit like this, and not actively tie it to the very obvious class dynamics of wealthy human traffickers, conservative Christians who promote child marriage, and politicians who protect them (without also being Anti-Semitic), then I just kind of assume it’s a thinly veiled call for violence against queer people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then people started “well red is this, yellow is that, green is that …”

  But the stripes always meant something:

  Hot pink = Sex Red = Life
  Orange = Healing Yellow = Sunlight
  Green = Nature Turquoise = Magic/Art Indigo = Serenity Violet = Spirit

  Flags being symbolic was never the issue. The progress flag was made in lieu of black, trans, and intersex queer USAmericans being excluded from big, corporate backed, pride events, which brought to the fore, a slew of intra-queer tensions.

  By making this new flag, it was a way of symbolically coming together. And it’s stuck around because of, well… Everything going on lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly , I think the chevron works. But instead of adding all of the extra stripes , I think it would have been better to make the chevron a single color.

  Gilbert Baker, before he died, added a lavender stripe to the original flag to for ‘diversity’. I say we blend the chevron with Baker’s vision and have it be a singular lavender color

  That said, while I think that would be more aesthetically pleasing, I have come around on the progress pride flag in the same way that I like the flag of Maryland. It’s so busy that it’s circled around from being ugly to charming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen TERFs use it less, as they’ve started to win the “trans debate” less of a need to disguise their shit as “protecting lesbians”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in my day, we just told Cleverbot to suck our dicks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a side of human rights

  You mean like expanding the United State’s illegal drone assassination program?

  That status quo comfort you’re yearning for is exactly what lead us here in the first place.

  That stays quo was built on incredible amounts of violence inflicted on the global south, and now the imperial boomerang is coming back around.

  So no, I don’t wish we had a little of that status quo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t discrace the good name of my friend, Portable Document Format

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I suppose not, but neither do must forms of art. Amateurism, real or percieved, is even a hallmark of many genres, like punk for instance.

  But that’s kind of missing the forest for the trees. For the poster to look at a genre that is historically dominated by white people (and one with a history of far-right politics at that), and contrast it as requiring more talent to produce than a predominantly black genre of music… Let’s just say that raises some alarm bells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I adore my T-480! I put Linux Mint on it, and it does everything I need it to do, with basically no fuss, and no garbage from Microsoft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao what a fucking racist loser! You can’t even respond with anything meaningful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia isn’t even a part of this discussion. I’m honestly more offended by your opinions of teenagers.

  But that aside, it’s not about “defending” these States. It’s that your tone is dripping with orientalist racism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sees teenagers doing dumb shit, like they have since literally forever

  “Is this a plot by the despotic orientals?!”

  Fucking listen to yourself. I’m not on TikTok. I just don’t care for vertical short-form video as a concept. But even I can tell you that not every TikTok trend is teenagers being destructive idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that people are often unfairly dismissive of Metal as a genre.

  But people are also often unfairly dismissive of Rap and Hip Hop. A lot of the time that dismissal is rooted in racism.

  Now, go listen to some MF Doom, and tell me rap doesn’t require talent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it’s actually ready?

  Today’s vocab word is Vaporware