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I can only imagine playing that with David Mitchell.
And I’ll tell you another thing!
This isn’t a game in my house. It’s just bringing up the current news.
oh yeah we play that constantly, but it isn’t fun to anyone.
what a tremendous idea
You what really pisses me off, when certain people in the Linux community talk about “optimization” and “bloat”.
No you’re not gonna notice the twenty extra megabytes in ram usage by using another init system, no you’re gonna notice the 3% improvement for certain games that custom kernel might theoretically bring, no by using hyprland you’re not even saving that much resources, none of that really makes a difference.
Tbh you could probably gain more performance by setting the ram speeds higher in the bios, experimenting with overclocking (if theres enough thermal headroom), or upgrading some component (like an older ssd or ram). Or alternatively changing settings in the games you play. Or even a step further (this idea will shock some people), maybe don’t focus on numbers and just enjoy what you have. If its good enough than its good enough, if its not than tweaking it won’t make it good enough.
I tried using a pie zero as a PC for a little bit. Maybe it’ll be fun to try that again and really optimize it
I’ve only ever used my zero as a mail server, but the pi 3 did a bang up job of being my daily driver for a few years.
Oh really? Didn’t someone in the Linux community notice a backdoor in the code because it delayed the startup by something like 200ms?
There’s a big difference between caring about whether a given game runs at 130FPS or 140FPS and noticing a new quarter second delay in database queries on your test db ar work. That quarter second per queey delay is going to stack up very quickly across the thousands or even millions of queries made in a day in a production database
It’s not surprising that when a tool that usually works immediately suddenly starts freezing for quarter of a second every time you use it, that you notice it.
As an autistic person, this just sounds like being autistic.
It is crucial for both your mental and emotional wellbeing and mine that you absolutely refrain from getting me started
I can’t even begin to get started, that’s how don’t get me started I am
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Now do one on twinkies!
If this website is negatively impacting your quality of life you should stop using it.
That’s just your asperger’s flaring up.
@LadyButterfly This is basically just me every day with my students but they don’t seem to enjoy it nearly as much as I do. Weird.
I can’t believe people just go around making up games on the fly. Like who thought this was a good idea?! There’s no way you’ve possibly playtested the rules to ensure everything is balanced. Without corporate oversight and a solid profit motive there is no way some “friends” in a “car” could make a successful game. The premise is just absurd.
And then to think you could go around sharing your dumb “game” freely on the internet in forums and such?
Don’t even get me started…
All games are made up
And the points don’t matter 🥰
Wooosh!
homes did it backwards.
That was the joke going over your head
Best anti-woosh I’ve ever had the pleasure of witnessing
Made up? Sure. Made up on the fly? Absolutely not, learn some basic goddamn planning skills and actually figure your game out properly. People just going with the first idea that slobbers out of their malfunctioning brains and giving it no further thought is how we end up with money for landing on Free Parking in Monopoly and the very same people complaining that Monopoly takes too long. You put in a house rule that makes the game take longer. “Oh this food is too spicy for me. I don’t like it. Can you pass me the hot sauce so I can add some more please?”
Reminds me of Soup is for Women which I think was basically prompted in the same way, asking her to go off on a weird rant about something being not “manly”.
Han solo didn’t “shoot first”, he was the only one who shot, period.
Greedo didn’t shoot the wall (and miss a 6ft target sitting 2ft away), that was added (poorly) many years later for a special edition.
They changed the movie because in the interim years, George Lucas was feeling like it made Han Solo look less “noble” and more scoundrel-like.
Han Solo is supposed to be a scoundrel, he’s a damn smuggler. The bar they meet him in is described as “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”.
George Lucas has an incredible talent for fucking up the intent of the author in a story that HE’S THE AUTHOR OF, it would be very funny if it weren’t so annoying.
And even taken all that aside, he shot someone that pointed a gun at him and basically said “I am going to shoot you now”. Clearly Han is in the right here for defending himself.
TBF, Han was a smuggler around the time of ANH, but he got there by running drugs for Jabba’s auntie for years… Han Solo was a plug first, and don’t even get me started on the Chewie/Scooby thread.
And the guy he worked for previously was described as a “vile gangster” two movies later.
If anything, Han shooting and being a “scoundrel” adds even gravitas to his change of heart near the end.
When I posted this I had no idea we’d get anything THIS controversial. Yowzers
Han Solo IS a scoundrel
The class in Galaxies based on him is literally called “Scoundrel”.
Rubberneck Han isn’t real. Rubberneck Han can’t hurt you.
Greedo was pointing a gun at him and talking about claiming his bounty. How exactly was he going to go about that without shooting Han?
So yes, Han shot first, as in, shot before Greedo could, which he was certainly intending to do.
The aliens in Signs are idiots for invading a planet that’s 70% water. And if they landed in a cornfield in rural PA in the middle of summer the humidity would have killed them instantly.
And what’s worse is Shyamalan lives in PA and should know this.
Lol I actually grew up near where the movie took place and now I feel stupid for never thinking about the humidity factor. Summer in PA is underestimated by those who think “it’s the northeastern US, how bad can it get?”. For those of you who don’t know, most summer days you can see the humidity and you’re drenched in sweat about 2 minutes after you exit a cool shower.
In the mountains it’s not too bad but Chester country might as well be Leesburg in July.
I disagree. If water is essential for their spaceflight, IE fuel, reaction mass, ect then it’s fine that they would invade.
Humans have invaded the Sahara desert, which is hot enough to kill, the arctic and Antarctic which is cold enough to kill, the submarine realm which can crush, freeze and drown us, and even the moon, which is hollow and full of dangerous reptillians.
We go to extremely dangerous places to fulfill our need for resources and territorial ambition
Yes but they wouldn’t show up bare-ass nekkid on a planet full of water if they knew it dissolved ‘em!
I almost wonder if it’s like Mt Everest climbers who climb without oxygen tanks, they do it more to prove that they can than for any rational reason
It wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t also naked.
Also, they have interstellar travel but need to use crop circles to communicate. I know that’s just part of the premise but it’s still stupid.
But not nearly as stupid as flying all the way here and trying win a land war completely unarmed. If your battle plan can be beaten by a baseball bat and asthma, you should maybe rethink your invasion.
I think the movie would work better if the aliens were just messing with this one family on a farm, like they’re a scout force.
But it’s like humans trying to invade Mars in their birthday suits, just assuming the planet isn’t toxic and uninhabitable.
Like, what did the invasion look like in the tropics, where it rains just about every day? Did they get out of their ships and just start sizzling?
Who says they were the aliens?
Man, the aliens sat it out in their dry ass ship and sent a crop of vat grown drones to go harvest all the organs they wanted on a world covered in H2O.
The drones aren’t bright, but the get the job done. They only last 30 hours or so before they start decomposing, so it doesn’t matter if they get locked in a pantry or clubed with a bat.
You think a starfaring species would come all the way to Sol 3, and not being a bio organic drone to go out and brave the hazards of an acid covered water world hell planet?
Shit. Don’t get me fucking started on how many people miss the point of the aliens in fucking Signs.
If there was this much world building I’d probably like it more.
But the only rules they established for the aliens are poison gas and water dissolving.
Actually, The only world building they did firmly establish was that the aliens did not matter…
For all the audience needs to know, they used the gas to transfer their consciousness into a new host, and they do this everytime they visit a new biosphere.
But no, you fucking de-cloak early during one childrens birthday party in South America and your ass is a joke, you get fucking anthropomorphized for the next 20 years…
Alien invasion is always stupid. Interstellar travel uses so much energy, it can power a civilisation for a year, and that’s for just below light speed from our nearest star. Their tech level would be high enough to just scoop up whatever resource they want from astroids, if not ourright skimming from gas giants or stars. Oh, you need genetic material? Musquito drones would do the job. I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.
The only alien invasion scenario that makes sense is one where the aliens are so advanced they don’t even notice us.
I mean, it’s not completely unrealistic that some alien race builds a generation ship, points it at Sol 3 because it has a strong magnetosphere, conditions for liquid water and a fairly oxygen rich atmosphere then after their 10,000 year journey they discover a race that’s just beginning to figure out space flight on the planet previously observed to lack any industrial capabilities. Honestly that would make for a good film, and I’m sure there’s science fiction books based on that idea already (Douglas Adams wasn’t far off from that with the Galgafrinchians too, only they arrived about 20,000 years before our present day and supplanted neanderthals as the dominant hominid race on Earth)
Kinda like we don’t hesitate to step on grass.
I like the holy water fan theory. They were not aliens but demons and all of the glasses of water were blessed when Mel Gibson regained his faith
I thought that was the actual reason and not just a fan theory?
“The characters in that movie called them aliens, but it was never explicitly demonstrated what they were or why they were on earth. People are much more accepting of aliens these days, and the idea was that if demons appeared among us, they would be perceived as aliens.”
If it had been talking about demons at all during the movie this would eliminate my major problem with the movie.
There just weren’t enough rules about the universe demonstrated to the viewer to know what’s going on.
And I know Shyamalan is capable of this because he did such a good job with this in The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.
Which would work if the aliens were only attacking his farm and not the entire planet.
You never see spaceships and you only see how a single creature is defeated. The radio says the war turned around in the holy lands, which aren’t overflowing with water everywhere.
It’s faith that defeats them, not water.
On the radio it mentioned that people had discovered an old technique to fight them, there are other priests on earth
And Toto has Africa pretty well covered.
I needed that chuckle.
Clearly Mel Gibson blessed all of that water, too. Is there anything that guy can’t do with his faith? (Besides make a watchable movie?)
Captain Carter said the same thing
So, Autism: The Game. I live this reality.
The Game
Fuck… I lost…
You know the have a vaccine for this now right?
I was going to say theatre kinds/improv troupe, but that too.
Facts
… is there a member of one who isn’t a member of the other? (This is joke)
OK, do “the fediverse”
That shit’s never gonna take off unless they pull their head out of their ass and remember how Reddit and Tumblr attracted their users; with high-quality amateur porn.
The first sub-reddit ever created was NSFW and Tumblr basically ceased to exist once they got rid of the porn.
But, how do you incentivize people into posting high-quality amateur porn on your site for free instead of selling it on OF or Patreon?
The platform doesn’t sell ads, and their decentralized nature prevents the fediverse as a whole from conducting business in any traditional sense.
But, even if it wasn’t for all that, as a user, I don’t have a good way to browse the available smut; I have to remember and visit each community separately, and a lot of content gets reposted. There’s no way to activate a “NSFW only” mode or anything.
Don’t get me started.
Useless, it’ll never take off. Normies don’t want to have to pick an instance to get started. They’ll just go to reddit or Bluesky. Then there’s the tankie problem. Hexbear and ml are going to scare away those who can figure out how to pick an instance and register.
Oh and since everything is duplicated on hundreds of servers, it’s wasteful of resources to. Worried about SSD prices going up? Well the fediverse ain’t gonna help either.
There’s only like 5 people who post things and the mods can be just as bad as reddit mods. Post something and get banned from 25 communities.
Need me to keep going?
Well, at least no one owns and controls Lemmy unlike Reddit 🥹
Master class!
It’s the same problem with Linux.
Most people don’t even know what a distro is.
And once you explain that to them, you have to go on to explain how some distros are actually just clones of others, so you always need to be aware of which distro yours is “under the hood.” And once you’ve explained that, you need to go on to explain that each distro has several different options for front-ends. And that’s usually where I lose most people.
I’m tempted to just start giving people a Linux Mint USB just telling them that’s the only Linux that exists, but I think that’d only create more problems.
Don’t even get me started on explaining how to install and update software.
There’s only like 5 people who post things
I suspect Reddit would be about the same without all the repost bots.
Probably. Used to be a lot more organic content. In all honesty, the fediverse is a bit better than modern reddit in that regard.
Actually I’ve discovered at least 3 people who post their own comics here. So that’s pretty cool. Custardfist, bad and noerdman. Never would’ve discovered them otherwise.
Still better than reddit
There’s a variation of this on Dropout’s “Make Some Noise” with 3 people where one player starts a rant, then is told to stop mid-rant, and the next person picks up where it stopped and takes it in their own direction.
Brennan Lee Mulligan was engineered in a lab for that specific purpose.
He’s fantastically contagious. ❤️🔥 Hell, most of Dropout are, for that matter. 🤘🏼
Y’all just re-invented debate club.
Nietzsche spoke about this btw.
