Oh shit, you’re right, I think I got confused with fediverse. lol, I’m not sure i’d heard “threadiverse” until this post now that I think about it.

Isn’t Mastodon part of the “threadiverse”?

Also, I feel like there are definitely names I see a lot and recognize, but I don’t think my memory for spelling would be able to write them down here… lol

I’ve got 2 that I didn’t see anyone else mention…

First one I might get hate for, but Escape from Tarkov. Absolutely hated it. I don’t know how to explain it, but the controls didn’t “feel good”. Literally just moving around and aiming felt like the system was fighting me and I uninstalled it after less than 2 hours. I would have refunded it if the game wasn’t bought for me as a gift…

Second one is Global Agenda. The game wouldn’t have been that bad if the devs didn’t seem to hate it. The gameplay loop was fun, I liked the different classes and the customizations. But there was a big pvp “world map” thing that happened on like a 2 week schedule, set times of day for attacking or defending other clans’ territories to earn resources to unlock rewards - it was the primary “end game”. Out of no where, the entire world map was broken, nothing was working right in the middle of the like 2-3 hour time slot where you could do anything with it. Obviously, a TON of support tickets were put in asking for something to be done about it. Devs got salty about all the tickets (I’m sure some of which we not nicely written) and sent a global message to everyone that was online that said “‘Fixing the game’ is not in the cards right now, players should ‘try harder’ to win.” Basically killed the game imo, several big clans just noped out. The devs were already showing signs that they wanted people to stop playing GA and move to their new game (Tribes: Ascend), and that just solidified it.

Jesus christ I forgot how much I hated Borderlands until you said it, I think I blocked it out.

Oh man, yea… After playing Guerilla, Armageddon was a waste of time. It might have been fine if I’d never played Guerilla… Maybe.

Same. Several friends raved about this game and wanted me to get into it and I hated it. Same with Grounded to be honest. It just felt like the game was entirely made for the devs to giggle about kicking the players’ asses over and over again with very little apparent payoff (unless you spend more hours in the game than any other game you’ve ever played apparently).

Well shit, that’s interesting. Thanks for the link.

I have been staring at the original comment trying to figure out how to basically say this, so thank you. lol. “The customer is always right” just means don’t tell the customer that green and purple polka dot curtains are fuck-ugly because it will hurt the company’s bottom line.

I don’t think Capitalism has ever been this romanticized version, at least not in my lifetime. It has always been about how much money “they” can squeeze out of consumers, and they have been inching more and more constantly for a long time to get where we are now. The companies have always wanted to manipulate to make more money, and the only slight road blocks or steps in the right direction have come from government regulation.

Currently same split showing, 96% against, 4% for, but with just over 5400 votes. :)

Uh-oh, nobody show this to Jensen Huang, it would break his little heart.

Sad wind sweepin’ down the plain noises.

You can download Proton for use outside of Steam, I use it in Lutris and Bottles pretty regularly. Also, you should be able to get just about anything to run just as well in Bottles or Lutris as it will in steam, but I will admit it can take some tinkering with some games or software and there is a much easier option: Add “non-steam game” in Steam library and run whatever program you need through Steam anyway.

The trick is that isn’t a capital i, it is a lowercase L. Now with AL integration. Every program you run just has a picture of Weird Al and a snippet of a random song from his greatest hits album as a splash screen.

They just now put it together because Ruffalo is starting to look like Bernie. That hair tho, lol.

Damn, dude deleted themself from the internet because we wouldn’t feed into their hero fantasy.

I feel like you are suggesting they would decompress the file over USB from the computer after it is transferred, and not use the phone to decompress it after it is transferred… Once it is transferred to the phone, just use the phone to decompress it.

It’s nine of your goddamn business

Oh shit, I didn’t even think I had nine business :( What am I doing with so many?

Funny, because I had the opposite problem with my laptop… Bazzite couldn’t seem to keep the nvidia gpu happy and working so I switched to Garuda and it hasn’t had a problem gaming since.

I love Linux, but hate the user-to-user inconsistency - it really makes answering the #1 question “which distro should I use” basically impossible to answer. Go download all of them that sound interesting and put them on flash drives and try them out in live environment - narrow down to the ones you like the look of the most, and then install them and try it out and see if you can do what you need or not. It’s not a difficult process but it is a process and there is no simple answer.

One company decided to not sell consumer ram anymore

One of the only 3 companies making it. And a second has mentioned following suit.

target non-vital areas if you’re able, shoot for graze shots. But don’t shoot to kill if it can be helped.

This is bad advice and will possibly leave you in more legal trouble then if you killed a home invader. Most places in the US, you aren’t justified to shoot at someone unless you reasonably fear for your life. Shooting to wound or maim has been used successfully in the past to “prove” you weren’t fearing for your life, turning an otherwise “justified” shooting into an "unjustified"one.

This is not advocation to shoot people. It is always a better option to get away to safety or prevent the intrusion via security methods like bars on windows and heavy, locked doors.

IANAL.