Lemmy is like a third code slut by volume

There’s a real crucial difference between wanting to follow someone’s instructions because you want to make them happy, and being compelled to follow instructions by someone you don’t really care about.

I would do absolutely anything for my gf without a scrap of complaint, most anybody else gets “fuck that, you can do it yourself, you’re capable”.

Yeah, cishet dude with long hair, I’ve been using women’s hair products for decades. They’re straight up just better in 99% of cases.

I am kind of partial to the male-coded body washes though, I do like wood scents. I usually use a nice sandalwood gel. But for hair stuff yeah basically all men’s products are garbage. You can sort of get away with it if you keep your hair chopped short but anything approaching shoulder length or longer, just save yourself the hassle and go to the women’s aisle.

It went from connecting with your friends to connecting with strangers, in an environment where most people weren’t in to connect with strangers.

I went to one of those, around 2010ish. I have many, many consecutive hours of removed that I could do about it, but suffice to say it’s exactly as bad as you’d expect.

I made some really good friends there, though, some of which I’m still in touch with. Out of the five of us who hung out together, I think one of us graduated.

Personally, after I dropped out, I tried to transfer the nearly half a degree worth of credits that I had completed, only to find out that not a single one of those transfers to any other school due to some difference in the school’s accreditation, which we only learned about after I left it. Very pleased to learn that, I walked out of that school with $30k in student loan debt and literally nothing whatsoever to show for it.

This kind of shit is how arson happens, don’t fall for it.

I’ll put it this way, the community that plays this game had to bully the developer into releasing a $5 megadungeon DLC just so that they had a way to give him their money. It’s quality.

I’d argue we already have a well done spiritual successor, check out Moonring. It’s free.

Personally, I never played the older Ultima games, I’ve mostly experienced them through YouTube essays. But, a solid 60% of the positive steam reviews for Moonring reference Ultima, as does the game’s own description, so I’d say it probably fits the bill.

Maybe I’m boring, but I usually just do every vowel variation of Link that isn’t his real name. Lank, Lunk, Lonk and sometimes Lenk populate all my save files.

Thing is, I really don’t care if it’s just PR, so long as that PR involves taking good actions.

It’s the same way how a fear of eternal damnation and hellfire does not by default make you a good person, but it can cause you to perform the same actions as a genuinely good person would. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter if you were really feeling it or not, as long as you acted like a good person.

I feel the same way about the rich. I don’t really care if you really want to be a good person or not. If some billionaire’s entire philanthropic history revolves around strictly just not wanting to get eaten by the peasants, that’s fine by me. I don’t really care if you really love trans kids in your heart of hearts, but if you donate some of your money to helping them, it keeps you off my dinner menu for another day.

We can’t expect the rich to be good people at heart, because that doesn’t really ever happen (with some VERY rare and VERY special exceptions), but we can compel “good” behavior out of them if they fear the unwashed masses. For me, that’s good enough for most cases.

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Personally I’m looking forward to the maturation of the OpenXP project. Since the XP source code got leaked a couple years ago, a small community of elder nerds are busy giving it security patches and releasing it back into the wild.

I don’t think it’s quite ready for use at the moment, but I’m sure one day it might be.

As with all things, there are a small handful of genuinely brilliant pieces of art, and a ton of derivative crap.

The good ones are some of the best media I have ever consumed and have left me with feelings that last far past the credits roll.

Like 90% of them though I watch one episode and then quit or else never start watching it because you can just tell it’s ass by looking at the preview. In that way I don’t really see it as that much different than ‘proper’ movies. Some of them are really good! A lot of them aren’t. Some people like to go through the pile and find the ones that are good to share with the rest of us. Some people just really like watching the shitty ones, too.

To be fair a brand new desktop tower can also barely handle android studio, I’ve never had a good experience in it not once

It sucks that the server is down, but out of all the reasons why that might happen, “Dutch authorities arrested the owner of the company that I rent VPS space from” is possibly one of the funniest. Here’s hoping it recovers soon.

On the other hand some of the most legendary forum threads I’ve ever read were ones that got necro’d three times over ten years and are still running. SA has a few of those.

So make them fucking stop. “We’ve always done it this way” is the worst possible excuse for maintaining status quo. Just because things have always been shit doesn’t mean they are cursed to always remain shit. They are, but only unless and until people do something about it.

If you exist in the Social Security records then yes, your personally identifying information has been leaked to unknown actors a minimum of three times.

Whether or not your identity has been properly stolen and used for illegal business is down to luck and pretty much nothing else.

The bones of some of his lighting algorithms are still in use to this day. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that he is an exceptional programmer.

The best of his generation is harder to assert just because that generation had a pretty large handful of names who each truly revolutionized computing. But I do believe that without Carmack then Doom never happens, idtech never happens, the resulting 90’s-2000’s FPS craze never happens. Without Doom landing on the hardware of every nerd on the planet it’s very likely the middle age of the video game industry went in a very different direction.

I’d say he earned that ego, even if I wouldn’t like dealing with it in a professional environment. But I think it’s a reasonable thing to say that a good 75% of the next decade of game dev was primarily borne up by Carmack’s bootstraps.

Should check out FFXIV with all the other WOW refugees, it’s a good game

The simulation is beginning to collapse. Buckle in folks, it’s gonna get real weird soon