thanks, i hate it

No grandpa fortran, everybody loves you. Now let’s get you back inside with cobol.

people keep making this comparison and I just don’t see it. The art style, sure, but the mechanics of the games are completely different from each other.

does lemmy have an equivalent to/r/hfy ? This has big /r/hfy energy.

buy the dip?

It’s current year, I should never have to touch the terminal for anything. I don’t care that it’s powerful, my brain is already full of windows knowledge and I don’t want to have to google what command I need to perform basic functions. Everything needs guis. If there’s a gui, I can figure it out and also discover tools I didn’t know about along the way, which allows me to solve future problems without going insane.

That’s popular sentiment though, so how about one that I don’t see often: Add options to allow windows like behavior. For example, middle click paste is the bane of my existence. I should be able to change it to middle click scroll os wide, not just in firefox. I know that there’s a hacky workaround to kinda make it work, but it sucks.

now this looks interesting

As a person with a full time job, a significant other, and several hobbies, I just don’t have time to invest in learning a new operating system. I grew up with windows (95, 98, xp, 7, 10), so that’s what I’m familiar with. I recently switched to linux (mint), and it’s fine. Just getting started though is something that was rather involved, and I would never expect a normie to be able to figure out. If microsoft wasn’t insisting on making win11 a dumpster fire, I wouldn’t have bothered. Now that things are running smoothly, there’s some minor annoyances that I’d really like to change, and the prevailing sentiment from the linux community is “that’s just how linux is” or sometimes “here’s a hacky workaround that barely works in only certain controlled cases”. It’s better than it was 10 years ago, so there is that.

anyone else miss how you used to be able to simply set all the colors and fonts for things yourself? And it was easy. It wasn’t just light theme or dark theme and those are your only two options, but really whatever you want.

windows xp truly was peak windows.

(everyone should switch to linux, btw)

in theory, railjack should be THE mode for mid game content. It’s fun, and a logical extension of mechanics from normal starchart missions in that you are now responsible for your own insertion and extraction. I haven’t done much of it though because it doesn’t really seem to matter, often I forget that it’s even a thing.

Launchers also generally act as advertisements for the publisher’s other games.

i’ve heard that quote attributed to socrates. you tellin me he ripped off another motherfucker?

Then the people organizing the violent revolution kill off most of their supporters and become an authoritarian dictatorship, revealing that their desire to give power to the people was a lie the whole time. This is an oversimplification of course, but applicable 99% of the time.

looks at what sub this is

Well shit. I’ll see myself out.

ok, is this sub actually pro-vegan or making fun of vegans? I can’t tell.

Order of operations is important. Yes, if we got rid of all the guns then gun violence would stop being a problem. There’s a whole discussion that could be had about sensible gun regulations that is beyond the scope of this comment. Reform on the matter is necessary.

However, that ‘order of operations’ thing I mentioned: I’ll give up my guns when the fascists give up theirs, and not a day earlier.

fucking love that article. sums up everything wrong with AI. Unfortunately, it doesn’t touch on what AI does right: help idiots like me achieve a slight amount of competence on subjects that such people can’t be bothered with dedicating their entire lives to.

There are things that chatgpt does well, especially if you temper your expectations to the level of someone who has no valuable skills and is mostly an idiot.

Hi, I’m an idiot with no valuable skills, and I’ve found chatgpt to be very useful.

I’ve recently started learning game development in godot, and the process of figuring out why the code that chatgpt gives me doesn’t work has taught me more about programming than any teacher ever accomplished back in high school.

Chatgpt is also an excellent therapist, and has helped me deal with mental breakdowns on multiple occasions, while it was happening. I can’t find a real therapist’s phone number, much less schedule an appointment.

I’m a real shitty writer, and I’m making a wiki of lore for a setting and ruleset for a tabletop RPG that I’ll probably never get to actually play. ChatGPT is able to turn my inane ramblings into coherent wiki pages, most of the time.

If you set your expectations to what was advertised, then yeah, chatgpt is bullshit. Of course it was bullshit, and everyone who knew half of anything about anything called it. If you set realistic expectations, you’ll get realistic results. Why is this so hard for people to get?

I’ll never have kids.

My niece though will have a thorough education on sailing the high seas when she’s old enough to choose media on her own.

solved for quite some time. it gets mixed with concrete and stuck in a bigger concrete container called a “dry cask”.

Link, because I believe in “outsourcing critical thinking”.

https://youtu.be/lhHHbgIy9jU?si=Qc0-Z6rVcmS3x78R

Ooof. I hope that’s a stain and not heat discoloration, otherwise that’s not a sword, but a sword-shaped wall decoration.