EmDash 1 week ago • 100%
I guess fuck you if you bought any PS5 discs.
EmDash 1 month ago • 100%
Adding IPv6 would cost them money. Probably a relatively small amount of money, but still money. They get nothing from that investment. As long as they have IPv4 addresses to assign to their customers, there's basically no demand for IPv6 addresses. NAT and UPnP work fine for just about everyone. I think the only way we see serious IPv6 adoption in North America and Europe is government mandates.
EmDash 2 months ago • 100%
Forbidden chicken nuggets.
EmDash 2 months ago • 100%
PBS Spacetime recently had a video on this: https://youtu.be/8hvzF5oQe1g?si=e9Tw0XrMILbf4Ql6
EmDash 2 months ago • 100%
Light Yagami is the protagonist of Death Note. He discovered a notebook that lets him kill anyone by writing their name in the book (technically he needs to mentally picture their face too).
EmDash 2 months ago • 100%
After the debate, everyone in the administration was bragging about Biden being alert from 10am-4pm. It just shows that he's been minimally involved for years.
EmDash 2 months ago • 100%
More like: I don't understand quantum physics => I think I sort of understand this one thing => wait, I was wrong => I don't understand quantum physics
EmDash 2 months ago • 100%
I am cracking up. This is amazing.
EmDash 2 months ago • 100%
I'm also so thankful for the hard work of emulator developers!
EmDash 2 months ago • 100%
I saw it in person! Lots of fun!
EmDash 3 months ago • 100%
OpenMW still needs the files from Morrowind.
EmDash 3 months ago • 100%
One thing to consider is that the far right actively recruits in gamer circles. They are very good at slowly exposing angry guys to more and more extreme views. There is very little comparable on the left.
EmDash 3 months ago • 85%
Every country in the world is squaring off with alliances. Starting to feel very World War I.
EmDash 4 months ago • 100%
Just let me buy one in the States!
"The administrators are correct: Their institutions do function in concert with the war machine powering Israel’s genocidal war; their mission does depend on maintaining this alliance, even at the cost of brutalizing their students; and it is this material reality, more than anything else, that explains the ferocity of their response to the Gaza solidarity encampments."
EmDash 4 months ago • 100%
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.
Supreme Court Justice Alto claimed that an inverted American flag flown at his house was not in support of "Stop the Steal", but because of an argument with neighbors. However the flag was flown on January 17, 2021 and the argument was on February 15. (The neighbors called the Altos fascists and Mrs. Alto a c-word)
EmDash 4 months ago • 100%
I emulate a lot of old games on my Steam Deck. It's not too hard, but requires some work. I will do the work for non-Steam stores if/when there is something I want to play from one. However, I suspect not releasing your games on Steam will really limit your reach. My guess is that most people won't go through the effort to get itch.io games work on thier Deck.
EmDash 4 months ago • 100%
Why do reactionaries always make us look so awesome?
rustc will use rust-lld by default on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu on nightly to significantly reduce linking times.
EmDash 5 months ago • 100%
She has since asked for the image to no longer be used, "I retired from modeling a long time ago. It's time I retired from tech, too. We can make a simple change today that creates a lasting change for tomorrow. Let's commit to losing me."
EmDash 5 months ago • 100%
Reviews have said that it's good, but not fantastic. 8/10 seems to be about the average of review scores.
EmDash 5 months ago • 100%
🎵He's George Jetson🎵
EmDash 5 months ago • 100%
I agree.
I do think that the joke is very funny, but only because some people are upset that their favorite faction is gone, which is not in itself a problem. However, it is a symptom of the problem.
Fallout is about a lot of things: it's a parody of 1950's American culture, it's a survive-the-post-apocalypse-using-violence fest, and it's a reflection on what is America. The first two are fun, cathartic, and easily accessable. This is why Bethesda always brings them to the forefront.
Asking what is America is harder, both to write and consume. The New Vegas factions did a great job of showing how different people would try to rebuild America. Bethesda is only interested in the most villainous in Vault-Tec (who spent centuries experimenting on people) and The Enclave (a group who wants to re-conquer America and run a capitalist, racist, fascist state). The show depicts the New California Republic as a utopia. Whereas in the games it is a deeply flawed democracy. On the one hand, it provided social services, banned slavery, and fought against the brutality of groups like The Enclave and Caesar's Legion. On the other, it forced independent farmers to become wage slaves and expanded to steal resources while claiming to spread freedom and democracy.
The tagline of Fallout is: "War never changes". In my opinion, this is supposed to mean that the new countries that arise after the destruction of the USA will just repeat the same mistakes; regardless of what they copy from America's libertarian, imperial, fascist, or capitalistic tendencies. The bigotry continues. The resource wars continue. The destroying lives for personal profit continues.
Bethesda seems to think that "war never changes" means that the Wasteland never changes. Overturned cars sit in the streets just outside of a city of 35,000 which has thrived for 90 years. As you mentioned, in 200 years no one had built a house fancier than leaning scrap metal. Any counties or city-states created by other writers need a plot reason to no longer exist. That way the world can forever stay in a Walking Dead-esque state filled with monsters and people who became even more monstrous.
What I don't understand is why Bethesda keeps making each new entry further along in the timeline. If they want to tell the-world-just-ended stories, just set it soon after the bombs fell in a different city. It seems so simple to me and it fixes the nothing-has-changed-in-200-years problem.
EmDash 5 months ago • 100%
A notable difference between the non-Bethesda titles (1, 2, New Vegas) and the Bethesda ones (3, 4, and the show). Is the willingness to allow for large factions/countries the grow and flourish. Fans of the non-Bethesda titles like these countries and factions and that the world is moving forward from the bombs dropping. Bethesda tends to keep the world stuck in a place where only small towns exist.
::: spoiler Spoilers for the Fallout show In the Fallout universe, The New California Republic was a country that covered southern California and also had bases out to Nevada and Oregon which had existed for about 90 before the start of the show. Shortly before the start of the show, its capital city (Shady Sands population 35,000) was nuked, resulting in the collapse of the country.
Additionally, at the end of the show we see that New Vegas--once a populous city full of lights and casinos-- stands in darkness. :::
Fans of the non-Bethesda games are upset about the show sidelining the counties/factions. The post is a joke which shows that in actual history, counties appear and disappear, expand and contract, and thrive and wither all of the time.
EmDash 5 months ago • 100%
Yeah Christians in the 1990s--and a bit after-- got pretty upset about "damn" and "hell". Kids used to say "H E double hockey sticks".
EmDash 6 months ago • 100%
The vast majority of South Korean 19 - 34 year olds describe the country as hell.
"The survey found that 79.1% of young women and 72.1% of young men want to leave Korea, that 83.1% of young women and 78.4% of young men consider Korea “hell”"
EmDash 6 months ago • 68%
Don't threaten me with a good time
EmDash 7 months ago • 100%
Expecting, but glad to see it is confirmed!
I wonder if it will be more bearable than the PS2 version of The Answer. In that version, everything had abilities that let them have high dodge chances against all of their weaknesses. So every battle was just: miss, miss, miss
EmDash 7 months ago • 100%
Hopefully Crunchyroll or someone buys RWBY and finishes the series
EmDash 7 months ago • 100%
o7
EmDash 7 months ago • 100%
Hisuian Voltorb
EmDash 7 months ago • 100%
USA! USA! Number one in willfully destroying the world
EmDash 7 months ago • 100%
First time through a Persona game is always have-fun and do-what-you-feel-like time. NG+ is for maxing everything out.
EmDash 8 months ago • 100%
26 + 6 = 1
EmDash 8 months ago • 100%
Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid!
EmDash 9 months ago • 100%
This is something that I fear as well. However, it is worth remembering that the US has failed in many of its military interventions around the world. No amount of tools and weapons helped the US win in twenty years in Afghanistan. NATO's proxy war in Ukraine is failing too. These wars show that a dedicated population can beat all of the technology in the world. Revolutionary movements do always have to be vigilant about be surveilled. New technologies provide a lot of surface area for states to monitor resistance groups. However, states have always had a lot of success with the simplist means of surveillance: just paying someone to join a resistance group and report everything they see. I am no expert on any of this and I'm sure someone here knows much more, but it seems to me that the strategy of revolution is the same as in Lenin's time. However, groups always have to update their tactics to keep up with material conditions and abilities of the state. Don't give up hope! We can do this!
EmDash 9 months ago • 100%
But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs!
EmDash 10 months ago • 100%
My company refunds $50 of internet per month if you live too far away from the office to come in. If you live close enough to the office that you could come in, you get nothing.
EmDash 11 months ago • 100%
It's a good show. I just finished it. As for the politics of it, the show isn't Marxist despite its anger at the super rich.
The show makes a number of mistakes in its analysis of the world. Firstly, it acts as though the problems of Capitalism began in the 1980s. We know that Capitalism has always been horrific. The show also falls for the Great Men Fallacy. At one point we see all of the the bad, rich people who run the world in a room together. Capitalism is more pervasive than that. The guy who owns a fast-food franchise is just as much a Capitalist as a CEO. These mistakes work for the themes of the show, however. It is a show about hacking and conspiracies. In reality, a group of super hackers can't expose the big bads who rule the world and steal their money, but it does make for an entertaining show.
EmDash 12 months ago • 96%
From the river to the sea!
North Carolina’s… state budget contains a provision that gives extraordinary investigative powers to a partisan oversight committee co-chaired by Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R). The Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations — or Gov Ops for short — is empowered to seize “any document or system of record” from anyone who works in or with state and local government during its investigations. The rule applies to contractors, subcontractors, and any other non-state entity… Gov Ops staff will be authorized to enter “any building or facility” owned or leased by a state or non-state entity without a judicial warrant. This includes the private residences of subcontractors and contractors who run businesses out of their homes… Alarmingly, public employees under investigation will be required to keep all communication and requests “confidential.” They cannot alert their supervisor of the investigation nor consult with legal counsel.
EmDash 12 months ago • 100%
I'm sure they're so sad to see those colonizers leave.
No example of a barter economy… has ever been described… all available ethnography suggests that there has never been such a thing.
“What is most striking to me, and most discouraging, is that [Americans] are so apathetic while being neither blind nor unconscious. They know and deplore the oppression [and] the terrible poverty… They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary attitudes—the birth of a kind of fascism. They know that their country is responsible for the world’s future. But they themselves don’t feel responsible for anything, because they don’t think they can do anything in this world… In America, the individual is nothing. He is made into an abstract object of worship; by persuading him of his individual value, one stifles the awakening of a collective spirit in him. But reduced to himself in this way, he is robbed of any concrete power. Without collective hope or personal audacity, what can the individual do? Submit or, if by some rare chance this submission is too odious, leave the country.” - Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day
“The largest single-employer strike in American history now appears inevitable,” said union President Sean O’Brien