Many thanks! No idea how I wasn’t already subscribed to that!
Many thanks! No idea how I wasn’t already subscribed to that!
Cross platform now!? Oh happy day! As time moves on I find less and less that would force me to hold on to this Win10 install just for gaming. One of those things was “Aw but their mod manager was really good.”
Absolutely astounding.
… people that would struggle to dump water out of their boots with the instructions written on the bottom of the sole.
I love that analogy and need to commit it to heart. XD
Thanks, this was hugely helpful. For some reason half the comments here made it about politics.
Interested to see where this new software actually goes.
This is a fascinating question. I don’t think it was just Amazon either. Although the price undercutting definitely helped.
Like many others here, I remember malls having lots of cool smaller shops with various specialties. Toys, books, electronics, games, clothes, decor, whatever. It’s where you’d find more niche things.
Like if “Spencer’s Gifts” wasn’t 99% raunchy sex stuff now. (Although hey, there was that too.)
It was funny in the 90’s watching this idea of teenage girls coming back with a multi-bag haul from a mall run. Ha! Not anymore.
Nowadays though, in my big metropolitan area malls are doing okay, but you get two classes generally:
These malls are still kinda hanging on. The ones here are trying to do cool things like theaters and experiences. I think it can be a cool place for fledgling businesses to do more experimental stuff. Unfortunately, the said-sketchiness still makes them a bit unappealing to visit.
Each individual suite has like 15 items on display that cost more than the suited foot-aching sales person makes in 6 months before taxes.
I have no idea how these places are still running. Lol
“We may have been on the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one.” --Captain Malcolm Reynolds
Added bonus is that it runs MegaMek natively
This is always a fun thing to read in the wild. Keep on stompin’, MechWarrior! O7 (salute)
Gentoo might have been quite a leap! :p I wanna try it some day as a challenge but it’s def intimidating.
I run Tumbleweed on my main rig and love how crazy stable it is for being cutting edge. Endeavour OS is also cool for this. Both great communities too.
But agree with you on Mint. It’s just a really nice smooth experience. So far it’s on my “little media laptop I won’t update much, need to be reliable, and will probably hand to family on occasion”, and I can trust it’s just gonna work.
Ah, it could be dubbed the Bear Grylls mod.
“It doesn’t know where you’ve been!”
I think I remember this one too. It’s fuzzy but IIRC it might have been how he rags on the USA establishment for being draconian but then basically said “Hey if the right people wielded all that State power…”
There were also numerous times going light or outright conveniently ignoring authoritarian human rights abuses in places like China, to make them look like they’ve got it all together. Ick.
If you end up remembering the specific bit though, I’m curious too. :)
I don’t hate the guy or anything. But I do feel like he’s simply slid far on the authoritarian-left-side of the ideology-funnel that leads to extremism reinforced by self-deluding narratives. I hate seeing that happen to people. :(
It does help me feel better actually. Thanks!
I don’t even remember how I found out exactly, but I’m glad I did. I can totally understand how you could miss it. Especially because his videos seemed so tame to begin with.
Apparently the podcast with Yugopnik had a lot more of this kind of tankie banter.
Not sure if he was always this way or if it’s a case of “algorithm-driven-personality syndrome” but I still find it sad. :(
Sidenote: I also got an icky feeling when he’d constantly say “Sponsors won’t touch this content” and immediately started plugging audible and storyblocks or whatever.
To wrap on a positive note: So far I’ve been enjoying OrdinaryThings for my “Anti-establishment funny well-researched video essay” cravings. :p
Okay but at the end of the day it’s not like you’re Tony Stark making Jericho missiles.
Linux, encryption, the Internet, heck, computers, are so generalized as a technology that the burden of sin lies with whomever would pervert these tools against their fellow man.
I’ve heard of Palantir, now Anduril… What’s next, Saruman Ltd.? Uruk-Hai-corp? Poor Tolkien doesn’t deserve his mythology being co-opted by war profiteers. :(
Quite a few, but off the top of my head, SecondThought. I really enjoyed his accessible antiwork/breadtube video essays for a while, even though they got a little repetitive. It was really hard to find good anti-corpo information.
I’d even watch them with my wife and they’d feel somewhat galvanizing right before heading off to a really crappy job I was stuck in.
What did it for me is when he got kicked off Nebula for his comments on a podcast, where he basically went full tankie and joked about the situation with Israel/Palestine, basically saying all the murdered Israeli civilians “deserved it.”
I refused to let myself be influenced anymore by worldview of someone who would view other human beings in such a way. Apparently I was even late to realizing it. It’s a gross feeling.
KeePassXC is such a lifesaver. Back up that local database a few safe places, and even the BS accounts got like 32 char passwords. Good for keeping notes too like “Why did I make an account here again?”
Like when healthcare or government stuff makes you have like 5 sign ups with various crappy contractors to access your basic crap lol.
Lmao I was confused but I think I see where I got it wrong. I said “bread game” instead of “stick game”. XD
Apologies for butchering the language. :)
…Lol the machine translation of “jogo do pau” appears to be…Less than polite? Hahaha.
So, clarification: I think rural stick fighting from Portugal would be really cool to learn. :) lol
Ignorant North American here but I’m now legit wondering what happens to people backpacking-possibly-solo through places like Romania. 😬
Natural hazards like “If you twist an ankle you’ll get no comms service and be eaten by a bear.” aside, of course.
Buddy system is never a bad idea. :)
That’s really sad, because one day I wanted to go and learn Jogo do Pão. I hear it’s a dying art but they’re trying to keep it alive.
Selaco looks awesome, and GZDoom it’s running on is indeed FOSS, but the game itself appears to be a commercial endeavor and not FOSS itself, from what I could find. :)
Absolutely a cool looking game though. Super impressive.