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“Asking for a friend”
You take turns, and you can ask any question, no matter how ridiculous or personal.
Everyone in the group has to answer it or drink a shot. Including yourself.I can’t believe people just go around making up games on the fly. Like who thought this was a good idea?! There’s no way you’ve possibly playtested the rules to ensure everything is balanced. Without corporate oversight and a solid profit motive there is no way some “friends” in a “car” could make a successful game. The premise is just absurd.
And then to think you could go around sharing your dumb “game” freely on the internet in forums and such?
Don’t even get me started…
All games are made up
Made up? Sure. Made up on the fly? Absolutely not, learn some basic goddamn planning skills and actually figure your game out properly. People just going with the first idea that slobbers out of their malfunctioning brains and giving it no further thought is how we end up with money for landing on Free Parking in Monopoly and the very same people complaining that Monopoly takes too long. You put in a house rule that makes the game take longer. “Oh this food is too spicy for me. I don’t like it. Can you pass me the hot sauce so I can add some more please?”
Wooosh!
That was the joke going over your head
Best anti-woosh I’ve ever had the pleasure of witnessing
Oh shit, what?
homes did it backwards.
Han solo didn’t “shoot first”, he was the only one who shot, period.
Greedo didn’t shoot the wall (and miss a 6ft target sitting 2ft away), that was added (poorly) many years later for a special edition.
They changed the movie because in the interim years, George Lucas was feeling like it made Han Solo look less “noble” and more scoundrel-like.
Han Solo is supposed to be a scoundrel, he’s a damn smuggler. The bar they meet him in is described as “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”.
George Lucas has an incredible talent for fucking up the intent of the author in a story that HE’S THE AUTHOR OF, it would be very funny if it weren’t so annoying.
And even taken all that aside, he shot someone that pointed a gun at him and basically said “I am going to shoot you now”. Clearly Han is in the right here for defending himself.
And the guy he worked for previously was described as a “vile gangster” two movies later.
If anything, Han shooting and being a “scoundrel” adds extra gravitas to his change of heart near the end.
When I posted this I had no idea we’d get anything THIS controversial. Yowzers
Han Solo IS a scoundrel
The class in Galaxies based on him is literally called “Scoundrel”.
Greedo was pointing a gun at him and talking about claiming his bounty. How exactly was he going to go about that without shooting Han?
So yes, Han shot first, as in, shot before Greedo could, which he was certainly intending to do.
So, Autism: The Game. I live this reality.
I was going to say theatre kinds/improv troupe, but that too.
Facts
… is there a member of one who isn’t a member of the other? (This is joke)
The Game
Fuck… I lost…
You know the have a vaccine for this now right?
There’s a variation of this on Dropout’s “Make Some Noise” with 3 people where one player starts a rant, then is told to stop mid-rant, and the next person picks up where it stopped and takes it in their own direction.
Brennan Lee Mulligan was engineered in a lab for that specific purpose.
As an autistic person, this just sounds like being autistic.
It is crucial for both your mental and emotional wellbeing and mine that you absolutely refrain from getting me started
I can’t even begin to get started, that’s how don’t get me started I am
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Now do one on twinkies!
If this website is negatively impacting your quality of life you should stop using it.
That’s just your asperger’s flaring up.
You what really pisses me off, when certain people in the Linux community talk about “optimization” and “bloat”.
No you’re not gonna notice the twenty extra megabytes in ram usage by using another init system, no you’re gonna notice the 3% improvement for certain games that custom kernel might theoretically bring, no by using hyprland you’re not even saving that much resources, none of that really makes a difference.
Tbh you could probably gain more performance by setting the ram speeds higher in the bios, experimenting with overclocking (if theres enough thermal headroom), or upgrading some component (like an older ssd or ram). Or alternatively changing settings in the games you play. Or even a step further (this idea will shock some people), maybe don’t focus on numbers and just enjoy what you have. If its good enough than its good enough, if its not than tweaking it won’t make it good enough.
Oh really? Didn’t someone in the Linux community notice a backdoor in the code because it delayed the startup by something like 200ms?
It’s not surprising that when a tool that usually works immediately suddenly starts freezing for quarter of a second every time you use it, that you notice it.
There’s a big difference between caring about whether a given game runs at 130FPS or 140FPS and noticing a new quarter second delay in database queries on your test db ar work. That quarter second per queey delay is going to stack up very quickly across the thousands or even millions of queries made in a day in a production database
I tried using a pie zero as a PC for a little bit. Maybe it’ll be fun to try that again and really optimize it
I’ve only ever used my zero as a mail server, but the pi 3 did a bang up job of being my daily driver for a few years.
Afaik that can bearly run Linux (just a stripped down version of the kernel, forget about running a WM)
The Pi Zero has about the same specs as a Pi 1A+ did, just on a smaller circuit board. It…can run Raspberry Pi’s Pixel desktop, though it was a bit more usable back when they just shipped LMDE. Last time I tried it took about 20 minutes to boot to a desktop.
I had to use a Pi 1B as my main desktop for a few months because Dell can’t fix a laptop to save their lives. “Can this run LibreOffice” is an amazing question to be forced to ask.
I was gonna ask if it can run neovim with lazyvim, I don’t expect it to run a desktop especially a modern desktop. Theoretically I suppose it might be able to run i3 but that might be pushing it.
I wonder if someone like Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux could make it usable? I’ve seen both run usably on 1990s PC hardware.
That’s the fun part
I wonder if it can run doom :3
(It probably can)
You know what I notice? My journal app takes almost a gigabyte because it’s based on Electron.
Solution: use vim and save everything to a txt file
Mucking about with your ram speed and overclocking can decrease both stability, stability under load, and longevity when people are keeping computers longer than ever. It’s poor advice. Insofar as using a different init, distro, window manager, kernel. Some of that is an aesthetic choice and some a function of workflow. To some degree people just enjoy fiddling with stuff and understanding it.
You know what I notice? How little hardware I can get something to run on.
Sounds like a good way to enhance your critical thinking skills. Something we humans direly need today.
The Socratic method is a sort of dialectic game too. Someone takes a position by providing an argument for it, and you provide your best counter arguments for the strongest form of the argument.
OK, do “the fediverse”
Useless, it’ll never take off. Normies don’t want to have to pick an instance to get started. They’ll just go to reddit or Bluesky. Then there’s the tankie problem. Hexbear and ml are going to scare away those who can figure out how to pick an instance and register.
Oh and since everything is duplicated on hundreds of servers, it’s wasteful of resources to. Worried about SSD prices going up? Well the fediverse ain’t gonna help either.
There’s only like 5 people who post things and the mods can be just as bad as reddit mods. Post something and get banned from 25 communities.
Need me to keep going?
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Probably. Used to be a lot more organic content. In all honesty, the fediverse is a bit better than modern reddit in that regard.
Actually I’ve discovered at least 3 people who post their own comics here. So that’s pretty cool. Custardfist, bad and noerdman. Never would’ve discovered them otherwise.
It’s the same problem with Linux.
Most people don’t even know what a distro is.
And once you explain that to them, you have to go on to explain how some distros are actually just clones of others, so you always need to be aware of which distro yours is “under the hood.” And once you’ve explained that, you need to go on to explain that each distro has several different options for front-ends. And that’s usually where I lose most people.
I’m tempted to just start giving people a Linux Mint USB just telling them that’s the only Linux that exists, but I think that’d only create more problems.
Don’t even get me started on explaining how to install and update software.
There’s a massive disconnect between what a highly technical user is willing to put up with, and what a typical user is willing to put up with.
Windows and Mac offer an experience where you take it out of the box, plug it in, and go. And until Linux can do that, it will have a single digit market share and be used by nerds.
Still better than reddit
Master class!
Well, at least no one owns and controls Lemmy unlike Reddit 🥹
That shit’s never gonna take off unless they pull their head out of their ass and remember how Reddit and Tumblr attracted their users; with high-quality amateur porn.
The first sub-reddit ever created was NSFW and Tumblr basically ceased to exist once they got rid of the porn.
But, how do you incentivize people into posting high-quality amateur porn on your site for free instead of selling it on OF or Patreon?
The platform doesn’t sell ads, and their decentralized nature prevents the fediverse as a whole from conducting business in any traditional sense.
But, even if it wasn’t for all that, as a user, I don’t have a good way to browse the available smut; I have to remember and visit each community separately, and a lot of content gets reposted. There’s no way to activate a “NSFW only” mode or anything.
Don’t get me started.
Every time someone refers to mobile data as “wifi” I die a little inside. I understand that the difference is unnoticeable for most people, but it pains me.
Same with Wi-Fi being used to refer to Internet access in general. I basically lived on the phone with our ISP’s tech support for two days and one tech person even told me they needed to “reset our modem so they could get the WiFi flowing to our house again”. I died a little inside.
Would’ve been real hard for me to not hang up the phone. And I’m not as tech literate as half the nerds on Lemmy, but I know enough to know when they’re giving me wrong answers. Shit is frustrating.
Well it’s not like Big They made it particularly clear with the naming scheme.
“Wi-Fi” is an entirely non-descriptive name, it’s supposed to be “like Hi-Fi, but with a W for Wireless.” It doesn’t indicate what it does at all. The typical unwashed mass just wants to know what button to push in iOS to make it get on Instagram. Wi-Fi is synonymous with internet access in their minds; iPhones and iPads don’t have Ethernet sockets, and they’ve got no use for local traffic because their Apple products are thousand dollar Tiktok appliances.
So yeah, “Wi-Fi” means “internet access” to more people than it means “IEEE 802.11”
It’s wireless fireless, duhhhhh.
technical terms mean what they mean rather than being defined by the average usage like average terms because without this we can’t have useful discussions
I guess they could have been trying to dumb it down to make it easier for the customer to understand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
Damn it. I’m old
Last time they said something like this to me, I pointed out that I had WiFi disabled other piece of crap router.
I knew what he meant but had no problem being literal. Tech stuff s definitely an area where details matter
I’ve never heard someone say that and I hope I never will
Y’all just re-invented debate club.
Nietzsche spoke about this btw.
Okay, that’s inspired, and I’m going to make it a thing around here come hell or high water.
Oh, don’t you start now!
Haha :)
Mine is called “MacGyver Me This”.
You’re given 3 things. What can you do with them?
My favorite was the dozen chihuahua powered redwood raft. (Giant redwood, 12 chihuahuas, rope)
Any ambiguity is up to your discretion. For example, no mention on the amount of rope, so you’ve got a much as you want/need.
That’s 14 things at minimum though, I feel like that should disqualify it.
Don’t even get me started about this guy!
Reminds me of Soup is for Women which I think was basically prompted in the same way, asking her to go off on a weird rant about something being not “manly”.
This isn’t a game in my house. It’s just bringing up the current news.
