One of the hardest things for me. My relax space is home and I can’t make it there on my lunch. My brain doesn’t wanna switch out of work mode because then it could take way too long to switch back.

This is a conspiracy theory I’m completely behind. With all the moves Nintendo has made recently this was the first thing I thought when Internet Archive was compromised

Have you seen the movies? I have to wonder when people say things like this. This argument is based purely upon my interpretation of the media, but so are those articles.

I have always seen Borat as an extreme parody of what westerners (more specifically Americans) think the outside world is like based on nothing but pure ignorance and maybe some propaganda mixed in too. I really don’t see how they could be interpreted as racist, maybe xenophobic at worst. And I definitely don’t see how they could be interpreted as islamophobic. That is just a massive stretch. These articles honestly just read as really tone-deaf if you ask me. People who think the movie was just making stereotypical jokes for the fun of it I feel like aren’t seeing the full picture.

I see those jokes being used to directly make fun of the people that actually say racist / xenophobic things like that in real life, because when you see them coming out of the mouth of this ridiculously played up fictional character it makes it even more obvious how stupid the things being said are and how stupid the people saying them are. It is used as part of the setup because sometimes the people being filmed just flat out agree with the crazy shit he is saying and go along with it, you see a more authentic look at these types of people than you would otherwise because these people only talk about the craziest shit they believe when they feel like they’re in an echo chamber. You don’t get those kinds of genuine reactions from people normally and I think that is also part of the purpose, to shed a light on the side of society that is normally kept in the shadows.

For instance, The majority of Americans live in big cities and never see deep-south rednecks so can only picture them how they have seen them in movies and TV. These people are ignorant to how a huge part of the rural country thinks and acts, but we have seen how those people and their views can be powerful enough to get an orange dumbass elected in to office. Crazy views need to be put out in the sun to for everyone to see, no matter who is saying them. People need to be shown that their stereotypes are often mis-informed or wrong and I feel like these movies do that if you can watch with an open mind. They’re just movies, the first time I watched Texas Chain Saw Massacre I didn’t assume that all deep woods rednecks are crazy cult-like murdering cannibals. That’s up to the viewer to interpret, if people are interpreting Borat as a character who is supposed to accurately depict a modern Kazakh citizen they’re incredibly dense and probably have never left their house. Every character Sacha Baton Cohen plays is an incredibly over-the-top and often really stupid or ignorant person, so ridiculous that you can’t even see that type of person actually existing in any real capacity. I don’t personally see how anyone could interpret his characters as any kind of representation of reality, they’re designed that way to highlight the absurdity of the given subject matter.

I think there is a lot of nuance to the Borat movies that is missed on people who wanna just scream about a movie they’ve never watched just so everyone can see how progressive they are. Borat movis arent documentaries, they are comedies.

Whatever Sacha’s personal views are, I couldn’t really care less because that’s not what the movies are about, I can separate the art from the artist and see the movies for what they are.

Putting the whole judging games based on graphics out there feels dishonest. I personally don’t give a rip how games look on the switch or can at the very least get over it pretty quick as long as they aren’t plgsued with performance issues . We shouldn’t be in a spot where playing modern console games on emulator is often a better experience than the real thing.

The switch architecture is very dated and the only ones who really know their way around to hack things together and make it kinda work is Nintendo. Still amazed that TOTK is playable on Switch with everything going on, but for a third-party dev to do the same would probably take an insane amount of effort. Its not worth it. Just update the standard and everyone will benefit.

The problem is though is who tf would wanna do that (eat it)

I can see why they’d do it. Windows is a corporate product and MSFT wants everyone’s experience to be tailored to exactly how they think is best. Gives some Apple vibes.

I think at this point MSFT knows the average user is just gonna keep using Windows so they don’t really care about tailoring to individuals. I expect to see a lot more of this.

The Exorcist (original) is one of the most boring horror movies I’ve ever personally sat through and I have no earthly idea why it caused such a stir at the time. Whole movie is a snooze fest until the last bit, but I found it less scary and more humorous.

Yes 🥺

Get over it, gramps 🤣

I think most anti-cheat won’t care a lot, especially with a lot of them actually supporting proton now. Off the top of my head tho I could guarantee that Valorant anti-cheat probably would not work or you would eventually get banned. Their shit runs like a rootkit basically

Sorry for the late reply, I have tried running windows in a VM and it kinda worked. Big pain was forwarding peripherals, I ended up having to use a ghetto KVM switch setup to get it working at the time. Hardware passthru can work well, but was a huge pain to get working right. Once its working though you get pretty damn close to bare-metal performance. Haven’t tried that in years tho cuz all my friends made fun of me for being so masochistic lol

I’ll have to try again soon. Honestly thinking of downsizing and seeing if I could possibility use my steam deck with a dock to play some desktop games that aren’t too crazy.

For most games I’m sure you can find a way to do it. If you use protontricks you are able to run an exe under a proton prefix for a game (basically a virtual windows drive in a folder for the game) which I’ve had pretty decent luck with.

If you play games that support mod organizer 2, there is a sh install script somewhere for support in proton/steam that works well (I can find if you like), but the program does run pretty slow and is fairly buggy. Usable with patience. Upside is it can run MO2 for a given game direct from steam if configured correctly

In my experience, not great. I have a 1080ti and run 2k ultrawide. A bit dated but still a pretty powerful card. Some games weren’t too noticably different but on cyberpunk for instance I took a huge performance hit and had to adjust my game to look basically terrible to get it playable compared to windows. I think I did this by setting superfx to performance.

I have to say though, I am running a pretty old processor (barely meets win11 spec) so that could be contributing to my issues.