• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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.

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      Oh really? Didn’t someone in the Linux community notice a backdoor in the code because it delayed the startup by something like 200ms?

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        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.

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      It is crucial for both your mental and emotional wellbeing and mine that you absolutely refrain from getting me started

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      I had an excited grin when I clicked to enter the comments and it just slid right off after reading this first one. Sweet Jesus I’m tired of everything being autism. Not everything is autism. Or ocd or depression or anxiety. Some things are just regular human experiences. Like ranting about inconsequential shit with you’re friends.

      Nothing makes me feel older or more conservative or more of a straight up hater than this website. The autistic tribe and the rest of you idiots pretending to be on the spectrum are doing too much.

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    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…

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        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?”

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      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.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    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.

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      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.

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        TBF, Han was a smuggler around the time of ANH, but he got there by running drugs for Jabba’s auntie for years… Han Solo was a plug first, and don’t even get me started on the Chewie/Scooby thread.

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        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.

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      If anything, Han shooting and being a “scoundrel” adds even gravitas to his change of heart near the end.

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      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.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    The aliens in Signs are idiots for invading a planet that’s 70% water. And if they landed in a cornfield in rural PA in the middle of summer the humidity would have killed them instantly.

    And what’s worse is Shyamalan lives in PA and should know this.

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      Lol I actually grew up near where the movie took place and now I feel stupid for never thinking about the humidity factor. Summer in PA is underestimated by those who think “it’s the northeastern US, how bad can it get?”. For those of you who don’t know, most summer days you can see the humidity and you’re drenched in sweat about 2 minutes after you exit a cool shower.

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      I disagree. If water is essential for their spaceflight, IE fuel, reaction mass, ect then it’s fine that they would invade.

      Humans have invaded the Sahara desert, which is hot enough to kill, the arctic and Antarctic which is cold enough to kill, the submarine realm which can crush, freeze and drown us, and even the moon, which is hollow and full of dangerous reptillians.

      We go to extremely dangerous places to fulfill our need for resources and territorial ambition

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          I almost wonder if it’s like Mt Everest climbers who climb without oxygen tanks, they do it more to prove that they can than for any rational reason

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      Alien invasion is always stupid. Interstellar travel uses so much energy, it can power a civilisation for a year, and that’s for just below light speed from our nearest star. Their tech level would be high enough to just scoop up whatever resource they want from astroids, if not ourright skimming from gas giants or stars. Oh, you need genetic material? Musquito drones would do the job. I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.

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      It wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t also naked.

      Also, they have interstellar travel but need to use crop circles to communicate. I know that’s just part of the premise but it’s still stupid.

      But not nearly as stupid as flying all the way here and trying win a land war completely unarmed. If your battle plan can be beaten by a baseball bat and asthma, you should maybe rethink your invasion.

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        I think the movie would work better if the aliens were just messing with this one family on a farm, like they’re a scout force.

        But it’s like humans trying to invade Mars in their birthday suits, just assuming the planet isn’t toxic and uninhabitable.

        Like, what did the invasion look like in the tropics, where it rains just about every day? Did they get out of their ships and just start sizzling?

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        Who says they were the aliens?

        Man, the aliens sat it out in their dry ass ship and sent a crop of vat grown drones to go harvest all the organs they wanted on a world covered in H2O.

        The drones aren’t bright, but the get the job done. They only last 30 hours or so before they start decomposing, so it doesn’t matter if they get locked in a pantry or clubed with a bat.

        You think a starfaring species would come all the way to Sol 3, and not being a bio organic drone to go out and brave the hazards of an acid covered water world hell planet?

        Shit. Don’t get me fucking started on how many people miss the point of the aliens in fucking Signs.

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          If there was this much world building I’d probably like it more.

          But the only rules they established for the aliens are poison gas and water dissolving.

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            Actually, The only world building they did firmly establish was that the aliens did not matter…

            For all the audience needs to know, they used the gas to transfer their consciousness into a new host, and they do this everytime they visit a new biosphere.

            But no, you fucking de-cloak early during one childrens birthday party in South America and your ass is a joke, you get fucking anthropomorphized for the next 20 years…

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      I like the holy water fan theory. They were not aliens but demons and all of the glasses of water were blessed when Mel Gibson regained his faith

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          If it had been talking about demons at all during the movie this would eliminate my major problem with the movie.

          There just weren’t enough rules about the universe demonstrated to the viewer to know what’s going on.

          And I know Shyamalan is capable of this because he did such a good job with this in The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.

          I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.

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    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.

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    Sounds like a good way to enhance your critical thinking skills. Something we humans direly need today.

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      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.

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    Okay, that’s inspired, and I’m going to make it a thing around here come hell or high water.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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    the metal gear franchise. i love it, i hate it, i love to hate it. i literally could and have gone on for hours. my friends brace for impact when they use a meme from there. but revengence memes are always safe