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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The same could be said about any game with any non-Steam availability. I don't think that was OP's intent. That being said, emulators surely were not the intent either.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It still needs a phone number for registration. You just don't need to share it with people you want to talk with.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

But wouldn't a case do exactly what you want? It would make the damn thing thicker and flat on the back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hope they plan to include Glaive Master Hodir this time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Making quality tools due to long-standing processes is definitely a different breed of tradition than oppressing minorities because they don't fit someone's "traditional" worldview.

To better illustrate my first post: The Victorinox craft isn't high quality because it's a tradition. It became a tradition because it's high quality. If we subtract it being a tradition, we still have a reason to keep making it this way. The same cannot be said about oppressing people, unless one literally views human suffering as value added.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I just dislike the military way of doing... everything. So not surprising this part annoys me too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I think there is some confusion between tradition and well-tested processes. I'd hardly consider creating quality products a tradition.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Still not a name. "My name is John Smith and I'm a staff sergeant" is fine. "My name is Staff Sergeant Smith" is just silly and makes a person look full of themselves.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If he's being a putin stooge because it's good for his business, he's still being a putin stooge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I'm pretty sure "SSG" isn't a part of his name.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

A mixture of NixOS and Debian, depending on the machine. NixOS is trivial to maintain and to keep predictable and tidy. When its weirdness is a problem, Debian is my answer. It doesn't get more normal than Debian.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

If you're asking about a personal opinion: any policy purely based on tradition is worthless. Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people. Just like any peer pressure, it's highly unlikely to produce anything but grief. If something is based purely on tradition without any other reason to exist, it's unlikely to be an optimal policy.

Back to the initial question. I don't think we can get infinitely progressive but we can keep subtracting the cruft of tradition until there is no necromantic peer pressure left at all. Mind that if something happens to be a tradition but still has a good reason to exist, it should be evaluated like any other idea in terms of being good or bad. I mean removing just one of the reasons to keep this idea. If it is left with zero reasons, it's out. Otherwise it's fair game.

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