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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Then why do the cops put them on tanks and shoot them at people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Love popOS, but it did not play well with my multi monitor setup. It just couldn't deal with different resolutions (qhd laptop, two fhd monitors) and sizes. Mint can. So I am back to Mint and stopped worrying about distro hopping.

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

But if a game does provide a win state, then I think that carries with it the implicit promise that the win state is reachable if the player demonstrates sufficient skill.

Almost all rougeliktes I've ever played, did that. An actual inevitable fail state is very very rare. It's always about juggling odds, making decisions, balancing risks and very rarely does one play optimal. The challenge is that the difficulty curve can be all over the place. This monster was easy to beat, but you don't know if the next one is the run killer.

Slay the Spire feels like a unforgiving game if you don't get your good cards and relics at Ascension 1. Except of course that the best players can beat Ascension 20 (about 5 times harder I'd say) with 50+% consistency and would almost never fail at low difficulties.

DCSS is full of random bullshit, getting shafted, out of depth monsters, bad loot etc. Yet people have insane winstreaks on even weak combinations.

Listening to a good commentated run by a highly skilled player always reset my perspective on everything I thought was bullshit or inevitable. I am the problem and I can solve it by improving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not a avid league player, but as far as I know Flash has been mandatory in competitive on like 99% of champs for pretty much most of leagues existence.

Blink is just a different approach on the topic of instant movement skills.

Flash is free and has no downsides, but is rather short and has a long ass cooldown.

Blink Dagger is fairly expensive, can be disabled through player damage, gives zero stats but has long range and a reasonably short cooldown.

Both fundamentally shape their game for the better, because without them the game would be a lot slower and less spectacular. Probably 80-90% of all "greatest highlights of dota" scenes feature a blink and I presume it's vice versa in league.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Same here for Dota 2.

An insufferable playerbase combined with thousands of obscure mechanics, details and interactions makes it basically impenetrable as a casual game for someone to try it out. I got 4k hours in it and too many of them were filled with negative emotions towards myself or others.

It's unfortunately also the best competitive game ever made, both for playing and watching.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

For the mentioned reasons, any ai art and it's generators should be treated the same way as toxic waste. It's radioactive garbage that should be buried under 120000 tons of rock and salt with a big sign with a skull Infront of it.

It's a hallucinating computer, but it can't die and we are giving it the worst drug cocktail imaginable and then tweak whether it needs more fly amanita, gasoline or dried centipede to make the titties just right.

It is the best intersection of human and machine that we are capable off and the results is exclusively the worst of both worlds.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

That fairy design was so wildly out of place. Zelda was never completely prudish, but heeeeelllo there with the see-through leotard, very pointy boobs, high pitched giggle and very suggestive posing from basically a frog perspective.

I was 11. And then I was slightly older.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

While they aren't immortal, there is something deeply unnatural about these zombies still walking the earth. Yes, the best medicine that money can buy is quite powerful, but cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and various other degenerative diseases are so incredibly common at their age and are mostly irreversible.

My wonderful grandmother lies, bed ridden, barely conscious in a care home, waiting for the end. And these freaks stumble around, withering before our eyes, yet always getting up again to inject a little more desperation and destruction into the world. It's so bleak and I don't know if I can stand another round of this charade.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

If you try to look up anything DIY or household related, you used to get forum posts, maybe a blog, or a at very least a company site that still made a human write a little article about the topic.

Now it's just pure ai generated garbage. They all have the same bullet-point list form, endless blabbering in a casual tone (So you like many other people want to drill a hole into a wall. Well there an many things to consider...), lack any specifics and are like three times as long as they should be. And then 10 product referrals to Amazon with names like the above.

The internet was always kinda fucked, but this feels like digital Kessler syndrome. Once you hit a critical amount of garbage, every bit of useful information will just be buried by trash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I don't want to compile anything. I don't want to "make". I don't want to use command lines. I don't want to download Rust. Or know the difference between python2 and python3 and how you still have to be specific about it. I never wanna read a git manual with lines that mean nothing to me again. I don't care about snap or flatpack or whatever package distribution gives me a year old version of my program on this distro and how that version differs from the one from the webpage.

Sorry Linux, but a big download button, double click, "install to c:/program files", "want a short cut to desktop", done. is the gold standard for 99% of applications.

I know there are reasons. But still, it sucks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You don't owe any employers anything unless there is already a contract stating otherwise.

"Thank you for the opportunity but I've decided to explore other options." would be the professional phrasing if that helps.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's really funny how peas just do that and those birds happen to have these useful beaks.

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