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we will get there one day....
Let's try not to use gendered language.
"Landbastard" is the preferred designation.
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we will get there one day....
Let's try not to use gendered language.
"Landbastard" is the preferred designation.
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Descent (1994) Gets a Raytracing update
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I'm Commander Sheppard, and this is my favorite comment in the Fediverse.
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400% turnover rate
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"promoted to product"
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r/steam (maliciously) complies with the call to open again
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Armin Shimerman and Terry Farrell Join the "Delta Flyers" Podcast for "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" Rewatch
I've tried hard to get into this podcast, but in the end I just couldn't (lasted about 20 episodes).
This is coming from someone who does an annual rewatch of all the trek series.
Mcneil just sounds permanently bored with it, and Wang tries very hard to sell it but just gives off car salesman vibes the whole time.
It feels soul-less and unenthusiastic, a product they're selling, with A LOT of content locked behind a "paywall".
Real shame. Harry and Tom were my some of my favorite Voyager characters.
Here's hoping Shimerman and Farrel can improve the quality and feel.
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Yuzu Progress Report - May 2023
Having finished ToTK on PC (and on Linux no less) using Yuzu, i have to give a big shoutout to the Yuzu team.
They're doing fantastic work, and these reports are a very welcome touch (well and funnily written, and very informative)!
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Ever since the Reddit API revolt began, I've been hearing about its similarities with Digg's downfall. So I looked it up online, and it really has some crucial similarities.
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
Having been there, the part that i'm not seeing much on is the all-out warfare.
Near the end everyone got so goddamn fed up, that we just downvoted everything that wasn't a direct rebuke of the god-awful redesign (and upvoted some of the most rancid shit you ever did see).
People were stalking the new queues and just nuking everything from orbit.
Got so bad that they had to actively pull in RSS feeds (with downvote special exemptions) just to have something, ANYTHING that wasn't "FUCK THIS SHIT" or a goatse man, so people just went into the comments to do battle.
Won't reach that "burn everything" stage just yet, but by golly are they trying...
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The only thing missing is the "this side towards enemy" sticker.
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Elon Musk Now Wants to Charge ALL Users For Twitter
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Luckily, Elmo already doesn't know a whole fuckton of stuff.
Probably proud of it too.
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Tennison waiting for me to throw 1/69 of a ball
Hi Tennison, Willow would love to share a (part of a) ball with you!
https://i.imgur.com/DuXYUej.jpg
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3 AM rule :3
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No clue why you'd think that was trolling? I'd never heard of that either.
Thanks for explaining that it it stands for "Kill My Self".
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Either something is wrong with your setup, or your hardware. Make sure that you're running the right drivers and that you aren't accidentally running on your onboard graphics instead of your dedicated GPU.
Check the general Linux gaming boards, and doublecheck by installing Steam and loading up something heavier from your library if you have any.
Having just finished a DRM unencumbered version of Returnal by the excellent "LinuxRulez!" (linux repacks with all the trimmings) i can tell you that what you're experiencing isn't normal.
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Tennison waiting for me to throw 1/69 of a ball
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And yours too! Not often that you come across another blue merle australian golden.
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What is a technology growing up that when you saw it, it blew your mind?
Diskettes The computer I had loaded programs off tapes, and that was a pretty "involved" process taking anywhere from 5-20 minutes. Then we got an Atari 800XL with a disk drive, and not only did loading only take a little while, but you could also save to the disk without special workarounds.
Flat panel displays The first computer LCD screens were small, not very impressive display quality wise, but they were SO THIN! They were making an image without the large back of a "traditional monitor". I'd vowed to own one one day. (turns out that CRT screens still beat them in some areas to this day...)
Home broadband before about 2000, i had to sneak around a long telephone extension cord to be able to get online for at most a couple of hours. Then one day we got a message that they were rolling out this "broadband cable" thing, and my whole world just shifted. My machine was ALWAYS ONLINE. The internet was ALWAYS THERE. I could download things that used to take me minutes in just seconds. It blows my mind even today still.
MP3/XVID/DIVX Suddenly my harddrive could fit whole songs and later whole movies...that coupled with the whole broadband thing opened up a whole new world of possibilities.
SSD It'd used to be normal for a computer to take a couple of minutes to start up. Even when it was, doing more than a couple of intensive drive bandwith things could really bog it down to the point of being unusable. Then SSD's came along. They started as pretty small things (still have my 30gb OCZ drive somewhere), but they were so incredibly fast. Systems now started in seconds. Games in a fraction of the time. And everything just felt snappy all the time.
It feels incredible to live through these times, where we take for granted that everything will always get better/smaller/faster during our lifetimes (hell, every year even) where that has never been the case at any point in history.
And technology wise it'll never get any worse than it is right now. That's pretty goddamn neat.
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Increase width to resemble old.reddit.com?
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Still would like it to just use the width of the window though.
I know that it's become a popular "style" for some reson, but it wastes SO much space. Especially on wider/higher res monitors.
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Which was your favorite console controller and why?
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Fully agreed. The layout is just the best.
With everything in reach, and the best potitioning of buttons, sticks, and the dpad of any controller out there. And that's not even mentioning added convenience of the touchpads.
If they just copy the whole thing verbatim for the steam controller 2, it'll be a smash hit.
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Photo Etiquette Rule
Slap a NSFW on your dik-dik pics please.
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Red Dead Redemption coming to Switch
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The funny thing is that chronologically RDR 1 is set after RDR 2.
That being said, you'll probably enjoy this one too.
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First setup in my own place
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Love mine as well. Works perfectly in linux with freesync, and i've used it to finish off a lot of my Steam backlog.
And 120hz at 5120x1440 will stress even the most beastly cards, so didn't feel like having to go for an even higher refresh rate one.
Protip, putting the taskbar on the left/right side makes sure you don't waste a lot of pixels.
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What is a technology growing up that when you saw it, it blew your mind?
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650 MEGABYTE on some shiny plastic disk, when your harddrive was a whopping 40MB?
Yeah that was pretty damn magical.
Then a while later we could make our own, if the buffer underruns didn't turn your $10 empty into a coaster.