Can't wait for the game engine to delete my filesystem and then be really very sorry about it.

I end up waiting for 10 minutes to buy some bread and bananas

I could literally walk down to the end of the street and buy my bananas from the gentleman who's been operating the same produce stall for the last decade, then a loaf of bread from the bakery next door, and be home within 10 minutes. I don't want to make assumptions, but if bread and bananas requires you to travel to a packed general store, wherever you live, it's a city planning hellscape.

US zoning laws are a fucking farce. They were developed to facilitate racial segregation in the 1910s and never really went away.

Life is an eternal battle between "I won't pry, he'll tell me if he wants" and "I won't bother him, he'll ask me if he wants to know".

Meanwhile, Yes Man-aligned courier is out there making said ashes.

At the risk of breaking rule 3 point 3, which specifically forbids the topic of politics:

Can you not see how literally all of those points are applicable to the present-day USA? The comment is accurate, correct, and factual.

Regardless of whether you think you're right or wrong, or your opinion of the other person, you will not call any community member a fascist, a nazi, a communist, a Maoist, a liberal, a fence-sitter, a Posadist, or any other politically charged insult. If a comment or post is in violation of the rules, you can report it. If you need to vent your frustration, you can go to Twitter. I won't allow this community to turn into a Linux-flavored political partisanship shit-show.

This discussion is over.

Fucking christ man, I just woke up and you're already flinging your shit at others

This place is starting to get worse than reddit. Same amount of crazies, but much higher density and not nearly enough of the normal, self-aware people to make it bearable.

If you're going to act like a petulant child, I'm gonna put you in timeout. Go sit in the corner.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

It's bang on how the aliens in the TNG episode Darmok communicate. Their spoken language is based entirely on metaphors and historical/cultural references, and meaning is derived from a shared understanding of those memes within the present context.

It's universally considered one of the best episodes of all of Star Trek, up there with The Drumhead and The Measure of a Man. TNG is at its best when it touches contemporary philosophical subjects within the framework of sci-fi and an enlightened human golden age.

If you're not committed to watching the entire series and don't mind missing some minor context, you should probably start with season 2. Season 1 ("before the beard") is an extremely mixed bag, including one hilariously racist episode.

Big fans of crowbars.

Ah yes, the famous DRM.

Some launchers allow you to play fully offline, but only after you've authenticated and started the game at least once with a real Microsoft account. The launcher has a sophisticated validation mechanism to ensure this: a single boolean value stored in a JSON file. Set that to true and you're good to go.

I don't see how Steam would make any difference.

• Implementing any kind of DRM is the game developer's prerogative.
• Allowing other versions is possible, again, at the developer's convenience.
• No other launcher needed besides Steam (and Steam is very far from being only a launcher)
• Steam Workshop (because fuck Forge)

The only downside I can see is that Steam doesn't have a way to maintain multiple instances of the same game.

Star Trek makes me depressed. We've already failed Roddenberry's vision of an enlightened humanity on so many levels.

Our business-critical internal software suite was written in Pascal as a temporary solution and has been unmaintained for almost 20 years. It transmits cleartext usernames and passwords as the URI components of GET requests. They also use a single decade-old Excel file to store vital statistics. A key part of the workflow involves an Excel file with a macro that processes an HTML document from the clipboard.

I offered them a better solution, which was rejected because the downtime and the minimal training would be more costly than working around the current issues.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is being review bombed

No, it's not. Review bombing is a reaction caused by an extrinsic factor. DD2 is being reviewed negatively because of what's built into the game.

“Is this a virus?”

Your 12-year-old brother is more security-conscious than most of the adults I work with.

Valve revolutionized Linux gaming; Tim categorically rejects it.
Valve banned shitcoins and blockchain scams; Tim welcomed them with open arms.
Valve enforces honesty regarding AI slop; Tim wants to literally deceive people.
All that on top of what they did with third-party exclusives.

He's like that annoying kid who didn't get invited to a birthday party and vowed to always do the opposite of what the popular kid does. Petulant fucking overgrown child.

aplay: "Hey kid... wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?"

Probably to avoid linking to kid diddler instances.