Mad Max Fury Road. They defeat the tyrant, and get the control of the water valves. Then they open the valves and seemingly keep them open. One problem, how long is the water reservoir gonna last now?...
Inspired by the ongoing Resurgence giveaway, I thought it might be fun to discuss some of our favourite Trek games. Underappreciated gems are particularly welcome!
I’ve been seeing this one for years, are we even sure it was ever a real thing and not just a meme about the “dihydrogen monoxide” science word scary type reactionary movement?
Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat....
Once you establish a baseline for how that fictional world functions, any deviation from it causes issues with the suspension of disbelief.
Your argument is the same one people have been using for years to deflect any and all criticisms when writers fail to keep up with their own world building or are just too damn lazy to care.
They essentially took notifications/settings from the bottom corner and the personal chat section and just made a four panel bottom menu with individual icons for each. They’re simple in aesthetic but fairly clear, in my opinion.
Why the fuck would anyone who wants their players to have fun make them do paperwork in a game? I’d have quit on the spot or told them to shove it.
There’s already enough paperwork on character sheets, putting it in game canonically unless it’s some gag comedy thing sounds like the fastest way to be the GM without players.
And my point is that you can shout until your lungs disintegrate and the only thing that really talks is money. Money you ain’t giving them and big oil is.
“A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the existence of other software.”
That’s the Wikipedia definition, in CompTIA Security+ the concept of the malware masking itself is quintessential to the definition of a rootkit. I hear this shit all the time from people on here who think anything that gets elevated privileges is a “rootkit” and hasn’t the slightest idea what the fuck they’re talking about.
“But you don’t know if it could install a backdoor!”
You don’t know if half the shit you install is doing that either, or is Easy Anticheat known for doing this in some official investigation? Did someone find out that Activision is deploying malware in ricochet?
If not, you’re operating on suspicion that you don’t harbor for other software without evidence, based purely on things you’ve probably just barely heard about.
I really don’t like Lower Decks. Before you downvote, I would never tell anyone it’s bad or that they shouldn’t like it. I just really can’t figure out why most people seem to like it so much....
Not liking the art style makes sense, it’s the same “kidney bean for a head” style that’s been taught at all animation schools for the last half decade now and it’s so overused that it just looks bad.
It’s the Rick and Morty style, essentially. Everyone’s copied it now.
That’s like asking in the early 90’s if knowing how to use a search engine will be a required skill.
Without a doubt. Just don’t rely on it for your own professional knowledge, use it to get the busywork done and automate where you can. I have virtually replaced my search engine needs with Bing AI when troubleshooting at work because it can find PDF manuals for obscure network hardware faster than I can shift through the first five pages of a Google search. It’s also one of those things where the skill of the operator can change the output from garbage to gold. If you can’t describe your problem or articulate what you want the solution to look like, then your AI is going to be just as clueless.
I don’t know what the future will hold and how much of our white collar workforce will be replaced by AI in the coming decades, but our cloud and automation engineers are not only leveraging LLM models but actively programming and training in-house models on company data. Bottom rung data entry is going the way of the dodo in the next ten years for sure. Programmers will likely see the same change that translators did after translation software was developed, they moved from doing the job themselves to QA’ing the software.
Times are changing but getting onboard with using AI as well as learning how to integrate it will be the next big thing in the IT world. It’s not going to replace us anytime soon but it will reduce the workforce as the years go by.
It was because they’d given him the supplies he needed to restart the bar after the FCA revoked his business license. So they were threatening to take back the equipment and start charging him rent again if he continued to do arms deals on the station.
Of course the real-world reason is that it’s cheaper to shake the camera and set off a firecracker than to build a scale model just to paint a burn scar on the side....
I literally debated someone yesterday over whether or not it’s the consumers willingness to buy that created the demand for a product.
Dude straight up tried to argue that it’s the company’s fault for making a product, as if they wouldn’t do it specifically because they’re going to make money on it.
This website is full of kids who can’t grasp basic economic principles. If everyone stopped buying, all these businesses would go under. They don’t care about the social media bitching, the only way to get the message across is the only thing they care about.
When did they say they judge them at face value? You know it’s possible for people to be skeptical after talking with them for a few minutes and assessing them based on who they are?
If you’re well-attuned to social interaction you can sniff out con men within minutes, they give off the same weird vibes that religious nutter butters do when trying to convert you, or MLM/Pyramid scammers when trying to recruit you.
I found the history of the early Church to be solidly supporting of the Orthodox view.
Not to be a dick, but that’s because they did their absolute best to kill heretics and dismantle their belief systems by destroying their literature.
The early church had a lot of ideas about Jesus and his purpose, but the gnostics and other groups were all suppressed by the Orthodox Church and we only know about their beliefs through the lens of their interlocutors.
History is written by the victors, if the Orthodox Church is responsible for early church history they’re going to give you their version of it.
Sure? I don’t care about US presidents. I’m talking about how personal responsibility doesn’t exist for Hamas.
Israel is apparently completely at fault for having to attack hospitals because that’s where Hamas is choosing to fight from specifically to increase civilian death, but it’s not Hamas’ fault as well for choosing to put their own civilians in harms way for their political goals?
Fuck the both of them, the middle east is a cesspit of ancient draconian morals and ideas, and they’re constantly dragging first world nations into their ancient goat herder religion bullshit.
Sick of seeing the world on the brink of collapse and the conservative nutjobs always claiming it’s the end times and using it to justify their oppression of minority groups in other countries. Structured nations borderline fall apart every few years because a few million extremists half a globe away have had a blood feud for thousands of years.
Over the weekend, at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, including multiple United Nations schools sheltering Palestinians. At least 85 incidents of Israeli bombing have impacted 67 facilities run by the United Nations relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in the last two months....
Words explain ideas, improper definitions lead to miscommunications. Words matter and changing definitions has always been a sign of an attempt to smuggle ideas in.
“Genocide” used to mean a concerted attempt to actively exterminate a group of people based on their race. Now it just means “anything that disrupts local culture.” It’s like watering down the word “murder” to mean “physical assault.” It’s not that assaulting people is ok, it’s that it’s not murder.
“Words don’t matter” is some of the most smooth brain bullshit I’ve ever seen, as if our entire conceptualization of ideas isn’t rooted in what words we use to define them.
Why do you take the word of genocidal religious terrorists at face value? You just assume they’re telling the truth? Strange, especially considering they’d kill you without a second thought just on your username alone.
You might as well go support fundamentalist Christian Republicans and take their word without evidence.
That’s because Hamas are animals. They’re radical fundamentalist Muslims that want everyone thats not willing to convert to their religion dead. They specifically want all Jews dead regardless. It’s not conjecture, it’s their mission statement.
If you don’t believe me, just go over there and tell them You’re LGBTQ and identify as female, you’ll see how animalistic they truly are.
I lived under Sharia law for almost two years and saw the dangers of letting religion rule your law/culture. The Israelis and their surrounding Arab neighbors are going to keep killing each other until the heat death of the universe.
Mass Effect. Played the first one and couldn’t get off Eden Prime cause of the shitty starting rifle and the OG game’s idea of weapon stability.
Played Mass Effect 2 years later and beat it in a week, just absolutely loved the whole thing. Went back and played the first one after that to get the whole story. Then waited for ME3 to come out.
I still hate the way weapons work in the original ME1 but I pushed through, not surprised it turned people off of the game though.
Dev Behind Highly Regarded PC Game Explains Why He Raised The Price: "Go Pirate It, I Don't Care" (www.gamespot.com)
summary:...
Roots of Yggdrasil combines city building, card games, roguelikes, and Norse mythology (www.pcgamesn.com)
What are some happy endings that really wasn't all that happy?
Mad Max Fury Road. They defeat the tyrant, and get the control of the water valves. Then they open the valves and seemingly keep them open. One problem, how long is the water reservoir gonna last now?...
Let's remember some Star Trek games
Inspired by the ongoing Resurgence giveaway, I thought it might be fun to discuss some of our favourite Trek games. Underappreciated gems are particularly welcome!
Fuck autofailing skill checks (lemmy.world)
Switched my Parents to Linux
I’m visiting my parents for the holidays and convinced them to let me switch them to Linux....
Valve To Steam Deck Owners: Stop Huffing Its Vent Fumes (kotaku.com)
the land of the f... (discuss.tchncs.de)
Fntastic Appears To Have Simply Changed Its Name To Eight Points - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)
Network protocols for dummies (sopuli.xyz)
Had this conversation with someone who chose to no longer be at my table after meeting a blind NPC (files.catbox.moe)
Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat....
venture capitalism goes brrr (feddit.de)
This is the fun part (startrek.website)
The truth is still out there (lemmy.world)
Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros (www.notebookcheck.net)
Lower Decks: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?
I really don’t like Lower Decks. Before you downvote, I would never tell anyone it’s bad or that they shouldn’t like it. I just really can’t figure out why most people seem to like it so much....
there were two things in my advent calendar today (lemmy.world)
I prefer to be the one who writes code (fed.dyne.org)
cross-posted from: fed.dyne.org/post/43780
The surprisingly robust careers of Star Trek stars who became video game voice actors (arstechnica.com)
How did money work on deep space 9?
Whenever there’s a storyline with quark, they talk about money/latinum....
Gotta be nice to the future skynet (lemmy.world)
TIL that Hitler approved the construction of a supertank weighing 1,000 tons, over 100 feet long, with a main gun repurposed from the deck gun of a battleship. (en.wikipedia.org)
Possible headcanon reason why consoles always explode on the bridge
Of course the real-world reason is that it’s cheaper to shake the camera and set off a firecracker than to build a scale model just to paint a burn scar on the side....
touch title.txt (lemmy.ml)
Looking at you, Google and Unity. (sh.itjust.works)
for god's sake (feddit.de)
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What kind of spirituality/religion/faith do you find support in and why?
F#€k $pez (lemmy.ml)
Surprised Pikachu (lemmy.ml)
Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza Tops 13,000 as Israel Repeatedly Strikes U.N. Schools Housing Refugees (www.democracynow.org)
Over the weekend, at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, including multiple United Nations schools sheltering Palestinians. At least 85 incidents of Israeli bombing have impacted 67 facilities run by the United Nations relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in the last two months....
Which video game did you bounce off of at first, but then tried again later for it to become one of your favorites of all time?