[-] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Oh, look. I'm alone in saying I didn't buy it before, not buying it on Steam, either. Go suck it, Dibalo IV.

[-] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

I invented a machine that converts masking tape you can buy at the dollar store into backup tapes. I rewrote Bacula to write the backup AND print pretty flowers on the masking tape. Totally free and open-source. Download it from a rotary phone.

[-] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

It's like, when you install arch, you just feel like not bothering with installing the gui stuff, because you're so above pointing and clicking on things. If only they'd make a command line version of Metro Exodus. Metro Exodus on the command line would be so much more powerful. It's so lame with graphics. Don't get me started on editing my photos of the kids and fam. Just load that pic up on the command line as raw data. I'll just eliminate the red eye reading the machine code and editing it. GUIs are for weaklings. Just install arch without X or gnome or any of that stuff. Don't even get me started on the KDE wussies. Oh yeah, you want things to look all pretty on your screen to click on. Computers aren't pretty. They take commands. All you need are fingers and a keyboard. You can play tetris on the terminal, you know. No need for graphics. The linux devs just added graphics and a GUI for wussy users. Even invented that penguin thing to make it pretty and dumbed down.

[-] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Just misunderstanding social cues. Where I live (Spain), there's a script you're supposed to follow for certain things and newcomers, understandably, don't understand the script. One famous example is buying new clothes. They all look great on. The idea here is that the poor person spent their hard-earned money on the new clothes. Damned right they look great on! Another would be birthdays celebrated in public venues. Perhaps someone you know is celebrating their birthday in a public venue and you had no idea they were celebrating their birthday on that day. You walk up to them and wish them a happy birthday, BUT you were not invited to this celebration. Since you weren't invited you did not come prepared with a present for the birthday person. The safe thing to do is to ignore, socialize with the people you came with, and make like that person isn't even there until they approach YOU. When and if they approach you, you make pretend you're all distracted and you have to be like, "Ahhh! I didn't see you! What's up?" The reason: that person is buying all the invitees the drinks and food. In exchange, the invitees have brought presents. It's a very nuanced and weird situation all of us have encountered. We err on the fear of not having brought a present because we had no idea because we were not invited.

[-] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Imagine submitting a CV to a potential employer with a mugshot. Unless you're looking for a job with a criminal organization or trying to be US president it won't fly.

[-] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

I can say why I'm not exactly fond of my dentist: I'm missing a molar I don't need, my dentist keeps on trying to get me to spend over a thousand euros on an implant he can put in. Every visit he tries to sell me this useless implant. Every visit I say, "no thank you." This has been going on for five years. It gets old. Other than that, he's great at his job so I don't know. I don't consider him to be of the "bad rep" variety. A failed salesperson? Perhaps.

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I'm asking because it seems to me that there are people that write guides to games that are high score addicts. For example, if you look up a guide to an RPG or even an Action RPG game on there, the author of the guide wants to help you. The same thing goes for people writing guides for platform-type games. However, if you're like me, and play all kinds of games, from rolling dice to adventure RPG to platforming games, and if you have read a few guides from there, you perhaps have noticed something I've noticed that irritates me. Score chasing types of game guides are sometimes incomplete and refer to tropes like, "if you're feeling tired, take a break and eat a salad" types of things. I love arcade style games and feel like these types of guides which say such things are absolutely dumb. There are also guides to score-chasing games that leave out important information or do not elaborate on things, or even seem a bit subjective when it comes down to difficulty level (score chasers often have some type of level of ease, starting from "easy" moving into "normal" and then to "hardcore.") Recently, I was bored and decided to peruse some guides to "score chasers" I frequently play to see what there was, and I was appalled. Guides that leave out important info. Guides that make comments on modes of play (such as hardcore) that are not helpful, etc. I think this also relates to Steam's list of "curators." They also need a rating system independent of awards and all that other stuff. I don't know what everyone else thinks about this, but sometimes, especially when it comes to games labelled "score chaser" and other games that have a lot of chance in tandem with skill, that the authors of the guides are sometimes not trustworthy because they leave out details that could get you a higher score (I know myself, because I get high scores lol). It's like they're paranoid about getting their high scores beaten or something (I have done that, without having read their guide). Sorry if you don't feel like reading this, but I think it's a problem. Guides like these discourage people who are trying to learn how to play a game and it seems like the guide is written in such a way as to discourage people from playing the game because they give the wrong idea about the game on purpose, because they don't want their high score beaten by someone that read the guide.

TLDR; some writers of guides for arcade and score chaser types of games do so out of paranoid interests in their own high scores and should be vetted on Steam because they either provide terse information about particular items on purpose or give lame, generic advice such as wear comfortable clothing and eat a salad.

[-] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

It definitely should change its name to US Politics.

[-] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

As a published author, I have to say that yes, indeed, copyright laws have turned corporations into participants in a "copyright industry." It's true that a creator's livelihood relies on people buying their work. It's also true that a creator's livelihood depends on the dissemination of their creations. The more you're in circulation, the better off you will be. Corporate greed and defending the bottom line under copyright law is getting ridiculous. It really puts limits on the scope of a creator's success. This is why there are creators out there like me who do not mind piracy. When I'm dead, if I wrote something important, I hope future people will be able to see it. I'm pretty sure that whatever I wrote isn't all that significant, but who knows? Maybe it will be. What I'm getting at: It's becoming a real problem for documenting the history of human material culture, when you think about it. Corporations are controlling and guarding the human material culture. Their goals work contrary to the goal of the historians and archaeologists of the future. Corporate greed is preventing future people from understanding their past.

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