sad and big true

i played outbreak so much as a kid that I still have the speedrun routes burned into my brain. put me in wild things and mf i'm killing the elephant to force the lions to spawn for an easier escape. i never even had an internet connection for my ps2 so I was straight singleplayering it

I had never heard this before comrade and after reading a hell of an effort post

i feel free

You of 20 years ago had good taste, the game is dreadful offline. It's a testament to how easy it is to love trash as a kid though, that I fell in love with it despite of that. All they had to do was remake the RPD in 3D, and kid-me was happy.

This post totally got me looking into that project and how I might be able to finally get that online experience in.

And it's actually Mark that Kevin dislikes. Kevin's a great character mechanically, I just think it's funny that those Japanese devs, either intentionally or not, painted a very realistic picture of these characters relationships...

Yoko's another great character for beginners. 8 inventory slots is a game changer in this game

Have such fond memories of this game, played it all the time as a kid, but was never able to get onto the internet due to the family being clueless about internet connections at the time. when we did get it connected, the servers had shut down.

File 2 was my jam, specifically. I could speedrun the zoo and the hospital level with my eyes closed. absolutely hated the subway scenario.

this is your reminder than Kevin, the cop character, has his AI preference to dislike one of the two black characters, and both black characters share a dislike of Kevin in return. Jim is the GOAT.

I don't think it's going to happen over any single event. I think Federated platforms will remain small scale but very active, and that's all they have to do as mainstream social medias spring up, monetize, and collapse, over and over and over again.

Then one day in the future, the latest generation of cool kids will just realize that it's way cooler to be on the Federated platforms than it is to be on the mainstream sites.

Love me ProtonMail.

This is good stuff. The work I've done as a freelancer was both extremely liberating and comparatively stress-free, but also frustrating as I was chasing money more often than I was working.

I think most people are drawn to freelance work so they can be free from traditional work structures, which under capitalism are oppressive and exploitative. The current state of freelance work laws in many areas almost seems like the system rejecting this desire for freedom, and coming down hard on workers who try to pursue it.

Sure, you can utilize a general or specialized skill on your own terms, but we're going to make sure the class that would have exploited you under a traditional employment system gets you exploit you anyway by ghosting you.

asking the real questions

i don't have an answer but im here for the question

The game is in a pretty rough state. I'm surprised 1.0 is coming. I guess it'll be a lot like it's predecessor, and be perpetually janky but still fun.

At the time, I think I had uncommon hardware. I was trying to get Linux going on the cheapest little notebook you can imagine. I also got the same retort from support forums at the time, so my problem obviously wasn't widespread. It was just the most definitive effort into Linux I had made, and I was just getting rebuffed by what I saw as silly little problems.

That was close to a decade ago now, though. After so much faffing around on the Steam Deck I think I'm ready to give Linux another stab.

I'm feeling positive, too. You can't undo the progres made in the decentralized network space. Every loss for big tech is a win for us. I don't hold much hope that decentralized networks are going to sweep the globe and return the internet to it's former glory. But I do think we'll always have a space, and that space can only get bigger.

I've never seen a Tankie claim that Russia, China, North Korea, etc. are good governments that are always ethical. It's almost always a comparison between the US and these other authoritarian countries that they get stuck on.