BaumGeist

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[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago

Ni No Kuni 2. Looking for a new RPG, missing that anime aesthetic so I searched up "best JRPGs" (yes, yes I know now that it's supposed to be perjorative); kept seeing this recommended, including by randos on Reddit (so not just paid review sites).

After 45 minutes of the most cliche-filled cutscenes and a prolonged tutorial for basic gameplay, I finally can just try it out and... It's the most boring, generic gameplay ever. Dull story, bland characters, bland gameplay, too long of intro. 2/10

The only other game that comes close is Assassin's Creed 3. Finished the tutorial mission, made it to Boston, started chasing collectibles and trying to 100% the first map. Sunk in about 5 hours and can't find the rest of the collectibles, so I decide to move on and come back later.

That's when it hits you with "PSYCH! That was just the Prologue, and all that time and effort invested in this character is MEANINGLESS. Here's a brand new character to build up."

I hate that. I don't mind when the game begins with an OP character to show you the ropes only to take all of it away, but please make it short. I loved Metroid Prime, for example. Investing 5 hours to have all of it mean nothing to your character, and next to nothing for the story fucking sucks. 4/10, would probably still finish just because I loved 1+2.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

This can be handled pretty much entirely on the host by configuring your qemu settings; it's got very robust virtual networking options. Basically just expose the host's VPN interface (e.g. usually called something like tun) for VPN access, and make a separate virtual interface that only the host and guest can access for the stuff like ssh.

Here's the qemu wiki about networking, definitely where you should start

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

If you think not having sex is so terrible it's basically torture, the problem isn't that you haven't had sex. It really isn't that great, and you need to stop idolizing these things

What you're actually missing, and misinterpreting as "sex will fix me" is genuine human connection, and that is a skill that takes a loooot of practice, mistakes, heartache, and even at times, being "cringe."

But it's easier to think that sex is some magical experience that a secret organization is denying you.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

That's a very complex question with many, many answers. No individual life can be boiled down to a single phenomenon. A lot of the answers I'm seeing in here are great, ans definitely describe a phenomenon at play, but it's important to remember that nobody's just outright stupid enough to fall for a single piece of rhetoric. Instead, them coming into bigotry is the result of a complex web of ideas that brought them to that conclusion.

That being said, I'll add my two cents that I don't see anyone saying: privilege. Privilege insulates people from how cold and cruel the world can be; in doing so, they don't learn the comraderie that grows out of shared hardship (aka empathy). They see others experiencing it, and assume they are weak, both for "allowing themselves" to fall into hardship, as well as for "getting conned" by others who have fallen on hardship. This too adds fuel to the fire that is all the other reasons people get pulled into hateful ideologies.

Imagine being excluded from some perceived secret club based on conditions you didn't have a choice in, and seeing women or bipoc or lgbt or the working class supporting each other. You too would feel resentment towards those who won't include you in their circles. Yet you never developed the proper understanding of the ties that bind them, so you only see it as hate towards you and your demographic; this then becomes a feedback loop: your hate hurts thode communities, making them even more interdependent on each other, making you more resentful and frustrated.

You fall in with people you don't really like because of a shared disdain for The Others, and then, because that's your only lived experience, assume all identity-based comraderie is necessarily just a loose collective of people that only get along because of a common enemy. This reinforces your belief that The Others hate you, only adding fuel to the fire of your own hate.

This is also why these people are so easily manipulated: all you have to do is control their perception of who hates them, and they'll do whatever you say to make it stop. This is why politics and religion are such great examples, and no "side" is immune. Want to make a leftist out of a fascist? Convince them that The Jews are actually just the bourgeoisie, who must be killed for the good of ourselves and our nation. An anarchist who fears authoritarians will readily agree to being a part of an exclusive coalition of individuals that determines the way society is structured, so, y'know, the authoritarians don't get their way.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I've never seen a dead battery that didn't eventually go full "spicy pillow," but until then they're as safe as new (assuming no physical damage to the battery). That being said, it wouldn't hurt you to take it to a certified battery recycler and get a new one.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Going vegan could save as much as 50% of diet-based greenhouse gas emissions, which in total is around 20% of all ghg emissions.

Or, y'know, we could overengineer a solution without knowing what the unintended consequences are and end up shifting from one global crisis to another, but at least our tastebuds wouldn't have to miss out on our precious rotting corpse flavor.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I have a Libre LePotato, Pinebook and Pinephone. They're fine for most of my use cases, but they don't handle games too well. They are also not great for VMs or emulation, and no chance in hell would I use any for my home media server.

That being said, I'm starting to see ARM CPU desktops in my feeds, and I think one of those would be fine for everything but gaming (which is more an issue of the availability of native binaries and not necessarily outright performance). TBH at that price point, using off-chip memory and GPU, I don't see much reason to go with ARM; maybe the extra cores, but I can't imagine there is much in the way of electrical efficiency that SoCs entail.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago

Chili without beans is just spiced meat water. You don't like chili, you like stew.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Yes actually. They add a nice tangy tartness to an otherwise blandly sweet salad. Here's one of my favorite dishes of all time (minus the lemon zest, that's overkill)

Also pineapple on pizza is great, I'll go down with this ship. Y'all missing out on the sweet/savory/salty combos can hate all you want

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

And that's assuming they even have a support staff. Most of the time I see this bullshit, it's small dev teams maintaining niche software with less than the bare minimum of documentation.

The only problem I have with your stance is that it's not petty, pointless nor pedantic. It's a plague on the world of software. Discord is terrible for the use-case it's intended for (group chats), why the fuck are people using it for their community forums????

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been running Debian stable on my decade-old desktop for about 3 years, and on my ideapad that's just as old for about 5. During that time I had an update break something only once, and it was the Nvidia driver what did it. A patch was released within a three days.

Debian epitomizes OS transparency for me. Sure, I can still customize the hell out of it and turn it into a frankenix machine, but if I don't want to, I can be blissfully unaware of how my OS works, and focus only on important computing tasks (like mindlessly scrolling lemmy at 2 am).

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I use virt-manager. Works better than virtualbox did at the time (back while v6.1 was still the main release branch), it's easier, and it doesn't involve hitching yourself to Oracle.

VMWare may be "free," but it ain't free. And if you don't care about software freedom, why choose Linux over Windows or MacOS? Also, Workstation Player lacks a lot of functionality that makes it not good as a hypervisor. Only one VM can be powered at a time, and all the configuration is severely limited. Plus the documentation is mediocre compared to the official virt-manager docs.

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