accusing others of speaking in bad faith

You’re not allowed to talk about bad faith in a debate forum? I don’t understand. How could that do anything besides shield the sealions, JAQoffs, and grifters?

And please don’t tell me it’s about “civility”. Bad faith is the civil accusation when the alternative is your debate partner is a fool.

IDK, a zipper is pretty dangerous when I’m steering it, never mind full self driving.

I found this game to be pretty mediocre overall.

The early-game motorcycle is not good. A big part of the game is upgrading your bike, and this is fine, but early game you’ve got a motorcycle that can’t outrun a dog, skids like you’re on black ice, and needs a fill up every three minutes. By the end of the game that bike is a joy to ride, but it’s weird to make a first impression like that.

The combat mechanics are good, but there’s the weird progression thing again where early weapons are stupidly bad. A single shot form an M4 was way more powerful than from an M14. If you’re like me, that’s annoying.

The zombies are what they get right. They’re fast and scary and they will destroy you. The hordes are challenging sandboxes of destruction that these developers nailed.

unless suicide counts as violence

What? Of course it does. Overcoming a bodies’ will to life is an inherently violent act. No amount of consent or dignity will change that. And the Scandinavian escape pods are hardly the norm. Both people I know ate pistols.

You cheated not only the game, but yourself. You didn’t grow. You didn’t improve. You took a shortcut and gained nothing. You experienced a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained. It’s sad that you don’t know the difference.

So they’re taking a shitty tech trend away from the few people who found it useful in order to push the new shitty tech trend.

after contact, the company acknowledged the problem and removed the accounts

Meta is outsourcing content moderation to journalists.

Since this service is free, I expect Az is taxing the retailers somehow. Perhaps it’s something like the Honey scam.

I’ll bet you can’t pay with an Az giftcard or credit balance.

These devices are a great help to the elderly and disabled, and Amazon’s offerings are the least expensive. My buddies Mom can call emergency services from anywhere in her home with just her voice. I don’t think that’s foolish at all.

It’s always been this way for the cheap speakers. They’ve no processing power on-board and need the cloud just to tell you the time.

I don’t care who’s fault it is that hardware probably won’t work, just that it probably won’t work.

Setting these games up is an undertaking even when all the software and hardware works as intended. Hell, just pulling the equipment out of it’s storage is enough friction to keep me from playing sometimes.

Even after more than a decade of using Debian as a server, I don’t have any confidence in my Linux knowledge. So the proposition here is tons and tons of homework with no guarantee that I can find a workaround or cobbled together solution. What I can be guaranteed is that if I get everything working, it’ll be a slightly to moderately worse experience.

Again, I’m not saying Linux is bad or even at fault for these issues, but these issues exist and I it’s valid that some people don’t wanna deal with it.

I like to remind the chuds who think that game quality is the same thing as sales that the greatest game of all time is Clash of Clans. Elden Ring, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, and BG3 are pathetic in comparison.

That’s great! But what about HOTAS support? Pedals? What about TrackIR?

DCS and all my gear are the biggest obstacle to dumping Windows.

I can predict the fist step of TSMCs plan for American companies: layoffs.

i had to SSH in to the pi-hole to update it

You make it sound like a chore instead of a delight. Curious.

I mean when everyone else is jettisoning moderation, reddit is cracking down on bots and trolls? I don’t hate it.

What I learned from Reddit is that debate is a waste of time.

I once had a guy argue that Wernher von Braun wasn’t in the German Military.

I reminded him that von Braun was a Colonial in the SS.

“The SS was not part of the German military”

The money in AI is going to be the wages of the people it replaces. Those tech billionaires call it a revolution because getting labor without wages is the promised land for cunt billionaires.

The AI revolution is here because that’s what the owners want. If you think they’ll wait until the AI is as good as humans to replace humans I’ll point out that self-checkout already exists.