Adderbox76

joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only way that has any accuracy is if the Linux photo has a button that quite literally manages most of the other buttons for you, and the more complicated stuff exists really only if you want to do it manually.

You can get by just fine literally never touching any of those buttons day-to-day. But they're there for the people who want to get down in the mud with their operating system.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure exactly where the beginning was, but I believe it started with a relatively famous scene from the movie Deliverance.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean sure, it sounds good. But the entry cost is enormous. Who the hell can afford a banjo in this economy?

 

Was having a shower thought about this this morning after putting in a quick hour into an EU4 run.

I feel like it's odd that I don't follow the whole "This is how you win with "country x"...period" vibe. Other than learning the mechanics, I don't use specific guides because I don't feel like there is one specific "win condition". My entire vibe in any Paradox game is to do weird things and see what happens.

If I switch Portugal to an Autocracy, pick a fight with Castile and then bankrupt myself hiring mercenaries, that's STILL a successful game to me because that's the entire point. History is a series of random events, what happens if "other" random events occur. To me, THAT'S the fun part. Not learning the one perfect strat to conquer the world with "country x". But to play around with different events, knowing that even losing is still a successful game.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No. And I'll explain by way of a quick example.

Every lunch hour, high-schoolers from the local comp cut across my work's parking lot on their way to 7-11. A group of them, the same boys for the most part, laugh and sig heil each other while using their fingers to make fake hitler moustaches.

Does this make them nazi's? No. It makes them teenagers who do something idiotic because it's "edgy" and their peers are doing it. 16 year olds have zero concept of the real world implication of their actions. Their brains are neither fully formed enough or emotionally mature enough to vote responsibly rather than just decide to be a dick bag because it'll make their friends laugh.

At best you're going to end up with a lot of spoiled votes writing in Eric Cartman. And at worst, they'll actively vote in the asshole that makes honest voters made because that's the "edgelord" thing to do.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Because the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Chaos makes the news. Boring doesn't. Countries that are currently being run by mostly functional adults don't find themselve in the news as much as countries that are a literal dumpster fire being fed by boat-loads of orange toddler piss.

Ergo...the U.S. news is everywhere at the moment.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know what's fun? Watching these people pretend like the rule of law actually matters and that Bondi won't just fucking lie anyway, if she even does bother to show up.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Killpoint and Raw Force

My two personal favourite Cameron Mitchell movies.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One of my go-to orders from the pizza place around here is a Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza.

BBQ sauce, seasoned beef, diced tomatoes, onions, pickles, bacon, and cheddar cheese.

Fucking delicious and I don't care what purists think.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Basically a bush party, but we had an old abandoned gravel pit just or of town that you could park your cars along the rim with headlights shining down to where we would light a bug bonfire.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

No. But his name is french, and that would be enough for uneducated Albertans. That's the joke.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Far more effective would be to just show the pathetic crowds that actually go to his so-called concert.

Freedom of expression cuts both ways, I'm afraid.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

To be fair. It's Alberta.

There's a not insignificant chance that if someone named Peter Polliver was on the ballot, a number of albertans would be too irritated by the original's quebecois name and immediately vote for the "proper canadian" guy instead.

 

Pick up EU4 the way I pick up all of my games....on a steep steep discount when the next one is announced.

Started CK2 legitimately (ahem) when it went free-to-play on Steam. Don't like the idea of subscriptions for games, so picked up a couple of DLC on summer sales, etc... for dirt cheap. Figure "hey...I'm not an addict...I can handle only having one or two crucial DLCs. It's fine.

7 expansion packs later and, even on summer and winter sales, the amount comes to far more than what the subscription would have cost, but by then it's already been done.

EU5 gets announced. Both EU4 and HOI4 get steep discounts and new starter packs that integrate some DLC into them. Figure it's a good time to get into both games, but I won't need any extra Expansion packs because of the new included content and because there's just no way either of them can truly compare to my beloved CK2. Once again eschew the subscription for both.

Fast forward to five extra expansion packs later (4 for EU4 and 1 for HOI4) and once AGAIN, I've spent more than the bloody subscription would have cost me in the first place.

I still don't like or believe in subscriptions for DLC, but damn the addiction is real...

 

Since Wrestlemania there's been nothing but stories about John Cena winning an amazing 17th title, blah blah blah... It's a "History making moment", yadda yadda yadda...

Like...of course he did. It's the storyline. It's quite literally "in the script".

This isn't an achievement. Why is this in my sports news next to last night's hockey scores instead of next to an article about who was the bitchiest on the lastest episode of Real Housewives?

I get it. I loved Wrestling growing up. Back when we all WERE pretending it was real; Macho Man, Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, etc... But I thought at some point they steered into the whole "entertainment" aspect when most of us grew the hell up and clued into the absurdity of it all.

 

It sure would explain the similarity between the ever more potential state of America and her novel The Handmaid's Tale.

 

Any idea why post video thumbnails are showing in three distorted diagonal bars?

Once you open the video full screen it plays normally.

 
 

For example, why do we say "Your pupils are dilated". They aren't. It's the iris aperture that is dilated.

 

There are many reasons to hate the Cybertruck. Looks, shoddy workmanship, flat out performance lies, Man-child business owner, etc...

But my biggest gripe, and this is the unpopular bit, is that in my opinion, it's not actually a truck at all.

The Cybertruck is a uni-body construction, often called a "car chassis". It shares that with the Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruz, and a few others. Trucks that are meant to do actual work use a body-on-frame construction because it has more ability to flex and twist when you put a heavy load in the bed or towing something heavy.

To put it simply, if you put a heavy enough load in the back of a uni-body truck, you're going to lose some traction on the front wheels as the weight will tilt the entire body backwards, whereas real trucks made for work are developed with the bed mounted separately to avoid that issue.

I know that yes, Santa Cruz, Cybertruck, Ridgeline, etc... are still technically classified as a truck. But in my (unpopular) opinion, anything uni-body shouldn't be classified as one.

 
 

This is a relatively new issue, although I don't recall any recent updates that would have caused it.

When I plug in a USB stick or other device, the disk and device manager pops up twice; one is the normal one away from the edge of the screen, it goes away after about five seconds (like it should)

The second, behind it, is tucked up right against the edge of the screen and does not go away until I trigger and then minimize my application launcher.

Any ideas? I'm running Wayland because of the Maalit keyboard. Haven't tried to see if it duplicates it with X11.

view more: next ›