TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Andrew Wakefield is literally the modern origin of the vaccine-damage myth so if you don't know who that is, you probably aren't a good judge of whether this Ohio doctor is notable or not.

Like, I don't think she is in that category, but you have explicitly made your own opinion moot, because you might as well have said "Seagulls? Never heard of them. Stick to birds everyone in the world would know, please".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ugh please leave the pointless predictable pithy platitudes at Reddit

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

I typed them directly into my comment from an Android phone, and it continues to display as two hyphens/minuses for me. Are you it's not your client trying to be clever?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 188 points 2 years ago (23 children)

If you're using Steam (or any kind of shortcut I suppose), add --skip-launcher to the launch options. Here's how to do so with Steam:

  • Right-click the game in your library and select Properties.
  • Look for the Launch Options field at the bottom of the General tab.
  • Add "--skip-launcher" and close the properties window.
  • Launch the game as normal.
[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 58 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As in DVDs or Blu Rays?

Computers running for hours just downloading, servers running hot to share the files, extra bandwidth in use - certainly not free.

But in contrast to producing optical media, burning data onto it, printing a cover, sticking it in a plastic box, sticking that plastic box in a larger box with polystyrene peanuts, putting that box with other boxes on a pallet, wrapping them in shrink wrap, flying them across the world, discarding the wrap, breaking down the pallet, driving individual boxes around a region, having an employee come to the store early by car to unload boxes, and have them put individual game cases on display on metal shelves and then lighting and air-conditioning said game cases for a few weeks until they're all sold to customers who drive to and from the store, and then run it on their local computer... Download has got to be more efficient. Certainly when most games then have an update to the disc version already required to download by the time the customer gets home.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you miss the memo not to allow it to just update the EA version?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but I have to take issue with "service is miles ahead".

American table service is weird. It's an uncomfortable experience for anyone who isn't used to it. You can call it a cultural difference but it genuinely gave us a feeling of revulsion - the fake friendliness, the platitudes, the hovering near the table, the constant refilling, the fucking survey mid-meal, the attentiveness barely concealing the determination to extract your money and shove you out and get another mark on the door.

Perhaps because most of these things seem to primarily seek to recreate the experience of a slave owner and their chattel.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Managing a team of developers, "unplanned micro-interactions" are just about the last thing I want them to have more of.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

You just listed a bunch of Chromium browsers. They don't care.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

RIF for 7, 8 years? I am enjoying Jerboa

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