wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You personally? Sure. But there have been people online misusing the word (and similar things) for fucking ages, going back at least as far as 2010.

This goes back a lot farther than the last election campaign, farther back than Trump's first "reign", farther back than his first campaign even.


Background on Jon Stewart for those unaware of himJon Stewart has been out of the public eye for a long time, so I expect there's some people around unaware of his work. Did a comedy news show for years where he tore into the bullshit going on in the world, in the news, and in news orgs like Fox hiding behind a false "both sides" narrative back when they still cared enough to fake it. He got Crossfire cancelled when they were stupid enough to invite him on for an interview and were shocked that he wasn't willing to be a comedian on a show that claimed to be real news and he instead systematically and thoroughly called them out as the travesty they were.

Jon Fucking Stewart called out the dilution of labels through overuse in his closing speech at the Rally to Restore Sanity in 2010. The rally done as a reaction to the Tea Party rally in D.C.

That is to highlight that the "boy who cried wolf" shit was happening all the way back then and was already a big problem.

"If we amplify everything we hear nothing. There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and theocrats but those are titles that must be earned. You must have the resume. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Partiers or real bigots and Juan Williams and Rick Sanchez is an insult, not only to those people but to the racists themselves who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate--just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe not more. The press is our immune system. If we overreact to everything we actually get sicker--and perhaps eczema."


People didn't get the fucking message, which gave cover for the real racists and nazis to slither around and significantly helped to get us where we are today.

Where an over rich manchild clearly on some sort of substances can give two half assed sieg heils, and then follow it up with the most half assed excuse during a fucking presidential inauguration and instead of being tackled by security and hauled the fuck off never to be seen again, people are sitting around giving him the benefit of the doubt.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 7 months ago

This is why expandable storage (microSD slots) exists. And also why phone manufacturers are doing their best to normalize not having it anymore.

Pay the cloud storage subscription or upgrade your phone! Provide us with more of that sweet, sweet money!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nice to see someone else reccomend VNV! There is a Wabbajack installer, but there are some things you still need to do manually too.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

For anyone considering playing or replaying New Vegas, I cannot reccomend the Viva New Vegas modlist enough.

It's unfortunately not just some "one click setup". There is a Wabbajack installer, but there are some small steps you still need to do manually too.

That said, it is by far the best and most comprehensive "vanilla plus" modpack I have ever used. I'm a modding addict; I don't say that lightly. It doesn't change core game mechanics, story, or anything the makes New Vegas what it is.

It polishes what's there, upgrading visuals in a consistent manner that blends perfectly with the original content. It fixes countless longstanding bugs, performance issues, and crashes (only two crashes in ~40 hours on a setup that was modded even further past what the pack includes).

It polishes New Vegas to what it should have been on release (if Bethesda didn't force Obsidian to rush it out the door early), then brings it as close to the quality of a modern release as possible through modding.


If you want to replay Fallout 3, a lot of people prefer playing it in the New Vegas engine using the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. The version of Viva New Vegas that covers that and includes mods for the Fallout 3 content is "The Best of Times".

It appears to be up to the same quality as VNV standalone, but I haven't used it myself yet.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

For the record, C4 is a putty. You'd just mold it like a piece of play-doh.

Plenty of other very dangerous things easily smuggled all sorts of ways. Get creative (but seriously DON'T).

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Didn't Ada also say that the mods weren't logging into their instance specific alts to clear out the reports in the instance queue, so Ada had to handle those?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Damn right!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 7 months ago

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago

It would have been considerably better if that was all they had done. Preferable even, compared to what we ended up with.

The GTA remasters are shit because they tried to actually remaster them, the contracted company wasn't given enough time, they sold like hotcakes anyway, so Rockstar kicked the remaster devs to the curb because they got the money they wanted anyway.

At least the RDR port was just a port.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Good luck with the travels! If I recall right, you've been planning this since shortly after the election results were announced, right?

Anyway, take your time settling in. You and your daughter are more important than internet communities.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago

If you can bear it being on .world, this seems to be the most active ED comm on Lemmy as far as I've found: !elitedangerous@lemmy.world

I love using spansh to plot a trade route then just turning on a show, youtube, or a podcast on my second monitor while I space truck at the end of a long day. Relaxing.

Have fun, and never fly without a rebuy o7

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