Hey I hate fascist republicans as much as the next guy but…… based?
Like fuck the FBI, absolutely defund that shit, the FBI spends 99% of its time obsessed with monitoring leftwing activists and after totally being caught off guard on January 6th I think they have basically forfeited any claim to actually protecting the security of the United States. They missed a publicly announced attempted overthrow of the US government that almost resulted in multiple serving US politicians being killed or hurt, they MISSED THAT.
Have whatever opinion of FBI you want: when the people who have made the Thin Blue Line a core piece of their personality suddenly find some police that they’d like to do away with a whole band of high-profile police, then it reveals that the thin blue line shit was just code for something else.
Then let’s take advantage of the fact that in this narrow case republicans are accidentally right and defund the FBI.
I am getting really tired of Centrists/Democrats taking Republican positions to point out that Republicans are hypocritical, because it ends up with Centrists and Democrats taking and parroting Republican positions.
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The chicken comes prehatched inside the egg so to speak, but when the chicken hatches it is just a really tiny useless chicken that lays eggs the size of ice cream sprinkles.
It makes perfect sense when you understand modern city design as a form of mostly unconscious but purposeful violence, that pretty much defines the middle class Boomer generation in wealthy rich countries. Structural violence… as far as the eye can see!
US Boomers love that shit, the prison system, healthcare, highway design, the tax filing system the list just goes on and on.
I really wish my parents generation could have just been skipped and instead I had parents from the previous generation who actually fought for something and understood how to defend workers rights.
Yeah Islam is problematic, like all the other big religions of the world, which you are all aware of I assume.
Islam is also, as you may not be aware? a target of xenophobia used by politicians in majority Christian nations to fear monger and distract from actually passing legislation and doing their jobs.
You can’t ignore this context when posting edges memes about Islam on english speaking Internet forums.
I’m no authority on words, I am an anarchist when it comes to words and so are all my favorite authors but I feel like this word is very commonly used in exactly the way you are using it.
I reckon 99% of people reading your post understood what you meant.
It’s a word, and it is the correct way to use it. If you disagree, fight me, I will open an alot-sized can of Ouchies on you.
Hey, need to move across country for your job or family?
Good thing your girlfriend can afford to be flexible and make the move work because she can basically find work anywhere the fuck she wants as a pharmacy tech.
Yeah not a real website, that was a dumb joke about a U.S. politician that I just subconsciously assumed everyone on a global internet platform would have the context to get because I am an obnoxious USian lol, my bad.
I want the people preparing my prescriptions for pills I put into my body to be paid a living wage.
What I want is reasonable and any dipshit person in a business suit worth more than my car who wants to condescendingly explain why this can’t happen is a bold faced fucking liar.
I WANT THE PEOPLE PREPARING MY PRESCRIPTIONS FOR PILLS I PUT INTO MY BODY TO BE PAID A LIVING WAGE.
Anyway, general strike is the shortest way forward.
Something that might be fun to do on this sublemmy is do a collaborative Sky Islands run where a save file was shared and people took turns doing runs. I suppose it could all go on one post or posts could be made for each individual run or day. People could roleplay it in describing what happened on their run or just relay the...
I love that there is no rhyme or reason to this list in terms of game genres, it is just a diverse list of damn good games.
It really proves that the deck platform is the opposite of a platform like VR where a narrow range of video game genre adaptions work well and most of the time translations to the medium just miss the point or feel clunkier.
People are just playing pc games on their deck, all kinds of pc games, there is no pattern to it other than the limitations of the deck hardware. I really don’t think there is any stronger statement about how titanic of a shift the steam deck is in the pc gaming world than this list because it decisively puts to rest any claim that the Steam Deck is a fad or that it only works well for a narrow range of pc games, or that linux will never become popular enough or that barely anybody is ever going to want to try to adapt mouse and keyboard focused games to steamdeck controls.
There is a quiet confidence to this list and it is extremely exciting.
Steam Input alone is such a killer feature that I rarely see people talking about. The amount of customization you can do on a game-by-game basis is actually kind of hard to believe.
For me it is specifically the system for easily sharing and browsing community customizations that makes the difference. Some people love to DIY everything, building tools and setups from the ground up for the fun of it rather than going straight to off the shelf stuff.
Me? Well I want to be that person but I am not. Sure, I slowly build customized setups for games I have played for 100 hours+ but if every game I played required first doing a lengthy translation of pc controls to steamdeck controls I just wouldn’t do it. The fact that I can quickly try 3-4 community control schemes and impulsively throw out the ones that aren’t intuitive to me until I find one that I can hit the ground running with and tweak as problems arise makes all the difference in the universe to me.
I have played hundreds of shooters with a controller for wayyyy too many hours, I know how shooter controls should be mapped, if I try out a control scheme for a shooter on the deck and none of the buttons do what I expect them to do I don’t need to pull up the control editing scheme and start digging down into the settings to change stuff, I just pull up another community control scheme and try the buttons and repeat until I find one where the buttons I intuitively expect to do something generally do that thing.
Minecraft is too beautiful of an idea to entrust in Microsoft’s hands, other games need to take the torch and drive the genre forward and it is really exciting that Minetest, the open source version of this kind of game, is doing that.
Glad we have Vintage Story too, but Minetest has a really long and vibrant future ahead of it I think.
With Covid and the wake of Covid with a return to various aspects of austerity in the US… well most connections I would have had on something like facebook are now trivial or obliterated. There has been a progressive narrowing among most (not all) of the social circles I perceive including family connections.
I really can’t stand Instagram though so I was already fairly isolated before and I am sure plenty of other people have had opposite experiences.
The aspect that makes the fediverse and in particular reddit-likes uniquely adapted to growing in this harsh corporate hellscape has everything in my opinion to do with the critical early seed phase of communities.
When you make a website with its own forum, you have huge friction to overcome with the network effect… but if you are plugging into a federated network than all of a sudden being a tiny community on lemmy with 2 or 3 people becomes an invitation to users passing by who already have an account to start a conversation and create that spark that will grow (slowly) into a real community.
Consider the minimum viable population of users in a community, how many people does there need to be in a room before that warm feeling of a gathering sets in with comfortable conversation naturally occurring? For federated lemmy communities (and similar Reddit-likes) federation effectively lowers that number by a significant amount since it puts doors everywhere that people can spontaneously wander through and contribute small amounts to help kindle a spark and get the community going.
This changes the paradigm of “social media platform metabolism” if you will, it facilitates much more organic early growth in communities.
With all that out of the way, I don’t see very many companies lining up to license a far left-leaning dataset that had all non-echo chamber discussion banned.
Maybe this isn’t what you are saying, but Reddit (at least in the past, on smaller more expert subreddits) is no more an echo chamber than any other politically charged community space online, it’s just in other communities the rightwing people who control the levers of power usually don’t let leftists have any kind of voice or power in the first place.
In a weird way it is the really really fast paced games I like the most when on the go.
If I play 5 mins of Voidigo, DIG or Enter The Gungeon, I can potentially experience a lotttt of gameplay .
Playing Xonotic against bots is a blast, Xonotic probably uses less battery than any other 3D game in existence lol. Similarly 5 mins of Xonotic is a LONG time.
Motor Town is a great driving game to play while traveling, so is Snowrunners.
I have gyro controls enabled to help with fine-tuning aiming, but I’m really struggling. I just realized as I’m typing this that I haven’t tried touch controls for aiming, though… I’m an idiot. I keep forgetting the touch pads exist. That will probably be a lot better!
It depends, I think gyro + joysticks is way more natural and fun. I recommend leaving it always on with a button you can hold to temporarily disable it. Don’t use the gyro for most movements, that is what the joysticks are for. Hold the steam deck nice and still in a comfortable position and progressively integrate slight movements to fine tune your rough joystick aim. Gyro aiming is both for fine adjustment but also for snap reactions, so sensitivity shouldn’t be too high but it shouldn’t be too low so it can also be used in knee jerk reaction situations where it can most immediately benefit your FPS competitiveness.
Here is a short video I uploaded (to a peertube instance) of me playing a very fast paced FPS with gyo + joysticks as an example. Except for the flicks and quick reaction shots it isn’t necessarily obvious I have gyro on at all and am constantly using it, I myself am not even really conscious of it while I am doing it. In a way my brain is instructing my hands to aim using the joysticks while my hands are subconsciously/automatically fixing my fine aim through small subtle gyro adjustments.
I do flick shots the way people imagine gyro+joysticks works before they have tried it, I just literally aim the steamdeck/controller at the target, but the rest of the time it is totally subconscious. I grew up playing shooters with an xbox controller, I love playing shooters especially shooters with vehicles using joysticks. That makes me well aware that without heavy autoaim there is a serious fundamental limitation to how accurate joystick input can be, specifically for small aim adjustments where joystick input will just keep hopping back and forth over the target because it is nearly impossible to make a minimum distance movement with a joystick (especially when you have to have a decent deadzone to counteract stick drift).
For me, gyro solves this almost magically because I intuitively know very well at this point what happens when I bring my aim onto a target with a joystick. I either successfully bring my aim right on target or I end up having moved my aim a little too far or too little short. I am controller-throwingly well aware of the serious problem I face when the result happens to be my aim is almost on target as that is the most difficult position to get on target with joystick input (even more than a position 180 degrees away). I intuitively know what the problem feels like extremely well (one would hope so after all those hours lol…) so I can just give my subconscious that well defined problem and let my hands intuitively work out how to make the problem disappear from the perspective of my conscious mind.
I don’t really perceive “joysticks+gyro” as two simultaneous inputs, I perceive it as “magic joysticks”.
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Something that might be fun to do on this sublemmy is do a collaborative Sky Islands run where a save file was shared and people took turns doing runs. I suppose it could all go on one post or posts could be made for each individual run or day. People could roleplay it in describing what happened on their run or just relay the...
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