chaogomu

The sad thing about Oblivion is that there are in-game books in Morrowind and previous games that describe the empire as being in the middle of a bamboo jungle. The vibe comes off as the Roman Empire in South East Asia.

Instead we got generic high fantasy with the occasional guy wearing Roman armor.

Only as far as storyline and setting go. Other than that, it was an okay shooter.

Cutting costs and laying people off makes the books look slightly better (more cash on hand) which makes the stock price jump, which is all these ghouls want because they’re going to sell off on the high, and then bail out.

That’s not how it works. Making money today is the only thing these ghouls care about, ruining a company or brand is just dandy because they won’t be holding the bag when it bursts. They’ll have passed it to someone else. Someone else who will then work to gut the company even more before selling it to someone who will gut it and close it down.

And nothing of real value will have been made, but lots of rich asshats will be slightly richer.

Basic used “else”.

It’s nice. “if”, “then”, and “else”. I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

But yeah, “else” is nice.

So I forever work on legacy systems.

Not ideal, but there’s quite a bit of job security in it.

Brother is the go to because their stuff is basic and functional.

All the other companies have “innovated” to the point where their shit is unusable for daily use.

Daily Driver

Here’s someone using the term in 2011.

https://xdaforums.com/t/what-os-are-you-using-as-your-daily-driver.919218/

And I’m sure there are plenty of older examples.

But some others are here from 2015

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34990

2017

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=222919

2014 (ish?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2njaz3/what_are_you_using_as_your_daily_driver/

All that from a simple google search.

I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it’s an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.

I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env… But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It’s just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.

Well, Mediamatters isn't the biggest news org, but then again, this is how it starts. A smaller news source runs a story that then leads to other stories, then Reddit admins see it splashed across national news, panic about it, then they ban the sub while pretending they knew nothing about it, or that they had been issuing warnings that went unheard.

There was a study linked around somewhere in the last few days that said that political ideology was a greater factor in people’s religious choices than the inverse.

Yeah, that’s not happening. I only whitelist sites I trust, and that little pop-up doesn’t engender trust.

Evidence of farming, or any food source for the NPCs shows that the makers of the game were actually thinking about the world as a livable space.

Fallout 3 devs were just thinking about a world where the story happens, nothing more. And it often shows. You run into little immersion breaking moments, especially if you go too far off the rails. Stay on the rails and it was a solid game.

New Vegas had devs who really paid attention to the details of the world, and if you went off the rails, it became an amazing game.

This is why you’re wrong.

New Vegas is a better game. And I mean that in the sense that you can go more places and interact with the story and setting in more ways in New Vegas. Also, what do they eat? Fallout 3? unknown. New Vegas? you see corn fields and such all over the place.

In Fallout 3, the NPCs have no existence beyond their part in the highly scripted story. You choices in game don’t matter at all in the way the story ends.

New Vegas has little bits and pieces of setting and backstory for random NPCs that you might never meet, and the story can be completed in different ways, your choices matter.

They generally do.

This is how /r/place always ends. Reddit takes a snapshot of the final canvas, then switches everyone over to placing only white tiles.

I think I still have disks for Slackware 11 and 13 floating around somewhere. I even ran 13 for almost 2 years as a daily driver… And then got pissed off trying to update packages.

I’ll admit that these days I just run Ubuntu, because it’s easy, and it works without hours of googling how to fix some random dependency that I can’t actually find for some reason.

And Putin still lost. He’s been shown to be weak. He compromised.

Now the other sharks that Putin surrounded himself with will smell that weakness.

Autocrats must project that Strongman image, especially when it’s a lie. Dictators who show weakness like this rarely die peacefully.

Yeah, I can’t bring myself to root for the Nazi mercenary group who want to wage total war in Ukraine.

Maxim 29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.