dustyData

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[–] dustyData 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait, UserBenchmark is not a shitposting meme site? They actually present their reviews as serious?

[–] dustyData 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fuck EA and their opinion. Even if every single Linux user were cheating I bet they wouldn't even account for a tenth of the cheater players. Lazy scumbag execs who like to scapegoat their incompetence on things they don't understand.

[–] dustyData 18 points 3 months ago

Executive bonuses, of course. Won't you think of the poor millionaires?

/s

[–] dustyData 115 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is 100% how every single dictatorship in existence today works. Almost all countries in the world hold elections. But some are more democratic than others. Every single tyrant in power today has been or claim to have been democratically elected.

[–] dustyData 66 points 3 months ago (1 children)

By the third patent: Elden Ring, WoW, Everquest, Neverwinter, SW: The Old Republic, Final Fantasy, and many many others have infringed Nintendo patents. Fuck Nintendo.

[–] dustyData 9 points 3 months ago

All of them* and seen all the films as well. I'm an extraordinary fan of the series. But I'm also not delusional and can hold a critical view of the entertainment media I consume and regard them from the POV of the context that produced them. Casino Royale is still my favorite. Thunderball is still the goofiest shit Fleming wrote.

Now you tell me your five favorite songs by the famous band and prove you are not a poser. /s

  • I haven't read any of the post-Fleming books yet.
[–] dustyData 5 points 3 months ago

She made the common blunder of making long term hyperbolic predictions based on short term trends and immediate events.

[–] dustyData 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Usually campuses are the only places rationally designed to be highly accessible to people. So they can be walked. You can go from place A to place B on foot, usually under shade, either from a canopy, tree sided paths, or human scale adequately proportioned buildings. They also tend to consider and include amenities like parks, snack and drink stands, on the way. And also several cool third places like libraries, auditoriums, study halls, athleticism stadiums and cafeterias. Places where you can exist and occupy without having to consume. Finally, they usually confine cars to parking lots and prohibit their traffic inside the campus, making it a quieter and clean air space.

My point is, college campuses are sometimes literally how humans are the happiest to live.

Add: also consider how sometimes luxury resorts resemble the layouts and characteristics of college campuses. Self contained spaces where you can go everywhere and engage in all activities without having to sit on a car.

[–] dustyData 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'd love that too. But those books have become essentially a parody of themselves in today's context. Without the 60's mental POV, they're nonsensical, racist, rapey and sexist. You'd end up in a unironical Austin Powers. I mean, the books are literarily fun fiction to read. But let's not pretend they're not cringey white male power fantasies. Spies were the coldwar's mall ninjas. I'd rather revisit the spy kids universe.

[–] dustyData 1 points 3 months ago

That's unnecessarily hostile. But whatever...

[–] dustyData 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

But why the downvote? Just because things suck we should just lie down and take it? We can at least talk about how it sucks and we wish it were different. There's nothing silly in wanting the world to be better.

[–] dustyData 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Is the school providing the license? because if they're not, then it is a rough call to require and force parents to pay for a non essential tool. This is why FOSS is such a powerful education ally. It doesn't cost any of the end users any money. This kind of things is why people still think MS products as the default. MS spent a lot of money in marketing to force education to treat them as such.

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