pro: truth, free markets
anti: corporatism
The less you know about it going in, the better the experience.
This includes the knowledge that it’s good. You should forget that people praise it everywhere because that has a potential of ruining the experience. It did for me, somehow.
Undertale. I was blown away by the soundtrack and the cleverness of it all. The twist was good too, but I hated the total completion grind a bit. But it is optional.
Crypt of the Necrodancer. Again, blown away by the soundtrack and how confidently it pulled off the idea of a rogue-like rhythm game.
Insurgency: Sandstorm. This might be stretching the concept of “indie” a bit, but its predecessor was definitely an indie game. This is an excellent arcade/realistic FPS shooter.
My adult children will be ecstatic for my new ability to set their playtime limits and see reports.
When things seem free, you’re not the customer.
Discord can
Well that’s pretty obvious.
and sometimes does monitor your chats.
Probably, although why would they? More likely they’ll just data mine everything an sell it on for AI learning program to nom nom on.
No, I’m referring to KDE. Check the link in the post and watch the videos. The desktop switching is now working almost exactly like in MacOS.
Of course KDE wins by allowing to configure it.
It’s a bit sad for Lemmy if 76 downvotes gets you to such a status. But mixing an interpretation of Tolkien with an anti-left message might indeed be one of the best ways to get there.
You might enjoy my other greatest hit: https://suppo.fi/comment/3202858
Wow. They just lifted the horrific Desktop management paradigm from MacOS.
But I don’t know, I guess people like it, and fortunately I’m not forced to use KDE.
and the most batshit crazy dumb as a rock thing I’ve read in 2024 so far!
Aww, don’t sell yourself short.
I think at that point all he had was smooth talking.
Like if we could imagine a president who tried to regain his power by usurping, failed and lost all his power, and then somehow is allowed to try again. Aren’t we glad LOTR is just fantasy, that’d be horrible.
Tankies aren’t leftists
Well yeah, and nazis are technically authoritarian centrists, not the far right. These labels are bad and they should feel bad.
Sauron
Different fella. No idea what his politics are, but probably not very liberal.
Because I don’t like leftists, probably :)
No but seriously, I was thinking of the tankie type there, not all leftists. And wrote lazily. Sorry.
“The Shire at this time had hardly any ‘government.’ Families for the most part managed their own affairs. … The Thain was the master of the Shire-moot, and captain of the Shire-muster and the Hobbitry-in-arms, but as a muster and moot were only held in times of emergency, which no longer occurred, the Thainship had ceased to be more than a nominal dignity.”
Sounds like night-watch libertarianism that had declined to something even more minimal. Which ironically was easily run over by a smooth-talking old man with a broken staff and a pretty small bunch of ruffians. You had one job.
Nobody but tankies understand that.
In Tolkien stories, all the good guys are liberals. Saruman and his uruk-hai are perhaps the most leftist things there are in those stories. Elves are moderate conservatives with some questionable histories.
This thing right here is practically 1800s death math metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJR0WF_vVmU – unfortunately this is the cut version and the full 10+ minute version doesn’t seem to be available anymore. Even more unfortunate that the pianist, who was born in Kyiv, turned out to want Russia to annex Ukraine.
Some years ago, I learned to play that bit at 1:10. That was a good moment.
e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDdQiLZPTF8 here’s a pretty good full rendition
e2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPv_CsTye5s perhaps even better
Does it run Steam?