Lemmy.ml gets a bad reputation because they treat disagreement, trolling, and bigotry as interchangeable. They never seem to mind their own users twisting any argument beyond recognition - but sighing ‘I don’t want to deal with this anymore’ is unconscionably rude and must be punished.

Ideological bias is not the same thing as hypocritical enforcement of bad rules. And ‘be nice or else’ is a fucking terrible rule, no matter how consistently it’s applied. Sometimes “fuck off” is the right answer. Sometimes people really are assholes, and deserve to hear it, and the hierarchy of a leftist space declaring themselves the only people allowed to exercise that force is deeply ironic.

Yes.

And if you’re thinking of a compression algorithm, nope, pigeonhole principle.

I’d expect mixed reception from some of those guys.

Spyglass: thoomp

… and then Yuji Naka killed one of their biggest Saturn projects by throwing a hissy fit that a Sonic game was using the NiGHTS engine.

Frankly it’s a miracle the Dreamcast worked so well and had such great games. Sega was a fucking mess throughout the 90s.

ITT:

“This is worth eighteen bazillion chips. Here is five dollars.”

OpenMW has a Switch port.

Three mods make Oblivion the peak of its era:

• Leveled list fix. Any one will do. The base game fumbled it, and everyone knows that, so plenty of people have rebalanced it their own ways.

• Darnified UI. As with SkyUI: it scrunches things down to where they make sense on a 1080p monitor instead of a 480p television in the next room, and it adds a few sort-by options for loot goblins. There’s nothing to be done about the nested tabs because they’re fine. Morrowind has its mouse-driven WIMP setup, Oblivion has its 360 blades dashboard, it’s fine. They are endgame versions of what shaped their era.

• Quest message popup removal. You absolutely do not need a modal fucking dialog, ev-er-y single time your journal updates. The little ching! is enough.

Oblivion is fantastic so long as you use any leveled-list mod. That’s a tiny fix. The game plays wonderfully, to this day, so long as you stay level one and maybe bind jump to space.

Foobar2000 works fine.

Right, you’ll have to collect the wave beam and screw attack all over again.

Exclusives have been a gimmick for at least a decade. Games are not made for one system anymore. They’re generic software. They’ll run on anything, if you try.

Huh, Fortnite is the next Family Guy.

“It’s okay because laws don’t work” is a buck-wild take.

“We have decided we own balls.”

whip-crack

“NO.”

Bring back Mega Man Legends, you fucking cowards.

That’s what this post is about.

They’re your claims.

When I say the state has half the economy - that’s your estimate.

When I say they plan the other half too - those are your words.

When I point out these businesses are so clearly beneath the state, that the business’s leaders can be executed - that’s the only thing this post is about! It is a direct comparison of some guy doming a healthcare exec, and the Chinese government’s rather fucking tight control over that entire economy.

I don’t think you understand how conversations work.