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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

That's a very poor and far-fetched analogy.

You're right. I should've said "the guy who argues swastika isn't just a nazi symbol", because that's essentially what you're saying: PCs aren't just windows machines.

A computer that runs an OS designed to be used with kb+mouse. See? It wasn't that hard.

You do know that Android and most modern gaming consoles support kb+m? And I case you want to hang onto to the word "designed", as in they're designed to work without a physical kb+m, then I guess the moment I install SteamOS my PC it stops being a PC?

You're doing the same thing you're complaining about, using a generally accepted definition of a word instead of the actual definition.

Thanks, but no. If you want to misuse the term, go ahead. I'm just as free to point out the incorrect use of the term if I want to.

So it's okay to misuse words when you also misuse them, but not okay when you don't misuse them? What are you, a self-important hypocrite?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Kinda? Whether you like it not that's just how society functions. You either acknowledge what society decides or you end up becoming the guy who argues that drawing swastikas doesn't make you a nazi because it's a symbol of luck.

And if you want to go down the rabbit hole of "PC is personal computer" good luck defining what a computer is without defaulting to what society thinks a computer is, because technically your phone is a computer that is for your personal use. Your phone is a PC. In a sense so is your TV and your gaming console and the steam deck and possibly even your fridge. Maybe even your car.

Save yourself the headache and use PC as you understand it while accepting that others have a different meaning for PC.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I think you meant:

Yes

If you stop drinking beer and get a better diet.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I understand the same way and I think there's a lot of gray area which makes it hard to just say "the data also needs to be open source for the code to be open source". What would that mean for postgreSQL? Does it magically turn closed source if I don't share what's in my db? What would it mean to every open source software that stores and uses that stored data?

I'm not saying the AI models shouldn't be open source, I'm saying reigning in the models needs to be done very carefully because it's very easy to overreach and open up a whole other can of worms.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Saboteur is one of those games I'm afraid to replay because I have such vivid memories of it being really fun and I don't want to lose that.

I already somewhat ruined Morrowind with modern hardware doing distant rendering. Back in the day Morrowind had perpetual fog and you couldn't see far, so all the places felt so far apart. It felt like a journey going from Vivec city to Ebonhart. But modern hardware has no problem with distant rendering and now I can see that I could spit from Vivec City to Ebonhart. It's no longer a journey, it's just an annoyance because "it's right there". The magic of traversal is lessened because things no longer feel like they're far away.

And that's what I'm afraid of, that some illusion of Saboteur gets shattered and with it the game will also feel lesser than it was.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

More like they wouldn't know a tyrant even if one shouted "I'm a fucking tyrant".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Why even enable snaps? It's like asking to have headaches.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Never liked that rule. The king should be a capturable piece and be allowed to step into checks. It might make the game harder at a beginner level but it gets rid of the anticlimactic stalemates. It won't get rid of draws because the repetition rule still applies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

He definitely has had some negative impact on it considering almost every time stop killing games news pops up someone parrots his already debunked points.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The whole thing reads as "we're on the verge of being shut down but the brand and IPs still have value, so we're given the bare minimum to push out ME5 and maybe get one more shot at a next game."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah. IMO democrats refusing to acknowledge the state of the economy is what tipped the scale. You'd have to be a complete moron to believe Trump had any solutions for the economy, but he at least acknowledged that economically there's something wrong. Harris on the other hand doubled down on Biden's economic message of sticking your head in the sand and going "the economy is good".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And we don't actually need everyone to switch to Linux. Much like with Lemmy we need enough people to have thriving communities with Linux we need just enough people for companies to start properly supporting Linux.

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