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Games should be fun. If you are having fun, you’re playing it right. If you are using a feature they put into the game, you can’t be doing it that wrong.

It’s perfectly fine to be a masochist, but it doesn’t make anyone better’n anyone else, or the games better than anything else. Knowing what you like, managing game difficulty, knowing its features and “optimizing” your enjoyment are just another kind of gaming skill. You should never feel pressure to play at harder difficulties than you want, because… why would you? I know “souls culture” is full of screeching 13-year-olds with infinitely long lists of things that make you “nOt a ReAl GaMeR” despite being literally designed and implemented as part of the game, but fuck it: that’s why nobody listens to screeching 13-year-olds.

If magnets, then there’s less info in the link itself (compared to a .torrent) and that needs to be located. If availability is shit, that will be hard/impossible.

“I shouldn’t have to use permissions or sudo, just all root all the time”

Serious boomer shit that somehow managed to completely miss the question of why the kid was that heavily into games in the first place. The very idea was mentioned once, in the whole article. As an aside. Blegh.

This was not exactly subtle anyway - oh, they just happened to stop making DLCs just as they discovered their horrible online platform could print cash with close to zero effort.

N64, and this is the one I actually grew up with. They took a chance, they fucked up by making an alien spaceship three-pronged dildoesque monstrosity, that wore out at mach speed - especially by normal gameplay in certain (coughMarioParty1cough) games. While I have tons of love and nostalgia for N64 and several games on it, it can’t excuse the controller itself.

That’s fair: abstraction. The technical wrongness of “orbiting electrons” as in the whichever-model serves a purpose: the truth is hairy, and more importantly not practically relevant if you’re calculating sliding boxes around planes and that sort of thing.

On the other hand, “10% of the brain” and similar nuggets of common “wisdom” are just flat-out wrong, often stupidly so. There’s very little use in that.

She really is firmly determined to take anyone who’s ever cast doubt on her intelligence and decency, and prove them thoroughly right.

No, and if that is a powerful feeling (not “I’m autistic and see things differently”, but “normal reality does not apply to me” somehow) then it might be something to check out with a medical professional.

Yes, but then people can’t have a nice whinge about it.

Fucking yikes, I would not have paid for that. Looks like it was already eaten once.

Close range.

Implying Netflix can learn…

Semmelweiss. His radical idea of “surgeons ought to wash their hands” saw him widely ridiculed and reduced to poverty, and he died in an institution.

Not natively, as it’s an extremely niche concern. If you’re on a normal browser, you can get uBlock origin and make a custom rule.

company that spouts “think different”

Spouted, to be fair. 20-odd years ago.

But still, it is a pretty damn funny bit of irony how it went from that to “everyone must have an iPhone, if you don’t you’re a loser”.

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Well, surely we’ll take the news of an incoming infectious disease with enormous spreading potential seriously this time(!)

… no, I don’t think I will.