COSMIC is supposed to hit 1.0 in the next few days and I’m looking forward to it. I wouldn’t recommend it right now only because the beta still has too many rough edges. Once it’s more polished, Pop_OS it could be an excellent starter distro.

So slander is cool? You seem to think that slander is cool.

My understanding is that the game is a surrealist-horror social commentary, like something David Lynch would do. I see a lot of people in these comments making some very wild claims and assumptions based on a build the developers were coerced into putting together early in development and which does not actually exist. The developers know they are pushing boundaries and that is the whole point, they even said they would change anything if Valve requested it since the build they were told to send was so early and quickly assembled. Instead, Valve gave no feedback at all and blacklisted them without recourse.

Since Steam is effectively a monopoly - though earned on merits instead of anticompetitiveness - being rejected without recourse or discussion is a death sentence and Valve should not have that power. Generally, I am violently opposed to anyone having the ability to dictate what qualifies as art, but when it’s a company that has captured an entire market crushing an indie developer for being too avante-garde while that company actively distributes basic porn, I must call bullshit. This is an abuse of their monopoly and it needs to be called out and punished.

I don’t have the stomach to play it, but I bought a copy on GOG to support the devs. As a consumer I prefer GOG, but for developers, being blocked from Steam is death. Potentially literal death, since we are discussing peoples livelihoods.

I am very bothered by the OS section. Bazzite should be the go-to for gaming, period. Ubuntu should never be recommended to anyone. Fedora is far more stable and reliable as a starter distro than either Mint or Ubuntu. Fedora Workstation for Mac expats and Fedora KDE for Windows expats.

I won’t fault anyone for putting Mint in there, but I loathe Cinnamon and would never recommend a distro that excludes KDE by design.

There are more constructive ways to remind people that alt text is an act of kindness.

It’s a piece prize. In remembrance of all the pieces of Venezuelan civilians he’s filled the Caribbean with.

His deathday will be a global holiday.

Racist and brazenly illegal gerrymandered house maps.

The US is a corrupt, backward third world shit hole.

Shooting fascists and risking everything for liberty. We should all follow her example. That also means you don’t break the pasta.

This would be an exciting feature. I don’t need games to be these deeply interactive VR experiences. Just having any old game playing on a virtual 3D TV would be wonderful.

I will go ahead and reap the anger and hate of the sheltered Lemmy masses here, but there’s no such thing as “being” an introvert or “being” an extrovert.

As I stated after your other comment, this is factually incorrect and genuinely dangerous misinformation.

https://lemmy.world/comment/20869844

Neurodiversity exists and what most ND people need isn’t to be changed or “cured” for the comfort and conformity of neurotypicals, but to be accepted and supported for who they are and how they think, feel, and function. You are actively perpetuating the myth that ND people just haven’t “tried hard enough” to pretend they are like you. Stop it! This ignorant bullshit literally kills people. ND people almost always know what society at large expects of them and they just aren’t wired that way. You clearly have no idea what masking takes out of someone.

Again, stop it. You have no idea how much harm you are doing by spreading these outright unscientific fantasies.

I get a lot of heat for this, but I like to remind people that there isn’t really “such thing” as an “introvert.”

You should get heat for that. It’s not merely factually incorrect, it’s dangerous, harmful misinformation. Neurodiversity exists. Learn to live with others who don’t think, feel, or function the way you do.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33548763/

https://psyforu.com/the-science-of-introversion-how-brain-chemistry-shapes-our-social-preferences/?amp=1

ELI5
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-science-of-introverts-vs-extroverts

ISE.

Integrated Slop Environment.

That senior engineer dodged a bullet.

I don’t get it. We don’t know how much it will cost so how could anyone claim they can build one cheaper? Have you seen the cost of memory lately?

Monotype is functionally an international monopoly. More than Luxottica, but for many of the same reasons. If the small selection of open source fonts don’t do what a company needs, then their only option other than Monotype is to have a font created. Monotype owns almost everything font related. Companies, fonts, everything.

It would be great if my existence and the existence of my friends and family weren’t considered “political.”

But here we are. Sorry that our not going quietly into the camps inconveniences you.

Fonts cannot be easily removed or replaced. Sometimes for technical reasons and sometimes for branding or operational reasons. So you pay their extortion or they sue you and get it anyway. They’ve been doing this for a long time. They are the comic villain kind of evil.

Is it Monotype?

Yes, it’s Monotype. For those who don’t know, they are an illegal international monopoly that aggressively buys up all competitors for the purpose of extorting users like this. It is their entire business model and they have been allowed to get away with it for over a decade because of how well they’ve hidden themselves.