Which makes me wonder if a single one passes the Bechdel Test…

The answer is yes.

Almost all of them as far as I’m aware. Definitely all the ones I’m particularly familiar with (7, 10, 13, 14)

Then you should set a password. It shouldn’t be forced for everyone.

me on my way to kill baby hitler 2

I was really puzzled by that. Like, obviously you can fix stuff like this by moving to a new platform. It’s a natural part of the internet. Reddit only started being used because of a mass exodus from Digg. Discord killed Skype and Teamspeak and Ventrilo and Mumble and Curse Voice because people moved from those things because Discord was better. As an aside, I can’t fucking wait till the next thing kills Discord because Discord suuuucks

It’s only natural that as Reddit enshittifies further and further, we’ll move on to the next thing. Until it gets really big and enshittified and on and on we go. The internet is a graveyard. You can keep standing on old graves or you can come help us dig the new ones. There’s no third choice.

Winds of Winter is absolutely 110% never ever happening. Half-Life 3 could happen at any time some random team in Valve’s flat anarcho-monarchist structure decides they think it’d be fun to make Half-Life 3.

It’s really good, even today. If you’ve kept up with linear FPS games that iterated on the formula you might think it’s a little dull, but if you haven’t played a lot of those you’ll likely still be impressed by how good the game design is.

It’s randomly generated, brute forcing it should take years.

Cool, so they use any number of exploits to simply go around the password. The point isn’t that a password is easy to get through (just like a locked door isn’t easy to get through) it is that if you’re facing a determined attacker it doesn’t matter how secure it is. If they have physical unsupervised access to your PC, you’ve already lost.

Fortunately for us all, these determined attackers do not exist. Nobody’s breaking my windows to boot up my fucking PC. The situation in which a password would help you is if someone has gone to the effort to bypass the physical security on your home, and then has no plan to deal with a password locked computer. They just take one look at it and go “welp, that’s it, everybody crawl back through the window then, watch the glass shards” Instead of picking up the entire PC and walking off with it, or yanking out the hard drives, or booting into their own preferred OS on a USB, or whatever else would actually happen if these made up attackers were real.

If the government wants to fabricate a reason to prosecute me they’ll just bring some drugs to my house, the idea that they would go in with the plan to plant incriminating files on my computer (instead of just lying that there were incriminating files / showing a completely fake computer???) and then be foiled by a fucking password box and go “damn, he’s too clever for us, I guess we have to let him go” is just BEYOND ridiculous

Nobody lives with you?

My grandmother, who has no interest in my computer.

Or visits you?

No

You don’t use a laptop ever?

No

What if someone does get through your locks?

What if someone guesses your password? Why don’t you keep your computer in a custom built safe bolted to the floor? There’s always another level of security you could hypothetically require, I just live in reality where the truth is no one is touching my computer.

there’s basically no downside to it.

It takes a second or so every time (sometimes a couple of seconds, I’m not always booting my computer with the intent to type shit immediately) which adds up over time. Sometimes I mistype, wasting 10+ seconds. And the benefit of this mild inconvenience is nothing.

I never used a password on Windows because I’ve never seen a reason for one. No one touches my computer. That’s what the physical locks on my doors are for.

I only use a password in Linux because it forces me to. The first thing I tried to do was disable it.

Yeah, proton. First used proton through steam to run the installer. Then I used proton through steam to run the game’s exe. then it yelled at me for not having .net so I used protontricks to take care of that. and then it just worked

Runs perfectly on linux

I successfully crashed the starter ship into mexico city at several km/s and became a spinning jetwheel of death and distruction, the game is perfect, no updates needed

And no, there is no workaround for this except piracy.

I would never have noticed this problem because piracy is already my default (and should be yours too)

It’s just a sort of midrange linux prebuilt, if it’s priced competitively with other prebuilts it’ll be a good lil PC to recommend to people who don’t want to build one. If it’s priced high it’ll just flop like it did the first time.

I am so excited for the frame. The only problem with it so far is that my eyes suck ass and their support for glasses is by all accounts not sufficient yet

But aside from that I’m about ready to give them whatever amount of money they ask for it

I constantly use Half-Life 2 as an example! Especially regarding faces and facial animation. “Why the fuck is this running at 25fps when Half-Life 2 looks better and ran on my 9500GT”

Especially the “worse” graphics part. If you can’t make your game look good while running at 144hz on my 3080TI, you’re just bad at art. They were making amazing looking games in the 90s that I can run on my fucking phone. No amount of “technological advancement” is going to make up for being artistically incompetent.

I honestly can’t imagine why anyone would ever use anything but lichess except for ignorance or because they’re literally being paid to use chess.com.

fuckin grass pretending to be trees, i see through those fuckers