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You’re describing the MAGA crowd.

All I’m saying is that there are plenty of non-MAGA Americans out there. Like 55% of the country or something? And that those people can get guns just as easily as the MAGAts do – And that “terrified children and minorities” are not the only human persons that can be targeted by a firearm.

I know they won’t

They lack the spine for it (or the spinal injuries?)

But that’s precisely what makes this a case of ‘thing they aren’t ready to hear’

The gun rights y’all have?

Now, most people would tell you that Gun Control Works and that you should just do that and get less dead kids per month which is a generally good thing.

… But here’s another thing to consider. As long as you’re allowed to purchase weapons for cheap and easy.

You do realise you can in fact do something about the assholes in your government and your oligarchies with those guns, right? That they can be used for more than just killing children?

Luigi Mangione seemed to get it.

I honestly think the US and China might be neck and neck

Both are empires Both are very concerned with both their outward image and with what the peasantry is up to, lest they get too antsy.

And both have very advanced technology and a very well developed media ecosystem at their disposal.

They both probably push out about as much propaganda by weight.

Yeah the US only became…

… The US.

Because of the World Wars.

Europe, the then-seat of every worldwide empire, was killing itself and dragging all of Asia and Africa down with them.

The Americas in general were “safe”. Isolated from this chaos. Every country in the New World got a boost from the wars.

… But the US had a nation that was a. Fully Independent b. Relatively Stable and c. Rich in resources – So they basically got a decade-and-change of time to develop themselves while everyone who had previosly been rich and powerful was getting fucked, and by the time the dust settled, they were the top dogs just because they were lucky.

I see what you’re saying

And it’s correct

But

A lot of people also long for the relative simplicity and predictability of peasant life.

What is the entirety of the cottagecore aesthetic if not a longing for that? (well, that and a hint of racism but y’know y’know y’know)

I am decidedly an Irresponsible Adult.

Lutris is just for organization, and managing the Wineprefixes. I don’t even use it as an installer per se. I install manually with wine and then point Lutris to the right prefix and game executable.

Anyway, the steps outright skipped are:

• Having to unlock the FS for writing and set up SSH and (…) – This is a security liability if you CARE. I don’t, I just think it’s more effort than necessary.
• Transferring the game folder from a PC to the Deck, since you just. Do it all inside the deck itself.

It’s no big deal doing either of those, but I find it less of a hassle.

My procedure for pirated games, on both PC and deck is:

• On terminal, create a prefix by using export WINEPREFIX=. Like /home/myuser/Games/NameOfTheGame/pfx
• Run winetricks -q corefonts – The fonts ensure the installer won’t have any rendering errors, plus running winetricks at least once forces wine to create the prefix’s folder structure.
• Run the installer from the same terminal session, just doing wine Setup.exe
• Usually install to /home/myuser/Games/NameOfTheGame/game for organisation’s sake, but this is unnecessary and requires dealing with Wine’s handling of your unix folders which is always slightly annoying.

From here, you could launch the game directly through Steam, but then Steam would create its own prefix, and some games require fiddling around with the things installed on the wineprefix (or with envvars or…), which is why I use Lutris as a middleman, as it ensures the game will run on the prefix I created, and if anything is missing, I can winetricks it. Lutris even offers a ‘create Steam shortcut’ option to make it all look neat on the Deck’s console mode screen.

Most of these steps can be skipped by installing the Lutris flatpak on the deck itself and using desktop mode (… Plus an external mouse and keyboard) to set up your pirated games directly from the deck.

Additionally, if you’re smart about it you can use syncthing as a ghetto “cloud” solution to synch your progress between PC and deck.

Three concurrent processes.

Process 1 is running mission-critical maintenance tasks – Making backups, defragmenting memory, checking hardware, updating software (…)

Process 2 is just in real time taking whatever Process 1 reads or writes and dumping it raw into a file without any interpretation.

Process 3 then takes whatever Process 2 has spat out, and attempts to interpret it through various AI models, generating images, sounds, text, whatever, based on the input from Process 2.

Vimwiki & syncthing

Lightweight, libre, synchs on all my devices. Links between notes. All I need.

It’s not hard to believe. I’ve seen it happen after all.

It’s hard to UNDERSTAND. I’m not gonna call you names if you like bitter beers or whatever… I just plain ol’ don’t get how.

Because to me all bitter flavours feel like a punishment.

I’ll take your chocolate since you hate it so much.

A lot of ceremony-like events confuse me.

They seem designed to be as tedious and gruelling as possible. Consider Graduation Ceremonies, or the ceremonial part of Weddings. Just hours in a hard chair, listening to some old motherfucker blabber on and on about random bullshit. (the parties afterwards I understand and respect, even if I’m the opposite of a party person. The only thing I like about parties is the excuse to dress up and eat cake. But hey, people enjoy dancing and drinking and stuff, that makes sense to me.)

Is this some Neurotypical thing I’m too Autistic to understand? Like do people actually enjoy this?

EDIT: Actually, since I brought up drinking when talking about parties.

… I don’t comprehend people that like alcoholic drinks. It’s one thing to enjoy the feeling of being buzzed, we all want to turn off our brains sometimes, and of course it is literally addicting.

But I am talking about people who apparently enjoy the taste. Every type of booze I tried tasted like something between “medicine” and “actual poison”.

People will spend a fortune in Wines and Beers and they all just taste bad. Then they’ll swear up and down “no no dude, this wine is super sweet” and then you try it and it tastes like every other wine, which is to say it tastes like you took grape juice and sucked out all the joy.

Sonic 06 is the OG of “trashy games you can’t look away from because in all the ways it sucks, it is NEVER BORING”

… This is why it had such a powerful reputation-ruining impact, by the way.

If it had been boring bad (like Sonic Blast in the 90s or Sonic Boom a few years later) no one would have cared – Instead it is such a glorious trainwreck that it is basically The Room of video games.

Ristar!

I mentally think of it as “Sega’s Kirby”. Not because it has any specific similarities to Kirby in gameplay. But simply because it is similar in tone and vibe. A super cute game that is secretly about fighting an eldritch entity.

… And as every Sega game in the 90s, it is exciting arcade action from beginning to end.

Eating bugs.

Unless they’re wet bugs. Then it’s fine dining. /s

Seriously, people retch at the idea of chomping down on a cricket, a “clean” bug, but then get all excited about eating shrimp, which is like a sea Cockroach.

I have my own variant on this which I call the Neapolitan Ice Cream test

Neapolitan Ice Cream has three flavours.

Logically, everyone has a favourite and an un-favourite of the three.

No one will judge you if you dig out just the flavour you like… But the right thing to do. The one that is fair to everyone else who is eating the ice cream, is to scoop a straight line that gets a bit of each. Similarly, it’s not some great sacrifice to eat flavours you like a bit less. It’s just less nice.

This tests how fair people are when the stakes are low as shit. Which to me is the true proof of having principles. That you uphold them – Despite there being zero consequence to not doing so, and even a small punishment.