MudMan

Hey, way more honest than OP.

Oh, ok.

So is this fine for kids, then? And if so, how do you draw that line in a piece of legislation?

Yeah? Well, not being from the US that’s not quite how I heard that tale.

For one, who made the attempts? Gonna guess the implied “we” in that framing doesn’t include Ethiopia, Spain, Portugal, Italy itself and a bunch of others, right? Not much appeasement going on in Guernica, you’ll have to admit.

I mean, the underlying facts are the same, but appeasement as an attempt to pacify Germany versus appeasement as a politically convenient way to avoid intervention in areas where opposition to the fascists was heavily aligned with communist or broadly marxist stances are meaningfully different framings. Little of column A, little of column B, I have to assume. Lots of column ethnocentrism, almost certainly.

EVERY schoolchild?

I am kinda curious to know where you’re from now, but I don’t like being too explicit about that myself, so I won’t push it.

For what it’s worth, the first time I had a conversation about how fuzzy and arbitrary the “official” start of WW2 is I was in high school. “Wait, so Germany was bombing Spain since 1936 and Italy was straight up invading Ethiopia since 1935? How is that an ‘interbellum’?” didn’t require that much maturity to bring up.

I had good history teachers in high school, incidentally. Kudos to them.

You should know I cherish every time somebody thinks I’m far left online. It’s the only think that keeps my family and friends from roasting me as a filthy capitalist liberal when I vote for milquetoast social democrats. It’s super important for my social standing.

Could have told that to the Spanish when they were being bombed by German planes. See, they thought they were a democracy being attacked by a fascist coup receiving political and military aid from the Nazis, but they didn’t realize that they didn’t have a land border with Germany, so it didn’t count. That was their real problem. See, the British got bombed when France was already Nazi, so that counted and they got liberated. Should have waited a few years. Rookie mistake.

Really? You were going for some Socratic roundabout ironic thing? Could have just said what you thought, saved everybody the trouble. That feels a bit patronizing.

“Temporarily puts aside differences”? The only think keeping the capitalists from shooting at the communists was being on opposite sides of Germany. They were both maneouvering politically before, during and after. Sometimes the different types of marxists DID shoot at each other. The left is nothing if not consistent on that front. The capitalists meanwhile were so anxious about communists in Western Europe that you’re arbitrarily right just because they refused to intervene in Spain and Portugal and somehow declared they had defeated fascism while leaving both under fascist dictatorships until the 1970s while they smoothly rolled into the Cold War and proceeded to do the same to a bunch of other countries.

Bit rose tinted, that.

I mean, I don’t disagree on the broad strokes, but it does beg the question:

What are you doing here?

This is that. You’re on social media. We don’t allow smoking and drinking for adults because it’s any less harmful for them, it’s just that we choose to let grownups choose whether they want to mess themselves up.

So why do you choose to mess yourself up and what should society do about it?

I read the piece and have been thinking about this daily for thirty years.

The guy is right and the piece sucks.

It’s borderline satanic panic that hasn’t thought through the downstream ramifications of even attempting to implement age gates online. And as the previous poster says the negative effects of social media are at the absolute least just as bad in adults. The scaremongering about drug dealers and pedophiles is just that.

Well, let me solve that for you right away.

You need neither of these things. Games and entertainment are not a priority if you’re in a “this current economy” type of situation.

If you already have one, that’s the right one for the money, probably.

Was Nintendo Life “misrepresenting the value of a Switch 2 over a Deck”? Myeeeeh, not sure. I’ll say I agree with their premise that “Steam Deck fans Seriously Underestimating the Switch 2”. In somewhat petty, immature ways, as demonstrated very well here. Does the Steam Deck “obliterate the Switch 2”? Probably not, no. I’ll tell you for sure in the summer, I suppose. That said, their listicle is brand shilling as much as this post is.

Are these two things different and have different sets of pros and cons? Yeah, for sure. It’s even a very interesting exercise to look at the weird-ass current handheld landscape, because it’s never been wider, more diverse or move overpopulated. The Switch 2 and the Deck will probably remain the two leading platforms until whatever Sony is considering materializes, but they’re far from alone, from dirt cheap Linux handhelds to ridiculously niche high end laptop-in-a-candybar Windows PCs.

If you want to have a fun thread about that I’m game, but fanboyism from grown men is a pet peeve of mine, and even if I didn’t find it infuriating I’d find it really boring.

For the record, between these two? Tied for price, Switch 2 will be a bit more powerful and take advantage of specifically catered software from both first and third parties, has better default inputs, a better screen and support for physical games. Current Deck is flexible, hugely backwards compatible, can be upgraded to a decent OLED screen and has fewer built-in upsells.

And as a bonus round, Windows handhelds scale up to better performance than either, have better compatibility than the Deck and some superior screen and form factor alternatives… but are typically much more expensive and most (but not all) struggle with the Windows interface and lack hardware HDR support.

We good? Because that’s that’s the long and short of it.

That’s not what that says.

It says “if you can’t get the other thing (…) AND your frontal lobe is too squishy to cope with the FOMO”.

I’m not saying you need to buy both, I’m saying if you’re an adult you can live with a cool thing existing and you not needing to have it immediately without resorting to taking sides based on marketing bullet points like a toddler.

Hey, hey? Hey.

Two things can be good at the same time.

Stop it.

Unless you’re ten and in a backyard and you can’t get the other thing because you haven’t mowed enough lawns or whatever and your frontal lobe is too squishy to cope with the FOMO.

But if you’re “a grown man”? Stop it.

This makes the scenario seem like the exception rather than the rule, and I find this weird and disturbing.

The fact that most responses go “this one animal” as an answer instead of starting from the genus down makes me think I’ve either misunderstood something or we’re really not on the same page here.

Wait, what do you mean with no point of reference? If you were physically there the whole world would be your point of reference. You could point at a rock and make a grunting sound and somebody would eventually tell you the word for “rock”. They’d have actual teachers. How you would go about accessing them is anybody’s guess, but hey, they’d exist.

The hard part would be learning it when there’s nobody left to speak it because making grunting sounds in the general direction of rocks is famously ineffective at decoding ancient documents.

I swear I hear way more about Win10 EoL in Linux forums than anywhere else by orders of magnitude.

I have literally heard nothing about this anywhere else. An article is some tech news site every now and then, at best. I haven’t heard a single person I know outside the Internet bring it up once. Haven’t seen it in the news, haven’t seen it in the press, haven’t heard it from friends or sons of friends or parents of friends.

Nobody gives a crap. Nobody is going to give a crap. The updates will stop and nobody will notice. They will eventually buy a new PC, that will come with Win11 and they’ll go “hey, the taskbar is white now” and that will be the end of that.

I crave the moment they flip the switch because man, at least well get some respite from all the giddy anticipation. Although I do fully expect a million posts every time the Steam hardware survey moves by 0.1% or that some company gets hacked through some old, unpatched device. At least it’ll be a change of pace, you know?

Yeah, so the problem with that is you’re typically not building a security platform with a game on top, you’re building a game. The scope of the issue is not the same for Fortnite or LoL than for… I don’t know, Fatal Fury City of the Wolves, if we’re getting topical.

Especially in a multiplatform game where the PC is not your primary target and your targeted consoles have a semblance of platform integrity it is not unreasonable to expect the platform to handle at least the basics. And hey, if Windows gives you that through a third party service that’s resources you can put in… you know, the game part of the game.

That’s not being lazy, that’s the second law of thermodynamics. Resources are limited, from developer time to server time (which goes up if you can’t offload literally anything to the client).

You’re more likely to have me meet you in the middle if we agree that there probably should be a middle ground where the layer of security that is now being offloaded to a third party service having kernel-level access should instead be handled by the OS. I don’t know if that’s better or worse, but it certainly isn’t as weird and scary as having a bunch of mid-sized vendors have crazy access to people’s computers just so they can play games semi-functionally. But to bring this back to the original argument, that sounds like something you’re at best going to get from Microsoft. Linux being what it is, that isn’t an option and is not going to become one.

It’s fine, but I think I either didn’t play deep enough to get to the hook or it didn’t grab me as much as it did other people, because it does feel a bit overhyped to me.

I think in this vein I’d recommend Return of the Obra Dinn before I do Blue Prince. Not that I think Blue Prince is a bad game in any way, just a bit… soft around the edges, I guess?

Yeeeeah, I don’t know abou that. Typically the copy only lists the pieces not included in the base game. Here for Expedition 33:

The Deluxe Edition includes:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Base Game The “Flowers” Collection - Six outfits and hairstyles inspired by the Flowers of Lumière, along with six additional “Gommage” outfit variations. One for each playable character. “Clair” - A custom outfit for Maelle “Obscur” - A custom outfit for Gustave

Or here for Khazan:

The First Berserker: Khazan DELUXE EDITION includes the following content:

1. The First Berserker: Khazan (main game)

2. Hero’s Weapon Set ・ Hero’s Dual Wield ・ Hero’s Spear ・ Hero’s Greatsword

3. Hero’s Armor Set ・ Hero’s Helm ・ Hero’s Wristguards ・ Hero’s Pauldrons ・ Hero’s Leggings ・ Hero’s Combat Boots

4. Digital Artbook

・ The digital artbook features concept art from The First Berserker: Khazan. It can be accessed from the in-game main menu screen.

• The Hero’s Weapon and Armor Sets are The First Berserker: Khazan DELUXE EDITION exclusive items and cannot be obtained through alternative means at a later date.

• The Hero’s Weapon and Armor Sets can be used cosmetically. These sets can also be upgraded and/or have their options adjusted, allowing for continued usage.

• Clear Mission 2 and open the reward barrel in the Crevice to obtain the Hero’s Weapon and Armor Sets.

• Updating to the latest version of the game may be required to access this content.

Listing vanilla content separately from the base game in the same list as the deluxe content without a clear distinction on what you’re paying for where seems very unorthodox. I was certainly confused. At the very least it’s bad copywriting, and at worst an attempt to get people to go for the more expensive version by misrepresenting its value.

This works on longer scales, but I have to be honest with you, I don’t know if me looking back at the late 90s and going “yeah, that went wrong at some point” is just my generation’s version of being nostalgic for a time where you were oblivious to the crappy stuff or a fairly objective assessment of modern world trends.

I DID grow up in what amounted to a developing nation, several of my neighbors couldn’t read or write and I didn’t have a telephone or a VCR until well into the nineties, but also… you know, the post 9-11 period doesn’t seem like a particular uptrend for civilization, in hindsight.