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  • I can tell you without a doubt, if Russia claims something and is sketch about it, they’re almost certainly lying and the truth is the direct opposite thing.

    It’s so easy to detect at this point, I’m not even sure why they’d do it other than to save face, or to go: “Look how stupid and scared our citizens are, we can boldly lie and they can’t say or do anything about it.”

    I.e: Stories like: “Man falls off balcony after shooting self twice in the head, ruled accident

    Or uh, “Russian missile hits Kursk, Ukraine accused for the attack”





  • I go into a meditative, Zen-like Trance playing the Doom titles.

    For reference, I’ve been playing Doom since it came out in 1993, arguably, I’ve played it for more hours than possibly anyone alive on the Internet at the present moment. Maybe over a solid 128,000 hours between D1/D2/D3/D2016/D:Eternal.

    I still play it, various MegaWADS featured in the CacoAwards, and whatnot, but I digress.

    My feeling with this is, as they’d say:

    “Your judgement for the sin of wrath is an eternity in Hell”.

    “Why are you smiling? It’s supposed to be a punishment.

    “No, adjudicator, I heard you perfectly. An eternity in paradise.”



  • This already happened.

    There’s a story about a scout ship that landed in the Western Hemisphere of Sol 3, and they decided to talk with the locals.

    They offered them anything they wanted from the unitary matter replicator, as a show of good faith.

    Unfortunately the counselors had absolutely no idea what a “pothead” or “stoner” was and so the two humans left after each synthesizing a bushel (a long branch around 2 meters tall) of a cannabinoid dense Terran plant.

    They lodged their reports that the species on Sol 3 wasn’t intelligent enough to understand technology given they requested herbs/plants from a machine that could produce literally any compound known to nature, including cures for many diseases afflicting their world.

    The subchapter text was based on the vocalizations of the pair, who said: “Ayyy” followed by “Lah-Mao”.

    :vivid shrug:



  • I’m a well-sorted Zen Monk in your chart, but you’d really rate autism as more brain-damaged than literal schizophrenia?

    The walking, raving, hallucinating, spiders in the skin, swimming walls, schizophrenia?

    Many people with autism can lead moderate to fully functioning lives, i.e: A good chunk of YouTube content producers who churn out daily videos about a single, highly constrained topic (e.g: bridge reviews in multiple nations).

    I think I’d put autism in Category 2 of your chart, leaving the rest where it is

    P.S: I agree with your intergenerational insanity hypothesis; I’d summarize it as intergenerational trauma, actually, like a psychological debt deferred to progeny with interest





  • I bought STALKER 2, a masterpiece of post apocalyptic fiction and storytelling.

    I was running the game on launch, an old friend calls me up on Discord, and says:

    “So how is it?”

    I say: “I don’t know yet, I just got to the first town past the tutorial.”

    He says: “No, I mean the multiplayer.”

    I lost the ability to think for a good 30-60 seconds trying to formulate the right string of words to respond with, from the psychic damage he’d inflicted with the presumption that it was a live service multiplayer game.

    I think capitalism has weaponized brain rot into profits. As long as people open their wallets and not their brains, things will continue as planned. We’re literally paying for it.


  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldWe are not the same
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    Oh come on at some point, every software project or foundation needs to cover their expenses somehow or else they enshittify or cease to exist/get acquired by a dangerous, moneyed conglomerate. It’s known as the going concern principle.

    Out of all of the projects that I can think of in recent memory that started as big open source useful things, only VLC Media Player managed to avoid turning into garbage, and it’s because the lead developer is a saint.

    You can avoid Ubuntu because they have a paid plan and that’s your prerogative, but imagine they got bought out by Apple or something.


  • I have an AMD card, add VLC as a game in the drivers, and you can turn on AMFM (frame gen).

    If it doesn’t work you could just turn it on system wide in display settings of the Adrenaline Software (gear upper right corner, display/gaming).

    I think it requires at least a 6000 series GPU however.

    If you have a Samsung TV or other modern smart TV connected to a laptop, you can also turn on frame-gen using Auto Motion Plus, set to Custom.

    Judder Reduction 10 is double frames, so 24 FPS -> 48.