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DigDoug

@ DigDoug @lemmy.world

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  • I'd be so good at that

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  • I'm so tired of manually giving all these women orgasms, I'm going to invent a machine to do it for me.

  • What should be in a movie about the rich?

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  • Is this movie fictional? If so, consequences for their actions.

  • let's be honest

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  • Is the dead internet already a reality?

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  • Beep boop

  • ...is this retro?

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  • It's still true to within a year or two anyway.

  • ...is this retro?

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  • The Xbox 360 is as old now as the NES was when it came out.

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    It's Stalinist to want walkable cities with fewer cars, apparently 🤦

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  • Don't forget all that energy you saved by not walking anywhere. You paid good money for those calories and you're going to hold on to them for dear life.

  • Apprehensive

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  • Might as well die doing what you love.

  • Wikipedia is one of the last genuine places on the Internet, and these rat bastards are trying to contaminate that, too

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  • I hate AI as much as the next guy, but what the actual fuck?!

  • Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas

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  • You mean to tell me that the kind of people who didn't have to buy one at launch aren't convinced by a library consisting almost entirely of: games they already own on Switch 1, games available for less money on other platforms, DK Bananza, and MK World?

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • I (very briefly, to be honest) toyed with using my Steam Deck as my main computer a few years ago, and I remember sudo steamos-readonly disable made it behave a lot more like a regular Arch desktop.

  • [Resolved] Is there an opensource game store for linux that supports GoG?

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  • I've recently found that Lutris's install scripts haven't been working, at least for the games I tried to install. Not to mention that it seems to take forever to download GOG games.

    So I switched to Heroic and I haven't looked back. It somehow downloads games faster than if I got the installer directly from the GOG website, and it has save synchronisation. Some games still require manual tweaks (I've had the most trouble with the classic Resident Evil trilogy), but a lot of them can be done through Heroic's GUI.

    When the install scripts are working, Lutris tends to be better than Heroic when it comes to manually installed community patches and the like - you'll usually be given the choice between a script for the vanilla game and one for the patched version (In order to install KeeperFX through Heroic, I had to install it manually and then add it as a library option, for example.)

  • Who are your favorite leftist/longform video channels?

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  • Off the top of my head:

    Hbomberguy

    Shaun

    Munecat

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  • Which pejorative aliases do you use for companies or products?

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  • Pepsi -> Pepno

    Okay, that one got me.

  • Any RPGs that take into account when you reload a save? Or that break the 4th wall like this?

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  • This might not be quite what you're looking for, since it's an MMO, but there's a lot of unique quest dialogue in Runescape for those who know what they need beforehand - whether because they've done it before or because they're following a guide.

    For example - Doric's Quest - a simple early game quest where he asks for some items:

    Player: You know, it's funny you should require those exact things!

    Doric: What do you mean?

    Player: I can usually fit 28 things in my backpack and in a world full of quite literally limitless possibilities, a complete coincidence has occurred!

    Doric: I don't quite understand what you're saying?

    Player: Well, out of pure coincidence, despite definitely not knowing what you were about to request, I just so happened to have carried those exact items!

    Doric: Oh my, that is a coincidence! Pass them here, please. I can spare you some coins for your trouble, and please use my anvils any time you want.

    There's even an extra line about having the exact quantities of the items if you aren't carrying anything extra.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • I don't know how unpopular this is - I've never asked anybody:

    Phone-optimised UIs suck, even on phones. One of the first things I do on setting up a new phone is tick 'request desktop website' in the browser.

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  • If the numbers make sense, do it.

    I don't know why anybody would keep working if they have the option not to.

  • Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page

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  • It's been years since I've used Windows at home, but I still have a Firefox installer exe hanging around on my server on the offchance I ever need to use it again. Thanks for showing me it's no longer necessary.

  • Did you go to college, why or why not?

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  • I went and it's the biggest regret of my life.

    It took me 4 years to find a job after leaving because half of my prospective employers thought I was overqualified, and the other half said that completing university was no guarantee that I'd handle "real work". My first (and current) job is only tangentially related to my field and doesn't require a degree. Or any training, to be honest.

    7 years before I bought my house, it sold for exactly half of what I paid for it. If I swallowed my pride and got a shitty minimum wage job straight out of high school, I wouldn't have a student loan (where I live it's interest free, but there's a minimum weekly payment which is based on your wage), I would have been able to buy a house so much earlier, for so much less money, and I would have been paying off my mortgage for so much longer.

    In hindsight, my perspective is this: The actual cost of going to university isn't your student loans (which are still substantial, don't get me wrong) - it's time. Your degree has to make you so much more money than most people realise, because at a minimum you're starting your working life 3 years later than you normally would - that's 3 years you could have been working and saving, and 3 years of extra inflation to deal with.