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DrSteveBrule

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  • Do not do this!

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  • This is how I feel about ads. If I request an article or video from a website and they send it to me alongside an ad, shouldn't I just be able to say "no thank you" to the ad and not accept it\block it. The content I asked for was willingly sent to me so it seems hard to claim that it was stolen or pirated.

  • be a friend to the animals

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  • Where I live all the grass in peoples yards are not native and would absolutely die without constant upkeep by humans. I really don't understand the point. I get that it looks neat and upholds the aesthetic of luxury yards, but I've never thought natural foilage was ugly and never understood why it was unwanted by people. The picture perfect at grass lawns are very uninviting for people to actually walk around on. At that point it's basically the equivalent of putting plastic on all your furniture and telling guests not to sit on it

  • Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic

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  • I think there is a difference between what the developers expect and what characters expect. In Fallout3 a settlement builds their town around a deactivated nuclear bomb. There is an opportunity very early in the game to detonate it, which most characters understandably react poorly to. But I wouldn't rate the game poorly because the surviving NPCs of that settlement become hostile to the player afterwards. The developers don't really expect anything from the players as there is the choice to do either thing. I thought Dishonored did that as well. NPCs who cause havoc to the city by killing people and spreading disease will hear complaints from the surviving citizens. Also the story of the game sets up the player to be framed for murdering the empress so most NPCs by default already hate the player character. I liked that the game gave players the choice to remain noble and try to actively prevent further chaos or say fuck it and slaughter everyone who stands against you even if you are technically in the right.

  • Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic

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  • Appreciate the response. I feel that I'm in the minority when it comes to caring much about good or bad endings. Usually if a game has several endings I'll replay it to get the other endings. I've never really felt that a "bad ending" was a punishment though. Even if I get immersed in the character I'm playing, I never felt as though I experienced the negative outcomes. I was playing Baldur's Gate 3 with a friend and he was getting mad at me because I wasn't playing lawfully good lol. That game was designed to keep progressing no matter what choices you make. You can kill the most important characters but the game keeps going. Yet he felt as though we would have to reload a previous save if I did something too "wrong". Anyway, I just find the difference of opinion on the topic interesting lol sorry for the wall of text.

  • Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic

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  • That's true, it is a game where each choice has a direct consequence. Going along that train of thought, do you see the "star system" in GTA as the game scolding you for your choices? If you've never played it, in GTA you are a criminal and as you commit crimes you get a star rating. The more stars means the more law enforcement that attempts to subdue or kill you. There really isn't a way to complete the game in a non-violent manner though.

  • Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic

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  • In what way do you think the game scolded you for killing enemies?

  • Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic

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  • Can you explain why you think the game punishes the player for engaging in combat and killing enemies? I get that the events in the game may change but I'm not getting how that's a punishment to the player.

  • What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?

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  • FPS? You must be thinking of a different game.

  • So I'm out here like "Kamala Harris y'all" and then she goes ahead and posts some shit like this

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  • This would make a lot of sense if said person you didn't agree with was at least respectable in any sense of the word.

  • If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is.

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  • Every play a game of telephone when you were in grade school? That's basically how reliable any religious text is. Even if it were originally written with the exact words of God, it certainly isn't what it contains now. My favorite thing about the bible is when people specifically say "King James version" because they are admitting it has been altered.

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    Linux users, what are you doing on your laptop?

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  • I take notes for my classes using CherryTree. My school lost their liscense with MultiSim, so now I use KiCad on my laptop. I know next to nothing about it, but it's been fun learning it. If I have to write a report for school I use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Word. There's no learning curve, they are nearly identical programs. I bought my laptop with Windows 10 installed but it runs much faster now with Mint.

  • Hot Take Time: What is a popular long-running franchise that just needs to stop?

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  • Very hot take indeed lol but Dark Souls has already ended.

  • Don't fix the problem just change the parameters

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  • No doubt. I wasn't trying to imply that either one is useless, but things change and new technology takes over. Another person replied to me comparing cursive and typing on a computer. I catch myself thinking that new generations are at a disadvantage because they don't learn the same things I did. But it may not always be necessary that they do. I am of the computer typing generation. I didn't learn to write beautiful cursive, but my life hasn't been negatively impacted even though many people have expressed sympathy for my awful education. I was just trying to say I think it's a rather normal thing for old systems to get phased out of a classroom from time to time. It's not really a good reason to believe that younger generations are doomed. But like I said I fall into that line of thinking myself from time to time.

  • Don't fix the problem just change the parameters

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  • One part of me wants to feel disappointed that kids aren't learning to read analog clocks, but another part of me thinks there was a time when people grew disappointed that the younger generations stopped learning to use an abacus in favor of digital calculators. I certainly don't want some old geezer giving me shit because I don't want to learn to use an abacus. I also don't want to be that old geezer.

  • Cisgender Boy Forced to Play on Girls' Sports Team Because of Birth Certificate Error

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  • Not necessarily MMOs but yes, you create an alternative account with the purpose of being matched with lesser skilled players.

  • Whats the best voice acting in any video game?

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  • Ron Perlman did it better!

  • Spotify enables Lossless on native Linux client!

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  • That's cool that they're included now but I imagine you're paying for the subscription so it seems funny to advertise them as being free.

  • Spotify enables Lossless on native Linux client!

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  • How are the audiobooks free?

  • Share your poops!

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  • You mean writing on paper? Like cave people?

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