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Sonotsugipaa

@ Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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    Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)

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  • (edit: MARKDOWN FUCKED UP THE SPOILERS, readers beware)

    Robin from Iconoclasts:

    • Pacifist until the end (depending on the definition of "end"), despite the game's pixel aesthetic it tries to make it clear that murder is her last option;
    • Altruistic, she goes out of her way to help people with complete disregard of her own safety;
    • Doesn't talk much;
    • Kind hearted, doesn't reject a well-intentioned yet spoiled acquaintance even though fucking up is his character arc and everyone hates him;
    • becomes friends with Jesus and goes with him back to heaven
    • fucking kills god, then fills Him with seeds (tbf all the poor guy did was pull up at the gas station and have strangers harass Him)
      • she also fills Jesus' mom with seeds, I'm beginning to think she has a thing for the clergy
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    Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)

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  • Wrex.

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    Priorities

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  • If you let it exposed for long enough it hardens and you can use it as a þat

  • Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"

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  • Not OP, but:

    • Not indexable (can't use web search engines on its content, not even forums);
    • Like Deep Rock Galactic, Discord is full of cave-dwelling creatures that abduct miners;
    • The built-in search feature (the only way you can search things on it, mind you) has less filters than my uncle at thanksgiving;
    • everyone
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    • Can't mute the entire server because you want notifications for mentions on a few specific channels;
    • Said server creates a new channel;
    • everyone
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    • everyone
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    • Can't use browser bookmarks to manage and enter servers, you have to use THIS fucking thing
      • "but they have to pay for uptime somehow"confirmshaming, plus they got the monopoly on this type of social services by undercutting their competition through venture capital so they could go under tomorrow for all I care
    • Irrelevant for most people, but the garbage uncollapsible UI makes it painful to make it share screenspace with other windows on a FHD screen (which is a tragedy for tiling WM users);
    • The markdown implementation is a bit janky IME
    • "By reading the first 9 words of this notice you accept that you may not sue us and have to arbitrate your disputes"
    • Third-party clients are against TOS, as you noted below

  • PSA: Stop using Imgur for now

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  • Has this ever happened to you?

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  • It could be valid C++ code within a function, if not for the last colon which isn't a unary nor binary operator

  • Has this ever happened to you?

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  • Hey, you can't say "hell", that's a bad word >:c

  • Has this ever happened to you?

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  • Prepare for trouble!

    And make it throuple!

  • Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'

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  • Halo 2 is the opposite, the remastered version does have some things that rub me the wrong way (like human faces) and some choices that baffle me (like the once opaque glass at the beginning of The Oracle, y'know the one) but other than that it's one of the best remastered games out there.

    ... visually speaking. I don't like the brand new music tracks they added over the licensed ones.

  • Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'

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  • Ironically H:CEA is the worst offender of remasters that completely miss the original art style and makes everything uglier and... uncannier? Less canny?

  • Samsung fridge subscription fee

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  • Manufacturers will add "security features", then sue the new lobotomizer business for tampering with DRM

  • Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios

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  • As far as I'm aware GamePass is already Xbox+Windows exclusive because it uses the Microsoft Store on PC

  • Baffled at PC freezing on Linux, but not on Windows for the same workload

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  • Windows 10 and 11 really dislike HDDs, that's probably why you can't admit to using HDDs online without getting stones thrown at you (I've been there before).

    I've disabled paging files (= swap) for one of my Windows VMs, unfortunately - to my surprise - that only had a small performance boost, and I still need to let the VM chug for a few mintes before it even lets me open File Explorer.

    ... but it does improve performance, definitely consider doing it if you don't need swap/paging/whatever they call it now.

  • I_fucking_hate_them_now

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  • I use Zsh too, though at this point is becoming detrimental to my (already limited) Bash skills because of features like the ${^array}{1,2,3} syntax which I use in some scripts of mine, which in turn I wouldn't dare try to translate to Bash.

  • Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios

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  • Unfortunately that's already happening, I know a few people that are hard to convince to play something that isn't on GamePass — I never insisted, but it's still a bummer that I need M$'s blessing to play with people I know, considering I don't have an Xbox and cross-play games that we all like are hard to find.

  • I_fucking_hate_them_now

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  • If the path to the dir is longer than $HOME, say, $HOME/Tools/modding/hd2-audio-modder/wwise/v123456789_idr_but_its_a_long_one/random file name with spaces, it makes more sense.

    I'll try using the braces syntax, if it does prevent word splitting I wasn't aware of it, though it's still slightly inconvenient (3 key inputs for each brace on my kb) and I'd probably still use quotes instead if I had to use Bash and had the file path in a variable for some reason.

    ... though at this point I'm probably overthinking it, atm I don't recall better examples of my distaste for Bash expansion shenanigans.

    Did some testing, here's what I found.Beware, it devolves into a rant against Bash and has little to do with the original topic - I just needed to scream into the void a little.

     zsh
        
# Zsh
function argn { echo $#; }

var='spaced string'
argn $var
# Prints 1: makes sense, no word splitting here

var=(array 'of strings')
argn $var
# Prints 2: makes sense, I'm using a 2-wide array where I would
#           want 2 arguments (the second one happens to have
#           a whitespace in it)

  

     
        
# Bash
function argn { echo $#; }

var='spaced string'
argn $var
# Prints 2: non-array variable gets split in 2 with this simple reference;
#           I hate it, but hey, it is what it is

argn ${var}
# Prints 2: no, braces do not prevent word splitting as I think you suggested

var=(array 'of strings')
argn $var
# Prints 1: ... what?

echo $var
# Prints array: ... what?!?
#               It implicitly takes the first element?
#               At least it doesn't word-split said first element, right?

var=('array of' strings)
argn $var
# Prints 2:

    Upon further investigation:

     
        
# Bash
mkdir /tmp/bashtest ; cd /tmp/bashtest
touch 'file 1'
touch 'file 2'

stat file*
# Prints the expected output of 'stat' called on both files;
# no quotes or anything, globbing just expands into
# 2 arguments without *word* splitting

files=('file 1' 'file 2')
stat $files
# stat: cannot statx 'file'
# stat: cannot statx '1'
# WHY? WHY DOES GLOBBING ACT SENSIBLY WHEN ARRAYS DO NOT?

    I get that the Bash equivalent to Zsh's $array is ${array[@]}, but making $array behave like it does in Bash has no advantage whatsoever.... IS WHAT I WOULD SAY IF THAT WERE TRUE! YOU ALSO HAVE TO QUOTE "${array[@]}" BECAUSE WE LOVE QUOTES HERE AT BASH HQ!

     
        
# ... continued from before
stat "prefix ${files[@]}"
# stat: cannot statx 'prefix file 1'
# (regular 'stat' output for 'file 2')

    While this behavior doesn't make much sense to me, it also doesn't make sense for me to write that "prefix" within the quotes in the first place, right?YES. BECAUSE SPLITTING IS NOT WHAT YOU EXPECT WHEN YOU PUT STUFF IN QUOTES.

    Sorry, I'll stop.

  • Baffled at PC freezing on Linux, but not on Windows for the same workload

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  • o7, probably worth a shot

  • I_fucking_hate_them_now

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  • Expansion matters because using parameters without quotes automatically splits words, and IIRC a quoted array parameter can still be split into its members — as opposed to Zsh, where word splitting doesn't happen unprompted and quoted array parameters are flattened into a single string.

    Generally if I want to run $HOME/random executable with spaces.exe through Wine in a terminal I copy the path in Dolphin (CTRL+SHIFT+C, or CTRL+ALT+C idr) and paste it, within quotes if needed (the four extra key inputs are the annoying part).

    I find that much faster than manually typing find "$HOME" -name "random executable with spaces.exe" -type x -exec wine "{}" \;, or opening an editor to insert backslashes.

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  • They're annoying to deal with when interactively using command-line shells, especially so when pasting unquoted and unescaped file paths, doubly especially so with Bash where parameter expansion makes no goddamn sense if you know at least one other programming language