Japanese principles of honorable work, fear of retribution in future jobs. They’re brought up to expect a very different relationship with their company, and end up with a self-abusive mentality that they must deserve the mistreatment.

Not with de facto mayor Roland promising them a better future under his factory empire.

(Yeah, hard to work in Another Crab’s Treasure references)

I imagine they were the school bullies, but also convinced themselves they were the repressed minority being “bullied” by the rest of the school.

I’m currently in the process of converting over; have a dual boot and will probably leave it that way for the next year.

It is NOT, by any measure, that Linux is annoyance free and perfectly designed. It’s that Windows has been building up its annoyances in competition, so that going penguin takes a considerable measure of bloat off.

We’re at a point where some games are just performing better through Proton than running right on Windows.

If it matters, the money in that case was going to a charitable cause, not the people you’d date.

I remember when a date auction at my college worked this way, the girls always came in pairs. When I thought about it afterwards, it made sense, but it still made me feel just apprehensive enough in the moment - being outnumbered in a moment of social vulnerability - that I didn’t bid on anyone.

Quesadillus.

So, as with many other people. this stuff is certainly pushing me into Linux.

That said, is there no chance of the EU restarting their probes towards them with all the dark patterns they’ve been using to push people into Edge?

I have to admit, the struggle might be parents. Kids probably don’t like being wrapped into parental decisions that “because of politics, we can’t watch Paw Patrol anymore”.

My current plan is to try, how you say…CachyOS?

Mainly, I want a clearer idea of what the “fork bases” are, so that when I inevitably run into some problems, I can google “How do I prevent window docking in Plasma” or “How do I prevent window docking in Arch”. Not, “How do I prevent window docking in ObscureCachyFork875”.

I think I’ve had several attempts on “simple” distros, and unfortunately I think the trend of trying to simplify things for me has just cut off customization options that irk me to no end.

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I have a Series S that I got for game pass, but after they fired the only developers that gave them a GOTY candidate, I decided to boycott them. I probably should have started when they designed an active drone campaign to murder children in Palestine.

I think the point at which I decided I hated Symphony of the Night was when I could go a whole session without finding anything new, or learning anything. The map is just so wide, with no clues as to where you can next explore.

Several Soulslikes I’ve played have hidden in accessibility options things like not hitting you for falling into a pit, or not taking resources when you die.

I had a fantastic moment with this in Another Crab’s Treasure; I was doing some platforming when Krill glitched off the geometry and fell, killing me in the process. When I respawned, I knew I had tons of microplastics (souls) out there I wanted to save, but also felt frustrated because it wasn’t my fault I died - just bad game coding, as many games have. Plus, the odd positioning meant I might not be able to reach the death spot.

Instead, I just went to Accessibility and recovered them that one time; the game was nice enough not to even invalidate any achievements from the brief use.

Cuphead shows you how much health you took off before dying, and lets you restart boss fights immediately and infinitely without needing to replenish any forms of ammo.

I’d say Cuphead is FAR more relaxed.

“So, gamer, what did you think about the campfire scene?”
“I didn’t get it at all. When they said Earl and his kid were dead and everyone started crying I had no idea who they were.”
“Huh? You don’t remember him? He was in the scene where you visit the city gate.”
“I haven’t been to the city gate yet.”
“…Really? I…oh shit.”

With all the interactivity games have, it’s very possible for someone’s session to just not hit the same emotional beats the devs planned out. True for an improperly gated story, as well as for a difficulty curve.

Shout out to all the homies that missed the Estus Flask in Dark Souls 2, and who learned nothing revelatory about exploration when they finally came back to it.

Perfect example of this was Jimmy Kimmel. He openly said that shooting a commentator was a horrible thing, and tried to call for moderation. MAGA declared that wasn’t enough, and ordered him fired.

They have specified that if you’re not with them, you’re against them.

No, it was actually a piano stealthily hung from a nearby rooftop, which the perpetrator cut down with some comically oversized scissors.

“Everyone! I just heard from sky daddy. He said you should all give me all your money. New moral imperative.”

How do modern kids even develop a signature? They used to teach cursive and it’s based on that, but cursive isn’t used anymore