Napster was a godsend, as I couldn’t afford to buy music. I installed it on the school computers, and I had a sneaky little hidden folder with my mp3s. I’d plug in my headphones and listen over lunchtime. I eventually figured out how to use multipart rar files to put them onto floppy disks, so that I could get them back home and listen on my parent’s computer. I was eventually able to buy a portable CD player that played mp3s on CD-RW, which really opened up the possibilities. Without piracy, I don’t think I would be into music in the same way - I simple never would have had the opportunity to listen to most stuff.

I don’t know how they expect people to get back on their feet when they’re constantly destroying their shelter and chasing them around the city.

Good for them. Consumer co-ops can still be kind of exploitative towards their workers.

For me, the Year of Linux on the Desktop was 2021. There’s literally only one computer in the house running Windows anymore, and that’s simply to run some of the pro-level software I use for gig work (and so I’ll never be entirely rid of it).

Proton’s improvements were a big step in transitioning my PC gaming to Linux. There are still a lot of games that won’t run on Linux, but… there are so many that do, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out.

I felt a little more alive just reading this.

This is maybe the worst one of these I’ve seen. The pig moves in front of her car and then points his gun at her, so that he can get a legal kill by claiming that he felt in danger from her trying to run him over.

I agree, in areas where Doom 3 turns into more of an arena shooter, there’s enough lighting that you don’t need it. The light and weapon management is part of the survival horror aspect of maze section. Obvs its okay to not like Doom 3, it’s the most different of these games, but having the light always on is just making the game easier and less scary.

Same. I love Doom 1, 2, 3 and 2016, I still play them all every so often. I didn’t like the artificial gameyness of the the Doom Eternal combat puzzles and maps. Doom is at it’s worse when you’re artificially locked in an arena with monsters, those should instead be an organic part of the level.

I played through most of the original PS2 God of War on the strong recommendation of internet gamers before finally realizing that I found the whole genre extremely boring. I think it was good for me to realize that I wasn’t going to vibe with every critically acclaimed game.

Shortest people on earth according to that list: Afghans. And yet, the Taliban kicked the US out of the country 🤔

If this was a real thing, it would absolutely be turned into the Torment Nexus.

They are, more specifically, laws that guarantee a worker’s “right” to refrain from paying or being a member of a union.

Chinese bot accounts have more humanity than western liberals