I’m against banning things. It’s better to teach users how not to use these platforms.

Just because there’s deeper root causes, doesn’t mean the end result shouldn’t be banned if its immoral or destructive. In particular, we figure out what parts of it are problematic enough to be worth banning, and ban those: I.E. the heavily biased algorithm which users have no control over.

Aside from that, theres also the option of providing alternatives. Said alternatives don’t even have to be publicly run. It could come in the form of something like a one-time grant to Mastrodon and opening up a server exclusively for government departments to share announcements or PR with the public.

At this point, I’m mostly just trying to figure out what my options are. Trying to search Mechanical Keyboards dot com just burries me in results with no meaningful way to filter them. PcPartPicker is slightly better, but lacks most of the dedicated keyboard brands. The only site I’d found that offered thorough filters was Memoey Express, although their selection was also very limited. The other comment suggesting Keeb-Finder was pretty much exactly what I was looking for (although a lot of the results aren’t available in Canada, but its still far better).

I didn’t expect to get my answer from a marketing spam bot (nontheless one that can’t even link the relevant website properly), but here we are. Keeb-Finder was what I was looking for.

When you compare that to the amount of memory in video game consoles, they had to keep things simple and couldn’t afford to go fill professional digital audio.

This was my intended point. The problem wasn’t digital verus analog. It was more that home computers couldn’t run something as complex as a game with resources that high-quality. Even 3D games following 1995 (since that was the start of at-home, 3D games) were running at low resolutions with low poly, low-res assets and lower quality sound because anything more would be too expensive.

In 1995 CDs were already well-established and quickly becoming the standard. Digital audio had already been around for decades, and the main distribution method was digital.

American cops are kinda average compared to the global stage. Most of Europe, for example, has much more restrained, much less incompetent cops. On the other hand, much of the world has cops much worse than the US. I have a family member who lived in one of the less stable African countries, who recounted seeing a bunch of cops beat a child for “daring” to wear camo pants, and that wasn’t considered particularly shocking.

There’s a couple factors, but to oversimplify, games are just very complicated. If you had a high-end recording studio, you might have a high-end computer (for the time) to digitize recorded audio. You just need to basically record a microphone and be able to play it back, so its not too complicated anyway. In the same vein, for animation and CGI, a studio would have super high-end computers, and even then it would often take days for the computer to process a single high-quality image or much longer for animation.

Compare that to games, where you need to generate an image in about one 30th of a second. At the same time, the game has to also play back sound, handle a bunch of extra input and logic for the game, and has to do it all on a computer that an average family can afford.

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Sounds like you’ve basically got yourself covered. Beyond that, I’d recommend just trying to make sure your current methods are sustainable (IE, you won’t have to switch back in a year) and trying to find ways to help others.

Some other ways the can help reduce US influence off the top of my head, ordered roughly from least to most difficult:

• Do your research and vote
• Use networked platforms (like the Fediverse) more, to help them compete with big american tech
• Promote Canadian or non-US alternatives
• put together detailed resources to help others boycott US products (IE, blog posts about how you addressed specific issues or infographics explaining the alternatives to common american products.)
• Join local groups to become more connected with your community
• Volunteering
• Becoming involved in politics, be it helping campaign for important causes or running yourself.

Yes, a lot of these aren’t directly targeting the US, but the stronger Canada is, the less power the US has over us.

“Aged poorly” was a bad choice of words. My point was more that the industry has moved on from them, and while some of the conventions are the same, its largely stuff that predates them. If you go back to retro RPGs when you’re used to Skyrim, Dark Souls, Final Fantasy, ect. you’ll be unfamiliar with much of how the game plays. Not much was carried over from these games specifically. I’d argue that the influential RPG, that would be the genre’s equivalent to Doom, would be D&D. While not a video game, thats the model everything referenced, and still references, moreso than even Doom. It’s what codified core mechanics like HP, classes, character stats, and more, in the same way Doom codified modern first-person mechanics, ammo management, and exploding barrels.

While they’re important, I think they’ve also aged poorly in many ways something like Doom has not. I’d compare their importance more to something like Pong or Galiga. Good games, that pushed the limits of the medium for their time, and are foundational, but more acted as a steping stone rather than something other games were widely inpired by or modeled after.

I can’t think of anything that really competes overall. It could be argued games like Pong, Pac-Man, Quake, Half-Life, WoW, ect. all were pivotal points in gaming, but I don’t think anything has had as direct and widespread influence as Doom.

Generally, there are two broad factors that potentially mess things up. Spending long periods with each other (esspecially in a casual setting) and finances. I’d try and think over how well you know her (and she knows you), to try and make sure it won’t be an issue before you commit to it. For example, have you gone on long trips together or spent more than just a weekend together? If you haven’t, maybe try and spend more time together and learn more about each other. If you have, are you confident that you’ll be comfortable spending much more time around her. As for finances, there’s obviously only so much you can learn, but do your general stances align? Have you fought about stuff like that before?

Ultimately, you both should have enough information about the other person to feel comfortable with the idea, and not feel like you’re going in blind. This is a commitment, so you should be well informed before taking action, and prehaps have fallbacks if you feel theres any chance things don’t work out. If you’re asking strangers on the internet, its not a good sign, but ultimately you’re the only one who has the information needed to judge.

Unfortunately, this is only the Travelers Tale-style games. None of the classic, unlicensed ones like Lego Island, Lego Racers, Legoland, Bionicle, ect.

Shouldn’t this be BFSDS instead?

That and its addition to gamepass. They’re just free, themed reskins. Nothing major, buts its extra free content for an already good game.

I use Boost. I tried a few others, and wanted to pick an open source option, but I never found one with UI I was satisfied with.

I think its partly because the Federation process takes time (which can throw off any more precise notifications between instances) but much more significantly because many of the most active Lemmy users really hate bots.

Basically, the actual processor on the card is made by Nvidia and sold to card manufacturering companies like Asus, Zotac, ect. Those manufacturers will then build the rest of the graphics card around that processor. Most of the card will be very similar between manufacturers, as the processors require very specific card designs but some layout details, cooling, overclock specifics, and appearance can all be changed by the card manufacturer. As well as that, different manufacturers will have different design and quality standards, and different support systems.

Dota callouts have some interesting ones.

“I gooed the squirrel a bunch, catch her and let Lion finger her.”

Edit: And considering that Lion’s “Finger of Death” ability is shortened to “fingering”, you can guess what the callout is for its upgraded form, “Fist of Death”.