I enjoy many social interactions.
Went to a concert this weekend. Chatted with the person running the merch table. Briefly chatted with a rando at the bar. Was nice.
Went to a party this weekend. Had a nice chat with some people I’d met before. Maybe came on kind of strong to the socialists in one conversation, but it was fun.
Lemmy probably isn’t going to get you a representative sample of people.
Why not both?
This always makes me feel like an alien. Just don’t use YouTube. Go get a book from the library. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go yell at clouds.
I vote in every election. New York has ranked choice for some things now, which is nice. The way judges are picked is pretty bad, though.
Yep. Place I’m at is in some sort of “hiring freeze”. They’re not replacing people who left. They also told the many (probably not strictly legal) contractors that they won’t be renewing them. It’s absurd.
What I was trying to get at is something can be worthwhile even if you don’t personally enjoy it.
Conservatism, probably. The whole in-group supremacy thing is pretty bad.
I think a lot about how “good” and “fun” are two different things.
You can have a game that’s a fascinating exploration of a theme that really unifies mechanics and story, but is an absolute downer of misery to play.
You can also have a game that’s a glorified slot machine with bugs, no real player input, and abusive monetization, but people’s brains light up playing it.
There’s some subjectivity of course, but sometimes I see games that are good at what they’re trying to be, but I don’t have any fun with them. Some people seem to demand those overlap all the time.
I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.
It would take an incomprehensible set of changes for me to consider going back to Microsoft. They can fuck off.
Ars is weirdly pro-windows sometimes , in the comments. I don’t read them as much as I used to.
Also doing my part. Fuck Microsoft. It would have been a harder choice if Windows was, like, fast, stable, and efficient. But it’s not. It’s jank and AI slop. Fuck them.
Do the other ones have forums? I don’t remember even seeing them.
Is the steam forum supposed to be moderated by valve or the developer? I always assumed the developer.
The other contenders mostly are bad.
Drm-free still exists.
They provide a lot of value without charging the end user very much.
Microsoft could have done this except they’re run by idiots and assholes. Nothing technical stopped them from launching a good store platform. They just didn’t want to.
I didn’t personally find it difficult, but I have thousands of hours in video games.
Furthermore, if you are being paid the same but your productivity goes up, and the owner keeps all the new profits, you’re being robbed.
Even if it was dirt cheap, I don’t want to give microsoft my money. I don’t want to rent games or get stuck with a subscription.
I want job postings and a way to reach people I worked with.
I absolutely do not want the click bait and slop.
Cars ruin everything. The primacy of cars is upstream from a surprising amount of problems with modern life.
Probably. They could have used their wealth for anything but they’re like dragons. Do you mourn for dragons in stories of knights slaying them?