CaptainHowdy

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[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This reminds me so much of my dad (a house painter) when I was a kid! He was always down to indulge my curiosity by experimenting or building something. It was fun at the time, but I'm now in engineering and I'd say a lot of it is just because my dad thought it would be fun to attach a potato cannon to a go kart.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The irony in this is fucking delightful. No one wants Americans using this kind of brain rot social media. Maybe that's a sign....

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What percentage of the gamers that you know would just be able to find and download an emulator from a git repo hosted on .onion or .i2p?

For me, that's just me. None of my gamer buddies would put in that effort, they'd just buy a product or play a game from steam.

I think we're still a long way from privacy focused protocols being mainstream in the way the web has become in the last 15 years.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Why is their top instance not compatible? Pixelfed.social gives me errors when I try to auth

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

I don't think we can, honestly.

Like I want Trump locked up, along with any politician who claimed the election was stolen.

But the fact is, the orange shit won 2024 and in 9 days (uuuugh) will ~~fully pardon himself making any punishment nullified~~ be the president again (thanks for the correction, he can't pardon himself from state charges.

If the various governments actually wanted to punish Trump (they don't, unfortunately) they would have actually done something and took advantage of the FOUR FUCKING YEARS that there was a possibility of their cases making any impact at all.

Our broken justice system is slower than our corrupt political cycle, which lets those in power do whatever they want.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

The experience of playing modern games on a modern AAA "high end" PC is obviously going to be better if you care about things like ray-tracing and high framerates or resolution. You can't really dispute that.

But it would be stupid to say you're wrong if you just want to play that same game on your system if it actually runs. If the game is playable and you're having fun, you're doing it correctly.

I only upgrade when I start to see multiple games a year that just straight up don't work on my computer.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can he instead just stick a gun in his mouth?

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I updated my previous comment with the details I had forgotten. Commenting again since you probably won't see an update.

In summary: google Devon Arthurs. He's a neo-nazi kid who converted to an ISIS wacko and then killed some people and took some others hostage. That's one clear connection.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but people don't dress up in ugly logo covered clothing and face/body paint and spend millions and millions of dollars to build and fill up specialized stadiums with screaming fans to watch strangers play chess.

A game is a game. The actual stakes are basically the same when I play Mario Kart on my couch as when a couple dozen dudes in tights smash into each other in the cold at the sports balls stadium. There's a winner and non-winners and the outcome means basically nothing to the people spending money to watch and wear their overpriced matching fan attire.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Return to Moria has been really fun! Playing online with my buddy all day the last two days.

Pretty slow moving for a survival/crafting game, but we're both big Tolkien fans and the fan service is pretty great.

Boss fights have been quite interesting and when progression finally happens it feels really satisfying.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Becoming very invested in watching strangers play games for money.

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