One ply toilet paper is fine. There does exist super terrible one ply that is cheap and scratchy and rough, but #notalloneply
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Music is getting worse and anyone with a certain degree of historical knowledge would agree with me
I hate public transport. It's always noisy and stinky and overcrowded and contains people.
Wanna be cramped in this shaking prison for 2 hours a day that will most likely make you sick? Yeah, sounds great, m8
I just wanna be able walk places, I hate driving and taxis too. Bikes and scooters are the devil's work and UNNATURAL.
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Scholar of The First Sin is better than OG Dark Souls 2.
Sure they doubled down on the swarms of enemies in places where people had been complaining about them, but they did it in an interesting way where enemy composition forces the player to be way more aware of their own position and spacing.
The new mechanics they added to various creatures and boss fights fixed the coupla fights I found boring.
I feel the lighting changes bring it closer in line with how Dark Souls 2 is supposed to be based on the old trailers.
As someone who does a lot of jolly co-oping in souls games, I felt the increased summon cap was a huge boost to the multiplayer.
Also the hitboxes feel tighter.
Best version of best Souls game.
bonus opinion that's unpopular IRL but common on Lemmy.
Winston Churchill was a monster, and the good opinion people have of him now is the byproduct of one of the most extensive propaganda pushes ever conceived.
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I've essentially never seen anything from the sphere of "parapolitics" that actually appears to impart any useful practical knowledge for understanding the past or predicting the future, at best it appears to be a masturbatory hobby that lets you be smug about JFK for 50+ years straight, at worst it makes you some annoying asshole who goes around saying shit like "denying the existence of snuff films is leftist flat earth" for attention.
Also Programmed To Kill is a very stupid book.
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We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.
I'M IN POLAND, IT'S DEFINITELY COMMUNISM.
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I actually don't respect religion at all and could never be 100% compatible with a religious person
“Enlightenment” is a real physical human possibility (but not necessarily how religious people describe it) that is compatible with dialectical materialism.
We talking ego death? Because that was a big inflection point in my journey leftwards. Parenti may have been bigger though.😅
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Open source pushed me toward ml theory. In a bad way.
Like since log4j, a lot of foss can’t be relied on without significant public investment.
Ansel Adams' photos are glorified tech demos of the zone system. They have little artistic merit on their own. Adams should have stayed in the darkroom.
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I don't think there are any good Sonic games and I'm convinced that a lot of people only like the series because of nostalgia. I feel the same way about Harry Potter but that's not an unpopular opinion here.
As an unreformed sonic enjoyer I think this is the case. The abstract concept of a sonic game is so much more enjoyable than the material reality of a sonic game
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People here should read more right wing theory. I think its very easy to get the impression that the only right wingers that exist are Shapiro or Alex Jones types and so when people on the left encounter a right winger who isn't a total moron/grifter they can be overly impressed and more easily swayed by them.
Case in point being Aleksandr Dugin. While he's not as influential since the ACP was founded, I used to hear some his talking points on here a whole lot. He explicitly talks about using internet marxists as a 5th column to push right wing ideas. So inoculate yourselves.
I think also whispers Hayek did actually have some valid critiques of managed economies. I believe there are solutions to these problems tbc, but you can't just hand-wave the critique, even if he was an evil pos.
I don't think I've ever personally conversed with a right winger who has actually engaged with 'the good stuff' from the Right tradition however, so it's important to understand that the cultural impact of this stuff is negligible compared to e.g. Rand
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There is a podcast that tackles this very subject.
The Black and Red Book Review
Highly recommend, though production quality is not exactly great.
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Im not doing all that work just to get linux going
I'll tell you a little secret: desktop linux is not very good and it's not getting better. Don't believe anyone who tells you they found a perfect operating system
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that work being run installer and then click the install software button and install steam/libreoffice/firefox.
Nah, I'm very computer literate, built my own PC, can troubleshoot most software and hardware on Windows and sometimes Mac... I'm not a genius but my family and friends consider me the 'computer fixer guy' of the group.
I've got Linux on my little laptop - constant troubleshooting. I want a specific program? Ah, well here's this knock-off version that is almost totally functional but pretty inaccessible and the only tutorials for it are buried deep in some random forum, if at all. Oh, and you have to install these other versions and plugins, and it must be done via this specific command line. It's just not accessible for easy use yet. Gaming? Oh, just use proton, except for this particular game, where you have to... go to some niche forum and follow a 25 step guide, and then it might work, depending on your graphics card. Come on, try it, don't you have a spare 4 hours to set aside?
It's almost inevitable given that the computing monopolies don't optimise for Linux at all. It's a hostile environment, and to me it's still more hassle than it's worth.
I think if I had a day or so to set it all up with a Linux expert they'd have me on the right course, but as far as plug and load goes, in a time when I don't have any time at all, Windows just works. Of course, it's being enshittified faster and faster. I expect I'll have to switch to Linux some day properly.
You might say: 'MaoTheLawn', you're a stupid moron, its totally easy, just read the right guide! If it was, I would be saying it was! It just isn't a simple enough switch for someone who has a million and one other things going on in their life.
Maybe I just haven't found the right Linux version for me yet.
Deceiver. If Linux was so simple Linux users wouldn't constantly be posting for help to get shit running
Newbies would post about Windows and Mac if they didn't come pre-installed. :beanis:
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I agree. I've fully been on Linux for almost a year now. Anyone who portrays Linux as being that straightforward and uncomplicated is being misleading and inaccurate. Linux is difficult. Getting it to do things you want is difficult. It takes time and energy and interest.
I'd still advocate to use it. Linux gets easier every year and long may that simplification continue. But don't jump into using Linux if you're not ready to.
I ran archinstaller, then installed plasma, and everything works. My media keys, function keys, suspend on close, all the basic tooling of userspace is there. I guess I had to read a paragraph on a wiki page to make the fingerprint scanner work but I literally just searched "thinkpad fingerprint arch" and installed fprint so hardly mystical.
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China is useless and it seems like they would love to return how they were with USA before Trump.
I hate the very idea of "meritocracy". A part-time "unskilled" worker or a NEET should enjoy the same decent living conditions as everyone else. Likewise, when it comes to leftist orgs, a person who just joined it should have the same voting power as everyone else. It's idealist and impractical, I know.
I think cis people should transition just for a little bit so they can understand what gender dysphoria is like
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Big Chungus is funny
Drew Carey is just as good of a host of The Price is Right as Bob Barker. They're very different in their approach, but they are both just as entertaining.