If they try to assault you on wakeup, just DP.

It’s not a problem that abandoned communities exist. If it’s dead, then it’s not like anything is happening over there in order to be a problem.

It is a problem that it’s hard to really get a new community off the ground, and that’s the root problem that causes all these ghost communities. People come here hoping to start up a community for their niche hobbies and fandoms, like they did on Reddit, but the userbase is still so low that there may not be anyone else here who shares enough of an interest in those topics. So the community soon dies off.

There’s not much that can be done about this unfortunately. Hopefully this will organically solve itself if/when the userbase grows to enough of a critical mass, but that’s a bit of a chicken/egg problem when it comes to attracting users to a platform without active communities for the topics they want to discuss.

Because someone ignoring reality is often a negative.

Because there’s a lot of shit to complain about, and it feels like things are getting steadily worse. Especially today when I’m watching the rise of fascism in real time, when I’m watching friends and family be persecuted by a push to make bigotry into law, and when it all feels like there’s nothing I can do about any of this because I’m just some guy.

Yes, I know that children are starving in Africa. No, pointing that out does not make me feel better.

What do you mean by “screwed”? I think the question needs to be more clearly defined before I can give an answer.

A lot of damage is going to be done. Things are going to get much worse before they get better. Some people are going to get killed.

But I don’t think this is the literal apocalypse. Life will continue. It’s going to be hard to rebuild and will take a long time, but we will rebuild as much as we can.

This is how propaganda works. Take something you want people to hate, and insist that it is equivalent to something people already hate.

A few answers here are mixing up season passes with battle passes.

A season pass is just a bundle of multiple pieces of DLC, often sold in advance with a schedule for when each item will release. Sometimes the contents can also be purchased individually, but buying them bundled in the pass will get you a discount. Generally this is a fair enough business model, even if the idea of preordering DLC doesn’t sit right with you, you can always wait and just buy the pass once everything is released.

A battle pass is a model found in a number of live service games. After purchasing the pass, you can grind for in-game rewards. Oftentimes there’s a deadline to finish grinding by, and once a pass is over you can no longer obtain the rewards and will have to buy the next pass for the next set of rewards. These are engagement bait to keep players grinding so that playercount remains high, and they rely heavily on FOMO, which makes them controversial. But they make a lot of money, so you’ll keep seeing them.

Alternatively, many games will offer rewards for leveling up, but they’ll have two tiers of rewards, unpaid and paid. If you buy the season pass, you’ll get both tiers of rewards.

That’s a battle pass.

Riichi Mahjong (Mahjong Soul, Riichi City), Slay the Spire, and Panel de Pon are my main second monitor fare these days.

Never heard of it, what’s your reason for picking this one? Looks like it’s an Arch derivative, but the site doesn’t tell me much about what’s supposed to set it apart from vanilla Arch.

If you’re new to Linux, I would strongly recommend a mainstream distro popular enough that you can easily Google any issues that arise. Beyond that, distro honestly really doesn’t matter all that much - at least not until you’ve been using Linux long enough to know that there’s something specific you want from a particular distro and are interested in tinkering around for it. But starting out, just pick something Googleable, any mainstream distro will do.

Nintendo goes after the ones that get too much media attention. And the number of posts I’ve seen about this one suggest it’s making too much noise.

If it’s a fast-paced action game, 60 is a must. If it’s turn-based, or otherwise just slow enough to not matter, I’ll sometimes accept a stable 30 - but only if it’s truly stable, any dips below that are not okay.

I think that’s just BitTorrent.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Airplane!

Spirited Away

Because SQL is everywhere. If Musk knew what it was, he would know that the government absolutely does use it.

How many people did he have to step on to hoard a billion dollars in the first place? I would rather he never have become a billionaire.

There are no ethical billionaires. Full stop.

A LLM cannot channel the level of white-hot rage that I can.

You have to use the target’s real name. This is why Light couldn’t just kill “L”, being known only by a pseudonym kept him safe.

Hoarding it until he dies is still hoarding it.

There are no ethical billionaires because the act of hoarding a billion dollars is inherently unethical. Giving only some of it to charity is not enough to justify how much more damage was done in the first place.