angstylittlecatboy

joined 2 years ago

Literally an anti-storytelling tweet. Like, if you don't want them to tell stories, what else is there?

I actually just tested Linux Mint again recently.

Music production holds me back. Didn't test gaming, but I have faith that it's more or less the same experience as the Steam Deck, and that would tie into a general sentiment I've seen around that gaming is no longer the biggest barrier to Linux adoption.

A. FL Studio runs like shit on WINE for me. Maybe it's usable on a CPU under ten years old (I'm currently on an FX-8320) because I've heard others claim it runs at near-native speeds for them, but on Windows I only have performance issues on a project file that has every reason to be intensive. Even if I switched DAWs to something Linux native I'd still need FL Studio to work so I can open my old project files.

B. Two of my most used VST plugins don't work, and I didn't even test all of them so others might not work. One I can't install because the installer doesn't work, but the other is a free plugin, and that one's GUI just doesn't render (and last time I tested Linux it didn't render under LMMS either, so it has to be a problem with WineVST.)

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's just objectively true that a very specific type of person makes up most of Lemmy, which results in the only active communities being either very broad topics, or the handful of interests common to the kind of people who use Lemmy. I don't fit into any of these.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry, but am I not supposed to feel angry that a bunch of the people promoting the worst tendencies of Western civilization online, ones that actively make the West less hospitable to anyone non-white regardless of whether they're immigrant or native born, aren't Westerners?

Graf Zahl has always been a bit of an ass, but did he just stop caring about the quality of his work?

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Half-Life 1. It's literally the only game I'm aware of from after 1985 that I truly think "aged badly." Doom '93, Quake, and Unreal are still stone cold classics, even Wolf3D is fun in small doses. HL1 is a mess of control oddities and obtuse game design. I dropped it at the end of the train level when it required me to do an absurdly precise jump where getting it was basically luck to finish the level.

Dating apps as a business model are incentivized to not actually be good at matching people so they keep paying the sub fee.

For example, when Match Group (a company that would absolutely be a part of the trust busting wave, might actually be the most blatant monopoly in the US) bought OKCupid, they got rid of a whole host of features that made it easier to find someone who shares interests with you.

And I think Red Pill getting popular is part of the end result of this: they encourage a monolithic view of how humanity and human attraction work.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)
  • Electoral reform. Abolish the electoral college, end first past the post, and make SCOTUS an elected position with term limits, as well as term limiting Congress and instituting universal mail in voting nationwide.

  • Top to bottom education reform. Straight up completely change how education works.

  • Trust busting wave. Google, EA, Uniliever, Disney, and so many others.

  • Crackdowns on elements of social media and dating apps that encourage sensationalism or otherwise harm society. (Dating apps I might go as far as nationalization.)

  • Fund third spaces, in a similar manner to how other countries are involved in arts funding.

Subject matter experts would be involved in all of course.

I know there's like, actual cultural appropriation...but at this point I wish it never entered the cultural conversation at all tbh because I feel like it became weird bioessentialist shit. Like, just actively telling people what they're allowed to be interested in is based on genetics. Not to mention cases where mixed race people have been assaulted over perceived hair appropriation (the idea that you can tell what race people are by looking at them is monoracist.)

At my most charitable, I think people are forgetting that most people aren't influencers or public figures?

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think she's simply a true believer, and all the other MAGA politicians are grifters; I think she has closer genuine beliefs to what most civilian MAGAs believe than the others within the government.

I don't want her in power, but I'd take her over the grifters.

Right now with the youth it's shitting on people who disagree

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