Boomer: Walks into millennial’s office to ask how to convert a PDF
Boomer 3 minutes later: Ranting in dog whistles and neocon talking points about how the younger generations are too entitled

Millennial internally: “This boomer is getting paid 17x more than me, owns four summer lakehouses, and hasn’t properly tipped a waiter in 45 years…”
Millennial externally: 😐

Boomer: “Anyways, nice chat!”

If you need to resort to attacking someone’s grammar or diction in an internet argument, you have already lost the argument.

Sort of. The new leveling system has minor skills contribute to your levels, to a lesser degree. IIRC it’s something like 10 major levels or 20 minor levels (or some combination thereof) to get a character level.

It’s definitely not smooth. Interior cells run decently, but my OLED Steam Deck dips into the low 20’s in exterior cells.

I’m actually against companies running their own subreddits, purely because I’m an old redditor who remembers when it was specifically disallowed by Reddit. The original intent was for the site to the run by the people, not by companies. Companies were actually prevented from moderating their own subs; the worry was that they would use their mod powers to suppress any sort of negative press or criticism, no matter how valid.

For instance, maybe there’s a popular TV show. The company wasn’t allowed to have a hand in moderating the official fan sub for the show, because it was left up to the public. If the show did something unpopular, the broadcasting company shouldn’t have the ability to suppress the criticism about it.

But Reddit has since done a complete 180 on that topic, and now goes out of their way to install corporate moderators. Subs are now run as an extension of the company’s marketing and/or PR departments

Unfortunately, nothing else has really matched Discord’s combination of voice, video, and text chatting. Matrix doesn’t have feature parity, and doesn’t even have a functional client… Which means it’s only really viable for the people who care enough to learn how to set it up. And the average user does not care enough to learn.

We need both for different purposes. Discord is amazing for voice, video, and IM chatting. All things that happen in real-time. But forums are intended for a vastly different use case. Forums are play-by-post. They’re asynchronous. They’re meant for responding at your earliest convenience, not for talking to someone right now. The fact that so many people began using Discord as a forum replacement is a travesty, because Discord is a fucking atrocious medium for forums… Not due to any fault of Discord’s, but because they’re completely different use cases.

Yeah, and it’s doubly infuriating because Discord is not a good replacement for support forums. It isn’t searchable via search engines, and even the built in search is fucking dog water.

Let’s say I have an error, so I google “{Program} {Error code} Solved”. With a forum, I would find a thread that is already talking about the specific error, with comments regarding troubleshooting steps or a solution… But with Discord, all I get is a generic link to the program’s server.

And even once I’m in the server, there often isn’t a good way for me to find existing threads about my specific error. Maybe I check the pinned messages, but some servers have dozens of channels; am I expected to check the pins on every single channel? Oftentimes that seems to be the expectation, because asking a question will often just get a “check the pinned messages, ya thud-fuck” type of response.

Or maybe I search it, but (again) am I expected to search every single channel? And since Discord doesn’t use fuzzed searches, searching for “Error code 0x00548327” won’t return any results if the thread simply uses “Error 548327” instead. With Google (or any half-decent search engine, really) you get results for both. But not with Discord.

So instead, I ask in the support channel. And that leads me to my final gripe… My response takes actual effort from another person in order to solve. Maybe I get lucky and they have a bot set up to respond to a keyword/error number in my comment… But if not, or if I didn’t use the specific keyword that the bot was searching for, then I need to rely on other people. If there are 200 people with the same issue, that’s 200 times that someone needs to respond to what is essentially the same message. With a forum, you could simply find the post, and read the responses. No human interaction necessary, because it has already been done. The question and answer process has already happened. But with Discord, I’m forced to wait on someone to actually respond, and the devs/admins actually need to dedicate time and resources to ensuring it gets answered. That constant vigilance takes a lot more time and effort away from actual mod duties.

“Hey Frank, can we borrow your hammer? We need to see if the pope is dead.”
“Did you submit a maintenance ticket for it? I don’t see it on my task list.”
“Oh, no, but I figured if I just called you…”
“Gotta have a ticket for it; I get in trouble if I spend too much time on other things.”

Yeah, that was what jumped out at me too. Paul Blart got his first whiff of authority, and immediately jumped straight to police brutality.

While I agree that he 100% needs meds, equating his mental illness with fascism is an insult to every single mentally ill person who actually tries to control their symptoms.

Yup, that was what jumped out at me too. Dude was 100% using charity as a cover to surround himself with vulnerable potential victims.

But also, this is too little too late. Many students have already fled, and those that haven’t will never trust the government again. If you directly threaten someone’s livelihood to the point that they start making international travel plans to get away from you, simply going “oops my bad” isn’t enough to restore their trust.

It will likely have a chilling effect for this entire generation of students.

My very first thought was “wow, the pentagon really ran all of their best programmers away and now they’re scrambling.”

Try moving it out of your Program Files folder. Some programs don’t do well in those folders, because writing requires admin rights. It looks like the game is trying to do some sort of operation on a game file, and that operation is failing because it can’t actually access the file. Maybe move it to something like C:\Games instead, which won’t require admin rights to access. You probably shouldn’t be installing games to Program Files anyways.

I suppose the quick and dirty way to test would be to run the game as administrator. If that solves the issue, you know it’s likely something to do with Program Files being write-protected.

We’re quickly approaching the soft start of a civil war, if things continue at their current trajectory. And all of the MAGA 2A “fuck yeah let’s do it” people have never had to face the reality of war or the omnipresent threat of guerrilla tactics.

I mean, if they can expect to be treated like a terrorist, they might as well act like it if the repercussions for notacting like it are the same.

I’ve personally had several of my friends say this same thing about how they’d react if ICE ever tried to nab them off the street. Basically “if I’m going to get abducted by the secret police, I might as well make them kill me in the street instead of doing it in a hidden cell. At least then someone might get some cellphone footage to send to the news.” All of them are packing heat 24/7 now.

That was actually where my mind went first too. The big issue with current drones is signal strength and jammers. But if you’re able to just plop a wired signal repeater anywhere you can get a drone, then that solves a lot of the issues with signal strength. The article even mentions that these fiber drones are being used for forested deployments, where trees would normally block signals. But what if you just use the fiber drone as a repeater? Now you can send out your wireless drones without any of the issues of carrying a wire.

No, the heart is literally the sum of the votes. If a post has 75 upvotes and 25 downvotes, the post will show 50 hearts. It’s just a vote total. Some clients have the option of showing just the total, or showing the separate up/down votes, or showing both.

Hell, in the screenshot the above user posted, you can literally see the number of upvotes (80) next to the 79 hearts. If we can see the 80 upvotes and the numbers don’t match, we already know the hearts aren’t the same as upvotes.

It’s projection. He’s doing political shit for money, so he assumes everyone else is too.