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  • It “working for you and not against you” in this case is mostly down to just getting used to it. It’s the same issue people have switching to Linux. Linux is the better and easier option, but if you expect it to work exactly like Windows then you’ll have a bad time. If you attempt to learn how it works then it’s great.

    Firefox is fairly customizable, but most of that’s hidden and you need to do some searching online and digging. You can also use something like Floorp.




  • Can you explain why?

    I used to be a Halo fan, but I quit consoles like 15 years ago, so I haven’t played anything past Reach.

    I thought Infinite was pretty shit. It didn’t have any interesting locations like the early game, since it’s all set in the same place. The combat, while cool in concept, is really weak. The player can grapple up to places the enemy can’t reach and the AI is really bad.

    The open world added nothing but tedious objectives to the game. Theoretically, that’s to give you more content to grind, but the campaign levels of the early games were so good you wanted to play through then again (and collect skulls and just mess around). There’s nothing in Infinite I want to do once, let alone replay.

    I just don’t understand what Infinite does that people like, and I’d like to know.





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    Personally, I didn’t like it. I think a lot of it comes down to two things: Do you care about the writing and the world they’ve built? If so, how critical of it are you (or alternatively, have you seen the sci-fi tropes done well).

    Starfield has some really bad world building. In particular, it doesn’t understand why we use sci-fi, and why it’s tropes are interesting. it’s to create an anologue of our world and to break it down, criticize, and point out it’s flaws and ways to fix them.

    Starfield is the least critical writing I’ve ever seen I think. The Earth is destroyed, and instead of using this to discuss us destroying the planet right now, it’s just some technobable that has no parallels. Also, when fleeing Earth, they don’t try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn’t an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can’t change anything and no one wants to either.

    Starfield doesn’t understand sci-fi. Fallout does a better job as a sci-fi series than Starfield does. If you’re still interested, the gameplay is also slow and boring and there’s almost no interesting stories or characters. Continue if you want, but I regret spending time on it for the price of $0, and I generally love Bethesda games and the sci-fi genre (although, as mentioned above, I think this is part of why I don’t like it).


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    I don’t get the Balatro addiction stuff. It’s a good game, but after you’ve played it a few times it gets boring. Sure, “number go up” but it’s like people have never played a video game before. There’s so many Skinner boxes that, at least for me personally, it becomes numbing. I also don’t easily get sucked into other manipulative addicting things in other games though, so maybe it’s just something wrong with me.

    What makes you continue playing Balatro after you’ve “figured it out?”




  • Oh so according to you it’s not racist, it’s just fatphobic AND racist since by saying he “presents clean and kind” you’re implying he is neither of those things. Definitely not racist to imply that a Chinese person is unclean and unkind. Fuck off.

    It was the fucking people in China making the comparison! Come on. You keep ignoring this in order to just say westerners are evil. That’s why bringing up western stuff doesn’t matter because the conversation isn’t about any of that. It’s about the comparison of President Xi to Pooh Bear. You just keep swerving around trying to hit a different target because the actual conversation doesn’t work in your favor.

    Clean, meaning morally, no he isn’t. Kind, not so much. He presents as if he’s a perfect story book character, like Pooh Bear (hence the comparison), but he wouldn’t still be in power if this were the case. The people in China recognize this, which is why they started the comparison. It spread to the west because of the outsized response to it. It’s the Streisand Effect. It was funny how insulted he was by this that it started being banned, so it spread because his fragile ego couldn’t handle it.

    Is it fat-phobic? Probably. Is it racist? Hell no. It’s just making fun of someone with a fragile ego with someone he’s made public that he’s insulted by. Implying it’s racist because Pooh Bear is yellow is just trying to shut it up by making shit up. It has nothing to do with that. It’s just what the Chinese picked to make fun of him with.


  • Prove it? Sure. It’s a system where the singular ruling party controls elections and all candidates must be approved by them. If that’s not a dictatorship then I’ve never heard of one.

    You can argue it provides utility or stability or something if you want, but arguing it isn’t a dictatorship shows how ignorant you are. Of course it’s exactly what I’d expect though.

    I don’t know how the west doing anything bad is relevant to this conversation. It was never part of the discussion and is purely a red-herring to distract from your bad faith argument.

    Also, once again, the Pooh Bear thing is from China. It isn’t racist. It has nothing to do with race. It’s making fun of him being fat and the way he presents himself as clean and kind. Prove it is, since you’re asking for proof of basic stuff we all know.