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Step 1: launch X3: Terran Conflict

Unfortunately, upon reading this comment, I failed to restrain myself from linking [this YT video (timestamp at 26:01, just in case)]

/s and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

They have greatly increased the likelyhood of those of us who read wild takes to understand they’re sarcastic, but they have spoiled society, have made doomscrolling unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to misunderstandings, have led to widespread psychological brainrotting (in the Third World actually no, the lack of social media has some perks) and have inflicted severe damage on the human ability to discern facetiousness.

The continued development of LLMs will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human users to greater policing of “”“spicy”“” words and inflict greater damage on media literacy, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical confrontation even in “advanced” countries.

Ah, this takes me back to that time I found a meme with this template here on Lemmy and 9/10 comments interpreted it as OP unironically arguing that whatever_it_was_instead_of_math_idr was a farce

But the Bible says fellatio bad!!!1!!

The human body evolved for resilience: having a large number of bones provides redundancy, meaning that we can break many bones and still have at least one to spare.

It’s also partially a vestigial trait, as our ancestors needed to do a lot of boning in order for the species to survive - nowadays we don’t need to replenish our numbers as much.

Australians serve food on flat landscapes? D:

In USA metropoles during rush hours, maybe.

For people where >3 out of 4 stop sign encounters are uncontested, the feature is idiotic because not only it slightly wears out the starter, but shutting the engine off and immediately turning it on burns more fuel than letting it spin for those 0.5 extra seconds worth of power, and I doubt the catalytic converter feels that little difference.

Granted, I regularly see a few cars idling while their driver/passenger is buying cigarettes and it drives me nuts, but that has little to do with the start-stop system itself (and that *little* involves them disabling it).

At this point my muscle memory simply toggles it off as soon as the engine is on, occasionally I even manage to predict when I have to stop for more than 5 seconds and turn it on in time.

It seems unnecessary, they could just have its user-set switch as one of those factors rather than forgetting everything upon disablng it.

Some cars, like mine, only allow you to temporarily disable the start-stop system, and it turns on every time you (fully) start the engine.

In my car specifically, if you manually turn the system back on, for whatever reason you have to reach a minimum speed of 10km/h before it works.

Unfortunately that’s the case with all UWP applications, they’re deep-rooted into the OS

That would be “pasta puttanesca”

Checks out, “pasta alla puttanesca” literally translates to “whore-style pasta”

I beg to differ, unmarked sarcasm has the side effect of ragebaiting the less hinged of us, if done well - Starship Troopers wouldn’t be ¼ as good as it is if every scene ended with an actor saying “by the way, this is meant to be satire, we don’t actually like hypermilitarism”

Sarcastic comment or not, not knowing that you could use something other than Gnome (or what Gnome is in the first place) was the reason I avoided Linux as much as possible when I was forced to use it during my first year in university

Vntage Story is pretty neat, it does require a WAN connection to start it for the first time but AFAIK it’s possible to play it completely offline afterwards.

Beimg as mechanically complex as it is you’d think you need a wiki open the entire time, but the ingame “guide” has everything you need to know.

I don’t know about the state of public multiplayer servers, but it is LAN compatible and it actively supports modding!

The duplication never made any sense to me, I’m not aware of any OS’ mechanisms for ensuring that files don’t get fragmented;
idk about Windows, but the Slim version was just as fast on Linux when I had the game on an HDD - most of the mission loading time is CPU bound anyway.

It’s still a great game - it has a whole bunch of issues, but a fraction of the online community is making it look like playing it will burn your house down and frame you for the assassination of JFK.