Been there. And, my physical health precludes it sometimes too.
Nothing I can say will help, but you ain’t alone, you aren’t the only one, and if you ever do have a day when you can do that kind of self care, don’t beat yourself up if/when you have the next one where you can’t.
We all gotta get by as best we can, and nobody gets out alive.
They got so much wrong it’s hilarious.
About the only thing they got right is that we have chickens and like comfy clothing, and one mention based on a five year old review. Literally everything else was junk.
Hey! Hey, now!
All those COBRA troopers were providing cover fire! They weren’t supposed to hit anything.
What were they providing cover for, you ask?
Ummmm
Stuff.
And thangs.
And serpentor.
Lmmfao.
I was a nurse’s assistant. I’ve had back pain since the mid nineties
Ignoring the Rowling assholery, wasn’t the point of the show to be closer to the books?
Mind you, I’m fine with significant reframing of characters in that way, it just runs contrary to making a show that’s always going to be compared unfavorably to the movies, if they aren’t going to serve the book experience. Like, what’s the point? Hoping nostalgia will bring viewers that also happen to be fan fic fans and aren’t going to knee jerk whine about changing genders and races?
Even if I had been interested in retreading the same ground this soon, this seems really stupid.
Tbh, this in specific is why I still have a win7 pc for my music enjoyment.
Not that audio can’t work fine on Linux, it absolutely can. But it doesn’t always, and it’s definitely not as friendly to an external DAC unless you get lucky. Mine works fine overall, but it’s still not quite as reliable. The signal cuts out, etc. Works better on my laptop than my desktop, though the laptop I’ve never had any issues, despite using the same distro when I had Linux on that desktop.
Me? In your place I’d try some other distros before full on quitting, but I’m a glutton for punishment because I enjoy fiddling up to a point. Mint, maybe one of the more noob friendly arch options, something along those lines. PopOs might be an okay starting place to see if it’s Linux, or a distro issue. I do know that pulse and the other audio functions vary some between distros, though I’m nowhere near capable of understanding why without learning other things first. I do know that when I tried cachy via a live drive last, it was pissy about sounding decent straight out of the box, so I abandoned it without an install.
Either way, I totally get it. Some things, it isn’t about adapting to the system, you just want shit to work the way it should. Music is one of those things for me too.
That is the most interesting use of that phrase I have run across
Updates are non existent, basic functionality locked behind a subscription, iffy support, lousy documentation. They suck. I have one, and the only reason I haven’t replaced it is monetary I have too many other things eating into my budget to replace something that is working, if not to my preferences
Two factors, ignoring the sci-fi part of things.
First, depending on armor levels, a slashing/chopping/cutting attack can be directed at places other than center of mass and be very effective. This gives you reach that you just can’t achieve while expecting to end a fight via thrusting. As a general thing, it’s referred to as defanging the serpent. You attack the parts that either hold your opponent’s weapon, or otherwise allow them to attack.
This means in practice that someone doing standard thrust attacks can be at a major disadvantage unless they are significantly faster than their enemy.
Second, even if you don’t defang the serpent, you can still attack the wrists, ankles, or arms from a better distance. You bleed the fucker out. This favors the kind of mobile, angular footwork you’ll see in some forms of sword fighting. Lunges are necessary to close distance inside of reach. At some point, you limit yourself to a single angle of attack. Depending on your training and physical capabilities, a straight lunge is one of the easiest attacks to avoid and counter.
When it’s done with something that can also slash, it decreases your exposure and allows for some really nasty feints for sure, but you’ve still largely committed to a movement. Committing like that can be good or bad, but if you’re against someone that’s countering you from angles you can’t quickly pivot to, you end up in trouble.
Now, the argument for spears against swords is absolutely a good one. Reach is king in most fights, no matter the weapon or lack thereof. Mass is often queen, though I really dislike gendering ideas like this. It’s just the frame of reference I was given back in the day, so it sticks in my head better.
But, spears are not the best 1 on 1 weapon, at least not the usual spear with a long shaft. The shorter spears like assegi are fucking beast mode, though generally are used with a shield, and thus hard to properly assess for a thrust vs slash kind of comparison. Plus, while I have fucked with spears, including short spears, I don’t have anywhere near the actual sparring time in.
Anyway, point is that the point is at the end of a long stick. That length is a lever. When that spear is side by side with other spears and a shield wall, you’re an idiot to run in with a sword.
But when that spear is alone? It’s trivial to deflect and avoid. And I say trivial with the full meaning. It’s absurdly easy. You run into some guys that train with kingfu type spears that can make it way less easy, but then again, that’s not really the same weapon as you’d have if you taped a light saber to a big stick. They function in a different way than more rigid spears.
Now, let it be known that, despite the user name, I have nowhere near as much time in with swords. I did okay, I’ve trained and sparred, but I was always more of a knife guy. A lot of the same principles apply, but stabby stabby only in knife use is vastly inferior to using the entire weapon as needed. Trying to use something like a Fairbairn Sykes dagger against a bowie is not going to end well unless you’re significantly better than the bowie guy. Different tools for different jobs, you dig?
Now, I agree that the on screen jedi moves are absurdly inefficient. There’s people that have learned the stuff that was designed for the movies, and they get their asses handed to them if they try it sparring. Too many openings, too much wasted energy. None of it works unless you’re using the kind of extra light performance sabers that are built for it. The balance of the weapons aren’t right otherwise. Well, mostly. There’s footage of some of those folks using aggression and mobility to do quite well, but it’s still with unrealistic practice weapons.
But if you had an actual light saber, you’d stay tight, keep things close and do controlled slashes, more akin to what you see in kenjutsu. Mind you, most kenjutsu is two handed, not single, so there’s only limited on screen stuff that makes for 1:1 comparison.
Honestly, Dooku is the most realistic swordsman in the prequels.
Pfft, like they need my chipset for that
I would have expected some kenjutsu/kendo type attacks over purely thrusting though.
The light saber has the ability to be as good or better of a “slashing” weapon as a thrusting, despite the lack of curvature. It’s closer to a long sword than a saber in the way it would be used in the absence of sci-fi handwaving, but with the whole vibe of the Jedi being monkish, that Lucas pretty much ignored eastern blade fighting entirely, and samurai shit in particular is kinda weird. Like, Chinese jian styles are closer to what would work with a blade of the same size and general shape, and is just as cinematic as what got used in the prequels.
But kenjutsu and iaido could make for seriously dramatic force mojo duels rather than expecting us to watch Yoda and Palpatine do acrobatics in complete opposition to their very centered and cerebral behavior in all other aspects.
It isn’t even about realism to me, because it’s just wizards with swords fantasy set in space, not hard sci-fi. But I really would have expected more control, more precision, more internal mastery of their weapons.
Anyone played the truck simulator games? The price is great, but I’m not sure what the gameplay “feels” like, and I’d rather hear from folks here than search YouTube
Yeah, power tripping by virtue of inability to allow respectful discussion on the subject of a highly charged subject.
The ban was 1000% out of scale with anything in the comments. For the ban to be for that reason, which isn’t really in the community rules in the first place, it crosses from reasonable into arbitrary personal semantic demands.
Since there’s no definition or guidelines given on what they consider Zionism or not, that means they’re applying whatever their personal opinion is without any intervening steps to resolve the situation. Which, they can do, it’s their community, but the lack of transparency as to what that is makes it one of the classic power trippin’ moves.
It’s also egregious enough that I really think the mod is question may need admin intervention, possibly removal.
The only thing I have a real opinion on is the question of profanity, as you’ve obviously changed your perspective on the original matter.
Curse words in dad jokes are fine if, and only if, they’re part of the word play. Which isn’t going to happen often, but it still has a place in dad jokes.
Dad jokes aren’t purely about little kids. They’re the kind of left field thinking that elicits groans as much laughter. Word play is the central concept, with puns being the dominant form. It’s kinda like swifties, as in [Tom Swift](The Joy of Tom Swifties - Merriam-Webster), not Taylor. As an example, from the source I linked: “the thermostat is too high”, said Tom heatedly.
The underlying concept is the same, it’s the format that differs. The dad joke equivalent of the above would be something like, “who turned the thermostat up? That gets me hot under the collar” or something similar.
There’s no reason you can’t do word play with curse words. If you’re in a household where cursing isn’t proscribed, a kid might say something like “teacher is really riding my ass this week”, to which you might respond, “I didn’t know you had a donkey”.
So, while I do think that curse words shouldn’t be just thrown in randomly, it’s about keeping the structure and fluidity of the format rather than the words themselves. Your prototypical dad joke won’t have cursing because it unnecessarily draws the word play out.
I’m not going to go as far as PTB. There’s no out of scale action, the removal was in good faith, and the mod has been consistent in their moderation.
This is, however, clueless mod territory. It’s bad application of a rule done in ignorance. It isn’t okay, it shouldn’t have been removed.
No power trip, just a bad decision, and there is a difference between the two
I sure would have back in the day :)
1: isn’t mandatory to be a mod.
2: in a visible way
3: not mandatory so long as the community is running smoothly without spam, trolls or other bad actors.
4: those communities have been purring along without causing problems the entire time; at least debian has, I don’t frequent the others
Look, I’m not saying that having an active mod isn’t useful; it is. I’m saying that you can’t tell when a mod is active just by their post and comment history. Admins of an instance can, but we can’t.
Just being real here, the fediverse is mostly bush league still. We don’t get the massive spammers and trolls the way other places do. Nor is it a bad thing that communities flow organically rather than being artificially packed by a mod. Hell, there’s been communities where the owner did exactly what you’re talking about, and now people have them blocked because it gets old fast. Artificial engagement is artificial.
I’ll also say that if you aren’t motivated to post to a community that doesn’t have a mod/owner posting from an account on that instance, as a mod/owner, that’s a you thing. The only time a community is abandoned is when the community abandons it, not the mods. What matters in terms of there being a point to posting is the other users, the other members. Now, it definitely can happen that an absentee mod can turn into a disengaged community. Absolutely can happen. But I just don’t see it very often.
Mind you, I’ve only been a daily or near daily fediverse user since the reddit API debacle. Before that, it was pretty much an afterthought for me. But in those few years, I’ve only rarely seen where a mod being an active poster made a difference a handful of times. History memes being a prime example.
I’m not trying to shit on you, I just don’t think it’s the kind of problem you think it is, and pointing out that mods posting or not isn’t a 1:1 correlation with them actively moderating
Being fapped at. That is the experience
If one ignores the semicolon, it is at their own peril; they’re too useful, even when used slightly incorrectly