Joining a cult or adopting a persistent delusion is generally an inadvisable method to treat depression.

Cutting toxic people out of your life is a better strategy.

The linux kernel was invented by Linus Nostallman.

Yeah.

If you’ve known any schizophrenics… well, a part of their whole thing is persistent delusions.

Things you cannot get them to change their mind about, to try and comprehend in a different way, realize are false or are incoherent.

Bigotry is subset of that, and, while certainly not all, some of the schizophrenics I’ve known have had one form or another of bigotry as one of those things they basically can’t abandon, a mode or element of their thinking that never goes away.

The whole conceptual ‘problem’ is… with a schizophrenic… how do you know what parts of them are ‘the schizophrenia talking’, and which aren’t?

You can’t really.

Its a whole different way a mind can work, its a kind of neurodivergence.

Like, I’m autistic, a different kind of neurodivergent, and I attempted to autistically understand the thought processes of the schizophrenics I knew, trying to map out categories and flow charts and triggers and conditions.

… this didn’t work.

They often don’t understand their own thought processes, or will tell you two obviously logically mutually exclusive things are both true at the same time, and this will not bother them and they will just emphatically tell you its not inconsistent, with further logic that is also fairly obviously inconsistent.

But what kinds of thinking are ‘disordered’, and what kinds of thinking … are logically consistent?

I could find no overall pattern to that with the schizophrenics I knew, nor even really any rhyme or reason that could stably describe a single one of them.

But, sometimes, the flipside of that, will be them explaining a way of thinking about something… that actually is valid, and is basically fucking wild, revolutionary, but it actually does logically check out when you work through it.

And then sometimes its a mix of both.

The best way that I have of understanding schizophrenia is basically that the pattern recognition and thus decision making framework within such a mind is radically different than ‘the norm’ (again I’m autistic so that’s also reliant on my understanding of ‘the norm’), and I can’t really describe it in any more detail than that.

Entirely seriously, I agree.

I’ve personally met a number of schizophrenics who are… astoundingly good at doing things in code, that work, but are extremely divergent from conventional ways of doing things.

Terry Davis was an insane bigot, but goddamn, could that dude code.

Beyond that uh, I wash my hands of this.

May he find solace in the eternal embrace of the noodly one.

… Basically yes.

… … you might say the entire situation was quite the cock up.

Wow.

A literal wage cage.

… Damn.

I mean, I’ve known a considerable number of Christian girls/women who have argued that if you just take it up the ass, you’re still a virgin, so it’s just anal untill marriage, and thus you’re a virgin when you walk down the aisle, so its all good.

90s/00s purity culture logic.

Like, this was so pervasive at my high school that I once knew a guy who was … as we would say these days, gonna shoot his shot.

Planned lines:

Guy: Did it hurt?

Gal: Did what hurt?

Guy: When you fell from heaven?

Problem was that Guy was totally unaware that there was a rumor going around that Gal had actually just been butt-boinked by her platonic male friend.

… So, after the opening line, she just slapped him in the face, began crying, and ran off… presuming he was referencing the rumor.

Guy had no idea wtf had just happened.

Arguably this is a heretical perversion of TempleOS, as obviously this is a direct digital interface with God, and obviously God already knows everything about each and every one of us.

EDIT:

At the bare minimum, call it Reformed TempleOS, or something like that, lol.

Goddamnit if that isn’t one of the best throwaway gags in the history of television.

Kernel level AC only makes sense if you’re not selling games, you’re selling platforms for micro transactions.

They don’t give a fuck about a ‘true’ gameplay experience.

They do give a fuck about not being able to groom children into gambling addictions later in life, and making astounding amounts of money while doing so.

MSFT C Suite:

It depends on the exact kind of ad, kind of tracking it uses, and kind of blocking method you’re using.

Are you ever 100% untracked?

No.

But this is a data game, the less you give up, the less they have, the less accurate it is, the more stale it is, the less specific things about you can be gleaned from it.

ublock origin + canvas blocker + privacy badger + forcing DOH by default?

Thats a lot better than doing nothing.

Much of the existing stuff doesn’t even load, meaning it can’t even attempt to assign to you a unique advertiserID, it doesn’t even get to the stage of trying to send you a specific ad, because you have no engagement with the system.

Precisely, shit trickles downward, that’s how the economy/society works!

EDIT: Swear to god I didn’t even read your username before saying that.

So, goddamnit poopsmith, you as well should know this!

That’s your job lol!

… presumably it would ‘break’ basically all of them, given that this is a remaster, aka, a different game, the same way that the GTA Definitive editions are remasters of the original games.

The Creation Engine is now … what, 15 years older?

And if they do what they did with the Oblivion remaster, it’ll be a frankenstein of UE5 and the Creation Engine.

So yeah, you’d have to make all the mods all over again, perhaps with a few very rare exceptions…

But it wouldn’t break the original FONV.

… Unless they just decide to do that also, like they did with FO4.

… Also FONV works fine now, modders have fixed and expanded it greatly.

https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/

Wow!

Another reason to block ads by literally any means possible!

That’s why.

Its ‘our’ pc now, not ‘your’ pc.

From your description, 99% certainty this is a scam that installs some kind of malware along with whatever unlocks the … crack.

Could make you part of a botnet, could be a rootkit, could scan for ids and PID and steal your identity, hijack your accounts, could install a BTC miner, etc etc.

You’re right, there is no reason whatsoever to need a crack to connect to anything else.

Maybe for DRM spoofing purposes it might involve a step where you set up a kind of local fake approximation of a DRM server to do a fake authentication to, something like that, or persistently running a spoofed fake authentication server, but there’s 0 reason for that to not be entirely local and self contained.

Functionally, this is a cracker org doing their own DRM, by hijacking an actual DRM.

Which… is astoundingly ironic, but I’ve seen similar shit amongst various cheat engine / hack developer groups, scam crypto games, various GTAV/RDR2 modding communities, etc.

If you did even just join the Discord server, nuke that that Discord account asap.

I also hate the default setting.

I changed it to uh, left thumpad moves the mouse, left thumbpad click is middle click, remap the right pad to be 4 way buttons, top and left to left click, bottom and right to right click.

Moved scroll to L2 and R2, or you could map them to up and down on a joycon, or the dpad, or L1 and R1, etc.

Does anyone actually know what the fuck we are doing here?

Obviously not, no.

You’re a sysadmin… you should know this.

You’re the person who has to actually think through the results of other people’s decisions.

That’s your job, lol.

Other people get paid to make decisions, not think about them.