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by Legion 4y ago
> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. This was very taboo at the time. We knew that this would be interpreted as threatening by the powers
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by Legion 4y ago
Person 1: "Here is my lived experience." Person 2: "I don't buy it." Internet in a nutshell.
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by Legion 4y ago
> (oh, dear Twitter: whatever happens I’ll be there as long as possible – if you care about people that put a lot of energy in creating it, think twice before leaving the platform) You mean the people that all just got fired?
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by Legion 4y ago
In one of those random coincidences, I recognize OP's username because just last night I was reading their forum comments on the OpenWRT forum about the Netgear WAX202. Was trying to decide if picking one up at a $30 sale price would m
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by Legion 4y ago
The only way to make YouTube even remotely tolerable is with liberal use of the "Not Interested" and "Don't Recommend Channel" functions. I also set up separate YouTube viewing accounts by interest, so that I can cl
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by Legion 4y ago
This sequence of comments is the JS ecosystem in a nutshell. Hear about something new, then immediately hear about its multiple successors/replacements.
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by Legion 4y ago
I wonder how many, if any, original install components are still present in that Ship of Theseus.
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by Legion 4y ago
> It also had the misfortune of trying to compete with two other huge sci-fi blockbusters in the summer of 1982: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. I miss when "summer blockbuster" meant something o
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by Legion 4y ago
Perhaps that's what it eventually evolves into. Probably easier to get this off the ground by developing it as a separate mode.
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by Legion 4y ago
Silly? A Monkey Island game? That's the second craziest comment I've ever read.
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by Legion 4y ago
Certainly beats the "you don't need so much JavaScript!" blog posts that load 10 external scripts.
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by Legion 4y ago
Small company data point here, but we're going more remote, not less. Previously, remote was basically for people that had been with the company before and left the area, but that we wanted to keep. The pandemic finally wore down the l
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by Legion 4y ago
Love SomaFM, have their 15 year anniversary channel list poster up in my office. Been listening since the days of the original 3 channels (Groove Salad / Drone Zone / Secret Agent). I loved so much when cliqhop came out and stream
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by Legion 4y ago
> Although I'd say nearly every game worth playing is already on there, besides a couple N64 games I'd say it takes a very narrow view of what's "worth playing" to say that. To me, the Switch Online emulation ser
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by Legion 5y ago
Once people start crossing the line from promoting an ideal to promoting an identity, that's when they lose me.
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by Legion 5y ago
> Who are they to decide what is "disinformation". How do they know? Making decisions about which information to rank highly vs. lowly is, you know, kind of the definition of a search engine.
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by Legion 5y ago
I like weekly publications. 24-hour news is all about reacting first, thinking never. Daily publications are better, but there's still not a lot of time to formulate thought. Weekly publications allow things to breathe a bit more. Allo
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by Legion 5y ago
This reminds me of people online who construct gigantic walls of bad faith argument text and insist that it's up to everyone else to "debate them" and spend hours deconstructing their argument. Just possibly, dude, your argum
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by Legion 5y ago
Premise: the author has access to many more pet creative projects than ever before. Author's conclusion: people are spending more time on pet creative projects. Better conclusion: the barriers to distribution have fallen so low that pe
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by Legion 5y ago
I've never thought to try this. Now I have to try this.
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by Legion 5y ago
River Phoenix asking for Amy Benedict's phone number will always be one of the smoothest moves in cinema.
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by Legion 5y ago
Robert Redford. Sidney Poitier. David Strathairn. River Phoenix. Mary McDonnell. Timothy Busfield. Dan Ackroyd. Donal Logue. Ben Kingsley. James Earl Jones. Stephen Tobolowsky. There may exist movies with better casts than Sneakers, but the
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by Legion 5y ago
That's what's making the Steam Deck possible. And the release of the Steam Deck is only going to bring more attention to Proton and accelerate further development.
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by Legion 5y ago
> it's a waste of resources I always laugh at the people that take this notion way too seriously. If their CPU is only 98% idle, it's a travesty. I imagine the same people driving around in cars stripped of all paneling and uph
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by Legion 5y ago
> A lot of ad volume problems come from failure to normalize audio between what the studio distributes and what the advertiser distributes. Weird how this supposed lack of normalization never seems to result in overly quiet commercials..
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by Legion 5y ago
> Reminder: VSCode, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and Notepad++ all individually have a higher usage share among professional programmers[0]. 20 years ago, this list would have had a bunch of different names on it. 20 years from now, it will
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by Legion 5y ago
Who error checks the error checkers?
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by Legion 5y ago
> And maybe the thing you write will be a crock of shit. Because we definitely need more of that. If there's one thing the Internet is not lacking, it's ideas written down before they're fully thought through.
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by Legion 5y ago
> Unfortunately, the Node code we wrote to do this had a bug: it treated a string as if it was a number. I'm sure plenty of people here will have thoughts on this point.
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by Legion 5y ago
It's weird how these "free speech" social media sites always seem to have just as much moderation (if not more) than mainstream platforms, just with a big exception carved out for far-right fascist topics.

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