MonkeMischief

LOL it did take me a sec, like "You WERE smart but AI lobotomizes you." 😂

...AND MY A—

JK, who's a good kitty kitty? 😸

Dunno why I was being downvoted for self deprication.

If it helps, not saying anything about you in particular but:

I think because communities like this hear a lot of this kinda pre-emptive defeatism speak. Like "I'm tired and so I don't wanna do something that might make me learn."

It makes them/us sad because we're like "Uh, we'd be happy to help, it's not actually that scary?"

With Linux or PCs in general, people will often show up to the community just to say "Thinky thing is too hard", and declare they've already opened their wallets and run to some highly exploitative and expensive corporate "turnkey product" instead.

It's also "console propaganda" by corporations to spread FUD about PC and now Linux gaming being some alleged huge headache unless you're a professional computer engineer...And that's simply not true. They'd just rather you buy a new console every 3 years. :p

But also, downvotes don't super matter here, so all I can say is carry on with an open mind and don't be afraid to ask questions, and you never know what you might learn!

Don't sell yourself short. Try things!

As Bruce Lee once said: "In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

And that's where you put up little martin hotels, to encourage dozens of those adorable little high-velocity mosquito-slayers to move in, which could make living in Oklahoma somewhat bearable!

Well, crap, entropy really is nature's tendency if we're not constantly maintaining every little thing. Better go tell my mom in law...at least she uses the clear stuff but didn't know anything about the rest!

We used to get a ton of hummingbirds too, but since we added bird seed feeders and see a lot more sparrows and stuff, we haven't seen any hummingbirds lately. I hope they're okay. :(

Honestly I always loved looking at birds but in the city it started seeming like there were just so much less of them...

We started putting some bird seed out back, and I didn't know so many were even in our neighborhood! It's brought me a lot of happiness to see them all gathering around.

Especially the little sparrows and mourning doves. :)

... I'm in my 30's so, damn. 😆

Sounds basically like an average run of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, lol.

Half the year in sick days? Is this satire?

Edit: Maybe I missed a really obvious point somewhere lol.

Yep. Alt-righties / racists are still on the "secret cabal of Jews is why your life has problems" schtick, so if you see "goyim" being thrown around or "You know, ((THEM))" it's usually a dog whistle.

It'll get used like "sheep" like "eat slop, goy". As if people who aren't anti-Semitic are somehow "sheeple" letting themselves be manipulated.

That kinda thing started getting used heavily around meme communities like iFunny where you could never be sure if it was being "ironic" or not. (Although I heard the FBI caught various violent racist groups trying to recruit through there).

It started to break out, unfortunately.

Cyberpunk / Deus Ex imagined Batman was SO GOOD and for some reason they just stopped bothering with it.

I'll never understand letting that genius storyline slip through the cracks. That show was awesome.

Well there have been some strides. Games using EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) seem to work fine now. EAC tends to be more acceptable because it's well known that it shuts down as soon as the game is quit.

A lot of these other solutions like Riot's thingy or whatever Battlefield 6 uses, seem to enjoy (and insist upon) running even while the game isn't, which is positively sus.

So yeah in the case of Nprotect, I really don't know. I've heard on Windows it's pretty invasive and jank though, with the usual security assurance of "Lol just trust us bro."

It'd be neat if it would be contained on a Linux system but also...wouldn't that void the point? It seems they wouldn't be satisfied with allowing Linux players if that were the case.

The uncertainty is the frustrating part. =\