Dude says "Americans don't get the benefit of the doubt" in an inflammatory way. You make a crack about his supposed take on Anne Frank. Respectfully, that was equally unjustified - he doesn't seem like a bigot, just angry. At the end of it all, nothing has been gained but we're all annoyed.

I don't really like the discourse around "polarization" as though disagreement itself is the problem. We have good reason to be polarized over some topics. What's valuable is critical thought and in that respect neither bsky nor twitter cultivate much productive.

I've always maintained that Bluesky is just Twitter but it's full of liberal sycophants instead of conservative ones.

I basically did this just for the /input/ side of a retro streaming rig, and I spent like a hundred bucks in just cables. The used Extron matrix splitter itself was less expensive than the cables! And I still couldn't even turn all the consoles on at once.

Idk what you're talking about man, you delivered us Air Strafing

I actually did just this and watched Dragon Ball and DBZ for the first time. It took a full year but it was worth it.

I realize this was an excuse to say the funny name but they were eventually sold and then sold again to a company that made video poker.

I'm in the same boat. There's plenty of events I'd love to attend in the states (Anthrocon, GDQ) but I genuinely don't think I'll be safe traveling through the border as a Canadian. It sucks!

"Making bad decisions on cooldown" is fire but I know how you feel. Make 2026 the year of action!

Though if you know exactlu what he nailed you with it might be possible to idenfiy its capabilities online. Guys like this love to operate on fear, it does as much damage as the malware.

If MB means motherboard then yeah it's possible to infect the boot process of a motherboard so your PC always boots up with malware attached. It's probably worth taking to a specialist? But I'm particularly risk averse.

It took me years to disconnect from the toxic "git gud" bullying mentality, and as it so happens, DS1 actually does a great job of scaling difficulty with progression when you're not underpowering yourself out of a weird sense of shame! It's actually quite fun!

There are multiple solutions to problems. Don't like your weapon? Go find a better one. Not dealing enough damage? Upgrade your weapons or level up. And in no way do these solutions diminish the requirement to build good combat skills, learn positioning, dodge timings, etc.

For years and years I though Dark Souls was a game about being continuously kicked in the dick and having to beat your head against the wall to progress, and certainly that is how a very loud segment of its player base acts. Turns out when you aren't listening to those people it's actually quite fun

My favorite thing about 6 7 is saying it to people to cause immense psychic damage, and saying it to kids to cause the same psychic damage. Ideally followed by a dab.

Without seeing how it works, it might be enough to have your button press simply apply a velocity rather than setting a speed and having the velocity be kind of low at first.