Most people on Lemmy prefer Mastodon, as it’s not run by a corporation, and is federated like Lemmy. It’s also built off the same underlying protocol, meaning it’s interoperable with lemmy.

I’ve seen someone suggest wildmagic wands for a one shot.

Just because something can swim doesn’t make it a fish.

Since OP was too lazy to take the 5 seconds to crop:

Again. They rebranded for these remasters already, lol.

There’s a decent amount of evidence that they weren’t given the time they needed by Rockstar, that they intentionally shipped it out with a shit ton of behind the scenes files in an attempt to assist modders (at the very least it was shoved out the door so fast they didn’t have time to clean the files out of the release directory, holy shit), and members of the studio have repeatedly and consistently reported that they were not permitted by Rockstar to release many bug fixes after the remasters released.

Rockstar holds the biggest blame for this one.

You should definitely check out the original Monkey Island games when you have a chance! 1 and 2 got well done remasters, and 3 onward don’t really need any remastering.

Everyone else has covered most of it, but another “neat” tidbit: To my knowledge, 4chan’s protests and hacktivism against scientology was the largest coordinated action that community has ever taken.

Fucking 4chan. Land of the worst the public facing internet has to offer. Despite all their fucking racism, sexism, homophobia, supremacists… just overall despicableness… they came together in united action against this group.

Yep, and in the statement they’re referring to, it explicitly suggests that their users should set up PGP.

Some additional context:

It was made by 4chan users over a decade ago, when that sort of thing was accepted there as “edgy humor”. Make of it what you will. I think there’s been some growing up, since they don’t offer/support those domains now.

Domains you could register an email with them at.

Ugh, yeah.

They were started by 4chan users, back when that sort of thing was more accepted there as “edgy humor”. Glad they grew up.

Yeah, I don’t know why they don’t have the normal “what is this” text from their main page at least at the bottom or something.

cock.li offers free email service with no personal info needed for signup. They’ve done this for 11 years, with no major outages to my knowledge, relying only on donations without explicitly asking for them or bugging their users.

I think at some point they also offered paid VPS services.

Very useful for accounts that you don’t want connected to your other “identities”, but where you’ll still need them associated with a real email for things like password resets.

It’s also tor friendly.

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Flashing your lights or highbeams to pass is seen as quite agressive in the US. It isn’t taught in drivers ed, and the general interpretation I hear most people have of it isn’t “Hey, could you let me pass?” but instead “Hey! Fuckface! Stop driving so goddamn slow and get out of the damn way you shithead!”

Doesn’t help that in my experience, the only people flashing to pass are aggressively tailgating me when I’m already 10 mph or more over the speed limit.

Better to just pass on the right if there’s room. And if there isn’t room, fuck off telling someone to get out of your way. Not like they can get over anyway.

EDIT: Fucking hell, nevermind. I found it. He posted it himself.

No, we don’t see how well voting works. Trump got less votes this run than he did in the last election where he fucking lost.

Some supposedly do, and then have been found hallucinating non-existent ones.

You might be interested in Marc Laidlaw’s (the story author for Half-Life) Epistle 3, the rough outline of the story plan for Half-Life 3 that he turned into a letter from Gordon and released after he left Valve. He has since said that he regrets releasing it, as game stories are wildly impacted by the design and development of the game itself, so the end result would likely be far different. Especially with Alyx retconning some things. That said, it’s still an interesting look at what was planned at least at one point. Fans are working on a fangame based on the concept.

Likewise, there’s the book Half-Life: Raising the Bar, which documents a TON of stuff about the creation of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, with a bunch of info on concept art and cut ideas. The original plan for the game would have been even darker than what we got and didn’t feature Gordon at all! Unfortunately you’ll probably just need to download a pirate scan of it, as I don’t believe they’ve printed new copies in over a decade.

Together with everything the fans have figured out about the early leaked version of Half-Life 2 that matches up with the cut plot in Raising the Bar, you can build your own rich “fan canon” until Valve releases anything more.

I do think it was a missed opportunity to not have Laidlaw write some books set in the universe when they didn’t need him working on game plot though.

No way that wasn’t absolutely intentional.