I appreciate the response and how much it blew up. My discussion with them was informed a lot by the folks here on Hexbear at the time.

It went something like "if you care about trans people, then why won't you listen to and vote with them?"

To which I asked "which trans people?"

They later revealed themselves to be something of a rainbow imperialist, where if a country has a bad record of LGBTQ+ rights, it justifies whatever the US does to them. Because obviously we'll change their minds at the barrel of a gun, we just need to "follow up better". Referring to Libya in this case.

We honestly don't talk much anymore for obvious reasons but I have this comment locked and loaded for later.

If the same friend who tried really hard to convince me people should vote for Kamala "for trans people" tries again, I'm just blocking them on all platforms lol. Don't do this to me again.

I talk to uni students on a regular basis and many of them unfortunately do not give a single fuck about what the companies they are trying to get hired at do. All the highest paying jobs in engineering are at ghoul factories like Google and Boeing, so if they aren't enthusiastic, they're at least making up whatever excuse they need to for it to be okay. Like "I'm just trying to be the data guy, I won't be working on missiles, so it's fine".

I waited a while to post this to distance myself from it in time, but thought this was really funny.

I left a PSL meetup where they were discussing the aftermath of some protests they strongly helped organize and when I walked outside the building, two people out there were holding newspapers. I braced myself for what I knew was coming and chuckled under my mask. One asked me if I wanted a copy of a socialist newspaper. I squinted to see their name in the corner of the paper: Socialist Alternative. Trot org. I politely said no thank you and laughed again when I was far enough away. It was like experiencing a Hexbear post irl.

I thought: Why weren't they inside during the entire public meeting? They're really not beating the allegations.

You're not even allowed to travel there on vacation, so I strongly doubt that you'd be able to move there. Can't compete in the Pyongyang Race anymore either, only one of like 3 country passports that don't qualify. The USAians who did were all people who ended up there during the Korean War and stayed on that side of the border.

I regularly say something like "this shit sucks" when I feel like the devs added unnecessary friction to their game that serves to just waste my time. Which I think happens a lot. There's mechanics that boil down to just inconveniencing you, even for just a second, but provide no real challenge, narrative benefit, learning opportunities, etc.

This isn't a singleplayer game necessarily, but doesn't involve other players in this situation: in WoW, all mobs, including those significantly lower level than you, have/had (idk if they still do) a chance to "daze" you if they hit you while you were mounted. This slows your speed down dramatically and forces you to wait it out while running like a snail or get off your mount to fight the thing. But this could happen even if you were level 60 and the thing was level 10, meaning even 12 of them hitting you at once posed no danger to you. So it discouraged taking shortcuts through areas and made you slow down and not treat creatures that are in-universe still considered dangerous like they don't matter, but mechanically it was just really annoying when you were trying to get to somewhere more interesting and relevant to your power level.

Recently, in Pathfinder: Kingmaker, spider web traps that make your characters unable to move unless they keep passing stat checks will last something like 5 real life minutes, even after the spiders have died and you are no longer in combat. There's mods that add a button to delete all on-screen effects specifically because of stuff like that.

I think I'm probably overly sensitive to this kind of stuff, but game developers so often add dumb shit like this that I'm also convinced they don't really know what they're doing and if enough of those papercuts add up, I will just stop playing. I don't like punch my computer or whatever, but I definitely feel like the OP.

If you're in the US, OnePlus is the only brand that has phones that work on all US company cell bands, so you get max 5G speeds and coverage.

If just about anywhere else, you're in for a rabbit hole cuz there's so many options and almost all of them are good.

Yeah, kinda. It's not perfect. A lot of other stuff I use like Pangolin and Komodo doesn't interop (well) with Podman containers though.

Bazzite has cockpit pre installed too and that has support for Podman. I still use docker cuz literally everything has a compose file ready to go, but I think a lot of Bazzite people are pod people.

Theyve posted that they've gotten death threats, stuff sent to their house, endless phone calls and spam emails, people threatening their family members on social media. Everything you can think of outside of literally lighting their house on fire (so far).

I think their decision to voluntarily add this feature was poor and unnecessary (nobody asked or paid them to) but the reaction is disgusting.

It's usually pretty easy if you're already familiar with docker and such for setting up other services. I have my own third party router, so I'm not sure if Xfinity has that built in to their rentals or what models they use. If not though, you could use WG Easy, which the name lives up to with the Basic Installation.

I use straight Wireguard. If your router has VPN settings built in, it's very simple to set up. You just need to turn it on, generate codes for each device you want to connect remotely, and put them in. For Android, I use WG Tunnel from Fdroid. If your router doesn't have it, there's also containers for it that are very simple.

I know lots of people swear by Tailscale and it's really nice for giving multiple people access to your stuff with being able to simply whitelist certain services. I never liked adding a third party to the mix and Head scale isn't as easy as Wireguard if it's just you using it.

I've got a server with a lot of that set up and I still just use Bitwarden for passwords. It's worth for all the other stuff.

Check out Immich, Komga, Calibre-Web/Calibre-Web Automated/Grimmory(later, once they finish ripping out the AI slop from the original Booklore creator) for some of the other things you listed.

I can't find this reported anywhere else, this better not be fake news breaking containment.

There was a lot of discussion between the hypervisor method dev, fitgirl, and the mods of cs.rin.ru which is where a lot of these things get posted first now before private trackers. They agreed to certain warnings and were able to reduce the number of security features needing to be disabled, but is still so much more sketch than running a .exe that might be a Trojan back in the day. And none of them work on Linux. So for me, none of this shit counts or is worth it at all.

As OP mentioned, voices38 is the new person who just finished cracking all the 2024 denuvo games and moved onto 2025. They're the true torch bearer.

The abuse of co-workers isn't that they were assaulting people or just neurodivergent and misunderstood, but they were not very tactful in giving feedback, were sometimes incompetent, and created a hostile work environment. Saying "this is shit" about someone's idea instead of giving them constructive feedback and instead making people feel belittled or harming their mental health. Most of those stories are centered around Robert Kurvitz, the lead writer, and were talked about by Argo Tuulik in one of the documentaries released about the situation.

The fact that Robert is not a good boss and that reports about his behavior are factual was the excuse the higher ups needed to fire him and his closest associates, but their true intentions behind the firing were to take over the rights to the IP.

I hate long form video content as a primary source, but tbh the 2 year old People Make Games doc and the more recent follow up are the best comprehensive sources about the whole thing. They include a lot of interview footage from the involved parties.

The main writers who you are probably thinking of haven't released a game yet. They work at Red Info.

The various other splinter companies don't involve them but shouldn't be discounted entirely as it still took large teams to make Disco happen.

The tldr is that the suits behind Disco were corrupt and money hungry, but that the lead creatives also didn't have the best people skills when speaking to their coworkers and could have had more tact when providing feedback.

The severity of the actions of the two sides is obviously not the same, but disputes between the two sometimes rely on accounts of workers being mistreated by the lead creatives. Which isn't entirely untrue, but also not to the level of something like assault allegations you see at places like Blizzard.

I'm not a super lore master, but it's my understanding that a lot of Sauron's allies like some of the hill tribes join him because the people of the west were colonisers that kicked them out of their land in the first place. So obv Sauron is evil, but the kingdoms like Gondor gave people plenty of reason to want to fight them.

Trying to move out of a hell state, the only truck within 300 miles on the day we needed to move (after Uhaul called us to say they didn't have any for our reservation) was a 26 footer that took diesel and had those big air brakes. Drove it multiple hours to our destination and it was the most nerve wracking experience the whole way.

The single cargo plane Hasan flew in on was carrying something like 500k worth of solar panels. Everyone who went brought more food, medicine, electronics, or whatever than they are using while staying there.