[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

I completely forgot but apparently I joined Lemmy exactly one year ago lol

I don't know how or why, but I get absolutely atrocious stuttering while playing games on X11 that simply doesn't occur with Wayland, so X is just not an option for me.

It's moreso that they think "by the time shit hits the fan, I'll be long dead anyway, so I don't see why I should care". Ergo, pure, distilled lack of empathy, a "fuck you, I got mine" aimed at the future of every living being in our planet.

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 week ago

As someone who has a big guilty pleasure for sports/performance cars and racing in general, this comic actually explains really well how I'm able to reconcile that with my dislike of car-centric infrastructure and wishing for better public transportation: without other means for getting around cities for people who don't care much about cars (i.e. most people), everyone will be forced to use cars for basic transport, meaning really clogged highways and traffic jams that directly affect you and your fancy sports car's enjoyment.

Conversely, if infrastructure was more accommodating for bikes, trains and buses to make them more viable, most people would use them, leaving the streets and highways freer for you to have fun driving your sports car the way it was meant to, instead of being stuck in traffic jams most of the time.

I just wish most people who are into cars realized this, instead of raving about how "they want to take away our cars!" and fellating Andrew Tate and other shitheads.

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 week ago

Now I'm honestly kind of glad that I've been too lazy/depressed to figure out how to get FOLON to run on Linux. I really hope they fix all this...

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I spent the whole day flashing the MiyooCFW firmware onto it, customizing the menus, and testing which games ran well and which didn't (and constantly trying and failing to get Doom to run on it); I think I'm pretty happy with the end results now.

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[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 months ago

It's simple: they never stopped being racist, they just try to not say it out loud anymore.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

Hey folks, I've lurked on this community for a while now but haven't really posted anything until today. Sorry if this isn't really the right place to ask questions like this, but since this is a place for old games, I felt it'd be the most appropriate one...

I've been wanting to re-live some of the games I used to play as a child, and I remember how, back in 2004-2006, there was this Spider-Man game I used to play as a kid but could never beat. Lately I've been curious if I could finally do it now.

All I remember about it were three missions:

  • The first mission was some sort of "tutorial", where you'd have to use the web ability to swing across buildings and pass through a certain amount of these glowing green spider icons to clear the level.
  • The second(?) mission was about some robbers/thieves stealing a bank's armoured car and you had to capture all of them.
  • The third(?) mission was some sort of boss fight against a powerful guy who was apparently helping the thieves. I never got past this fight, he would always grab me - when he grabbed Spider-Man, I couldn't really do anything, he's just keep holding him and grunting occasionally; there might've been a key combination to break free from his grasp, but I didn't know at the time and always assumed it was game over and that I had to restart.

I understand this is really vague, but my memories of this game are incredibly vague and I barely recall much more. I remember I played it on a computer at least. I couldn't find anything like it on Wikipedia's pages on Spider-Man games, so I'm wondering if it might've been an unofficial game or something like that?

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[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 4 months ago

Basically my mindset, we should normalize being kind to each other

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[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 4 months ago

Cops are gutless cowards who can only punch down on people who can't fight back; as soon as they meet someone who poses even a slight threat they cower away.

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 5 months ago

I hate the heat so much.

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 5 months ago

These guys just... wake up and think to themselves "what is the most comically evil cartoon villain thing I can do to hurt others today?". Surreal.

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I hate April Rules (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

I'm not joking, I actually hate April Fools and I am NOT looking forward to tomorrow...

Sad thing is, I'd actually like April Fools if people made actually funny jokes with it, but instead it's always the same thing over and over with Discord mods thinking pinging everyone just for the sake of it is going to be funny

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

For what it's worth, I've had Linux spew similar CLI errors when booting up complaining about a critical CPU problem, when the problem actually was that it was reading data off of a dying hard-drive. (Removing said drive, as well as replacing it with a new, healthier drive, made the issue go away.)

Not saying your problem is actually a dying storage device, but that it's possible the issue might not actually be your CPU itself.

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[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 11 months ago

I can't help but notice that the overwhelming majority of people claiming they're "neither left nor right" are always just far-right, every time.

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I wanted to play Test Drive Unlimited 2 multiplayer with the TDU World mod, but since I'm not one of the lucky few who owned the game back in the day (I was still a teenager when they shut down the game) I have to pirate it. Unfortunately, the tool required to do it while working with TDUWorld, 80_PA (https://github.com/Blaukovitch/80_PA ), doesn't want to work through Wine as it crashes immediately.

It's a long shot, but has anyone here used it?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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