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Our duty in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago

I have done community service several times, like helping at a grange and helping at a retirement home, you can help the community in ways that don't or very rarely involve kids. You can help a friend with their kid without wanting kids and thinking they should not have had them, I'd also help them fix a car I don't think they should've bought. With overpopulation and severe effects of climate change I would look down on having kids, because this current path isn't sustainable, but that's not the kid's fault so we should still help the kid.

I think if you truly believe that, you should read about all the people who have spent months or years in total solitude and remained fulfilled. Having kids or not does not determine your long term happiness, many people with kids are unhappy even when the kids are grown up, because they didn't learn how to be happy. I would expect being childless just gives you more time to learn about yourself, but that's just speculation.

Our duty in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You went too hard in the other direction. Sure parents aren't miserable, but studies do show childless adults are happier. Maybe they're less fulfilled? That's hard to say if you never wanted kids. Also you can enjoy being around friends and make their lives better and invest in your community, not like kids, and still be very fulfilled. If you don't enjoy kids that doesn't impact your life negatively unless you don't understand how to be happy on your own.

OH GOD YES in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah it's shocking the difference it makes actually, I'll start feeling pretty bad all the time and wonder what's going on and then I realize I stopped exercising for a couple weeks.

If you say Tankies are MAGA and that the DNC are better than the GOP you get banned from DB0 in c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

That's your prerogative, but that doesn't make people wrong for saying you're a pos for doing it.

If you say Tankies are MAGA and that the DNC are better than the GOP you get banned from DB0 in c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

If you want to stop animal suffering that's fine just don't insult people who support it

200iq take. Brb paying to watch some dog pit fights, it's my way of life so you're not allowed to comment on it.

OH GOD YES in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I don't understand what's wrong with the exercise one, it improves your well-being and energy so you can do more even if short term it would be overdoing it.

Top of the world, ma in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Lol this is great

Unbiased sources in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Does anyone have that image of matt Walsh and like 5 other "independent thinkers" that all posted almost identical responses on Twitter? Theyre not even listening to real people's opinions lol

Performing as progressives and then using poor and fat as insults for republicans. That just tells good people who are fat or poor that you see them as lesser in c/flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I meaaan... all this can be true and "progressives" can still end up doing a lot of the classist ableist etc that they say is not okay just because it's someone they don't like. For example "Trump has a small dick!" Something you would hear in the manosphere, what does that have to do with him being a terrible person? "Ben Shapiro is short lol!!! Gnome!" "Women are repulsed by Republicans." Ok? So are most normal humans? It's like the flip side of "women love this!" Which is a bit weird to say.

For fat phobia, I think it's maybe imprecision in the words. We know from psychology it doesn't help shaming people for their flaws. We shouldn't say it's an okay thing, but saying omg this dude is a fat loser (about a republican) can be pretty hurtful for the chill person who feels like a loser because they're fat. Society right now is in a place where being obese is extremely easy and being healthy is not, like extremely addictive food literally designed to keep you hooked, car-centric design, lots of unnecessary stress and division, and some people just have health problems like chronic pain or metabolic misfunction. A lot of these are used as excuses, and I think if someone is overweight and they say well what can I do society is messed up, that's not right. But it's so easy to get into bad habits or be addicted to food, that I don't see it as a huge moral failing anymore, just like hey how do we help you stop this thing that's harming you.

A cool guide to everyday etiquette no one teaches you in c/coolguides@lemmy.ca
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I never knew the let people exit first because I never lived anywhere with public transit. It's obvious if someone brings any attention to it but in my head getting on the subway the first few times I was like "why are people running into me what is happening" lol

cops do not rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

So sad because as a kid I said to someone I might want to be a cop to try and help people and they were like uhhh that's basically what people who didn't finish high-school do. Little did I know that would be better than what we have now...

I miss my friend. in c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It sucks being chronically ill, but having someone there for the times you feel okay helps with the bad times. Your "hey I'm here, no pressure" is basically perfect, I'm sure they feel bad that they can't be a "good" friend in that moment but it helps knowing people will be there when they feel better.

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Old game runs fine but gets stuck on "connecting" once past launcher (sh.itjust.works)
 

I can't seem to get freestyle gunz to connect. To note, the launcher downloads everything fine, and the game launches fine (I have to launch using the launcher.exe rather than gunz.exe or the game won't start), but it just gets stuck on "Connecting" and then the game says there was an error connecting to the server. I have followed this tutorial: https://freestylersworld.com/showthread.php?126443-Tutorial-How-to-run-Freestyle-Gunz-on-Ubuntu-with-Lutris and setting lutrus to use any proton version or wine version besides 9.21 I had the same issue of getting to the login page, entering my information, and it says "connecting... 2nd attempt.... 3rd attempt..." and then says failed to connect to server.

Only very old proton versions (<5) fail to launch the game at all. If I run wine cmd then ping google.com I get a regular response. Stable, Staging, and development 9.21 versions of Wine would not launch the game after clicking start on the launcher, and with the lutris configuration running wine 9.21 gives this error: 02bc:err:seh:NtRaiseException Unhandled exception code c0000409 flags 1 addr 0x744b63, but running wine 9.21 with a new configuration and installing those libraries using winetricks hangs after these lines: 02c0:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_FIRMWARE_TABLE_INFORMATION action 0

02c0:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_FIRMWARE_TABLE_INFORMATION action 0

02c0:fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity 00000000, -1, 00000000, 00000000, 0, 3, 00000000, 0, 00000000 stub

02c0:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION

02c0:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module

02cc:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module

02c0:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod FFFFFFFA, 03D6FEB8

I have tried running the game through steam's compatibility settings, going from top to bottom until the game no longer launched, and all had the same issue of not being able to connect, but everything else working fine. I also tried running the installer with proton, and had the same issue of not being able to connect. I tried using winetricks without lutris to install msxml3,4, 6, and xmlite, and had the same issue of the game not launching using 9.21 wine and the game launching but not connecting on earlier versions. I found another reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gunz/comments/1dwkgjq/how_to_run_gunz_the_duel_on_linux/ with someone who seems to have a similar issue of not being able to connect, but no solution.

Something maybe of note: winetricks complains I'm using a 64bit wine prefix and installing 32 bit libraries when I install msxml, but the launcher is 64 bit and the game itself is 32 bit and uses these 32 bit libraries.

I'm just running ethernet, only things that show up on ifconfig are enp5s0 (my ethernet) and lo

Here is my OS:

NAME="Pop!_OS"

VERSION="22.04 LTS"

ID=pop

ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"

PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS"

VERSION_ID="22.04"

HOME_URL="https://pop.system76.com"

SUPPORT_URL="https://support.system76.com"

BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues"

PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy"

VERSION_CODENAME=jammy

UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os

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"Paying customers" wishes vs creating a more accepting environment (sh.itjust.works)
 

I recently watched a video about an unpolled change in old-school runescape that added the ability to change your character's pronouns, as well as have beards as female characters, and the community's reaction to it. Sadly, most of the runescape playerbase is pretty right leaning, with the expected reactions of "this is dumb why would they add this," "why add this unpolled," and "this is a medieval fantasy game not a dating simulator"

I wonder what people's thoughts on this are, as if you are a paying customer for a game, and the game has been promised to only add poll-approved changes, is this unreasonable and why? The game is "old-school runescape," the players are notoriously resistant to change, and are paying to keep the game as they like it. Can you pay to keep your uninclusive game uninclusive? I don't have a great argument against it past "this literally doesn't matter" which won't convince people who believe it does.

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Weird graphical glitches/crashes in older games with AMD card (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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Hi all, I've been recently playing some somewhat old games and have had trouble with either crashing, or weird graphical glitches.

The list of games I've tried:

Warcraft III (a custom map, normal game seems to work fine) Quake 2 Spring engine 103 (rts engine)

Warcraft 3 has a glitched white bar following the cursor, and the map crashes with "access violation" as the only error, as did the rts engine. I managed to fix the crash by running a 64 bit version of spring engine, but it then had this weird graphical glitch: https://imgur.com/a/ij6FaWa I looked in the settings and kept changing anything I could think of, one was to set UseVBO=0 which fixed that graphical problem, but sometimes the game will still crash with "access violation" Quake 2 replaces all projectile sprites/trails with a circle: https://imgur.com/a/qtLR2To

I'm thinking this is a weird problem with my AMD card, because I have a computer with the same 64 bit OS and all of these games work fine on it, and I played quake 2 before on this computer with the only difference being I swapped the graphics card and motherboard (exact same model mobo) I've tried running warcraft 3 with djvoodoo and that didn't seem to help, I've read online amd cards can have issues with older games running openGL and directx. Those posts are pretty old, but they make me think I might be SOL with an amd card

specs: OS: windows 10 home 64 bit mobo: gigabyte z690 UD ddr4 processor: intel i7 12700kf gfx: amd radeon RX 6800 XT

Appreciate any ideas!

Edit: wc3 crash log: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xrfw98rs7yhy356gt725g/2023-07-30-12.35.02-Crash.txt?rlkey=dp9oiqcibo4kigeq8lpzk8s0o&dl=0 running spring with a 32-bit launcher gives me Error: Failed to allocate memory 100% of the time I run it with UseVBO=1, 64 bit launcher gives me the graphical problem with UseVBO=1, and both work fine with UseVBO=0 quake 2 issue seems resolved if I change the openGL version, though it did work fine with previous settings before changing the graphics card, apparently this is a known issue pending future release.

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