Hemingways_Shotgun

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  • Hemingways_ShotguntoLinux@lemmy.ml15 Signs Linux Is Not For You
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    2 days ago

    Oh shit! That’s what we were missing all along! That’s what has, all this time, been keeping adoption down and preventing the year of the linux desktop! A condescending prick talking down to people! We should have figured this out a long time ago! Thanks OP for setting us straight! Now our numbers are sure to skyrocket!


  • ALL OF THEM

    This is the right answer. Because the truth is, you can’t have a fandom without passion. And people that are passionate enough to consider themselves part of a fandom community (regardless of it’s source) are passionate enough to be vocal and opinionated about it. And there will ALWAYS be some who crank the whine up to 11 and annoy everyone else.

    It’s not an issue with any one particular fan community, it’s a feature of all of them.


  • It’s not a stereotype if it’s true, though! /s

    On a more serious note, coming from an immigrant family, you can see it very clearly in a lot of those old Eurpoean cultures (Portugal, spain, etc…) The men work, the women (seem) subservient, but honestly, without them, their husbands are absolutely useless at bills, banking, groceries, literally anything that isn’t getting up and going to work to make money.

    Most men would absolutely fall apart without their wives because while they can dress for themselves, they sure as hell can’t shop for themselves, etc…

    I’m not saying that that’st he modern convention. It isn’t at all. It’s changing. But there’s still a tonne of older women who come in and (half-jokingly) have to buy a bunch of premade meals for their husband because she has to go on the road for a few days and he is useless for that sort of stuff on his own.






  • Technically, PS2 was better. But PS2 was also the beginning of the end for proper single player narrative games like the Final Fantasy Series, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Colony Wars, Wing Commander, etc…

    The PS2 kept those going early on, but I feel like later into it’s life cycle it started to move down the “everything has to be multiplayer now” route.

    Which is why, for me, my list of emulated games skews FAR heavier to old PS1 classics.

    Just my opinion though. Don’t shoot me, please.





  • I’d say no dialogue. Tell the story visually.

    This man has been protecting a young kid from afar. The kid’s never met him, but this man has spent the last few months keeping the bad people away from him and it’s taken a very obvious toll on his body. Finally, in the final confrontation, he’s mortally wounded and bleeding out after killing the “main” antagonist. He goes to his grave stoically, with no one ever knowing what he sacrificed.


  • Yeah. That’s about the only way that I can figure it could be done optically. Or else just fix it in post.

    From a visual standpoint I know it lacks realism if we have a man bleeding out against the bench with no footprints or disturbance to show how he got there. But visually it looks better. I’d also costume the man in very gray colours, with almost the only noticeable color being the pool of red slowly spreading. Frank Miller-ish.


  • If the price is free, you are the product

    I think you’re both right, actually. But when I’m explaining it to people I add “If the price is free and the software isn’t open source…you are the product”

    It’s the basic value proposition. If a piece of software is being given to you for free from a company that wants to make a profit…they’ll be making that profit off your information. If a company/community driven project is free and open source, it means that they have different motivations than profit and you can be somewhat more sure of your privacy.



  • Hemingways_ShotguntoMemes@sopuli.xyzWish I was her
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    5 days ago

    I think maybe I worded that wrong.

    I don’t mean in terms of giving answers to questions. I mean in terms of decision making. When facing a decision with two equal possible outcomes, it’s more important to be decisive than to be wishy washy.

    “Hey boss. For this project we can either continue doing “x” or we can shift over to doing “y”. What should be do?” In those types of situations it’s more important to make a decision and be confident in your decision. If you second guess, they’re going to second guess.


  • Hemingways_ShotguntoMemes@sopuli.xyzWish I was her
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    5 days ago

    I think maybe I worded that wrong.

    I don’t mean in terms of giving answers to questions. I mean in terms of decision making. When facing a decision with two equal possible outcomes, it’s more important to be decisive than to be wishy washy.

    “Hey boss. For this project we can either continue doing “x” or we can shift over to doing “y”. What should be do?” In those types of situations it’s more important to make a decision and be confident in your decision. If you second guess, they’re going to second guess.






















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