Huzzah!

JFC.

Now we just need the 1911 PDW/Carbine housing conversion kit.

Oh so thats what .45 Long Colt means =P

Oh!

Oh!

Make a 2011 version of this, double stack, ahahah!

… I think you could actually use this thing as a tonfa.

Probably not a good idea to do when its loaded.

(EDIT: realized you.already described much if this, blargh, im about to pass out and fall asleep)

Unfortunately I have been using Bazzite so long I’m not sure exactly how to explain how to do it on SteamOS, but…

So your Deck, when Steam is still running, is also running the layer that translates your joy and buttons and track pads and what not, as managed via Steam’s controller profile system.

You can go into steam settings and find a button for something like a default desktop config.

You can uh, tinker with that profile and make it so a hot key or combo switches it over to just acting as basically an xbox369 controller.

When you are in that mode, Lutris, emulators run in desktop mode, etc… they should recognize your joy/trigger/button inputs as if they were a 360 controller now.

It… can be a bit confusing, but its not impossible to set up, at least not with the emulators Inhabe futzed about with.

lol, who wants headpats?

Free head pats!

Sounds like this group is so over concerned with ideological purity testing that they’re never actually going to do anything useful and are thus actually just cosplaying.

Just go volunteer at a food bank, you’ll meet people you may disagree with on a good deal of things, but chances are a good chunk of their heart is in the right place, way more so than a snooty reading club with entry requirements.

Theory is certainly neat and useful, but a huge component is just… basic in person human interaction.

… ironically i 99% use lemmy on my phone, lol.

I have also had multiple people so far on lemmy just get livid about how i block out my sentences and paragraphs… you know, to make sense on the phone i am typing them on, to look nice.

I’ve had people get legitimately angry that i formatted a comment for a phone, seemingly not even realizing that there are… what, at least 10 different mobile lemmy clients that are reasonably popular?

My guess is they’re the late reddit accounts when reddit is already big and shit. They weren’t around when reddit was just “small digg”. Tbf I wasn’t there as well.

I was on reddit back when it was just small digg, you are 100% correct.

These are a bunch of modern social media brainrotted people, for lack of a better term, who just need to get all the upvotes, need to get as much digitally mediated social validation as possible.

These people are the hivemind.

They want everything to be easy and convenient and accomdodate them, they’ll yap for hours about how something should work and never do a damn actual thing to achieve it beyond ‘spreading awareness’.

The fact that it took you a few attempts to figure out how to ‘do’ lemmy acts as a filter.

I’m not awake enough to be able to try and argue whether or not its… net better overall to have an easy, more difficult to censor and manipulate reddit alternative… or if allowing it to be easy to access just fundamentally does comprimise the system by way of the hivemind then eventually, inevitably taking over and becoming increasingly sycophantic and culty and sociopathic.

… but I can tell you that from a certain point of view, having to actually engage your brain a bit to join what is basically a network of web forums, well you can see see that as a feature, not a bug.

Appeal to hypocrisy and cowardice?

You think I’m arguing this… as rhetorically convincing way of…migrating people… to another … position?

We’re not on reddit. I don’t talk to redditors.

Because I think the vast majority of them are willing participants in a destructive and abusive system.

I’m not doing PR, I’m using a word to accurately the vast majority of such people in the situation you described.

I’m… not going to constantly police my speech to be some kind of maximally appealling and welcoming to everyone.

I say what I think.

If that upsets you, I don’t care, block me, please.

I’m not a politician trying to craft a maximally acceptable political message.

If you want that kind of social environment… go back to the reddit hivemind.

Go look again the OP image that spawned this entire conversation.

You’re gonna tell me that advertising for homocidal fascist goons, as a business model, is not abusive?

That an enshittifying platform that literally sold out so that a couple owners could extract even MORE money out of everyone around them… thats not abusive?

I’m sorry you have a problem with the word coward, but, I am using it correctly, in applying it to your scenario.

Yeah, all your points abouts about why its difficult to leave are valid, its complex when you go into detail, when you take it case by case.

But when you zoom out, and write a memoir or a summary about it… it boils down to, as I already said, either your values of not using an exploitative platform don’t exceed your need for using it, for whatever reason, or, you’re afraid of losing social connections or social standing.

People with strong ties to a reddit community and strong values and courage… could become leaders in trying to orchestrate or encourage an exodus or relocation.

Yeah, rocking the boat to get people’s attention is harder than pretending it isn’t sinking.

Not standing up for things you claim to believe in or care about makes you a hypocrite and/or a coward.

If your fear of group ostracization or abandonment outwreighs your other sense of values… you are either a coward, or, you don’t actually have the values you seem to think you do.

You said it yourself, in your hypothetical, that they want to leave, which implies they comprehend that being there is bad… but they’re afraid, so they don’t.

How is that not cowardice?

It takes bravery to stand against a group, to critique them, and still be involved with them.

Either they don’t really want to, thus they’re hypocrites, or they do but they’re afraid, thus they are cowards.

Perhaps a mix of both, but it has to be at least one.

Have you ever been in a cult?

An absuive relationship?

A toxic social circle?

It takes courage to get out of those things.

Basically yes.

The head of DHS is Kristi Noem.

She was the governor of South Dakota.

She’s also famous for shooting her puppy.

… South Dakota is a joke of a state compared to Minnesota, and they’re neighboring states.

Inferiority complex + racism + psychopathy + fascism, but I repeat myself.

So they’re cowards.

What you are describing is cowardice.

The entire state of Wyoming has about the same number of residents as Milwaukee (~600,000)

Wyoming gets 2 Senators. 1 House Rep.

Milwaukee gets 0, 0.

Washington DC has roughly 10% more residents than Wyoming/Milwaukee.

They get 0 Senators, 0 House Reps.

Puerto Rico has about 3.2 million residents.

0 Senators. 0 House Reps.

… There are roughly 2.15x more cows than people in Wyoming.

Conclusion: Demote Wyoming back to territory, upgrade at least Puerto Rico to State.

Honestly you made a good decision.

Hopefully you’re steering clear of Paradox in general, they’re basically drug dealers for autists, lol.

Their… pricing models are… ridiculous, and lately, they seem to be cocking up basically everything they’re actively in charge of development of.

EDIT: Normies get FanDuel, us turbo-optimizers get Paradox games.

You could also play Paradox games and get a pretty map painting GUI.

Or Factorio/DwarfFortress lol.

Do you have any experience using Arch, SteamOS, Flatpak, or just… linux in general?

Because now also what you have said makes no sense.

I’ve already explained why.

So when he says ‘maybe I’m the faggot’… he is literally just saying he’s gay or bi, yes, and, what about it?

He’s taking the word back.

And also, they replaced ‘redneck’ with MAGA.

Not sure if you actually know too many queer people who were 90s kids, but it was and still is pretty common for them to jokingly, ironically mock themselves or their friends using that term you seem to think is only ever a slur.

Maybe I’m old and out of touch at this point, but as a bi 90s kid, I’m qualified to at least explain how the terminology worked back in 04 when this song came out.

EDIT:

There was no need to delete your comment.

People can sometimes say things that are slightly innacurate, and then… learn, grow.

That, doing that is … much better than trying to be 100% correct 100% of the time.

That is impossible.

… you can just say “Oh, I didn’t know that / think of it that way.”

No harm done!

That is exactly what I am getting at.

GOA has… a fair bit of pull with, or perhaps importance to a lot of those types of folks.

Venn Diagrams and near perfect circles, and all that.