All the notable music festivals have been that for decades, right? Really music in general has really been left wing progressive since well before I was even born.

A bullet grazed his ear. I don't think even the MSM is denying that fact.

I wouldn't trust the most decorated sniper in the history of the world to take a shot at me with the intent of grazing my ear for publicity.

don't go to concerts, don't go to pride parades, avoid nerd conventions, avoid gay orgies, and for God's sake don't go to a leftist political rally.

Yeah, I think I can manage that. The only concert I'd go to anymore is some pretty backwoods country thing, and I the rest of it I've never done anyway.

I'm not sure what they expected to come out of a successful attempt. It's beyond their pea brains to understand cause and effect though. Was everyone going to unite behind an establishment progressive, be glad to pass more privacy invasions, turn in our weapons and thank the commissar for being so kind as to disarm us to reduce violence?

Good news is I'm not new to Linux at all, just gaming on Linux. I know nothing about how to do any of the graphics stuff, outside of just install and hope amdgpu works. I've been on desktop Linux for 6ish years now. Just not on a gaming PC. The PC at my desk is just a little mini PC and it's what I do internet, spreadsheets, business stuff, scripting, etc. on. I actually moved from Ubuntu to Fedora because of the rolling release thing. Can't remember specifics, but there was something I had that was not cooperating that had native support in a newer kernel, and back then Ubuntu was on some ancient 4.x kernel. Most of my other experience is Debian or RHEL based server stuff, which skills translate to gaming pretty much zero outside of comfort with the console. I'm not great with drivers, because you just don't have to do that much on servers.

I think I'm going to start with Arch and just see how it goes. I was thinking of going to that on desktop some day anyway. If it doesn't go well then I'll try Steam OS or something.

Funny enough, I had the idea that Steam was only officially supported on Debian, because that's all they offered on the website. Yeah, I should have at least looked at my own system first. I never expected it would be in the Fedora repos already.

Always had the worst luck with Wine, but it is always me trying to run some ancient non-game thing and it won't cooperate or makes the output the size of a postage stamp and expects me to read it. I guess on the plus side, forced all my desktop software to native Linux stuff.

I may go for Arch next time it's time to reinstall the main desktop PC. I'd like to see how I do at getting all the desktop environment stuff set up from scratch there. Never done that before, at least not in a year starting with 20.

PC in question for me is gaming-specific, so I'm just going to partition this new SSD in half and you're right I probably end up trying a few different things before I settle on something. I needed a new SSD for another project where I really wanted to be able to "sandbox" some things on a totally separate physical drive. So I get a nice big 4TB for the gaming PC and rotate the rest of them downward to less demanding things. The way game size goes, that will be futureproof capacity for at least six months before its all 500GB games.

The existence of Lutris is what convinced me to give it a shot at all, I'll be looking forward to trying it out. I almost installed on my main Linux PC, but it's iGPU so I didn't figure worth messing with.

I'll have to look into that, I didn't realize it was viable for non Steam Deck

They will double down. That's what they do. As long as they have control of the mainstream narrative, the violence is a good thing for them.

I did see on there that "HOW DO YOU MISS" is trending. So none of the others would surprise me.

What I've come to realize is a lot of these type things for above-average people have become nothing more than attendance awards. I remember when I graduated high school, everyone was acting like it's a big accomplishment. I off-put several people by saying I didn't really feel accomplished at all, what I did was never optional to me. College was more so, but that came down to attendance. Attending class was not a strong suit.

Even in the workplace now. My main job is a big corporate technical job. Yeah, I've had some challenging roles over the years, but it's gotten to the point that it's really an attendance contest too. I can do my full-time, well paid, salary job in 20 hours a week easily. Lately I've been working on some databases and scripting that will at the very least cut that in half by automating a lot of the menial tasks I do. I already have more areas of responsibility than anyone on my team too. Twice the amount of some of them. Still, it's just attendance. I've considered leaving, but I get this automation in and work from home most of the time, so why bother? Let them keep paying me, I keep doing what's asked well, and go on to see how much I can ramp up small business and side projects. Could I find something more challenging? Sure. But it's not going to be a significant bump in reward (i.e. pay). So, why?

I suppose it's only going to get worse. There has to be some side effects of society in general being full of worse people performing tasks less well.

More so in the past five years, yes. You know how it goes now, everything that happens from the weather is due to climate change. "OMG why do we have so much hot, so many tornadoes, so many hurricanes, so much bad cold weather, it's CLIMATE CHANGE! We better get used to this because that fucker Greg Abbott won't solve it for us like if we had a good progressive in there!"

It not even unusually hot. It's been this hot the entire decade and a half I lived in Texas. I wouldn't even say this summer so far has been unusually hot. I can't pick out a single weather occurrence that's unusual from any point in my life. One year when I was about 8th grade, it rained what seemed like every other day. We had bad hurricanes then. I grew up on tornado warnings, back when they didn't have enough to do much more than putting the whole county under a warning.

Therefore making insider trading as a congressman generally useless. There'd still be idiots to take money from otherwise, but Congress ability to do so would be extremely limited.

A suggestion I once saw I would also accept is to require all members of Congress investments to be 100% public in real time. So at the very least you can ride along.

There would need to be something with family too, as you know they'd have no problem just having their kid do the trades and give 10% to the big guy.

I was thinking reading this, how long until they all just get paid to stay home? Sure, you can be a doctor, but it's white supremacy to expect you to show up, speak a coherent language, or be able to do anything. Just expect your paycheck doctor and go spend it on ya druugs and hoes or whatever.

Well, on the positive side, I know a handful of young men that seem to be doing alright. Mostly a group of friends-of-a-friend that I gamed with, all in their 20s now. Common element--they all grew up in a small town in Texas with both parents around. It's something I picked up on back then, they still had a real sense of community, if that's even the best way to put it. I don't mean the faggotry community--maybe male camaraderie is a better description.

Then I look around myself, I'm in my 40s. Still feel like the youngest guy at work sometimes, so they aren't making it into those fields. Especially if I'm talking about young men in a male dominated field. It's a big corporation though, so that's expected. I really just string it along because I work from home mostly and get paid way too damn well for the 15 hours a week it really takes me. I do know one guy who's getting near 30 now, in his young 20s he did the go off and work somewhere thing and all for a handful of years. He's got the wife and kid now. So it's not necessarily stone.

Myself, I suppose I'm mgtow, although I'd say I was really going my own way since I was born for the most part. I've never been much to do what others do. I've never been in any sort of angry at women community or anything like that. Sometimes I think if I were to redo it, I'd find a woman in my young 20s, but other times I think I'm happy where I am. I've checked totally out of the female scene at this point, because there's nothing at my age but retreads and hidden problems. I've got enough friends though, good relationships with enough family and a few of the young boys (nephews and cousins) that give me a connection to the next generation.

that LGBTQ gamers don’t feel that developers are thinking of them when they design games

I almost spit my water all over my desk reading that line.

Zelda Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks don't really use the buttons much if I recall.

I never thought about emulating DS games on mobile. I can't stand virtual buttons either.

A SCSI switch sounds dreadful to deal with. Never messed with one of those. I had my hands on way too many of those stupid parallel port printer switches. "Automatic" my ass.

I had a KVM switch 20 years ago when I was a PC tech. That one had both USB and PS/2 for keyboards even. It worked great for hooking up whatever PC(s) I was working on at the time and letting them do their installing, etc.

I find it funny they call it a "game changer." KVM is old tech.

What I prefer now though? A wireless keyboard with a USB and a Bluetooth mode. I hook up the work laptop and my personal PC both to the monitor and just switch the keyboard. I used to switch the mouse too, but I ended up just getting two of them. It's way quicker. Extra bonus, these monitors are so USB feature laden it will charge my work laptop on the same cable as the video, so it's a single wire connection.

So I went from the Desbians to Fedora and apparently brought the pozzed with me. Next time I reinstall, I’m probably going to Arch, so if anyone of you is using Arch, you’ve got about a year or two to move on.

A huge chunk of the Old Testament is Jews complaining about God. It's nothing new.

Single player games you can't pause are just plain retarded. I totally understand if you can't play with your inventory, use items, or what not while at risk in the world. That's fine. An option for "I would not like to participate in this game in any way for a period of time" should be a default feature.

I also appreciate games that offer a "quick save" feature that allow you to totally abandon a game and return later with a one-time-use save if they otherwise want to limit saving. Especially long talky RPGs. Sometimes you go into a section of talking and have no idea you're about to spend 30 minutes there.

Everything else is things I don't like about game design, but I'm not screeching about disabilities and trying to make a dev feel bad for not accommodating it like this ho.

I remember ages ago, like 2015-16ish, someone on Reddit referenced this guy as proof positive about how wrong I was about whatever game we were talking about. After having wasted whatever time watching that clown back then, the best I could think of as commentary on him is a movie quote:

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.