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Dark_Arc, to games in Galacticare Has Got That Old Bullfrog Spirit
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No idea what that means, but I do know the devs of this game also made War for The Overworld and they did a fantastic job of making and maintaining it.

I’d highly recommend their studio… and if this is the type of game you’re interested in, you should definitely check it out!

Dark_Arc, (edited ) to technology in A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S.
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My hot take: hostile reads are in pore taste. It’s unique to the internet, and we need less of that.

Dark_Arc, to pcgaming in What's your thoughts on Sony pushing PSN down on PC gamers' throats?
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I don’t particularly care…

It sucks for people that live in countries that Sony doesn’t sell to … but also Sony just doesn’t sell to those countries.

Ultimately they made people use an account, something that’s long been extremely standard behavior.

I think people are overreacting, particularly those that are in a situation where it’s just “create a free account with your throw away email address.”

Dark_Arc, to pcgaming in Take-Two CEO: The idea that AI will make everyone unemployed is 'the stupidest thing I've ever heard'
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I think we’re probably a lot further than that.

Dark_Arc, (edited ) to music in Eminem Teases New Album ‘The Death of Slim Shady’ with Provocative Single ‘Houdini’
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I think Eminem has always put down those vibes … that’s not particularly new.

There’s a different “tone” to the music in general, it’s a bit more “playful” and a bit less “fuckkkk, you” (Yah Yah, Survival) and/or “sad” (Mockingbird).

It’s different but it’s kinda fun.

Dark_Arc, to protonprivacy in Is it safe to put your Proton account in Pass?
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I wouldn’t … mostly because it discourages you from remembering/memorizing your password, and that’s not something you want to do.

FWIW: I think the local password manager only folks are a bit overly paranoid (and most folks I’ve met of the mindset end up using syncthing or something like that anyways which is basically just Proton Pass with extra steps … so I wouldn’t worry much about that side of it).

Dark_Arc, to protonprivacy in The beta rollout of Private Access Sharing for users on the Visionary plan
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Presumably they can overwrite the file (and the file is synced to their hard drive via one of the clients, Proton will back-sync the edits made on their computer to your drive).

Dark_Arc, to pcmasterrace in Would anyone know what type of bug this is?
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I think I’ve seen that in the past (a long time ago) with some realtek setting where it plays your mic back to you (and since it’s part of the sound card settings it happens everywhere regardless of what you have open).

I’d play around with in the realtek control panel.

Dark_Arc, to nostupidquestions in Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?
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I think it also depends on what communities you interact with.

I got fed up with it in the Lemmy.world news community and unsubscribed. I’ve been much happier following that change.

There are still some leftist and both sides hot takes I run into … but it’s a much more acceptable pacing now.

Dark_Arc, to politics in Joe Biden issues Supreme Court warning
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He can ask congress to add another judge, but congress has to actually approve the appointments.

Dark_Arc, to asklemmy in What Video games graphically hold up on their aesthetic?
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Other than that god awful old-school Valve UI used for most of the menus/things.

Dark_Arc, (edited ) to comicstrips in Seeing a lot of this lately...
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You’re literally using tactics developed by fascists in your argument here.

[citation needed]

Somehow, the president is little more than a “powerless cheerleader” if we’re talking about Dems but “the end of democracy” if talking about Trump/Republicans. Both can’t be true.

They’re over simplifying the problem. Trump is a cheerleader for fascism inside of the United States, a vote for Trump is a vote for every Republican in congress to be emboldened to do Trump like things (and even if they don’t agree with them, fear their own removal).

There’s certainly a different aspect for international issues and relations as well. However, ultimately, congress has all the power in this country. If Democrats had solid super majorities in the house and senate, or there was a super majority that was willing to side with Democrats to protect from Trump, there would be very little reason to worry.

In fact, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion because congress would have held Trump accountable and convicted him during the impeachment hearings preventing him from holding office.

Obama and the Dems chose this over any sane single-payer option to allegedly “appease Republicans”

[Citation needed] see the majorities at the time, they could not get single payer past the majority of the Democrats in congress let alone Republicans. There was not a sufficiently progressive majority.

In another attempt to appease Republicans, they allowed them to steal Obamas SCOTUS appointment while also allowing Trump to steal what should have been Biden’s SCOTUS appointment

They “allowed” that to happen? What could they have done?

They didn’t have control of congress.

I’d go on but I don’t have time to say “they didn’t have control of congress” all day. If you want something done in this country, you need congress (either via super majority) or via a slim majority and an aligned president (and even then in the latter case, results may very due to personal votes/perspectives of representatives).

Dark_Arc, to comicstrips in Seeing a lot of this lately...
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I think it’s interesting folks take this as talking about Biden.

Biden has a platform, Biden and the Democrats have accomplishments … what does Trump and the last decade of Republican congressional dominance have?

“DEMOCRATS ARE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY!!” “HEALTHCARE IS A MESS!! I’VE GOT A BRILLIANT PLAN I DIDN’T PASS OR EVEN PROPOSE IN CONGRESS LAST TIME. WE’RE GOING TO GET IT DONE THIS TIME. IT WILL BE SO MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT THE DEMOCRATS CAME UP WITH. NO I’M NOT SHARING IT NOW, YOU MUST BE SURPRISED.” “I MADE MY RICH FRIENDS MONEY!!”

Dark_Arc, to comicstrips in Seeing a lot of this lately...
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Here’s the problem, people don’t vote down ticket, and they only vote every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

The president is more of a cheerleader than a person of substantial power. That’s not to say the office of the president isn’t individually powerful, but you need strong margins in the house and the senate to actually get stuff done.

We kind of had that for 2 years when Obama and we got the affordable care act… Even then the margins weren’t that great; I don’t think Obama was the problem so much as they couldn’t find the support to do something bigger in Congress.

Even with those thin margins Democrats come across the aisle regularly to actually get governance done (e.g. fund fixing infrastructure). They’re not even close, we’ve got one party that actually governs, and another that prints money for the rich, attacks people based on their bedroom preferences, and doesn’t give a shit about the environment.

Dark_Arc, (edited ) to games in Gamers aged 55+ account for almost a third of gamers now, and that share is on the rise.
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Man, have you ever tried bowling or god forbid golf, movies, or guns?

I’ve got games where I’ve paid the equivalent of less than a dollar per hour of entertainment and that’s after optional micro-transactions.

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