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themoken @ themoken @startrek.website
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  • The best streaming service :)

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  • Certain ones, like music trackers, can still be interviewed into. Once you get into an initial tracker and establish yourself, it becomes easier to find / get into new ones via forum invites. It's a long road but barring a time machine it's the easiest way.

  • The best streaming service :)

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  • I dunno, maybe I just had crappy indexers but usenet was always more miss than hit for me. Maybe it's superior to public torrents but private trackers are the gold standard.

  • New Civilization 7 update adds a confusing Natural Wonder plus tweaks to the UI, AI and Age mechanics

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  • The way the first paragraph is written made me think this is a garbage AI article, but I guess it was a joke. I hate this future.

  • This speaks for itself

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  • The mistreatment of the yuppies is my favorite part of that movie. When she opens the door and gets attacked by the squirrel and then the dog, or when the icicle destroys their stereo I crack up every time.

  • Was Avowed a Success? - Laura Fryer

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  • I'm with you, I'm having a blast, but I think the reactions are because of the idea that it would be a Skyrim type game and... It's not really even trying to be that. Like you said, it's an ARPG, the roleplaying is basically just dialogue and most of the game is really well done exploration and combat.

  • GARBAGEOLOGY

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  • Sure, whatever. I just think the way shit is credited actually matters, e.g. "Run the Jewels" isn't a Killer Mike album even though he's on every track, just like "Kid A" isn't a Thom Yorke album. Shobaleader One's work is separate from Squarepusher even though it's literally the same person.

    Artists make subtle choices when crediting their work, but yeah it's ultimately subjective so do you.

  • GARBAGEOLOGY

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  • GARBAGEOLOGY

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  • I know you think it's pedantic, it's just that the artist determines what is his personal work and what isn't. If you look up Aesop Rock's discography, Malibu Ken isn't on it, but Garbology is.

    It's different because MK is a duo, where Garbology is an Aesop album that basically feats. Blockhead on every track.

  • GARBAGEOLOGY

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  • Malibu Ken isn't an Aesop album it's a Malibu Ken album. TOBACCO should not be underestimated and is great on his own too.

  • Whats the most inappropriate boner you've ever had?

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  • In my experience that's a very appropriate boner.

  • Do you know how to swim?

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  • I was sort of with you on the ocean stuff, swimming there isn't really a substitute for a lifejacket, but swimming being for the privileged is a weird take.

    If you don't have access to a body of water for free, then public pools are usually cheaper than a movie ticket. You don't need any equipment, all you need is one person that kinda half way knows how to swim and is willing to point you in the right direction.

  • What was the largest Lego set you've ever built and would you do it again?

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  • My kid bought me a Back to the Future DeLorean for my birthday, about 2000 pieces.

    Initially I thought it was kind of a mis-gift, something they would enjoy more than me since I hadn't built a set since they were small and needed my help, but I made it a point to crack it open instead of letting it sit and it turned out to be quite enjoyable.

  • Alamo Drafthouse Workers Respond to Mass Layoffs

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  • I organize with Drafthouse in Austin and they did the same here a week or two ago. Just blatant union busting in the guise of layoffs.

  • We Democrats Will Fight Back Just as Soon as We Can Get Our Shit Together

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  • They can't run a candidate that can win because that would require a platform that steps on too many donors' toes.

  • Who needs newfangled stuff like forums? 🤢

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  • I used mutt back in the day, opening vim for message editing.

  • Who needs newfangled stuff like forums? 🤢

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  • I wouldn't do a mailing list these days, but as someone who spent the early part of my career interacting with devs that preferred this method, it's actually pretty ergonomic by a 2005 standard. A message thread aware, text based email client that can turn messages into patches in a keystroke makes it actually pretty comparable to modern code review...

    I think it's hard for younger devs to get this because they're used to email being stuck in a crappy, unthreaded browser interface or Outlook etc. (which are terrible for mailing lists) and most collaboration taking place in code review and chat platforms like Teams/Slack but for decades before these were feasible, email was the way...

  • After many years on GNOME, I finally switched to Plasma.

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  • GNOME 3 introduced the current shell paradigm where you don't really have a start menu but a variety of searches, integrated indicators, per-app desktops with a dock etc.

    Before, it was far more conventional experience like Plasma/Windows/Cinnamon are now. GNOME 2 was forked to be the MATE desktop if you want to check it out.

  • Who says S31 gets to have all the fun?

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  • These are such great episodes. The Enterprise one specifically is amazing. We so often see our valiant crew save Earth, but they almost never sacrifice their morals to do so.

    For Archer, with practically all of humanity in the balance, how could he not fuck those guys over?

  • Some 20 hours in, I can say that Civilization 7's age transitions are the series' most radical and disruptive mechanic yet

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  • Yeah, I was watching Potato McWhiskey and this is his take. They have metrics that show most people don't actually finish a game and that indicates a pretty big flaw in game design.

    One interesting thing the devs brought up was the ability to pivot from one civ to another based on new information. Like if you discover your continent is mostly plains and horses, then maybe your next iteration looks more like the Mongols, with bonuses to cavalry. If your early conquest didn't go off, maybe you pivot to a more science or culture oriented civ.

    I don't hate these ideas, it just depends on how it actually feels in game.