I've found this to be absolutely 100% accurate, like when arguing politics with my mother I'll reach a point where I bring something up she can't defend and then she ALWAYS resorts to "well everyone does it, all sides are bad."
Before I forget, Heather Cox Richardson put something incredibly well, that basically the reason the right accuses us of things they're doing (fraud, breaking the law) is so that when we do accuse them of something, they can just say "well everyone does it" which makes it okay.
I don't think it's going to happen but pontificating about governments banning VPNs has me worried about a dystopia where I have to panhandle for legs and ass pics
It's like being forced to engage in a mosh pit to get a cup of coffee.
Way too many things that SHOULD be a forum are a Discord server now and it's exhausting.
In 9/10 Steam game forums there's a pinned post about their Discord which seeds the death of it because now the devs can fuck off, ignore the forum, and be like "we're listening to you, just not there lol."
If enough Nitro users unsubscribe, Discord might revert their decision.
But to be honest, even if they do, I say keep unsubbing and use the heat to bargain for even more un-shittification of Discord.
Discord used to be a lean, fast, no bullshit Skype murdering machine. Now it's everything slop.
I'm old enough to remember that when McCain supporters showed up at a rally holding stuffed Obama monkeys, McCain denounced them and said he didn't want their votes.
Nowadays we just have the sitting president doing the racist shit himself.
It's infuriating that dimwits like this refuse to engage, so debating them is pointless. They just say shit like this and leave.
That's fine, when your term is up you'll be replaced.
Guys. Half a million dollars in 2 hours.
Please tell us we're getting more than 4 new OG style episodes.
WE WANT YOU BACK FOREVER.
Yes, you're so right Becky. No due process for people who break the law.
You do know what due process means, and what it follows after, right? Someone accused of breaking the law.
This is perhaps the stupidest statement of 2026 so far.
Someone was pointing out that Obama deported more people, but did it without killing civilians or deploying plate carrying storm troopers to red states to wreak havoc.
Then I see this drooling response:
Oh yeah, you're right, who cares if they got extra funding or not? It's not like they recruited a ton more people to their little murder brigade by waving $50,000 sign-up bonuses in front of them. It's not like gas grenades cost money.
You halfwit cunt. Stay in the woods.
I've only recently discovered a new category of music called "old dog shit games nobody ever played but had incredible soundtracks for some reason"
The amount of talent wasted back then was legendary, and this is only one example
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHtm...
The only lego croc I'm permitting
Friendly reminder that the deadline for the DOJ to release all of the Epstein Files was over a month ago
So I'm just curious where the fuck they are
Ayo what up I heard there was an ICE-enabling hoe straight up lying about spending tax dollars properly on my Bluesky of all places
Yes
"GO TO BED, MRS. MERKIN!"
Pure Boy™
Essays like this one by Potholer are very, VERY important to the current political climate and explain a great deal about the kinds of minds we're letting tear everything down right now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t54I...
This is what happens when smart but conflict-avoidant people roll over, play dead, and buy into this nonsense that everyone should get equal time to give their grossly ignorant opinions about things they have a fundamental inability to comprehend.
Fact checking is bad, say very impassioned dumb people who can't say the word expert without making air quotes. All-American fact checking is letting the people vote on what's real after every Cletus and Jimbob has poisoned/confused the discourse with every wild conspiracy theory and blatant lie.
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Why use this approach, aside from obviously style choice? VRAM footprint hilariously low. One high-quality-compression 256x256 texture takes up only ~90kb. Atlas a bunch together, commit mass draw call extinction, everyone claps.
(Sphere casting a shadow onto the wall. The shadow's pixels are actually aligned to the pixels of the wall's surface texture. Looks neat in motion, too.)
Surface shader is custom, stylized to receive bilinear low-resolution textures and display them to appear as if they are point filtered but anti-aliased between the edges of each pixel. Shadows laying on its surface are texel-aligned. Normal maps supported too. So, in between realism and pixel art.
Well if that's true then I'm mistaken, I was assuming using an emulator for Windows would be akin to emulating a console game where it runs tens of magnitudes slower despite having massively more capable horsepower available.
And to be clear, I'd love to move off Windows. But there's a big difference between what I hear Linux evangelists claiming and what I see in actual broad Linux communities I browse where I see people to this day discussing compatibility issues, having to run Windows emulators, etc.
? I legitimately can't think of a single time I bought a new game that didn't work on Windows and I have almost 500 games in my Steam account which is 20 years old now. I'd be surprised if you could name one.
If Windows was a compatibility crapshoot akin to Linux, Linux wouldn't be so niche.
