[–] -1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The division on the left over Palestine has got to be the dumbest fucking shit I've ever seen. Talk about cutting your nose off to spite your face.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Speed running is like a time trial race combined with an open ended puzzle, but everyone is on the same team. People map the fastest route they can come up with and then try and execute that route as fast as possible. It's 90% for the challenge and 10% for the personal glory (obviously this varies). Many people who are uninterested in executing routes will spend time theorycrafting new routes, learning everything they can about the game in order to find new techniques that they share with others. This creates a community in which everyone is working together to beat the game as fast as possible, encouraging and competing with each other.

    Speed running only seems pointless if you've never challenged yourself purely for the fun of it, or taken up a hobby in order to meet people.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I know this is a joke but idc. The reason for basically every quirk of pronunciation/spelling in English is borrowed words, of which English has very many. Tamales is an obvious/good example.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There must be a term for middle-ground people like me. I've used computers my whole life, as a kid I portfowarded to host WC3 servers, as a teenager I self-hosted minecraft servers both on my pc and rented linux servers. I'm a software developer and I've dabbled in dozens of technologies and have a decent understanding of so many computer/IT related things that most people don't even know exists.

    I'm trying to say I think I'm a tech wizard but putting me in the "less tech savvy" bucket with my mom feels weird. Self hosting was a nightmare to get setup. There's just too much shit to learn and when all you want is a Sonarr/radarr/jellyfin setup you're just figure out the important details and get the damn thing working before you forget it all.

    I like having all the customization available to me but I only want to learn details that are relevant to what I'm trying to do. It's like game developers using Unity instead of writing their own physics engine. Yeah sure I could study real hard and painstakingly implement my own engine but it's going to take fucking forever and there will be ever-present hidden issues plaguing me as I make the part of the game I actually care about.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Futurama has always had pop culture references, the original seasons were not about pop culture. Most references were decades old making them essentially history references, not pop culture references.

    It wasn't till the comedy central seasons that we had self-referential shit like Fry re-enacting the shut up and take my money meme.

    The above statement was incorrect. See below.

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