No need to apologise. You’re allowed to be wrong.

– In case it’s not clear, that’s a joke. I feel like “smart ass” needs a tag like sarcasm has (/s).

GEN X. The best gen.

We were nihilists long before the internet proved us right.

Plus we gave you grunge. You’re welcome.

rear fingerprint reader was peak and I don’t know why it went away.

with a rear reader I could grab my phone and it would be unlocked with an index finger before I’ve even lifted it to my face. it was all one smooth motion.

Now, I have to pull it out of my pocket, orient it correctly so my thumb can hit the correct part of the screen, half the time shake the phone or swipe up to wake up the screen to make the reader work consistently, then hold down my thumb for at least a second longer than I would have to with my rear reader.

dumbest so called “advancement” in years.

I had switched to HeliBoard in order to de-Google as much as possible. I’m not militant about it, but if there’s an alternative I’ll take it.

Decided to try out FUTO because I felt like I was missing swipe typing. And it’s good. But for me it’s just too much. It turns out I didn’t really miss swipe typing, and (possibly just a me issue) that extra feature was making FUTO much less responsive than Heliboard. So back I went.

I guess for me, simple and fast is more important than replicating my old Gboard experience. But each person is different.

This thread took a strange direction…

We need a better educated populated

Conservative politics don’t poll well with educated people. An educated population is the very last thing Shmoe needs

I think Married With Children has managed to come through unscathed because of Ed O’Neil and who he is as a person. He’s so much the opposite of Al Bundy and has always been very open about that. The show as a result falls into that same category as South Park or All in the Family; We understand that the jokes are meant to be satire via absurdity; It’s so over the top and the actor is so different in real life that we just get it.

Compare that to something like Home Improvement, where we know that the humour isn’t meant to be absurdist, and we know that Tim Allen really is a douche.

I never saw those moments as Kif being homophobic. I read it as a subordinate being repulsed by the idea of seeing his commanding officer naked.

That allows the people to get their hate out, and resets the playing field for the next election cycle when people realize the Conservatives haven’t done shit all to make life more affordable.

Traditionally this hasn’t been how Canadian politics has played out. We tend to have long running federal governments over single term governments except in cases of extremely disastrous political results (ie. forcing an early election by a vote of non-confidence, etc…)

Canadian voters seem to be very very patient. It won’t matter how shitty PP and the Cons are as a government, voters will keep on electing them in for a decade or more before finally having enough. Same as we did with the Liberals, and same as we did with Harper before that.

I hadn’t noticed. but I have no real comparison since I was on Linux long before starting either title, so I’ve never played either on Windows.

They seem to run well enough, so even if its faster on windows and that’s the tradeoff for having no Windows in my house, I’m cool with it.

I’d say yes; with the mods available 2 is still WELL worth it. i n fact I’m doing yet another play through at this moment.

1 is also excellent, especially with the Long War overhaul installed.

Most of mine have already been mentioned; KSP, Rimworld, Stellaris.

So I’ll add one of my all time favourite games and say XCom and XCOM 2. I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into xcom 2 with various mods.

Close second is Crusader Kings 2, and close third after that is Empire Total War.

And of course CIV. It’s not a proper list without CIV.

Nothing is unknowable. It’s just unknowable for now.

I always thought the “We got 'em” line was from Obama referring to Osama Bin Laden. I totally forgot it was actually about Hussein’s capture.

I had a whole buzz-kill response written out about how the joke made no sense because it was conflating two different people. But I figured I should check my facts before hitting that good old post button, and whaddyaknow…

The more you learn, boys and girls.

The bigger question is. Why is this even being operated as an actual game?

Because the longer they call it an “alpha” the longer they can try to rake in more kickstarter money and the longer they can use “it’s an alpha” to excuse game breaking bugs.

The moment they hit 1.0, they become officially answerable to their customers for having a playable game.

Why do that when you/re perpetually raking in the money anyway.

Seriously…whether it ever actually hits 1.0 or not, making the microtransactions/real money purchases live in a product that they “insist” isn’t a game yet, is just shady as fuck.

Technomancer next please.

Spider is, despite the janky play, really really good at making original narratives.

Say what you want about the movement and combat smoothness, but I’ve never seen a Mars set game quite like Technomancer. And I’ve never seen a high fantasy RPG that leans quite as bluntly into saying something important about the role of colinizers in our own 18th century.

Big ideas and good games with juuuuust barely too little budget to be amazing.

Short answer. Yes.

Long answer: I’m 48. And while some of what we are feeling is certainly a sense of “back in my day” nostalgia, its certainly not the only cause.

We are from a strange generation who were old enough to remember a world before all of this, and young enough to adapt to all of it with relative ease. ( “this” being a transition to an online existence)

Even one generation before us just simply struggles with it. And just one generation after us, while still “born” before this all became a thing, were to young to truly experience it.

So we have a very unique and valuable perspective to offer; one that says "yes, things seemed better back then, and that is likely most certainly true for many things. But some things were likely just as fucked up back then and we simply didn’t have the internet screaming it at us 24-7. And perhaps right and left were not quite as polarized as they are today because of it.

Just my Gen-x take on it.

The rich are flexing every muscle they have to try to make the general population dislike this change.

And in some parts of the country (like where I live unfortunately) it’s working. Simply because the cult of “hating Trudeau” is just as strong and stupid as the cult of trump to our south. Here in the land of “fuck trudeau” stickers and truck nuts, They’ll quite literally hate something that is clearly good for them just because Pierre Poppinfresh tells them that JT is for it.

“Jobs killer”

Oh no…you mean that money that was NEVER going to trickle down anyway will now NOT trickle down even harder? Whatever are we going to do!

That’s why industry people keep yelling about it, even though some very large scale attempts at it were already failures.

They’ll keep pushing the scam for the same reason we all have to use paper straws; misdirection.