You mean the conspiracy theory that somehow the World Bank isn’t there to do it’s real job, provide loans to poor countries to aid their development, but instead part of some grand scheme to rob poor countries of their resources?

Because what you claim to be well documented isn’t actually objective fact. It’s more construing mistakes these institutions definitely did make to be something they very much aren’t.

I’ve been using both for a good while by now, Linux is good but damn I know that’s a sacrilege but I still like Windows.

Granted, I heavily customized my Windows install, made all the adjustments I wanted and threw out most of the nagging garbage and my locked down work computer is definitely worse.

Windows just… works most of the time, and it’s fluent and does what I want.

At the end of the day, most of the direct user interaction with an OS “directly” is task bar, start menu and file manager. And for all of these things, there’s a lot that annoys me on Linux. In Windows, I’m very happy.

Just to give one example. I like the individual entries in the taskbar to fill the entire width dynamically. If there’s one entry, it fills the entire taskbar, you get what I mean. On Windows, that’s a registry tweak. On KDE, that’s basically impossible. Like, I’m sure somewhere in the source code for the panel there’s a way to rewrite that, but frankly, that’s close enough to “basically impossible” for me.

We’ve seen this spiel a few times, companies want to move to the cloud and then don’t because it’s ridiculous and plenty of things are just fine on local machines.

I don’t lend this any more credence than all the “we’ll all be gaming in the cloud in 10 years” crap when stuff like GeForce Now was popping up.

Why wait until it becomes a problem? The_Donald literally started as a joke brought over from 4chan. It grew and over time it basically went from “too small to do something about it” to “too big to do something about it” (to Reddit admins at least). Why even give these people a platform? We don’t have any reason to give them space to grow.

If you step in shit everywhere you go, look under your own shoe.

If you’re getting downvoted everywhere you go, maybe your opinions are just shit.

I have a pair of Porta Pros that I take everywhere nowadays, it’s actually kinda nice to hear your surroundings and I really don’t listen at high enough volumes that others can even notice. They are great!

I don’t think that always holds water, some games are just made to be played with others. Nobody is going to accuse Counter-Strike of being bad just because playing against bots isn’t the most thrilling experience. But for games like Borderlands definitely. Point being, the logic goes it’s bad and only saved by playing with friends doesn’t stop it from being a bad game, not that a game is bad just because it’s more fun with friends.

You don’t die in one hit to most things unless you run with very low health and armor. That’s a solvable problem.

And while sometimes bonfires can be a bit far apart, especially in the earlier games, people also seem to forget that you can literally just run past enemies. That said, I think it’s part of the journey and the struggle. Dark Souls is basically a rythm game in a way and that takes experience. Basically, you don’t need to kill everything but it’s good exercise.

Also there has always been an “easy mode”, cheesy build and multiplayer. If you think the game is too hard, play different.

My best guess would be that the engine just has vast amounts of technical debt. Skyrim (pre-LE at least) had a savegame corruption bug that has been around since Morrowind. And while I’m sure they have rewritten huge parts of the engine over the decades it’s not rare to see bugs persist over generations, and modders complaining loudly about it. The engine has never been great about asset streaming either so no surprise here.

Dang, my thing was basically collecting cars and modifying them, only real reason to still play this. So I very much cars about all cars, even the “crappy” ones.

They could have just made another store to sell all the old stuff. Would still “streamline” things and take nothing away.

This is just blatant “fuck your concerns it will blow over anyway”.

It’s basically the “secret” behind Windows compatibility and part of the reason ReactOS takes so long to develop.

I just wrote a post on duck game over here:

https://feddit.de/comment/222116

Play duck game!

Everyone should know Duck Game. Duck Game is great.

It’s kind of a 2d sidescroller where you fight each other as ducks with different weapons from pistols to grenades, sledgehammers and laser guns. You can wear hats, there’s tons of content and even more made by the community and it’s very easy to pick up. Supports up to four people, works great on a TV with controllers and is a ton of fun.

Also, there’s a quack button and you’re obligated to quack as much as possible.

And it’s usually really cheap on steam.

Yeah basically. It’s a loot shooter, it’s very fun in co-op but not good enough to carry itself in singleplayer.