Not if your bartender is properly trained and not a lazy piece of shit.

Sacrifice

Hugging, definitely. No playful wrestling since high school, and what there was there was definitely more motivated by competition and testosterone than affection.

As for snuggling, I wouldn’t want to snuggle with anyone that I didn’t have at least some sexual attraction to, unless I was in serious emotional distress and just needed it for the reversion to childhood. So I don’t snuggle with guys. I don’t know of many straight women who snuggle with their platonic friends either, beyond like sharing a blanket for a movie.

This is off the top of the dome and given more time I’d probably change this significantly, but here’s 10 of my favorites from a multitude of genres:

• Rain World
• Outer Wilds
• Stephen’s Sausage Roll

(Those are pretty firmly my top 3, all totally mindblowing experiences that surprised and awed me multiple times)

• Spelunky 2
• Getting Over It
• Peaks Of Yore
• Satisfactory
• Dark Souls PTDE
• Hunt: Showdown
• Morrowind

Honorable mentions for Guilty Gear and Tekken as series, and I have a special place in my heart for the 2000 title Sacrifice, which is my eternal top pick for a remaster/remake.

Brother beards have been in for like 10 years.

Good movie but how does it require multiple viewings to understand?

The Holy Mountain. I suggest just watching it.

Seems cool but the rules are opaque and you can’t retry, which is a combo that means I’ll never touch this again.

You’ll need a decent GPU to decode HD video, which led me to just put together what’s basically an outdated gaming PC from old parts and a couple cheap ones I had to order. Works great as a jellyfin server.

Sure, but there’s a big difference between the support existing within the Linux architecture and it not. Almost every issue in the parent comment could be fixed without any input from Linux developers at all.

But fundamentally Linux and open source are ethically orthogonal to for-profit software. The fact that big software companies don’t prioritize Linux is in some ways a feature, and is why we actually have the proliferation of high-quality open source alternatives. I doubt Blender or GIMP would exist if the proprietary leaders in their fields offered Linux versions from the beginning, especially if they were free.

There are people in the thread talking about how all Linux needs is for big software companies to ditch Microsoft and get with Linux, but that would never happen as they’re imagining. Big for-profit tech would always put itself into a walled garden. What needs to happen is that the few big unassailable tech stacks that keep people chained to the proprietary products need real open replacements – namely GIMP needs to get its redesign finished and figure out the last few features it needs for professional parity, and we need a real AutoCAD competitor. I think we already have good DAWs and professional audio through JACK/Pipewire, and there’s probably a couple others that I’m forgetting… But if Photoshop and AutoCAD alone were not viewed as unreplaceable, that would be a massive boost in the number of people who could use Linux for their jobs.

Biometrics authentication seems to me to be entirely useless. It’s less secure and more easily spoofed than passwords, and if you need more security 2FA or a physical key (digital or otherwise) provide it. It would be nice to have the support I guess, but the tech itself just seems like a waste of money.

Windows recovery fails in plenty of circumstances, it’s not a magic bullet. Snapshots are like you can do with btrfs, but that’s not exactly how Windows recovery works.

“I used Windows all my life and am unwilling to learn anything new”

Yeah Windows HDR is incredibly buggy, it breaks in a huge variety of cases, and is completely incompatible with screen sharing.

Think you got it backwards, these are Windows issues?

Ah, I can see that you haven’t tried gaming on Linux in the last 5 years. Dependencies? Hah

You just grew up using Windows and are used to its design language – that doesn’t make it inherently intuitive.

If you are fucking with path variables you’re already a power user. The settings for an OOTB Ubuntu or other user-friendly distro are pretty damn intuitive, and if you’re dealing with anything more complex, I personally would far rather use bash or other Linux shells than Powershell.

For a long time I just thought of it as “callous”, like cold and indifferent.

The word “nauseous” is parallel to “noxious” and means “causing nausea”. If you’re experiencing nausea, you’re nauseated – the thing that made you nauseated is nauseous.

No, because the only defense for its existence is to protect the livelihoods of creators, and if we’re talking “should”, no one should have to justify their existence through labor.