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‘’’’Gamers’’’’ not knowing how the industry works
  • Sadly enough, I've had the privilege not to get bullied much in school. I find your remark rather distasteful either way.

    Your point? Any attack on gaming journalism comes from a place of rejecting inclusion and queerness in videogames and the perception that there's a conspiracy going on to push the "woke agenda"?

    Why is this being tied to an attack that can be summarized as "A lot of journalists are not being genuine in their reviews"?

    Am I missing some context? Are the people in the screenshot known figures?

  • ‘’’’Gamers’’’’ not knowing how the industry works
  • Sure, have fun throwing insults around. I'm not a gamer I just have the most simple grasp of reality and the awareness a bunch of virtually free to duplicate assets are going for 60$ a pop and people gobble them up as if money growed on trees.

    Capital G, out.

  • If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine?
  • I can't lose or win this is not a fight.

    Here you go, a different instance. It's just wikipedia BTW: https://wiki.froth.zone/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies?lang=en

    Also here: https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/astrology/newton_main.htm It's clarified that the idea that Newton was into astrology has been discredited, but you can find reference to the matter at hand, his interest in theology, and the one of many of his/our predecessors.

    "From times immemorial, astrology has been a determining factor in the decisions and actions of men of all ranks and stations. At the begin of the 17th century, great scientists as Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler and Pierre Gassendi – now best remembered for their roles in the development of modern physics and astronomy – all held astrology in high esteem."

    And later:

    "inspecting the inventory of the books from his library [...] Among the 1752 books with identifiable titles on this list, no less than 477 (27.2%) were on the subject of theology, 169 (9.6%) on alchemy, 126 (7.2%) on mathematics, 52 (3.0%) on physics and only 33 (1.9%) on astronomy."

    I hope you learnt something new. Have a nice day.

  • ‘’’’Gamers’’’’ not knowing how the industry works
  • I don't really follow any of that, don't know of any crowd.

    Gaming is a huge deal and I'm 300% sure there's a huge push for marketing AKA journalism to sell. I don't even need to read a single line from a single article to know that must be true.

    Make of this what you will :)

  • ‘’’’Gamers’’’’ not knowing how the industry works
  • https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperbole

    She (?) has a point, the point is "reviews are written by people that clearly did not play the game to a meaningful extent", not "we need vods".

    The person answering is not engaging with the issue, maybe he's stupid, maybe he's unwilling to engage with the matter at hand.

  • If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine?
  • I'm ateist just to be clear, but it's undeniable that the path that lead to science stems from academia and univirsities rules and funded by clergy.

    Leibniz was a fervent (or rather, average for the time) believer and bended backward to include God in each and any of his hypothesis about the world (so much so that in front of the logical necessities of motion he posited that God planned it all in advance, incuding some funny stuff about each of us being already alive in the ballsacks of our ancestors, to go around the fact that I wouldn't be "godlike" to just spawn new souls every couple of seconds). He invented calculus and mechanical calculators and the likes.

    Newton was basically an astrologer.

    Bruno hypotized the existence of multiple worlds in space and, to him, that was cool because it meant the domain of God was even wider than previously thought. The Church of the Earth did not like that idea.

    On the other hand, Saint Thomas and Saint Agustine both brought back the (relatively) modern approaches of Aristotles and Plato respectively, with a focus on reason as a driving force.

    I could agree to disagree but I assume we'd both hate that.

    Edit: I guess you stressed the point of "clergy" rather than "fervent believer". I guess? I don't find it that relevant since the members of the clergy, monks mostly, were doing their own thing and there was no centralyzed clergy research plan. You think something too weird and too popular, and the pope comes for you.

  • If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine?
  • I'll clearify my concept. If you could possibly take a midle age theologist and teleport him to the current age, they'd be total nerds and not priests.

    Clergy back then was studying, and studying and studying and exploring reality in a framework that gave for granted that God exixts. You can call it whatever you want but I think it's a bit silly to reduct it to "those dumb fucks belong to the mines", while in reality it through their efforts that, unwillingly (?), we pursued knowledge to the point of refining modern science methodology.

  • How do you transition from an armour to another?

    I'm playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I used to play it with minimal luck, or skill, and I got back into it. First run in years and I'm deeper than ever before.

    I'm running a Berserker with a +1 Flail and a +7 Scale Armour (+1 coming from the seal). I'm nearing the dwarf king (first time ever) and I got a +1 plate armour and 4 upgrade scrolls.

    What makes more sense, hold onto the scale and pump that further or swap, dumping my 4 upgrades on it bringing it to a comparable power to my scale, banking on better future scaling?

    I also got a +1 glaive. Slow as fuck but hits like a truck. The flail hits similarly (when it does) but it's faster...

    Edit: I got a +9 sad ghost that could really use a better armour as well, he's currently on a +1 mail and it's, well, his glory days are behind him.

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    [Request] Automatic backups when PC comes online

    I have a proxmox+Debian+docker server and I'm looking to setup my backups so that they get backed up (DUH) on my Linux PC whenever it comes online on the local network.

    I'm not sure if what's best is backing up locally and having something else handling the copying, how to have those backup run only if they haven't run in a while regardless of the availability of the PC, if it's best to have the PC run the logic or to keep the control over it on the server.

    Mostly I don't want to waste space on my server because it's limited...

    I don't know the what and I don't know the how, currently, any input is appreciated.

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    [Beginner] Proxmox & storage configuration

    Hi,

    I've been playing with a Dell mini PC (OptiPlex 7070) that I set up with Proxmox and a single Debian virtual machine that hosts a bunch of containers (mostly an *arr stack).

    All the data resides on the single SSD that came with the machine, but I'm now satisfied with the whole ordeal and would like to migrate my storage from my PC to this solution.

    What's the best approach software side? I have a bunch of HD in of varying size and age (therefore expected reliability) and I'd initially dedicate such storage to data I can 100% afford to lose (basically media).

    I read I should avoid USB (even though my mini PC exposes a USB-C) for reliability, but on the other hand I'm not sure what other options I have that doesn't force me to buy a NAS or properly sized HD to install inside the machine...

    Also, what's a good filesystem for my usecase?

    Thank for any tips.

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    POP_OS: Stam VAC Anti-cheat prevents me from playing DOTA2

    I migrated almost everything on Linux and, low and behold, the only game giving me issues is DOTA2.

    I'm using Steam flatpack, it runs, I can play against bots, I can spectate games. The moment i try to play in matchmaking a VAC messadge pops up preventing me from starting a game.

    I tried reinstalling, veryfying the files, installing on a differend hard drive, scanning the disks for errors.

    Nothing worked. Any idea?

    Edit: thanks guys, it was actually Proton!

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    Nascondere operazioni carta di credito

    Ciao,

    nella quotidiana crociata dedicata a non far sapere a altri quello che nemmeno mio padre sa di me, noto come "ultimo" (per me che ho mollato google e non uso i social) scoglio gli acquisti con la carta di credito. Voi direte, usa i contanti, ma purtroppo odio ancora di più l'evasione fiscale, oltre al fatto che il pagamento digitale mi permette di rivedere le operazioni che faccio a posteriori.

    Avete idee / flussi / app / strumenti perché i dati di tutto quello che compro non vengano utilizzati senza il mio consenso?

    Negli usa hanno Privacy e carte virtuali usa e getta, qui in europa e, più specificatamente, in Italia?

    Satispay per darli a loro e frammentare i dati? Cambiare banca ogni 6 mesi impugnando il GDPR e imponendo l'eliminzione dei tuoi dati? Tal circuito alternativo? Contanti per certe tipologie di acquisti più sensibili (medicine?)?

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