eldebryn

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[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

It always felt obvious to me that it was a metaphor, I didn't think I've met someone who legit believed boomer shooters were boomer games.

Most boomers, I think, were too old by the time video games were exciting and commonplace to start drawing numerous people so it's fairly rare for a baby boomer to be a gamer.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe the explosions played a role in the term being used like that but I'm fairly confident age is the primary dimension here.

Heck I've seen people use "boomer X" to refer to older-meta versions of decks in magic the gathering. Decks which had zombies not explosives.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

People in comments are talking the "boomer cRPG" alias way too literally when it's just a metaphor for "old school" much like we had for years with unreal and older Dooms being dubbed "boomer shooters".

Yes boomer is used metaphorically to just mean "old" instead of "made in the 50s-60s or made by someone of that generation".

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You're talking about a specific AC. Your OP was a general statement about all ACs. And it's not true because many simply do not offer this option to run in userspace mode only, as seen by battlefield and COD and other games like League of Legends.

Could they? Maybe? We don't know it's a bunch of proprietary black box code anyways.

But presenting it like it's a choice by Dev studios to just tick a box during AC setup is not a valid thing to say about all cases.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

That's not the case with kernel-level AC, those don't run on Linux at all. They shouldn't run on anything really but that's a different story.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

A bunch of desktop apps use electron anyways as a runtime. WASM could allow us to have better/more reliable software that doesn't rely on JS, which isn't ideal for many use cases.

Is it efficient? Definitely not, but for system apps we have other choices which are more performant like C and Rust. These days 90% of the software people use are either web apps in a browser or web apps with an electron gui running outside their browser but inside the Electron browser: P.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Those studies do not refer to item volume, they refer to monetary value.

If a business can earn more by selling 5 cars worth half a million each per year, instead of trying to sell 20 or even 30 Cars under 40k to average people their entire business model will shift to cater to billionaires and multi millionaires.

The bulk of average people are becoming irrelevant to the current capitalist market, that's the point.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Don't fucking tone-police me. I'm not a politician idgaf about being palpable or "appealing to all sides".

Being rude doesn't make someone wrong and appealing to everyone doesn't make one right either.

I want socialism, education and welfare and decent living standarda for all. I want fascists and the multimillionaire class to stop existing. That's it, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.

People need to be willing to accept that their votes have been supporting fascists and going against their best interests and they need to be willing to consider a different perspective for that. It's not my responsibility to cater to those that spent their lives shitting on the very possibility of critical thinking.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Very possible yes, it's been a awhile since I saw it.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 30 points 4 weeks ago (11 children)

Depressing bit of the day: I don't have the source with me right now but there was a claim on youtube that the top 1% make up for like half of the consumer market in the USA.

Half of everything sold in dollars is done by the ultra rich. Everyone else is basically irrelevant and driven to extinction under capitalism, if that is accurate.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'd argue it does. You can't improve things if you don't first identify what the root cause of the problem is.

 

Great news for linux gamers. Hopefully we will soon be able to have FSR3->4 even without optiscaler.

 

I'm talking about takeaways that do cheaper burgers (I guess less than 7 or 8 quid these days)

Which however are still enjoyable despite not having the fancy options that more expensive burgers have. Think good chippy shop Burger.

Personally I've enjoyed the ones from Kurdish best kebab house but I'd love to hear more suggestions.

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