Quazatron @ Quazatron @lemmy.world

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My take on this game: I don't understand the hype. You just have to carry stuff on your backpack between places, stumbling like a drunken idiot.

Sorry, I played many games over the years but can't find anything in this to get me hooked.

You might already know about his podcast "The Video Archives", where he rants about old movies that may or may not have influenced him.

The Fifth Element is fun.

Donnie Darko is just weird. I should not need to look up what the story is supposed to be.

I enjoy Tarantino movies. It all boils down to: are they solid fun entertainment or not, and to me the answer is yes.

Someone else did it better elsewhere? Sure, and he is very forthcoming about his influences. So if you're a fan, you'll likely find his sources and enjoy those too. Win win.

Here I am writing my opinion, only to realise that many of you have already posted most of the valid points I was going to make. So now my comment is pretty much worthless and adds nothing to the discussion.

I cancel most of the time, but today I'll open an exception to prove my point.

Have you somehow become more enlightened by my post? Yeah, should have cancelled it.

Saturday Night Live rendition of "What Is Love" (10 hour YouTube loop).

Here you go.

Yesterday, my laptop would not hibernate or shut down. SystemD complained about waiting for the wifi or something.

One kernel update later, and all is well once more.

Nice easter egg in the very first level.

How nice is it to have one of the creators of a 30 year old game still release new content for it? Romero rules.

After a while you'll realise that it's just healthy competition, not wars.

I use a bunch of distros, just like I have a lot of different tools in my toolbox. Each serves a slightly different function.

Keep in mind that the motto is "World domination," not "Internal quarrelling".

Yet.

Stop buying delicious plants.

Or sacrifice one of your cats to appease the plant god. That should get the message through to the other cats.

The Windows experience was worse, but at least your raindrops were rendered correctly.

It feels like you used a detail that you could not resolve to go back to the cozy arms of what you are familiar with.

And that's OK. I also went back to Windows a few times until I felt at home in Linux.

Try it again sometime in the future and see if it fells more comfortable.

Sure, all the work you do between the moment of the filesystem failure and the last backup is gone. There's nothing that can be done to mitigate that fact, other that more frequent backups and/or a synchronized (mirror) system.

Backups are just a simple way to keep you from having to explain to your partner that you lost all the pictures and videos you took along the years.

Picture this: you open and edit one of your documents and save it.

The filesystem promptly allocates some blocks and updates the inodes. Maybe the inode table changed, maybe not. Repeat for some other files. Now your "inode backup" has a completely different picture of what is going on on your disk. If you try to recover the disk using it, all you will achieve is further corruption of the filesystem.

"Proper backups" imply that you have multiple backups and a backup strategy. That could mean, for instance, that you would do a full backup, then an incremental/differential backup each week and keep one backup for each month. A bad cable would cause you trouble, no doubt, but the impact would be lessened by having multiple backups points spread over months.

Redundancy is not backup. Read that again.

Redundancy is important for system resilience, but backup is crucial for continuity. Every filesystem is subject to bugs and ZFS is not special. Here's an article from a couple of days ago. If you're comfortable with no backups just because you have redundancy, more power to you. I wouldn't be.

The kind of game I like to play usually have keys to move the characters, keys for actions, keys for selecting items or weapons, them the mouse to move the viewpoint, fire or block.

These controls map poorly to a slate of glass.

Even the games I used to play, like Tetris or platformers, work badly if you only have virtual buttons to press.

It may be fun for you, but I just can't get the hang of it.

I'm really curious as to why go to all this trouble instead of using a proper file level backup and restore solution.

I miss QNX. Awesomest 1.44MB ever.

Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME, Vista...

Stopped evangelising when I realised people hate evangelists telling them what they should do. Started leading by example instead. Curious people approach you if they want to learn.

Won't be going back to proprietary OSs.

This is the sensible thing to do. Try a bunch of distros using either USB or as Virtual Machines.

It'll save you a lot of heartache when you eventually kill the bootloader, the display driver or both (and you will, it is part or the learning process).