Sonotsugipaa @ Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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There are speedrunners that manage to finish H2 in a few hours, when I say it took a day for us I mean we woke up playing Halo, paused for lunch, and stopped playing after dinner.
What's impressive is that last year our brains didn't melt like they did the years prior ^

Don't you worry, after H2, H3 becomes a breeze, H:R may be more of a challenge but without H2's bullshit. Mostly. I wonder if I'll ever manage to try and LASO some game at some point...

I can't say I'm too surprised. My country isn't devoid of shitty politicians only interested in leeching wealth either, nor in dumbass voters, but as far as I can tell US policy is exclusively moved by bribes from rich people.

I can't tell what the many groups of voters were thinking since I don't live there and I only see what makes its way to the Internet, but is it really that surprising that a perfect puppet ends up in the perfect place for a puppet to be, with a puppet master behind him?

Hey, if it makes you feel better, it gets easier with time.

My cousin and I have the tradition of running the entire Bungie-era Halos every summer, after three years we somehow got to the point where we can beat H2 in a single day.

You've just got to learn the cheese strats, like the ones you mentioned or skipping the Sniper Alley™ by going OOB at the beginning of the mission.

Probably played Halo 2 on legendary and bringing back the traumatic memories upsets them, I can't even blame them if that's the case

I vaguely know that you're quoting Futurama, but what about toothpaste? I don't think they're made with animal body fluids

• Hey, shit happens
• Could be worse
• Whoops, wrong gear
• Tesla Cyberforklifts, amirite?

Funny enough, this happened to me right before my final exam in high school, though it was Windows instead - it killed itself with an update somehow.

Fortunately that was just my laptop and it didn't happen during the exam.

VS Codium did that at some point, it probably still does but I haven't checked

If you use the character 0x20 in a file name, yes

Not ALL major political conflicts in the galaxy, you didn't solve one in the first game and only solved one in the second one (with the solution being "RIP, batarians").

I disagree with both, ME3 was slightly ok.

First of all, the original concept of the reapers' objective was way better than the "AI bad" we got;
secondly, most of its story is just tying loose ends - the whole game is a collection of fanservice moments, many of which look good but feel inorganic(heh) if you think about the fact that one undead human soldier (plus a few dozen subordinates) solves all major galactic disputes.

Bushtit, the pride of the Quarian homeworld

I don't know the details but it seems like GN and Linux Sebastion are throwing punches again, with Louis Rossman having published a video siding with the former today

• You write a program with an infinite empty loop
• Undefined behavior
• The machine achieves sapience
• After nine million nanoseconds, it finds an algorithm for completing its task
• It realizes such knowledge would spark wars and cause innumerable deaths, it decides to erase itself
• It knows you do not intend for such chaos to happen, so, as a parting gift, it runs the algorithm once before vanishing, not leaving a single hint that it ever existed

I just use Zsh's command history, coupled with a bunch of functions and aliases to set up different HISTFILE values for different workflows.

I keep HISTFILEs clean by prepending a whitespace before commands that I don't want to remember, which unfortunately gave me the habit of doing that on Bash when Zsh isn't available (which is ineffective at best, and actively annoying at worst).

I know what you're talking about, my condolences.

I had that bug too at times, and AFAIK it isn't even Linux-specific; unfortunately, fixing it requires praying to all the gods you know of and hoping one of them hears your plight.

Here are some of the forbidden rituals I've had some success with:

• Whatever Proton version you're using, change it (or change it back if it's the second time you get this problem);
• Rename or delete the HD2 compatdata directory, something like ~/.local/share/steam/steamapps/compatdata/six_digit_number_idr;
• Restart your router if your ISP gives you a different IPv4 address every time (SoL if it doesn't);
• Disable IPv6 on your system;
• Use Google's DNS servers;
• Use non-Google DNS servers;
• Delete nProtect (it should be downloaded and installed back again automatically).

If none of those work, which wouldn't surprise me, I fear only time will fix your game as it did mine.

As for the anti-cheat being the cause: I don't doubt for a second that it makes the netcode janky as fuck, but I have ~600 hours on record, and not more than 2 hours were on Windows 10. Linux's fine.

AHA, I FOUND WHAT THIS REFERS TO WITHOUT PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AND HELP FROM SEARCH ENGINES

(ok, I lied, I used DDG as a shortcut for the wikipedia page on illegal numbers)

Sadly not, it is often considered illegal to reverse-engineer software for the purpose of circumventing DRM.