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Count Regal Inkwell
Count Regal Inkwell @ VinesNFluff @pawb.social
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  • Fable 3

    It got a lot of flak back then, mostly because people were sick to shit of Peter Molyneux promising THE WORLD and delivering, like, JUST A GAME.

    But here's the thing. I didn't follow gaming news. I didn't know what a Peter molyneux was. I just know I got a fun little action RPG where I get to be royalty, and that scratched a very specific itch for me.

  • Thanks I love/hate it

  • Everyone who was supposed to prevent this and had the power to do so either tried and failed or didn't bother.

    Right now the objective is "Survive", the bad guys have already won.

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    Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

    You take some shit
    Put it up on the wall
    Check it out for a while
    You take that shit up off of the wall
    Put it down on the floor in a glass bowl
    You take some fuck
    Put it up on the wall where the shit used to be
    You take that fuck up off of the wall
    Put it down on the floor
    With the shit in a glass bowl
    What? Yo
    Here's another little piece of advice-vice

    You take some fuck then some shit
    Then some fuck then some shit
    You've got a fuck-shit stack
    A fuck-shit stack
    Take some fuck then some shit
    Then some fuck then some shit
    You've got a fuck-shit stack
    A fuck-shit stack

  • My (family's) Homeserver is my dad's old gaming rig from ~2014

    I just put an 8 TB Hard Drive in it and set it up as a combination Emby Server and ghetto "NAS".

  • Now, now. Cinnamon is a perfectly competent DE. Gets out of the way. Does what it's supposed to.

    Let us not treat it like it is Gnome.

  • Let's be honest here

    I like Linux as much as the next guy

    ...... But a violent kick to the 'nards is still more pleasant than Windows 11, so this is a "Luigi Wins By Doing Absolutely Nothing" scenario.

  • Not really. I think the whole internet should be accessible to everyone.

    Do I think Americans are often obnoxious online? Yes.

    Do I know for a fact their big tech corporations are equally as evil as the Chinese ones, no matter how much their propaganda tries to convince me China is worse? Definitely.

    Is Xwitter a blight on society that only got worse since an out-and-out fascist bought it? Of course it is.

    But closing ourselves off from the world is not the solution.

    What I would support would be stricter regulations on data collection and algorithmic manipulation, because those things are bad no matter who is doing it.

    I would support heavier tariffs on foreign big tech, because if they're going to use our people as a resource, they should at least pay up so we can put that money towards taking care of our own.

    And I would support a government program to incentivise home-grown technological solutions, because digital sovereingty is a concern, and the only solution is having our own shit.

  • Depends on how you feel about communists

    As far as far left instances go, ml is actually pretty unspicy, despite the bee in their bonnet people got.

    So like, if you can't stand hanging out with em pinko commies, avoid it. If you're fine with that, don't.

  • As I understand it (thanks technology connections), the sockets linked to light switches are made that way in case you want to have like a floor or desk lamp and turn it on when you enter the room

  • Just some minor nonsense. But all of it yields a fun memory.

    I won a hat from a Wario Ware (Wii) tournament at my country's biggest nerd-convention circa 2009. Got like a 15 minigame lead on the second place too.

    I won a(n imported, we're brazilian, these were never published here) copy of a My Little Pony Comic Omnibus from a giveaway at an MLP forum I participated in some 10 years ago. I never read the physical comic, it just sits untouched at my shelf. I just read the pirated .cbr

    A few months later my SO won a Hot Topic Vinyl Figure of Princess Luna (also imported) from another giveaway at the same forum, and gifted it to me.

  • Void

    Get it? Because a vaccuum is a vo--

  • And not to make this even longer, but the people with the means to move to another state much less another country are the wealthy. The poor, who are the ones who might benefit most from moving, are unable to, trapped in the cycle here.

    I will say you are mostly right, but also note that all the refugees that have been going everywhere (including into Brazil! We get lots of Haitian and Colombian refugees mostly) since before I was born were exceptionally poor people.

  • I have a coprolith.

    It's part of my bathroom's decoration.

  • If all you want is a place to get memes, hello, you're in the least bad place on the internet, the indie web/fediverse.

    But to keep in touch with family members and friends, who are likely not techy people?

    .... I guess you could get them on Signal?

    I mostly talk to my folks through Telegram, but that's as far as I could take them (still consider it a win over using WhatsApp, because Telegram might be full of fascists but at least has an open API and a competent Linux client)

  • A few options:

    1. Get out. If you're one of the people fascists want dead, then surviving is in and of itself an act of resistance. Leave their domain. Go somewhere else. And live -- Just live. Build a life they can't touch.
    2. Organise and survive under their noses. It will not be easy, even if fascism has a short shelf life... It still does a lot of damage while it is active, and you and yours could end up as their target. Still, your best chance of surviving is by grouping up. Meet your neighbours, meet your local activists, get to know them, and start helping each other.
    3. Violence. But. It's not enough to just go spree killer. The violent response demands organisation. You could join an armed resistance group. Or, if you leave the country, if it comes to war, you could enlist to fight against your old nation. Lots of people did both in the forties.
  • That's fair, but isn't Estonia like

    An exceptionally nice place to live?

    I would wager that for an american coming from like. NY, or Detroit, Brazil would be outright comfy by comparison.

  • Yeah no

    I know 1(one) other person who was Special Ed in Brazil and they don't mention anything of the sort.

  • The most "dangerous" cities are Rio, São Paulo, and Salvador. But the thing about the lethality of those cities? Most of the people who are dying aren't foreign expats like you, it's the inhabitants of the samesuch poor areas, surrounded by mobsters and having to just deal with that on a day to day basis.

    For everyone else? The big urban centers are dangerous to your property. Be careless and you will be mugged. Not pickpocketed. Mugged.

    But at the same time Brazil is a pretty large place with lots of different cities. I've lived in a medium-to-large city (and NOT one of the famous ones Gringos would know) my entire life and been mugged... Twice. In thirty years. Both were harmless other than the loss of my cell phone.