Snot Flickerman

So, Baldur’s Gate didn’t delve deeply into politics like, say, Disco Elysium did, however I agree with the sentiment of the article.

So very few stories that center LGBT+ characters are about who they are outside of LGBT+ trauma. The beauty of the story of Baldur’s Gate 3 is that it envisions that world, where people are allowed to have trauma, but that trauma is not related to their sexual orientation.

That’s huge, because while that trauma continues to be real, it’s good to be able to envision a world where that’s not the case. The characters in Baldur’s Gate 3 all clearly have lots of trauma, but hardly any of it relates to who they choose to have sex with and/or love, or how many partners they love. Their trauma is about who they are, but trauma related to their sexuality is nigh nonexistent. They are allowed to have trauma outside of that scope instead of being pigeonholed into that kind trauma.

It’s great at escaping LGBT+ trauma narratives, which are plentiful, and it also allows the LGBT+ characters to live out as fully fleshed out characters on their own, where they are themselves first, and their sexuality second. Too many narratives use LGBT+ status as an easy way to give a character trauma, and soon their sexuality becomes the centerpiece of their character, disallowing them growth outside of that pigeonhole. This narrative allows these characters to break free from that and become fully fleshed out characters, much like LGBT+ people in real life are so much more than their LGBT+ trauma.

Sure, it didn’t get into “politics,” in terms of heady theory and “taking sides.” It had something else “political” to say, and I for one, am glad for it.

Oh no, Lemmy did you wrong with the embed. Here you go.

It could also easily be that they haven’t had a chance to record any voice lines for it yet. For a game like this, I would assume recording voice-lines would come pretty late in production, but I could be wrong.

break the rules and get yourself banned from the communities. then you’ll never see them again.

I mean one of those two characters’ names is Silent Bob. Not saying much is kind of what that character is known for.

Same question but Bill Hicks and Alex Jones.

Communications are important, which is why they’re one of the number one things an invader disrupts upon invasion: communications systems. Disrupting your enemies communications is incredibly common and to act like simply because Musk is “offering communications” means he’s a good guy is such a simplistic fucking take I want to blow my brains out.

Maybe you should read some McLuhan or some Debord.

It’s just the next step in the AI hype cycle. The AI hype could have died considerably by the time these places are even spinning up to create chips.

Can someone just pull a Garfield and put Sam Altman in a box to be sent to Abu Dhabi like he’s Nermal?

Once you mentioned Atom and His Package, I can’t unhear it.

I am downright amazed at what I can destroy with just a hammer.

Part of having an “annoyingly high voice” is related to more than just your voice itself, but also your demeanor and personality.

Let’s compare you to the quintessential annoyingly high voice, Spongebob Squarepants.

Many of the things that make Spongebob annoying are more about who he is and how he acts than his voice specifically.

Spongebob is overly hyperactive. He has a laugh that is absurdly, purposefully annoying when repeated a lot, literally used as a joke a few times.

You on the other hand sound calm and reasoned. I didn’t hear a full-on laugh, but I could hear a slight chuckle when doing your “western voice” which you described as silly. You’re way, way, way more low key and chill than a character like Spongebob. I would say most people generally like people who are relaxed and chilled, so you’ve got that going for you.

Finally, your voice just isn’t all that high, and you certainly don’t immediately seem to have the kind of social issues that would make you “annoying.”

Short answer: NPDs don’t get along with other NPDs because they hate having to compete for attention or accept that they are not actually The Main Character.

Even shorter answer: Money? Money.

They need to fix their SSL certificate.

95% of the time the exact model isn’t super important, nowhere near as important as specifications, but when it comes to the physical build like whether it can run without the battery, it can be useful to know.

Web server for a Smart Mirror?

https://magicmirror.builders/

I run my mirror locally, but you can also pull it from a separate server.

Great suggestion, but I’m not entirely sure it’s 100% possible on all models? Some models are built so that it won’t turn on without a battery installed (much like phones) and that the power has to pass through the battery before it reaches the motherboard.

I believe that scenario would take much more knowledge of electricity plus some soldering skills to bypass the battery. They gave specs, but not make and model. I don’t trust companies like HP to not take the route that requires you to send it in to them for servicing.

Services: DNS (Pi-Hole for example), DHCP, or NTP, off the top of my head.

Yes.

Yeah, because botnets are made from consumer-level machines that are badly secured.

So some idiot who knows nothing about Linux sets it up the first time, never create an account other than the root account, never enabled UFW, and browses all day is literally the kind of people who make botnets are looking for to target. They don’t target Linux for these because it’s such a small market share in the consumer-desktop market.

Corporate servers tend to actually have competent security people running them, which is why you don’t see constant breaches of Linux servers, although it happens. Even then, corporate servers can be hacked if the services running on them aren’t appropriately patched. The Equifax hack is a great example of this, a series of cascading failures, and the CVE relating to it touched on that it was an Apache exploit that could work in either Windows or Linux.

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/22169

The exploit should work on Windows and Linux. It tests which operating system it runs on via “@java.lang.System@getProperty(‘os.name’)”. It it runs on Windows, then it will execute cmd.exe /c followed by a command (highlighted in red in above’s sample). One Unix, it will execute /bin/bash -c followed by the same command.

Pro-tip: Cybersecurity is hard, and expecting random asshats who’ve never had any training figure out on the go is asking for a bad time.