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MentalEdge

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/phone-link-requirements-and-setup-cd2a1ee7-75a7-66a6-9d4e-bf22e735f9e3

This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.

@kde

MentalEdge ,
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This feature is epic. Being able to save a file to my phone from my tablet or vice versa is fantastic.

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Still just on the first step, embrace.

Apparently threads didn't support federating replies (comments) on posts until this.

And you still won't be able to reply to the federated comments on posts, just see them.

They are really not in a hurry to properly support federating. I honestly didn't realize Threads' federation support was this pathetic.

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I really enjoyed it.

Fell in love with Rivet completely against expectations. I know Jennifer Hale is great and I don't dislike any of her performances, but many of the characters she has portrayed blur together for me.

With Rivet though, she gave an extremely unique and adorable performance, to the point I forgot it was her and just enjoyed the heck out of the character.

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If you didn't try it the first time, you can enable a beat display. It's toggled with a button on the controller (share button on the DS5 when on PC) and it will display a very explicit indicator along the bottom of the screen.

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Modern ADSL and VDSL can get you pretty far... But they don't hold a candle to fibre.

What proton games are: completely ownable with no nonsense and a solid community?

I'm old-naughties internet café crew from around the era of the original Counter Strike through CoD MWF3 and Battlefield 2042. I wouldn't mind reliving the nostalgia of that era, and have more than enough machine to do it now. I have zero tolerance for micro transactions, gatekeeping, or software as a service business models. I...

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You can disable the news pop up that opens with steam, and it opens to your library, not the store page.

The only "hype" it'll show you then are the news on the library pages for the games you own.

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It's definitely a fun challenge. It looks and sounds good, too.

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The kid is a victim.

And in Sweden what in the US would be called a "juvenile detention center" would fall under the term of "youth home". He wasn't returned to the same one.

I don't think they're exactly leaving him unguarded, being underage, there isn't another type of facility suited for legally incarcerating him. These facilities essentially double as juvie and orphanages.

Mixing kids who are simply in government care with ones that are violent, was never a good idea though. These two systems should be separate, because it's now turning the former into the latter.

According to accounts for this story from eight sources including a former gang member, several youth home workers, prosecutors and criminologists, the homes have turned into recruiting grounds for gangs, who use them to enlist killers too young to be jailed.

Gangs have essentially found a loophole for legal murder. Get a child to do it.

They're the ones masterminding this shit. It's not like these actual children, with government rooves over their heads, are taking on contract killing to make ends meet.

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Yeah.

Kill that guy for us, or we'll kill you, you owe us, sorta requires understanding death.

You think these kids take the "deal" knowing where it leads? Even some adults are easy to manipulate... so a fourteen-year-old?

I'd agree that some teen that kills of their own volition isn't innocent... But there's a literal gang involved that is actively grooming kids for murder.

As for the government letting it happen, agreed. Modern politics, legislation, and government executive branches address problems at a snails pace. Often actively causing them because politicians refuse to enact laws based on what is known, rather than what they feel.

Kinda like you, feeling like the victimhood of this actual child shouldn't be acknowledged.

An attempt to address this with such a tainted perspective surely wouldn't cause problems. /S

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That's less than a non-response. Self-inflicted sabotage of your own credibility.

Openly advertising your inability to understand why you disagree well enough to make others comprehend your stance with actual sentences that mean things.

So you try to pretend that a witty remark counts for something.

If you ever genuinely tried good-faith discussion, you'd see how little sense your position makes as you'd struggle to put together arguments that actually convince anyone.

Obviously this person shouldn't be walking free, and needs serious rehabilitation.

But the same way adult ex-cons who end up back in prison in the US within months of release due to a fucked justice system, are victims, this literal child groomed into a tool to enact violence at the behest of others, is even moreso.

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You really can't see how a child can fall through the cracks of a fucked government care system and fall in with people who would take advantage of them?

Just warn all the kids off strangers, no way some won't hear it, ignore it, or literally do the opposite of what they're told for stupid childish reasons.

Brilliant thinking my friend, lets just tell all our kids not to get kidnapped, human trafficking, solved!

And before you get semantic on me, manipulating a child into coming with you against their own interests even as it is then not taking them against their will, is still kidnapping.

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Please mention the relevant game in the title of the post as required by community rules.

Balatro, if anyone was wondering.

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Thanks!

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"You scared me... I want you to do it again."

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That's a cynical way to put it, if technically correct. Manipulation has a negative connotation for people, but people don't communicate for exclusively malicious reasons.

You might as well say that any conscious entity only acts out of reason, to get food, joy, rest... Or that it isn't possible to speak without words. That much goes without saying. Everyone knows that, which makes this an odd thing to bring up in this thread.

And I'd suggest that you can't prove that a conscious entity without reason ceases to act. We've all surely done something or other for "no particular reason" even if an outward observer might assign one.

Does that mean it's possible to speak without meaning anything in particular? I genuinely don't know.

But I can be sure of one thing, that speaking with the intent to achieve one thing, almost never achieves that exact thing. Is failed manipulation still manipulation? Is unintended manipulation still manipulation? People interpret meaning where non was meant all the time.

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My sister plays the game a lot.

She's earned the white robe, and plays regularly to show other players around, and draw them hearts in the sand/snow.

MentalEdge OP Mod , (edited )
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In more ways than one.

I'm not sure any other game facilitates the kind of seamless human connection with a stranger that you can experience with another player in Journey.

It's beautiful.

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She's clearly out shopping for leek. Very important.

MentalEdge ,
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It's also memeable due to Louis Slotins blasé approach to safety, as the demon core was kept from going critical merely by shoving a screwdriver between the two half-sphere neutron-reflectors that it was kept inside.

If, or rather when (because it occurred twice), allowed to completely enclose it, they would cause it to go critical, emitting lethal amounts of radiation, instantly.

Louis and one other researcher died due to incidents involving accidental supercriticality. Many more were severely irradiated.

The blue light is caused by all radiation in the correct conditions.

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A fucking travesty. Wouldn't have minded some more horror games from Tango in the future, either.

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It's too bad micro$hit wasn't in need of a smaller studio that makes critically acclaimed titles that give them prestige... Wait.

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Right click?

Middle click.

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Depends on the mouse. I've had both good and bad.

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The Katana ZERO expansion has been WIP ever since the game dropped. And still is.

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Uuh... No?

It was out on switch and PC four years before Netflix published a mobile version.

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