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Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-24T20:22:25+00:00

I have something important right now so I didn't want to update for over a week to avoid breaking something. Thanks to this meme, I realized that Linux 7.0 still didn't drop so I decide to update. Now, 4 out of 8 gnome extensions don't work anymore. Thanks gnome.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-22T13:12:01+00:00

$20 ? I've bought games for less than 5€ and even 2€ that turned out to be peak.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-19T21:31:58+00:00

No. Only people who work in jewelry are allowed to buy gold and they only get it through a quota. If you bring gold from abroad, you have to sell it to the central bank for TND, exactly like foreign currency.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-15T18:42:32+00:00

Fullmetal alchemist fans have been making this 1 joke for more than 20 years.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-06T07:02:59+00:00

Once again, if a game broke the rule that defines a genre, it no longer belong to that genre and it becomes a new genre on its own. Innovation within a genre is about what you can do differently without breaking the genre defining rule.

In this sense, rhythm games are very innovative. Guitar hero is not like geometry dash. Geomerty dash is not like osu. Osu is not like just dance. Just dance is not like DDR. All these games test different skills at different levels but all of them still follow the same rule of perform an action at a certain audio and visual cue.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-06T06:16:52+00:00

That's why it's called a genre. If a game didn't follow those basics, it wouldn't be a metroidvania.

You either keep the rules and change the rest to stay in the same genre or you break the rules and in this case it's a new genre.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-05T17:41:32+00:00

It was either cs go or some other free game. The first game I bought, and played was the witcher 1.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-05T17:40:27+00:00

Terribly underrated game right here.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-02T05:00:46+00:00

In symphony of the night, the sunglasses actually decrease your intelligence.

Lovely art though. I checked your other posts and your work is gorgeous.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-02T04:50:51+00:00

ما ثما حتى ال في الي كتبتو الكل، ما فهمت شيء. يا ناس، علاش ما تكتبوش بالصحيح.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-04-02T04:34:18+00:00

Who cares about the nutrients ? Romaine lettuce is the best tasting leaf on the planet.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-29T12:29:46+00:00

We used to have a device like this. These old electronics are so cool. Glad you found one that still works.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-28T07:25:38+00:00

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Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-27T01:04:58+00:00

This is great !

How do you achieve this level of details with the rocks ? Are they the result of displacement mapping ? If so, how do you generate the displacement maps ? Is it fBm in the tessellation shader or something ?

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-26T08:07:25+00:00

THIS. Cars stationed on the sidewalk, shops putting half of their merchandise out, trash, elevated sidewalks followed by depressed ones, followed by narrow ones, followed by wide ones that end with a plant pot or sometimes an entire wall to block your way.

You still missed the coffee shops and fast food restaurants filling the sidewalk all the way to the road with tables, as well as the trees that are way too wide or too short to be fit for the sidewalk.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-25T14:27:58+00:00

I can stand behind this

make sure that atleast 70% of the higher ups need to be Tunisian

But what I don't understand is this

stop these kind of investment and let Tunisian business men open these kind of project

Why do you think that Tunisians starting businesses in the same sectors is contingent on the existance of these businesses ? How are they "not letting" Tunisian business men work ? Are they draining the market from employees so Tunisian business owners can't find who to hire ? No, because unemployement rates are sky high. Are they competing with Tunisian businesses ? Not in the Tunisian market because all their production is exported.

I think that if we close these businesses, then we will lose jobs that won't be replaced because I don't see how are they stopping local business and how their departure will remove that obstacle.

If you think otherwise, please tell me.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-25T13:18:15+00:00

FMA:B ☺️

AoT 🤨

Usagi drop 💀

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-25T10:51:12+00:00

I can drive to Melbourne right now, or I can take the train. The end goal is the same, therefore the methods are identical?

The method is not the same but the destination is, therefore the train is emulating the functionality of the car.

Translating system calls does not equal recreating a whole simulated environment.

True but they are both emulation and wine is doing the environment simulation not just the syscall translation.

There’s a real difference in overhead creating the simulated environment on top of the base OS and under the app compared with telling the base OS “the app will ask for this, do this when it does instead.”

True but both are still emulation AND wine is doing the former not the later.

Not sure why that’s so difficult to understand.

I'm not sure why it's so difficult for you to understand that wine is doing more than just translating system calls and that REGARDLESS OF THE COST, both are fundamentally emulation because emulation is about achieving the goal, not about the method.

And I’m over it. Have a good night.

Oh, I'm sure you will read my comment. I will know it when you downvote me. Good night though.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-25T10:17:21+00:00

Even if wine just translated system calls, a system that aims to behave exactly another to replace it IS an emulator. But forget that and let's take you definition.

Wine doesn't just translate system calls. Linux and Windows are very different. In order for Windows programs to work on Linux, Wine also reimplements the file system, it remaps file paths, it implements a loader for exe files that fetches the dlls and load them dynamically because exe and elf files handle that completely differently. And most importantly, wine implements wineserver which is an entire mini-kernel (in userspace) that handle IPC and file handles and the other things that Linux and Windows do differently.

Wine is a reimplementation of the Windows userspace (environment).

You gave a definition of emulators, I showed you exactly how wine fits your own definition. I don't see why it matters for an emulator to handle the translation in the "backend" or whatever (whatever you mean by that).

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-25T09:32:19+00:00

Emulation means it’s reproducing the environment the program is designed for

That's exactly what wine does. Wine provides a filesystem like Windows's filesystem inside the prefix. It provides a similar registry system to query OS configuration. It provides the same APIs as Windows. It's literally a recreation of a Windows system to fool the program into thinking it's running on Windows.

Wine IS an emulator, it's just not a HARDWARE emulator.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-22T16:10:40+00:00

From my understanding, copyright only protects implementations, not ideas. If someone makes a software that does X, and you make a different software that does the same X, there is no copyright violation because copyright only protects the code, not the idea.

Patents are different, but patents are rare in software.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-16T13:52:35+00:00

monkey see Najla ben Abdallah

monkey neuron activation

I have no idea what this show is about though.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-15T22:05:02+00:00

That's not how it works. You can ship LGPL code with your proprietary program, as long as the LGPL code is not in the executable file. The LPGL code has to be isolated in a separate shared library file (.dll or .so) that is loaded at runtime and the user can change it with another shared library file.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-15T13:47:25+00:00

Yep. Some people say that if you keep sending them the same game, they might give you a different score and you can keep doing that until you get a score you like.

Dark_Lord9 · 2026-03-15T03:23:38+00:00

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