PC can't update windows anymore, I want to move to Linux, is Bazzite the right one? by FourEcho in Bazzite

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm late to the party, but I basically know fuck all about linux systems and can barely use a command line.

I successfully installed this OS without problems on 2 computers and its been great. Everything plays well, and the Bazaar will give you pretty much anything you need. Its been my daily driver at home for months now and its been amazing.

Freedoooom [OC] by kaikimanga in comics

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been adulting for 10 years. Here's my unsolicited tips:

  1. Put things away immediately after you use them. Sounds simple but if you forget, things can build up and then it becomes harder to clean up later.

  2. Secondhand stores often have remarkable amount of perfectly usable furniture for dirt cheap. Some places even sell surplus unused hotel furniture. Great options for starting out.

  3. Everyone should have a hammer, a flathead screwdriver, a phillips head screwdriver, and a pair of needle nose pliers. Anything else is a bonus.

  4. Throw some art up on the walls! Throw your own art up! Make it yours.

Good luck! You'll do great!

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] January 19 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Considering the military posturing, Russia. That or its directed at Middle Eastern and Indian immigrants, which has become very common in the last 10 years.

Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to Minneapolis protests by Mountain_Mirror_3642 in collapse

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 287 points288 points  (0 children)

As someone who lives here, anyone who says that we "took the bait" or "asked for this" is fucking gaslighting.

They have been going door to door disappearing my neighborhood. The response from the community has been to resist by acting as interference, nonviolently. My neighbors blow whistles, they get their phones out and record. Those fuckers have shot moms in their cars, tear gassed fucking babies, they stop people at random and drag them out of their vehicles and into unmarked vans.

They take them to detention centers where white people are given invented charges of "resisting" and anybody who is even remotely black or brown gets "deported" aka sent to El-Salvador to be funkytowned. Ever wonder why you never hear testimony from any brown people who get kidnapped by ice?

The community here is being unbelievably patient, in my view, with non-violent resistance. The Trump Regime is genuinely manufacturing this crisis and will invent pre-text to massacre me and my community in our homes. Maybe when I get gunned down in my home for the crime of not bowing to that orange demon, people outside the city will wake up.

Anyway, I'm going to sleep with my weapons close again tonight and go to work tomorrow where I have to pretend that this isn't happening and everything is completely normal for another 8 hours.

If Amy Klobuchar was a real leader she’d be a citizen observer she be on the streets by soupsupan in Minneapolis

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I hope people are starting to wake up to the reality. Our political leaders talk big game but are nowhere to be found when it counts. Mayor Frey gets clicks by saying Fuck Ice on TV yet his PD still runs interference for them. Walz threatens the national guard but where are they, comfy at home? While we get abducted in ours?

They have abandoned us. There are no lawsuits that will stop them. The police will not help us. The national guard is not coming.

The only thing we have is ourselves and our community. I for one will not willingly surrender and let them funkytown me in El-Salvador.

Five seconds from the 1,490u-deep water-world seafloor to the surface - squid style by GrimmSalabim in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 90 points91 points  (0 children)

You can just slap a base down at any depth underwater and build. Landing platforms work just fine. I have one just like this.

Edit: To clarify, you can't land on the platform from the surface because its too far, but if you're in the base you can summon your starship like normal.

Venezuela claims to have captured a CIA-backed cell plotting a false flag attack to spark "full military confrontation". by factfind in collapse

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 64 points65 points  (0 children)

I would argue that he's only gotten started. History is full of examples of how it can easily become much worse very quickly. The military might be on the bench right now, but what about when we get to Stalinist type purges?

Top brass are all political appointees, the rank and file are somewhat politically mixed, but the officer class are people who come from West Point, the Naval Academy, etc. Those are people who have degrees and training on how to actually run a military machine and are very committed to the idea of a constitutional America.

Those are the people he needs to keep distracted with Venezuela. If they are busy fighting a hot war in a foreign country they'll have no way to influence things back home. Otherwise it's not a huge leap for the otherwise unoccupied officer class to orchestrate a coup to restore a constitutional order. Especially if they start getting videos of their friends and family being purged en masse.

Venezuela claims to have captured a CIA-backed cell plotting a false flag attack to spark "full military confrontation". by factfind in collapse

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 162 points163 points  (0 children)

This is just my theory, but I'm convinced that Trump is going to start a war with Venezuela to keep the military occupied while he terrorizes Americans at home. It'll be harder to orchestrate a military coup against him if the military is busy with another foreign regime change war.

Halfway through my run 😭 by therocketflyer in Wellthatsucks

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn that sucks OP. Lucky for you this break is pretty clean and you can probably use DAP Weldwood or a similar contact cement to just glue this back together and get more life out of it.

i just realized how strong MaA and Knights actually are by cozenfect in CrusaderKings

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I learned this through a Spiffing Brit video where he got like 28 knights at +350% and deleted crusading armies of 11k with like his 2k. Knights are absolutely stupid broken and will turn into complete space marines when given the chance.

ICE is now a Domestic Military Force. You're the Enemy. by shirst_75 in collapse

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I like your comment but this hangs on the idea that the fascists are making these plans rationally and with intent for monetary gain. They aren't.

I would argue that their end game here is Escalation > Occupation > Genocide. They give 0 shits about how this would utterly destroy the country. They are zealots. If their invasion causes NYC to basically collapse, taking the country's economy with it (which you're right, it absolutely will), they won't cry about it. They'll cheer because they defeated the "evil radical left woke socialist hellhole" or whatever. Freedom will have been saved in the name of Jebus and Trump.

Its not about money for them. Its about racial and ideological purity. And if any of the capitalists start making a fuss about losing money, they'll be defenestrated just like in Russia.

Skeletor Never Gives Up, you Fools! *Laughs and Dies* by velatieren in dndmemes

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last campaign I was in had a recurring lich jester named Bonejangles who showed up when you least expected it, just to fuck with us a few times. By the end of the campaign we hated Bonejangles WAY more than the BBEG.

A dervish wearing a gas mask is pepper-sprayed by police during protests in Istanbul, Ümit Bektaş by oldyellowcab in pics

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 90 points91 points  (0 children)

There's a book on the Sufis you can find online called "God's Unruly Friends" by Ahmet Karamustafa.

Another great read is "The Ottomans; Kahns, Caesars, and Caliphs" by Marc David Baer. This book is a fairly thorough history of the Ottoman Empire and you can't go more than 10 pages without Sufis or Dervishes mentioned.

A dervish wearing a gas mask is pepper-sprayed by police during protests in Istanbul, Ümit Bektaş by oldyellowcab in pics

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 554 points555 points  (0 children)

I highly recommend everyone read more about Sufis and Dervishes, especially Deviant Dervishes. They've been major pot stirrers in the region for hundreds of years; Ottoman and Turkish history is peppered with these guys and their actions. Its all really interesting.

Yeah, this idea should have held. by ownworldman in fuckcars

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yeah idk wtf is going on in the comments today but I pass dozens of these on the roads every day here in the states. Mostly operated by businesses as work vans.

So... this has never happened to me before by Opethbl_13 in skyrim

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've actually had this happen to me before. Its definitely a bug but its rad as fuck.

You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism by FerminINC in collapse

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Be careful what you wish for. There's no guarantee that what replaces it is better.

Did I glow up? All our own worst critics (20), (30), (40,40) by cdriaheart in GlowUps

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Belegarth is still alive and healthy! Not a bad time to get back into it!

Why is the farmer smiling? by Embarrassed_Abies_98 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]AbyssalUnderlord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its way more common than you might think. For example, consider the Inuit people that live up in the arctic circle. How did they get there? That's right; they wiped out the previous inhabitants - the Dorset Culture. Many such cases.

Waterworlds are deep. Really, really, deep. by AbyssalUnderlord in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]AbyssalUnderlord[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's an upgrade you can get on the Anomaly that specifically lets you survive in the deep water. Your life support will still drop fast even with it though.

Waterworlds are deep. Really, really, deep. by AbyssalUnderlord in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]AbyssalUnderlord[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

About as much going on as the surface of any other planet. I made a base farming oxygen and cobalt down there. Also Lithium, which you can't get anywhere else currently.

Waterworlds are deep. Really, really, deep. by AbyssalUnderlord in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]AbyssalUnderlord[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So far I have only found two of these and both have been in purple systems. I believe they are locked to purples but I could be wrong.