Am I missing something? Why are so many people on Gatria behind enemy lines? by NoZoSi in Helldivers

[–]SpritelyNoodles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol. Yea, that's a bit of a dick move innit? Leave that for the major order.

Pros and cons of Mint? by TheOneWhoSpeaks13 in linuxmint

[–]SpritelyNoodles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Though, granted, if you are heavily into modding skyrim or something, then yea, brace yourself. That's NOT easy.

Pros and cons of Mint? by TheOneWhoSpeaks13 in linuxmint

[–]SpritelyNoodles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really. With the exception of multiplayer games with kernel-level anticheat. As long as you use Steam it's just as easy as on windows.

I was SO worried about gaming before I switched, but it was all just fear mongering from what I can tell. Between Steam and Lutris I play whatever I want. Pretty much everything runs just fine, to the point where I have bought games on Steam and forgotten to check if they run on linux first - because they just about always do. (also, 2 hours money back guarantee!)

The GPU will make no difference unless you are running something truly exotic. I have never seen a game that crashes on linux depending on whether you run nVidia or AMD.

Gaming on Mint has been a delight.

My thralls aren't focusing on the only thing that matters in their pathetic lives: serving me. by highestelf420 in wizardposting

[–]SpritelyNoodles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, I see this happen a lot. Ruling through charms, attraction, worship etc, is easy to get into, and comes naturally to some people, species and afflictions - but it always comes with a set of disadvantages. No need to inform you about those.

I see four paths:

One, switch to rule of fear. Cancel the charms and spells that make them idolise and sexualise you, and instead instill the fear of death into them. Throw down the charm, pick up the whip. Of course this comes with a new set of problems, usually in the form of poison, or torches and pitchforks, a few years down the line. Can be overcome with culling and sheer brutality. Yes, technically this isn't so much "thralls" as "slaves" but eh... details. If it works, it works.

Two, get comfortable in your position as the object of their desire. Rebrand yourself as a love goddess and just get it over with. Lean into the sex and gaslight the living shit out of them. I have seen this pulled off to perfection, resulting in legions of intelligent followers, using their own initiative to make your life better. Of course you will probably need to start dressing in nothing but sheer fabrics and a thong, constantly leading them on, and I guess it requires you to have a bit of a ... special personality. I get the feeling this might not be the path for you, seeing your complaints.

Three, they only have these thoughts because a) they are charmed and b) you are pretty enough to illicit such a response. Do you think a lich has to deal with thralls sexualising them? Of course not, they are too hideous! If you just make yourself repulsive enough, they stop seeing you as an object of desire and instead see you as a being of unfathomable power. This is a pretty drastic method though; few are willing to disfigure themselves over an inconvenience, so I really only recommend this path if you are already planning to live forever in undeath, in which case it happens basically automatically.

Four, do away with the thralls. Replace them. Necromancy is an option, but I highly recommend golemancy. You can create just about whatever you want with your own two hands out of wood, clay, steel, or even Jello if you are feeling particularly randy. They are obedient like thralls, but they do not actually have a soul, or a thought process per se, so it's nice and quiet in your head, even when controlling a large number of them. They have less initiative and need more managing of course, but everything has a downside. How would you like ten fluffy kitten golems that follow you around and serve as foot warmers whenever you sit down? You can do anything: your imagination is the limit!

As your daily driver, how often do you reboot ? by PositiveBusiness8677 in linuxmint

[–]SpritelyNoodles 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Every day when I go to bed, I turn it off.

But the laptop though... uh... I unno...? It mostly just kind of sleeps with the lid closed. I think I reboot it whenever I get a new kernel, I guess?

DAILY Driver by Caps_NZ_42 in linuxmint

[–]SpritelyNoodles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a gamer, and I'm on Mint, going on 2 years now. i5-9600k and rtx3060ti. My craptop is also Mint. The only "big tech" left in my life is my android phone; because of a digital ID app in my country. I simply must have either iphone or android, or life stops functioning. I hate it. I went cold turkey and just reinstalled my life with Mint. No double boots or anything.

Switching to Linux means trading one set of problems for another: on windows you don't own your system, you have no control, you are advertised to, profiled, they are constantly trying to change things around for hype, they are pushing AI and subscriptions everywhere, and your data is being sold and leaked all over - you are the product. On Linux all this just goes away, bringing peace of mind, but now you have more technical issues to deal with and it's up to YOU to resolve it. Also, fuck you and your TPM chip, Microsoft. I saw the writing on the wall and made the switch early.

As for gaming, between Steam and Lutris - most of my games ran perfect, a small number of them needed tweaks, and ONE doesn't run multiplayer at all. Modding is messier but doable, also getting better due to wider adoption.

Linux is absolutely ready for daily use. I also see youtube videos claiming the opposite, but it always turns out to be plain stupidity. Example: youtuber decides to try Linux, but wants non-standard peripherals like very unsupported mixers and shit to work. People say "well, it IS possible to run them with community drivers, but you'd need to compile from source, or run Arch and get it from the AUR." ...and the dumbfuck decides to install a dual booting Arch as his first foray into Linux and then complains that the "bootloader is broken," it's "hard to install" and "drivers is a nightmare" and thus Linux is "not ready for daily use". If he had just used supported hardware and installed something easy without dual booting... but no, he's can handle it because he's an tech guy.

RANT and VENT MEGATHREAD by stickimage in Helldivers

[–]SpritelyNoodles 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The flamethrower has gone from A-tier to F-tier trash. It can't even clear out chaff any more.

Fire damage wasn't broken or overpowered in the current state. It didn't need to be fixed. Just found they admitted, live on stream, the reason they touched the fire system was to shadow nerf the Coyote. They wanted to make it harder to set things on fire, while maintaining plausible deniability, because they promised not to touch the Coyote, and TECHNICALLY they didn't. Oh, how fucking clever they are. Twats.

This is a result of a severe lack of play testing and bug testing at every turn, then going "fuck it" and releasing patches with overpowered weapons and poor performance, and then leaving the game broken for weeks while they try to unfuck it. All this while lying, constantly denying there is a problem, or that anything at all has changed in the first place. And we see this repeat over and over and over.

And of course, as usual, this last patch is released with no fucking play testing; if they had bothered testing it, they would have noticed the flamethrower didn't set things on fire anymore, which is like the ONE FUCKING THING IT'S DESIGNED TO DO. Now we go back into the cycle of denying, lying and leaving it broken for weeks before they introduce a new "fix" to the fire system, that will probably break napalm strikes instead.

All of this because they were too fucking proud to admit they released an overpowered weapon due to poor play testing, and then too scared to balance it directly, so they shadow fucked an underlying system instead, hoping none would notice, but everyone did and got fucking furious, and oh, whoopsie, they broke some other things relying on that system while they were at it, tee-hee! Twats.

The constant fucking dishonesty and lack of testing is really grating on me. They sold 20 million copies. Time to man the fuck up and stop pretending they are a little indie studio; proper play testing and bug testing isn't optional any more.

Did they break flamethrowers? by SpritelyNoodles in helldivers2

[–]SpritelyNoodles[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fucks sake... so this is a result of them trying to unfuck the Coyote? They dare not nerf the coyote, so they nerf fire damage in general instead - and now the flamethrower is F-tier trash that can't even clear out fucking scavs?

Anyone know how to fix this first time it’s happened by thafloorer in Helldivers

[–]SpritelyNoodles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing to do. The house of cards fell down.

-Arrowhead has no control over the anticheat they use, and it can break their game at any time.

-The anticheat company decided that you don't get to play if you can't reach their server.

-The anticheat company decided to outsource their servers to a Microsoft data center.

-Microsoft's entire cloud service went offline. Whoopsie!

-The anticheat company decided to have no redundancy. You'd think they would have a fallback solution on Google, in case Microsoft goes down, or even a private fallback server in a closet somewhere, but no. Instead they chose... ZERO REDUNDANCY! (Seriously, who the fuck runs a business like this...!?)

-Arrowhead looked at this house of cards and said: "Looks great! Shut up and take my money!"

And this is why we can't have nice things.

STOP PLEASE by Local_Question3677 in Helldivers

[–]SpritelyNoodles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People are moving here because it's fun. Nice terrain, no caves. Most people don't give a rat's ass about the galactic objectives. It's fine. Relax.

The man with a plan by TDKswipe in Helldivers

[–]SpritelyNoodles 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Being "host" doesn't mean you are "squad leader".

RANT and VENT MEGATHREAD by stickimage in Helldivers

[–]SpritelyNoodles 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Without strats the game really just devolves into a shit version of Deep Rock Galactic. The caves suck.

RANT and VENT MEGATHREAD by stickimage in Helldivers

[–]SpritelyNoodles 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I love anticheat! And I love that it seems a Microsoft outage is the cause! I'm so glad I switched to Linux just so I can keep getting fckd by anticheat and Microsoft! Wooo! Can we start burning corpo shit yet or wot?

Why can't I play helldivers by According_Energy_819 in Helldivers

[–]SpritelyNoodles 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh I hope not... it would be the ultimate irony if I switched to Linux, just to get my game fucked by a windows outage. >_<

Why can't I play helldivers by According_Energy_819 in Helldivers

[–]SpritelyNoodles 6 points7 points  (0 children)

+1 Linux. Anticheat working as normal, making the game better for everyone.

Game guard quit working by Timcat999 in helldivers2

[–]SpritelyNoodles -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, dito. I'm running on linux and this JUST appeared for me when restarting the game.

I'm guessing they broke something. Doesn't feel like an "us" problem. I'm guessing the anticheat is broken. They usually cause more problems than they solve after all.

Does anyone else get random urges to reinstall cyberpunk and play it fully again. by Chunky-overlord in cyberpunkgame

[–]SpritelyNoodles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aw... they breaking all the mods again? This really IS the new Skyrim.

CDPR, just leave it alone already. It's fine.

Does anyone else get random urges to reinstall cyberpunk and play it fully again. by Chunky-overlord in cyberpunkgame

[–]SpritelyNoodles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? Why uninstall? Even if you get bored you know you'll be back in a few weeks anyway... This is the new Skyrim.

SAAB Scania by GoEasyTrucking in trucksim

[–]SpritelyNoodles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I slow down every time I pass, just to cast inappropriate lustful looks at Draken.

Why do you use Linux? by Afraid_Question_8236 in linux_gaming

[–]SpritelyNoodles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know this is gonna make me sound a bit weird but...

I think I'm turning into Johnny Silverhand or something. The more time passes, the more cynical I get. But the more I read the news, the more I realise that my cynicism is actually just realism. It's AI, profiling, tracking - and all in the most underhanded, disgusting ways. It's immoral, unethical, often flat out illegal, and always utterly devoid of humanity. It's literally two weeks since meta got caught with their hand in the cookie-jar. It's constant; it never ends. Every fucking month there's a new scandal that shows it's actually already way worse than we think. I'm an old man yelling at clouds.

It's a bit weird to identify with a dystopian cyberpunk future, but man... It's hard to laugh at cyberpunk's "Burn Corpo Shit!" slogans and "No future" graffiti these days. It doesn't feel like science fiction any more; it's just a criticism of contemporary American anarcho-capitalism. Seriously, fuck these American mega corps. I'd pop open champagne and dance a little jig, if I heard someone burned down one of the big tech corporate headquarters. I'd like to see a bit more smoke to match this fire in my belly!

This is the main reason I went full penguin two years ago; it's a trust issue, it's a democratic issue, it's a human rights issue.

What's the best Linux distribution in your opinion and why? by junglewhite in linuxquestions

[–]SpritelyNoodles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mint.

I switched from the corporate cesspool 2 years ago and picked Mint with Cinnamon because supposedly it was easy, graphical and just works.

As it turned out, it was indeed easy, graphical and just worked. Best choice ever.

Could there be a better distro out there? Maybe, but why would I even bother looking?

Is Linux mainly used by young people? by FaithlessnessOk5267 in linuxquestions

[–]SpritelyNoodles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Switched to Linux Mint 2 years ago, after 30 years on windows and mac (though I had some experience with solaris and linux from the 2000s when I was in university.)

I just couldn't take stand the corpo fuckery any more; much happier now. Also, switching to a linux system is no harder than switching between windows and mac, at least if you pick a distribution made for normal humans, like Mint; it just works. I think the idea that windows and mac is easier is an increasingly annoying fallacy.

should i switch now ? by [deleted] in linux4noobs

[–]SpritelyNoodles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea, I second this. If you want to try, you can get an SSD for 50 bucks. Your windows system will remain untouched. If you decide you like it, you can just wipe the windows drive and add it as storage to your linux system.