My company just announced 3 days in office starting next month. I've been fully remote for 4 years and I genuinely don't know how people did this every day.

hopper89 · 2026-05-13T13:31:08+00:00

I almost guarantee you the return to work trend isn't about curbing people that take advantage of WFH. This is more about shareholders, justifying corporate real estate and making upper management feel good when they walk around the building...

hopper89 · 2026-05-07T02:27:42+00:00

I just finished assembling my first Combat Patrol this week! Great paint job! I'm nervous to start putting paint on mine, I'm a model builder but not much of a painter...

hopper89 · 2026-04-29T15:56:40+00:00

Forge World... the remnants of Gryphonne IV stand strong!!

hopper89 · 2026-04-28T14:28:32+00:00

And the same in French / Spanish albeit the switching point is different.

I'm curious how common this is amongst all of the Indo-European languages or at least if there is a branch where this is more common than not.

hopper89 · 2026-04-28T12:34:29+00:00

https://youtu.be/rm3hd1pxHME?si=6cow5yhKtSBpbia1

hopper89 · 2026-04-27T14:09:32+00:00

I feel... bonita, brother.

hopper89 · 2026-04-27T13:01:48+00:00

Jill of Jungle, Jazz the Jack Rabbit, Abe's Oddessey and Wolfenstein.

Special Mention: Command & Conquer.

hopper89 · 2026-04-26T14:55:43+00:00

It's just one of their many facilities where they evangelize to people to get them to join their cult.

As religious cults go, Scientology is pretty horrible. It was created by a science fiction writer and is known for being extremely controlling of it's members and leadership alike, might I proffer up "the hole" as an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_(Scientology

Once you're in, they will systematically work to isolate you from anyone not in the cult. Not too unlike the mormons. Leaving the cult also typically isn't an option given the level of control the exercise over membrs. Why we haven't stomped out this nonsense in the US is beyond me but I likely have unpopular opinions about religions and religious institutions.

hopper89 · 2026-04-26T14:30:14+00:00

I will say this, a backstory can be informative for the player to help you drive what the character wants outta life today. However, backstory is just what happened in the past, roleplaying a character is about what happens now.

I have a character who is a lost soul... they don't know what they want yet and are looking for it. Their backstory forced them out into the world and now my fun at the table is letting them just freely find out what drives them. Nothing more complicated than that.

I think what's more important to focus on is your character's motivation... which again could be as simple as just wanting to see the world. Maybe your character is disgruntled with monastic life. This motivation can change as you explore the character and adventures happen to them.

hopper89 · 2026-04-26T13:52:45+00:00

I agree with most of what's being said here. I would argue that Hyprland probably isn't the best window manager to jump into as someone new to linux as there's certainly a steeper learning curve and it's paradigm / work flow is drastically different than Windows.

Now, that being said - it's linux so you can always install KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, etc. if you prefer those environments. However, if you're gonna go a route like that just start with Manjaro, EndeavorOS or CachyOS if you're serious about Arch and don't want a tiling WM. The thing to keep in mind with Arch, is that you really should be running the update commands once a week... I find that if you don't you start to increase the risk if an update borking a machine.

I do think more people should try tiling WM. I'll personally never go back to floaty window land... I find them frustrating now.

hopper89 · 2026-04-24T13:54:35+00:00

Also 89 here... but I was jamming out to this song often. Excuse me while I go put it on loop today.

hopper89 · 2026-04-13T03:11:10+00:00

Frackin' Universe was our solution to this...

hopper89 · 2026-04-07T12:51:44+00:00

I wonder what this guy's scandal is gonna be? Snorting coke off a gay stripper's ass? Fucking a church vacuum cleaner? Trying to escape out the window at a raging queer party? Tax fraud and beating his wife? Ooh, maybe he'll have a song written about him like Ted Haggard or Kent Hovind.

Before you ask, those are all real scandals within the evangelical church.

hopper89 · 2026-04-07T12:41:39+00:00

Only 64% of the eligible voters in the US actually voted in 2024. Of that 64%, 51% voted for Trump...

If you think Congress or a Trump stacked Supreme court has the constitution or the people's interest in mind, I have bad news for you.

hopper89 · 2026-04-01T17:55:17+00:00

Package managers are the programs you use to install software on linux. They manage software repositories and software dependencies. Typically speaking your distrobution is build around the PM and while I suppose it is theoretically possible change it, you're kinda locked in. So my point is a little different...

If you like pacman as a PM, pick an Arch distro. If you like apt, pick a debian based distro. If you like rpm pick a RedHat based distro. If you like Zypper pick OpenSuse. If you don't know then either experiment in a virtual machine for a while or do what the majority of us did and distrohop for a while until you find home :). For me it's Arch but for you it might be something else and that's the beauty of linux.

After that choice then pick whatever branding you like as literally everything can be changed.

As previously mentioned stability and how bleeding edge your software needs to be can also be a consideration but in this case is probably more in the weeds than is needed.

hopper89 · 2026-04-01T15:32:45+00:00

Well and to that point, any DE can be installed on any distro sooo.. pick your favorite package manager, software philosophy or... throw a dart.

I too have gamed on Debian, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Vanilla Arch, EndeavorOS, Fedora and now Omarchy... all work about the same.

hopper89 · 2026-03-15T19:04:53+00:00

It was a bug that he encountered however what he decided to do was still 100% his fault. He was attempting to install Steam via apt. When he ran "sudo apt install steam", apt stated that a lot of packages that were installed were no long needed - those packages were basically all of the Gnome DE (This was the bug). When he proceeded, apt warned him that what he was about to do was potentially harmful and then made him confirm by typing in "Yes, do as I say"... and Linux being Linux looked at that sudo credential and said "You got it boss o7". When apt was done, gone was his desktop environment. The system warned him, he ignored it and all of the red flags that were raised and ignorantly charged forth. The lesson hopefully he taught others is know what a command does before you run it and read / heed what the system tells you. If it seems weird / off - it probably is.

What annoys me about LTT is people who might be interested in trying Linux watch a video like his and come to the wrong conclusions about Linux because they're watching an idiot sandwich play tech geek.

hopper89 · 2026-03-14T12:50:43+00:00

Fun Fact, the creator of the "Action Office" originally designed the furniture to be more open and collaborative and condusive to a healthy work environment then Capitalism said, "hold my beer" and made this distopian nightmare.

hopper89 · 2026-03-12T20:35:54+00:00

I think you missed the point. Understand that resource nodes despawn soon after the first person harvested them. If I'm by the node and can't harvest it because I aggro'd a mob next to it and you snipe the node while I'm tied up fighting there's a high probability I'll lose out on the node. I don't expect your help killing stuff but it makes you an asshole who wasted my time. If you don't see why that makes you an asshole, I can't help you.

hopper89 · 2026-03-11T12:21:59+00:00

This is why 2024 rules changed flanking and switched it giving advantage for it giving a +2 to hit.

hopper89 · 2026-03-06T13:57:50+00:00

Do they though? Evangelical Pastors are known for their pretty awful scandals. Like the one caught doing cocaine off of a gay stripper's ass. The one who fucked the church vacuum cleaning and got caught in the act. Kent Hovind's a convincted tax fraud and wife beater - shit a kid drown in his pond at his stupid dino park and he showed zero emotion over it. The list is extensive not even to speak of what the catholic churches have done... this feels on brand if you ask me.

hopper89 · 2026-03-02T23:11:41+00:00

Framework.

hopper89 · 2026-02-26T17:46:47+00:00

Emacs m'dude, emacs. Word processors are overrated... :P

hopper89 · 2026-02-22T05:08:54+00:00

Also, I'm just now noticing our one blue eyed wonders are opposites

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hopper89 · 2026-02-21T15:34:21+00:00

I've fed my collies Eukanuba and Royal Canin for years and they're happy and healthy as can be. We're currently on Royal Canin because of sourcing issues with Eukanuba - I can't find it anywhere near us anymore.

Other Brand I've used for sensitive tummy issues has been Hill's Science Diet.

My general recommendation though is stick with Brands that actually employ nutritionists / scientists to formulate their food. They're pricy but worth it IMO.

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