I gamed on a 1080p 6.5" Sony Xperia Z Ultra clipped onto a full-scale Sixaxis, and that thing weighted less than a Steam Deck. In 2013. We've got 3040x1440 OLEDs in our pockets since 2019.
Anybody who suggests gaming on a single-megapixel dumbbell in 2025 is either a troll or lives in a cave since the 2010's.
I have zero gripes with my mother tongue borrowing English words for new concepts. It might be the best thing it can do, second only to dying.
But every one in ten words it borrows the wrong form. "*What's that board? That's a surfing. How do I call the one riding it? Why, a surfinger, of course. *" "My sister sent me another reels-- pluralize what, reelss? Of course it's reelss, you weirdo." Makes me wanna scrape my eyes and ears out.
Both have one one decent option, and it's Sunshine for both.
IDK, your comment sounds overwhelmingly realistic.
$ howdidigethere
By repeatedly refusing to use 21th century package managers, of course.
Legalize everything. Death penalty over everything. I don't care, just make it consistent.
I wrote https://github.com/t184256/yousable for myself
I already have the system package manager. Everything else that isn't it doesn't manage my system and is doomed to suck.
I'm been a Linux power user for more than half of my life, 8 last years spent on NixOS. I self-host my everything. I've bootstrapped a toolchain and a Linux distro from scratch^Wtcc for giggles twice, first without a package manager, then without one. For the last five years, I earn a living by working on a Linux distro. I still have my only decent GPU in a Windows 10 box half a continent away I stream games from. Would you be able to convince me to switch?
Just face it, Windows is the gaming console firmware.
I once played XCOM 2 with a stylus. Ended up adding a 6DOF mouse for thether hand because bouncing around the map without it was atrocious.
Gamepads rule. There are one-handed ones as well.
I've contemplated writing for years, never knowing how to begin. Then, in a fit of I don't even know what, I turned a freeform roleplaying campaign I DM'd into a book, which took me a year because I decided that I need to write it in two languages at once, yeah, and construct an in-universe one, because, I guess, "if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe". And followed up with a handful of short stories, because I got extra ideas in the meantime, which I also had to turn into words.
At last, once I ran out of things I wanted to say to the world, I've sunk a couple of weeks into TVTropes, trying to analyze what was that. Like, 300+ pages of random largely inconsequential tension without no antagonist, arguably no single plot-turning point happening on-screen, and, with a bit of a mental gymnastics, conflict-free altogether? What even is that, how is that called? Such analysis was, uh, interesting, I've learned that new under the sun, or, say, that in one of those languages SaidBookism is a norm, and in the other one it's a sin, and...
Something tells me that churning out text for a year and analyzing it after the fact for a month is not how one's supposed to get into writing? What's the, uh, conventional way of getting into it? Should I have started with short stories? What if I don't control when and what do I want to write? Am I supposed to solicit reviews of what I wrote? In general, what did I miss?
I feel like I've crashed through a fence meters away from an entrance gate I was supposed to use.
