Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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  • I don’t, I have no stock portfolio at all. You’re probably right there’s a lot of bullshit that goes on in the financial world that I would put a pretty swift end to. Hell, “money market” bank accounts and such are probably somehow attached to the stock market.

    If I understand correctly, a mutual fund is basically a bunch of people invest in a bunch of stocks managed by a professional stock guesser such that it’s almost certainly going to do at least kind of okay. Yeah I’d either outright end that practice or heap a LOT of liability on the stock guesser and a bit on the members.

    You invested in a mutual fund, and one of the 60 stocks in the portfolio was Locktheon, and Locktheon just released a chemical weapon killing an entire small town? Your stock broker is now a slave of the state and will die in the mines, you and everyone else who is a member of that mutual fund owe 1000 hours community service each. We’re going to have a highway system so clean you can eat off it.


  • I’ve got a better idea: Make stockholders criminally liable and eligible for prison/execution for the crimes committed by the companies they invest in.

    Oh, PharmaCorp knowingly put a medication in to production that causes baby’s brains to catch fire? Every single investor in PharmaCorp is gonna serve three consecutive life sentences in Rapesburg-Asspain penitentiary.

    Wipe out a few generations of the upper class by getting a couple mass first degree murder convictions to stick and the problem will sort itself out.


  • Flatpak isn’t without its problems, but both front end and back end are open, and one can host his own flatpak repo. Canonical keeps Snap’s back end proprietary, so it is not possible to host your own Snap repo. Canonical being Canonical.

    It is my understanding that Snap was at one point intended to be a package manager for their embedded OS, which was more locked down. Then they started pushing it to all flavors of Ubuntu.

    Explain to me why, on Ubuntu systems, sudo apt install firefox installs the Snap version? Clem over at Linux Mint asked the same question, which is why Mint ships with Flatpak and not Snap support out of the box, and Mint…I’m going to get the details wrong here, either Firefox themselves packaged the APT version, or the Mint crew did, or both at various times.




  • The way Nintendo’s been behaving, I would ask you to buy neither for awhile longer. Continue to be patient.

    Easier combat isn’t either game I don’t think; compared to Wii and earlier Zeldas the combat is faster and more involved, often involving split second timing and ability to read subtle cues about the enemies. It’s not exactly Dark Souls, but even basic enemies have tactics.

    Breath of the Wild has much tighter design, everything in the game serves everything else very well. Except rain. The story actually makes sense, it’s thin on the ground…literally but it functions. There is an aspect to Breath of the Wild…Classic Zelda games often presented puzzles to the player and ask them to solve the puzzle. There is one and only one solution to the puzzle, and the game will block you from circumventing it. Not Breath of the Wild; it presents problems for you to overcome. A complicated maze? Climb the walls. Big spikey death ball rolling across the path? Put a block in front of it. Many problems have several potential solutions. You have a toolkit, and if you use those tools to reach the goal you are succeeding at the game. I played through Breath of the Wild several times, maybe someday I’ll run through it again.

    Tears of the Kingdom is bloated. The story doesn’t make sense, a lot of the mechanics are in each other’s way, it has what? four different crafting mechanics? Upgrading clothing, cooking food/elixirs, weapon crafting, vehicle crafting. The game has done so much trying to be everything to everyone that no single mechanic has room to actually shine. There is a greater variety of enemies, not many of the new ones are very fun to encounter. All of the new overworld bosses I had the exact same experience with: “What is that?” Get closer, before I could even process what I was looking at I was immediately killed. The actual dungeon bosses are visually spectacular but pose no challenge at all. It’s also very hazy. The one thing I said over and over again during my one and only run of ToTK was “What am I looking at?” There’s just this persistent thick fog throughout the whole thing, you can’t see. Frankly, I don’t think it’s a very good game. It’s a miraculous piece of software, all of the crafting systems interacting with the physics system, and it seems to function perfectly…I don’t think it’s very fun. I’ve played it through once, I’m never touching it again, I’m probably done with the Zelda franchise. Been a fan since 1991, I think this is where I get off.