[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Lots of moments in Honkai Impact 3.

There’s literally a YT channel that collects tears from streamers playing the game.

https://youtube.com/@Ollyt_

There’s a lot of context needed to understand why anyone would cry playing through HI3 though. I’ll give a high level summary here, but I highly encourage people to play it, even if it’s a gacha game. You can really ignore the gacha and just play the game for the main story. Do be warned that the story isn’t something suitable for kids — it can be quite a bit too heavy for them.

The theme of self-sacrifice is covered quite extensively, with the main character being the centrepiece of the theme. There’s also deep self-loathe, with an eventual self-acceptance, also from the MC. Mix that all in with some sense of duty.

There’s also a tragedy, but from the tragedy, a narrow path to hope was born. The people in the tragedy mostly hoped only for a simple life, or to live their lives atoning for their sins, but circumstances forced them to become warriors against a great, unstoppable force of destruction. As if to make things harder to swallow, their digital clones that survived into the future have to experience yet another tragedy that would eventually destroy all of them, and the player will see this through. Yet, in the second tragedy, these clones further sowed the seeds of hope for the future.

Chinese company or not, HoYo has pumped out a lot of very human stories that I think deserves attention and praise. Genshin Impact has also started to go down a similar path.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Forced party setups are almost always a nice thing, and they did it in a somewhat less punishing way; by using the character in your roster if your character is at max level (that seems to be the condition I think, instead of some complex rule to calculate strength). Great for immersion, and can sometimes increase the difficulty of a fight due to a lack of synchronization, but that's just part of the immersion IMO.

I've quite enjoyed the story myself. It's a simple story, but also ties up some loose stories and gives them an ending, especially if you've paid attention to character stories and NPC interactions, loose ends that have basically been around since the launch of the game.

Some people will probably find the whole poem thing meh and maybe confusing. It's actually a nod to a few traditional Chinese cultures all related to poems, which mean it’s a chance for those who don’t know to have a peek at the culture, or it’s pure nostalgia for those who grew up experiencing it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I’m probably replying to a troll, but I will do so anyways for the sake of those who need to read this.

If we aren’t in any way bothered to see such narrow-minded reactions to a wrong being righted, then humankind is definitely headed for a few horrible decades ahead, filled with unnecessary strife and conflict out of pure indifference to each other’s backgrounds and current understanding of the world. And I’d even imagine it’d be worse than what we’re already seeing this decade. I suggest you go back and rethink what really matters as humans, instead of focusing on just some narrow definition of what a win is.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Hashicorp’s been around for years; since 2012 actually. Used to be a pretty cool company, looked up by many, like a shining beacon in the darkness. It’s unfortunate where they’ve gone to now.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

You can force a specific Proton version on each game, though I’m not sure (off the top of my head at least) if that would help with not installing duplicates. Iirc best practice for using Wine for games is to have separate installations to avoid having conflicting dependencies, though I’m not sure if Steam does that.

Also, GE is short for Glorious Eggroll, which is the name of the dev who creates custom Proton distributions. People refer to these distributions simply as Proton GE or just GE. Ref: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

That’s why I get out of my car, look if I’m getting in someone’s way, and adjust as needed.

Takes no more than a minute to be civil and nice to other people, especially to those with special needs.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Bram, thank you to have brought vim to the world.

May you rest in peace.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

While this echoes some other comments, this meme should go soon. I’ve used Arch for years at this point, and if there’s ever something wrong, it’s generally my fault, and the official announcement and mailing list do a pretty good job telling you what you should do before upgrading your system. Install a tool informant to check for unread news for you for when you try to update, and stop your upgrade transaction if there are news you haven’t read. These announcements are pretty rare. My system’s also been rock solid. I read that they have an official installer now to help ease installation. Things are pretty great with Arch.

On the other hand, Ubuntu has been a pain in the ass. Putting aside the horrible experience with dist-upgrade, Gnome has been the most painful DE I’ve ever used.

  • Odd resizes of my windows on sleep & wake on a multi-monitor setup.
  • Randomly spawn the password prompt on sleep & wake, with no way to remove the prompt unless I do a pkill gnome-shell and let the DM restart gnome-shell.
  • Software Centre can just randomly fail to fetch package updates. Update installs through software centre can also fail with the most unhelpful messages.
  • Software centre will stop a full update if there’s an app in the list that’s running. Arguably a feature, but not all apps require that. That decision should be left to the discretion of the app maintainer. Users can individually update other apps to circumvent the problem, but that’s a paper cut to me.
[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

You are correct. This notion of “size” of sets is called “cardinality”. For two sets to have the same “size” is to have the same cardinality.

The set of natural numbers (whole, counting numbers, starting from either 0 or 1, depending on which field you’re in) and the integers have the same cardinality. They also have the same cardinality as the rational numbers, numbers that can be written as a fraction of integers. However, none of these have the same cardinality as the reals, and the way to prove that is through Cantor’s well-known Diagonal Argument.

Another interesting thing that makes integers and rationals different, despite them having the same cardinality, is that the rationals are “dense” in the reals. What “rationals are dense in the reals” means is that if you take any two real numbers, you can always find a rational number between them. This is, however, not true for integers. Pretty fascinating, since this shows that the intuitive notion of “relative size” actually captures the idea of, in this case, distance, aka a metric. Cardinality is thus defined to remove that notion.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

And so you end up driving up food and housing demand, with no guarantee that the revived population can provide to the supply side. :P

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Everything is an inode :P

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

To anyone who uses vim mode, ? lets you search through your stored command history, from normal mode ofc.

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