overview for starelfsc2

House passes bill to avoid a shutdown, sending it to the Senate hours before the deadline in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But Trump may be willing to take a “win” on a funding deal that cuts a significant amount of what he saw as “pork,” the source continued

I'm confused as to what was left out, the rejected bill tried to increase the debt ceiling and removed funding for children's cancer research, among other things. The only change mentioned is the removal of the debt ceiling increase. Republicans finally reducing government waste by denying children's cancer research funding...?

2024: Hottest year to date, and first year over 1.5ºC in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because living in a world with extreme weather events where you can't leave your house for weeks because of heat waves and never before seen storms, and possibly damage to your home(this has already happened where I live), where a home garden will die to heat waves, with constant shortages of food and water, is not a life I'd wish on my enemy, much less someone I love.

We are already starting to see more extreme heat waves and weather, we know it's happening, and we're drilling for more oil than ever, so the chances the next generation will suddenly start making big changes when the past two have done worse than nothing while being fully informed seems extremely unlikely to me. I'm pretty optimistic on most everything, but there is not a single sign pointing to this being resolved by humans within the next 100 years, if ever.

95% male platform go brrrrrrule in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know you probably didn't mean it like this, but I'm one of those people who "realized" I didn't need to conform to being traditionally masculine, and this is definitely not something the average person can or should do. If you don't try your best at "being a man," When you're younger other men will bully you, most women will either think there's something wrong with you or not want to talk to you, and your parents will wonder what they're doing wrong. Even people with super accepting parents end up feeling weirded out by "non manly" people because it's not the norm. When you get older a lot of these issues get easier because you can choose who you associate with, but I still get people either commenting or treating me worse because I'm not "manly" enough, almost never the opposite.

I have no idea what to do about this, I'm just saying living as a not traditionally "manly" will have the general population treating you worse for your whole life, and you're either strong enough to deal with that and stick with only the people who don't care about it, or you go back to being "manly"

She's right in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 15 points 2 weeks ago

At the same time, if you are chronically ill are you not allowed to relax? A normal person can go home and unwind, a person with chronic illness has to deal with the illness which might put them in constant pain, make them extremely tired etc, and also somehow has to spend extra effort solving it. How is that even remotely fair?

Nervous about seeing family after weight loss in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you could bring a friend or tell a family member that might make less of a big deal about it, it's a lot easier to deal with that kinda stuff if you have someone you can complain about it with, and also leave with them or by yourself for a bit if you need it.

Why do I tend to reply in the same amount of time it took my friends to? in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you respond instantly at any point during the day it can mean you're not doing anything the entire day or you're actually desperate for interaction. If you don't feel secure in your relationship with someone you might want them to think you have a lot going on.

Also, some research shows being less available can make you seem more valuable. This article is related to business relationships but it's the same principle. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/smarter-living/benefits-of-being-scarce.html

Old game runs fine but gets stuck on "connecting" once past launcher in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm connecting using freestyle gunz which is still maintained and I can connect to it on windows

10

Old game runs fine but gets stuck on "connecting" once past launcher (self.linux_gaming)

submitted 3 weeks ago by starelfsc2 to c/[email protected]

2 comments fedilink

I can't seem to get freestyle gunz to connect. To note, the launcher downloads everything fine, and the game launches fine (I have to launch using the launcher.exe rather than gunz.exe or the game won't start), but it just gets stuck on "Connecting" and then the game says there was an error connecting to the server. I have followed this tutorial: https://freestylersworld.com/showthread.php?126443-Tutorial-How-to-run-Freestyle-Gunz-on-Ubuntu-with-Lutris and setting lutrus to use any proton version or wine version besides 9.21 I had the same issue of getting to the login page, entering my information, and it says "connecting... 2nd attempt.... 3rd attempt..." and then says failed to connect to server.

Only very old proton versions (<5) fail to launch the game at all. If I run wine cmd then ping google.com I get a regular response. Stable, Staging, and development 9.21 versions of Wine would not launch the game after clicking start on the launcher, and with the lutris configuration running wine 9.21 gives this error: 02bc:err:seh:NtRaiseException Unhandled exception code c0000409 flags 1 addr 0x744b63, but running wine 9.21 with a new configuration and installing those libraries using winetricks hangs after these lines: 02c0:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_FIRMWARE_TABLE_INFORMATION action 0

02c0:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_FIRMWARE_TABLE_INFORMATION action 0

02c0:fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity 00000000, -1, 00000000, 00000000, 0, 3, 00000000, 0, 00000000 stub

02c0:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION

02c0:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module

02cc:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module

02c0:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod FFFFFFFA, 03D6FEB8

I have tried running the game through steam's compatibility settings, going from top to bottom until the game no longer launched, and all had the same issue of not being able to connect, but everything else working fine. I also tried running the installer with proton, and had the same issue of not being able to connect. I tried using winetricks without lutris to install msxml3,4, 6, and xmlite, and had the same issue of the game not launching using 9.21 wine and the game launching but not connecting on earlier versions. I found another reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gunz/comments/1dwkgjq/how_to_run_gunz_the_duel_on_linux/ with someone who seems to have a similar issue of not being able to connect, but no solution.

Something maybe of note: winetricks complains I'm using a 64bit wine prefix and installing 32 bit libraries when I install msxml, but the launcher is 64 bit and the game itself is 32 bit and uses these 32 bit libraries.

I'm just running ethernet, only things that show up on ifconfig are enp5s0 (my ethernet) and lo

Here is my OS:

NAME="Pop!_OS"

VERSION="22.04 LTS"

ID=pop

ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"

PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS"

VERSION_ID="22.04"

HOME_URL="https://pop.system76.com"

SUPPORT_URL="https://support.system76.com"

BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues"

PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy"

VERSION_CODENAME=jammy

UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os

Good luck today, friends in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm glad for you that you don't have any of the republican stereotypes currently in your life.

Kids are getting ruder, teachers say. And new research backs that up in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah I get what you mean, and I've seen that happen a lot. I just meant along with that, it's good people seem to talk more about why something is bad rather than "because I said so," since it makes it a cooperation instead of a battle.

Kids are getting ruder, teachers say. And new research backs that up in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I actually like that sometimes kids have outbursts and insubordination met with a conversation (but still keeping some form of punishment), because sometimes they're having a bad day, sometimes they just got tempted and you can talk about it, and sometimes they just weren't thinking because they're kids.

Everything else I agree with, it's hard for parents to stop their kids from being addicted to their phones when the parents are also addicted to their phones :/

Why IS dating rule for guys in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd like to note: neurodivergent people generally only become close with other neurodivergent people (NOT ALWAYS). neurodivergent people are a much smaller portion of society, and a lot of these people will be bullied or put down growing up and lose their self worth. EVEN IF they manage to regain their self worth completely, they generally have trouble communicating with people, and will generally have mild to negative social interactions. Now the people who have the most trouble interacting have to interact with 5x as many people since they likely would only become close with other neurodivergent people. I hope that's obvious how insanely unfair that is.

Stuff like this is pretty hurtful to those people, because if this is all it takes for most people, hey I must really be worthless then because I've already done all this and I tried a hobby and I tried asking people out and none of it works! To those people, sorry you have to deal with this, you deserve someone who will be happy to be with you. I promise there are people out there that will value you specifically for who you are, even if they're more rare. You can try joining things that you think will have people you'd enjoy hanging out with, whether that be playing games at a comic book shop or joining a dnd group, a choir, a band, or any niche interest you have (for me this is learning languages, and I met two of the coolest people I've ever met through that)

Must be 6'2" or taller in c/[email protected]

[–] starelfsc2 8 points 1 month ago

Lol what it's someone being rude and getting kicked for it

28

"Paying customers" wishes vs creating a more accepting environment (self.asklemmy)

submitted 4 months ago by starelfsc2 to c/[email protected]

18 comments fedilink

I recently watched a video about an unpolled change in old-school runescape that added the ability to change your character's pronouns, as well as have beards as female characters, and the community's reaction to it. Sadly, most of the runescape playerbase is pretty right leaning, with the expected reactions of "this is dumb why would they add this," "why add this unpolled," and "this is a medieval fantasy game not a dating simulator"

I wonder what people's thoughts on this are, as if you are a paying customer for a game, and the game has been promised to only add poll-approved changes, is this unreasonable and why? The game is "old-school runescape," the players are notoriously resistant to change, and are paying to keep the game as they like it. Can you pay to keep your uninclusive game uninclusive? I don't have a great argument against it past "this literally doesn't matter" which won't convince people who believe it does.

21

Weird graphical glitches/crashes in older games with AMD card (self.techsupport)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by starelfsc2 to c/[email protected]

13 comments fedilink

Hi all, I've been recently playing some somewhat old games and have had trouble with either crashing, or weird graphical glitches.

The list of games I've tried:

Warcraft III (a custom map, normal game seems to work fine) Quake 2 Spring engine 103 (rts engine)

Warcraft 3 has a glitched white bar following the cursor, and the map crashes with "access violation" as the only error, as did the rts engine. I managed to fix the crash by running a 64 bit version of spring engine, but it then had this weird graphical glitch: https://imgur.com/a/ij6FaWa I looked in the settings and kept changing anything I could think of, one was to set UseVBO=0 which fixed that graphical problem, but sometimes the game will still crash with "access violation" Quake 2 replaces all projectile sprites/trails with a circle: https://imgur.com/a/qtLR2To

I'm thinking this is a weird problem with my AMD card, because I have a computer with the same 64 bit OS and all of these games work fine on it, and I played quake 2 before on this computer with the only difference being I swapped the graphics card and motherboard (exact same model mobo) I've tried running warcraft 3 with djvoodoo and that didn't seem to help, I've read online amd cards can have issues with older games running openGL and directx. Those posts are pretty old, but they make me think I might be SOL with an amd card

specs: OS: windows 10 home 64 bit mobo: gigabyte z690 UD ddr4 processor: intel i7 12700kf gfx: amd radeon RX 6800 XT

Appreciate any ideas!

Edit: wc3 crash log: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xrfw98rs7yhy356gt725g/2023-07-30-12.35.02-Crash.txt?rlkey=dp9oiqcibo4kigeq8lpzk8s0o&dl=0 running spring with a 32-bit launcher gives me Error: Failed to allocate memory 100% of the time I run it with UseVBO=1, 64 bit launcher gives me the graphical problem with UseVBO=1, and both work fine with UseVBO=0 quake 2 issue seems resolved if I change the openGL version, though it did work fine with previous settings before changing the graphics card, apparently this is a known issue pending future release.