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Did your country recognize Palestine before the Fairly OddParents?
  • Portuguese Wikipedia

    I misunderstood the line that says "O Brasil se soma a uma lista de mais países que reconhecem o Estado Palestino,(...)Reconhecendo também a Organização para a Libertação da Palestina (OLP), desde 1975 como "legítima representante do povo palestino"." as meaning we've recognised the state of Palestine officially since '75

    Apparently, according to the govbr site OP linked in reply to me above, stuff is a bit more complicated than that but ye.

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    Did your country recognize Palestine before the Fairly OddParents?
  • The list from english wikipedia says my country (Brazil) only recognised Palestine in 2010

    But in portutugese wikipedia it is said we've recognised them since 1975.

    I don't know which one is right, so.

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    How does Lemmy feel about "open source" machine learning, akin to the Fediverse vs Social Media?
  • As I said in a different thread:

    I might be this close to butlerian jihad thought when it comes to AI as an invention

    But if it must come to pass, better it be on the back of community owned and controlled models than a couple of megacorps.

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    The mortifying ordeal of being known
  • I explained my fursona to my therapist.

    It was

    A fun time.

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    Remember when games had manuals too?
  • Bitch

    Buying a game during a trip to another town, being away from your computer for a week, and spending the entire week just fondling the game box, reading it, reading the papers that came inside, doing game foreplay.

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    When you're high level, people notice you. Shock!
  • Your comics are so cute.

    Also man. I was part of 1(one) campaign that made it to high level. And it is a bit of a magical experience.

    When our crew of sky pirates flew into town everyone immediately knew who they were, local authorities and groups of people were always either trying to court their favour or get rid of them at any cost, they never needed to introduce themselves -- They were the Monarchs of the Storm, and their career had started with them causing an entire criminal empire to crumble (specifically because they'd messed with their friends), and only gotten more intense and destructive from there.

    Shame one of our players disappeared because of Life :tm: and so we haven't played in almost a year.

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    Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)?
  • Personally I'm cool with that. I don't think daily exposure to actual fascists is good for one's head. And I wouldn't mind .ml getting the axe too (though I'm not gonna be the one pestering my instance admin about that) because Tankies are equally as draining.

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    What the hell even is Diet Coke?
  • I wasn't even under the illusion that it would be good for me, lol.

    Even IF Diet Coke is a sometimes drink for me, that 'sometimes' means 'once every saturday' -- It'll probably give me diabetes long-term but y'know. Some people ruin their livers with alcohol, some people fuck their lungs with cigs, I'm screwing up my pancreas with diet soda. 🤷

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    Going on my first super long haul flight - what can I buy to make it more comfortable?
  • Those pain medications that make you unnaturally sleepy.

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    Steam On Linux Drops Below 2% For August 2024 Survey
  • Might be me, I have mostly been emulating for the past month. And that only goes through the steam client on the deck

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    Renewable electricity rule
  • Hey neat, an iteration of this meme that is edited from an edit I posted on linuxmemes a few months ago.

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    Renewable electricity rule
  • That would cause the turbine to lock up with this design

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    What the hell even is Diet Coke?
  • Yeah but Coke isn't JUST sweeteners (it's real sugar over here u-u) and water. At least according to the ingredients list, there's like, the extract of a weird nut (the Cola nut!), you'd think that would have some sugars and ~organic bits~ (proteins? Idk) of its own

    Kinda like how juices with "no added sugar" still have some calories, idk

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  • Like, the nutrition facts table says it contains nothing other than some sodium. No sugars or fats or calories at all

    Yet it clearly is edible, so what is it? Some concoction made mostly from indigestible minerals?

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    Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)?
  • Most likely your instance is defederated from all the nazi-adjacent instances 🤷

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    What are some good games with really awesome stories?
  • Exquisite taste.

    Seconding the Zelda rec, Majora's being my favourite as well, with Minish Cap being a close second. (narrative-wise, that is)

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    when i was young i listen to the radio
  • I am confused.

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    Brazil's top court threatens to suspend X by Thursday night
  • Mosquito will learn why we call him "BIG ALEX"

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    What are some good games with really awesome stories?
  • I've been gaming on Linux exclusively for 3 years now. So. These are all proton-tested-and-approved. Though a couple (especially the old ones) require a bit of tinkering.

    • Pillars of Eternity I and II -- Slow burns. cRPGs. Get very good, but take a while to get there
    • Tyranny -- Same developer, also a cRPG, but gets to the point faster, and in fact can be finished in one weekend. Do note: It's an "evil campaign" type of RPG.
    • Pyre -- A fantasy basketball game with a Visual Novel on the side. Very touching story, made me cry twice. And the gameplay is no slouch either, even if I kinda suck at it. (... Though when you lose the games you don't game over, the story just changes)
    • Wolfenstein the New Order -- FPS set in an alternate history where the nazis won WW2, where you play a resistance fighter. Very enjoyable action, and it always feels good to blow nazis away.
    • Dishonored 2 -- Stealth-FPS/Immersive Sim where you play as an assassin-princess who can turn herself into a horrid tentacle monster. Also a nice story.
    • Enderal: Forgotten Stories -- Skyrim Total Conversion title. Very surreal and trippy story. Pushes the Skyrim engine to its absolute breaking point to realize the developers' vision, and doesn't always get there.
    • Fallout: New Vegas -- I mean, if I didn't bring it up, someone would. New Vegas is a flawed and messy game, but it is just about competent enough that you are fine with it being less-than-ideal in the name of getting to the story.

    If old games & emulation are on the cards --

    • Terranigma (SNES) -- What if Legend of Zelda... But you are literally creating the world by doing your quest. It's nuts. I love it.
    • Legacy of Kain series (PS1, PS2, PC) -- Very flawed gameplay on all of them (each in its own unique way)... But it is legitimately one of the greatest tales ever told through gaming. (note: It's also edgy)
    • Prince of Persia Sands Trilogy (PC, PS2, GC, Xbox) -- This little trilogy of games from the sixth generation delivers in both elegant platforming gameplay and entertaining storytelling. Does suck that they are from a time that game devs thought subtitling your cutscenes would make your skin fall off (or something. No games back then had subbed cutscenes and it sucked)
    • Paper Mario/Mario & Luigi series (Nintendo machines) -- Comedy RPGs about the Mario characters (duh). Very well written, especially Thousand Year Door (GC/Switch) and the original Mario & Luigi (GBA/3DS). Story is as vanilla as you'd expect, since it's Mario, but it is worth it for the comedy imho
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    LARP rule
  • All those stepmothers have gotta imply something about the disney fandom--

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  • The gender I want to be is "Majestic Unicorn of unclear gender/sex, but decidedly statuesque in bearing"

    You can see how it would be difficult for me to transition in any meaningful way

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    Had a dream of a youtube channel where some person reacted to political news (normal stuff), only instead of a facecam in the corner, they had a video feed of three Golden Retrievers in sunglasses

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    Title. Game otherwise works great. Windows-using friends say it works for them. Networking is also normal on computer.

    I initially thought it could be anticheat related so I disabled mangohud and made sure Easy AntiCheat was launching etc.

    But no cigar, the game loads and errors out like in the pic. :

    !

    It seems to do so immediately, too, like it's not even trying to connect?

    Tried it on my Deck too, same error.

    Do not have a Windows PC to try it on, but it's really confusing me, because it ran perfectly until today. :P

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    My younger friends all talk about this Jerma person like he's some kind of mythical entity. An eldritch being that cannot be explained for any attempt at explanation inevitably fails.

    I am confused. From what I could gather he's like... A streamer? Content creator?

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    Way back in the day, every game had its logic tied to its framerate -- As anyone who's ever tried to run an eighties PC game on a nineties PC only to see it run at 20x speed and completely unplayable can tell you.

    But in the modern day this is less common. Generally the game keeps chugging along at the same pace, no matter how fast or slow the frames are being presented (unless, of course, everything is bogged down so hard that even the game logic is struggling)

    And yet, you'll still find a few. Any fan of Dark Souls who played on PC back when Prepare to Die edition first came to PC will remember how unlocking the framerate could cause collision bugs and send you into the void. And I recently watched a video of a gent who massively overclocked a Nintendo Switch OLED and got Tears of the Kingdom to run at 60FPS... Except everything was, indeed, running in fast-forward, rather than just being smoother.

    This makes me wonder -- Is there some unseen advantage to keeping game logic and framerate tied together? Perhaps something that only really shows on weaker hardware? Or is it just devs going "well the hardware we're targeting won't really go over this speed, and we don't really give a fuck about anything else" and not bothering to implement it?

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    Translation:

    Riot Police watches as a patriot (read: fascist) gets into a brawl with Spider-Man, while a dildo flies by, and Mano Brown (famous rapper) films it all.

    Just an insane event from the annals of my country's history.

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    Youtube Channel SaveAFox, previously a channel about like, a fox sanctuary that showed cute footage of the foxes to get more donors, got hacked today.

    It is now full of videos claiming to be from SpaceX and Elon Musk's ugly mug.

    Thing is

    It's not the first channel I've seen being hacked, nor is it the first to get that exact type of content spammed into it. Linus Tech Tips got hacked some time back (honestly I don't remember how long ago, but I was already on Lemmy, so it was within the past year and change) and it had that exact type of stuff before LMG took it back.

    And there was another random channel that I saw suffer the same fate some months before LTT.

    My question is -- Why Elon Musk? Why SpaceX/Tesla? Is Musk himself paying people to build zombie farms for him? I wouldn't put it past him but at the same time he has the funds to not need that kind of tactic -- He could astroturf by more "legit-looking" means.

    Is it just because people who like Musk are more likely to fall for scams?

    Idk, found myself wondering that.

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    Title.

    I'm not sure I'm ready to go all "lineageOS full degoogle" on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they're offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I'm like "NO". So.

    I don't really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally.

    The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

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    Title.

    Pokémon's too easy to be fun anymore, but Nuzlockes don't work for me for a number of reasons. So I figured I'd play one of those romhacks that redesigns trainer teams -- That way I could play the game normally but also would have to use my brain.

    Any base game will do, although I'm not too fond of Gen4 because of how slow Gen4 pokémon games tend to be (gen5 is the prettiest, ofc)

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    A Brazilian RAINBOW boa that had been assigned male at birth gave birth to 14 babies.

    In the middle of June.

    Happy ***ing Pride Month

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    Title. Tried to search, found instructions on how to do it in debian-adjacent distros, but I'm in openSUSE, which doesn't use dpkg.

    I also checked the manpage for zypper and found nothing that seemed the part, though I don't exclude the possibility that I just failed to read it properly.

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