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Retrokhan, in What are your favorite "ugly" games?

The Case of the Golden Idol
Some people dislike the pixel-art style and weird character design, but I find it charming.

southsamurai, in What movie did you rewatch most often?
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Over my entire life, Spaceballs.

It’s my comfort movie. I saw it when it came out on VHS back in the day, and it just killed me. Still does, particularly Candy’s bits. I fucking miss that guy.

As an adult, as lame as it may seem, it’s a tie between the first Avengers movie and Fight Club.

Crackhappy,
@Crackhappy@lemmy.world avatar

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SweetSitty,

That’s amazing, I have the same combination for my luggage!

Jarmer, in What are your favorite "ugly" games?
@Jarmer@kbin.social avatar

does Doom count? Because my friends and I still play the game to this day, all the various community mods and maps.

jeena, in Why is asklemmy dominating my news feed?
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To get really diverse sort after “New Comments”.

z500, (edited ) in Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?
@z500@startrek.website avatar

I tried to install a package and apt started uninstalling my desktop. Maybe if I didn’t panic and hit Ctrl-C I would have gotten all the packages it was removing replaced with shiny new ones? I doubt it somehow.

All the customization you can do is neat, but after that I was pretty much done with fiddling with my OS and finding FOSS versions of stuff I was already used to and wanted something that would just work. These days I have a small form factor PC with Mint that I run some server apps on, but I’m holding off on making it my daily driver again until Microsoft really puts the screws on the consumer.

KSPAtlas,
@KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz avatar

That seemed to be a major bug in POP_OS at one point, the youtuber Linus Tech Tips fell victim to it while trying it and it ended up being patched VERY fast

PeWu,

I’ll add one bit of info from me. I’ve installed aptitude on Mint, as it was supposedly the best package dependency conflict resolver. I don’t remember what conflict I had, but when I launched aptitude to fix that broken package, it begun to uninstall every package. After reinstall, I’ve been using Mint as computer for modifying bootloaders in phones, and some minor works, returning to modified windows 10.

KSPAtlas,
@KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’m not the OS police, seems like using windows is kinda reasonable given your experiences with Linux

roux,
@roux@lemmy.ml avatar

Tbf I’ve had a similar thing happen like 6 years ago. I’ve been using Linux still but at the time I didn’t have much going on that system outside of a few games so it just turned into a long reinstall weekend. I forget exactly what happened but I also had another issue where I tried to install KDE Plasma desktop environment and it completely nuked my system. Idk if it was a user error or what.

I’m still a Linux fanboy but it’s not without its own set of issues. I try to be a bit more careful in the terminal after all that and I haven’t had any major issues since. I do need to do a fresh install sometime in the near future though.

b00m, in What are your favorite "ugly" games?
@b00m@kbin.social avatar

Battle for Wesnoth. Best.Game.Ever (slight exaggeration)

B20bob, in Lemmy.world is down because of a DDOS attack

Interesting. That explains it. I’m glad I decided to make another account over here where the sht just works. Seems to be less issues so far, is that other’s experience as well?

drinkleadsoup,
@drinkleadsoup@kbin.social avatar

Same.

_cerpin_taxt_, in It's possible to bathe a newborn kitten with fleas?

DO NOT GIVE KITTENS A BATH

I was in pretty much the exact situation as you with two brother kittens when I was in 4th grade. They had really bad fleas, so my brother and I gave them both a bath. They both ended up going into shock from the water. One died at the vet - the other lived to be able 21.

Please don’t risk it. I’m in my 30s now and still don’t forgive myself for Ernie’s death.

Xirup,
@Xirup@lemmy.one avatar

I’m sorry to hear that, I don’t think it’s your fault either, many times a person acts on their own because they think they are doing the right thing but end up doing something wrong, and unfortunately as human beings we learn from mistakes.

And not worry, after reading several comments here, I will not bathe them.

Fleppensteijn,
@Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl avatar

I once found an abandoned kitten and gave it a gentle wash and he was fine. Did you use cold water or something?

_cerpin_taxt_,

Nope, warm water. Sure, they can come out fine. One of the two lived a very long life afterwards. Personally, if there’s even a 1% chance of something killing a kitten, I don’t do that thing.

_calm_bomb_,
@_calm_bomb_@lemmy.ml avatar

Why are people upvoting you is beyond my comprehension.

The fact that you were kids and made a mistake doesn’t mean that you can’t/shouldn’t bathe a kitten!!!

Just make sure you prepare for the task: use warm water and wash the kitten from tail to neck - it’s better to avoid the head and anyway there’s little to no fleas on the head. I’m no vet, but I got this advice from my vet when I found a flea infested kitten under my car.

So, for people reding this: yes, you can bathe your kitten, but get some advice from your vet beforehand!

_cerpin_taxt_,

Personally, if there’s even a 1% chance of something killing a kitten, I don’t do that thing.

Definitely talk to your very first, if you absolutely want to give them a bath, but they clean themselves with their tongues, so absolutely not necessary whatsoever.

Sethayy,

Then again almost everything has a 1% of killing anything, the world’s pretty dangerous. So - with a vets opnion - bathing a kitten to remove discomfornt isnt all bad news.

Great example is im sure many kittens have died eating before, but of course we still feed them

VelvetStorm,

Seems like you didn’t have the water at the right temp and didn’t dry them quickly enough or put them back on a heating pad. Which is fully understandable because you were 9 years old. If you know what you are doing it’s perfectly safe to give them a bath but it’s not recommended unless they are infested with fleas.

ChaosCharlie, in What are your favorite "ugly" games?

Bannerlord! Although maybe it could be argued that it’s not “ugly” per se… curious what others think

TommySalami,

Seeing a fully armored horse ragdoll across the sky as my Fians melt Imperials is nothing but beautiful.

mrmule, in Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

Have a mouse? You need to find a driver Oh Is that a keyboard? Yeah you’ll need to get a driver for that too. Oh you have a monitor now? Guess what?.. Yeah go find a driver. But wait, there’s more. Oh you want to run that software? Yeah you’re gonna need to search for an hour for some random file so you can run it.

Well, that was my experience about 4 years ago, no idea which distro, but I just upped, left and felt warm and cosy in my fat bloated windows 🤷‍♂️

ashtefere,

None of that was true 4 years ago. Or 10 years ago. Or 15 years ago. You are a potato.

CurseBunny,
@CurseBunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Four years ago this wasn’t even true on something quite minimalist like Arch. You installed a desktop environment and some generic drivers for stuff like audio and you had a working PC. If this was truly your experience I’m very curious about what your particular issues were.

Jourei, in If people using Reddit are called Redditors, then what do we call people who use Lemmy?

Lemmings.

TeaHands,
@TeaHands@lemmy.world avatar

Case closed.

This question does get asked a lot, as someone else pointed out. But even if you go back to when it was asked a couple of years ago the consensus has always been lemmings.

guckfoogle, in Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

Arch Linux based distros (arco, Manjaro, endeavor) have my favorite package manager in the world (not pacman) but yay. I’ve tried every package manager and for me nothing comes close to yay. But the sad part is arch updates have completely destroyed every arch based distro I’ve ever had. The last one (endeavor os) literally made me hate Linux for awhile, because I put a great deal of work and love into setting up a desktop environment, configuring the hell out of my terminal and my dev environment and one update just destroyed my whole desktop. It takes me more than 2 days to completely get my Linux desktop configured to where I like it, and endeavoros just breaking my desktop environment really demoralized me from trying to set up another Linux box again for a long time, so I just went back to my super stable MacBook that wasn’t as fun or ergonomic but at the end of the day it’s never given me serious issues. Of course I’m back to using Linux, this time with stable old Ubuntu.

homoludens, in What are your favorite "ugly" games?

TagPro - minimalist graphics, straightforward gameplay and an insanely high skill ceiling. So good it was banned from AskTheBadWebsite because it was always the top answer for every question regarding good webgames etc.

AceFuzzLord, in What's your real-life superpower?

If you consider having “thick skin” a superpower in the social media era, then that.

CatBusBand, in What are your favorite "ugly" games?

Unpopular opinion but I thought Return of the Obra Dinn was ugly. However, I really like it and it’s one of those games you can only experience ones.

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