One of these three is not like the other two.

Clicked on link expecting a Tom Clancy book. Was severely disappointed.

The latest ______ makes it evident they still live on in ______.

If your software cheat gets detected, which has much lower odds of happening for some games than it does for others, you spend $30 buying a new account. That is much cheaper than spending $500-$2000 on a DMA card and then an assload of money on the actual cheat software that uses that card (because DMA cheats are much more expensive).

I promise you there’s at most a single digit number of people using DMA cheats for Rust, because software cheats are more than sufficient to evade the bog standard EAC they use.

Why would you bother going through all that trouble if there is a way to software cheat undetectably? This is a rhetorical question.

Yes it does, and there are at least some non-EAC servers with a whitelist system that Linux users can play on.

I’m sure he’s at least mostly right about the cheating thing, because in many cases the Linux-compatible EAC binary is just a stub with literally no detections of any kind. And even if they did have detections, given that the EAC runs within Wine they’d have no way of detecting something as simple as information cheats (wallhacks, ESP) that read /proc/$(pidof rust.exe)/maps from Linux userspace. For a game like Rust, such cheats are probably the most popular ones.

What I do seriously doubt is his claim of Linux users making up “less than .01% of the total player base”. It just seems incongruent with the total Linux user market share on Steam. Though he does qualify it by saying this stat is from when they stopped supporting Linux, i.e. 2019. The situation is obviously quite different now with Linux being at 3% total and ~6% of English-language users on Steam, so if it’s not an outright lie it’s at least very disingenuous.

Yeah why do anything.

As far as I understand it, if the proposal was voted on and lost, there’d be a cooldown period for a certain time before they’re allowed to resubmit the same thing. The people pushing this are using a loophole of sorts where they retract the bill when it looks like it’s not going to pass and then resubmit it later with slight alterations. It’s an attrition tactic; they only have to win once whereas we have to repeal it every time.

I mean that you get arrested and go to jail.

https://theonion.com/hungover-egyptologist-just-gonna-call-in-cursed-today/

https://theonion.com/tips-for-antiquing/

https://theonion.com/wicked-director-reveals-sequel-will-pick-up-right-where-first-branded-tumbler-left-off/

https://theonion.com/self-conscious-sumo-wrestler-wears-white-t-shirt-into-ring/

They do so much more than just Trump content.

In that case it is probably, though not certainly, the municipality’s job to keep that part of the street clear.

It’s different because their own writing is tailor made for them, whereas with external publications they have to choose from what’s there.

If you’re waiting on Wayland to reimplement the thing that made X11 a monolithic unmaintainable mess, you’ll be stuck on your rotting platform from the 80s for a while.

Lack of an editorial department.

Established satire sites will have articles about a broader selection of topics by a broader set of writers. A sub with nothing but Lemmy users posting their homebrew satire would probably satirize little besides American politics. An echo chamber, in other words. There’s only so many times you can make the same joke until it stops being funny.

Maybe it’s just me but I feel like these Lemmy-original stories don’t really belong on this sub.

Not to knock on your writing OP (some of these are pretty funny), but if everyone posted what is basically The Onion fanfiction then this sub would be nothing but, and the selection of topics being satirized would be even more narrow than it already is.

Unless the municipal enforcement covers your yard (in all likelihood they do not), it’s the land owner’s problem to have offending cars fined or towed. Many apartment companies subcontract this to commercial parking enforcement scams companies, but they won’t actually do much except stick “fines” (which legally speaking are not fines) on the windshield of offending cars. If a car has to be towed, they won’t do it AFAIK.

So probably you would have to complain to the building administrator (isännöitsijä), who will likely proceed to not do anything about it until many other people complain too.

If that fails, mild vandalism is always effective. Let the air out of the tyres at night (sticking a green lentil in the valve cap works wonders) and leave them a friendly note calling them a moron and an asshole.

The longer messages are so clearly LLM that I’m pretty sure I can pinpoint the exact model (Grok). Not sure about the shorter ones, could be that a human stepped in for those.

I just saw this SciShow video the other day according to which the “plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in your brain” thing isn’t actually really true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MedC_v-dEbY

This article doesn’t really seem to add anything new to the conversation from earlier this year when this made big headlines.

This could literally be a Dwarf Fortress randomly generated inscription.