But the question wasn’t give a fair assessment of a sequel to a game you like.

I realise that it isn’t objectively a bad game or anything like that and a lot of people still play it until this day and I for sure appreciate them keeping the servers up for the old game so I can still go back to play it should I choose. But the question was what sequel to a game I loved ruined it for me and anyone who played both can see they are blatantly not the same game at all.

GW2 was a complete departure from how the first game worked to a more generic MMO style, I’m sure it is a great game in its own right but for me personally, when compared to the amazing first game, it just doesnt hold a candle.

I didn’t, I remember falling asleep playing it not long after release which didn’t bode well, I wanted to like it but couldn’t. I “enjoyed” it for a while many years later as a co-op experience on a console (I forget which one) whilst getting stoned but it was more scratching an itch for that genre and playing with friends locally that really won it over in that instance rather than the game itself.

Likewise with 4, I didn’t even give it the time of day tbh, I still haven’t really seen much about it.

I’d have liked to play the remaster but I refuse to give those assholes any money and the main draw for me was multiplayer as a kid. I played the SP briefly on a pirate version but it was always about the MP for me.

Two of my favourite games of all time are Diablo 2 and Guild Wars.

Both of these games I was insanely hyped for the following games in the series and got them both on their respective releases days. Both were utterly disappointing crap when compared to their previous games and both probably contributed heavily to how I will now no longer get hyped for any game let alone buy one in their first year or two of release.

You’ve obviously never met a chain smoker before then. I have met plenty of people in the past working manual labour jobs who would literally light another one up the moment the old one is spent, usually lighting the new one from the old one. So it is entirely believable to me.

I appreciate the info, which of those two do you think would be the best to try to get into. I am a myanonamouse member in good standing with uploads as well as a good ratio / uptime etc so I may have a look on their invites section to see if I can get in via there.

Failing that I’ll have a look at other ways of getting in as maybe it will be beneficial in the long term for me.

Thanks for taking the time to have a look for me :)

Hmmm intrigued, what one are you part of?

Im mainly looking for dubstep, the “real dubstep” side of stuff.

Artists like:

Gisaza Lowcase Headland Argo Zha Teffa Kercha 7kidz

Etc…

Meh. Private trackers is just this same attitude of elitism that I don’t like bundled into a different form. On top of that I can’t even be sure that they would even have the kinds of things I’m looking for, it isn’t like I can browse their catalogue first to see if they catered to my niche music taste.

I like soulseek because it is open to everyone and I can just host my entire library for people to go through. I don’t have to jump through hoops to get invites and have interviews and all that shit.

Not exactly the same as your example but I love getting hard to find stuff and then putting it out there for the public to get.

I’m mainly talking soulseek here but within my preferred music genre there is a lot of elitism and manufactured rareness of tracks what with a lot of vinyl only releases with minimal pressings or digital downloads that are only available for x amount of hours, that kind of bullshit.

This then promotes this culture on soulseek of people locking all their files out to everyone so you need to either trade things or a lot of them will ask you to buy specific releases or send them bandcamp gift cards and the like, to me this goes against the very nature of piracy and really boils my piss.

I love to get access to these people files and getting as much as I can, or ripping vinyl only tracks where I can for myself or buying these “limited” digital tracks when they come up and I have the money (less often these days) and then just sharing them with no locks or trading bullshit.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is it is really satisfying (for me at least) to share this harder to get stuff that people aren’t going to find anywhere else and even better a massive fuck you to the elitism and manufactured scarcity within the genre. If you are a soulseek user with locked files reading this, fuck you!

Also torrents are pretty easy to make. I use deluge and qbittorrent and there are options in both of those to create a torrent. You will need a tracker to link to, free ones can be found, then it is just a case of pointing to the files on your computer and it’ll create the torrent file for you.

Durian fruit. That is the most vile thing I have ever tasted and the after taste lasted for like 5 hours.

That shit is fucking evil.

Not forgotten by me, I played through the majority of Final Fantasy 9 on my Xperia Play back when phones were transitioning from interesting to the shit we have today.

Haha thanks although I’m kind of pissed off having finished that hundredth book after posting this.

The character I wanted to return ended up not doing so at the end of the book but not only that they killed off another person who could have possibly joined up with their band of people. It has happened quite a few times now and after so many books it would be nice if they added in another companion but instead the authors seem to be too scared to add any additional characters to to regular roster which is quite frankly frustrating as fuck.

They always kill off potential additions in the most pathetic manner and after so many hours it would be a nice addition to just change things up slightly, I don’t want a constant rotation of characters but a breath of fresh air would be nice!

So I have started “The Eyre Affair” which is the first book in a series I think is called Thursday after Next. A few hours in and it is interesting so far!

I have hit a mile stone, I’m just coming to the end of book 100 of Deathlands. A character that left around 50 books ago has returned in this one and I have been waiting for his return!

I’ve been thinking about it and that is about 650 hours or so of Deathlands in the last year and a half and I’m still enjoying it a lot! I think after this one however I may slip a couple of other books in.

The Sunlit Man is the last book I need to read out if his 4 “secret” books, still on the to do list :D

Same as, one I was past regularly is at least 100mm high, if not a bit more and where they have the cable stretched from their house to the car the cable is often lifting up either or both ends of it to almost make it float.

I fucking hate it with a passion xD

I guess that depends where you live, living in a city there are people walking around my area at all times of day and night and in lower light these obstructions become even more of a hazard. Even outside of the hours you suggest, half of the year it is pretty dark from as early as 3pm. If kids are out before that time going to school on their scooters and skateboards as well they may not have the ability to recognise the danger these things pose and think they could roll over them which is going to end badly 8 out of 10 times where the wheels jam and stop but their body carries on going.

I will admit that what you have described sounds better than a lot of the massive ones I see around where I live but the problem is the majority of people aren’t considerate at all and think that it is their god given right to slap a cable with a massive hump over it and not consider that not everyone can navigate that hump.

I agree that there can be some consideration given from both sides of this argument to make sure that people are able to charge their cars as they are choosing a more environmentally friendly method of transport but also not at the expense of everyone using the footpaths and thus we come back around to making proper infrastructure so that paths are unobstructed and people could charge their cars without the cable from their house.

I do appreciate that you have at least thought about your application and have got something that is as shallow as possible unlike a lot of people near to me however :D

Those cable ramp things are obnoxious and terrible for anyone using the pavement at best they are a trip hazard for normal pavement users at worst they are down right dangerous / make the pavement unusable to people with disabilities. Cables should not be going across a public pavement!

Yup, exactly!

I’m pretty tech literate but I still come across things often within the Linux space that I have only recently been delving into properly that are just not written in a clear, understandable manner and I then have to waste hours researching additional things often many layers deep where each successive thing throws up more unknowns.

I agree it is bloody frustrating! I can only imagine how put off people are that don’t have any tech know how to begin with!

I think you missed the point I was trying to make. Some people can start losing weight quickly by making those small changes but that isn’t the case for everyone at all, so when I say it is a massive struggle for some people implementing stringent diets and exercise regimes, those are the people that making just small changes like OP is talking about hasn’t been effective and consequently their weight loss / fitness journey can be a lot more of a struggle.

I was not trying to put OP down because it is beneficial for not only themselves but society as a whole for them to live in a healthier manner, I was trying to get across the point that when talking about these subjects to be mindful of everyone’s own journey within health and fitness.

The people that do find it hard for reasons such as pointed out by your other response to this post can already be very demoralised by the journey as a whole and to just be claiming it is all so easy by making such small changes can be even more demoralising for those people by making them think what is wrong with them or what are they doing wrong which in turn does minimise and diminish the effort they are putting in.

I have no desire to put OP down in terms of making a positive change in their life and tried to write a response that put that across as we should all be encouraging each other to live healthier lives, in turn I hope OP encourages other people too to make positive changes in their lives, I just think it is important as well to not approach it by framing it as “easy” because that can be seen as dismissive to people that already struggle with health and fitness.

I’m not going to disagree with what you say because everyone can benefit from small things and should be encouraged to start small so that they don’t quit early on trying to change their entire lifestyle in one go but claiming it is easy does not help achieve that and will sometimes have the opposite effect for people that aren’t finding it easy.

Everyone has their own journey with its own issues, I just wanted OP to be able to encourage other people with his story but in a manner that won’t be seen as negative by some others :)

You are kind of disregarding and minimising the struggle that a lot of people go through to try and lose weight.

Everyone has different experiences and everyone’s body will react differently to diets and exercise, for a lot of people it is a massive struggle and despite following strict diets and exercising religiously they will still struggle to lose weight effectively.

You obviously react well to differences in diet but if you were also only around 95kg despite eating inordinate amounts of shit for 10 years then it is obvious that you don’t put weight on as quickly as other people can through having a shitty diet.

I, like you, am very lucky that I can eat shit for a while and won’t put on a lot of weight. I can fluctuate 5kg within the space of the same week so for me I prefer to measure progress through actual fitness and gains in things like stamina and strength as weight is just not a reliable indicator for me at all.

Don’t get me wrong it is fucking great that you are making healthier choices and actually getting some exercise, hopefully you stick to it for the long term and make positive habit changes for yourself going forward. Hopefully you can find some exercise that you actually enjoy and start chasing something more meaningful such as stamina, endurance or strength rather than just a number on scales. Going forward from now hopefully you will notice the improvement in your everyday life that even a minor improvement in base fitness can provide.

I just think you should also be mindful of going around thinking “this shit is easy” and getting some kind of superiority complex over people who have been struggling with health and fitness for long periods of time, it isnt a good look.

Good luck with your continued progress, I hope you get more into fitness in general and start to reap the benefits outside of numbers on a scale :)

I think a big part of the problem with wider adoption, particularly of less tech savvy people, is the documentation is often terrible. This is true of the FOSS community in general in my experience. There are many great people working on great projects for the FOSS community but when it comes to writing a guide to help people implement things they far too often assume a level of knowledge of the reader that is unreasonable to assume for the wider world of people that could benefit from their work.

If more people could write simple, broken down guides on how to implement and use their software then it would decrease the barrier of entry. Far too many things I see have instructions that include terms or processes that are too complex to expect an “average” person to know or understand and that will put a lot of people off as your average user doesnt want to try hard just to figure out the language used for a world they may not have an interest in getting deep into but those same people could probably benefit from the end result.

Because the majority of people (I realise that won’t be the majority of people on Lemmy due to the general user base) aren’t technologically literate enough to flash custom ROMs and the like on phones even if they want to get away from the bullshit you mention.

Graphene is the easiest for sure and when more phones are supported with that kind of easy install I believe it will embolden more people to make the switch away from crap they don’t like.