Things I am sick of seeing.

• "What is the best Linux Gaming Distro" threads.
• Anything at all related to desktop "ricing".
• Extremely low effort attempts to start a conversation that show the OP have very poor to no written communication skills.
• Anything at all related to AI.
• Anything at all related to politics.
• Fanboys warring over trite shit like what the best console / handheld / operating system / desktop environment is.
• Other surface level shit that only exists to start arguments and flame wars.
• People bitching and moaning about how unfair live service multiplayer games that exist just to exploit you.
• People trying to pirate media, up to and including data hoarding and setting up extravagant virtualization solutions just to steal and hoard.
• People who lack any kind of backbone who just want to coast through life, thinking that if they just slack off everything will work out.
• Forced politeness and the non-desire to call people out for posting low level "slop".
• Posting for a reaction "give me attention", and not for a discussion.

So, is bothering you lately? I expect at least one person to reply with me and how negative I am!

Nerds deploying some kind of condescending sense of superiority on trivial subjects as a coping mechanism for their insecurity.

I am playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker right now and I'm level 5 and basically everything I'm fighting is destroying me ant level 8.

Literally anything remotely popular is the best gaming distro, they all install steam, which handles everything. I tried ricing for a little bit before I realized that Linux is not a toy, and if you mess with it enough you will break it, and that's a pain in the ass. Linux is the delicate illusion that your computer exists to convenience you. Wrong. It exists to execute the next instruction. Poke it and you will only see it from another angle in the void of vast alternate ways a computer can execute the next instuction, in a black void. The best distro for a normie is the best distro, generally.

SteamOS is the gaming distro, but it's not ready for desktops, and also you're probably going to run into issues with any programs that aren't flatpacks (most of them). I do have high hopes if they ever decide to take desktop environments seriously, but right now they just leave it up to KDE, who are doing an amazing job.

AI is fucking trash and I hate it, and politics is equally depressing. I've cut back my political involvement 90% since everything is actually fucking shit.

I guess what has been bothering me the most lately is the fact that I'm still single. I want to go places and do fun things with a pretty girl that I like. I'm committing to going on a date before the end of the next month.

Judgmenl posted...

People trying to pirate media, up to and including data hoarding and setting up extravagant virtualization solutions just to steal and hoard.

It's ok, my ISP complained and I'm too lazy to finish it the right way. Unlike almost everyone else, in no way do I have any inclination to warp reality to pretend I'm ever in the moral right. If I do something fucked up and shitty, I either A) don't care, or B) feel bad about it. Also, they're corpos, so the feel bad meter is leaning more "don't care".

Another thing that's been bothering me: long video essays about mundane things. People are forcing them out and padding their videos on purpose to engage the algorithm and it's starting to feel like serious slop. I used to love video essays about dumb and interesting things that people actually cared about, and now if I got into that my entire day would disappear watching stupid bullcrap.

Judgmenl posted...

ant level 8.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7b522e50.jpg

Yellow posted...

Linux is not a toy,

Indeed. It is not. I just updated one of my machines to Debian Trixie today and it killed all of the special routing I use for my VM setup, specifically hostname resolution. Good thing it was pretty easy to fix - the upgrade mucked with my bind9 config without directly telling me.

Yellow posted...

SteamOS is the gaming distro, but it's not ready for desktops, and also you're probably going to run into issues with any programs that aren't flatpacks (most of them). I do have high hopes if they ever decide to take desktop environments seriously, but right now they just leave it up to KDE, who are doing an amazing job.

It is if you're part of the AMD circlejerk and ONLY do gaming, which is what your average redditor is trying to do which makes any meaningful discussion pointless. I don't even game on Linux anymore, I just use a multi-GPU setup and game in a Windows VM so I find the entire discussion extremely trite.

Yellow posted...

I guess what has been bothering me the most lately is the fact that I'm still single. I want to go places and do fun things with a pretty girl that I like. I'm committing to going on a date before the end of the next month.

I see every relationship around me constantly imploding, but part of me really wishes I could be part of the good sides to all of that. I just don't see a meaningful path towards that at the moment.

Yellow posted...

Another thing that's been bothering me: long video essays about mundane things. People are forcing them out and padding their videos on purpose to engage the algorithm and it's starting to feel like serious slop. I used to love video essays about dumb and interesting things that people actually cared about, and now if I got into that my entire day would disappear watching stupid bullcrap.

Some of it is getting really bad. I enjoy listening to Youtube stuff in the background, but recently the quality has dropped massively (or I've just detected the BS). Watched a video the other day about this "Food challenge" trend (e.g. can I eat McDonalds every day for a week - of course you can) and how BS it all was. Another one was "I survive a week without a smartphone" like that's any meaningful challenge when you can just bring a laptop and hotspot wherever you go, but that's largely me being me and never relying on my phone.

Judgmenl posted...

very poor to no written communication skills

Speaking of poor communication skills...

Judgmenl posted...

that show the OP have very poor to no written communication skills.

Judgmenl posted...

People b****ing and moaning about how unfair live service multiplayer games that exist just to exploit you.

Judgmenl posted...

So, is bothering you lately? I expect at least one person to reply with me and how negative I am!

But as you are clearly upset, your lapses in communication are understandable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_kMzOy0QM

Great example of the low quality "why the hell did I listen to this" videos I listen to daily. I've found that most content on Youtube is just pointless.

I like watching cool tech videos of stuff people made or hacked or whatever, but it's increasingly hard to find ones that are genuinely interesting. I think a good example of this is the retro emulation space, reviewers will act like a Raspberry Pi or one of those countless handhelds from China is a much more awesome device than it really is, because they're just doing it for engagement or to get sent those devices by sponsors. Console hardware hacking is another one. I feel like people used to make mods (even if they were just silly cosmetic ones) but now any time I try to find a mod they "made" what they actually meant is they installed a kit they ordered. And that's fine but they can't be upfront that it's just an install tutorial.

Yea but some of those can still be interesting, if a new mod comes out. I like all of the things that get added to bring new life into old platforms but I'm not at all interested in things like MiSTER that frequently get pushed to me. The whole concept of new hardware for retro computing doesn't make much sense to me when those things can mainly be solved through software on modern systems.

I don't like however how (as you said) it's all promotional items given to the content creator by these companies to drive sales. Really makes you wonder how many of these items are being sold and how relevant it actually is. Then again I see how absurdly popular Pokemon TCG is and anything can be a hobby. I'd be way more into it (specifically overclocking retro hardware) if I had the space and electricity wasn't like $0.40/kWh. One of those things I've considered getting into in my 40s/50s.

Random but I keep on meaning to get back into Pokemon TCG. We have locals in my city (they just started up again) but I think it would feel super weird for a 35 year old to play Pokemon on a Friday night.

Judgmenl posted...

We have locals in my city (they just started up again) but I think it would feel super weird for a 35 year old to play Pokemon on a Friday night.

Not any weirder than anyone else who is there, unless you think it's all going to be teenagers or something. But adults in their 30s being into Pokemon isn't uncommon

Judgmenl posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_kMzOy0QM

Great example of the low quality "why the hell did I listen to this" videos I listen to daily. I've found that most content on Youtube is just pointless.

This is how you know a video is going to be padded, when they go over the entire history of what they're talking about.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/33248635.jpg

And this validates it, here's a great video from 12 years ago. It's only 4 minutes long. You just don't get stuff like this anymore that's quick and to the point, and only a few minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwibPdEOVk

And here's a video he made recently of him doing the exact same thing, except the video is 14 minutes long, and the first 10 minutes is a history lesson no one asked for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOYaj5fm6YA

if i want to throw rice on my desk you aren't gonna stop me from telling everybody

bachewychomp posted...

Not any weirder than anyone else who is there, unless you think it's all going to be teenagers or something. But adults in their 30s being into Pokemon isn't uncommon

It never stopped Brock.

It's shocking how many YouTube videos that are 15-20 minutes could be made way better if they were at most five minutes long

bachewychomp posted...

It's shocking how many YouTube videos that are 15-20 minutes could be made way better if they were at most five minutes long

No mid roll ads if they do that. How are they going to make money?!

I read the title as "I am sick of peeing"

bachewychomp posted...

It's shocking how many YouTube videos that are 15-20 minutes could be made way better if they were at most five minutes long

Watch better videos? I can generally tell from the thumbnail and title alone if a video is going to be pointless drivel and actively avoid them. Anyone I'm subscribed to that makes lengthy videos usually uses that time well.

Edit: Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating because I do run into a lot of needlessly drawn out tutorial videos for Minecraft builds. It's pretty tricky finding people who are quick and concise. Mysticat used to be one of those people that I really appreciated for his straight to the point videos, but I watched him(now "her" I guess) change into an obnoxious, Sloptuber in real time.