Of course it’s limiting your options!

Screwing up the customer should not be an option you’re allowed to take!

Egalitarian, too. Sithrak doesn’t discriminate. Everyone will burn, regardless of race, gender, or creed.

Nah, Sithrak’s followers are chill, they know eternal torment awaits everyone eventually, there’s no rush; they just spread the horrid word, no need to implement it themselves.

Thanks, seems extremely irritating for a franchise that — except for the protomolecule (and related sufficiently advanced alien shenanigans) and the Epstein drive — prides itself on its realistic physics; you’ve convinced me to blacklist both the game and the publisher on Steam.

Nice, I thought it was gonna be Papa Meat’s.

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Obligatory warning that although this particular one isn’t, most of the stripes in Oglaf, while still as funny and smart as this one if not more, tend to also be somewhat raunchy and not safe for work, so if you’re in an environment where cartoon genitals might offend you might want to wait until you’re elsewhere before you partake.

That’s not a moral system, that’s mere survival instinct.

A (Frieren’s world) demon will always do what best serves their own interests; if a more powerful demon tells them to do something they’ll do it out of pure self preservation, and bide their time until they can be the one on top, or at least get away and carry on on their own.

No morality is involved, because morality as a concept (as we humans understand it) is so alien to them as colours to someone born blind.

Frieren has known many demons, including Macht. She has studied them for a thousand years. She can and does know.

By definition, if a demon learned how to feel empathy, or compassion, or anything like that, it would no longer be a demon.

But the point is moot, because it’s been demonstrated that they biologically can’t feel those emotions, even if they wanted to.

We’ve seen the point of view of demons. They’re not human, or human analogues, in any way, shape, or form.

They just look and act like humans, as a form of predatory camouflage.

They’re a perfect example of blue and orange morality (warning, TV Tropes link, abandon all hope ye who enters here).

We’ve seen (in the manga) a demon spend centuries doing his best to learn how to experience empathy, sympathy, or guilt, so he and other demons can become something that can coexist with humans without one or both of them inevitably ending up extinct.

He failed.

There’s no possible long term future in Frieren’s world where both humans and demons exist, unless demons change so fundamentally that they stop being demons (which would be a paradox of sorts, as real demons would then be extinct).

Demons have one choice: remain true to their nature and eat or exterminate all humans, or cease to be.

Humans have one choice: let themselves be exterminated, or exterminate all demons.

No side is committing genocide, they’re just fighting for their own survival, in a world that gives them no other option.

Just the one weird bathtub scene.

Well, and that time she almost accidentally flashes Ed, but they’re practically dating by that point, they just haven’t come to terms with it yet.

Couple tidbits before you get to it:

• The first four episodes were released at once and it’s recommended to watch them in one sitting.
• While season 1 has some great demon characters (and a lot of great non-demon ones), that fourth fan favourite one won’t show up until season 2, which is currently in production and is expected to come out in January 2026.

Creatures with free will and intelligence who evolved those capabilities (and speech) with the sole purpose of being better at hunting humans.

Creatures with free will and intelligence who eat humans. Not because they need to eat humans, mind, they’re perfectly fine eating other things, but because they genetically like to kill and eat humans.

Creatures with free will and intelligence who are biologically incapable of feeling emotions like empathy, sympathy, guilt, or remorse. Seriously, some have spent centuries trying to learn how to feel them, and have failed.

Creatures with free will and intelligence who’ll be the first to admit that they’re better described as savage deceitful beasts, and that it’d be foolish and suicidal to trust them as far as you can throw them.

And, that said, Frieren the character advocates (with extremely good evidence backed reason) for their genocide, but the book and the authors don’t seem to do the same thing.

There’s plenty of characters that try to get along with demons, or trust them (and often pay dearly for it), and plenty of chapters where we see the demons’ point of view and can’t fail but to somewhat empathize with them, even if they’d be unable to reciprocate.

At no point do the book or the authors try to make the readers hate demons. They make us fear them, sure, but mostly they make us feel empathy and pity for them.

Hell, the fourth fan favourite character is a demon (and what a fantastic character it is).

(Granted, the third are the mimics, but still.)

Diogenes was far more interested in women than he was in men

Fair enough, Diogenes wouldn’t own a fancy dress either, but I was referring to the way that character argued and messed with the other one; it just seems to fit more with Diogenes than Socrates.

Sounds more like something Diogenes would do, I think…

I don’t think I’ve needed to ask anyone anything when dealing with computers (except when helping someone with a self caused issue, of course, in which case the question is usually “why did you do this?”) since I was a little kid figuring out how to use my 286… I find that usually you just need to read the fucking screen (an extremely rare talent, I’ve come to realise), and in harder cases a bit of googling or, if push comes to shove, RTFMing seems to do the trick… but OK, we’ll see, I’ve been wanting to try NixOS for a while once I have the time, and my computer is getting old… maybe this summer I’ll find some time, better this than updating to Windows 11 in any case. 🤷‍♂️

That’s Sony telling the customers they kicked to the curb that it wasn’t because of the PSN thing.

It was personal.

Denuvo

… is expensive. And a subscription service.

Which means there’s an incentive for studios to remove it as soon as new sales aren’t bringing enough money for its cost to be worth it.

That’s when you want to pirate (or buy, if you’re into that kind of shit) the game. With the added benefit that it’s unlikely that the studio will come up with more updates or DLC, and if the game is at all moddable it’ll probably have a mature community patch that’ll fix everything the studio was unwilling or unable to patch. (Also, I’m not sure how denuvo cracking works, but I doubt it removes all of that shit, so a game with it properly removed will probably run better than a cracked one, even if the cracked one still ran better than the original infected version.)

Batch files¹, powershell, visual basic if you use Office, Lisp if you used AutoCAD back when macros were written in Lisp… 🤷‍♂️

¹- And, frankly, I doubt setting up NixOS is particularly more complex than setting up an autoexec.bat boot menu back when some programs (well, games are programs) wanted extended memory and some others wanted expanded memory (couldn’t have both modes at the same time, of course), and you had to make sure the drivers loaded in the most optimal order (which could vary depending on the aforementioned memory expanders, and which drivers the specific game actually needed) to fit as many as possible of them and DOS in high memory leaving as much as possible of the 640KB of system RAM free for the program… and I’m not even getting into the whole IRQ thing for soundcards and whatnot… and we had to do it all without Internet, learning by trial and error, or word of mouth, or from magazines…

It’s literally just a French word.

Yeah, there’s no need for the redundancy, really; if you say “French” you can omit “pretentious”, it’s already implied.

Any software intended to cause harm is malware. MBFC is software intended to cause harm. MBFC is malware.

It has malicious intent, therefore it’s malware. 🤷‍♂️