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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoGames@lemmy.worldOne-handed games?
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    10 days ago

    XCom and XCom 2 can be played entirely with the mouse. Minor typing if you want to name your soldiers, but nothing requires quick reflexes. Everything is turn based.

    There’s an older breakout style game on steam called Shatter that can be played entirely with the mouse and has a banger soundtrack and neat visual style.

    Emulation opens up a lot of options for old school turn based games. RPGs, turn based strategy. Any of the Pokemon games gen 1-3 can be played one handed with some clever button mapping. Any game made to use just the Wii-mote as a pointer would also work, but I don’t know those off the top of my head.

    You might want to look into one handed controllers, or something like the FLIR USB dongle that you can use to map IR TV remote signals to keyboard button presses. Just need to use a remote that doesn’t already control something.




  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldI see these MFs on a daily basis
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    14 days ago

    You’re making a huge assumption based only on the fact that Windows hides these logs from the end user.

    I’ve had line of sight to those logs through a system that automatically highlights those errors and warnings for something like eight years now, for a fleet of over 1000 Windows machines at the start which is now roughly 5000 total.

    In that time I’ve seen less than 200 graphics driver issues logged, and they all were on machines with failing hardware.

    Yes, they are not anywhere as visible to the end user as they are on Linux, but they are also significantly less common (graphics issues in particular).


    Also, if the warnings are meaningless, why display them to the end user? It’s just more noise that actual problems can sneak by in.


  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldLit
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    Don’t get me started. I’ve got trauma from an ex’s careful manipulation that happened over four and a half years. Multiple times during when I truly thought I was losing my mind.

    It took years afterwards for me to feel I could have any baseline trust in my own memory and my own interpretations of other people, because how in the hell could I have been so wrong about the ex? How could I have been so blind to so much manipulation, that with the right puzzle pieces in place and the benefit of hindsight is now so obvious?

    It’s been more than a decade, and still when I’m challenged on my recollection of events, I tend to default to not trust myself.


    I sincerely don’t want anyone to know the meaning of gaslighting first hand like I do. At the same time, I wish people would stop overusing strong specific words when describing more “regular” banal bad stuff.



  • Lemmy is small and still somewhat insular, so certain topics tend to get more content than others. You can solve that issue by blocking what you don’t want to see (by community or by user), and most importantly: participate by posting content yourself.

    We don’t have anywhere near the amount of users that you can treat this place entirely like reddit and just expect the content to just come to you.

    Edit: Also, if you don’t like how a community is run here, there’s most lilely another version of it on another instance with different community mods. There’s a ton of “ask lemmy” communities out there if you don’t like lemmy.ml’s moderation style.

    The tradeoff for no ads and no corporate incentives is that you have to put in just a little bit more personal effort to curate the experience you want.


  • Gender being a construct doesn’t mean you can’t willingly put yourself into that pre constructed idea, you can be whatever you like. It’s prescribing it to others that’s fucked up.

    Thank you. That was the point I was trying to make. Anyone can be whatever they want. Categorizing others is the problem, and one that feels especially wrong for me to keep seeing come from the LGBTQIA+ and ally/adjacent communities (please don’t nitpick me on terminology here, my point is that it seems to be coming from the people who I would expect to be better about this than other groups).