retrogaming RetroGaming Is it just me, or is GTA III just goddamned trash?
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    molochthagod
    4 months ago 100%

    I never liked missions in any of the GTA games I've played (haven't played 4 and 5). Even as a kid I hated doing those missions. Don't think Vice City is much better in this respect than 3.

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  • china China, 中国 How 5G, AI and a cotton revolution helped China beat US Xinjiang sanctions
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    molochthagod
    5 months ago 100%

    aaagh, too broke to read the news! Thanks for the archive link.

    The truth is the US doesn't care about minorities. Not saying that China does either. Nobody does. All minority cultures will die out in a century or so 🥲 🫠 🙃

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  • linux_gaming Linux Gaming Can somebody help me launch The Rage (2001)?
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    molochthagod
    5 months ago 100%

    Appreciate the help.

    I doubt it's the second thing because for an obscure game like this that at some point became free, most uploads on the internet are probably the same. But I will try a different one if the first option doesn't work out.

    Speaking of it, could you provide a more specific instruction or a proper package name for me to install? Because I tried searching for "multilib" and "32-bit libraries" and I doubt any of the ones I found were what I need, but I can't tell it all looks pretty confusing.

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    Linux Gaming molochthagod 5 months ago 94%
    Can somebody help me launch The Rage (2001)? www.myabandonware.com

    This is my childhood game and I can't make it work on Linux. The menu starts fine and the character selection screen as well, but once I select a character, it crashes. I tried running it with different renderers and different Wine/Proton versions, and it's always the same result. I enabled output debugging in Lutris. Here's the result: [Link](https://pastebin.com/FsCgnZfg) And this is my system info: [Link](https://termbin.com/4r7c) Please help!

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    memes Memes これはロスなの?
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    molochthagod
    6 months ago 100%

    So? It also includes Simplified Hanzi which only has relation to the People's Republic of China and Singapore.

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  • memes Memes これはロスなの?
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    molochthagod
    6 months ago 100%

    Oracle Bone, Bronze, Seal, Traditional and Simplified Hanzi are all Chinese. Only Kanji is Japanese and only by proxy, so this meme is like 70% Chinese and 30% Japanese. You would know that if you learned Japanese.

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    molochthagod
    6 months ago 100%

    There was this popular web comic about video games and geeky shit, and it was mostly funny. Then one day they made this one comic strip about miscarriage called "Loss". It became a meme because most people found it super pretentious for a funny little webcomic to suddenly do this kinda heavy drama with no dialogue like it's some arthouse film.

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    English usage and grammar molochthagod 6 months ago 87%
    When is "Jesus wept" used?

    The first time I came across the usage of this phrase was in the movie Hellraiser, and I had no idea this was a common saying. Clearly though, there must be a double meaning there in the movie that I couldn't fully grasp without knowing the more colloquial meaning. The description on Wikipedia is unfortunately not enough for me, I would like to see examples. And it's very hard to find those because Google gives me mostly links to religious websites.

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    retrogaming RetroGaming Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads
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    molochthagod
    7 months ago 100%

    I'd rather we stop sexualizing characters altogether. If anything, it's silly and makes it more difficult to take them seriously.

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    molochthagod
    7 months ago 92%

    The weird thing is, as a guy, I never even paid attention to the sexualized stuff in games. To me these are like two different brain activities. So, as far as I'm concerned, there was never any point in this kind of marketing. I've never in my life purchased a game because it featured sexy ladies.

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  • music Music Is there a website that can suggest you artists based on similar personality?
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    music Music Is there a website that can suggest you artists based on similar personality?
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    music Music Is there a website that can suggest you artists based on similar personality?
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    molochthagod
    8 months ago 100%

    This doesn't really work for me, because it mostly just shows me artists in the same genre, most of which I'm already aware of and don't care about. I'm really more looking for music that conveys similar meaning/concepts. The genre is less relevant here.

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    Music molochthagod 8 months ago 70%
    Is there a website that can suggest you artists based on similar personality?

    I've been having trouble finding new favorite musical artists. Having been disappointed in many of my childhood favorites, there's only a few artists I genuinely binge. I think I have this problem where I need to relate to what the artist says in most of their songs. It's a sort of parasocial relationship, because the more songs of theirs I relate to, the more likely I am to enjoy their new songs. So I was thinking, it would be cool if there was a website that asks you questions about yourself, and then based the information we have on music artists online, it finds the closest match. For example, it asks personal questions like "did you grow up poor?" or "what is your political ideology?", etc. And say you answer "yes" and "communist", and then it finds you an artist who also grew up poor and is a communist. I feel like this would allow for finding more relatable music. I have a feeling such a website doesn't exist, but I just wanted to put my idea out. However, if you know anything even similar to this, let me know.

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    linuxmemes molochthagod 9 months ago 94%
    A pre-historic city was discovered in the Antarctic.

    The native population had been wiped out by the malware of their own creation. Only the Linux users survived, but turned blind because they stare at their monitors and don't go out much.

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    linuxmemes linuxmemes Year of Linux on the Desktop
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    molochthagod
    9 months ago 90%

    As a former lifelong Windows user (from 2002 to 2019), I honestly don't get why people continue using Windows in the future. It doesn't make sense to me. They're cracking down on liberties, increasing system requirements, and old software and games are gradually becoming less compatible. And people seem to be starting to realize that other options are becoming gradually more attractive, because Windows is now hovering below 70% while just ten years ago it was at over 90%. Meanwhile Mac has grown from 7% to 20%, and Linux is at an unprecedented 3%, and that's not counting ChromeOS, which is slightly higher.

    The mistakes Microsoft is doing can prove fatal. Because I think for most people, once they embrace Linux, even if Windows improves, they won't wanna go back.

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    molochthagod
    10 months ago 100%

    Worth noting, this meme is from the time before Arch had an easy installer. So that's probably what it's referring to. I joined Linux almost 4 years ago, and this meme already existed then. I dunno how old it really is.

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  • world World News Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’
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    molochthagod
    10 months ago 100%

    Russia has been doing and undoing itself the whole history. Meanwhile, who suffers? The minorities. You could compile a list of cultures they destroyed across Siberia, the Pontic Steppe and the Caucasus. And this process is still ongoing.

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    molochthagod
    10 months ago 100%

    That's kinda the whole point of this bullshit. Russia's entire history is "things go bad? find an enemy and attack them." This distracts the populace and makes the ruler (at least theoretically) look "strong". This is why "war" is the answer to almost any problem in Russia. For Nicholas II this didn't work out though, when he attacked Japan hoping for a quick victory, but ended up losing and exacerbating problems at home, which then led to the collapse of Russia.

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    Daoism (Taoism) 道教 molochthagod 10 months ago 83%
    Help me identify a philosopher

    One time I read a quote by a philosopher. I'm not sure if he was strictly Daoist, but at the very least Daoism-adjacent. IIRC correctly he wasn't one of those academic types, and more an ascetic sage type. Anyway, I don't remember the exact quote, but the crux of it was that the Dao has no intention. It said something like "if the Dao had intention, it would only be like a shepherd". This shepherd analogy is the only specificity of this quote that I can remember. If you know who it was, please let me know.

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    memes memes Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s
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    memes memes Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s
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    molochthagod
    11 months ago 100%

    I used to. But in the later years I found it very difficult to carry this much weight. In addition to that, I've realized the transient nature of my music tastes and my over-reliance on music. Also my priorities have changed a lot. Music is far from essential for survival, and when the times get rough (when you move a lot, and all you can take with you is your laptop), it's much easier to access an online library than your own physical one. I've decided to keep the mp3s (m4as, wavs, flacs, etc.) of the songs that aren't on Spotify and remove everything else.

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  • linuxmemes linuxmemes Funny little penguin go brrrrrr
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    molochthagod
    11 months ago 100%

    I prefer to think of Tux as one of those huge albino penguins from At the Mountains of Madness

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  • workreform Work Reform Nearly 20% of workers have changed their name on a resume because of discrimination concerns, says new report
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    linuxmemes linuxmemes i hate that it's very often like this
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    molochthagod
    12 months ago 100%

    Relax, guys, Debian and not Debian both have their pros and cons. The variety of options is what's so beautiful about Linux.

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  • linux_gaming Linux Gaming Can somebody help me fix the sound in Robocop (2003) please?
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    molochthagod
    12 months ago 100%

    Yeah, every time I tried, I used the latest GE version. Tried regular Wine and Proton too, and the result is always the same, I dunno what's the deal with it.

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  • linux_gaming Linux Gaming Diablo 4 is coming to Steam on October 17th
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    molochthagod
    12 months ago 94%

    I'm with you! Blizzard has been nothing but disrespectful to the Diablo franchise, original devs and players. Not to mention, buying an online-only game is basically renting it. I'd rather just replay the masterpiece that is Diablo 2, which they will never match.

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  • linux_gaming Linux Gaming Can somebody help me fix the sound in Robocop (2003) please?
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    molochthagod
    12 months ago 100%

    I install it into Lutris and then try out different runners (Wine and Proton) to launch it with.

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    Linux Gaming molochthagod 12 months ago 100%
    Can somebody help me fix the sound in Robocop (2003) please?

    I'm on Linux Mint 21.2, though I've tried installing this game on another Debian-based distro with the same results. So, the game launches and everything seems to be perfectly in order, except there's no sound. Files in the game folder are .wav and seem to work perfectly when I launch them with Audacious. There is no information online, it seems like I'm the first person trying to launch this game on Linux. Here's the log: ``` Started initial process 37626 from gamemoderun /usr/bin/wine /home/moloch/Games/robocop/drive_c/Program Files/Titus/Robocop/Robocop.exe Start monitoring process. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. gamemodeauto: ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 00000004 at address 0018154A (thread 0058), starting debugger... ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR DRIVE NOT READY ERROR DRIVE NOT READY ERROR DRIVE NOT READY ERROR DRIVE NOT READY CODE : 0xc5 CODE : 0x39 Initial process has exited (return code: 0) gamemodeauto: Monitored process exited. All processes have quit Exit with return code 0 ``` I tried posting this on Reddit and got no help. I was hoping here people might be more responsive.

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    linuxmemes linuxmemes Chad Linux user
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    linux Linux What's your opinion on Snap/Flatpak, and why?
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    molochthagod
    1 year ago 100%

    I always prefer native packages over containerized. But I'm glad they exist, because every now and then a native package won't work. I don't agree with most people that say Linux needs to be streamlined: less distros, less packaging systems, etc. Personally, I like when I have options. I prefer flatpak over snaps and appimages, but ideally I'd like to have all of them available just in case. When comparing snaps to flatpaks, in my personal experience, flatpaks just integrate better. But they're not THAT much better than snaps, so I could see myself using either, it's just that so far I haven't run into a situation where I'd need to use a snap. There is one downside to flatpaks though, and it's their names. As DT pointed out in his video, it can be pretty annoying to run them through terminal. But I hate the fact that Mint removed snap and Ubuntu removed flatpaks. I don't think we're achieving anything with this "war of formats". Let people use both and decide for themselves.

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    RetroGaming molochthagod 1 year ago 100%
    Help me run Pro Rally 2001 (it's very easy)

    Hey everyone. So, the problem is that in order to launch Pro Rally 2001, you first need to launch the RallySetup.exe, so that the game would create a config file called **ed3.ini**. But I use Linux and am trying to run this game with Wine. And Wine seemingly can run the main executable, but not RallySetup.exe. So, what I need is for someone who uses Windows to just install that game and then sned me that file **ed3.ini**. I don't think I can tell you where to download the game, but it's basically abandonware, so many websites have it. So anyway, if you helped me, I'd be very grateful. EDIT: Thank you so much to everyone who participated! Unfortunately, the game still doesn't work at the moment. I suppose I'll have to just run a virtual machine for it. But I wouldn't know if I didn't try.

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