I still hate FOMO content like this even if they (very rarely) do reruns to let new players grab the old rewards. This kind of thing should be permanent, not something that will vanish after an arbitrary amount of time.

Similarly, antlions. The adult just looks like a weird dragonfly while the larva is an alien-looking burrowing ambush predator with spikes and giant mandibles.

“Hell.”

To quote an ancient review by Shamus Young (RIP):

GTA IV offers incredible production values, voice acting, music, and visuals. By contrast, all Saints Row 2 can offer is fun. You’ll have to work out for yourself which one sounds better.

The wrong series died.

It’s mostly padding after the first hundred million years.

During Trump’s first term it came out that Roy Moore, an Alabama Republican running for Senate, was a rapist and a pedophile (naturally he was Trump’s endorsed candidate).

Not only did Moore not drop out of the race, he almost won the election. And he only lost because enough Democrats showed up to vote for his opponent - the Republican voters still mostly supported Moore even after he admitted to going after teenagers.

When I was younger I would go through an entire box of Cream of Wheat (a brand of instant wheat porridge) in a week. It’s way better than regular oatmeal.

Well, the brown sugar and apple cinnamon varieties are. Plain cream of wheat is absolutely vile.

The kernel handles memory, so it’s only fair it takes a share of the blame!

Go full Russian roulette and include the OOM killer itself in the list of targetable processes.

“Really, Captain? *sigh* Probing Uranus…”

- EDI, Mass Effect 2

Funnily enough, that was one of the major complaints fans made about Fallout 3. For some unfathomable reason Bethesda decided to set it generations after the first two games, yet the Wasteland hadn’t changed at all despite it now being centuries since the bombs fell.

Come to think of it, they did the exact same thing with Skyrim.

Speedrunners have thoroughly dissected Hitman’s AI and found ways to completely break the game. There’s a brief explanation of the systems at the beginning of this video, but basically the devs wanted cinematic moments where guards rush past 47 to check out a distraction, but bungled the implementation to the point where you can reliably waltz past armed guards while undisguised and with your weapon out after half a second of preparation.

Relevant skit.

It’s 100% a mistake. “Wretched souls” is a phrase with a lot of history, going back to Shakespeare at the very least. I’m guessing they didn’t catch it because retched is also a word, even though that use is grammatically incorrect (unless they were souls that’d been vomited up).

And it doesn’t have to be this way! This behavior of spending most of their time in office campaigning or acquiring funding for reelection instead of, you know, governing only became the norm in the nineties.

(Add yet another “fuck Newt Gingrich” to the tally board.)

Even setting aside the wear and tear issues with flash storage, swap and zram sadly don’t play nice together. Zram will fill up with stale memory while swap gets the fresh stuff, which is the exact opposite of what you want and causes awful performance problems.

I’ve got 4 GB of RAM

Sadly that’s an almost unusable amount these days. The OS will use half of that just sitting idle, and Google Play Services will use a fifth of the remainder (you can enable Developer Mode and view running services to see this yourself). 4 gigs is solidly in the “only one or two apps open at a time” range.

(It doesn’t help that every Android app includes its own separate copies of all its libraries and dependencies for compatibility reasons. There’s no such thing as a lightweight app without going out of your way to avoid the normal development ecosystem)

Android also doesn’t use swap (storing unused/rarely accessed memory contents on the disk for later), instead shifting stale memory pages to a compressed block in RAM (zram), so once it starts filling up with cached background apps it has to start killing apps or the system will hang. The less RAM you have, the sooner this will happen, and both Lemmy clients and web browsers use a ton of RAM.

The best thing about that pose is sometimes they start doing bunny kicks in their sleep.

This explains waterfowl.

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