A broom? /s, but not really

Leaving aside Arch and Nix for the moment… imagine rating Ubuntu over Mint. The depravity of the human mind know no limits.

Ah nice, I thought Classic Shell was dead as of several years ago. Did someone fork it and revive it?

It looks like what they offer isn’t a shell per se, but a playbook. Which is fine and all, probably far more viable than a true shell replacement due to Microsoft’s shitty shenanigans. If I still used Windows for a personal machine I’d be all about this. I’m worried it would interfere with the corporate garbage I have to deal with.

This is my favorite comment so far.

I didn’t think you could still get decent custom shells on Windows these days. What do you use?

What I do still have on my one Windows machine I need for a (staunchly annoying Windows only) company I do work for is a launcher program that I have been using for well over a decade. Super resource light and simple. I just don’t use the start menu at all.

Well, at least there is some good news today.

The $15 plan used to only be 2GB, which was honestly still enough for people that only use mobile data sparingly.

The grappling hook was a common mod in the original QuakeWorld scene and was included in the official Quake II CTF game mod. I’m surprised it didn’t become a mainstay in games afterwards, it was so fun to use. Shogo: Mobile Armor Division had it built in and was one of the most fun FPS games I had ever played until cheaters took over.

I don’t think the final release was “shit” per se, but I was super confused when I played it and expected cool features from the beta. The beta was also very beta and not all of the features were actually good, but I feel like they ran out of time/money/patience and just cut down a ton of stuff to ship it.

A classic. I loved how in the last phase you could make the right combination of nonsensical choices and end up with human and do really well. Not as well as my hyper-evolved Rhino-montser, but really well.

Or eating toe funk

Yeah, the continued support and extra modes made me so happy to be an early supporter. I also like the more original NES style games of the series and I am very excited for the sequel.

The DS is quite literally the only system that I ever sold going as far back as the Atari 2600. I hate, hate , hate how they forced the touch screen gimmicks for it in games that it didn’t belong. It was the only blemish on an otherwise outstanding game in Dawn of Sorrow. It ruined all of the Zelda games made directly for the system IMO.

I leaned the other way, but both were good.

A bunch of good ones have already been mentioned (SOTN, Nine Sols, Super Metroid), so I’ll just mention some that were missed.

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (sequel to SOTN, just as good if you can get past the DS touchscreen BS. The new remaster might get rid of it)

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (made by Iga, creator of Castlevania: SOTN, Dawn of Sorrow, and others)

Salt and Sanctuary

The Messenger

When I was much younger, I wanted that idealistic thing too. I was so optimistic about new tech that would come out. Decades of companies working on promising tech and turning it into a dystopian or anti-user mess have beaten that spirit out of me. I don’t want “smart” anything, and I certainly don’t trust any of the companies possibly capable of doing these things to be in charge of actually doing it.

This really, really sucks. WhoSampled is awesome, especially for sample heavy music from the 80s and 90s. They’ve been around over a decade, weird to call them a startup. While I am pissed, if Spotify came and offered me a truck load of money for something I was running and probably making little to no money, I can’t say it wouldn’t be tempting.

Adobe has been their own worst enemy for decades and their one true skill is fucking things up. The best thing about Adobe trying to make their own OS would be that it could wipe them out.

-signed, a long time bitter former Adobe user that still has to support their shit

“IT history” :(

Oh, well, time to go back to my crypt.