[-] demoman@lemmy.one 5 points 1 month ago

"Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer. I read it in high school so maybe I wouldn't hate it as much as I do if I wasn't forced to read it, but the plot is basically about a booksmart kid who decides to leave his rich parents and society behind to live in remote Alaska. The book follows Chris McCandless along his journey from the Eastern part of the country, through the South, and finally up the West coast and to Alaska (hitchhiking mostly). When he gets to Alaska, instead of actually being prepared and realizing the risk, he goes into "Into the Wild" incredibly unprepared - he ends up having to stay at his remote camp well into the spring because he didn't consider all the snow melting would render the river blocking his path back to society completely uncrossable. He ends up dying because he ruins most of a moose by failing to properly smoke the meat, and eats a poisionous plant out of desperation. Obviously this could have been avoided by just doing the proper research or bringing extra food (he only brought a few pounds of rice, and the guy who drove him to his final stop literally told him it was a bad idea to do this with so few supplies and only a .22 rifle). Basically his horrible death could have been easily avoided if he wasn't such an idiot.

The author clearly had a ton of respect for the guy, because he spent a year or two peicing all this together. He spoke about Chris (the unprepared trancendentalist wannabe) with a great deal of reverence, acting like he was a martyr for a cause unclear to me. Why you would want to spend years of your life in an attempt to immortalize an idiot, I am not sure. The author also decided to randomly interrupt the main story with a few chapters about his own moronic adventures, which made an already bad book worse.

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Does anyone know what the requirement is to be considered an active user? Does this count lurkers who don't post or does simply viewing content include them? Sorry if this is answered somewhere else, I'm just curious and lazy

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 4 points 1 month ago

I put Tabasco on my pizza all the time :)

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 18 points 2 months ago

In the past 365 days I have gained almost half a million views and more than 4000 new subscribers on youtube :)

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 31 points 3 months ago

Holy this is a good one thanks OP

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 3 points 7 months ago

You would certainly go insane

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 4 points 7 months ago

Team Fortress 2, for more than 8 years

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 18 points 7 months ago

Nope, its normal to dislike the sound of your own voice.

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 8 points 8 months ago

I had to turn it off because I was accidentally upvoting almost every time I had to scroll. It would be a great feature if the sensitivty would be adjusted, or if there was a setting to do it yourself!

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks for your comment! I am going to try stable for a while and see how it goes... worst case I can switch to a different distro.

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submitted 11 months ago by demoman@lemmy.one to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hello everyone - I have been wanting to ditch windows on my gaming pc for a while now, and since I have recently finished a large project, I now have the free time to switch. I am relatively comfortable with Debian having used it for a while on my web server as well as school laptop, but I am concerned about using it on my gaming computer since I have heard stock Debian is not the greatest for gaming. All of my other daily driver programs I know will work, so I am mainly concerned with the gaming aspect.

In the case that you don't recommend Debian for my gaming computer, do you have an OS that you would recommend?

I appreciate any insight!

[-] demoman@lemmy.one 33 points 1 year ago

Yet another example of people who pay for the content getting shafted while pirates are better off.

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[-] demoman@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Random crits in TF2. They are frustrating and they only benefit those who are doing well (the more damage you do the higher the random crit chance).

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