Thanks for the insight, appreciate your input!
What didn't you like about Ubuntu? Im still kinda hesitant, I like the idea of an arch based distro thats a little easier to use, I mean ive never used arch so I dont really know, I would just like to be able to spin up or install whatever I want without being gatekept out of seemingly anything I try that isn't just install program, run program. I'm comfortable with terminal but I dont wanna get stuck in config hell like every time I wanna do kinda basic shit for anyone tech-savvy and experimental minded
What no you were right, it stands for Greatsword Ultra Greatsword. In DS3 It is called "Greatsword" but it isn't a Greatsword, it is an ultra greatsword.
Like call it Guts or whatever, but you had do distinguish it from the greatswords because it wasnt a greatsword, it was just named "Greatsword".
But its fine to call it guts sword because that's obvs what they're going for
That's a real simplification of DuBois who conducted incredibly detailed analysis of all the different classes created by and affected by chattel slavery, civil war, reconstruction, and counter-reconstruction. His argument isn't that whites aren't worth engaging with, its that capitalism is the cause and primary beneficiary of racism, and its mostly that reconstruction was not a failed project (a common chorus of his time), but a sabotaged project. He analyzed the conditions of white workers, but didn't make judgments like this.
"Convincing" poor white farmers was accomplished with the institution of slavery itself. It was economic hardship that convinced them. But rather than address economic conditions, the Guardian thinks we should write these people off. Basically its cheaper to just let people be exploited and to keep their racist views, than it is to actually combat racism, to help people, which has a liberalizing effect on the population. The Guardian takes it for granted that the Democratic political party is just doing the right thing, and MAGA people are hateful. And tbh, many of them are. But its interesting that rather than describe actual conditions and propose any positive way forward, the plan is to change nothing. This is the Democratic Party status quo in a nutshell. And it needs to fucking end, or something must be done by a political movement other than the democrats
The Guardian is just stating an elitist, divisive, liberal capitalist opinion, and then hiding it behind a veneer of legitimacy. More people should actually read Black Reconstruction in America, than pay attention to The Guardian.
Connor Grubb was then acquitted
My first exposure to the ozone machine was when I was detailing cars. Some young guy was transporting some gasoline in the backseat of his car, and the gasoline spilled. We tried everything to get it out. Finally the boss found someone with an ozone machine and and we ran it in the car for about an hour. When we checked back, the gas smell was completely gone.
Later when I worked at a paint store we had a customer who used them for cat piss. Typically, because the urine soaks into the carpet, the pad, and the subfloor, the carpet and pad need replaced, and the subfloor needs coated with a shellac-based primer, as it is one of the only things that will seal in the odor. This contractor I believe used the ozone machine instead. Or at least, he used it in conjunction with other steps in the process. I dont totally recall.
I dont know that an ozone machine would be an easy, one step, no fuss solution. The fact that it knocked out the gasoline smell, admittedly after a fair amount of cleaning in which the gas smell was still full strength by my memory, leads me to believe that with cleaning the carpet with a good enzyme cleaner, and then following with the ozone machine, you could get much higher abatement of the odor than with just a cleaner, if not total abatement.
It can be tricky to find someone who has one though. I'd def try it out first before purchasing one, or see if you can rent one somewhere. They really are incredible. My understanding is that the ozone dislodges the odor particles from virtually any surface. I'm not an expert but I think it is a solid avenue to investigate
If you can get access to an ozone machine, it'll knock it out in one go
Ive been using fedora, my first distro, for about 5 years. I'm about to switch because it just doesn't do some things I want, or not without a ton of config. I got it because it came up as "best distro for coding" when I googled it, and I was just beginning to code.
I can't imagine its that much better than like Ubuntu though, which is what I think I'll switch to. Meanwhile there's several just complete and total roadblocks ive hit because of the distro. Kubernettes and Docker just doesn't work for me. I was trying a teat install of CiviCRM and never got past the download. Recently, when trying to install Graphene on a new phone, Fedora in fastboot just refuses to recognize it. In the process of trying to work around this limitation, I somehow removed myself from the sudo su group, and fixing it has been a chore.
Its like every time I want to do x, it isn't supported. Coding and developing on it is fine, for my personal projects. If I wanna do anything more than run a script though, its been nothing but hardship.
Its been a pretty good distro for me, but I have a dislike for extended config and sysadmin tasks and troubleshooting, and on my personal projects I keep hitting roadblocks over and over on Fedora. Open to other suggestions, but Ubuntu seems the most straightforward
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Wow hexbear comments section goes so hard.
The financers/producers openly dissuaded union work because of the "tight budgets." As a result, the workers got fucked over while the financiers made out. I wonder how a film with such a tight budget, was able to afford the kind of marketing that allowed it to catapult to this kind of breakaway success story? I guess its just that good of a movie, word of mouth right? Marketplace of ideas, surely not a concerted effort by various sectors of the movie industry to promote a union-busting film, to lend legitimacy to a new business model that ensures even more technical trades get forced to take lower wages in order to return profits to those who took "financial risks."
Indie films dont have the same level of engagement as larger blockbusters by unions, particularly the crew union IATSE. The unions just dont really keep track of indie movies. They also have a lot of pull with american production and distribution companies. So the movie was made for 750k, and sold for 15m (what a roi!) to a Canadian distributor, bypassing american union reach, and the distributor took on marketing. They used "guerrilla marketing" tactics to lend some bona fide to the low budget.
There have been a lot of films in recent years made for exceedingly low budgets, using this indie movie loophole and trying out various other tactics like filming in Las Vegas where union penetration is lower, though this often still leads to the crews seeking out and organizing union contracts. None so far has been this big of a success, so Obsession is being pushed in every which way. Its the realization of a long project by movie production companies to skirt union oversight. This always leads to more dangerous conditions and lower wages across the board.
I dont know about you all, but I'm never watching this shit ass movie, and I will never watch anything by this director/production company, if I can help it.
The other day a mod on Hexbear told me that "now is the time for monsters" referred to "what we must become during the revolution." I was like no, its about old people
300+ hours in Nightreign, prob 200+ on one character: Executor. Generally, the worst character in the game. Low HP, low damage resistance, low damage except for status procs. If you go in unga bunga you will die, you will suck. Has a special ability called suncatcher that looks very flashy but itself does almost little damage.
So let's focus on his most important feature, arguably the most important gameplay mechanic in any soulsborne:
looks very flashy
Suncatcher is basically Sekiro playstyle. He has a cursed sword that can deflect all damage, with a satisfying clang and bright sparks, if timed near-perfectly. After 5 deflections, it lights up, and lets you do a golden sweep attack. Deflecting with Suncatcher builds up some stance damage, but the weapon itself did minimal damage on its own, even the flashy golden sweep.
His ultimate was a free heal that does a little damage but ever dark bosses and Deep of Night games would kill you easily despite being a giant horned beast. His ult has some utility, like healing other players when roaring with a certain relic. Synergies were found when using the seppuku skill with his special ability, but sacrificing a huge chunk of your health pool for a brief damage buff took a lot of situational awareness to make sure I didn't get ganked mid-buff, and it still happened frequently.
A lot of players use his high Arcane stat to proc statuses but dont really even use suncatcher. I myself became obsessed with it. Eventually I developed a "stance/status/tank" playstyle: after practicing with suncatcher for a long time I got pretty good at deflecting enemy attacks, and could hold off most bosses by myself while teammates did damage, or if one team member needed to go revive another. I learned that Executor's charge attacks are best after ive procced status a couple times. I could carry teams through the base bosses as long as both players weren't completely worthless.
But ultimately, the character had a high skill floor in order to become like a medium value character. It could be argued that his sekiro-deflect is too powerful, it has a generous "perfect" window, more than we got from Sekiro, but other characters were straight easy-mode. Raider has great damage resistance, a huge health pool, incredible DPS, and the ability to nullify attacks with his special poise-counter.
But last week, they buffed Executor. They buffed suncatcher immensely. It does more stance damage, it does significantly more damage, blocking uses less stamina, can't be stance broken with perfect deflects, and many atack up relics now apply to suncatcher. This character gained immense value. I was absolutely stuck in the new Deep of Night hard mode, I struggled to make any progress in depth 2, and while ive only played a single DoN match since the buff, we easily cleared it.
With a few relics, suncatcher can be made to be significantly stronger than even a legendary Katana, available at level 1. His HP and damage negation are still low, but he can't be stance broken on perfect deflects anymore, making him much more reliable and dependent on skillful deflecting rather than the enemy's attack spam.
I have become so powerful, it is intoxicating. Absolute incredible week for Executor mains
Part of a response I received in a thread on .ml
Bloodborne was my first Soulsborne, but I couldn't get into it, at first. DS3 was my first darksouls game. Its still so friggin good. Other than the lacking a jump, I still prefer it to Elden Ring. But being a late-phase Souls gamer, I find DS1 too clunky to play, and ive never tried ds2