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    Grungie got a reaction from killamch89 in What are your favorite tools to convert videos?   
    Handbreak is amazing
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    Grungie got a reaction from Smokey in Xenogears/Xenosaga?   
    I enjoyed Xenogears, but I can’t get into Xenosaga. I keep trying to push myself to finish Xenosaga 1, but it’s such a drag.
    I feel like I just walk a few feet to unlock an unnecessarily long cutscene. You know it’s bad when they have save points between the cutscenes.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Smokey in How do you organize your games?   
    I have a few shelves for it. I have one of those tiny corner bookcases for my PS1 RPG collection.
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    Grungie got a reaction from The Blackangel in Food allergies?   
    This is pretty much me in a nutshell
    It's technically not an allergy, but since everyone mistakenly calls it one, it's just easier to say it is.
    Certain ones affect me more than others, but I haven't really deciphered which ones do better or worse. I can still drink, but I don't do it often because of the body reactions.
    Sometimes I get red in the face very quickly, and people think I'm already hammered, and I'm only half a beer in.
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    Grungie got a reaction from DC in Food allergies?   
    I’m allergic to alcohol
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    Grungie got a reaction from Lamarr the strelok in Linux, Unix, Dos. What the hell is the difference?   
    Some of the actual differences get super technical. To switch to another OS, you can either buy another computer with it pre-installed, or install the new OS on an existing computer. You can dual boot (where you can install multiple OS’s one one computer, but you can only run one at a time, so you have to select which one when you boot the computer. To swap between the two, you straight up have to shut off the computer and select another one. You can also use virtual machines. A technically not correct explanation, is that you’re basically emulating another OS on your computer. You just need enough resources (specs) to run two OS’s at once, as opposed to dual booting where you solely run one OS at a time.
     
    DOS is basically dead. It was the basis of Windows and was axed when XP came out. So outside of using legacy software on old computers (or emulating through DosBox) it’s essentially irrelevant. DOS was the “core” of Windows and was command line only, and Windows was the GUI (graphical user interface) to make it more user friendly. Part of the reason why some games have to be run in DOS mode was because Windows itself took up a lot of resources, so running in DOS boots your computer without Windows, and let you utilize more resources.
     
    Unix and Linux are different “families” of operating systems, that share similarities under the hood, or were built off of an existing version of Unix or Linux. There’s no “pure” version of either, so when people say they use either Unix or Linux, they need to be more specific. It’s the equivalent of saying “I drive a truck”, well… what kind of truck? What model truck? Since Linux is heavily inspired by Unix (hence why it’s called a Unix-like OS), the lines can get blurry.
    You won’t run into Unix much. Outside of MacOS, it’s pretty common as the custom operating system of enterprise hardware. So on a rack mounted server, it hosts Windows on it, but the OS to configure the hardware would be some variant of Unix.
    With MacOS, since it’s a completely different OS from Windows, you can’t run Windows software on it. You have to have software specifically written for MacOS. So popular software like MS Office or Google Chrome have to be ported over. With that, it has exclusive software. It’s also part of the reason why gamers don’t use Macs, the lack of games. Macs (and anything that isn’t Windows) are immune to Windows viruses, because they’re written for well… Windows. Though that’s entirely due to the overwhelming market share of Windows. (Iirc it’s like 80%). So while your chances aren’t zero, you are less likely to get viruses
    It is more efficient than Windows, because it only runs on a limited set of hardware variations, so you can easily optimize the operating system, as opposed to Windows or Linux where you have to make it compatible with a wide variety of hardware.
    Macs also heavily cater to the creativity market in the hardware/software department, so if you hang around artsy communities, your likely hood of seeing a Mac is very high. It’s because Microsoft pissed those companies off in the 90’s, so Steve Jobs swooped in. I record music as a hobby, and Macs are less of a headache to use than Windows for it. A lot of the hardware is plug and play, while I have to spend a ton of time fiddling with stuff, or downloading various things to get my hardware to run on Windows.
     
    With Linux, it has some of the benefits of MacOS (ie lack of viruses), but it’s more catered to “power users” than Windows and Mac, and is a lot more customizable. If you’re into tinkering, it’s for you. Using the command line (aka terminal) is very popular.
    When you asked earlier what a distro was, it’s just the jargon for “variant” of Linux, and is short for distribution. So like my truck analogy earlier, saying distro, is like saying model. “I have an F150, I have a Silverado. Well Linux users will say “I run Ubuntu, I run Gentoo”.
    Differences in distros will vary in a myriad of ways, and to make things more confusing, there are variations of Linux based off of an existing distro. Some differences will be the varying degrees of user friendlyness. Some versions require to do things only through command line, and others have it to where you never have to use it. Some also let you install software through their App Store, or just install it by double clicking the install file. Others have you build the installer yourself. Some of those make you wonder why do it the hard way, but some people just find it fun.
    The reason why people claim Linux is better is that if you’re a power user, you have full control over it, and you can customize it yourself.
    There is a degree of snobbery behind some users, because Linux is considered the “smart people OS”, so some people use it as a badge of “I’m smarter than you”. It also increases significantly alongside the difficulty of the distro. So a distro like Gentoo where you essentially have to program the OS yourself, and everything about it, they will let you know they use it without you asking.
     
    If you’re still confused, feel free to pick whichever portion(s) you’re confused about, and I’ll break it down further.
    In all honesty, there’s no “better” OS, it’s just what fits your use case.
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    Grungie reacted to Reality vs Adventure in Latinx   
    I’ve been looking into this more and kind of gathered pieces of information here and there and I’m not claiming to be 100% correct, but just bringing info to the table. Supposedly languages have evolved a lot over the centuries in relation to gender and is still changing today in a natural evolution of language. Centuries ago some authors used gender neutral words. And even the past decades some countries have been changing words. Most recently that I know of being Sweden in 2015 added a gender neutral word to their dictionary, (hen) pronoun instead of using (hon or han) which means he or she.
    The Latin language vs Old English: Old English used a grammatical gender language using masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns that do not describe a natural sex. Latin differs in that it uses both grammatical and natural gender using masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns. Old English eventually evolved into modern English in the 1200-1300’s by dropping the grammatical gender nouns and that is why English is not a gendered language. The evolution of the Latin language actually dropped the neuter nouns and kept the gender nouns giving way to Romance Latin languages like Spanish.
    Which brings us to today where the language continues to evolve in the USA and Latin America and the USA is caught in political crosshairs but it supposedly was not the whites who promoted it.
    “White people did not make up Latinx,” he says. “It was queer Latinx people... They are the ones who used the word. Our little subgroup of the community created that. It was created by English-speaking U.S. Latinx people for use in English conversation.”
    https://www.history.com/news/hispanic-latino-latinx-chicano-background
    Also in this article from History Channel, says that the movement could have started in the early 2000’s and became more popular the past decade, but still only 4% of Latins use LatinX.
    With today’s political divisions and inclusivity, brings about exclusivity. So what I believe will eventually happen is some words will be changed in the dictionary, and the exclusivity types will want to ban dictionaries if not outright ban non gender conforming people themselves. I thought LatinX was ridiculous at first, but we are seeing the natural evolution of language. A huge problem however, is that Spanish is not Old English or Old Latin. It's a highly gendered language. The whole language will have to change. And if it does change, they would have to bring back (neuter) nouns and Spanish would reverse back to Old Latin or something??????????? And drop the natural gender nouns while integrating the grammatical gender nouns. So maybe in the next 500 years Latina America will be speaking a New Latin non gendered language. Never know. These things have happened before over a span of hundreds of years. 
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    Grungie got a reaction from Reality vs Adventure in Latinx   
    Latino(a) is a regional thing, like mentioned in that article you posted:
    One of the controversies with Latinx has more to do with how it actually fits into Spanish. It was created by English speakers, and it's pronounced Latin Ex. Well the usage of X kind of contradicts Spanish grammar, so it ends up being a bit ironic that a term that's supposed to be inclusive is excluding the people that speak the language. Which is why it's not really gaining traction in the Spanish community. I've seen Latine being used more than Latinx by the Latin trans community more as it grammatically makes more sense to them, easier for them to pronounce, and fits the bill of inclusivity.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Ajibusu in Linux, Unix, Dos. What the hell is the difference?   
    To super dumb it down, they’re different operating systems. At face value, seeing a command line interface makes it all look the same to the untrained eye, but not all commands and functions are universal.
    DOS was largely tied to Microsoft operating systems, and has largely faded out of use. Windows pre-XP was essentially just a skin running on top of DOS, hence why Windows OS’s like Windows 95 had you run in MS-DOS mode to run games in DOS mode.
    Unix is a different operating system, but you’ll almost never run into “pure” Unix. I’m not familiar with the terminology, but there’s different variations of it. The most famous or widely used variation of Unix (too lazy to fact check) is MacOS. Like different variations of Windows, Unix based operating systems all have a similar core underneath, but have different “skins” for the user interface.
    Linux is another operating system. It’s a Unix-like operating system where it’s an operating system that has similarities to Unix, but isn’t. Like Unix, you’ll rarely run into “pure” Linux. The variations of Linux are called distributions or distros. Some common distros are Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, Mint, elementary, Debian, Gentoo. They’re essentially like different skins, and some are built on top of each other. Some of it can be convoluted where you have a distro that’s built off of one distro that’s built off of another one. Linux is usually open source and free to download. There are exceptions to this. Linux is pretty popular with computer nerds, because some distros like Gentoo are really popular with tinkerers. It’s also less locked down than Windows and MacOS where if you know terminal commands (Unix and Linux’s term for the command line), you can really have full control over the operating system.
    I can go deeper, as I do IT for a living.
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    Grungie got a reaction from killamch89 in Do you think services like GamePass hurt game sales?   
    The developers should be getting a cut if they aren't already. I don't see how it hurts game sales, it's just an alternate stream of revenue. It lets people try out games that they otherwise might not have bought, and the developer gets a cut, as opposed to piracy where they got paid zero.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Ajibusu in Is Gaming on Linux A Worthwhile Experience?   
    They have distros that are beginner friendly, and have been around for years. Ubuntu, Elementary, and Mint are really easy to set up and use. Do you know how to click next a bunch of times and wait? Cool, you’re now certified in how to install those distros.
    If you want to install software, a lot of distros work like Windows and MacOS, where you download an installer file, double click, and do the difficult task of hitting next a bunch of times. Or if that’s too arduous, a lot of distros have app stores, and work just like it does on Windows, Mac, or your phone/tablet.
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    Grungie got a reaction from killamch89 in Fail to grasp?   
    Some people don’t understand being on time. I’m not gonna bitch at someone for being 5 mins late, but there’s always that one person that’s 20-30 mins late.
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    Grungie got a reaction from DC in Fail to grasp?   
    If someone is going to be egregiously late, at least send a courtesy text. Though usually the people I have an issue with are habitually late.
    I knew a guy where if you told him an event starts at noon, he leaves his house at noon.
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    Grungie got a reaction from DC in Fail to grasp?   
    Some people don’t understand being on time. I’m not gonna bitch at someone for being 5 mins late, but there’s always that one person that’s 20-30 mins late.
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    Grungie got a reaction from kingpotato in Latinx   
    I find that the irony of Latinx is that while a term created to be inclusive, is exclusive against the people it targets.
    People who don’t speak Spanish created a term that is difficult to pronounce in Spanish.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Akun in What RPGs have the most varied ending branches?   
    I’d disagree about it being more of a WRPG problem than a JRPG problem.
    A large chunk of JRPG’s tend to have one ending and that’s it. You could have been super lucky with only playing ones with multiple endings, but most of the big ones have just a singular ending. Franchises like Final Fantasy, Dragon Wuest, Tails, Ys, Legend of Heroes, etc, have one ending.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Crazycrab in Do you actively avoid walkthroughs some or all of the time?   
    Tbh, I feel like people tend to misuse terminology with the Water Temple. It’s tedious, and not hard. You are just restricted access to rooms because of either the water level, lack of keys, or the lack of the long shot. It’s not like it takes skill to raise/lower the water level, or just come back with a key or long shot.
    I always see people calling anything that takes longer than usual as hard, despite it not really taking effort.
    I can beat the Water Temple without a guide as I use the same tactic you do, but some of the backtracking is a pain, but that doesn’t make it difficult. The part that throws people off is the chest with the key in the basement of the central tower people easily forget about.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Akun in I Hate To Admit It, But Digital Distribution Is Growing On Me....   
    I’m not sure what’s really exhausting about acquiring a physical copy of a game. If it’s a popular title, I can easily get it from a store, and if it’s not popular, I just order it on Amazon. It doesn’t take much of my time to get a game physically.
    If the game was brand new, it was a very rare issue to see the disc scratched. I also own hundreds of used disc based games, and none of them were too scratched to not work. I could be super lucky.
    I get the convenience of not having to wait for a game to be delivered, but the exhausting nature of physically acquiring a game is completely foreign for me.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Heatman in what's with all the gaming service charges now?   
    I wasn’t really referring to the current inflation, just more of general inflation since the early 90’s. $70 in 1992 is different from $70 in 2022.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Heatman in what's with all the gaming service charges now?   
    As someone who works as a server admin, this stuff isn’t cheap to run.
    I know you mentioned the price of games being $60, and the new consoles have jumped up to $70. It does suck if you want to play them day one, but like people mentioned earlier, you can wait for them to be on sale.
    With older game consoles, the price of the games are more expensive if you consider inflation, and others were more expensive without inflation (and worse if you include inflation). The cartridge based home consoles didn’t really have a standardized price, and was dictated by what extra chips they had. $80 games were not that unusual back then.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Lamarr the strelok in Disappointed in Last of US Part 1 Remake   
    Tbh, what exactly were you expecting out of this remake?
    I find it weird to buy a remake and go “it’s the same game!” after buying it. Was it advertised as being different?
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    Grungie got a reaction from Lamarr the strelok in Linux v MacOS v Windows - Which do you prefer to use daily?   
    It depends on which distro you’re using. Ubuntu, Mint, and elementary are pretty set it and forget it. If we’re talking about Arch and Gentoo, then that’s a different story.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Withywarlock in Do you think 7th gen consoles will ever become "retro"?   
    I'm sure it will eventually. Even looking at stuff not related to video games from when I was in high school, like fashion, looks dated by today's standards.
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    Grungie got a reaction from Gonassis in Anti-Piracy Software Denuvo Announced for Switch   
    Honestly, anti-piracy tends to make it more of a pain for legit customers than the pirates. Most DRM gets cracked very quickly, so it only deters it for like… 24 hours.
    I wish I could pirate software at work, and it’s not because I want to save my company money. It’s because it’s less of a pain. Enterprise licenses are jank af.
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    Grungie got a reaction from melanie_marie27 in 1 word song titles   
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