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Lazers 2.0

00:16

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Q: Is it normal that my .minecraft folder takes up a large amount of disk space?

I wanted to backup my .minecraft folder. When I pressed Alt + Enter, it showed me that my folder was nearly 9GB. It it normal for a .minecraft folder to take up this much disk space?

minecraft-java-edition

GnomeSlice

00:44

uninstall titanfall 2

Fredy31

01:26

Holy fuck that is bad

Basically anyone that hacked the TF2 servers could run any code on your machine? So install whatever they liked?

If you got tf2 on your machine dont just uninstall. Scan for crypto miners.

Memor-X

01:37

think it might be related to the hackers who have been plaguing the Titanfall Multiplayer

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMey9dfTtOHBvikMfbteyjYcPaIJKX4Dj

Playlist of Upper Echelon Gamer's videos on it

SPArcheon

07:48

@GnomeSlice ..... I am more worried that they managed to craft arbitrary code execution bugs on console too

@SaintWacko the expedition is underway.

SIX WEEKS

I didn't had time to check all milestones.

So I don't know if the horrible length is because they have realized that a week for the Normandy was utterly bad.... or because this time the thing is even more grind than usual.

@GnomeSlice twitter.com/Respawn/status/1435740468327899139

ToxicFrog

13:59

@SPArcheon The PS4, PS5, XBone, and XBXS all use the same architecture as modern PCs (amd64), so while you have to do a bunch of juggling to take into account the different storage layouts and available OS facilities and whatnot, the same object code will run on all of them, and because of this there is probably a nontrivial amount of code in common between TFall2 PC and console.

SaintWacko

14:24

@SPArcheon But I'm playing Runescape!

SPArcheon

@ToxicFrog true. I just expect that generally speaking the console runs games in a sandbox that would be a little better than what transpires there. I am fully used to games running at what is almost OS permission level thanks to stupid requirements (YAY! DRM!) but I would at least hope that a PS4 game could only add screenshots in its own folder but for example was unable to delete pictures taken from other games.

Such claim makes me think the console isn't just as well though as I hoped for.

SPArcheon

14:47

@SaintWacko It is supposed to be annoying. Why have a time limited event that requires you to play on a separate save slot and require the same multitool upgrades again and again otherwise?

murgatroid99

15:28

@SPArcheon If anything, I'd expect console game code to be more trusted, because it's all distributed and/or certified by the console manufacturer.

SPArcheon

@murgatroid99 yep but the point here is a bug in the framework the game (Titanfall) is based upon, and allegedly the bug allows for arbitrary code execution.

It already kinda baffles me that in 2021 we didn't yet started to seriously think to rework things like Windows to work on a paranoid premise like for example... Qubes OS

murgatroid99

@SPArcheon Yeah, I know. But the existence of that bug now doesn't change whatever design decisions console manufacturers already made.

@SPArcheon There's always a tradeoff. People want performance. Trading that 99% of the time for a little more security 1% of the time isn't a tradeoff most customers are going to want to make.

SPArcheon

@murgatroid99 that's the point I was trying to make. Arbitrary code or not, I hope that a ps5 game can't execute code that for example changes your psn password

Wipqozn

16:14

New Matrix trailer is really good. Hopefully the movie is as good as the trailer. Last matrix movie was garbage.

SPArcheon

16:34

seems fine so far....

Taco タコス

16:53

Lmao

Fredy31

whats pretty funny is the teaser website

I looked into how they had a video tell the actual tim

time

and they did it the long way. 1440 videos, and it just loads the right one

SPArcheon

@Fredy31 ...................

Fredy31

i was like 'i really wonder what tech they used, must be bad ass!

no, they just occupied the intern for a week

Nzall

@SPArcheon Microsoft has tried that with 8. They wanted to close down Windows more and focus on UWP apps, which allow for better sandboxing

But there was also the other side of the coin

Namely that there was 30 years or so of back catalog that Microsoft wanted to avoid breaking

Like, imagine if they said "you can't run any games that released before Vista anymore"

And there's loads of corporate software as well

SPArcheon

17:38

原神宵宮のオリジナル料理「夏祭りの游魚」再現 Genshin Impact Recipe: Yoimiya's specialty, "Summer Festival Fish”

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Now we know what happens when players are waiting for the new event to start.

Fredy31

@Nzall I've often heard that why they skipped Windows 9 was that a lot of programs, for compatibility, were checking do you run something that starts with Windows 9 to get 93-95-97. So that's why they skipped to 10. Windows 9 would have fucked those programs

murgatroid99

18:01

Windows 93 isn't a real Windows operating system. It's just 95 and 98

Private Pansy

Windows 93.1 NT for Workgroups

Cat of doom2

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Q: Injustice 2 will not start on Xbox One

For some reason, Injustice 2 won't start. I bought it on a disc and tried everything to fix it and make it start, such as I have reinstalled several times, restarted Xbox several time, cleared all unused data on the Xbox, tried starting it with no DLC, tried deleting and then unplugging the Xbox ...

technical-issues xbox-one injustice-2

Yuuki

18:30

@PrivatePansy New Windows 11 XL Lite & Knuckles

@Wipqozn weirdly enough, the third matrix movie has kinda flipped for me growing up. when i was younger, i hated the architect scene because it was so boring to me but now i actually enjoy the actor's diction and the flowery language but the neo vs. smith fight just feels like it drags on for too long

oh wait, the architect scene was in the second movie, wasn't it?

Nzall

yeah, that was the second movie

Elise

19:14

Yuuki

19:41

the most i'm hoping for from a new matrix movie is reclaiming the term "red pill" from the alt-right

Nzall

@Yuuki It's quite weird that a bunch of transphobes managed to claim a term originally created by a work heavily steeped in transgender parables and allegories

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How to get my turtles to stay in their pond?

My turtles aren't staying on my pond in Minecraft, and I don't know why. They were born there, I actually bred them and it's the place where they also hatched. But once they are done laying eggs they go far away and do not stay on my really big pond with seagrass, kelp, and with some other fishes...

minecraft-java-edition-server

Yuuki

@Nzall the internet crowd has always been a big fan of eschewing any sort of metaphorical or symbolic interpretation in favor of literalism

Fredy31

@Nzall Wasnt there a cut character that was called Switch that was a woman in the matrix, but a man in reality?

Nzall

I think so yeah

Fredy31

19:51

And that makes sense because one of the directing brothers transitionned since the Matrix movies

Nzall

didn't they both transition?

Fredy31

Tought it was only one.

Nzall

Like, I think they're called the Wachowski sisters now

The Wachowskis

Lana Wachowski (born June 21, 1965, formerly known as Larry Wachowski) and Lilly Wachowski (born December 29, 1967, formerly known as Andy Wachowski) are American film and television directors, writers and producers. The sisters are both trans women.Collectively known as the Wachowskis (), the sisters have worked as a writing and directing team through most of their careers. They made their directing debut in 1996 with Bound, and achieved fame with their second film The Matrix (1999), a major box office success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director. They wrote and directed its two...

Fredy31

Oh well yep, they both did

Nzall

yeah, one in 2008 and the other in 2016

Fredy31

19:52

But yeah, that character was CLEARLY grounded in something lol

Yuuki

@Fredy31 i don't believe switch was cut, but rather a scene that explicitly drew attention to the fact that she was a woman in the matrix and that he was a man outside of it

Batophobia

Anyone that cares about PS, they have a showcase starting in a few minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5VtfD2i3rc

Nzall

matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Switch

Yuuki

spent a good amount of time trying to figure out the proper pronouns because they were never explicitly stated to be trans

Nzall

@Yuuki Switch was cut as full-on being a different gender in the matrix and in Zion, but still presented as androgynous in the movie to pay homage to the idea

Fredy31

19:56

Yeah, I can see why WB stepped in and said no. The transgender movement made a lot of ground in the last 15 yrs

like early 2000s an openly gay character that was not just a joke/parody would have been a hard sell for execs. Imagine one openly transgender

Like I do think that B99's Captain Holt would have been a hard sell in the early 2000s. The execs would have requested he's hetero

Nzall

@Fredy31 Austin Powers had a bisexual character in a supporting role in the 90s

List of feature films with LGBT characters

The following is a list of films with fictional and factual lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender characters. The films were released theatrically, as direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform. For queer characters ("Q" in LGBTQ), see lists for asexual, intersex, non-binary, and pansexual characters. == Film franchises == Film franchises share common universes. The following film series collectively feature LGBT characters in a leading or supporting role. == Stand-alone films == === 20th century === ==== 1900–1959 ==== ==== 1960–1979 ==== ==== 1980–1989 ==== ==== 1990–1999...

Yuuki

she's also an evil/villainous character

sooooo

Elise

villains have always been portrayed kinda queer, that's not a good thing

Nzall

Was Pussy Galore a villain in Bond?

hmm, looks like she did a heel-face turn

Galore was heavily implied to be lesbian in the movie

Yuuki

and then bond "fixes" her by loving her so well she becomes straight/bi

i would not point to james bond as a likely source of positive LGBT depictions

Nzall

20:04

true

But there ought to be enough depictions of LGBT characters in that movie list

Fredy31

I would complete my point. 'A non joke/parody, and in which the relationship is actually depicted'

Like the quick read of the list I did, most of them were 'mentionned quickly' but it never amounted to much. Like a throwaway line says it, but it doesn't have much point or depiction

Batophobia

oooo kotor remake

Nzall

@Fredy31 There are a couple of supporting characters in some of them, but a lot of them aren't really mainstream movies

Yuuki

like, holy hell, pussy galore's LGBT representation is super problematic. when she identifies as a lesbian (via movie dialogue basically all but spelling it out), she's working for the bad guy. and then bond quite literally sexually assaults her and afterwards, she turns on the bad guy and also coincidentally is now willing to be sexually available to bond

the implications are quite frankly disgusting

Nzall

@Fredy31 counterpoint: Brokeback Mountain

Though that's not really "early" 2000s anymore

Fredy31

20:10

Isnt Brokeback like 2010

Yuuki

@Nzall that's what you would call an exception that proves the rule

Nzall

2005

Yuuki

it was very controversial at the time

Fredy31

yep 2005

yeah, it was definitely not an easy sell for the execs

Nzall

I think it was when things started to turn around

Yuuki

20:11

it wasn't just when things started to turn around, favorable critical reception to brokeback mountain was part of the cause

Fredy31

and from my dumbass in front of a screen analysis of the LGBT presence in cinema, that might be the breaking point where it was less hard to sell. They could point at a movie having a gay relationship front and center and say 'that worked, so why would it be a dealbreaker for us'

Nzall

yeah, that's what I meant

Wasn't BBM nominated for an Oscar?

yeah, it was

oh sorry, that was a different awards show

> At the 78th Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain was nominated for Best Picture and won three awards for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Original Score. The film garnered seven nominations at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards, and won four awards. At the 59th British Academy Film Awards, Brokeback Mountain was nominated for nine awards, winning Best Film, Best Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Gyllenhaal).

Fredy31

Yep if something will make film execs be more open to something, well, its awards

Wipqozn

22:10

@Yuuki I thought the architect was the second movie

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