I’m being facetious. I just don’t grasp leaving visual fidelity on the table for overkill performance.
There are two ways to approach PC gaming’s fiddly, inconsistent performance in my book: either you have hardware powerful enough to crank it up and forget about it or… you do the actual work of setting up a target for performance and tuning the game to perform within that spec while looking as good as possible.
I recognize the words you are using, but they don’t seem to make any sense to me when put in that order.
No, not that one. But I guess there are multiple angles, dark mode overall has been pretty rough.
The one that gets in my way the most is their already spotty xlsx conversion seems to parse Office’s default font color as black instead of automatic, which means when you open Excel docs on LibreOffice you get black text on black background by default.
You can just select all and manually change the text color, but it’s a pain, and on spreadsheets you have to do it on each spreadsheet page. From what I’ve seen there have been bugs opened and reclosed with “you should set the text to automatic”, which is engineer excuses for what is obviously a genuine issue with the defaults of document conversion, as far as I can tell.
Is dark mode no longer busted?
I guess I’ll find out.
Hah. I guess I lost you because I never quite made the jump into buying the notion of considering the way they look or act as an identitarian problem. This is a trend across the political divide, from fashy complaints about people with “blue hair” to progressives challenging gender stereotypes. Seems to me like a problem of aesthetics, all of it, but people have associated those aesthetics to political positions, when not with their mutual perception of their fundamental identities.
Which of those forms of expression floats your boat… you know, biologically, is entirely up to you and your natural reactions. Dress, hair, lack of hair, sexual practices, participation of specific varieties of genitalia… I don’t care, it’s all some interaction of how you decorate yourself and which decorations get you going.
But I’m in the minority there. It’s clearly important to society and it can have a deep impact on individuals and their wellbeing. And like anything relevant to society it’s been politicized. Because we’re all just horny apes in the end.
Americans elected a fascist, extremist president and corporations cozying up to power are moving towards fascism and extremism to cozy up to power.
I am experiencing the least amount of shock possible.
Now, if Americans owned the monumental fuckup, that would be a surprise.
Well, yeah, but that’s the point. It’s “I’m not into that”, as opposed to “I wouldn’t date X type of people”. The point is you can not be into things without it being a political statement. Even if your political line of choice tends to favor a particular aesthetic.
You know, I was pretty assured on my line of reasoning here until I read “I wouldn’t date black or Asian folks” and… eeeeh, maybe there’s room for nuance here.
In my defense, I’ll say it’s the way of putting it that feels icky more than the sentiment. But still. Kinda ew. Don’t know if this was a Socratic, reverse psychology thing, but if so, well played.
Why would you be? You can be absolutely aware of the social patterns imposed on you, including those that are discriminatory or unfair, and still be subject to their effects.
Humans build a lot of their psyche by socializing. From aesthetic preference to sexual arousal or choices of flavor and texture for food. You’re not a hypocrite for not liking spicy food growing up in a culture with milder tastes and you’re not a hypocrite for finding traditional gendered aesthetics attractive after growing up in a culture that reinforced them at you at every turn.
You’re a hypocrite if you find those distasteful or exploitative and still perpetuate them forward to your kids, but even if you don’t, you’re not the only influence they have.
See, that’s why this is a bit of a bummer. This fiction on leftist circles that you can change a deeply ingrained societal pattern overnight or you’re a failure or a hypocrite is not just unrealistic, it’s kind of ignorant and mean spirited. You should be concerned with not making things worse and moving them in the right direction, but you shouldn’t always take the maximalist approach and assume you’re responsible for enforcing overnight radical change.
That’s how right wingers keep setting up their dumb absurdity checks. They just dare progressives to go maximal on every stupid detail and then point at it and call it a lack of common sense. You can recognize a consequence of inequality without enforcing a complete solution instantly. Change takes time, even on an individual level.
Man, that’s even more confused. So you can be heteronormatively horny, but only as long as you acknowledge the possibility of boning outside your comfort zone? If gender nonconforming sex happens in the hypothetical woods does anybody hear it?
Honestly, that’d be kinda funny if it wasn’t such a depressing proxy for leftist purity tests and frequent inability to accept any intermediate states between utopian idealized outcomes and right wing dystopia.
Okay, but are you banned from progressivism if you’re not into them sexually?
That’s a hell of an onus. Like, you literally need to work yourself up to being horny for “anyone bending gender boundaries” or you’re out?
I mean… my experience with it is “all of the above”.
Is there a widely accepted European equivalent for “Sir, this is a Wendy’s?”
Didn’t think I needed one, and then…
Well, the EU has a consultation period on new regulations, but I don’t know if that’s open for this specifically.
Generally, I would say organizations on each country are often the ones with the infrastructure in place to issue a recommendation on these things. Consumer support orgs, unions, privacy groups and so on. Political parties if your country has one with a definite stance on the issue. If you can get those involved and they can get the press involved now you have an avenue for mainstream awareness, which frankly is more likely to do something than a purely online-driven signature or email campaign.
The rest may differ per country and even per party. It depends on what participation mechanisms you can deploy for each.
To be clear, I’m not against also reaching out to MEPs, but given how in many places they act as a collective blob representing national partisan interests and how electorally they don’t have a particular incentive to engage with individual voters I don’t know that it’d work best in isolation. I’m not particularly against that, either. “Contact your representative” is a staple of small district, majoritarian, first-past-the-post nonsense and I have no particular desire to move in that direction. I’m way more comfortable with a party-heavy system than with that weirdness.
MEPs get elected with proportional representation on closed lists in a nation-wide single district.
Emailing 60 of them from an array of different parties with no official stance on the issue and no more of a direct relationship with you than with millions of other people is less direct political action and more spam. Pretty sure collective action would have a better chance.
Consistent performance and good thermals are important, but that’s the poing of having a performance target. You decide what fps you want to get and tune settings until you get it with the best possible visuals. It’s definitely not potato fidelity across the board.
Of course it depends on your hardware, but there are plenty of games that run on more than potato mode even on integrated graphics these days.