Glide

joined 2 years ago
[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 hours ago

Ah yes, the classic "so busy being 'great' that they forgot to be 'good."

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Many Steam games are actually DRM free. You can just copy the game folder onto a flash drive, sometimes modify a single file, and then run it from the flash drive in any PC.

You should still buy from GOG first imo, but I wouldn't entirely count out Steam.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 hours ago

I literally had to look this up just now. Such a high profile game did such a huge thing and somehow I am just now hearing about it? Insane, tbh.

I chose to pirate Minecraft back when Notch was charging $20 CAD for a game in which the health bar didn't work, and I've been nothing but validated by every decision around the game since.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 45 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

When people hit 10mil, they should prestiege. Give them a fancy title or add-on to their name, take all their wealth and tell them to do it again to hit the next prestiege. Easy fix, gives the 1% the sense of pride and accomplishment they deserve.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Weird. Tbh, no. We played a full cycle on difficulty 8 last night, and, while the new bugs presented reasonable challenge, raw numbers wasn't it at all. Tbh, kill count was lower than usual.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I promise you, they would take America with them. Willingly, out of spite, if nothing else.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago

Authoritarians don't like nuance, full stop. You're trying to take a nuanced view to the varying opinions and perspectives that interact on Lemmy? Get the fuck out before you start inferring that we should see users who disagree with us as "people."

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I get your sentiment, but there's no way this is punishment enough. The man literally publishes racist hate speech on the reg.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Reminder that the same MOU also insisted that Trudeau makes it illegal for any province to require vaccinations for any reason, while the base presenting it is simultaneously calling him a dictator and claiming he's been over reaching with his authority.

I'm torn, tbh. They seem genuinely stupid enough to convince me that they don't understand the hypocrisy, but they're also malicious enough for me to believe that they're playing stupid. It's schrodingers fascist; they could be though of as simultaneously stupid and cruel until they get enough power to actually act and be properly defined.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Wait, this was ACTUALLY a quote from a famous dictator? I thought I was just being snarky and connecting this comment to the kind of rhetoric famously used by dictators. I didn't realize this is specific rhetoric used by a specific dictator.

You don't even need to read between the lines anymore. Insane.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Trump defended the order, stating, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Okay, Adolf.

 

Apparently "nationalism is bad" is an uncivil take. Unless there's another reason someone would ban this comment... 🤔

 

So the situation is this: I am a junior high ELA teacher and I want to bring some videogames into the classroom. What I have to work with are the students Chromebooks. At first glance, I figured I'd throw some short, playable without install games on some flash drives and we could play through whatever game it is, and then talk about it like any other short story. Bring in the relevant terms, connect it to the course outcomes, easy. Then I began to learn the limitations of Chromebooks and how challenging it can be to run Windows .exe's on them, or find games that run natively on a Chromebook without installing.

Getting the rights to install anything on these devices is functionally out of the question. The request would have to go through the school board. Even if they agree that it's a good idea, the practicality of giving me the rights to install things without opening it up so the students can install things and without consuming an inordinate amount of class time in just setting up is unlikely. Ideally, I need games that can run on a Chromebook without running an install, or games that run in browser.

I'm googling around and considering emulator options. If anyone has experience in playing games in these circumstances, I'd love some options and insights. Additionally if people have recommendations for games that would be particularly good (narrative focused), I'd love to hear them. It's 2023; these kids don't need to learn what conflict is through short stories written by white men in the 1920s. With all the push towards student-focused learning and differentiated education, I want to start giving them choice and breadth in how they take in these concepts.

Thanks in advance for anyone who gives me their time and expertise on this.

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