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I will concede that for once, Apple's insane keyboard mappings actually work in their favor. But I still won't get them any credit, since it is purely a coincidence that their mappings happened not to mess with this one browser game.
It comes in handy in terminals as well. You can use CMD + C to copy, CTRL + C to send a code.
The best FPS. I've been playing COD on PS5, but it is not the same. The game play is so much better, and more intense in Counter-Strike: * Respawn points are consistent * You have to manage money * It gets intense when you are the only one left on your team
To me, Rainbow 6: Siege was a good follow-up. They solved a lot of the issues I had with CS (and COD), like stupid movements using jump, nothing to do after you die. They integrated some inevitable things into the gameplay itself: peeking pixels became a legit strategy, and now you can even make your own peekholes because of the destructible environment. You can use fixed and mobile cameras to gather intel, and share…
They've dug themselves into a hole with the "new operators every N weeks" pattern, but the depth of the game combined with the ultimately mechanical thrill of an FPS is a joy
I have been recently playing CSGO with my family members. Its honestly very difficult to play, its really not suited for Casual players(playing on speakers with mediocre mice and so on) especially with the very difficult aiming system. But I didn't find anything that is both free or basically free and can run on everything, from macbooks with Intel/m2 GPU to a gaming PC. Overwatch 2, too gimmicky and heavy Fortnite,…
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> you gotta love Mac users and their cultural bubble I've been using Windows for ~10, Linux for ~20, and Mac for 4 years. I've also worked on my own toy terminal emulator and shell. I believe that good design should be recognised for what it is, regardless of branding, and learned from to improve different aspects of the tools we build and use. I would very much appreciate it if we could continue this conversation wi…
> I believe that good design should be recognised for what it is, regardless of branding I am not at all influenced by the brand. Windows key was a mistake too IMO (that are two BTW! one emulates the right mouse click). ALT+space was a perfectly fine combo to press with one thumb (especially on laptop keyboards) to open a menu or the app launcher. They add nothing to the table, it's just another modifier, they are bo…
Command/Apple key on a Mac has always [0] been a 'clover' key symbol, origin story:[1]
[0]: https://oldcraporg.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/dsc_0201.jpeg... [1]: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
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To me, Rainbow 6: Siege was a good follow-up. They solved a lot of the issues I had with CS (and COD), like stupid movements using jump, nothing to do after you die. They integrated some inevitable things into the gameplay itself: peeking pixels became a legit strategy, and now you can even make your own peekholes because of the destructible environment. You can use fixed and mobile cameras to gather intel, and share…
When siege is working well and you have a team with you think it's the best multiplayer shooter ever. They've dug themselves into a hole with the "new operators every N weeks" pattern, but the depth of the game combined with the ultimately mechanical thrill of an FPS is a joy
That said, the game is a unique fun. I'm glad I chose to participate.
I remember playing one of the early CS betas as a Half-life mod in ~1999. It was such a huge leap in gameplay and style from anything else out there. Most FPSs up to this point were SciFi based, guns like the BFG and plasma guns. Counterstrike's focus on realism really altered how you connected with the game. Columbine had happened very recently and was still very much in the zeitgeist. There was a very real cultural…
> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. There was a small netcafe nearby when I was young that had a good quality T1 connection and hosted their own CS servers. Some of the players got together and actually mapped out the entire netcafe store itself and some of the surrounding area to create a "de_" style map. This meant…
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> I believe that good design should be recognised for what it is, regardless of branding I am not at all influenced by the brand. Windows key was a mistake too IMO (that are two BTW! one emulates the right mouse click). ALT+space was a perfectly fine combo to press with one thumb (especially on laptop keyboards) to open a menu or the app launcher. They add nothing to the table, it's just another modifier, they are bo…
>At least back then the Apple key was the Apple logo, it had a branding purpose. Command/Apple key on a Mac has always [0] been a 'clover' key symbol, origin story:[1] [0]: https://oldcraporg.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/dsc_0201.jpeg... [1]: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
https://www.freney.net/web/?14-LISA-s-restoration-the-keyboa...
this one's smaller but the Apple logo is still visible if you zoom
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Apple-li...
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It is an error in Bayesian reasoning. All high school shooters play violent video games, but not all kids who play violent video games are going to shoot up their high schools.
It's usually presented as a group of "red flags" that sound rare in summation. Everyone knows kids play violent video games. What I see among school shooters is things like, has threatened classmate in the past, is on anti-depresents/in therapy and played violent video games. Some of those things may indeed be a factor in the actual event so it might actually have _some_ merit to bring up but I also probably just des…
Charles Whitman conducted a mass shooting in 1966, and the supplies he hauled along with his guns and ammo were Dexedrine and Excedrin.
Once upon a time, antidepressants carried a black box warning that they may cause homicidal ideations. That's right, not merely suicidal, but homicidal. And many psychoactive drugs actually work to cause the symptoms they purport to alleviate.
It is alleged, perhaps by conspiracy theorists, that pharmaceutical and psychiatric evidence in the Columbine trials was actively suppressed. Who knows?
But it's an interesting synergy that every mass shooting is followed by political calls for "more mental health care" which translates to more budget to put more people on drugs, so if the drugs are causing the shootings, then you have the perfect storm, don'tcha?
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>At least back then the Apple key was the Apple logo, it had a branding purpose. Command/Apple key on a Mac has always [0] been a 'clover' key symbol, origin story:[1] [0]: https://oldcraporg.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/dsc_0201.jpeg... [1]: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
The Apple Lisa keyboard had an Apple logo on it https://www.freney.net/web/?14-LISA-s-restoration-the-keyboa... this one's smaller but the Apple logo is still visible if you zoom https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Apple-li...
Interestingly the Apple III was the first Apple computer with a command/Apple key, which then subsequently appeared on the IIe/IIc/IIIgs so that is the true origin.
NeXT also adopted the command key, which I'm sure was handy when it's OS was adapted into OS X.
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> a good quality T1 Oh man, I remember the good ol' days, when a 1.5 Mbps connection was unthinkably fast. I imagined only God herself had a T3.
To be honest, it used to be. I have never, ever seen pings as low as the ones I've seen 15/20 years ago when playing online. I remember when I played Counter Strike 1.5 or 1.6 on a 10 MBit fiber which was very new at the time and pinging on servers nor far my house (few miles) even sub 10 ms. Those were numbers that competed with lan servers over ethernet. Nowadays I have a much better connection, and yet, I rarely s…
