It is true: Destiny 2 is rated by ProtonDB as "borked": https://www.protondb.com/app/1085660

But there are an awful lot of other games with high ratings there. The Steam Deck has done wonders for getting Windows games working under Linux.

Saying "American people" the way the Beastie Boys would say "Another dimension"

DOS Wizardry has a significant bug that makes it one of the worst versions.

Warning: this is secretly a Nethack thread!

So, the model was playing on average 2,000 points worse because the player was luckier? The things about werewolves and dogs is a factor but is statistically insignificant.

Nethack has a couple of other gotchas like this. They should be grateful they weren't playing on Friday the 13th....

The operator for ensuring something appeared in a search used to be "+", but they stopped using that for some ~?~^?^?mYsTeRiOuS rEaSoN^?^~?~?

What the heck is Dexerto?

Once, I was asked if I wanted a special offer on Microsoft Office on boot up. Explorer freezes so often for me when I right-click a file and select Open With that it's made me twitchy. Frequently image icons stop displaying. For a long while, every time I've installed Windows on a computer, I've had to go through and disable all the awful misfeatures Windows tries to put in the taskbar. I also always have to set OneDrive so it doesn't redirect folders like Desktop and Documents into its cloud storage area. Now Windows 11 is threatening to put CoPilot on my desktop, and I'll have to disable it too.

I'm positively longing for Linux now.

I contribute $5 a month to Metafilter, and I use a paid VPN.

CLOCK 2.0, coming soon, free with ads!

We even learned this objectively during the pandemic. Even though it wasn't really that much money, poverty rates declined due to the stimulus payments.

Yes, it's worth noting that some companies will do A/B tests, where one user is offered one choice, and another gets a different one. It's possible for the two of you to have had a different experience.

I unironically love that fmhy.net's site would work well in Gopher.