u/DuendeInexistente

First year of literature academy (What'd be an english mayor course in the USA, I think) and the question of "What is literature" has come up often, mainly in literally theory, where it's the central question.

And... and it's nothing. Reading and talking about it, it's nothing. There was a single development in the field when estrangement was described and that was like 200 or 300 years ago, and it's laid flat achieving nothing ever since. Entire tomes to ask "What makes a text litelary" and the answer is paragraphs upon paragraphs of shrugging their shoulders because it's a cultural thing so it can't be defined exactly.

I mean, I'm not the type to want to know what I can pull out of a book with a syringe and inject into a newspaper to make it literature, I agree that you can't, but I find it odd that it's such a central, repeated question when the answer is, to put it succintly, "Idk, you know it when you see it.".

Is this just me missing something or is this just a question that hasn't achieved anything yet gets weird amounts of discussion, time, and print? Is this just elitists who want to gatekeep high art and adhd people who's manic about classifying everything into square boxes angry at round pegs?

I'm talking about stuff like XCom getting a FPS and Halo a RTS, or Mortal Kombat got platformers, or Warcraft a point and click. It just feels neat to have a game that explores the world from different angles.

I know all of the examples I listed are bad and that's probably why the practice died out, but it's one of those things where the economically responsible choice just lessens the cultural and artistic value of stuff and makes things overall worse even if a spreadsheet says otherwise. Hell, I'm convinced if it hadn't died the industry would've figured ways to do it that would've made games as a whole better.

I'll start strong. Playing Spanish wordle, I got "Hahaha"

The wordle number thing sucks btw tf's up with that.

A while ago I was reminded I still have my first minecraft worlds backed up in several ways, so I decided to do a quick video exploring various versions and reminiscing about it.

Kinda tempted to do a few videos playing in the world and adding stuff, but the high effort subtitles are both necessary (I am ESL) and made this project take ten times as long as it would have otherwise.

Its some wukong thing watching news about a king being dead and going nuts because he can fill the POWER VACUUM POWER VACUUM now

Idk if this is a thing I'm supposed to know how to prevent and don't but in every linux device I've ever had electronic echo is a huge issue. Like it's nt jhust that the mic grabs the speaker audio, it seems to be getting piped directly into the mic feed somehow. And when I try using echo canceling it just cancels out all sound because yeah, it's getting fed directly into the line somehow. My mic, headphones, and speakers are all on completely different wires and devices and have changed over the years so it's not a hardware thing, and idk how a 3.5 mm jack would do that anyways. Hell, when I tested it just now with easyeffects to be quintuply sure it seemed to be removing my voice instead of the system audio.

So how do I even start diagnosing this? I've never been much of a mic person so I haven't bothered fixing it but I figure it's time I do.

I know there was some stuff with v4l2loopback and ffmpeg but it's been a while and I forgot what it was. How do I do it, or allow multiple devices to access the webcam at once if it's possible now?

Trying to play with a friend who doesn't own the game, so I sent him the installer and kirigari crack (from csrin) but it seems like multiplayer is completely busted with it (It freezes when he tries to join me and it times out when I try to join his), has anyone here had success playing MP with it?

The UI is broken af on mobile hands down. The text bar dissapears behind the keyboard and sometimes it just dissapears altogether and I have to reload. It's laggy and unreliable as hell in general.

The notifications are hard to spot on any platform and there's no counter so if you react to a message it hides any messages you sent before that. You're generally stuck on a limbo of not knowing if someone read your message, is ignoring you, accidentally set it as read or just hasn't noticed the badge.

Just a generally unpleasant experience trying to talk with anyone. I don't even know I'd call it better than twitter at this point, because at least once you fish a real DM out of the spambox of hell messages work properly after that.

Specifically for the purpose of associating plasma panel pinned icons to running applications. Using up to date garuda.

For context, I'm running krita from the appimage^1 and appimage windows don't get automatically asociated to pinned items in the taskbar.

So I set the startupwmclass to the correct value in the .desktop file, and now it works, sometimes. I've not found any patern to it, sometimes it correctly associates the window to that pinned item and sometimes I have two kritas in my taskbar. Has anyone experienced this and know what the issue could be?

I'd give debug info, but I have no idea what kind of debug would be even relevant in this case.

^1: Arch's repo maintainers made a mess (Forced a beta version to the stable packages repo despite the compilation process trying to prevent this) and then were a complete clownshow on their forum when I brought it up, making it extremely clear that they won't fix it because they think it's funny when people losses hours of work then closing the thread. I wish I was exaggerating.

Dynamic trees for me.

It looks neat so I try it again every year or two, but the trees look out of place (And would never look fitting if I wanted to make a tree house) and the CPU tax it has is just too immense, and it actually makes forests less dense to accomodate for how cpu intensive it is. I can run it fine in my current rig, but that's still less dense forests that on top of that are harder to get wood in bulk from because big pines give so much less.