I honestly don’t understand how there isn’t some kind of Waterworld… either action/fps mmo, ala destiny or warframe… or just some kind of mount and blade type single player game, or even Conan Exiles.

The closest thing I can even think of is Raft - Stranded Deep.

… Its mad max… on the ocean, and is basically postapoc/dieselpunk.

Bang wow zoom, fairly novel game (by modern standards) for a AAA or even AA studio to try.

explodes into orange juice

we need wide zelensky with stout rdb rofl

the ejection port is close to the shooter’s face, making ambidextrous weapons nearly impossible

Keltec RDB

Keltec RFB

Springfield Hellion

DesertTech WLVRN

… I probably missed some, but there are many bullpup rifles that are swappable between left sided and right sided ejection ports, and swappable mag release, charging handle, bolt catch, safety selectors… or have some other solution to this problem.

Not exactly nearly impossible.

I would add in as a detriment of bullpups… that their internals are generally more complex, and properly identifying the cause of a failure to fire, and fixing it, while under stress, is often more difficult, and general maintenance tends toward being more time consuming as well.

Also: generally notorious for requiring a lot more foot lbs of force to pull the trigger, and that trigger pull is ‘crunchier’.

Boy, you’re gonna carry that wait a long time.

I have no idea what a samurai pizza cat is or isn’t…

But I do have the indicated reaction to the intro of Gunsmith Cats.

… Sorry, you failed your perception check as well.

As you pull out the ‘bomb’…

You are startled to discover it is actually two ramen noodle packs, each of which has slightly torn packaging, out of which a bit of crumbled dehydrated noodle bits leak.

I don’t really count as an artist, and I … guess mid 30s counts as old?

But I am finally in a living situation where I am not harassed by mentally unstable, incompetent narcissists, who seemingly invent a new neurosis that is now also my problem every week.

I finally have solitude, and can interact with people on my own terms, at my own pace, and I’ve seriously never had better baseline mental health.

I am loving the shit out of being a recluse!

Unironically yes, coconut water does have a significant amount of electrolytes, I have used coconut water to recover from many a hangover/excersize set.

I can… and I have… and this has resulted in destabilzation.

… This is why I am asking for help, if anyone has figured this out… and why I am not asking for permission to continue to flail about ineffectively.

As far as I can tell, as ludicrous as it seems… setting up a distrobox with an actual mainline fedora build, then configuring it as a dev enviroment, then building an rpm package for i2p, from source inside this container… and then installing that static rpm into actual Bazzite OS…

That would probably at least be more stable for Bazzite as a whole, just feeding it a single, extra, static package, as compared to source dependency hell…

But I have no idea if I2P would… actually compile correctly… and… work.

Although, I have managed to build Godot, a few versions ago, doing this, just as an experiment… and it … seemed to… mostly work?

???

There were lots of fun unique error messages in the console that just did not exist anywhere else online.

Bazzite docs repeatedly say ‘do not do that, it will lead to system instability as we update and improve the feature set of our custom rpm-ostree that is the backbone and fundamental core of what Bazzite is.’

It is supposed to be a static, locked down, readonly core OS, just like SteamOS.

Its just based on fedora instead of arch, and has a bunch of other customizations and tweaks and preconfigured apps and helper tools.

Oh how I wish there was some distro that was just debian based, but preconfigured to work on a handheld PC, not sanboxed and containerized to all hell.

The entire design paradigm of Bazzite is ‘sandbox the custom core fedora architecture, give the users a milliom kinds of containers for everything else, so they won’t break the custom core architecture’.

Bazzite does not come with java.

As… far as I am aware… you cannot install Java via flatpak or appimage or any other methods Bazzite says are safe to install things by/with.

To install java, in Fedora, you are told to use dnf, but Bazzite has disabled dnf because they use rpm-ostree to maintain a controlled and static core os.

To install java using rpm-ostree would likely lead to dependency conflict hell, and destabilize Bazzite… because the entire point of Bazzite is to enforce specific rpm-ostree build recipes, to provide maximum stability for officially supported stuff.

You could potentially set up distrobox container, set up java there, install i2p in the container… but that container is isolated from messing with systemctl, which i2p must do (as far as I can tell?) to actually function properly… so this also seems like it would not work.

There is an unofficial build in COPR, maintained by… some random person? …but nothing mainline.

And its instructions tell you to install with dnf, which i think at this point is literally disabled by Bazzite… because they rely on rpm-ostree, and if you muck about with rpm-ostree, you can run into dependency conflict hell.

But at the same time, i2p needs to be able to directly mess with systemctl… which… as far as I can tell… can’t be done by having i2p installed in some kind of container… because the entire point of a container… is to isolate the core system.

please excuse me while my head implodes inside of my head imploding inside of my head imploding

And then maybe we get to see how a ‘the orders from the governor and the president directly collide and contradict’ situation plays out.

Sec. 4.

Using National Security Assets for Law and Order.

(a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement.

(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime.

… Where ‘crime’ is defined as ‘whatever the fuck the Trump admin decides is a crime, or whoever the fuck they decide is a criminal.’

This is about as direct as possible as it is to say ‘the military will be engaging in domestic policing operations at scale and in depth.’

As other commenters have pointed out… ‘national security assets’ means… personnel of all kinds, guns, ammo, tanks, helicopters, jet aircraft… logistics systems, military bases, naval vessels…

It is literally anything under the control of or used by the military, its the catch all term for ‘everything, including the kitchen sink’.

This is like… hrm ok, we’re gonna have a striker brigade company do security/presence patrols through Pittsburgh like it’s Mosul or Baghdad, we’re gonna have global hawks assisting chasing down suspects, we’re gonna have some of the old barracks at the old training grounds retrofitted into detention centers, or maybe we’ll just use engineering companies to set up some new concentration camps…

Yeah, all of that kind of shit is now on the table, being considered.

If an actual, ‘classical’ civil war of military vs military is gonna start, this would be how.

Hey I mean, when has irrational, unrestrained, idenity-forming/confirming consumerism ever led to some kind of dystopia or something?

If you’re gonna make an irrational decision, at least steal the thing instead of paying the fandom tax.

Be the punk.

EDIT: As fate would have it…

I just got back from a PT appointment.

… The driver (local charity service for the broken and broke)…

Yep. She was from Iowa.

We got to talkin’, I told her about my (former, before being goddamned maimed) line of work.

I had to… spend most of the conversation explaining that software development… and IT… generally refer to completely different things and require significantly different skill sets.

But uh, she was very cheerful and upbeat, with meaningless folksy aphorisms applied wildly out of context, to go along with a bafflingly out of touch assesment of how easy it will be for such a bright young man to find a job. (I am 35.)

… What a world.