ChewTiger

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely anything SuperGiant. Bastion, Hades, and Transistor are some of the only games I've actually finished, and the sound tracks are incredible.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I know hardware compatibility has massively improved, but back when I was messing with Linux in high school compatibility was a huge issue. I managed to end up with two laptops and some desktop hardware that were truly difficult to get running. It's like I somehow found a list of incompatible hardware and chose the worst options.

The most frustrating were an evil Broadcom (I think) wireless card and an AMD switchable card (they did actually make a few). That graphics card wasn't supported for very long and was a bother even in Windows.

Edit to add: I was just saying that to point out why some people might have that opinion, even if it isn't valid anymore. I'm actually thinking of jumping back on the Linux bandwagon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe they don't get along, or they use magic in entirely different and incompatible ways.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even with those limitations, duplication would still allow food producers to make less food go a longer way. Smaller farms could feed more people, reducing pollution. You could duplicate the food at the point of sale, which would drastically reduce transportation costs as well as traffic. Hell, cities could have small farms and fed themselves. It would also drastically reduce water consumption that is used in farming, reducing droughts. Producing and transporting food is a massive contributor to global warming. Farms and ranches take up tons of space, all that land could be returned to its natural state (I bet wizards could speed that up).

If wizards showed up with the cure to cancer and fed the hungry they'd easily have 1/5 of the world's population on their side. Unfortunately the wizarding society is extremely exploitative of animals, even worse than the average muggle.

I get that wizards were persecuted and don't want to have muggles expect them to solve all their problems, but they could literally save the planet.