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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, if you happen to already know where the Wedell Sea is or if you look it up it you can reasonably locate it, in which case adding the "north of Antarctica" part is superfluous. But if you don't already know where the Wedell Sea is, adding in the "north of Antarctica" part doesn't actually narrow it down any, which is why it's a funny thing to point out.

If they had wrote "just north of Antarctica" or "off the coast of Antarctica" or "near Antarctica", that would have narrowed it down significantly.

Now that I have thoroughly explained the joke, I imagine it's much funnier now.

I'm sure that "Mark "Three-Jabs" Newton" and the rest of us who found this funny were able to deduce from the context that is actually what the writer meant . That isn't what they actually wrote though so "sp3ctr4l" is not only incorrect in asserting that Mark has "poor reading comprehension", he is also wrong that 'reading the whole thing' would have clarified things and was extremely condescending about his incorrect statement at the same time, which makes him kind of an ass imo.

He was correct that Mark was "intentionally being a little shit" so 1 out of 3 wouldn't have been so bad if he weren't such a douche about it at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There is no part of the Weddell Sea, or any sea that is South of Antarctica.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Which part is south of Antarctica?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We all probably understood that's what they meant but it's funny and not super clear. "The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica." or "The Weddell Sea near Antarctica." work much better.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Pulp Fiction. Bruce Willis.

This is cheating a little bit because Bruce Willis is already a muppet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

In addition to what others have said, sadly the myth persists among some people. I have a good friend who I used to play Magic: The Gathering with. I had been playing for years before I met him (since 3rd edition) and had a pretty decent collection, and he invested a lot of money in cards in the next few years.

At one point I was moving away to a place where I didn't know anyone and needed to travel light, so instead of selling my collection I gave them to him.

I ended up coming back to my home state and we became roommates. Then he became 'born again' and instead of giving me those cards back, he burnt them all.

I'm not really mad at the guy for it, he was doing what he thought was right, but I do regret giving him the cards in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I would go so far as to say all of them. The whole idea of Satan is ridiculous, it's "The Boogeyman" for adults.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Thank you! My ex gf and I used to play a ton of Kingdom. I knew about "West of Loathing", but this is the first time hearing about "Shadows Over Loathing".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I just looked it up and people are saying you can install the Ubuntu PPA with no issues.

It may not be (probably isn't) the latest release, but that option exists at least. I'm glad I never had to use it. What games have you had to use it for? Do you have an AMD GPU or Nvidia?

I just wanted people to know that not everyone thinks Pop-os is shit. Part of the issues you experienced may have been due to the fact that they are currently hard at work writing their own DE (Cosmic) using Rust and they are waiting on that to be finished before upgrading to the newest LTS release of Ubuntu. We are currently still on 22.04.

If you want all of your software packages to be on the bleeding edge, I wouldn't recommend PopOs. But I definitely would recommend it for someone who just wants a solid distro and doesn't 'have a computer science degree'.

YMMV, but from my personal experience using it for almost a year now it's been rock solid.

Edit: I just realized that my post said "Don't use gamescope" when what I meant to say was "I don't use Gamescope." I wasn't intending on advising people not to use it. My bad.

Edit2: I also forgot that I stopped using "Pop!_Shop" for updates and software search. That was getting really slow. I would advise your partner install the "COSMIC Store" instead, it's way better :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I’m on PopOS and my experience is the exact opposite. I love the UI- it’s the main thing I like about it actually. Never had an update fail.

I don’t use gamescope, just run everything from Steam or Heroic and never had an issue gaming.

YMMV

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