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JackiesFridge , to asklemmy in To those who know about writing and such: Does a Mary Sue/Gary Stu NEVER fail? or their failings are to minimal to take account on them?
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A Mary Sue can fail, but those failures don’t usually have a massive impact and are easily reversed without the feeling that the MS had to struggle to earn the reversal.

The more flaws a character has, the more they have to work to balance them out. Readers are more likely on the side of a character that has to work and make sacrifices to make it through the difficulties the plot throws at them.

Random Example: Diana Rowland’s “My Life as a White Trash Zombie”. Protagonist Angel has a criminal record, drug addiction, abusive home life, and generally makes very bad decisions. Because of her life course, she has very few resources (she can’t go to the cops, nobody she knows has money or connections, etc) but she can think quickly and has a sort of desperate resourcefulness. Because everything is working against her, she has to fight for any positive forward movement, and one misstep can be a serious threat - and those happen frequently, undoing any success and forcing her to burn her resources to try a new path. IIRC in one of the books the B-story is her trying just to earn her GED as the main plot around her is utter pandemonium. Just that struggle to graduate high school is a herculean task given the deck stacked against her. Readers aren’t thinking “how will she win”, they’re thinking “well what’s going to go wrong this time?”

TL;DR: If every time your protagonist has a setback the readers shout “can’t she ever catch a break?” instead of “ah she’ll just breeze through this” you should be doing okay.

tonyn , to mildlyinfuriating in The US shouldn't have so many men 6 feet and over

Stop being so heightist

fritobugger2017 , to coffee in What less common coffee drinks do you make?

Since I live in Vietnam these are not exactly less common here but would be back in the States:

  1. Egg Coffee (which is not super common because it is crazy sweet)

vickypham.com/…/vietnamese-egg-coffee-ca-phe-trun…

  1. Ice Coffee with condensed milk. An excellent treat on a hot Hanoi afternoon.

vickypham.com/…/vietnamese-iced-coffee-ca-phe-sua…

AnnaFrankfurter , to asklemmy in Fiat doesn't work on a finite planet. Crypto has failed on its goals. What is a better way to be economically secure?

Stockpile canned beans they will become the most valuable currency once the WW3 starts.

aviation_hydrated OP ,

Good advice, thank you for sharing

theshatterstone54 ,

Also, toilet paper?

AnnaFrankfurter ,

You people in a 3rd world country who smear their poop all over themselves can just do whatever you want. But yeah in a post WW3 era I think water will also be way to expensive to clean your ass.

dharmacurious , to lemmyshitpost in 🦍 😁 ❔

His people evolved to prioritize oral sex.

Vincente , (edited ) to patientgamers in What have you been playing this week?

I completed Broforce, and it took me 13 hours. It’s a funny and gory game.

I am playing Doom Eternal. It’s a gory and cruel, raging game. The atmosphere is really vivid and cool, the hell scenes and the Cthulhu art are amazing. Masterpiece!

I’m also playing Retrowave as a BGM player. It’s a purely casual and relaxing mini game, and it creates an '80s retro atmosphere. I like it and I really love the synthwave genre.

I’m still playing Cyberpunk 2077, just drive my motorcycle and explore casually. I think everyone knows everything about this game. So I won’t introduce it.

zea_64 , to lemmyshitpost in Bleh

The French Cinematic Universe is weird, I’m glad France isn’t real

RandomVideos ,

It is extremly strange

There is proof that borders between France and real countries like Brazil exist in the French Cinematic Universe, which means that there exists a French Cinematic Multiverse and roads between universes to make sense

Im also pretty confident birds are related to this, but im not sure what their role is

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

France is real if we let it be real inside our hearts.

Rusty ,

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e9a906e1-5185-4e83-a305-d0a3437c8369.jpegIf France would exist, where would you put it on a map?

JohnDClay , to lemmyshitpost in 🦍 😁 ❔
Drathro , to linux_gaming in Error Running Balder Gate 3

Are you running it through Lutris? Steam with Proton? That error seems decidedly like a Wine specific problem, which Proton should have ironed out at this stage for this particular game.

*Unless you’re trying to play on hardware with incomplete Vulkan support. Then it’s a hardware support problem that is unlikely to be fixed in a reasonable timeframe.

GameMuse OP ,

I am running it through steam with Proton Experimental and i get the same through Proton 9.0

After further testing it appears when multitasking ans switching windows which explains why it happens so infrequently

Hardware details below:

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF Z390-PLUS GAMING
  • Memory: 16.0 GiB
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-9700K × 8
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 2060
  • Disk Capacity: 2.2 TB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: 2417
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 46
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.9.10-200.fc40.x86_64
entropicdrift ,
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Try using Protonup-QT to install the latest GE-Proton version on your machine, restart Steam and then set the game to run with GE-Proton.

Personally it usually works for me with Experimental, but GE is generally the best.

rotopenguin ,
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This. A fresher Proton-GE is also going to come with a newer DXVK, the DirectX to Vulkan translator.

The other part of your equation is “what is the Nvidia driver version?”. Dunno if Fedora has the E-sync capable version 555 yet.

marlowe221 ,

I always run GE at this point.

GameMuse OP ,

I have tried that still same issue. Not sure what is going on its the only game that does this. After more testing it only happens when switching from the game to discord or another app.

Drathro ,

Are you on Gnome, KDE, or some other desktop environment? I know KDE Wayland and Nvidia do NOT play nice (presently).

GameMuse OP ,

I am using Gnome with a nvidia card

Thorned_Rose ,
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Have you tried switching Proton versions? Also check protondb.com as people will often post solutions in their reports.

azvasKvklenko ,

Do other games run in general when using Vulkan API? (most modern games on Linux run with Vulkan, whether it’s Wine or native). What’s your NVIDIA driver version? Did you even install akmod-nvidia?

yesman , to lemmyshitpost in Fromsoft classes like

A souls-like must have a couple of the following:

  1. video game where the difficulty can be incorporated into the player’s identity.
  2. a conspiracy between monitor and controller manufacturers
  3. Difficulty modes are forbidden.
  4. has an easy mode called “magic build”
  5. Story, narrative, and plot are all forbidden. The player can learn about the world, but cannot affect it.
  6. Sekiro is the best one.
casmael OP ,

📝

Heavybell ,
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Sekiro is not a soulslike, it’s Ninja Gaiden. :P

setsneedtofeed ,
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Rhynoplaz , to mildlyinfuriating in The US shouldn't have so many men 6 feet and over

At 6’2, I counter with MORE people should be over six foot. In fact EVERYBODY should be over 6’! Then you wouldn’t be short.

setsneedtofeed , to lemmyshitpost in Fromsoft classes like
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Custer’s Revenge is a soulslike.

SpookyGenderCommunist , to science_memes in Boopable
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IDK but they’re kinda cute :3

dactylotheca , to mildlyinfuriating in The US shouldn't have so many men 6 feet and over
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Oh look it’s the short incel who is convinced that clubs ban short men.

Dude, your problem still isn’t your height. Your problem is that you’re a bitter and unpleasant husk of a person, who would rather blame everything and everyone else than actually do some self reflection, because that’d mean facing up to the fact that you’re the problem – feeeeeeeeeeeemales don’t avoid you because you’re short, they avoid you because you’re you.

MangoPenguin , to selfhosted in Immutable backup for important data
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Backblaze B2 has the option: www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-object-lock

Cheap storage too.

Croquette OP ,

Thanks for the information, I will look into that.

explore_broaden ,

I use backblaze storage with Kopia, which supports using object lock. Every time a backup is made the objects for it are locked for a configurable amount of time. I use 30 days, so an attacker would have to compromise my backup software for a month before being able to erase my backups.

Croquette OP ,

I like the thought of having timed backups to keep the costs lower by pruning the olds backups.

explore_broaden ,

Also only differences are stored, so if your files don’t change much each backup costs very little. I keep hundreds of backups for the previous year of changes, and it uses less than double the amount of storage the files take up. You can also enable compression, which I do, so it’s even smaller.

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