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@toxision Compression? Isn't xlsx basically a zip-file anyway?

@pyre35@fosstodon.org I agree. I'm trying to avoid Amazon as much as possible myself. Thankfully there's plenty of alternatives around here. But it's also quite telling when someone says if they can't buy it off Amazon, then the product they want obviously doesn't exist. That is sad.

@bezdarbor Skywind would definitely be interesting to me. Morrowind Rebirth seems to be mostly just having a better resolution of things, the face style is still looking that deformed shape. When Oblivion came around, I started to get more interested in The Elder Scrolls series. Skyrim was just fantastic.

@piggo I bet there's a reason for that!

@bezdarbor Yeah. I can handle Minecraft, since it's consistently blocky. Having many different lowpoly shapes all over make my eyes cry. ;)
Kinda a shame. For example, I get a huge headache when playing Morrowind because of the face style. Conversations really suck for me. But I like the world of Morrowind and the crazy stories there. (Kinda happy that I can visit it in Skyrim. ;) )

@kingu_platypus_gidora A shame. :D This would be one of those where you'd love to know wtf was really going on. ;)

@kingu_platypus_gidora That's so horrible out of context. What was Aquaman stroking in the comic? ;)

@bezdarbor Outch, that's not friendly to my eyes!

@lydiaconwell There's the BIOS, so I guess you could see that as a preloaded software. Without the BIOS it'd not even be able to understand wtf a CD drive is if it got plugged in.

@hans_w You'll have to explain it a little bit more. You try to judge NL less because of this guy in Asia who didn't judge NL less? Why? You can even answer in Dutch if you want if you feel that'd get the point across better. ;)

@bluejay Fun detail. The main character of the book came from a communistic country. He ended up in the Netherlands, and is seeing all this hypocrisy around him. ;)

I finished reading 'De Rat van Amsterdam' last night by Pieter Waterdrinker, it was quite an interesting read. In a way, the author mocked the current day society.. but also mocked the people who complained about this.

So the people who complain the most about their country and then try to find a new life in another country, are also the people who fuck up the most and then want to go back to their own country... the very country they complained and whined about to begin with. Grass isn't always greener on the other side I guess.

The charity lotteries were portrayed as giant scams (which they probably are, the ones hosting those lotteries sure manage to buy expensive stuff). This particular one in the story has huge similarities to our 'Postcodeloterij', a style of lottery where your zip code is the lottery number. I absolutely hate this one. Even if you didn't join in this scam, you know that "you lost the lottery" when the number falls on your zip code. It's a huge emotional blackmail for a lot of people so they join in anyway out of fear of missing the prize. It's just despicable, really. This lottery in the book manages to capture that sentiment extremely well, yigh! The author did a good job here.

There were a lot of subtle things in the book that I'm still trying to digest, but it was a pretty good read. I think I need to read something more happy next, less dystopian!
#Books

@Acer Whelp, I managed to get to wave 20 with a score of 3310. Accuracy 96.2%, longest streak 301.

@mur2501 Uh oh, wow.

Also, very fitting name for that guy.

Makes me wonder if this is even real. ;)

@mur2501 Gotta ask the following question: Was the butt still intact afterwards?

@axxss You'll probably have to check your browser. I'm logged in fine without needing to relogin.

@lydiaconwell This is probably going to be over my head, but... I think the status quo works both ways. The white people can be blind to unconscious bias... but the non-white people can be blind towards the white people too, thinking them all the same. It's quite an unhealthy balance on both sides.

I get what you mean though (I think?), but I'm the annoying person who's weirdly true neutral or tries to be when looking at an issue.

@lydiaconwell In a way that makes her a racist too because she generalises over a whole group as well.

@skells Ah. :)

What about the following:
America _is_ falling apart, but places without 'journos' just don't report it as well?

I'm just adding more possibilities, 'tis all! ;)

@swiley NextCloud?