And you should be free to do that by not having to interact with someone

your options are shite and I refuse them all is a valid vote, why make it harder for someone to choose that than necessary?

I mean, he brought the marker back to the planet, which should be what the marker wanted, so why were they still attacking him?

The marker wanted to stay off of Aegis VII, actually. Their entire goal (as we learn in 3) is to spread the Necro infection and eventually make a Brother Moon. It’s likely the marker kept attacking Isaac in an attempt to stop him from putting it back on the planet that was about to fall apart. Isaac’s mental infection isn’t hardcore until DS2, either, so he’s not being manipulated very hard yet

Dead Space gets fucking complicated if you read the extended lore in all the games holy shit I sound insane

Wait, is mercer the guy developing the invincible necromorphs, or is he the one helping you bring the marker?

Mercer is the guy making the invincible Necro. In the remake he kills himself willingly, in the original he’s “betrayed” by the marker. The guy helping you is June, poor bastard

Dr Mercer was advantageous to the Marker to have alive and doing his work, so he isn’t killed until his usefulness has run its course

Canonically: the markers try to influence people to do what will assist in Unification. Isaac vehemently doesn’t believe in Unitology so the marker throws enemies at him to try to stop him / manipulate him into doing what it wants (in DS2 & 3). Other people in the series are believers, so they don’t need to be killed off if they’re more useful alive for the time being

Survivors lasting by staying behind locked doors isn’t too unbelievable, either, given the fall of the Ishimura took a while (1 month from marker discovery to it getting on board the ship), and you arrive not that long after it falls (less than a week). It’s been at most a week since she went dark, I think, which is a believable timeframe to survive given the comms going black is at least a day before the big fall of the ship

Oh hey my memory was pretty close: Check the year 2508 section

Other games absolutely pull that shit too much, but DS did a pretty good job with background story details to explain why some people aren’t dead

Ah, so it’s going to flop hard, at least by Beth standards

They scared a lot of us away with Shitfield, if I can’t fix it with mods then I’m not gonna bother even pirating that shite

Idk what I’ve traded to never have issues with that file, but I worry every day that the horror is ahead of me and not behind

biting the hands that fed

That’s not how that saying works, dawg

As much as I love Aero, one probably should use secure and supported OS for gaming

Of course, Windows 10 & 11 are harder to make look actually like Aero than basically any Linux DE, because they hate you

Microsoft hides how their server shit works behind their certifications

Source: I’ve been taught how to use Windows server edition by people who got their certs. I assume it’s somewhat a joke, but cannot be certain

as you can see I drew myself as the Chad and you as the soyjack, so I win

Legitimate criticism of someone isn’t incel behaviour bruh

Sounds like a you problem

I know how to compile my own software, but I’m not gonna fucking do it. I’ll leave a comment where I can calling the devs lazy assholes (because they are) and move on with life, as will many others

Because that’s unnecessary elitism, and it’s gross. Also, 1 step of extra work is bullshit and wastes human life for no fuckin reason

I’ve been hearing about Linux elitists for the last 20 years, and I have yet to meet one.

Post/browse a help forum, it doesn’t take long to find them

If you think YOURE annoyed by the kid, just imagine how the parents must feel with everyone hating them for it, too! Think of the poor, helpless parent who had no other choice but to put an infant on an airplane

Every time this topic came up on Reddit. Babies should be banned from planes or cost more to take on them

It clears your sinus / ear tubes, useful for pressure equalization even when walking mild elevation changes

Probably at least somewhat related to that somehow I bet

I went to get it after leaving the comment and am devastated to remember that I had it saved in a text file that I lost. I’ll try to remember to dig through my history to find it, but I do know I found it by basic web search a few years back and that there are many of them in existence, so it shouldn’t be hard to find one of your own if I forget

I get mine from an IRC channel that has basically everything imaginable

Torrents and shit are cool and all, but hopping onto IRC and saying 'Hobbit, Tolkien" and being sent 100 download links is, imo, the best

Run it through Calibre and boom, you’ve got a cheap and quality e-reader with free books

Mint CE for my desktop (might distro hop soon for multiple curiosity based reasons, all my data is on non-os drives anyway) - easiest to just get working when fast-swapping, IMO

Debian for my server - it’s the flavor of Linux I’m most familiar with over the years & for my server I dont need any of the shit Ubuntu does

STEAM OS for my Steam Deck (I use it as a TV PC so desktop mode is common with it), because it’s really good for that purpose

Oblivion is far less playable for new players, y’all just have nostalgia blinders / mods in mind

The levelling system breaks Oblivion, violently. Nothing that awful is in Morrowind, even the “I can’t hit anything with a dagger because I’m too stupid to read” doesn’t come close

but I have had an issue w/ my Bluetooth headphones dying and not being able to plug in my wired headphones

and I refuse to use a dongle

Sounds like your problem was self-made. I use wired headphones flawlessly without the 3.5mm jack and reap all the benefits of both worlds, because the older tech isnt actually superior

Yeah, Lemmy is full of people stuck in their way and insisting older tech is better because they refuse to update