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  • I find that hard to believe.

    • Draw distance sucks for a vast ocean of plants and sealife. Seriously, I have a really good video card, and this fucking Unity engine can’t draw 500 feet in front of me.
    • So many wall “suggestions”, clipping, other graphical glitches, especially near the end area
    • Incredible music, but it’s barely heard because the game either cuts it off midway through or decides to go silent most of the time
    • Bad save serializations that can sometimes spam a ton of error messages on load
    • You can’t kill anything, including warpers that are more dangerous than leviathans
    • Can’t walk with a Prawn in an alien base, because you end up getting stuck on the floor for some reason
    • Reaper in caves, who can drop you off the map
    • An insulting unrealistic O2 meter, and not enough keyslots
    • The Cyclops is. Fucking. Useless. By the time you get this thing, the leeches in volcano areas fuck you over, when power is already a precious resource. And it still needs full upgrades to make it even remotely useful in Lost River.
    • Torpedos are useless. Flares, Floating lockers, air pipeworks, nuclear reactor, alien containment, all useless.
    • Death might as well be like hardcore, since losing a vehicle is worse than losing 30 minutes of progress


  • People want to charge $15-20 for a CD, and if I did that for every album I listened to on Spotify, I would have spent at least a luxury car’s worth of music. I’m not going to ever pay that much again. Concert prices are already bad enough.

    Piracy or streaming, pick one. Because the choices we had before that sucked.

    The real problem is oversaturation, and the general worth of music. Good music is everywhere. People are making it every day and putting it out there, on Spotify, Bandcamp, wherever, and it’s all free or very cheap to listen to. Why should I specifically pay attention to Yee or Lil Shitstain or whatever is the college rock band of the week that got insanely popular?










  • You can do some wild shit with pipes:

    • head -10 /var/log/syslog - Look at the first ten lines of one of your log files, with timestamps on the front
    • cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 - Splits the lines by a space delimiter (the -d' ' part), and grabs the first “field” (the one with the timestamp, using -f1)
    • cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 - Splits the timestamp at the “T”, and leaves only the date
    • cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - Gives you a count of each date
    • grep systemd /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - For only the lines with ‘systemd’ on it, gives you a count of each date

    The standard GNU toolkit has a ton of utilities like that for doing stuff with text files.