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[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 299 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 84 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Missed opportunity to have one guy yelling ":!q"

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you want :q!, otherwise you’re just trying to execute the q command in the shell. No wonder you’re stuck.

[–] zbb@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Stuck in the DNS server.

The program q is not installed. Install it by executing:
apt install q-dns-client
[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

This comic gets the collective despair across so well.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

We will never forget the secret ending of Sword Art Online where Kirito finally exits the game, only to find there’s another options menu in the real world.

/s (but somehow I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually did that)

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 173 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you checked your midsection?

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just tried, only pissed myself.

[–] papacraw@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

wait until after puberty. it starts to feel different down there.

[–] fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What in the fuck are y'all doing with your belly buttons??

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

It is in your brain, is called "dissociation".

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[–] haerrii 85 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh boy, how great would that be

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eh, with my luck it would be the glitchy alpha version of utopia where it crashed and I had to start back at the beginning the second I walked into the door of the Federal Cupcake Bakery and Fuckatorium.

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just keep trying to enter the door in slightly different ways until it lets you in.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

10,000 years later... "god damn it!"

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

bro, you just gotta do the jump-crouch wall clip frame perfect. Wait, what category speedrun is this again?

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 59 points 2 months ago (10 children)

The scariest part is that real world is, in fact, a hardcore free-for-all PvP realm.

I'm not talking competition or something. A random person can absolutely come to you at any time, stab or shoot you and you'll be dead. Forever. No respawns.

It's only because people don't really like being murdered that led them to make and enforce rules on what violence is legitimate that curbed the violence. But even still, anytime, anywhere, by anyone, you can absolutely be killed. And if one day something breaks in the chain that makes police work, we're super screwed.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 58 points 2 months ago (7 children)

It's not the police that keep us from killing each other, or even laws that do so. Check out law and authority sometime if you're able. It's very short and worth a read. We don't kill each other because we don't enjoy being killed or killing. We're social creatures, and don't want to be shunned. Crimes of passion don't really change based on laws, but the way we organize society may actually be increasing the number of murders, because some people are desperate enough to kill for food or shelter

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I read half of it. It seems to overidealize the pre-law era to a large degree. Before law we had mass slavery, constant raiding of nearby tribes and nothing to prevent anybody from taking everything from a person. There is definitely a case where laws can become draconian and force people to break them but I'd argue that in most countries law prevent more unwanted behavior than cause it.

This especially doesn't apply in modern times since you just need one person to create a private mercenary group to essentially create a mini kingdom within a loosely organised society. That person will very quickly be able to form a successful dictatorship by raiding, enslaving and demanding tribute from nearby settlements.

Even a laissez faire government with everything legal except violence will essentially make it legal to dump toxic waste on your front lawn everywhere without policing and laws. Toxic waste is currently being dumped with laws just under woefully loose law and I'd argue that we need more laws and regulation to prevent people from doing so.

I feel like anarchist theory quickly forgets that we had anarchy before law and people quickly formed kingdoms around settlements to defend themselves and aggressive kingdoms where more successful than passive ones.

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Really, you can replace police and laws with any form of more or less organized sanctions against the perpetrators.

Law and authority is a good read, but it shows exactly that - without centralized power, people do (and, according to Kropotkin, people should) put system of unwritten controls all by themselves. And that keeps us from sliding into the savage world where everyone preys on one another. But if something breaks in this chain, if we accept the violence against one another, we'll get extinct very rapidly.

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[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's only because people don't really like being murdered that...

No it's also, and more importantly, because people don't like murdering

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If not for people’s negative feelings toward being murdered, I would only take <1% of people enjoying murdering for it to be an extinction-level problem.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Such an incredibly small number of people want to murder that, even though it would only take <1% of people to get rid of the whole population, we are nowhere near that.

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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And if one day something breaks in the chain that makes police work, we’re super screwed.

Sad USA noises

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No respawns.

I mean, maybe we respawn on a different server.

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago

You can get banned for team killing.

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I dunno, seems uplifting to me, if it means we can switch.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Tactical comment: reply here if you discover how to switch

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can think of two different ways:

  • going insane and dissociating from reality
  • getting ultra rich, or being born in ultra rich family
[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Getting ultra rich won't save you from suffering. It can put it off a little while, but sickness, loss of loved ones, old age, and death come for us all.

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[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

༄༅༅། །རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། སད་དྷརྨ་པུཎ་ཌ་རཱི་ཀ་ནཱ་མ་མ་ཧཱ་ཡཱ་ན་སཱུ་ཏྲ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ། བམ་པོ་ དང་པོ། །སངས་རྒྱས་དང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །འདི་སྐད་བདག་གིས་ཐོས་པ་དུས་གཅིག་ན། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཁབ་ན། བྱ་རྒོད་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོའི་ རི་ལ་བཞུགས་ཏེ། དགེ་སློང་ཁྲི་ཉིས་སྟོང་གི་དགེ་སློང་གི་དགེ་འདུན་ཆེན་པོ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱང་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ། ཟག་པ་ཟད་པ། ཉོན་མོངས་པ་མེད་པ། དབང་དང་ལྡན་པར་གྱུར་པ། སེམས་ཤིན་ ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ། ཤེས་རབ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ། ཅང་ཤེས་པ། གླང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ། །བྱ་བ་བྱས་པ། བྱེད་པ་བྱས་པ། ཁུར་བོར་བ། བདག་གི་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་ཐོབ་པ། སྲིད་པར་ཀུན་ཏུ་ སྦྱོར་བ་ཡོངས་སུ་ཟད་པ། ཡང་དག་པའི་ཤེས་པས་སེམས་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ། སེམས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་དམ་པའི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་སོན་པ། མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པས་མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པའི་

ཉན་ཐོས་ཆེན་པོ་ཤ་སྟག་ལ་འདི་ལྟ་སྟེ། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཀུན་ཤེས་ཀཽཎྜི་ནྱ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་རྟ་ཐུལ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་རླངས་པ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་མིང་ཆེན་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་བཟང་པོ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་འོད་སྲུང་ཆེན་པོ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ ལྡན་པ་ལྟང་རྒྱས་འོད་སྲུང་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཆུ་ཀླུང་འོད་སྲུང་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ག་ཡ་འོད་སྲུང་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་མཽད་གལ་གྱི་བུ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཀཱ་ཏྱཱའི་བུ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་མ་འགགས་པ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ ན་མ་གྲུ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཀ་པི་ན་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་བ་ལང་བདག་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་པི་ལིན་ངའི་བུ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་བཀྐུ་ལ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་གསུས་པོ་ཆེ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་བྷ་ར་དྭ་ཛ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་དགའ་བོ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཉེ་དགའ་དང་།

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

The way I see it: the last three panels didn't happen (in reality).

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 55 points 2 months ago (3 children)

you know how people in Minecraft build all kinds of wonderful and amazing things such as machinery and art and games and all kinds of shit?
that's what life would be like if we didn't have to work to survive.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You have to work to survive in Minecraft, too. Which is to say, all those wonderful things are the product of human labor.

But in Minecraft, you get to enjoy the surplus of that labor. You don't have a handful of Whale players draining your reserves with extortionary rents.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

More importantly, in Minecraft crops grow in like 3 days, you never get sick and never age, and the global population is post-apocalyptic.

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[–] InternetPerson@lemmings.world 9 points 2 months ago

that's what life would be like if we didn't have to work to survive

Which mustn't be an issue. Most advanced nations produce a surplus of food for example. So much, that an insane amount of it is wasted and never consumed.

So in principle, sure. Some work is necessary to allow a certain quality of life for all and ensure survival. But if you think about our fucked up wealth distribution, it does not need to be so hard.

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[–] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

So I guess 2b2t isn't the oldest anarchy server after all

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Moral of the story: don't skip the tutorial.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Sorry, I grew up on 1980s video games. Only nerds and losers read the manual.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Your loss. The manuals of yesteryear were amazing. Better than the game, generally.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Stop teasing us

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it's hardcore you just need to get killed to go to the main menu

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

And 2 months later he returned to PVP mode because he got bored.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Had to give it a shot at least

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

🎶 wouldn't it be nice 🎶

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now about that "Appearance" tab...

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