• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      2 hours ago

      Well, I’ve never been [to] Greenland

      And I’ve never been to Denver

      And I’ve never buried treasure in St. Louis or St. Paul

      And I’ve never been to Moscow

      And I’ve never been to Tampa

      And I’ve never been to Boston in the fall

      'Cause we’re the Pirates

      Who don’t do anything

      We just stay home and lie around

      And if you ask us to do anything

      We’ll just tell you:

      …

      We don’t do anything.

      EDIT:

      Viking Hippie found a typo!

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Well, I’ve never been Greenland

        Me neither, but I HAVE been there.

        It’s quite lovely in the summer and nowhere near as cold as you’d expect.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Ah! The lyrics page I copied from must have messed that up, hah!

          … the verses get increasingly ridiculous.

          By the end, you have:

          And I’ve never licked a spark plug

          And I’ve never sniffed a stink bug

          And I’ve never painted daisies on a big red rubber ball

          And I’ve never bathed in yogurt

          And I don’t look good in leggings

          …

          And we’ve never been to Boston in the fall!

          … this is all being sung by a 90s CGI/cartoon cucumber with a face, amongst a bunch of other CGI fruits and vegetables, dressed as pirates, basically on beach lounge chairs, on a moored like, galleass or something.

          I think ostensibly the joke for the adults is supposed to be like, a guy or some guys who just own a boat, but never actually take it out, just use it as an excuse to get away from the house.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          2 hours ago

          I feel like the “raised fairly extreme Christian -> fuck basically all that noise” demographic is uh, kinda either underrepresented or unacknowledged on lemmy.

          I may no longer be religious, but, goddamnit, that song is a banger.

          I’ve previously … apparently just completely introduced a fair amount of people to the NRA’s uh Eddie Eagle, the gun safety mascot.

          I’m guessing there is actually a fairly large amount of nerds who were raised American Christian in the 90s, who also basically had dysfunctional families, and thus spent a lot of time on their computers and the internet, trying to escape that.

  • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world
    431·
    8 hours ago

    There are over 700 GPL titles that slap available on Linux. So go Linux and get gaming

  • s@piefed.worldEnglish
    23·
    7 hours ago

    Obviously somebody’s never heard of the fun free PC games of Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Calculator

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
    121·
    6 hours ago

    Over the past like 5 years I have ever only used Epic for one rhing, collecting the free 1 to 2 games they offer every Thursday. I have like 200+ games from that alone. Just don’t buy anything from them and your good, people do not like Epic at all so this may get some downvotes but free is free to me.

    • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 hours ago

      To be honest I just don’t bother with the service at all, even if it were for the free games. Last time I tried to use it every time I’d attempt to log in, the application would only show a black window and nothing else. I contacted their support and they informed me that it was because I was trying to run the service at an unsupported resolution. I needed to lower the resolution of my desktop from 1440p to 1080p in order to view the login window. I asked them if I’d need to do this every single time I wanted to use the application and they said yes.

      For shits and giggles, I tried it out and they were right. When I was at 1080p, I could actually see the login window. I finished logging in, saw the store front, increased my resolution back up to 1440p, and could no longer see the store front. I immediately uninstalled the application and haven’t touched their service since then.

      It’s been quite a few years since this happened, so I assume they’ve probably fixed this particular issue but I specifically remember being completely baffled at how quickly they accurately determined that that was the issue (demonstrating it was a known issue), how odd it was that a windowed application would care so much about the resolution of my machine that it would just stop rendering entirely, and the audacity of the service as a whole to just accept that lowering your resolution was the only viable solution without even mentioning anything to the effect of it being an issue they’re actively working on fixing.

      Basically the only part of that entire situation that reflected well on them was their support service I spoke with. Everything else (including their exclusivity contracts for games in the years following) has painted them in such a negative light in my eyes that I’ve never considered using service ever since, even knowing that the specific issue I had with their software was probably fixed a long time ago. Well, at least I assume it was.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      Too bad epic is just trash and lacks basic functions that should be standard for any competent storefront. I used it for a free game once a few years ago and I couldn’t even play the game when my Internet died after I’d already played it.

      Nothing like being so mad a shit service giving you a free product that you go and purchase the same product later from a real games store that had basic functionality.

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Yeah but, if you want legit free game you can just rob Epic.

    Also there’s tons of f2p on steam, just brace yourself for the monetization.

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    4·
    7 hours ago

    I’ve had my PC for like 2 console generations, it still runs new games 60fps 4k, and if I really wanted to I could pirate basically any game.