Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most Steam games require the steam client in order to run? You can't necessarily just copy the files into a flash drive and deliver them to another computer.

(unless of course the game has DRM, in which case both suffer from the same problem)

That's GOG's whole schtick, none of the games they sell have DRM when purchased from their store. You can always copy the installer to another computer and run it.

I remember him pretty often unfortunately

Some bells ring in my head whenever I remember that he's dead

As an above average American, I can. I have eaten an entire pizza and then gone back for seconds multiple times. You're supposed to not feel hungry after you eat, but I lack that crucial sense.

I don't do that anymore, but that's only because I remind myself that it's not normal to finish an entire large pizza in one sitting and I'm weird if I do it

Yep. Usually I'm bluffing when I say "I'll die before I buy [a smart TV/a phone with a selfie cam hole punch/a computer running Windows/a console without a disc tray]," but there are real alternatives to buying these death traps. I could stand to lose weight anyway.

Yup yup yup. I'll die before I buy a car with a touchscreen. I'll get my damn motorcycle license first.

The only time I hit a 2 was when I got zero sleep and tried to stay awake with two massive cans of Monster

Looks like something out of Courage the Cowardly Dog

I'm a 7 most days but I'm a 6 if I don't get enough sleep

Finally a plane that looks like what I build in KSP

(I know it's 104 but I can't find a factually correct version of the meme)

Hey quick question what the fuck

The Nintendo way. If someone else is making money, make that your money instead

That depends. Lyrabar, the port city with a seedy criminal underbelly is at the southernmost point of Impiltur, on the northern shore of the Sea of Fallen Stars.

The Flying City Lyrabar and its counterpart the Sunken City exist only in my campaign's Faerûn

That's the thing, I don't know enough to know what to even ask. So far I've been able to follow step-by-step instructions for installing Mint and downloading software, but I don't know what I'm doing at all.

One example of something I spent hours on is adding Cura to the panel. I finally got that done while I was writing this comment by following AndyMH's answer here.

Now, I can read

I would move the appimage into a folder in PATH. If you create a folder /home/you/bin it is automatically added to PATH next time you boot.

And I can do that. I have no idea what PATH is or why I want to do that, but I can do it. And I can look it up, and I'm sure I'll eventually get to a point where all of this makes sense to me, but I feel kind of helpless when I have to look up multiple terms every time I want to do something as simple as adding an application to the panel

Mint, judge me

PS anyone have any favorite resources for absolute tech illiterate noobs? I'm trying, but without a baseline understanding of the subject, it's hard to find the right guides

Giving your enemies a decade worth of food and water to ensure they survive a dozen Venus flybies to drop their orbit into the sun

Actually, can I be your enemy? That sounds like the coolest way to die

The Helios probes are still in orbit, they're just not functional

You don't need to cancel the sideways motion at all. You just need to have the slighest motion toward the sun along with our orbital velocity which is being kept from being pulled awa by the suns gravity.

If you have the slightest motion towards the sun along with our orbital velocity, you will move closer to the Sun for one quarter of an orbit, before you start rising again. After half an orbit, you'll be higher than you were before. The difficulty in impacting the sun has little to do with the earth being here—even it it disappeared, the cost of getting to the sun would be basically the same

we don't care about a stable orbit or getting to the sun quickly at all.

The stability of the orbit is largely irrelevant. Anything near 1 AU is not likely to decay to the point where it impacts the Sun before the sun becomes a red giant and expands past the Earth's orbit. At that point, you can just leave your enemies on Earth and be assured that they will eventually fall into the sun in around 5 billion years

Just strap em to the angry side of the rocket on earth and let the exhaust deal with em

Edit: replaced a bad explanation with a very good explanation: Hitting the Sun is HARD

Related, The Most Confusing Things About Spacecraft Orbits is maybe the best primer for basic orbital mechanics for people who haven't played KSP