Do you think that generated depictions of the sexual abuse of children are ok in any context?

False equivalence.

Guy atomically made of shit takes has another shit take, colour me surprised.

Running away saved me a lot of times. It also failed me twice, and those two times left me with a scar and a permanent disability. As a complete self-defense solution it’s a bad idea, but as part of your defense it’s a great suggestion for any able bodied people.

I can no longer outrun potential attackers. This door is closed to me.

I’ve faced many attempts to severely harm me but I usually escaped. I failed to escape twice: got kneecapped with a bat once (leaving me with a permanent injury), and stabbed once miraculously missing anything vital.

My crime: having to work late, growing up in a poor neighbourhood.

I’d feel a lot safer if I could be armed. I don’t want to die.

I just moved my main PC to CachyOS like two weeks ago. It’s been quite nice so far actually. Minor hiccup when trying to play The Guild 2 (had to use Protontricks to download DirectPlay)

AMD didn’t make a 5090 equivalent so I won’t buy their mid-tier card

Is there a name for this thinking?

Ah I see you’ve run into the hexbear people. Theyre like the mentally ill homeless guy who just jerks in the middle of the street; better to leave them be, it’s just about never worth getting involved.

• doesn’t go outside
• spends all day doing it for free
• obsessed with “antisemitism” and pedo apologism
• no longer allowed near playgrounds

100% she is a Reddit mod

*screen flickers*

Yes someone did exactly this: it’s called “Dinkum” and it’s fantastic, much better than the Animal Crossing game that hit the Switch.

Every study I’ve seen on the subject said it helps or that it doesn’t hurt. Note that this tended to have a lot to do with the type of games and how they’re played.

Mobile games and similar attention vampires are worthless. On the other hand are puzzle, strategic, and some competitive games that challenge the user the most. The more you have to think or the faster you have to think, the more good it does.

Price out a build that will compete with this and not require an ATX tower.

The issue is that if you sell the PC at a loss, you’re effectively subsidzing every person and business who wants an SFF-PC but may not necessarily buy games for them. It’s not like the Steam Deck where you can bet the majority of those devices are ending up in the hands of gamers.

Meta Quest 3S is $400 CAD so hopefully Valve can bring the headset down towards that range!

This is the material analysis we need to be doing. During COVID I saw farmers shredding crops instead of selling them because we lacked the transportation capacity to get food to market. “How the fuck is that even possible?” you ask? We rely too much on individual truckers when we should be using rail… And that’s kind of an analogy for the whole market.

No system in place to ensure there is enough energy, water, food, steel, concrete, lumber, etc. to go around, just this vague hope that “the market will respond to price information as it always does”.

Well now that price information is telling people to invest in space mirrors to send sunlight to their AI-powered saffron gardens, employing cheap foreign workers rather than local labour so that they can sell the spice to wealthy people. So yeah I think that mechanic is busted now and needs a rethink.

You’re right, and I’ve learned to ignore most advice I read from enthusiasts. I bought a cast iron pan 20 years ago for $15 and I still use it to cook almost everything, including eggs.

I did splurge and buy a nice dutch oven to make baking bread easier, but it’s not necessary.

Multiple times now I’ve been mocked relentlessly for PC building advice or opinions on software development I had that became commonplace within 3 years, like when I said noSQL databases were overrated as hell but they had their uses. Made enemies on both sides lol… And now that’s the common opinion.

conservatives fucked that up

That was a Conservative + Liberal special, both of them selling off our assets all over the place.

Look up the drama around “leftpad” and Node.js. One day thousands of packages broke because of their dependence on someone else’s package. If a global army of software developers can’t deal with a mundane failure like leftpad, how is Valve supposed to manage against a targeted spearphishing campaign like this? Its not reasonable to expect Valve to comb through (or even be allowed to comb through) the source code of every game that hits the store.

I wonder how? Plex is actually worse to navigate and filled with ads and shit.

The issue I had: Jellyfin experience is a better on Firestick and Chromecast than it is on Roku, but the difference has been shrinking fast due to contributions from someone named 1hitsong on GitHub. That person has absolutely hammered patches out over the past few months.