I’ll believe HL:3 is real when it is for sale, purchased by me, and played in it’s entirety. And even then it might just be a particularly vivid delusion.

HL:3 is gaming’s dark matter. Until all other possibilities are definitively ruled out, it’s not HL:3.

WoW is a great example. They force an internet requirement in order to justify a subscription model. The subscription model is one of the many things wrong with the gaming industry.

Extreme tariffs are crashing the US economy right now by making it unprofitable for a lot of businesses to do business within that economy. It’s not a boycott if you can’t afford the product or if you can’t even buy the product because the company refuses to sell to you because they don’t think you’d be willing to pay the price they are now required to charge just to make a profit.

I don’t disagree with any of that. Except for the whole “vote with your wallet” thing. It’s pretty well proven that consumer level boycotts don’t work. Definitely do what you need to do to stick to your ethics and principals, I certainly will, but don’t expect to change anything.

If you want things to actually change, vote with your vote, because the only way to get things to change at a megacorp is through legislation and regulation. Although, at least in my country (the USA) even that seems to be essentially meaningless. I’ll still continue to do it for as long as I’m able, but holy shit our election system is broken.

I read that last sentence in the voice of Bane from that one Auralnauts video.

Cum…is packed…with testerone.

This video

Looks like it’s just the brand it’s sold under in that market.

I was more just pointing out that they are the same thing, since it wasn’t clear if you knew that or not and I think it’s important that people know what the drugs they’re taking actually are. Tends to be safer that way.

Hopefully, you’re either taking it as prescribed or having fun responsibly. Benzos can be fun, but they’re also some of the most addictive substances on the planet.

Also, these articles you’re posting are some quality writing.

Fun fact “Velium” is just a brand name for Diazepam. As is Valium.

Depends on the details. If their crime hurt someone innocent (or had a high likelihood to) and it was intentional, yes.

If I’m likely to go down with them if they get caught, yes.

Otherwise, I ain’t no snitch and even if I were I don’t know anything about nothing.

I’m far from an expert on the topic, but I’ve worked around the military for a while, and have had some conversations with some more knowledgeable people about this.

Basically, it’s any kind of military work that isn’t affiliated with a government. On the more benign side of things that would be stuff like private armed security, the French Foreign Legion, or working as a contractor for companies that do physical pen-testing for military installations.

It could also mean working as a contractor for a group like Blackwater, where you are engaging in some likely shady military operations where the government wants some sort of deniability, which (IMO) crosses the line fully into the malign.

It looks to be an empty case, based on the lack of PSU and motherboard.

Yes. You’re supposed to use it anytime you’re about to turn or change lanes, including if you’re sitting in a turn lane at a red light or backing out of a drive way or parking spot.

Not doing so makes you a road hazard.

Boredom is the key to learning something it’s just very likely that it won’t be the thing school is trying to teach. Especially if the thing school is teaching is the thing boring you.

“Sounds shitty, have you considered suicide?”

Younger me was depressed, pessimistic, arrogant, and very much so an asshole with selective hearing. He would only hear the parts of what’s happened that fit what he expects to happen.

And despite quite a few negatives over the last decade or so, I’ve managed to do pretty well for myself.

He’d probably also tell me to lift with my knees. I had to do some heavy lifting at work yesterday and now my back’s sore.

My recommendations are oriented towards people with a christian background, that said a lot of the ideas involved can be applied to religious belief systems as a whole.

• Isaac Asimov’s guide to the Bible - an annotated version of the old and new testament that provides additional clarity and historical context.

• The Skeptics Annotated Bible by Steven Wells - A version of the King James Bible with annotations written from an Atheist’s perspective.

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - A book that walks through a lot of the logical fallacies, magical thinking, and cognitive biases that Dawkins sees in religious belief. As the title suggests the tone of the book is rather aggressive (which I think is a bit counterproductive) but if you can read past that there’s a lot of good information.

Definitely an unpopular opinion, though I don’t disagree with it.

For an additional point of comparison, a brand new N64 cartridge back in 1996 would have been anywhere from $60 to $80. Which based on an inflation calculator would be slightly over $120 to $160 today.

And games are more expensive than ever for studios to make and push to the market. Given that, I’m not surprised we have loot crates, micro transactions, and predatory dlc. A AAA game should have a baseline price closer to $200.

Ireland is probably the friendliest I’ve been too. The Irish are great people.

Rome (I know, not a country, but I can’t comment on the rest of Italy) is probably the least friendly place I’ve been to. Romans are assholes. It’s a very cool city, but the people, especially outside of tourist traps suck.

The Japanese are very polite, respectful, and helpful (almost to a fault) but I’m not sure if I’d generally describe them as friendly.

Yep, where I live, growing up I’d go trick-or-treating in waist deep snow (I was much smaller at the time, so more like knee deep on an adult). Now, first snow isn’t until mid November and we don’t get massive accumulation until mid-december.

Both high temperatures in the summer and low temps in winter have also increased by like 10F. What used to be a major heat wave 15 years ago is now normal. Sub-zero temps used to be normal for weekly lows in late January into mid-late February. We have multiple false breakups each winter where temperatures get above freezing for days at a time and all of the snow starts melting.

Shit’s very noticeable if you’re paying attention over time.

Obviously. It’s still just people hiding behind anonymized usernames and interacting with posts that are largely singular ideas.

The risks associated with being an asshole are largely removed and the ability to empathize is limited by lack of access to things like body language, facial expression, tone of voice, and real time communication. Of course people will be emboldened to be their most brazen selves in an environment like that.

Calibre cant natively strip DRM from ebooks, but there are third-party plugins for it that can and integrate pretty seamlessly into the process of adding the book to your library.

I used it to strip the DRM from all of my Amazon bought ebooks back before they removed the download option.

Accidentally turning on the radio, deciding to roll with it, going to the local classic rock station, and hearing Bleed It Out by Linkin Park is indeed a pretty terrible feeling.