Good.

I know the whole “slippery slope” argument is often overused, but conservatives already love to conflate queer voices with pornography to try and censor them. This slope is like X=0.1, if these conservatives have their way they will be coming for LGBTQ content next. This shit needs to be shut down right away.

The police in the U.S. are on Tim’s side. Hell, Tim might be a police officer.

The government will throw your family into a concentration camp either way. Will you acquiese and die like a dog, or will you stand and fight?

Not at all.

The idea of “ignorance is bliss” is kinda like relying on herd immunity. You have to hope that everyone else creates a society that is good and just. Otherwise, material conditions will constantly worsen, you’ll just be left unequipped with the tools to know why.

Such an existence sounds maddening to me, and considering how often ignorant people are turning to hate in the face of drastically declining material conditions, I feel confident thinking that it is maddening for them as well. If you at least know why everything is turning to shit, you can try to stop it.

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just don’t use gamemode? If anything, I imagine gamemode would be a detriment to running things outside of Steam, which is the use-case OP is looking for.

If your worry is that a corporation will report you for piracy, than you have a false dichotomy. Both SteamOS and especially modern Windows are both corpo controlled platforms. You’d be far better off running something like Bazzite off the handheld if the goal is to get away from closed-source systems. You also wouldn’t have to run things through Steam to get non-steam games working, there’s other options that would still allow you to use Proton as your compatibility layer.

I’m fine with this logic, but it also has to extend logically to the United States no longer being a democracy, and it’s arguable that a number of EU states would also qualify.

The thing is, there’s a lot of RPG players who want to see number go up, and enjoy getting into the weeds on how number go up. The San Andreas system is great for a super grounded real-world crime game where the focus is almost entirely on the story, but for a sci-fi/fantasy numbers-focused RPG people want the dopamine hit of a new skill point.

There’s two issues with this thinking. The first is the assumption that the additional money is going to the developers. Considering Microsoft continues to layoff developers, I think we can safely rule that out as a possibility. It’s going to the c-suite and maybe marketers.

The second is the assumption that games are more expensive than ever to develop. This is beyond untrue; games have actually never been cheaper to develop. That’s a big reason why indies have exploded in popularity, and in many ways have supplanted AAA as the primary drivers of innovation in the industry. AAA games are bloated because business executives want to chase infinite money, and put ludicrous amounts of man hours chasing the dragon of graphical fidelity. I strongly believe that more mid-budget titles focused on solid gameplay fundamentals with good art direction would result in greater success, but since that won’t make infinite money I doubt the shareholders will ever take that route.

I know people don’t care for Moffat-era Who, and for good reason, but gd Capaldi had some real bangers. The whole speech is incredible.

based grandma tried to kill a Nazi.

In the U.S., the issue is that our education system is already fundamentally broken and doing a terrible job of teaching kids. Adding LLMs to that is like striking a match in the tinderbox.

Dark Souls 1 is like a nice palate cleanser after Elden Ring; much easier, much quicker to go through, really only like 1-2 really difficult encounters by modern standards.

Dark Souls 2 has kinda become more interesting over time. You can start to see the bones of what would eventually become Elden Ring with mechanics like powerstancing and armor sets with bonuses, but the differences in healing and the mistake of Adaptability turn a lot of people away.

DS3 is honestly just “another one” in retrospect. It introduced what would become weapon arts and simplified magic to use a mana system, both things that would continue through to ER, but I very rarely return to it.

If you can find a way to access it, I’d also highly recommend Bloodborne. It plays the most different to the rest of the franchise, while still retaining a lot of the Soulsian trappings.

There is no such thing as “too slutty”.

The real fun is having to pay extra on an application because you have a pet, then getting to pay an additional pet rent monthly. Also it’s sometimes per pet, literally trying to treat them like bonus tenants.

If you’ve given up on Civ 7, I’m not sure returning to Civ 6 will satisfy you.

Wouldn’t you just get endlessly naval invaded if you did so? That only works for a land invasion, you would want garrisons on every port to prevent someone from landing and fighting their way to a port to start getting supply.

This really isn’t a joke. A surprising amount of my job is research and investigations, and a lot of my office excels at it because we are all incredibly nosy bitches.

I mean…yeah?

Like, I’ve gotten my fingers caught in the socket a few times, it’s certainly not comfortable but it never felt life-threatening. It’s less intense than touching an electric fence, but more intense than lickin a 9v. I’d never be afraid of it.