Me: *looks up from Stardew Valley* What main story missions?

Not surprising, the same way /r/atheism was, for a while at least, more like /r/antichristianity. Part of the identity is opposition to “the enemy.”

Personally I think that part of the identity is unhelpful, and focus is better put on the identity being about what makes it the better choice. Like Dems losing in 2016 and 2024 because a good chunk of their messaging was “look how bad Trump is,” which only served to broadcast Trump even more.

(That’s not to say that complaints aren’t valid, it’s just a poor way to structure an identity.)

Strong Bad singing voice:

“If you want it to be a possessive it’s just I-T-S, But if it’s supposed to be a contraction then it’s I-T-apostrophe-S…scalawag.”

Once the military control and election suppression are in place, you don’t need the “charisma” anymore.

Ad-free subscription services that actually benefit the creators are exceedingly rare.

Believe it or not, YouTube Premium is one of them. A Premium view is worth more than an ad-supported view to a creator.

(Obviously Patreon is better, as they can’t make a living off of only Premium views because it’s a smaller group; the population of ad-supported users is much much larger. But YouTube Premium does benefit the creators more than ad-supported YouTube does.)

Isn’t it funny how news bias bubbles work? The articles about the update causing SSD failures were everywhere on Lemmy. But after thousands of hours of testing from Microsoft, Phison, and various journalism outlets, the issue isn’t replicable. But I haven’t seen that reported on here at all because it doesn’t make Microsoft look bad.

Microsoft is plenty bad, we don’t need to massage data to make them seem even worse.

(To be fair I wasn’t on Lemmy much this weekend, it’s possible I just missed this.)

Fuck yeah!

I had installed it anyway and it had some pretty severe texture issues, I’m looking forward to trying it out!

and not being made under exploitive labour conditions.

It’s that last one that’ll get you.

How dare you make such a dangerous wish.

There are plenty of men’s pants with just the front and rear pockets!

Yeah! Last time I go into a store called “Destination XL.”

(I’m joking, I saw the rest of your comments about this.)

Fuuuuuuuck yes, a playlist to binge.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved and later Geometry Wars 2 were some of my favorites one the Xbox 360. Dual-stick shooters with awesome, simple, crisp graphics that, during the transition from CRT to LCD TVs, made LCDs look GORGEOUS.

3 is a phenomenal addition to the series (if relatively old now). It has all the modes from the previous two, and an “adventure” mode. Fantastic pick-up-and-put-down title to play when you have a bit of time or need something to distract the ADHD brain. And it’s cheap!

Considering how little potential danger there is to the person directly inhaling the vaporized liquid, you have less to fear from second-hand vape than you do from living in a big city (with regard to quality of air).

Still tacky to vape indoors around other people who don’t like it, but you genuinely have essentially nothing to worry about second-hand. It’s like being around a fog machine.

Society is a pendulum and progress always comes with backsliding. It will get better again. It always does. It might get darker first though.

There is plenty of data we do have. Obviously we don’t have long-term data, but we also stand on the shoulders of all the scientific work that has been done leading up to now.

The biggest unknowns come from poor manufacturing standards and unknown effects from flavoring. We know how vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol inhalation affect us, they’ve been used in fog machines for ages (and PG is pumped into some hospital air vents). We know the effect nicotine has on the body. If you’re smart about sourcing your flavoring and avoid the obviously dangerous chemicals like butter flavoring, and you’re careful about your hardware, you can seriously minimize the risks involved.

Just like everything in life, it’s about risk management. We do all sorts of shit in our lives that’s more dangerous than vaping. Hell, living in a large city full of old vehicles is probably worse for you than vaping. Obviously not vaping is healthier than vaping. But vaping is so much healthier than smoking, and I can say that with complete confidence. I don’t want to be rude, but adding the “(that we know of)” about being safer in comparison to smoking is absurd.

When done properly, there is no combustion. (And when there is, oh boy do you know it.) That alone makes it safer. No tar, no ash, none of the myriad carcinogenic chemicals released by combusting plant matter. Even if you were just dry vaporizing tobacco it would be safer than smoking, but this is a step further. The nicotine has been extracted, you also cut out all the shit that comes with tobacco leaves.

I don’t vape myself, but I did years ago. It was not hard to minimize the risks.

Man I miss Mock the Week.

(I know this wasn’t Mock the Week, it’s just what I know Dara from.)

Stuff is mostly benign and orders of magnitude safer than smoking. Also far less gross, considering tar isn’t a component.

I might be wrong, Frank, but my reading of the text says that freed slaves fall under “the whole Number of free Persons” and thus count as 1, not three fifths.

The three fifths compromise just said slave states shouldn’t get to count slave population to get more representatives. The non-slave states wanted them not to count at all, since they don’t get representation regardless. It’s wild to me that we think of the “three fifths of all other persons” thing as the bad part, rather than the “rich assholes who owned people got more representation than those who didn’t own people because the people they owned counted toward their representative allotments.” After all, the slave owners wanted slaves to count as a full person. The problem, as always, was slavery.

Thanks! I figured there was more to it than I knew.

Cyberpunk 2077

Stardew Valley

Hades 2

Diablo 4

These are the ones I’m rotating between most right now. I’ve also got Doom (2016) and BG3 on rotation, but haven’t hit them in a while.

The Steam Deck has been such a great addition. Especially being able to stream titles like CP2077 from the PC for better graphical fidelity and battery life.

Edit: Oh! And Geometry Wars 3! It’s so good on the Steam Deck! It says “Playable” but I genuinely don’t know why, it seems completely supported as far as I can tell.