I got banned from one of the UK subreddits because someone said Brexit was a good idea and I said “No it wasn’t.” Got banned for talking politics in a non-political sub and the person I was responding to didn’t get banned lol.
Fuck reddit
I have a USB drive in the pocket of my bag that has Ventoy on it and a bunch of ISOs and repair tools, in case I need to set up a PC somewhere on the fly I guess? It’s literally never come up but if it ever does I’ll be ready lol.
Terry Pratchett. Discworld sepcifically.
I’d only read a couple of random ones, and I’m getting older and there are like 40+ Discworld books so I decided I should get on with it. I’m alternating, so every other book I read is a Discworld one. Almost a quarter of the way through and I’m having a blast so far.
Yeah that’s my secret too lol. Just be perpetually so exhausted by life that you fall asleep whenever you stop moving.
I just went and had a look and it’s even worse than I expected. No 2FA and the login process is: asks for username > have to click the thing to confirm you’re not a robot > do you want to use your password or some other bullshit? > click the thing to confirm you’re not a robot > enter password > click the thing to confirm you’re not a robot. So twice as annoying as having to use 2FA without any security benefit. Some menus and items in the menus just straight up don’t work. It doesn’t even look nicer at all. And they’re currently selling a book bundle about AI Cybersecurity lol.
They’ll make it cheap and have it stream games for a monthly subscription. Gamers will complain about it until the day it comes out and then they’ll all buy it because they’re incapable of voting with their wallets.
“Bit foreign innit”
I think that would be an okay hangover meal. Not as good as a Full English of course but if you were unable to leave the house and had to cobble something together from what was available it’s passable.
Or a sausage added as a breakwater
But I would be very interested to see the absolutely monstrous helicopter that would work on Venus lol
Yeah that’s my big fear, that once Trump is out of office (one way or another) all the other nations of the world will just act like the trouble is over and go back to their old relationships with the US. I think that’s a terrible mistake because, if the system in the US was healthy, Trump wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near the presidency in the first place. And like you say, if he got in, someone just as bad or worse can get in too.
Once Trump is gone, the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 will still exist. The dark money, Citizens United and Super PACs will still exist. Stephen Miller, Roger Stone, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will still exist. I don’t mean to minimize Trump or suggest he’s just a harmless byproduct. He’s a monster, but he’s sitting on top of a very corrupt system that isn’t going away when he does.
Also, when he was riding high which ones of them stood up for us when he was threatening us? And now he looks like he might be in trouble they want to be friends again once they think it’s safe to say so? Get fucked
I think technologically we probably could, but realistically we wouldn’t because it doesn’t benefit private corporations.
Or something like Rimworld, which is one of the funnest games ever but is essentially just a litany of war crimes lol
I’ll buy someone’s PS5 for $401 if they’re not using it.
It’s also a matter of trust for me. Valve have earned my trust over the years by not being shitty, so I’ve stuck with them. Epic can give me all the free games they want, but I don’t trust them. Same if some other company came out with a better store/launcher. If the company sucks, I don’t care how good the app is.
Extremely limited character creation options.
After about level 40 the higher the level you get to, the less powerful your character becomes.
Equip cannibalism perk and target high-loot players.
And if you choose the Buddhist class you might be able to respawn. If you lay off the griefing you might even get New Game+
I come from a touristy area and I’ll never forgive people for what they did to the place during COVID.
For context, I don’t want to name the place but it’s one of those areas where it’s packed in the summer and deserted all winter. As in, there are entire towns that are almost totally empty in the off-season, because they’re all second homes. It’s at the point where locals can barely afford to live there anymore, which is why I left. ANYWAY
During the COVID lockdowns, we had one of the lowest rates of infection because there was hardly anyone there, and amongst the locals we have a pretty big elderly population, who tended to not go out as much. At a certain point they eased the travel restrictions, and so everyone started descending on the place all at once, to use it as their COVID bunker because they’d seen on the news that we had not as many cases.
Now, we’re also pretty neglected in terms of funding and infrastructure, so we have ONE hospital for the whole region, and not a super well-equipped one. And as stated, a lot of elderly people. It was absolute chaos. There were mayors of towns on TV begging people not to come. They came anyway, COVID skyrocketed, they absolutely trashed the place and left garbage everywhere. One of them was interviewed about it on the news and they said the locals should stop complaining because “we need the tourism money.” Never mind that it was lockdown and most places were closed anyway.
I don’t know how many locals died of COVID because of that, but it can’t have been zero. Luckily my family was okay, but still. Fuck everyone.