Yep. I think it's part of getting older - the costs on your body become higher, and you start spending more time hungover than drunk. I have a beer maybe once or twice a week at this point, and I'd been at a nightly six-pack for a bit there in my twenties.
Weed, on the other hand, just seems to get better the older you get.
You might want to give Dauntless a shot. I haven't played it in a while, but it's basically a free monster hunter clone. The graphics weren't up to MH levels, but the combat is solid and the crafting system is pretty fun.
It's bad and I should feel bad for playing it, but once you get past the absurdly long load times, janky cutscenes, regular crashes and absolute lack of any story or plotline, it's got remarkably addictive gameplay, and it's the only game that actively encourages your inner fanatic to pick up their boltgun and chainsword and KILL THE HERETICS.
It's like finding a kilo of PCP laced weed at the bottom of the dumpster behind the 7-11. I shouldn't like it, and it will probably kill me, but for some reason I can't stop smoking it.
True. OP looked like s/he wanted a simple answer so I just went with the basics, especially as there's not a noticeable difference in basic browsing performance between the two in their current form (although I think FF is slightly faster right now).
Yep, exactly. There's an ethics code that Roberts recently published that was a rehash of the non-binding ethics standards that both Thomas and Alioto regularly ignored. This is an update to that code with more oversight in the form of additional required disclosures, but (correct me if I'm wrong - please, I want to be wrong here) I'm not seeing anything about enforcement, or anything about the consequences to a justice for violating these new requirements.
A good first step, but we need more than a code update when they're ignoring the code as it currently exists. We need an independent non-partisan office that can and will enforce it, and ideally has the capacity to bring criminal charges to justices in violation.
The more dumbed down the advice, the easier it is to encourage your audience to engage. Some of those who agree with them connect, and the sum of your connections on Linked In is absolutely something recruiters look at and weigh when looking at candidates. Keeping it basic and bland ensures the widest audience and potential connection pool with a minimal risk of negative feedback.
Not that I'm justifying stupid content. There's a reason I don't spend any more time than I have to on LinkedIn.
Yep - I watched the same thing happen at Digg after they went down the path Reddit is now. Within 3 months of their infamous redesign, it was a ghost town.
Reddit will likely limp on longer, but I think they severely underestimated how badly they've harmed their own business.
Brave is not your friend - if they're willing to violate copyright law by secretly scraping websites and then selling the content in their AI, I'm sure they're willing to sell your data if the price is high enough (if they aren't already).
Firefox, on the other hand, has been the most trusted browser since dial-up, and is run by a non-profit. It's an easy choice for me.
One 2008 “riikka” comment talked of “[N-words] selling pirated Vuittons” in Barcelona, which Purra, then a researcher at the University of Turku, was visiting at the time for an academic conference.
Another described “the sound darker males make when they pass you by” as “not whistling (that would be too obvious) but a fucking hiss between the teeth”, adding: “The more eager Abdullah is, the more saliva comes with it.”
In another post, the commenter wrote: “Anyone feel like spitting on beggars and beating [N-word] children today in Helsinki?”A post in January 2008 read: “I’m so full of hate and pure rage … What are you doing to my psyche, Islam?”
In September 2008, “riikka” wrote about a confrontation on a suburban train with a group of young immigrants: “If they gave me a gun, there’d be bodies on a commuter train, you’ll see.”
I don't say that lightly - this woman has confessed to wanting to beat up children and commit hate murder. She doesn't belong anywhere near government office. Good on the Finns for protesting this atrocious appointment.
Haven't played it, but honestly watching the video, it basically looks like a Doom clone built on the Source engine with worse music. Note I support indie devs, but there are a number of glaring issues just in the video that would cause me to stop playing, the first and foremost of which is the "enemies appear out of nowhere" dynamic followed closely by the "forcefields go up and limit your fight area regularly" dynamic. Both are an excuse for shoddy programming and bad level design.
This one would need a lot of work before I'd drop money on it, and I'm a big FPS horde shooter fan. Hard pass.
My fantasies of Fediverse starships aside, let's be honest. Neither of us have any idea what it would do, as it's never been done before. And, at least for me, it would be fun to do, even if we don't need to do it.
I don't really see it as stooping to their level. After all I'm not suggesting we just go scrawl "fuck Spez" all over the place - we're already doing that enough here. But sticking up Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon logos would be a positive organic social media campaign meant to improve the lives of its viewers - and unlike most advertisements, entirely driven by the desire to help others looking for free non-corporate alternatives.
This certainly seems better than any campaign Meta, Twitter, or Reddit could come up with, so I'd say we would be showing them that we're better by being better.
Damn that brings back high school memories - thanks! I totally agree it fits as well.
I went with the Fat Boy Slim vid for the evolution theme and the fact that the guy on the bench at the end was the best analogy that came to mind for Reddit in its current state. Jesus Jones seems to be speaking to how I feel after discovering the Fediverse.
I agree with you in principle, but speaking from strictly a strategic perspective, /r/place presents a vulnerability that can be exploited without contributing what Reddit really needs to regain its status - content.
In the context of a social media war, this means we can use the space to peel off users who wouldn't have been introduced to the Fediverse otherwise, with no risk of harming ourselves or providing Reddit more than a temporary moment of attention. There's been a concerted effort to remove links to Fediverse resources in many subs, and for a great deal of redditors, they're in the dark about what the Fediverse represents and how much better it is than Reddit.
Plus it's just cool to fuck with Spez, and the Fediverse is so cool in general that I'd love to see what the effect would be if we united against a common enemy.
Damn - that bass slaps and the vocals are tight as fuck. Excellent video too. Thanks for introducing me to these guys.