The_Vampire @ The_Vampire @lemmy.world

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Actual Ex-Mormon who attended BYU here: Soaking was never a thing, I have only ever heard about it on the internet or literally in the context of Mormons laughing about non-Mormons believing in Mormons doing such things (yeah, they're meta about it).

What is an actual thing is Mormons getting married super early (for a multitude of reasons, one being the horny). Easily over 70% of the students I knew were married by the time they were seniors in college.

A singleplayer open-world sandbox RPG in the vein of Skyrim, but you have powerful abilities on cooldowns like in MOBAs/Overwatch, command troops like in Mount & Blade/Blood of Steel/Conqueror's Blade, and can go around conquering cities/developing your own nation culturally/socially/technologically/economically/etc. like Civilization but more open-ended where you can do things like decide actual religious doctrine and encourage specific aesthetics/music/social norms.

Obviously, though, such a game is incredibly ambitious and I don't think it'll ever be made, as it takes the most unique and hardest-to-make parts of several other games and then combines them. Still, I'd love to play it.

Let's be real. A lot of people in the comments are saying "it's just a job", but that's irrelevant. Prostitution and stripping are both jobs, and I guarantee those who work in either have a vastly more difficult time finding people okay with that.

Is it impossible for the significant other to be okay with it? No. Will it be harder to have a relationship? Definitely.

Yeah, I think some forums had the right idea with reactions of sorts (funny/helpful/informative/etc.) and being able to sort and sift through comments via those reactions.

"Hey man, this bad thing that X group does isn't actually bad because their main competition, Y group, does something different that is also bad."

Yeah, as a DM if these were player characters I would be ecstatic. I always have trouble pulling creative ideas out of my players, even if those creative ideas are borrowed.

1. The video's comment section on its native site is... interesting.
2. I don't trust this guy. It feels like he's just slinging things at the wall that most people could intuit without any research. Yes, sometimes things backfire when you try to stifle them. Sometimes, however, the stifling works (otherwise dictators would have a much harder time ruling). That's just the way things go.
3. I'ma need some actual data to back up Youtube's anti-adblocker experiment succeeding/failing. People are so quick to jump on the 'it failed' or 'it succeeded' bandwagon but the truth is we simply don't know the result yet, and may not for a long while.
4. This could've been an email. This guy's delivery is sprawling and lacks conciseness.

Well, the rate passwords can be tested at now may not always be the rate passwords can be tested at later. Computers were, at one point, growing exponentially faster in terms of processing power. There are still several emerging technologies out there that could cause significant speed-ups.

It's certainly better to future-proof your passwords.

There's a very high chance Musk still has the rights to that trademark, unfortunately.

Warframe

Skyrim (Okay, maybe the Modding Community of Skyrim, really)

A Narrative Game (Okay, so, there's a number of games with narratives that have managed to make me really feel and really think. Whereas Skyrim and Warframe are easy to decide upon because I love Warframe's gameplay and Skyrim's modding, there's no shortage of narrative games that have impacted me in a way that makes them all irreplaceable and as equally 'top' in my own mind. Undertale, Persona 4, Bastion, very recently there was Slay the Princess... I cannot possibly say any is above the other.)

A big part of the issue is just how long they last, which has been pushed back by big corporations (looking at you, Disney). 20 years should be plenty to recoup an investment, the original time was 14 years + a potential 14 more on renewal (so 28), and the current 95 years is ridiculous.

Not really, disappointing also includes a failure to fulfill hopes, not just expectations. You can expect an outcome and also be disappointed by it.

I don't know if this really helps anything? I mean, I suppose it's nice for the players who are frustrated to know that the cheater was caught, but I see this as making for easy abuse, like how games often kick/ban people automatically based on number of reports and a malicious group figuring out just how many reports it takes using this new information provider.

Nothing new, though. Hopefully, I'm just a worrywart and this is a change for the better though I don't think it'll do much in the end.

Lol, you need to play more games. Warframe will literally ban you for farming too much. CoD: Modern Warfare 2 false-banned thousands of players near launch. False bans happen a ton, it's just that normally they get reversed in short order once someone complains.

It annoys me that the meme's quote is wrong. It's "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means".

You say that like the opposing view isn't also the same thing, taking something (in this case, the word of the accusers) at face value.

I don't know Spacey, I have no illusions that I have zero understanding of who he is, but there's no evidence here. People shouldn't be punished for having accusations thrown at them, that's not something they control.

Sure, he could still be a terrible stain on this Earth. So could anyone.

Don't worry guys, I'm sure this is just natural weather fluctuation and has nothing to do with us messing with the climate for the past however many decades. We couldn't possibly be suffering the consequences of our own actions (or at least the actions of a few with too much power). /s

I was a mod that walked away. The fact that so few mods had the balls to call Reddit on their bluff is disappointing but totally expected to me.

Reading the study (the actual paper, not the linked article), it seems expected and sensible.

A conjecture is that aquatic adaptation is not reversible because there are already animals on land that can out-compete animals attempting to adapt back onto land (similar to how there have been very few transitions from aquatic to land in the first place).

Of course, in actuality this does not mean the transition from aquatic to terrestial is not reproducible, just that it would require a removal of the prohibiting factor such as a mass extinction event killing off most or all life on land.

Noita, the best game I can never recommend because of just how crazily deadly it is unless you know exactly what you're doing and happen to get the right perks early on. I can't say a roguelike where your 12-actual-hours-of-playing session ends with nothing to show for it just because you accidentally zapped the wrong thing out of frame that you couldn't have known was there is well-designed as a game, especially when exploration/experimentation's main reward is death. It's a very good sandbox, though.

I also got back into Risk of Rain 2. First time playing the new DLC, and I very easily managed to finish off the new content. Honestly, a bit disappointed as my favorite part of RoR2 was the unlockable items/achievement hunting and the DLC had really none of that outside of unlocking a new character and unlocking the alternative abilities for a pre-unlocked character.

Satisfactory is something I've been playing on and off. I definitely prefer Factorio's sense of danger over Satisfactory's chill, but it's still fun and has its own things going on. The more permanent bases and the fact the game is 3D makes for more fun, but I hope one day either a DLC or a mod will introduce base defense somehow.

I just finished off every achievement on Steam in Brotato. It was a fun, simple roguelike, took me a bit to grind through it. I might return to it someday, but for now it can rest.