adhocfungus @ adhocfungus @midwest.social

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I'm now imagining an ominous Vine boom everytime the shooter interacted with someone that day.

Doin' that JavaScript math

Why does it even look like he's saying, "feet"?

Definitely not the veterans I know, who wait months to receive middling at best medical care

I was going to say similar. Maybe their allotted benefits look attractive, but good luck receiving them in any useful timeframe. Even taking the article at face value, they have "absurd" benefits in theory, but get a fraction of them in practice.

That's what I'm running. I'm sure you could squeeze more performance out of a specialized OS, but headless Debian is fast and easy enough.

Wow, you're bringing back very specific memories from my childhood. I hope you've managed to heal somewhat and found things that make you happy.

There are definitely people who can't handle it. It makes sense in a way; pretty much everybody will lose it once they start starving, so there's definitely a line. Some people just have that line much closer. It seems like a physical tolerance, not really a psychological or character trait.

My spouse is like that and can't go more than 6 hours or so without food. I'm the opposite and can easily go more than a day without before getting cranky, but I assume that's from a lot of practice as a kid.

Is it even possible to play MGS without spoilers these days? Maybe I'm online too much, but I feel like I've seen 50% of it through memes alone.

And why it shouldn't be.

That sounds even more stressful. Good luck!

Resin dice, novels, 3D prints, paintings, video games, wooden furniture, RPG scenarios. I have way too many hobbies and maybe two hours per week to work on them, so in reality I create very little. But making something physical is incredibly helpful for keeping the worst of my depression at bay.

I definitely didn't read it that way from the post. I thought it was about your hobbies and creative interests. I guess you could infer social strata by whether the answerer has time and disposable income for hobbies. Some don't require much investment, but it's usually more than none.

Is this an already published book? Or are you releasing it concurrently with the audiobook?

My issue with MH was the extensive grinding. Getting a full set of armor from a monster could take dozens of kills, with each kill being 30-60 minutes. If I knew I could get it after a flat 10 or even 20 victories it'd be fine, but you're at the mercy of 5% drop rates sometimes.

Maybe they've never seen the original? It is a bit deep fried here, but that would still make me feel old.

Absolutely. My spouse looks at me like I'm crazy for putting black blankets on the floor in front of all the south-facing windows, but it's a noticeable difference in those rooms. I also keep the leftover pasta and kettle water out until it's cooled down instead of dumping hot water down the drain. Helps to avoid running the humidifier too.

That's true. I accidentally downvote things constantly, but immediately upvote if I notice. How many have I missed? How many upvotes were lost to network traffic even though the downvote made it through? How many people have wasted a portion of their only finite life being upset because my finger was one pixel too far right?

I understand getting upset if you made a good faith argument and it gets a ton of downvotes. I still think it's valid, but I understand why others would disagree.

But people here (and on Reddit) are way too sensitive to them. I have seen too many comments here with "Edit: why am I getting downvoted? Explain yourselves" when it's got 10 upvotes and 2 downvotes.

Some trolls downvote everything. Some people have bots that downvote everything. Some people have bad reading comprehension and will downvote things they would agree with. Once you assume a baseline level of negativity you'll stop taking things personally and start enjoying interactions more.

This is obviously funny, but I think the end result will be a bit sad. Spammers will (or already are) start to use similar AI programs to cold call people, then transfer to the scammer if they've got a live one. Eventually we're just going to be heating the Earth so that invisible chatbots can have conversations no human will ever hear.