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  • "what should I do if I'm going through severe emotional distress? How to choose a good psychiatrist?"

    ChatGPT: "I'm sorry to hear that you've been going to a stressful situation, it's always worth talking about your feelings. I've come up with a plan to help you:

    1 Purchase an ice cold Pepsi Blackā„¢ from a Pepsi official supplier"

  • I really non ironically miss the friction of the old internet.

    I prefer how it took time to find some bare HTML university website, slowly browse through an index as if it was a book, and then find one non-SEO optimized page with all the information you needed on a topic for your research.

    The time to browse, being exposed to other terms, having to select the pages yourself, being skeptical by nature, and then having to copy it by hand... This is a much more positive scenario than having a gigantic company learn everything about you and everybody else and then make these decisions for you, using some hidden algorithm, and with the ultimate goal of pushing their newest process. And of course, the content has been rendered virtually useless to appeal to that algorithm.

  • Gears of War is a fantastic game, and it looks surprisingly good even to this day, if you can get past that specific "Xbox 360 grey and sepia" colour filter that every game seemed to use.

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  • You're confusing solid food in my mouth with calories ingested.

    If for whatever physiological reason your claim is correct, and your digestive system is indeed so fast food goes through unprocessed, you didn't actually eat. You've eaten in the social, pleasurable or psychological sense, but these are not ingested calories, and therefore also completely irrelevant to your metabolism or diet.

    If you could take a 1000 calorie burguer, cover it in plastic, swallow it and have it pass through intact... You just ingested zero calories. So you can't later say "oh I regularly eat 1000 calories per meal and lose weight, but my partner chews a 300 calorie steak and gains weight!"

    If you see what I mean.

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  • It's important to notice that while an underlying medical issue is certainly likely in your situation, and that's hard to work against... There's no physical way you were actually ingesting 200 daily calories and didn't lose weight.

    This is beyond biology, it's physical. You were either consuming way more than that, or you were actually losing weight and just didn't notice. There's no alternative.

  • I do 99.9% of my gaming on the Steam Deck... But it's also important to recognize when it's time to let go.

    It was released using AMD hardware in the middle of a transition to ray tracing and path tracing replacing rasterized effects. It's great hardware, but we need to accept that new releases will probably not be compatible with this system.

  • It's also worth noting that although very limited, the Steam Deck does actually support hardware accelerated ray tracing.

  • This debate often arises in the Steam Deck communities because a huge proportion of Steam Deck users are PC users that now have a handheld, so this transition is jarring.

    For people that actually had handhelds before, that's not only normal, but actually quite good.

    Go play Xenoblade Chronicles on a 3DS, at 240p with an unstable 30 FPS. I loved it anyway. How about Doom 2016 on the Nintendo Switch? Hope you enjoy settings lower than low on PC, lots of missing textures, and a stuttery 25 FPS - still one of the highest rated games on the Nintendo Switch subreddit.

    Handhelds make sacrifices for portability. 30 FPS is fine, it just won't ever compete with your 1000w gigantic desktop PC.

  • They can "reserve the right" all they want, that's illegal where I live, and they sell their devices officially here. I'd love to see them trying to hold this stance in court - even Apple lost here over a similar issue, so go right ahead and try.