vulgarcynic @ vulgarcynic @sh.itjust.works

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The algorithm is insane for that crap. I'm in a band with a bunch of other 40 something dudes and the shit they get in their feeds is wild. I'm too paranoid to raw dog the Internet or have conventional social media so I miss most of the hateful crap. The screen shots they share in the group chat are wild.

One of the guys owns a roofing business and that's likely the most toxic feed I've seen. Its a miracle he isn't fully maga-activated.

Heck yes friend. This is also a fantastic strategy. Likely the same perverse curiosity that makes Clint Eastwoods rants compelling in Gran Turino. Standing there making mental notes about what the hell that means but knowing its foul.

Lucked in to a 5080fe through the Nvidia lottery (and it comes with 2 cases of soylent yellow!). This may be the 2nd thing I fire up after Cyberpunk.

As someone from a small town in the pacific northwest, it feels like they always have been. It was just a case of the quiet part not being said out loud or them masking it enough those with lower exposure didn't see it.

I drive a pickup, grew up hunting and fishing and I'm tall, pretty thick, tattooed all to hell and bearded... the amount of "hell yeah brother" followed by some vial, racist, homo/transphobic shit I have said to me is staggering. The moment of pushback has become a high for me. I'm almost baiting them from a conversation about tree stands and elk piss formulas into some fucked statement about trans athlete's just too feel something.

That said, it isn't all of us so I don't want to gate keep survivalism and general outdoorsiness. Always willing to teach a flytie, how to dig a shit hole and the easiest way to catch water with a tarp.

Julie Christmas is a personal favorite.

The Battle of Mice records are harrowing (content warning for DV). Made Out of Babies was incredible as well. Same for her work with Cult of Luna. Some really, really unique vocals there.

My personal favorite is the Spylacopa Self Titled record. That album was a great blending of styles and guest artists, but Julie's work stands out.

Do you have F-Droid installed? Not to pull a docker, but it is opening for me on 2 separate devices.

IronFox is the closest alternative. F-Droid repo here:

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.ironfoxoss.ironfox/

That's just like, your opinion man.

This typo is amazing. Please do not edit.

I've been considering a pair of X-reals out of curiosity but they are right at the tipping point for tech I may not use enough to justify the purchase. Even the price drop in the article still isn't quite enough.

I don't think its good per se but I can see the value in your point. Especially in regards to it just being a distraction. Everyone is sure honed in a map rename when there's other more legitimate issues to address.

But, gulf of America nonsense makes easier distraction headlines.

www.squarespace.com

There ya go, you can make a site for each of those. Use promo code ImATroll for 0% off.

Been playing quite a bit of the saboteur lately. Its a great game.

Damn. I mildly followed this via some podcasts I listen too. Didn't even realize they had relaunched after the bullshit beta.

Good riddance to another failed WB attempt to exploit rather than honor their IP.

Posted above, I'll drop it here as well, requestarr performs the same service but via discord.

Layering on top of that (I'm sorry to recommend a discord app) but, Requestarr is awesome as well. It allows you to attach a bot to a channel and request up through Overseer, Sonarr or Radarr. Works for local and remote users.

Signal is available on all those platforms.

Alcohol and drug use are both able to kill you directly through unchecked addiction.

Social media kills you via long term mental health damage. There is no direct way it can render you physically dead.

That said. Social media has fucked up more people in irreparable ways in my lifetime than alcohol or drugs ever could.

Live service means there are constant "content" updates being released by the developer/publisher.

This can be character skins, weapon skins or other cosmetics, new maps or modes, new classes, skills or really anything. A lot of times these are wrapped up in to "battle passes" time limited, purchaseable collections of stuff designed to keep players engaging with the game daily for carrots being dangled in front of them. Most of these are also time limited so if you don't jump through all of the Hoops before the timer expires you no longer have access to the content that you were playing for and paying for.

To relate to old school gaming think of them like mini-expansion packs. The part that most people take issue with is the strategy behind the majority of them.

Almost all live service games are designed to keep players running on the hedonistic treadmill looking for the dopamine hit of that next unlock. In the more egregious free-to-play games you see that crafted through dark patterns in a way that incentivizes users to buy shortcut items through the marketplace to either automatically collect the ranks needed for the unlock or provide double accrual rate for whatever the experience marker is.

The reason they are coined lives service is due the nature of them receiving this constant update drip in a manner that would be live as opposed to static in traditional, Old School multiplayer games where you may see a large expansion every once in awhile but certainly not a weekly or monthly drip feed of new shit for the players to grind away at trying to unlock.

Aye, that was my suspicion. Really awesome to be stripped of options for privacy so they can suck down that data.

Yt-dlp still works thankfully.