It's cringe, but the diet is not that bad is it? Like I'm vegan and do a WFPB diet so I'd not come within 10ft of this person's kitchen, but it still doesn't look too cursed compared to the average person

also with the alcohol comments, "burgers & beers with the boys" is cringe, but champagne on Tuesday is probably related to NYE

I actually think that's an ampersand, not a 3. I write my &s in a similar way, but mine are a backwards 3 with a line through it

Sorry for your loss. What a beautiful baby

Yeah that's my point though. Redesign mobos to be able to deliver the 3kW modern cards use

I literally have an engineering degree and I find building PCs annoying bc there are so many small annoying steps that are usually glossed over, and I don't do it regularly enough to learn it all - I haven't done it in over 5 years by now and I bet a lot of stuff has changed. It is extremely delicate too, and since processes change every 5-10 years, you never know if the RAM die should already have clicked in or if you beed to push harder or if you're about to break it bc you're actually pushing it the wrong way. GPU power connectors are weird and honestly badly designed, why not actually feed the power from the mobo directly, redesign that standard so you can skip the extra connectors.

There is also always some shitty esoteric step that nobody mentions, like attaching the small speaker the correct way or the front panel hijinks, or back in the day setting the disk jumpers right, but it's still stuff you need to do. Prefabs suck but I understand why people buy them when the self-build community is hostile towards people who don't already know what to do.

And that's beside the issue of the hardware parts themselves. Spending hours researching the best combinations of components, having to learn the latest advances and compatibilities, I just don't feel like it anymore. I liked "tech" shit like this but actually working in tech sapped it all out, I want shit to simply work already lol. Oh, also good luck with compatibility on linux, enjoy spending a few days trying to set up the drivers right.

It's just easier with laptops, and I honestly can do without newer games

"hahahahahah"

Yeah it's racism. Look at any of those "woke politics destroying games" lists and it's mostly just black women being prominent characters in any way

4 is absolutely not "ehhh", it's in line with every company I worked for lol

In general I find the OP to be very plausible, and I'm not even Amerikkkan

I'm just wondering how people still give this much of a shit about the absolute worst of superhero slop. I mean I guess a lot of the reactionary audience is teenagers, but aren't most of these anti-woke creators in their 30s and up? How do you wake up and care this much about fucking Superman, a bland superhero with red speedos worn on top of blue leggings, without feeling ashamed of yourself? Like who cares if he's gay or if his friends are trans, this is stuff for babies, it's like as if I suddenly attempted a serious analysis of Curious George which my 6 year old nephew watches. I would burst out in laughter bc it's just absurd

yeah but absolutely not from an FPS lol

One thing I actually enjoy in many modern shooters is the iron sights mechanic. Even if it doesn't change much, it just feels so cool to have an extra step when aiming, and I miss that in older games. I grew up on Doom, Blood and DN3D but aiming down your gun is just rad as hell

And also, no shooter has ever surpassed Stalker Call of Pripyat for me. That was literally the best FPS I've ever played

Also touched upon in the Critique of the Gotha Programme, although in reverse (counterpoint to the "iron law of wages")

This thread reminded me of Beethoven, I know I loved it as a kid. It used to play on the TV around Easter back then, but I remember literally nothing.

So I just rewatched it. It's absolute shit lol. Bottom of the barrel trash movie, no redeeming qualities, just absolute garbage. And I say that as a "dog person" who likes the furry slob that lies next to me on the couch rn

Also no, I deeply doubt this was "the standard" back then either, they live in a picturesque fucking suburb with a huge house, it's obviously the upper end of middle class and not the "standard" life that "they took from you"

Canonically she's bi, but in a very, uh, cishet way. It was written by a boomer, and while progressive for the time, it did not age that well.

The caves of Barcelona yearn for billionaire flesh

I think this honestly is a fairly new culture war phenomenon anyway, that only came about around the gamergate era. I don't remember anybody complaining about games with women or minority protags before that, and while scarce, they existed and many of them were hits.

Random thought, but is that something that could get somebody in trouble? Plainly admitting that you saw a person of interest but that you decided not to do shit about it. Like, could they charge with some shit like "obstruction of justice" if you simply just don't do anything.

I understand that you can always say "nah man I never realized it was the guy" but what if you say "I knew it was him but I didn't call that in bc I wanted him to get away"?

It's a moralist in the colloquial, pejorative sense

I'm gonna sound basic, but dragons. Seems like almost all cultures have come up with their own ideas of dragons, from vile monsters to wise sages. Often with fantastical powers, like fire breathing and the like.

I especially like stories with dragons as villains, but working off some humanly inscrutable motivation, just intelligent, powerful beings seeing us as ants.

Also, dragon-adjacent creatures like wyverns, wyrms, drakes and others, there's a lot of diversity in dragon folklore.

The Earthsea books by Ursula Le Guin are pretty good, though I only read the first one