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- Comment on that's some fucking aerodynamics bro 1 day ago:
Fun fact: this also makes the boat move through the water faster.
- Comment on Even the worst among us sacrifice 2 days ago:
Good lord. At what point do we require a CDL to drive these things?
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 days ago:
was a yoga teacher for 3 years earning $25 a week and no man wanted me […] in Northern Virginia & Washington DC […] And I didn’t have a car.
TL;DR: even with treating your body like a temple, having a low income and low transportation mobility makes one unattractive in the DC metro.
In that region, single-income setups have low viability due to the egregious cost of living in the area, so people actively seek to partner up with high-income earners. Plus, the whole suburban sprawl is designed, and ultimately requires, cars in order to get around. You’d think that location would matter - and it does for schools and employment - but nobody lives near anyone else they want to date, and not being hyper mobile by driving all the time is practically a social death sentence. It can be a brutal environment that is hostile to most activities outside of earning an office-job income.
For example, the NoVA subreddit had recurring threads started by young professionals looking to move to the area. Every time, they’d ask where the nightlife is and what rent is like in those neighborhoods. Cue the entire subreddit throwing buckets of cold water on OP, as they’d get a reality check that as a post-grad, they’d be able to afford rent anywhere from 40-60 minutes (by car) from any such hot-spot. Oh, and the same would go for their commute too, and that might be just as far from said nightlife as it is from home.
- Comment on Durian supremacy 2 weeks ago:
Even we humans can withstand 3000°C for a short time.
If we want to be entirely pedantic, everything can withstand any destructive condition for at least one plank time.
- Comment on It makes you feel good to be nice to others 2 weeks ago:
Do they put a seam or darts in to intentionally pull it into the crack?
Yes. That and the garment might be undersized, while taking advantage of the high lycra/spandex content of the material.
- Comment on The Cock-of-the-rock is one of the most difficult Brazilian birds to find in the world. 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, we are looking in the entire world for birds entirely located in Brazil. Task seems deliberately harder than it needs to be.
- Comment on chad 3 weeks ago:
Oh, we don’t do compassion and positive reinforcement around here.
- Comment on chad 3 weeks ago:
I would have sprung for a professionally made sandwich board or spinny sign.
I really hope this guy got some high-fives for his trouble.
- Comment on I got high and sat in this bus stop for 2 hours waiting for my stop 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
- Comment on I got high and sat in this bus stop for 2 hours waiting for my stop 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, this bus is always on time.
- Comment on Get in the AI cube 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, but what about this cube is “population sized”?
Well, if you liquefy the entire human race, it would fit into a container with roughly those proportions.
- Comment on Top-selling video games ever (2025) 5 weeks ago:
Also how is Tetris counted, because there are multiple Tetris games.
I think Tetris is in it’s own cateory here. We’re talking about over 40 years of re-licensing the same thing to nearly every platform in existence, short of a number of 8-bit computers and consoles. And all that happened under many different publishers, sometimes multiple times on the same system. Added up, it’s no surprise that it’s in the top spot. Nothing else on this list even comes close to having numbers like that.
Meanwhile Minecraft and GTAV are closing that gap in a fraction of the time, on a fraction of as many platforms.
- Comment on pegging order 5 weeks ago:
It only just dawned on me that it’s possible to eat (grocery store) chicken your whole life and never actually see a live one, anywhere. If nobody told you what a chicken looked like, you would never know.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think there’s a more appropriate time for this parody: “The bad guys won”
- Comment on Enshittiflation 1 month ago:
Rate of change in 2021 (last data point on this graph) is nearly vertical. Five years of that would put a lot of zeros at the end of that figure, which is exactly what happened.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 1 month ago:
Also, despite the name, the relationship does NOT need to be romantic for this to apply. Literally anyone in your life can be a abuser with tactics like this. Usually, sadly, it’s someone with some authority or ability to screw up your life. For example, like a workplace manager or a family member.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 1 month ago:
Please insert brain into drive A: and press [Enter] when ready. - Comment on Hey... so, uh, whatcha doin' in there? 1 month ago:
I often wondered about this behavior. Every so often I would see someone go to their car in a parking lot, sit down in the driver’s seat and just… go nowhere. Engine is running, music is on, driver has a 1000-yard stare. It’s so far removed from my own experience - I never do this - that for the longest time, I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Somehow, the phrase ‘after a long day’ made it click. So thanks, OP.
Apartment living also showed me that some people just hang out alone in the car instead of in the apartment. That I can understand as some units can be downright claustrophobic if you have a big family. Want privacy? Get a car payment I guess. :(
- Comment on There are 206 bones in the human body or 207 if your guts are long enough 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon is worried about AAA sales 1 month ago:
It’s super neat. Map quality is all over the place, but most are real gems. I’ve only had one soft-lock in about 20 maps, and only a handful of those had impossible to beat final fights (I’m sorry, but failing to take down 15 shamblers at once, in a room with four central columns for cover is not a “skill issue”).
In fact I never heard much about Quake having singleplayer.
It had good singleplayer for the time. IMO, it hasn’t aged particularly well. ID was learning how to do a fully 3D game on the fly here, and it shows in spots. The best moments are built on experience with building Doom maps, but that’s practically a different sport.
- Comment on Anon is worried about AAA sales 1 month ago:
Hell I’ve gotten back into Doom in the past few year
There’s also the Quake Brutalist Jam 3 that came out last month. It’s playable with a modern Quake I engine, and man, some of those levels are incredible.
All for the low-low price of $0.
- Comment on Anon is worried about AAA sales 1 month ago:
This could literally cause the collapse of the entire western AAA gaming industry.
Wouldn’t be the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
TL;DR: A much smaller gaming industry was enshitified at an alarming pace, barely after it got started. There were too many competing options, many of which were sub-par experiences, and there was no way to tell until after purchase.
Perhaps that’s not directly comparable, but to my eye, the biggest similarity is not enough value for the liquidity (disposable capital) people are willing to put forward on a product. At some point, people will just spend less or spend on something else entirely.
Meanwhile, you have older gamers like myself that are more than happy to take a trip down memory lane, since a few decades can make those old games fun again. I’m in this 14%. That said, I tend to buy new indie titles, mostly due to the lower pricepoint, lower expectations, reliably better art, lower system specs, smaller time commitment, and so on. Games like Assasin’s Creed Odyssey showed me that big studios aren’t necessarily pushing more and interesting narrative into monster-sized titles, opting for cut/paste easter-egg hunts and aftermarket content purchases instead. Less really can be more.
- Comment on Anon dips 1 month ago:
Really, these are great for most things and a dirt-cheap hygiene option too. Use them for potato chips, cheetos, cheeze-its… everything where you’re tempted to lick salt/powder/sugar off of your fingers. Did we really learn nothing from the pandemic?
- Comment on guys would this work? 1 month ago:
For anyone else that needs it, there’s also stuff for co-ax. Some cable guy went nuts putting coaxial cable into just about every room of my new (very old) house. I seriously considered MoCA for a bit, but wifi is working well enough for the moment.
- Comment on Any day now 1 month ago:
I think that’s just the Post Office, with extra steps.
- Comment on It hurts. 1 month ago:
It’s tough to look at, but I bet it’s amazing for traffic calming.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 1 month ago:
The Crow could make for an awesome RPG experience.
It really deserves the Disco Elysium treatment. Yeah, the eponymous anti-hero gets his kill on throughout the whole story, and that’s tempting to build a game out of; standard revenge plot stuff. That said, there’s way more on offer here. How about a detective story that follows a murderer that’s already dead? Or, maybe you start off not knowing you’re dead and puzzle that together as you go.
- Comment on Please rate my dish 1 month ago:
The cook: Image
- Comment on EU vs USA 1 month ago:
We have some monstrously large hurdles to clear in this regard. What’s working against a general strike:
- No social safety net for housing or medical until you’re below the poverty line for a tax year
- Bankruptcy, poor credit, limits future employment options (e.g. background checks)
- Most industries are not unionized, so your job can easily be filled in your absence
- Really high unemployment right now for skilled sectors like IT
- A lot of people are paycheck-to-paycheck thanks to a host of factors like high rent
To say nothing of all the illegal shit government and private business will do to end and/or prevent a strike.
It’s not impossible, but it does mean that any reasonable person would like to know that millions upon millions of others will be striking alongside them. Support networks for unemployed strikers along with strategies to deal with scabs would be a good start, too.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 months ago:
I think I’d still rather this than have a heavy device on my head,
I’ve wondered about this, actually. We’d need necks like an NFL linebacker.
an umbilical, and motion sickness.
Joking aside, that’s a legit concern. It’s not for everyone, that’s for sure.
