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- Comment on No brainer 6 hours ago:
Thats honestly a very good thing to point out as well!
Stairs, or hiking/walking on any kind of broken terrain… fucking snow, ice…
Yep, there’s a whole ton of more situations where a blink ability could be very practically useful.
- Comment on He Plagiarized and Promoted Falsehoods. The White House Embraces Him. Meet influencer Benny Johnson. 9 hours ago:
Yes, basically.
Benny is literally a known Russian asset.
Yeah that whole thing a while back that uh, ended up with Tim Pool and Dave Rubin getting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, from the Kremlin, through a shell company run by other rightoids in the US/Canada?
(Not sure if the actual front company was based in US or Can., but the rightoid couple that spearheaded it, one was a US Citizen, other Canadian, IIRC)
Anyway yeah, Benny Johnson was getting payouts from that too.
To be fair to the article, they do mention this, but a lot of people don’t actually read the article.
As best as I can tell, the Kremlin didn’t even give him specific talking points, same with Tim Pool, Dave Ruben.
They just threw money at them, to amplify their idiotic takes… which did not even need to be manicured.
Its the chaos hyperreality strategy; throw money at whoever is saying the most insane shit that is just already horrendously disconnected from reality.
The article goes over this a bit, but a lot of people don’t actually click the links.
- Comment on No brainer 11 hours ago:
Even with a cooldown or something like that, a real world ‘blink’ ability, even of just 7 inches, would be utterly devastating in hand to hand combat, as well as potentially in ranged/armed combat as well.
Just imagine scenes from John Wick but also, every 30 minutes, he can just ‘blink’ up to 7 inches to dodge or connect a punch, kick, grab, close range shot, move just a bit further into cover, etc.
Granted, you would also have to be very careful to not uh, Philadelphia Experiment / phase shift into a fucking wall or some other person or something.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead creator teasing new four player co-op shooter 1 day ago:
Goddamn that is brutal but also very accurate, fuck.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 day ago:
I have actually in the past dated another eh… system within one body, ‘she’ had a primary identity/consciousness that was in command maybe 85% of the time, but a number of others would take over or emerge in various situations.
I guess the… totality of myself and all of the ‘alters’ (this was the term ‘she’ used) within ‘her’ body (afab body, but the alters were of varying genders, and pronouns, grammar is hard) … well we all did not end up working out as a ‘couple’ (… again, grammar) but I don’t see that as any reason to take my one experience with such a system and use it to just immediately negatively paint every other similar system I encounter.
I hope all ya’ll are doing well!
- Comment on Fishnet stockings 1 day ago:
I am going to go with…
C’uwu’thulu.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 day ago:
Oh goodness, I didn’t realize I was talking with a plural system till just now!
Ah, either way, yes, I also as a kid in school … well I can’t say I ever directly saw it, but I definitely heard abiut other kids asphyxiating themselves for… fun?
Yeah, seemed like a bad idea to me as well.
… A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
- Comment on Fishnet stockings 1 day ago:
Holy mackeral!
She’s just packed to the gills!
… I guess that’s one way to get your sea legs…
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 day ago:
100% agree with all of that.
The choking thing is…I’ve known a good number of people who just… dont understand that actually cutting off oxygen supply to someone’s brain is fucking bad, and does not really work like it does in video games and movies.
As you say, you… can grasp someone’s neck in a way where they can still breathe… I’ve known too many idiots who do not know how to do this and also do not know that it is dangerous to have done to yourself.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 day ago:
Hence why my opinion of being told about that was ‘that sounds completely fucking insane’.
Like… fuck, man.
Yeah, beyond the rather obvious ‘never even consider this without enthusiastic consent’…
You probably should just never do this.
I know people can be and into varying kinds and degrees of pain during the hanky panky… BUT…
It would extremely easy for someone of… really just slightly average strength for an average young male athlete… to punch someone, in the back of the head or upper neck… with enough force that you could cause serious brain damage, break their neck, fuck them up for life, potentially even kill them.
Like if you can’t tell, I’m more into the sensual stuff in the bedroom, maybe a bit of consented restraint…
… but I also have a black belt.
And … this idea terrifies me, any real martial arts competition I have ever even heard of would disqualify you from the match, and probably ban you for life for intentionally punching someone in the back of the head.
Its way too fucking dangerous.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 day ago:
I… have known a single couple, both of whom told me, separately, that they enjoyed, and I should try… ‘donkey punching’ … which is apparently smacking the uh, ‘recipient’, in the back of the head, right as climax is about to occur, because apparently this causes a more intense contraction/climax.
Personally, that sounds completely fucking insane to me, but apparently, different strokes for different folks?
- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 2 days ago:
… the cylinder knows where it is, because it knows where it isn’t: where it was, and where it likely will be.
- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 2 days ago:
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… In conclusion, the physical properties of penguins constitute a suboptimal replacement for graphite moderation of neutron propogation in a nuclear reactor.
Further, tested penguins were largely non responsive to all different training approaches attempting to have them associate the verbal command “Scram!” with the desired behavior of promptly entering the reactor pool.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 days ago:
Neither.
Ask her to close her eyes.
(Probably does not really matter whether she does or doesn’t)
Using your finger, gently trace lines around the neck, jawline, down to the collar bone, around the breast, along the sternum, follow the bottom of the ribcage, cross to the hip… you get the idea.
Ideally, be somewhat unpredictable, teasing… labor of modulate the instensity of your own breath a bit.
Also obviously works better with lighter, or no clothing.
Think of this as maybe drawing arcane runes, casting a spell… tell a slightly different story every time.
Remember the wise word of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
Antici-
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- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 3 days ago:
Eh, make ‘left handed’ glassware that alters the chirality of the resultants , now I am interested.
=P
- Comment on No Man's Sky Voyagers free update released with modular Corvette ships you build yourself 6 days ago:
Keep making one same game more gooder.
New people keep buying it.
They are literally in it for the love of their/the game… not making the highest possible amount of money for shareholders.
They are indie, independent, self-published.
Meaning, they did not sign a proverbial deal with the devil for funding.
- Comment on Call me... 6 days ago:
Damn!
I must have forgotten.
Welp, time to rewatch… all of Mythbusters, lol
- Comment on Call me... 6 days ago:
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- Comment on Call me... 6 days ago:
Wait, so its inverse of the myth?
Fangs are fine, venom is a joke?
- Comment on Call me... 6 days ago:
But harvestman doesn’t allie-oop into a sex pun.
Wait.
Unless you go into HarvestMoon r34 fanfiction.
… Nope, not going there today, lol.
- Comment on Call me... 6 days ago:
Theoretically, a very small animal, or one that is quite sick and unhealthy, or basically a new born…
They may be small enough and have weak enough skin that a longlegs could actually penetrate the dermis and actually deliver a potentially troubling amount of venom.
IIRC, small rodents are things that a longlegs could potentially deliver an effective bite to… but I am not completely sure where or how exactly to draw the line.
Basically, they have a decent venom, but their fangs are quite bad at penetrating most kinds of skin… they are geared mainly toward hunting other small insects… but its not 100% impossible to harm something a bit bigger.
- Comment on Call me... 6 days ago:
Daddy Longlegs are cute!
They’re almost completely harmless to humans, and pets, aside of possible small rodents.
They kill smaller pests, and can even kill other spiders that actually are dangerous to humans.
But I want the sequel, Mommy StepsAlot.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 6 days ago:
I lost my v card at either 16 or 17, I forget which year exactly…
So yeah, 16.8 makes sense as an average.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Have you heard of our lord and savior Optiscaler?
github.com/OptiScaler/OptiScaler
Doo dee doo, there I go again, hacking more frames and render quality into CyberPunk 2077, so I can prettify my cyberdeck while I’m on my Steam Deck, wheee!
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 1 week ago:
Oh well ok you got me, Switch 2 is ARM based, I am wrong there.
As to differences between APU and GPU drivers?
Nah, not really, at least not on linux.
That the Switch 2 is ARM based is probably actually significant.
You would basically have to port an 86_64 game over to ARM, potentially redesign a whole bunch of the game’s core inner working systems.
Again though, yes, there are big differences between a full PC GPU and an APU… but there’s far less difference between a laptop GPU and APU, in terms of compute power per physical volume, and many laptops can run Elden Ring just fine.
The Deck and Switch 2 both have APUs… only one of them really struggles with Elden Ring.
And yes, the Switch is a potato compared to even a low-mid tier gaming PC.
It is also a potato compared to a Deck:
I have yet to encounter a Switch 1 game I cannot emulate on my Deck, with worse than a 10% FPS drop from what the Switch itself gets natively on that same game.
Used to be the case that you need a pretty beefy desktop PC or laptop to emulate last gen consoles.
Uh nope, not anymore.
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 1 week ago:
… The Switch is built out of roughly the same kind of computer components as a PC, as a Deck, as a laptop.
PCs tend to have a distinct CPU and GPU, more modern Consoles and the Deck and Switch tend to use basically an APU, where the CPU and GPU are the same physical thing, and they use a different kind of RAM than a PC, such that it can be shared by the CPU and GPU functions of the APU…
(PC or dedicated GPUs have their own, different kind of RAM)
…but its not like the Switch 2 is some magical kind of completely incomparable thing.
Like … AMD and Nvidia make GPUs for PCs.
The Switch 2 uses an Nvidia APU.
The Deck uses an AMD APU.
They… both use x86_64 architecture. They both use the same general category of LPDDR RAM.
Basically, what you are saying is, is that Elden Ring is poorly optimized for cheap, Nvidia APUs, which Nintendo contracted Nvidia to develop for them, to put into their Switch 2s.
Its… not like Nvidia drivers for Elden Ring have… not been a thing, for years.
People have been playing Elden Ring on all kinds of other devices for years as well.
To use PC terminology, the Switch 2 is what you’d call a potato: technically capable of running software… but just barely.
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 1 week ago:
pcoptimizedsettings.com/best-elden-ring-steam-dec…
45 fps / 90 hz on a Steam Deck, seems reasonably well optimized to me.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 1 week ago:
Ok so uh…
Step 1, secure a puke receptacle.
Step 2…
Yeah… yeah this is apparently a real book.
I am guessing it is mostly pictures.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 1 week ago:
Oh…kay grandpa, yes, neat hats, oh hey would you look at that!
Time for bed.
- Comment on Is it better to: [A] watch videos content on a flagship/midrange smartphone that you already have, OR [B] get a cheap tablet (say, around $200 USD) to watch videos? 1 week ago:
Potential oddball suggestiom, but possibly worth considering:
Get a Steam Deck, get some kind of kickstand accessory/dock for it.
I have no clue what your exact price points or screen size/dpi, or viewing distance preferences are, but I absolutely spend way more time ‘using’ my Deck to just play videos while I am lounging in my bed.
Also, of course, a Steam Deck is a semi-portable gaming device, and also a laptop… you can just plug a mouse, keyboard, and/or a fairly cheap wireless streaming dongle thingy into a TV as well, you don’t really have to bother much with a fancy low latency / fast response time set up if you’re just streaming vids or movies.
7.4 inch diagonal screen, 1280x800, ~12 hr battery life if you put it in a power save mode and just watch youtube or play a local file movie, OLED, $550 USD.
Cheaper than a flagship phone, larger screen than a flagship phone (though less dpi / lower res), probably more expensive than a… decent enough maybe? for your use case mid-low end tablet…
But also Valve is still selling the older LCD Decks for $300, which is probably roughly the same or slightly more than a maybe decent enough mid-low end tablet.
Or you could be in not the US and be looking at a different uh, price reality.