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- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 week ago:
My take is that money doesn’t bring happiness, but poverty definitely can strip it away
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
And yet where do you think the demographic that voted for the guy that shits his pants and falls asleep comes from exactly, and moreover continues to double-down on supporting him even to their own detriment? How about the people who modify their trucks to spread black smoke just to “own those pissy hybrid drivers and cyclists”?
The continued attempts to enumerate activities that would have fit on Jackass (and likely watched the same on repeat).
Never knew a pretty girl in school who got good grades but hid then and played dumb?
There’s plenty of people who embrace an absurdist mentality and openly reject anything that requires actively using one’s brain.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
Life isn’t an RPG, but there has definitely been a push by certain groups to value looks and strength or martial prowess over intelligence and education, particularly in North American culture. Yeah, somebody can be an athlete without being dumb, and as another person pointed out there actually a lot of high-speed decision-making that requires intelligence to pro-sports.
At the same time, there are people who very much lean towards looking buff, tough, but not too bright as they categorize intellectuals as losers or socially unwanted. Similarly, there are girls or women who will emphasize their looks and actively hide their intelligence. Il This over time leads to a willful ignorance that IMO is worse than simply being of lower IQ or lacking education.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
That’s actually a good point about sports intelligence. Pro athletes likely have a certain almost instinctual grasp of certain physics even if they aren’t running the actual numbers in their heads.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
Yeah I meant to your red-hatted but hatred seems to come with that package too so…
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
I mean, that’s a fun take but realistically there are plenty of women who put a lot more stock in looks (just as men do) an immediate financial ability.
That jock who got a job that’s physically demanding might be making more out of high school, but the IT nerd who went for they education and got a good tech job was likely on a slower burn path to self-improvement with better pay, possibly improving looks over time (or at least less of a beer belly). At least before AI started killing the tech sector again, so maybe the jocks will be coming out ahead for awhile.
Also, there’s also nothing wrong with being a good dude with average intelligence who works hard. Just don’t pick an red-hatred idiot. And intelligent nerds who don’t learn social skills can absolutely still become nasty incels.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 1 week ago:
Sorry, gotta wait for a Quake 6 developer to find it in an SSD in an old laptop they bought online
- Comment on Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs 1 week ago:
The majority of the series was great, but ME3 left a fair bit of unanswered questions at the end and Andromeda only added them.
I’d want a sequel because personally the series still feels unfinished
- Comment on Trump implemented tariffs illegally, creating over $100 billion of profit for corporations selling foreign products, at the expense of American consumers. Your refund: $0.00 1 week ago:
Costco has been pretty consistent about not involving themselves with the current admin from what I’ve seen
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
I have a couple PS3’s. Bought used. No online games. I think I’ve bought more of their titles on PC than console.
It’s not even a boycott, I just haven’t seen value in their recent offerings and would rather spend my money elsewhere.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
They misheard when somebody said they enjoy a nice cold coke in the evening…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, seems he traded his God complex for victim complex in the end…
- Comment on Thirsty much? 3 weeks ago:
Hell, it doesn’t even need to be able “resisting urges”. I’d be more behind a guys-only gym where I’m less likely to end up in some random chick’s social media session.
Yes, guys do the social media crap too but at least in my experience they tend towards places that don’t involve broadcasting everyone else (except maybe the dudes with the creep glasses, fuck them). I’m tired of having to dodge some glam-girl who has decided to make the beach, park, gym or whatever her personal studio and including me or my kids as unwilling participants in their narcissism.
- Comment on Going for glory 4 weeks ago:
Whenever somebody posts about a glory hole I expect to see this one, but it still makes me laugh every time
- Comment on Probably accurate 1 month ago:
People can be great in some ways yet fallible or bad in others, particularly when looked at through the lense of time
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 month ago:
I’d kinda love to see a comeback for optical given the supply issues for flash memory, but I’ll about that a custom USB ROM stick or SDCard style carts for PC would be kinda sick
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
A lot of those people (racist supremacist etc assholes) were also fucking “the help”, and even back then I’m pretty sure it wasn’t considered socially acceptable to fuck animals, nor would anyone ever expect progeny to happen from such. That kinda defeats the argument of non-whites being another species or non-human etc, so it’s more “they’re not human when it comes to rights but human enough for everything else”
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
I kinda feel it does make sense, though perhaps not so strongly as the parent indicated. Young brains are more malleable - that’s pretty much a known thing - and learning at a young age sets in high knowledge and patterns of learning that follow us through adulthood.
If one learns a certain thing from a young age and it’s pretty much been driven in multiple ways - indoctrination whether intentional or otherwise - that’s a lot of stuff that’s been set pretty hard. Even it somebody is actively aware it’s bad it can be hard to adjust one’s inclination towards a certain way of thinking.
I’m not trying to make excuses for racism - because frankly a lot of those people don’t even try to adjust their thinking - but breaking free from one’s upbringing is not a small hurdle and I’d put it in similar terms to breaking a bad addiction.
- Comment on Surviving a heatwave : Prison Edition 1 month ago:
I got “one way” reflective film for the window that gets the most sun exposure and it definitely makes a difference, ones provides privacy during the day while still letting me see outside
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
I have the skill, but no longer the willingness to maintain said PC for the enjoyment of everyone else who is less technical. Updates on Steam Deck has been dead easy, and compatibility fairly straightforward.
I’ll still muck around with my own bigger gaming rig, but for the “this goes on the living room” device the SM seems like a good balance.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 month ago:
Glad to see somebody else notice this. I find getting a large plastic cup with these “disintegrate halfway though” paper straws bloody ridiculous.
I never had an issue with the paper cups. He’ll, I’d be more than happy if more places offered discounts to fill your own and I could just keep a clean tumbler in my bag/car.
- Comment on For when you need to make a shitpost 1 month ago:
Yeah it looks made me disappointed I never acquired any to share with friends and family
- Comment on For when you need to make a shitpost 1 month ago:
So basically the chocolatey version of the infamous sugar-free Haribo gummy bears?
- Comment on Reckless Ben and the Blatant Corruption - Protest the courts. The Police. The Corporate HQ 2 months ago:
He’s a pretty good example of chaotic good in this case
- Comment on Weird 2 months ago:
I’m in that ballpark (ok a bit over).
I’m in that vicinity (ok a bit last) and I think it kinda depends on what you’re doing. Talking to anyone about the latest meme/influencer BS will quickly make my head want to explode, but then again so does taking to prior my own age or older who engage in social-media-spawned politics.
But I also host people in the teens to early 20’s, and I absolutely love engaging with them in activities. Suddenly, those sites you’ve already seen a hundred times and stopped noticing become kinda new again.
It kinda goes the other way around too. There are many things I do that may beyond the means of younger people, especially stuff that involves technology which has massively jumped in cost these last few years (thanks AI tech-bros) but I’d already had before. They get to enjoy some of the stuff I like without having to front the cost-of-entry, and I get to enjoy sharing. Heck, even stuff like certain repairs/renos/shop-work can be interesting to somebody whose never had the opportunity to go hands-on.
I might not have the energy to do all the late night social stuff that somebody half my age does, but I do have the resources and energy-drinks to host a periodic late-night movie-watch, LAN-gaming session, aurora-hunting, how-to-do-X or various other stuff that we can all enjoy.
I think the biggest hurdle these days is allowing people across ages to find mentors without running into (or seeming like) creeps.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 2 months ago:
Ah yes. Getting a PC that breaks into the game market has always been a bit more pricey - though the Deck helped that - but these days the component cost is just insane.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 2 months ago:
Depends on what you play on PC. A lot of AAA decent releases are, but there’s stuff regularly on sale and it’s pretty easy to accumulate a backlog just from sales of good games.
There’s also reasonably priced releases like Silksong but that’s more rare
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 3 months ago:
Or possibly if a product gets a lot of reviews in a short time, to prevent review bombing
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 4 months ago:
That’s how I remember it. Cursed Reddit post…
- Comment on Live fearlessly 4 months ago:
Huh, they spelled cookie wrong and used a “ch” instead of a “k”