SCmSTR
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- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 11 hours ago:
“How do I deal with friends or family members that are autistic?”
Well, one way is to try to actually understand them and where they’re coming from and what they’re really saying. Actually have the conversation and engage.
If you haven’t actually tried to do that, then this is 100% on you.
If you HAVE tried to, and actually cannot have a conversation, you still have choices. You could hold a side conversation with somebody else. You could leave the space. You could try to out-compete them in talking over you, if that’s the case, and hold your ground. You could also just stand up, and give them a hug and tell them it’s gonna be okay, as a lot of people just come from a place of fear.
However, something about your wording and perspective leads me to believe you are not the type of person who can rise to an occasion and converse with difficult subjects with upset people, or have the emotional fortitude to deal with a neurodivergent person. Have you thought about maybe just not inviting them, or just avoiding them, altogether? Because being passive aggressive like you seem isn’t the way. Even if, in your gatherings, it is acceptable or common, I encourage you to not sink to that level of toxic manipulation, if you can really help it.
Depending on the subject of your subject, you may steer the conversation into a more entertaining perspective or topic that’s good for both of you.
In the worst case, though, you can always go outside for a quick run or walk and refresh your mind.
- Comment on 12 hours ago:
In most cases, yes. But you have to remember, this is Valve and not some ordinary company. They have extremely deep wallets and a lot of responsibility and expectations on their shoulders. If they charged what it cost for hardware and what it cost them to do r&d, it would likely not be in consumers favor.
- Comment on 13 hours ago:
100%
But that’s not a terrible thing, I suppose.
- Comment on Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy 3 days ago:
Japan needs to chill
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 3 days ago:
Oooo an SSS-Tier JRPG. I didn’t think of that. That’s a great idea.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 3 days ago:
Do I get the mods, too (because, realistically, who plays games only unmodded? Children? Console gamers?)?
So, if yes, half life and half life 2.
If not…
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Minecraft - this feels like a no brainer. Also needs to have some mod packs. I would choose some fat as fuck packs. But if I only was allowed to choose one, I would choose one of the biggest mod packs that has the most mods in it.
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Counter-Strike: Source - has to have all custom maps currently available. There’s nearly an infinite amount of content there. But even without custom content, I still think a core pvp FPS is necessary to this list.
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Some kind of an mmo. One that has instances of large quantity of player content that can be saved. Social games are incredibly important, to at least me. I don’t love WoW. I don’t really play MMOs, either, except for one, and it’s largely because my partner loves it. So, maybe Guild Wars 2.
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A co-op dungeon crawler that can be used for role playing. So, maybe like… Neverwinter Nights? Or maybe Phantasy Star online…2? Diablo…?nahhh… PoE maybe.
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Some kind of very simmy racing game with simulation physics. Beam.Ng?
The “no new games will ever be made” is a hard one, because I instinctually want to save games that could be used as inspirational “seed” games for people to use as ideas to make new games.
My instinct is to treat this as a “all games are dying. What games would you take to restart?” But in reality, this is “what are your favorite games?” There’s a lot of nuance between those two questions, and the lists would be extremely different. So, my list is kind of trying to merge those two concepts.
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- Comment on We have one at home 3 days ago:
If you really digest everything Microsoft does, it’s all stealing or acquiring and making worse.
- Comment on We have one at home 3 days ago:
Jesus Christ
- Comment on Find the Piggy 3 days ago:
Imagine being this big of a coward
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 4 days ago:
This is a surprisingly apt analogy
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 4 days ago:
FUCKING CLAP YOU IDIOTS
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 4 days ago:
What if you can at-will toggle the perception?
- Comment on Had to look this up 5 days ago:
Jesus fucking Christ what? there was a character named shacklebolt???
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Looks like decent girth though /shrug
- Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server! 5 days ago:
Get free dns, get auto dns for dynamic ip on software thingy,???, profit
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 5 days ago:
👏👏👏👏👏
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 6 days ago:
Is this 🫴 …🦋 bisexuality in the closet?
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 1 week ago:
Probably because they primarily live in a censorship world, be it digital or in-person, and change is difficult for most people.
- Comment on Thank me later... 2 weeks ago:
Orgasm plus cuddles
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 2 weeks ago:
My cast iron cooks better eggs than a nonstick. It’s that iron, man, nothing else even comes close for frying.
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on RIP Dick 2 weeks ago:
Huh. And that proves I’m under 30?
- Comment on RIP Dick 2 weeks ago:
It’s the nationalism. Nationalism is a form of cognitive fencing. If you place it down, it can stop your cognition. People use it to get other people to close out their morality all throughout history, most prominently in soldiers, but all across societies. Causes lots of dumb and stagnation. I hypothesize it has similar effects as alcohol on the human mind, and if used habitually, can shut down portions of the brain.
- Comment on RIP Dick 2 weeks ago:
A fascinating assumption.
What makes you think that?
- Comment on RIP Dick 2 weeks ago:
I’m not privvy to the joke, but did Fuck Centy torture and waterboard people or something?
- Comment on grindr dump (in post body) 2 weeks ago:
Consistent with my experiences on there. Sigh
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 2 weeks ago:
I’m not crying, you’re crying
- Comment on The Authoritarian Stack 2 weeks ago:
Somebody was like, “this is all horseshit. Ima map it.”
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 2 weeks ago:
Probably to fuck children
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 2 weeks ago:
You know how in tv shows or movies in the 90s, there were always a pair of villains or goons that worked for the main villain and were comic relief? Like the Jessie & James pair in Pokemon or the two guys in power rangers or whatever I’m thinking of.
Remember how occasionally, like if it were two guys, they’d fight between the two of them, on-screen?
I don’t know why this memory popped up. Curious…
