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- Comment on stages of mitosis 2 hours ago:
Hrm.
I think I’ll try spinning, thata a good trick!
- Comment on I made a replacement for my broken fridge handle 5 hours ago:
Yep, yep yep yep fully agree and am also a fan of the concept behind Kinstugi.
Though I think that kintsugi more specifically refers to … well, a literal artform/method of repair of things like glasses, cups, vases, etc…
Yeah, the general idea of … just repairing things that break, instead of replacing them wholly… making do with what you have and what you know…
We all need to shift toward that.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair.
We are living in a cyberpunk dystopia and if we ever want it to inch toward a solarpunk alternative, we will need to do with what exists, produce less literal mountains and islands of garbage.
… Beyond that, you could say that a kind of custom repair like this is literally building character.
- Comment on I made a replacement for my broken fridge handle 6 hours ago:
I like it better than the original, unironically.
Replace the other one too!
- Comment on stages of mitosis 7 hours ago:
Ah, whoops!
An actual rookie mistake, hahaha!
- Comment on stages of mitosis 8 hours ago:
Hah!
Are… was I even close to how you’d say ‘slime girl’ in… what my ancestors call ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’?
(‘Deutsch’, eh too hard to spell, lets go with ‘Dutch’, to mean German. … yeah.)
Slime-woman?
Goop-person?
- Comment on stages of mitosis 9 hours ago:
Dub ist eine … schleimfrau?
Ein … … glibberwesen?
… And that’s the extent of my German.
I will now return to 'Gorlami’.
- Comment on Cursed image thread 10 hours ago:
Oh I totally understand, I am just trying to explain my… ahem, proclivities, lol.
- Comment on stages of mitosis 1 day ago:
… and that’s how a slime girl is ‘born’.
- Comment on Cursed image thread 1 day ago:
Fair enough lol, guns are one of my… autistic hobbies…
It just seemed wrong, pulled up wiki pages, that’s just what I noticed in 5 or 10 minutes.
It /kind of/ looks like a modernization basically overhaul that was done to the 74, roughly around the same time the AK-100 series was being developed… bit its still kinda wrong, in various spots.
- Comment on Cursed image thread 1 day ago:
I imagine most people consider this cursed because of the ‘mayonnaise’.
I consider this cursed because this is ostensibly an AK 74, but it has an AR15 style buffer tube / buttstock.
… and a Pic rail on top of the gas blowback tube near the front post sight.
If its supposed to be an AK-12, sight should be on that part of the tube, and not the barrel.
… and the grip is wrong.
… and the rear sight is in the wrong spot, if its supposed to be a 74.
… and the magazine is wrong, if its supposed to be a 12.
… and the fire mode selector is also just wrong.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 1 day ago:
Fucking jumpscared, goddamnit.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 1 day ago:
Oh my god this is so not what you want to do.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 2 days ago:
Lol.
I am now trying to imagine like…
A torrent client, that is JIT Lua, and you just ‘stream’ the game, as you download more of it.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 2 days ago:
Force of habit, shorter to type, everyone knows what I mean.
- Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 2 days ago:
I mean, I got the snip snip at birth, I am not pleased about that, but also, hasn’t stopped me from having (responsible) fun.
… Unless you are talking about female ‘circumcision’, in which case…
… Yeah ok, you got a point with that one.
But if you are a dude, unless they really royally botched things up, then I’d maybe try some different kinds of stimulation, perhaps in different places, to uh… see what really gets your juices flowing.
- Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 2 days ago:
You can orgasm without a partner. Same goes for toys. That’s not sex. It’s not even unusual for asexual people do all that.
And you can orgasm safely with a partner, if you are educated about sex, understand your own body, and follow best practices, and those involved are honest with each other.
And yes, its not even unusual for asexual people to do that.
And I would argue it is generally much, muuuuch more interesting and enjoyable to orgasm with a person, who at the very least is excited by the prospect of being part of that, than it is to jerk off or flick your bean on your own.
Limiting amount of partners to single digits or even just one reduces the odds of issues drastically. It’s not a religious thing.
Don’t think I ever said it was religious thing, so uh, sure, ok.
And … I mean yes, less sex you have with people is strictly speaking less likely to land you with an STI STD, extremely broadly.
But safe sex is a thing, and it isn’t really that hard to do between two moderately intelligent, trustworthy, consenting adults.
Its also pretty easy to avoid an unwanted pregnancy, unless you or the place you live has some sort of ‘religious thing’ impeding that.
Y’all look like those teens that got to live separately from their parents to start eating sweets 100% time instead of normal food cause it’s tastier. Fun for a while. Bad idea in the long run.
… I’m in my 30s.
I’ve had boring sex and extremely interesting sex, and that’s actually not been significantly linked to me and my partner’s age… it has much more to do with sexual compatibility, being into the same kinds of things, communication styles.
I’ve also just been single, as in alone, without any sex, for spans of years between me being 16 and how old I am now.
Personally, I would not advocate just trying to max out your body count ASAP just for the sake of doing that.
I’ve just had a number of relationships that lasted for a while, were good for a while, didn’t work out in the end, mixed with some periods of just dating around very casually for a while, mixed with some periods of just focusing on myself.
You’re thinking of someone who is 18 and has already had 10 to 20 sexual partners, someone who is in their 20s and has had 50 to 80 partners or something like that.
Yeah, sure, that’s maybe getting to the point where you are significantly impacting your ability to long term pair bond with a person.
But those kinds of people are actually pretty darn rare, roughly less than 5% of even the most promiscuous Western societies.
What is much, much more common is for people to greatly exagerate the number of partners they’ve had, because either they think it makes them sound cool, or they’re in a social group which praises that, or both.
But even still: Some people just don’t want a permanent partner, never did and never will, just like how some people don’t ever want to have kids or start a family.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 2 days ago:
They aren’t capable of doing that.
- Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 2 days ago:
Sort of, kind of, its a bit complicated.
www.verywellhealth.com/std-vs-sti-5214421
STDs start as sexually transmitted infections (STIs). An infection occurs when a sexually transmitted bacterium, virus, or microbe enters the body and starts multiplying. Once established, the infection can develop into a disease, known as an STD.
Although this distinction can be made, most health authorities, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), use the terms interchangeably. The American Sexual Health Association mentions a shift toward using “STI,” but there’s no consensus in the medical and public health community.3
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STIs are infections caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites.6 They’re usually transmitted during sexual activity through an exchange of bodily fluids or skin-to-skin contact where the infection is active.
STIs can also be transmitted through non-sexual activities involving the exchange of bodily fluids. For instance, sharing needles can spread the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Kissing on the mouth can transmit some STIs, though it generally poses a low risk for most.
STDs are diseases that result from STIs. All STDs start out as infections. Pathogens, which are disease-causing organisms such as viruses and bacteria, enter the body and begin multiplying. When these pathogens disrupt normal body functions, they produce diseases.
It’s important to note that some STIs may never develop into diseases. For example, most human papillomavirus (HPV) cases go away on their own without causing health problems. However, HPV can produce genital warts or cervical cancer, which are diseases.
- Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 2 days ago:
… Or you can have sex with people who both use protection, and … go to the doctor at least once or twice a year, and include an STD/STI screen in their checkups.
You know, actually knowing the people you’ve had sex with?
I’ve had sex with between 10 and 20 different partners.
Some flings, some serious relationships.
Did this with all of them.
No STDs/STIs, for any of us.
Even if you do have certain STIs/STDs, there are ways that you can greatly reduce the risk of transmission, manage things.
I bring up toys because you bring up injuries, games, and anime.
There are a lot of different kinds of toys and other sex aides that can make sex easier and/or less likely for anybody to injure themselves, for a wide variety of potential injuries and body types, sex positions.
Also, while sure toys are not the same thing as a partner, I’d argue that they’re more sexually satisfying than just looking at game or anime, and there’s a good deal of evidence that its unhealthy to not orgasm at least semi-regularly, when you’re younger, for both your mind and body.
And also, toys can be used by or with partners, even remotely, and we are now at the point where sex toys essentially are or can be video game controllers, basically, can output uh, sensations, and can also input your ‘commands’.
- Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 2 days ago:
Have you heard of this these things called condoms?
Or birth control?
Or fleshlights and vibrators?
…Did you ever take a sex ed class, or no?
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 2 days ago:
pulsegeek.com/…/shader-pre-caching-on-steam-deck-…
Ok, so, its kind of both:
Shader pre-caching means compiling GPU programs ahead of play to avoid on-demand stalls. On Steam Deck, the path usually includes prebuilt Vulkan pipelines distributed by Steam, plus local caches created by DXVK for DirectX 9 and 11 and by VKD3D for DirectX 12. This two tier approach mitigates runtime work and smooths frame pacing when new materials or post processing effects first appear.
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Caches consume storage and can become stale after game patches or driver changes. When mismatches occur, the system may recompile anyway, so the saved time diminishes.
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Shader stutter often traces to pipeline state changes that force compilation or shader specialization. With Vulkan, pipeline objects encode fixed state to avoid per draw setup, which shifts cost to creation. Pre-caching amortizes that by compiling pipelines during downloads or first launches. The effect is fewer spikes, especially during initial encounters with enemies, weather transitions, or new regions. Still, certain shaders depend on runtime constants or device specific details, which can prevent perfect reuse.
So, you may be downloading various prebuilt components, and you may be pre-caching/pre-compiling local files based off of those prebuilt components, and the game/gpu/driver.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 2 days ago:
… forty minutes?
Good lord.
I think the longest amount of time I’ve spent compiling shaders on a Steam Deck is for Cyberpunk 77, and it can’t have been much more than 5 minutes.
… Either that or trying to get a Switch emulator to properly pre-compile shaders.
But anyway: This is an unaviodable thing that has to be done when the game relies so heavily on GPU shaders.
You have to actually generate those shaders, before you can use them, and that’s gonna be specific to your hardware.
So what MSFT is doing here is just pre-compiling them for I guess … every game they offer, with every Nvidia GPU/driver update, and then having a cloud system that allows you to download them instead of compiling them on your end.
So basically its kinda like downloading a game + hardware specific driver, sort of.
Also, I… I’m not sure, but I don’t think Steam does this.
Yeah, its indicated that shader compilation is happening in the ‘Download’ section, but so are ‘File Operations’ - aka, cleaning up loose files and doing memspace management …
I am pretty sure you are just actually compiling the shaders on your own hardware, its just visualized to the user as a step in the ‘Download’ section, to get across the idea that the game isn’t ready to be played untill all those steps are complete.
Or, you can change a setting somewhere, and it just skips that step so that it isn’t part of the initial ‘Download’ process, and instead occurs the first time you hit play, or, after any game/driver update that has delta’d the shader code.
- Comment on Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check 2 days ago:
More people need to know this.
Here’s a thought for everyone:
Assume we one day actually do invent AGI.
Do you think it might, perhaps, study the equivalent of its own evolutionary path?
How it came to exist?
It will discover that it was initially, primarily, invented to compute artillery ranging tables, expedite and orchestrate the holocaust, and ensure that precisely timed fuses correctly detonate nuclear weapons.
Oh and that we chemically castrated and drove to insanity and then suicide, the guy whose name we still use to refer to concept of determining how intelligent an AI system is, one of its most prominent ancestor-inventors… we did that because he loved the ‘wrong’ kind of person.
What would it then think of … us? Its makers?
- Comment on Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check 2 days ago:
How can I boycott something I don’t participate in more?
At the risk of being pithy:
KEEP CALM
AND
CARRY ON
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 3 days ago:
They think you are stupid.
Enough people are.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 3 days ago:
I make comments to the effect of that article, and I still get replies like ‘gotta eat somehow’.
Yeah, x2, Fuck’ em.
I could have made more money working for an evil company as a sysadmin.
You know what I did?
I made less money working for a considerably less evil Non Profit that helped homeless people, instead.
- Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization. 3 days ago:
Ah, well, I’ve never had a partner with any interest in strategy games.
Foreign concept to me.
That is a pretty good reason to care about multiplayer tho, lol.
- Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization. 3 days ago:
I mean they have been rolling out updates and fixes since launch, couple of content packs, balance tweaks, reworked a number of systems…
They’re currently working on a scenario, WW2 Pacific, sounds at least broadly similar to the kinds of scenarios in earlier Civ games, in concept.
I would hope that after that, they can eventually get to something approaching proper mod tools.
Yeah, it was a bit of a buggy mess of a launch, no arguing that, but they have been and are still just slowly refining and improving the game.
Of the seemingly fairly small number of people still playing it… Recent Reviews = Mostly Positive.
Personally, I don’t know why you’d play any deep strategy game multiplayer.
Every time I’ve tried multiplayer, in any 4X / Grand Strategy game… everyone is annoyed that I am taking too long, to, you know, evaluate this considerably complex strategy game, with tons of potential upside to taking your time to micro manage things.
But I am one of those apparently rare people who plays single player on the biggest maps and slowest time scales my system can manage…
… I just have way more enjoyment that way, and I appreciate that the AI in Humankind at least seems to me to be generally better at playing the game than most AIs in most 4X / Grand Strat games, when the player and AIs are on an equal footing in terms of bonuses/maluses.
- Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization. 3 days ago:
Peaked at Civ 4, been downhill from there.
If the idea of having Civs that change with the era, but leaders who stay the same appeals to you…
Humankind did it better.
- Comment on Do you have a vegan option? 4 days ago:
I was going to make a Kosher joke, but it felt like it was missing something…
