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- Comment on Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing? 20 hours ago:
What about cute animal killers?
- Comment on car producers 6 days ago:
Is ram really failing? I see those shitty trucks spewing black smog everywhere around here.
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 1 week ago:
Did ya’ll ever implement a more realistic reaction set to executing people? Always thought it was odd that my faction would suddenly hate me for executing the asshole king who had been raiding us for decades, killed my spouse/kids, ate the last grape, and then decided to burn villages to the ground.
Anyway, let us know when the dlc goes on sale for <$5.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“You have received your standard ten minutes of hand holding, please exit the couch and proceed to the kitchen for nutritional time. Five minutes are allotted for hand washing and table-setting.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, this would be it for me. If my partner didn’t want to have sex, fine, not a big deal. But if my partner didn’t want to sit next to me and lean on me? If my partner didn’t want to hold hands or hug me from behind while I’m cooking? If I didn’t get a sudden jump into my lap and an insistent plead for a shoulder rub?
Those would break me. Even for the folks who don’t want to admit it, there is a driving need for intimacy, and sex just often sort of fits that need or is used to mask it.
- Comment on SipsTea 1 week ago:
You have to act like the father figure, and best to do it in a way he can’t turn down.
So pay his fucking college bills, dumbass!
- Comment on SipsTea 1 week ago:
How’d you get them to activate abilities? I could see a set up where you train them to turn left or right in reaction to something on the screen. Install a mod to make the health bar take up 25% of the screen, and then activate heals based on them turning left, activate damage abilities when they turn right. Train them to turn left if the bar starts dropping, right if it rises.
- Comment on SipsTea 1 week ago:
Look, the sex license sold by the government was really expensive. How else were they going to give him a brother?
- Comment on A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. 1 week ago:
We’ll make our own group, with matrix and hookers! On second thought, forget the hookers, keanu reeves is too wholesome for hookers, and will bring in enough friends for us all to sit shoulder to shoulder with as we take the red pills.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 weeks ago:
I think I could honestly get away with 128 deep paths. I don’t use more than twenty unique folders in my day-to-day computing. It might be difficult to get the various programs on board with my trans porn name for each folder, but that’s what tinkering is for, eh?
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 weeks ago:
New organizing system just dropped. It’s just a chain of five thousand trans porn folders. The depth means something to the creator.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 weeks ago:
Look, so do I, but there’s a clear difference in a lot of ways between how folks consume media. I see a relative doing it in a way that’s just… sad. I would put reddit’s way of it, even with all the algorithmic bulldonkey, above facebook or tiktok feeds.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 weeks ago:
Sound bite listening republicans on facebook, twitter, etc. These people exist so there is a big enough ‘ecosystem’ to capture the common person who is swayed by public opinion. That is, where public opinion is the vague sense they have of everyone agreeing with them because it’s all they see between little puppy videos or recipe videos or their weird aunt ranting about democrats being evil.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 2 weeks ago:
Use the bang option. !bitofarambler@crazypeople.online
- Comment on Just work a little harder 2 weeks ago:
I’m trying to think of different places I’ve lived, because the cost of housing / food / other changes. For example, when I lived out in the sticks, rent was cheap but food, gas, and incidentals were hella expensive. I’m near a big urban area now, and it’s expensive rent, cheap gas (due to using less), moderate food, moderate incidentals.
Anyway, more relevantly, I know people who can get by with incomes of ~$18.00/hr full time jobs. Anything that is unexpected kills them though, whether it’s car trouble, medical issues, or otherwise. You won’t be in a house though, unless you’re renting a room. You won’t be in a rat-infested hole, but something like a one bedroom apartment or two bedroom with a roommate. I know of a few folks who are raising a family on that salary, with the caveat that family helped them with housing (either an inherited property or similar). This is in an area where you can find cheap housing due to natural disasters and generally ‘rural’ areas that are basically paying developers to build cheap housing (i.e., looks like it’s decent but is basically matchsticks and glue).
I helped people budget when they were making $11.00/hr full time, and that’s where you start seeing a lot of compromises made (it was also 10 years ago, so things have probably gotten worse). Kids and parents are stuffed into tiny rooms in bad apartments, a car is held together by tape and a prayer (and if anything happens it’s going to be scrapped and they’ll try to scrape by with a wreck they could get running, and then hope they never get seen by a cop for its numerous problems / lack of insurance/registration), and hopefully they’ll be able to get a few government benefits to get the kids help for medical benefits.
I’ve worked with people making the federal minimum of $7.25/hr, and they rely on the government to have any hope of a not-horrible life. They’re either in government housing, or in a trailer with 5 people living in it. The car is shared between several people; they walk to work, even if it sucks and is an hour+walk, because they’ll be fired in an instant if they don’t show up; they’re probably on food stamps, utility help,etc.; medical is basically call ems and get to an emergency room if they’re keeling over (and hope that the er can fix it, i.e., that it’s not something that just gets ‘stabilized’); bills are always piling up… it wasn’t pleasant.
So, all that being said, I’d peg it somewhere around $25.00/hr. That’s where my higher paid coworkers seem to start looking at houses, and talk about starting families. I’ll have to go look at the numbers (and we know that those are probably fucked due to the administration right now…) but I think that’s near or above median income in america. That would mean 50% of the population isn’t going to be living “just ok,” which really sucks to think about.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 2 weeks ago:
I mean, there’s no way, but hooooooooly fuuuuuuck.
- Comment on A lamb amongst wolves 2 weeks ago:
The combination of medical student and astrology is more unnerving than your poor burning experience. You could totally write a horror script out of the affair.
- Comment on A lamb amongst wolves 2 weeks ago:
Shear a lamb, wear it’s wool, go out into the woods of alaska at night with recording bleating sounds.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 3 weeks ago:
Slab culture keeps rolling.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 3 weeks ago:
t’s become a wealth/status symbol for people who don’t like the more traditional bougie shit
It’s because they are actual luxury vehicles. Get inside one of the new ones, and it’s basically what you would imagine a lexus or lincoln would be like. All the fanciness, all the nifty little features… Finding one that is actually made to ‘work’ is hard.
- Comment on xkcd #3166: Big and Little Spoons 3 weeks ago:
I’m reasonably certain that my best fitting spoons are the tablespoon, half tablespoon, third tablespoon, teaspoon, half teaspoon.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 3 weeks ago:
What about this is fascism?
- Comment on The Perfect Picture of Helth 3 weeks ago:
Your loss.
- Comment on The Perfect Picture of Helth 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 3 weeks ago:
Well now he’s at 142… damn. The dilemma continues.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
I really struggled when I tried magic, and then in DS2 I picked up an ultragreatsword and great shield and the game just felt right to play. Like, every boss timing seemed to be perfectly in line with my speed, where before it was always a struggle to refrain from trying to get one last button mash in with the faster weapons.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, damn. I’m like a few dozen hours in and still no hydro power. I must be a slow player. :(
I do, however, have a fifteen gajillion story high factory that I’m building, so there’s that!
- Comment on 🙋🏻♂️ Praise be to our Lord on high 🙋🏻♂️ 3 weeks ago:
The worst part of it, to me, is that the smiling isn’t even a cover, or faked because she’s still remembering what just happened. The child is dismissed from the mind as soon as it complies, and she’s just so happy to see all the friends at church.
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 3 weeks ago:
Oh, man, that reminds me of one time when I cracked a tooth and couldn’t get in to see the dentist for a while. Cleaning the whatever out of the inside was so gross in smell, taste, and feeeeel, and so incredibly painful.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 3 weeks ago:
Poor human. Those corkscrews are not to be fucked with.