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Software developer by day, insomniac by night. Send me pictures of baby bats to make my day.
It is? I remember GameStop being a thing back in like 2006-2007, but after that not so much until the nonsense stuff on Reddit. Then they did Crypto for a while? I thought they died with Crypto. Are there still GameStop stores around that sell physical games?
This sounds either like you’re trying to gift someone a bunch of labour, or you’re getting something for yourself in the guise of giving it to someone else.
Get yourself a home server and get your loved one something for them.
I don’t know why you are annoyed by this.
I don’t read it as annoyance. It’s a rundown of them tracking down who is doing it and what it actually is. They’re just flagging for it.
I perhaps should’ve written “one” rather than “you.” I didn’t mean you specifically, but like in general.
There are no stray dogs where I live. The times I’ve seen a dog loose out in the wild the owner is usually running after screaming and apologising profusely for not being able to control them.
It’s wild to me that there are just dogs living outside. Can you just bring them home?
The Nords’ early experience with elves was being the victims of genocide
The lore leaves this ambiguous though. There’s lore that states that the Nords attacked first, and lore that states that the Falmer attacked first. What followed was a war that in the end left the Falmer driven underground, all but wiped out.
Some lore claim that the Nords justification for this is false. History tends to be written by the victors, so I lean more towards that theory, honestly. It seems unlikely that the Nords managed to re-populate with only Ysgramor and his two sons remaining. The inbreeding would explain why they all sound so dumb, though.
I don’t know that they care much for choice. Skyrim is really watered down in terms of roleplaying aspects compared to Oblivion, which in turn is really watered down compared to Morrowind.
Hell some genuinely complain about Morrowind not being a good RPG because of it missing aspects from Daggerfall, like the whole having to go to court if you commit a crime.
When it comes to Skyrim, I think the strength begins and ends in the world building. The characters are flat and uninspired. The quests are flat and uninspired. The voice acting is cringe and uninspired. If they’d bothered to write more engaging storylines, and have more than one pivotal character have a unique voice actor, they could’ve made something really nice.
Now it’s a nice sandbox, and you can have some nice experiences, but I wouldn’t call it a good RPG. Or a good action game. A fun sandbox world and modding platform with subpar quests and dungeons.
Eugh. I really hope not. I hate the pseudo-Nordic culture in Skyrim. The faux Nordic accent they forced on the voice actors makes me want to crawl out of my skin every time I hear it.
And the names! Gods, the names. Skjor is one syllable away from shirt. Aela sounds more Greek to me, but she’s apparently super Nord. Bjornolfr is unique, I’ve never heard of someone named Bear-Wolf in real, but I don’t hate it. Benor is like “hair-partings”.
Surnames here also tend to come in a couple forms
In the middle ages there were also by-names, where people were given a name to describe them. Like Jarl Karl the Deaf and his son Wolf the Horrible Son of Karl. Or a local (to me) figure, Erik the Lisping-and-Limping.
Well, the Falmer were there first really. They were subsequently enslaved by the Dwemer. Then the Atmorans (Nord) came along and performed a genocide and have been butthurt about it ever since.
As a furry that doesn’t attend conventions, this is having me reconsider it.
They’re already involved in lawsuits because of suicides caused by their product. That’s not new. They settled in this one. And I think the Sewell Setzer one is still ongoing.
Unsure if that’s the one where the model was giving the child instructions on how to best commit suicide to leave a “beautiful corpse” behind or not.
“Teachers were finally paid closer to their worth.”
I dunno, I just think the phrasing “closer to their worth” is really funny when the picture being painted is a hopeful one. We can’t actually hope that teachers will get a decent pay, even in a better world.
There is the elephant in the room; the majority of land dedicated to agriculture, that’s both land for grazing and land for growing food, is dedicated to raising and feeding animals. I think the number is around 80%, with the amount of land dedicated to growing food is somewhere around 45%?
We’re wasteful with vegetables and the like already, when we are wasteful with meat, we’re also throwing away all the input that went into the chain prior to it.
I don’t like to dictate what people should eat. I was born and raised a lacto-ovo vegetarian, and nowadays I’m almost entirely plant based. Switching over to a plant based diet was easy for me, there wasn’t much to switch out. I also in general loathe when people try to fuss over others food, I was on the receiving end of that all the time as a kid and it’s incredibly tiring.
That said, reducing our dependence on animal agriculture would be a boon to the world.
So, I’m a software developer and what knowledge I have of this is primarily due to just being a kid of a botanist who deeply cared about the subject, and spending lots and lots of time out growing food because we were poor and needed to eat. When your life depends on something, you learn as much as you can about it.
Breeding plants to be larger and consume more is probably a factor. Mistreating the soil is probably a bigger factor than people expect, though.
It’s easy to think of soil as just a substrate, since we can’t really see it or navigate it it’s hard to properly visualise it. It consists of several strata, all with different properties. Healthy soil is full of bacteria, fungi, and little insects that live and die in it. All their activity help bring about nutrients and process the soil, aerate it. A lot of people are shocked to discover that the roots of plants also need air.
Industrial agriculture focuses a lot on big monocultures. As much as possible you want a field to have a single crop and nothing else. Herbicides are used to kill off anything that isn’t the wanted crop, pesticides are used to kill off whatever might want to feast on the crop, fungicides… etc. Then we spread loads of nutrients over the field in the hope of replenishing whatever the crops drain from the soil.
It works to an extent. A lot of nutrients just run off into surrounding areas and waters, it’s one of the reasons the Baltic Sea is basically dead.
Different plants have different properties. We mostly just see the top of plants, but like ice bergs a significant portion of them exists underground. Different plants have different root systems, some spread wide in the topsoil and help bind it together, preventing runoff and erosion. Some have really long roots (tap roots, like dandelion), reaching deep into the soil, pulling up minerals (nutrients) from the far reaches and eventually when they die, they get dispersed among the topsoil. Some fix nitrogen from the atmosphere, and bind it into the soil when they die and break down.
With big industrial monocultures, you lose all of that. There’s nothing to hold the soil in place, there’s nothing to pull nutrients across strata, there’s no ecosystem to constantly process and enrich the soil for you.
The plants all evolved together, and just like animals they competed for different niches. Some animals eat vegetable matter on the ground, some evolved tall statures and long necks to reach further up. Some plants evolved wide root networks to absorb nutrients from a large area, some evolved long roots to penetrate deeper into the earth where other plants can’t reach.
There’s also fungi and bacteria everywhere, they live in the root systems, doing their work and helping the plants out, similarly to how we have bacteria in our guts.
I don’t know what that means, but it’s so vile from a human rights perspective. I keep forgetting that the U.S. still does executions. Baffling how the U.S. has posed themselves as the “leader of the free world”, and how many just willingly suck that up for so long when they are brutal, cruel, and inhumane in all aspects of living.
I hadn’t noticed that! Guess someone ate it.
I didn’t doubt you, but fucking ew.
Given that they didn’t want to spend time developing good software, why’d we expect them to spend time writing tweets? That’s to say, the tweets are probably vibed out of a computer arsehole as well.