It’s genuinely the reason I don’t get into them. It’s not even the price that stops me, it’s the sheer learning wall (because with that many it is no longer a curve) that is so clearly obvious, I just can’t in good faith let it in my life.

They still aren’t as bad as the Sims, but holy crap.

Any time I see something like this there’s this really weird part of me that wonders how they did it.

Like, did they just have 100 decks of ICE swag and somebody went and took all the ace of spades from them and just chucked out 100 perfectly good decks of cards? Some upper echelon was like “this might be a fun thing to boost morale” three years ago and now it became a threatening calling card? Completely not what the original idea was?

Did they go the business card route and some nameless minimum wage worker looked at the pattern, didn’t see nudity or swearing, hit print and shipped them 100 threatening calling cards?

Did the guy who came up with the idea to leave these cards have to do their research, shop around, figure out how to use a demo copy of adobe, did they get their kid to do it? Did they just stumble across an old box one day and thought sick I can use these! Did they specifically ask it from their superiors who just rolled their eyes and did it without thinking?

Because I go to enough cons and people give out badge ribbons. Just stupid little things to spread the love, and I always imagine someone just in a good enough mood, putting in a little bit of effort, just to give out a free little thing to make strangers happy.

I really struggle to imagine and understand the inverse of that.

Probably because abandonment in the winter is just a death sentence.

If someone is homeless in Minnesota and you don’t let them in, especially when it’s 12 below like today, they’re dead. You killed them. You could’ve just let them crash on your couch for at least the night.

It kinda kills a lot of usual republican talking points.

“let’s close down this homeless shelter it’s a waste of tax money”

“so we just kill them instead?”

“what? no, I’m sure someone will take them”

“So just kill the shifty and scary looking ones?”

“no one is killing anyone!”

“you are, right now, if you kick them out in the cold.”

It’s very explicitly a maneuver that kills, there’s no real wiggle room there. If it was only 60 at night you can kick them out and then say “well now their fate is in their hands” and explain away all their pains and problems and if they die it was several layers removed from you and it’s not that big a deal. The harshness simplifies things. Then that sympathetic decision gets applied to the more complicated things because it’s kinda the default now…

No, the national guard is not ICE. The national guard is basically manpower on command and often times not with anything violent in mind.

Think aftermath of a hurricane or tornado, or building levees in a flood.

This, I’ve had it happen twice where someone messages me out of the blue with an inane general question. I text the guy in questions old phone asking (hey its duke, are you sending messages on facebook?) And the answer both times was “I haven’t used it in like five years”

One stopped the hacker and the other didn’t give a shit.

Yeah, the moment they stop maintaining the warp they’re no longer cheating physics to travel faster than light.

I also gotta imagine it’s a controlled process and just abruptly dropping is gonna be… harsh on the hull and crew.

Honestly, I grabbed linux because I wanted something that worked and wouldn’t change.

Windows keeps changing, a lot. Now getting to the point where none of my computers could handle 11. So I just said screw it, kept my hardware and now I run Ubuntu

Was not as disruptive as I thought

At this point win 10 is discontinued, security updates have stopped haven’t they?

I get the hate for win 11 but it’s not a solution to stay at 10. You WILL get compromised.

11, Mac, or Linux. It’s an infuriating move but you have to choose, or get pwned and get your identity stolen.

Not only that, the only thing that makes them spooky and startling is that they randomly fly around like a dumbass towards anything light related.

When they’re just sitting still being chill they’re actually quite adorable.

Oh thank God it’s not just me. I’m literally just killing time on the road before a party and I am so fucking lost right now.

I’m trying to be social and my curiosity is insane right now.

Probably dump it all into my mortgage.

I think that would actually give me the most bang for the buck.

I mean that’s the end result.

If they don’t get along then each one needs their own box/pen, which means they’re fed and harvested separately, which makes it hella inefficient.

Yeah, the conditions are specific, but that’s also true for Wasabi and truffles. The big problem with spiders has always been their canabalistic and solitary natures. Truffles and Wasabi don’t kill eachother.

Also just because the biome is specific, doesn’t mean it’s necessary. Biggest issues are probably their immune system. Such isolated things are usually easily hit by fungus or bacteria.

Woah, could this actually turn spider silk farms viable?

Haven’t played in ages. Have they truly fixed dwarf marksmen?

Haven’t played but I’m pretty sure there’s a tabletop RPG called thirsty sword lesbians that does this…

The nice thing is that any thrift or second hand store has TONS of children’s books, all for the amount of change you could scrounge up from a couch.

Yeah bit what they’re saying is they’re not online. It’s just slop online.

You know, I’ve seen arguments that we’ve just gotten better at testing, and that clearly our environment is causing autism…

But I haven’t seen the argument that the world has gotten better at connecting people with autism. Like, maybe dating apps, online message boards, and video games help people who don’t connect socially… connect socially. So what was previously a detriment to pass your DNA now has a crutch to help it happen.