One thing that I really wonder is if things have at all improved amongst men. It’s gone downhill with any Andrew Tate fans but like, if a group of 18 year olds watched Animal House or Revenge of the Nerds today, how many would be outright appalled?

They were popular in the day. Specifically among men. I just feel like it would be a fascinating experiment that could demonstrate some progress is being made. Perhaps people can breathe a bit easier.

Why this is not brought up every other day whenever Schumer or Pelosi think they are out of touch, I will never know.

I’m not,

I’m genuinely skeptical that most polls are an accurate sampling of the population. Most people I know would never sit through a phone poll. Most polls reek of phishing. One of the very first phone polls said that Dewy would beat Truman in a landslide. It was completely wrong because it was predominantly rich people who had the phones to even answer the polls.

Who has the time for polls? Who drops by the candidate booths at the state fair? It’s a type for sure.

The only poll I have been a part of all last year was a phone poll entirely about optometrists and eye appointments and how they should be handled in the healthcare system. I couldn’t even finish it because the entire things was just… painful to go through.

Back in college I used to be friends with a guy who volunteered in an indie record label, so I’d go to a lot of indie concerts.

Nowadays I usually just go to caravan palace, whatever plays at an anime convention, a few bar crawls, and VGM con. So maybe every other month or so?

So… is there any relation to the Marathon that came out in 1994 by Bungie?

Because… the art style genuinely looks awesome but I don’t see anything that reminds me of the original. Not in enemies, or gameplay, or plot, it also seems entirely online multi-player, I see no rogue AI.

Honestly I would be intrigued by the art style alone but… the shameless name grab makes me think it’s gonna flop.

It’s even worse today. The amount of interconnected systems we have in play would be absolutely chaos to try and separate.

We didn’t have to worry about power grids, networking, food was FAR more local, it would take years to try to isolate yourself from it all on a statewide scale.

I don’t even know if it’s that.

Gen Z didn’t give up on dating, that would imply that they ever tried it to begin with.

1. Historically only men showing up

2. Only desperate people showing up

3. Has anything good ever come from a speed dating event? I haven’t heard of one.

They just don’t have a great reputation in general. I went to a speed friending event once and, ugh, that was not fun.

To make matters even crazier, younger generations are also just… not even trying to hook up. Some studies are showing 45% of men age 18-25 have never even approached a woman romantically.

Not succeeded, just even tried.

Dating be incredibly fucking weird right now.

It’s starting to change. It’s hardly the norm but speed dating events in New York, LA have had shortages of men.

Especially with the terrible press and stories coming from them… men are starting to just not attend.

Reminds me of the door knockers who got paid to shill some libertarian a while back. So Many reports of people with absolutely no motivation, reading the scripts, and sometimes even leaving with a vote for bernie.

Admittedly, charging ports are the first to break on any electronic unless it has a joystick. Wireless charging is a lot more robust, more water resistant, and allows you to do sleek shit without a weird hole in it

If it makes you feel better, that hand has 7 fingers so it’s probably AI.

At least a human didn’t draw it

Nah nah nah, it’s just a different paradigm. It’s like… it’s a different meta, but for programming.

If I was to ELI5, I’d say it’s the difference between making a series of objects that interact with each other (OOP) and and creating a very large console with lots of buttons (functional)

Some problems are much easier object oriented. If you have a video game, building a projectile class and adding different types of projectiles makes things suuuper easy to build. Arrows move slow and deal x damage, beams move super fast and deal y.

Functional can be easier to troubleshoot, also easier to crank out novel things, easier to make secure, and even make simultaneous operations trivial. It has very different problems though. You need to put more effort into eliminating dependencies.

The two do not play well together at all they’re like fire and water. Sometimes you need water to soak something and make it easier to work, sometimes you need heat to melt something and make it easier to work.

Telecommunications like phones or military applications tend to the functional languages, data, video games, and a lot of the popular languages tend to OOP.

The transition between the two is jarring, and infuriating, but a knowledge of both can really improve your design skills.

So what is the point of an email client? I’ve only ever really used web pages because it did everything I need.

Honestly the flaws I have the biggest complaints about is the God awful UI.

Incorrect tool tips, no drag and drop, no ui for city connectivity, no renaming cities, disappearing entities.

It’s genuinely painful at times.

I mean, the ages thing grew on me. It was way too common in other civs to just snowball early and dominate the rest. Any modern civilization was just bad, because by the time they got online it was over.

“well, Trump said he’d fix the economy and I don’t like woke.”

I mean, I feel like you’re being a bit derivative. I would put it more towards desperation than stupidity. Why does someone stay with an abusive partner? Biden was of the stance that “things are getting better” and… they’re not.

I always considered trump’s victory as sign that the democrats were just… that flaccid and unpalatable. It’s like you have a partner who sucks. They pay their share of rent, they expect you to do all the cooking and cleaning, they don’t even bother to understand you and get pissy that a random bouquet of whatever flowers on sale doesn’t magically fix an argument and make your loins quiver.

You fall instead to this gorgeous individual who knows how to flirt and makes you feel like the world can be easily fixed and now you’re locked in their basement about to lose an arm.

It’s desperation that makes people take risks, listen to people they shouldn’t listen to.

There’s two types of costume contests, cosplay contests that break things down by experience, and random Halloween contests that are basically reenactments of popularity contests in high school.

The former you’re gonna enter as a journeyman unless you built something so outrageous they gotta up the difficulty level. Make sure you have a TON of documentation and pics and explanations on how you did things. The judges are gonna wanna know how hard you worked on things and the amount of detail you put into it. If you spent 8 hours on the gold colored filigree on your bracers you damn well better mention it Typically unless you’re doing best performance, you get three poses and you’re off the stage. By the time you hit the stage the judges typically made their decisions so play to the crowd and do what looks good on film. If you are going for best performance, don’t feel pressured to use your full five minutes, or however long they give. Waaay to many people overstay their welcome, you wanna leave the people wanting more, not less. Hit your points, your high note, and if you’re still only halfway through your time, whatever. You’re not disqualified if you don’t use your time completely, and people will greatly appreciate someone moving the schedule faster than usual.

For the latter Halloween costume contests, effort means NOTHING. You could’ve thrown the damn thing together in five minutes and win, and if you spend 16 hours on it it will not improve your chances. The venue is looking for costumes that look great on the social media, is a character they love, makes them laugh, blows their mind, causes the venue to cheer, and (this is the most important bit) appears in front of whoever the hell is judging the competition. It’s 1 to 3 people who pick on the previously mentioned criteria. Each judge is gonna be a little different. Some judges listen to the crowd, some judges love horror films so every slasher villain goes on stage, some judges do NOT know what the hell a star wars is. The one thing that all judges have in common though, is that they exist in a 3 dimensional space and only have eyes in front of their head. If you’re a wall flower that doesn’t interact with people, you will not win the contest unless the judge is also sharing your wall. Build a dance circle, tip the bartender to figure out who’s judging tonight (they may or may not know) but if you wanna win, physics dictates that you appear in front of a judge as they wander the venue. That is more important than your costume.

Currently using ubuntu, switched in January because my computer can’t swap to 11. I can still dual boot to windows if necessary, but so far it hasn’t been necessary.

So far, haven’t run into issues. Gaming through steam has been minimal effort. Gaming outside of steam a bit more so. VR has been somewhat persnickety, discord needs to be uninstalled and reinstalled to update.

I am in a very weird position because I use my PC on the couch with a 4k projector. Oddly enough linux has nailed the proper text sizing across applications better than windows ever did. Which is weird because my requirements for this kind of setup is kinda niche.

Mostly I swapped because I cannot upgrade to 11 without a hardware update, and new electronics are gonna be painful over the next 4 years.

If you aren’t getting a free update to windows 11, then it’s definitely worth as a protest. Even if you get it for free, it’s less of a stranglehold that windows has over the computer space, and it’s less data they farm off you.

Same reason why people stick with wells Fargo even if they can move to a credit union. It takes effort, changes to habit, and risk just to gain… what you already have.