hungrybread [comrade/them]

This rocks and super happy for you comrade!

Just curious, were you not particularly spiritual before transitioning? Sometimes I feel like there’s a cool witchy person in me but the less cool annoyling pessimistic and atheist side tends to win out. also both sides feel oddly gendered for whatever reason.

NGL I feel like I’m on a similar trajectory but still at the “still cis tho” phase, and have been for a long time now. Not really sure how to get started on trying out different elements of transitioning tbh, but I just bought a new dress that I really like so I guess I’ll start there. No idea where to go after lmao

Which one?

Years ago I blasted through the original DMC in a weekend. My expectations were low and it cleared the bar , didn’t really wow me but I enjoyed it enough to try the second one. Bounced off it and never really checked out the series again.

Are you saying its worth it to check out the other games in the series?

I’m too lazy to look for any of their documentation about this, but it would be pretty bold to believe privacy or processing claims from OpenAI or similar AI orgs, given their history flouting copyright.

Silicon valley more generally just breaks laws and regulations to “disrupt”. Why wouldn’t an org like OpenAI at least leave a backdoor for themselves to process API requests down the road as a policy change? Not that they would need to, but it’s not uncommon for a co to leave an escape hatch in their policies.

I gotta say, the C02 number seems very high to me too, just got that from a quick search and saw that a couple of times. I haven’t investigated it closely tbh.

I wasn’t aware of the mining differences between uranium and thorium, that is encouraging.

Regarding the waste, that’s a fair point as well. Thanks for the response! Interesting points.

I used to be very pro nuclear energy. Besides the waste and the occasional meltdown it seemed like a no brainer as a renewable supplement. After learning a little more about it though it just seems like we have more runway for positive growth with wind and solar than nuclear, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

From what I understand nuclear in general is (at least now) a dead end as a climate change solution.

1. From planning time to turning on the reactor is something like 15 - 20 years (note, that’s longer than the global average of 7 years for construction, because construction is not the whole picture)
2. It’s difficult to have more than 1 plant project ongoing simultaneously due to the scale and complexity
3. Nuclear plants take a lot of C02 to construct and maintain. The fuel has to be mined, resulting in emissions, and the amount of concrete required massive. 1 ton of concrete creates .8-.9 tons of C02, and a nuclear power plant has hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete in it.
4. We still don’t have a good answer for handling nuclear waste.

Maybe at some point in the past nuclear could have resolved many climate change issues, but between project time, initial emission cost, and waste, it just doesn’t seem viable anymore.

Pretty sure I stopped playing after an early boss fight.

The good stuff:

• struggling to carry too much stuff
• dropping too much stuff
• throwing containers at people
• building stuff with players you don’t have to interact with
• peeing to grow mushrooms

The bad stuff:

• story was eh
• npcs
• sudden boss fight after 10+ hours of not using any combat related controls

Enjoyed my time with it overall though. Keep meaning to come back to it and never do for whatever reason.

I also never got around to MGS 5 even though I really liked all the other metal gear games I’ve played, something about a more open world is vaguely intimidating I guess.

Watched that b/c it was posted here last week. Incredibly disappointed they stopped making that series, it was really getting good.

Bayle and Igon were great and would have made a dope ending to the dlc

Apocalypse (based on my experience playing monster of the week) has some awkwardness due to how rules light it is (maybe 4 pages? Super light) , but after getting over the awkward part it’s super fun.

I’d definitely recommend it to a group looking for more casual sessions or to introduce people to role playing, it really gives the players a lot of room to play.

Comet is coming is great. Ever listen to Tauk? They’re another fusion group with a focus on looong, high energy live shows.

Lmao, an old friend literally bit my psp when playing freedom unite and destroyed the screen.

That’s probably a better use of your time anyway.

If you skip all the side stuff it’s still long but about 200 hours shorter.

Lol, same thing here. I told my partner “I’ve died about 5 times to the first enemy, so it seems pretty good so far.”

I’ve been enjoying it so far, but this opening area feels very empty. it’s a bit of a shock coming from the base game. A lot of people seemed to think the base game was too big / too empty, those same people would probably say shadow of the erdtree is a horseback riding simulator.

Are they? I watch YouTube on Firefox all the time, seems fine on my machine.

I think maybe 5+ years ago there were some performance issues caused by YT relying on features that were only implemented in Chrome, but I don’t recall having any issues wrt that for years.

I assume no one at this point

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones'_complement

You’re right about the Snopes article. It does do a decent job of pointing out that a lot of this reporting is rumor based.

This first anecdote (also highlighted by Snopes) is amusing

Double-hit cases" have been around for decades. I first heard of the “hit-to-kill” phenomenon in Taiwan in the mid-1990s when I was working there as an English teacher. A fellow teacher would drive us to classes. After one near-miss of a motorcyclist, he said, “If I hit someone, I’ll hit him again and make sure he’s dead.” Enjoying my shock, he explained that in Taiwan, if you cripple a man, you pay for the injured person’s care for a lifetime. But if you kill the person, you “only have to pay once, like a burial fee.” He insisted he was serious—and that this was common.

So is it Taiwan or the mainland with these wild laws?

Another false claim about China, it seems.

Thanks for the links, it’s much appreciated