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Cake day: June 6th, 2024

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  • My anecdotal 2 cents:

    I was in boyscouts and I think it was a space to develop positive masculinity, and to learn things by looking up to older boys who had been through the same experience. I think girls being present would have changed the dynamic, because teenage boys act differently and talk about different things when around teenage girls.

    Now that being said I’m certain not everyone in boyscouts developed positive masculinity. Boyscouts is far, far less uniform than people seem to think. There were 2 troops in my home town that were wildly different.

    But at least from my anecdotal experience, Boyscouts was a good thing that benefitted from being a boys-only experience, and I wonder how it has changed now that girls can join boyscout troops.









  • I too prefer to buy from GoG, but I often add my GoG games to be launched through Steam as non-Steam games so I can take advantage of features like Proton and Steam Input.

    If I want to take advantage of certain features Steam only offers to games you buy through them, I will buy through Steam instead of GoG. Usually when I do this it’s for multiplayer or save file syncing reasons.

    Steam features you can use with non-Steam games:

    • provides SteamInput which allows me to use any game controller in any game with a lot of configuration options. It’s the best tool for that purpose I’ve ever seen.
    • provides Proton for playing Windows games on Linux (and I do 99% of my gaming on Linux these days)
    • provides VR headset drivers and tools for using different VR headsets with games not designed for them
    • provides a TV and controller optimized interface (“Big Picture” mode)

    Steam features exclusive to Steam games:

    • updates games automatically
    • backs up my saves and syncs them across devices
    • provides multiplayer server infrastructure making it easy to play with friends
    • provides modding infrastructure, although not all games use it
    • provides tools for managing which version of a game you have installed







  • The danger isn’t blood loss, it’s nasty bacteria getting deep in there. If you haven’t gotten a tetanus vaccine recently you really should go get that.

    Other than that it’s probably fine but definitely keep an eye on it. I got a minor dog bite a few years ago and it was fine just treating it with neosporin and keeping it covered with a bandage.