I’m weirdly excited that soon it will be a full year of daily screenshots.

I can think of multiple reasons a straight man could get aroused by seeing a dick.

First, erections don’t occur only because of arousal, they can happen from adrenaline as well. I guess if you’re a homophobe and are about to watch gay porn as part of research, you might get a bit of adrenaline.

Another reason I can think of is that most straight men see a dick when they watch porn, meaning their brain may make the association of “dick on screen = some hot nude lady is gonna show up”.

Not autocorrect, but I let my phone suggest words and manually choose the one I want because I’m unable to write without mistakes on touch screen keyboards.

On my PC I don’t use anything like that.

The water continues to heat ~1 minute after microwaving stops, so I guess it could happen if you take it out very close to the boiling point.

Critics like her say the very term “gold digger” reeks of misogyny.

No, the term itself doesn’t imply gender at all.

Anyway, I never really saw the problem with gold diggers, it’s a relationship like any other - you give your partner something they need and the partner gives you something you need.

So what if one of the parties needs money and the other a young woman to feel better? If there’s no coercion and no actual scamming, I don’t see the problem.

Well, just the usual, slightly less optimistic every year. I believed that world is fair even if it sometimes takes a while, that I’ll be rich, that you can achieve anything if you try enough.

Over time I learned that the world isn’t fair, that you can’t be rich if you have a conscience and that you can only achieve what the ones with power over you will let you.

All of that of course has an exception: you might get lucky.

The most recent change was when I started watching two kinds of cases and what is the usual resolution / punishment. It’s rape cases and who gets to keep the kids when people break up. Rapists usually walk away with very lax punishments with bullshit reasons and women almost always get the kids, even if the woman is straight up a psycho and the man is just a regular guy.

I wasn’t under the impression that judges were somehow better than the average person, but this kinda showed me that they’re actually much much worse than the average person.

So because you do it correctly, everyone else should get fucked or what? Like, you know how many people have bad parents?

So, congrats, your kids won’t suffer from that (or maybe they will once they have their own money because the path way of “spend a $1, get an in-game item, get an instant rush of feel-good hormones” is forming even with moderation). But other kids may, unless of course you think that it’s somehow their fault they have shitty parents.

So no, I really don’t want this around kids whose lives will be ruined just so your kids can have a fun time (which they can have in other ways, including other games).

Nah, I’m obsessed with corporations not ruining kids lives just to get few more dollars.

Also, please, stop putting words into other people’s mouths.

Cool, that’s why half the games you listed are just gambling machines in disguise?

Ah, the classic “world hunger is a myth, I have eaten today.”

I’m not saying there are not the rare gems in mobile games (just bought Don’t Starve on Android last month!), but like 99% of games for mobile are just s money making scheme using dark patterns to influence your brain to give them money.

And congrats on not spending on micro transactions! You do realize the world doesn’t revolve around how your perceive things, right? If young people are exposed to micro transactions like that, it alters their brains and not in a good way. And that’s science, there really isn’t much you can argue with.

Because the games are intentionally made with micro transactions as the main feature.

Like, if you play Witcher or Control or whatever, the focus is on you enjoying the game. If you play Fortnite, the main focus is on getting you pay. The game is probably still fun, but every single thing in the game is meant to make you pay.

Who would’ve thunk, young people with brains that are not fully developed tend to prefer games with addictive elements.

If it fits, great! If it doesn’t, you didn’t use enough tape.

Well, it sucks that now you have to choose one or the other, but if you’re on LAN mode already, this should be the fix you were waiting for.

Though I haven’t tested it personally.

I’m not an alcoholic, I’m a strategical drinker!

Yeah, it most likely isn’t an exe but a Linux binary! Other than that, you can probably run the server on your computer pretty easily. You probably won’t be able to host anywhere close to the number of players the official servers do, but that’s just a matter of stronger hardware.

So yeah, they don’t provide the server because they’re “evil”.

They could also do the bare minimum of patching the game so it allows any server and avoid stuff like certificate pinning etc. and then provide an OpenAPI specification for the server and let the community create their own server if they want.

That’s probably your social bubble. My company is currently deepthroating everything that has AI in its name. I jokingly mentioned they should rename the company to Jira&AI, the joke was not well received.

Anyway, most people I know (including me) are somewhere in the middle - not quite fans in the traditional sense, but definitely not disliking AI.

They still don’t. The analysts do and the programmers then implement it based on specifications.

Did you live under the impression that all the smart missiles, smart guns, smart everything didn’t already require programmers?

Yes, every application has access to everything. The only exception are those weird apps that use the universal framework or whatever that thing is called, those need to ask for permissions. But most of the apps on your PC have full access to everything.

And Windows does collect and upload a lot of personal information and they could easily upload everything on your system. The same of course applies for the apps as well, they have access to everything except privileged folders (those usually don’t contain your personal data, but system files).