I’d recommend getting to grips with the fundamentals of python or JavaScript first before jumping in but Godot is a great open source tool for picking up some gamedev after you are used to the basics.

This would be my recommendation too. Hilarious and thought provoking in equal measure.

The Archers is hugely popular and I’m a big radio4 listener but have never got into it. I understand that twee is supposed to be part of the charm but it just doesn’t gel with me.

I liked coffee, beer and spicy food right from the first time I tried them.

Anchovies were a personal challenge that I undertook - putanesca pasta was fine but the first time I tried them on pizza I thought they were unbearable. Over the decades I might get one anchovie pizza a year and each time I found them more palatable, but it was a bit of an exercise in willpower. Recently, it has paid off and I’ve found that I love them. Many pizzeria’s don’t offer them because they are so unpopular but if I get the chance I’ll eat them; has displaced peperoni as my favourite topping.

Using window managers that have shortcuts for tiles improves both the UX and general productivity. I’m not quite so elitist as to say the point and click GUIs are objectively worse but power users are missing out if they don’t invest some time in learning keyboard based window management.

Had definitely been hoping for some magnum dong

Yeah the satyrs had enormous dongs because they were animalistic sex maniacs while learned people demonstrated their mild temperment by having modest genitalia. Michaelangelo’s David is a famous example of the latter. Disappointed to not see the former in Disney’s Hercules.

I’ve just installed gentoo on my grandmother’s PC and left a post it note with some basic portage commands. No complaints so far! Since they lost their phone I’ve not received an annoying tech support email for weeks

flamiera SLAMS new age SLOP words for their ubiquity

Kind of splitting hairs there imo. MPV does show the album art if it is on the audiofile metadata for example. I think cmus would fail to be a dedicated music player given your definition.

I still get reddit content by using old.reddit.com/r/subreddit.rss so that I can consume certain content without interacting with their hellsite or bloated app

To flex on strangers online and post to unixporn fora

I studied philosophy and history of art as a double major for undergraduate. Doing a humanities degree was the right decision at the time for me. Should mention that I didn’t have to pay tuition fees as a Scottish person in Scotland.

During that degree I ended up getting interested in Linux since I enjoyed seeing a practical example of altruism in the real world. Laterally I did a masters in Computing at a former polytechnic uni and have been working as a programmer ever since. Analytic philosophy actually maps onto coding really nicely since they are both ultimately concerned with discrete mathematics. I did have to take on a student loan for that degree but it didn’t take me long to pay it off. It wasn’t computer science since I didn’t have the prerequisite STEM undergraduate degree but it focused on practical aspects of computing like developing desktop applications with Java, webdev with C# and JS, databases with SQL and introduction to operating systems.

It also helped that in my advanced logic classes in philosophy I’d studied the Church Turing thesis, which is just about the most fundamental concept in Comp.Sci.

Shh we’re trying to circlejerk here! Keep your voice of reason down and grab some lotion

Maybe OP was meta-posting

There are also full Afred Hitchcock movies you can watch for free on YouTube, presumably since they are now out of copywrite. Sometimes when people lament the state of modern entertainment in a “born in the wrong generation” way, they are forgetting that media from other decades are more available than they’ve ever been.

I’m tired of the Honeypop slander - it’s a perfectly respectable series of puzzle games

I suspect your answer to the original question was right in the sense that these two have the worst physical dependence but I believe another measure is Capture Rates where they survey users over a decade and they report the number of user still using the substance during the last survey who were using it in the first one. The highest capture rates are around 20% for H and cocaine when I saw the data last time which is worse odds than Russian Roulette!

Actually it’s quite funny, if you take a broad interpretation of sealioning that does not involve the internet, Ancient Athens sentenced Socrates to death for “sealioning” in 400BC lol.

This one I’ve always been wary of. I studied philosophy so I know a bit about arguments and sealioning is unusual because it can only really take place over the internet where someone is asking questions in bad faith and you can’t 100% call them out because you don’t know their identity for sure. Firstly I don’t like the idea that questions can be bad faith - especially seemingly trivial or obvious ones - since that goes against the Socratic method of questioning all your beliefs/shibboleths. Secondly, it is so context dependent that I think it is hard to universalise it like you can do with other fallacies like false dilemma (everyone is either a tequila or a whisky person, etc.)