Miles O'Brien

Based on my experience, having never used TT myself, but married to someone who does and friends with people who do…

You DON’T really get different perspectives. In ANY of those platform styles.

It’s literally designed to show you whatever you engage most with, and usually that’s “things that get you angry” regardless of who you are. For my wife, it’s “here’s how my family is shitty/aita” for some of my friends it’s “here’s how I was being misgendered/deadnamed/not accepted” and for some people I know, it’s “here’s a person who is not cis/white/christian/male existing in my general area”

I guess you get the different perspectives if you know a wide variety of people who use it and don’t actually use it yourself?

They stated they didn’t break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn’t seed any.

Torrents are downloaded by “leeches” and put out for download by “seeders”

A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you’re not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don’t seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you’re called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn’t seed.

So they’re stating “we didn’t break the law, we’re just leeches!”

Okay so I stopped reading at “unmanned ground vehicles” because I’m an RC nerd and wanted to see the cool robot.

Took me a second to realize those aren’t normal wheels.

My mother always said RC cars can be dangerous…

Shhhhhhhhhhh

If I don’t know my master plan, then THEY certainly don’t either!

Also I do intentionally leave some things a bit more vague, with ideas of what I want to do, but I’m hoping the players will start theorizing amongst themselves so I can incorporate their stuff into the game.

It gives them a nice sense of accomplishment to have “predicted” something, and I think they feel more engaged in the campaign.

Or maybe I’m just a bad DM…

rotated map of under-ice Antarctica

Okay, who’s gonna tell them…

I remember seeing so many comments awhile back about how there wasn’t a chance in hell that EON would ever allow someone else to have creative control.

I want to know how much they’re being paid for it, and how much the next highest offer has been, because it has to be a shitload of money.

I will happily shake hands with a pineapple-on-pizza-er, if it means we can make sure this evil never hurts anyone ever again.

I’ll wash my hands afterward, but it’s the gesture that counts, right?

(pls wash your hands anyway, sanitation rulez)

They had an app store?

Smort.

I would absolutely be consulting a lawyer before actually putting that out, just to, at the very least, have someone who’s a little familiar with the situation beforehand. That way if I DO get arrested, I already know a lawyer who’s looked into this and already had some things ready to go.

Yeah, I had been holding on to one last one after selling the rest (I made a whopping $13 yaaaaaaaaay)

Selling that shit the moment I can get to my laptop.

Oh man…

1: RIP to Trevor.

B, I remember every time this would make the rounds, so many people would get super pissed about it and go on huge multi-paragraph rants about how unfunny it was and that it should be deleted before the FBI arrests everyone who shares it.

The jokes write themselves.

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“could be ousted”

Uhhhhhh no.

Nobody in their right mind would listen to this.

The Russian Puppet never intended to allow support to continue and is making shit up to try and justify halting aid without serious backlash.

Musketrump and the MAGAts can get fucked. Unless they’re willing to go to war to enforce it, there’s 0 chance of it happening. And if they go to war for that, they’re going to have a hell of a lot of internal conflict that will absolutely result in blood. Militarily and civilian.

The fact that anyone can see this and think “yes, this is a clear sign we must invest MORE in oil consumption” is wild to me.

If ONE country is shelling out as much for renewable as the rest of the world spends on fossil fuels, then MAYBE, just MAYBE there might be something to renewables, especially given all the things we see daily about how much more efficient renewables are, how much money is in the entire industry, how quickly people are switching to renewables…

It’s mind boggling that anyone thinks fossil fuels are the future, or at least can convince other people that it’s the future all while caring about just the money.

I’d love to have a power wall and a wind/solar setup for all my energy needs.

Violent protest? Prison.

No violent protest? Straight to Prison.

Talking online about possibly organizing a non violent protest? Believe it or not… Also prison.

Gee, when it’s prison no matter what, I wonder what people will do? Hmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMM

My first though in reading the title was “well when your alternatives are shit like fox or CNN, you might as well just get it from social media.”

There’s about the same amount of integrity from it, and it’s way easier to think “man, this one guy I’m watching might not know what he’s talking about” than it is to think “this whole team of people are wrong” but then you have to take into account the parasocial relationship many viewers have with their content providers. It’s easier to trust “Paul” because he’s wearing the same clothes I am, speaking to me the way I talk, giving me things I like to hear.

Content creators (I stubbornly refuse to call them ‘influencers’) will push brands and sponsors all day every day, but news outlets will fabricate your entire reality at the behest of whatever rich fuck is in charge. News outlets happily run state propaganda, knowing they are lies.

Conclusion: all media sucks. Sensory deprivation chambers are the future of mankind if we are to survive. And I’m only partially joking, I think.

Man, imagine if your neighbor was getting shot at by his neighbor on the other side, and while you’re telling your neighbor “you got this Bro, I believe in you and here are some bullets” you go ahead to the other side and continue buying things from the shitbox taking potshots.

Buying stuff from Russia makes you a piece of shit. Pure and simple. You’re funding genocide.

And please do bring up the US and Israel, as if I won’t agree the US is a piece of shit for funding Israel’s genocide of Palestine and you’re engaging in whataboutisms I see people harping on every time China gets brought up.

Projection and insecurity often make people lash out.

“No, I prefer to donate money directly, and if your company really cared about the cause then they would just donate without asking the customers to foot the bill”

Of course, the 9/10 times the cashier agrees and is only asking because their supervisor could be within earshot and decide to reprimand them for not asking.

Depends on what I’m playing.

I can comfortably play some games down to 12fps ±3ish, if it isn’t something that’s fast paced.

I have yet to play anything where I’m skilled enough for higher than 30fps to matter response-wise, and while I can notice the difference between 60fps and 240fps on my monitor, I gotta say it doesn’t do much for me.

Maybe I just don’t know what to look for, what I’m missing, or how to set up my laptop right, but who knows. My eyes could be stuck on 720p for all I know.