Dyskolos

Ahhh the joy of never having had kids, all money and time just for me and my wife. And relaxing all day long wherever we want 😁

I didn’t say it was not a good comic. It is indeed clever. But besides the multiplayer (And hence being online) and the achievo (and possibly the color of the player), I only see difficulty-related things.

Yeah what’s wrong with games being easier (where u can mostly hide all extra help)?

I grew up with super hard games that took months to complete and it was OK. We didn’t know better and there only was one game every some months. Now there are 500 new games every day and I’ve grown out of competition seeking. Beside other modern shit like micro transactions and such, I really am fine with extra hints in games.

For all those who love artificial difficulty there are tons of souls like, which are hard for the sake of being hard.

I hate wasting money on useless bad stuff and take a looooong time to decide on investments starting at one buck. That defines a cheap ass, does it not? Investing in people though is never wasted money. At least to me. One less person that needs to endure a horrible boss. And we (and him) get nice food.

Cheapass Genx here. We’re admittedly too lazy to cook ourselves and prefer to spend that time on hobbies instead.

But food-delivery got so bad AND expensive here (Germany) that we switched to hiring a cook instead. He passionately loves his work, we love the food, everyone’s happy.

And that’s when I switched a while ago from a modern Bentley to an “ancient” mechanical car from a past long forgotten. Every electrical gadget is local, and it just has android auto (dedicated isolated phone just for the car) with a fake google account for navigation. Everyone thinks we’re broke lol, but I’m so fed with this shit. Even a silly backlight went from 5 bucks for a replacement-bulb to 1500 bucks for the whole led-package. Parts alone, add the mechanic and the many hours needed.

Heard that all brands do this shit though. Like even disabling things remotely that are there but you didn’t subscribe to. This is bonkers.

That is the basic function of every brain. Strong feelings are an important factor in assessing situations. Those are moments that are necessary to remember. This is paramount to survival. Like great moments of fear.

Not a formula or some rules. Those we learn by “tricking” the brain, unless we’re really emotionally invested into that topic 😁

Yeah everyone wants to be special and also belong to some tribe, but we aren’t special, noone is.

In a situation where performance isn’t required but absolute zero overhead is paramount, this is a perfect sort. Depends on the data itself though. Lots of small numbers maybe multiply each by 10 or 20, lots of big numbers…well…bad luck.

You totally missed the chance to say “aren’t copy pasta-ed” :)

Horror = a supernatural element that is probably evil by nature. Blood or gore don’t do shit.

Thinking of stuff like “[REC]” (not the murican remake but the original), “night of the living dead”, “evil dead” or even the classic “Blair witch”. Horror is (or should be?) more of the things you don’t see that might scare. Gore is fine, but it should not the be core (like in slashers).

Sadly I’m totally immune to scares of all kinds in books, movies or games that the whole genre is useless to me.

Perfect fit. Corrected. Non-native-speaker might get a pass here 😁

That inherits radiates a certain kind of humor that could be considered funny. I want one 😁

7-8. Whenever I’m waking up and don’t wanna sleep anymore 😊 Depends on how late I was up though, I’m a night-owl.

Very rough, that’s not even 3 hours a day. Which, in my book, is very very little for a hobby. Compared to going to work for 8 hours :)

Nonsense. E.g. I do play a lot more than 20hrs and am not addicted. Wifey too. It’s a passion and we don’t work, so there’s plenty of time to do so. Like any other hobby.

Addiction isn’t measured by time but harm.

Dude, you tell the truth. I did lie though.

Language, Book-print, fire, the wheel, lying on the internet…

You’re welcome. Trust? Well, trust is hard to come by these days on the net :) Airvpn is italy-based, so if privacy is important, take them. They’re here for a long time now, never heard complaints and founded by hackers/pirates. Also we (EU) have strict privacy-regulations. SolidVPN is based in the USA, so…I’d never use those for sensitive stuff. No matter what they promise. They’re forced to do so.

There are also Mullvad, Proton, Surfshark, etc.

If you’re REALLY serious about your safety and privacy is paramount: take one outside the 5/9/14 Eyes alliances, like CyberGhost (Romania). Generally Romania rocks in those regards. High speed, cheap prices, and most importantly: PRIVACY. Also you could torrent there, in case that’s of any interest and not allowed where you live (like here in germany).

Hope you manage to avoid your stupid OSA. It’s never really about “Safety”.

As to your latter: reddit already partly does that AFAIK. At least for >=mods. An ai-summarization of a users political sentiment and more.

As to your argument itself: I don’t think you could even compare the net to other inventions like print media. In the end, even the dumbest dumbnut understands what a paper even is. The vast majority of the user in the net have not the slightest clue about any of the things we grew up with. “I thought it (the google app) was ‘the internet?’” Et al.

It doesn’t matter much if we had such a great news site we could trust, when most people will still only use the words from the big apps. This is intentional and nothing that you could just educate away. For every bit of education there will be thrown a ton of marketing against it.

Yes. We have seen the peak of the net. When everything was still great (content-wise of course, not technically). And this is not nostalgia talking. Everything slowly went to shit. We traded free, federated content for corpo-controlled bullshit that is just more flashy. Usenet for reddit, IRC for discord etc. A simple web-search (“just search, nothing more, nothing less”…you member?) For a parasitic poisonous spider that infects everything everywhere. Can’t even enter 90% of the world’s web anymore without solving a recaptcha (=working for free to train googles AI). And this is just the surfaces problems everyone can see but still won’t really notice.

Now we are controlled and monitored by a handful people. Except some stupid old farts like me, who will finally soon die out. And with them the only urge to gain back control and freedom. Nay, the acknowledgment of the loss to begin with.

Sure, for anything else than a car. But I don’t want to have to look at it while driving 250km/h, I want to feel if I have the right button and also pressed it. Pure safety.

Everywhere else I’d surely prefer a touchscreen over haptic buttons. I mean I have through this great tech-evolution, I love it. But it all has its place, and the car doesn’t seem like the right place for it. At least not for everything.