Dyskolos

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.

Great. Next please: no more touch-controls. I want back haptic buttons for the most important stuff.

EDIT: Instead of silly downvotes, an opinion on why touchscreens/-buttons are superior would be preferable. I’m curious.

The one of the top of my head, running 24/7 on my piracy-server, is solidvpn.

AirVPN is one i also use (for port-sharing!), but they don’t offer lifetime-accounts (anymore?) or maybe on occasion. But they have 3-yrs

Both very reliable and nearly 100% online. But check first if your country bans them. Which country btw did this shit?

If you’re a cheap fuck like me, wait for black-friday or similar. Most compete hard for the best discounts there. Unlike Amazon and co :-)

I have some lifetime accounts actually, so yes. And after some years it also paid off 😁

VPN probably. Dunno about this act but it will most likely help. Maaaaybe many vpns are blocked, especially the free ones. That you’d have to check. But if, you’d have to find some nore unknown providers or pay a bit more.

Or C)

Have you arrested for a totally different crime coz you “assaulted an officer” and “heavily resisted lawful arrest” and hence be jailed for this. In GenPop of course.

Now forcefully sewing t-shirts as a slave that say “MAGA” or “LGBTQ IS THE DEVIL”.

News will read “Trans violence on the rise again!”.

You know, The murican way 😁

Guess that’s not just the USA. Making people “live” paycheck to paycheck is design. The less they have, the less they revolt or even start to question things. And while so many adults might never see retirement, I weep for the next generations. They start there…

I’m amongst the lucky ones that retired in their 20-something’s (it’s so long ago I even forgot), but I witness the state of the world coming down every day. Bit by bit. Slowly but steady. I voluntarily work with, let’s say, people fucked by existence, and the numbers are constantly rising. Yet the number of people willing to help is declining. No wonder…

As long as it’s communicated amongst the participants. Yes! If anyone could just pause it because they wanna go see a movie now or make a baby? NO!

Solution: everyone in a sessions needs to enable this. So a friends-group can actually take a break for a tinkle. Or that everyone has to enter the menu or such and then the game pauses.

Who cares? Are there still people left paying for that crap?

No lottery-money that has ever been paid out would be enough for that. To really change the world you’d need at least unlimited funds like musk & co. And if you’d have those kind of funds, you probably long stopped caring or just changed your mind.