Unciv! Ever heard of Civ, aka Sid Meier’s Civilization? Wanna play it on your phone without shelling out $20 for one of the worst-reviewed mobile ports of all time? Unciv is an open source implementation of a tile-based, turn-based strategy game. Oh, and there’s built-in mod support as well. Not huge on mobile gaming, so it’s literally the only one I’ve been playing for months.
True shit, whether it’s arabic, english, or something else; shit heels will clap when gay people die.
If the movie is interesting, I have little problem focusing. But sometimes no matter how interesting it is, I have squirrel moments anyway. If I’m at home, simple, just rewind. Being in a theater helps a lot - the environment helps the brain focus on the screen. If I have a problem paying attention to a movie in a theater, it’s probably just not very good.
I’ve never actually had a group to play with, but I have some advice just from the standpoint of group dynamics. It sounds like they have good intentions and poor execution; they want you to have a good time playing the game, so they try to point out pitfalls to avoid. (Edit to say maybe their intentions are selfish but I have better results generally when I assume good intentions). Unfortunately, they’re forgetting/not realizing that making mistakes to learn how a game works is actually more fun than just being given a complete guide. Maybe tie it back to the DM’s themes (mystery/exploration/the unknown) to make it stick better. Speaking of which, there’s nothing wrong with wanting something different; I would just be prepared to tell them what exactly that is. From their end, it can suck to be told your ideas aren’t fun without an alternative, but they need to understand everyone has different tastes.
If you want to stick around, I would try to approach things from that angle. I wouldn’t mention your feeling of holding the group together, it’s not likely to garner positive feelings (I think). Let them bring that up if they want, then address it.
Hope it goes well for you!
It’s a thing the user openly does, they crosspost stuff from .ml, I know they have an explanation somewhere in their post history sorry I don’t remember myself
Flies and sings too, sounds great! Man I’m jealous :D it looks like a hell of a time
It’s good not to underestimate how effective propaganda can be on those enmeshed in different algorithmic circles. Instead of ‘evil’ I would say ‘blind’. But it’s a fair point.
The worst type of person is someone who “already knows” everything. I’ve become accustomed to simply waiting for them to fail instead of offering advice that is at first refused. A boring, small way to live.
It’s very location-based for me. The dominos in my hometown is still good last time I checked. But the one near by me doesn’t give a shit about anything, and I can tell. Ordering from them is the on\y time I’ve ever opened up a freshly cooked pizza (still hot) and smelled rancid, rotting chicken. Absolutely fucking disgusting. So that location is burnt to me, until I see a sign about “new ownership/management”, but there are others I enjoy. It’s technically a franchise, but most locations are not owned by individuals but by a regional corporation, afaik.
edit And yes, it’s cheap-o greasy pizza, one ladder rung above lil ceasars (which is one rung above cardboard). But when I’m high as shit at midnight on a friday, it hits just right.
Selling the booze is a crime - selling the cups is not. Loophole!
Bye-bye Mars First Logistics. Shame, at least I have a new physics game to be interested in though lmao
Individuals having desires is not “the problem”. That would be corporations having free reign to behave however the fuck they want, so long as they can pay the fed.
There are some shops that will actually collect the vapes and send them back to the manufacturer for recycling. But it’s less common than it used to be, which frustrates me to no end, it should be the reverse if anything.
I think it’s the marketing of it. A decent amount of people I’ve talked to genuinely don’t know that there’s a reusable option. This also changed when the tobacco industry got involved. Vaping used to have more of a culture of cessation. It was talked about how you could transition from cigs at a higher nicotine level, then bring it down until you’re vaping zero nic, then quit that. I barely hear anyone talk about the quitting pipeline anymore. I don’t think it’s an accident, I think it’s intentional.
Edit: I also think it’s the fact that you only have to buy one thing, and the 3 things (device, coils, juice) aren’t available in every gas station like disposables are. And the user experience - open the box and it starts right up, no refills, all it needs is a charge once in a while. People are really fucking lazy, by nature. But the cost of all those conveniences is indebted tenfold upon the environment, as destruction and waste.
As someone who vapes quite a bit, I would genuinely love to see this. Disposables are an absolute shitshow and never should have existed in the first place.
Still using archive.is, why? They have been shown to edit pages after being archived. Completely unreliable and distasteful. And they abused their captcha page to facilitate a DDoS.
Yes, offloads into system. Oh and i forgot to mention that’s with the context set around 25k. That can vary greatly per model though, it’s taken some experimentation to figure that out.
I have a rx5600xt (6gb), 32gb ram, ryzen 3600. System hasn’t been updated since i built it during covid. QwenV3-vl35B is the heftiest thing I can run, it gets around 2 tokens/sec, in LM studio. It’s easier than most people seem to think.
Unprompted snark from an .ml user, how surprising. I am a bigger cheerleader for open source than any of my friends or family. It’s the only real path to stay free of corporate influence, greed, and spying (in regards to software). Live free or die.
Bitwarden is, by definition, open source. It has been since I started using it ~6 years ago. I’m tired of literally everything having the potential for enshittification. Nothing is safe in the long run, not even volunteer-run projects. If you think your favorite project is safe because of some “core ethos” or “guiding principles”, you’re just drinking the kool-aid. As long as we exist under capitalism, anything under the sun can be enshittified.
I will never give up, even if things seem even more dire than they are now. But I’m tired of having to maintain constant vigilance.
Your question got me interested, so I took a look.
https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/MTCH/institutional-ownership/
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/MATCH-GROUP-INC-111381420/company-shareholders/
Conflicting answers on Vanguard’s investment, they seem to have divested recently. But Blackrock is the largest at around 12%, all other companies with holdings are dwarfed by their share. Also, there’s only one single person in the board + c-suite that’s been there since before 2020. If I were more conspiratorial, I’d start drawing lines here.