i’m willing to bet the sheer pressure of having to follow up Hollow Knight added a couple of years to the development stage. they’re a small studio and their first game that got any attention got all the attention. and now they have millions of people salivating over the implications of word spellings in their dialogue and lore texts. everyone suffers from a debuff to performance when someone is watching, and the eyes are all on them

But overall, enforcement causes nearly half of users to stop searching for popular adult sites complying with laws and instead search for a noncompliant rival (48 percent) or virtual private network (VPN) services (34 percent), which are used to mask a location and circumvent age checks on preferred sites, the study found.

what a fucking surprise. now the teens only watch porn that is already skirting around laws just by virtue of existing. truly nobody could’ve ever imagined this would happen

jesus christ i’m so tired of stupid politicians

skinny yes sure! but unless it’s a very tall child in there it’d be close to impossible to get that narrow shoulders

smells of AI, how would anyone fit in that costume?

yeah i’m aware, i wasn’t generalising it was just my personal experience

featherless tail-less biped? then we could have a story about Diogenes fighting a kangaroo to cut off its tail

i’m looking past it because my laptop is 7 years old and i’m happy it even runs lol

3 microns thinner and 5 cm longer! oh you want to fit your phone in your pocket comfortably? how about you go fuck yourself

oh he did!

this wasn’t the first time it happened either, i was bewildered when i didn’t know where he was because i stopped looking at them for 2 minutes and then found him there, i put him down and he immediately went to do it again so i recorded it that time 😭

criminal 1 (Fool)

criminal 2 (Roo)

and the crime

i only have a video of this crime because he’s a very good climber and i just picked him up after he was done exploring. but most of the time they need to be scooped immediately

as an owner of two rats i 100% believe that, they’re too clever and absolutely know when you’re looking (and the second you stop looking they’re already somewhere they shouldn’t be in)

android does it well, if you want “developer” mode that let’s you have better control over your system you have to do some funny IT rituals you can only access by 1. knowing they exist 2. googling how to do it

machines today can be programmed to make the most intricate sculptures, and recreate the most famous of paintings on mass. and yet, actual artists are still here, because we know that it’s not the finished piece that matters the most, it’s the journey we went on to be able to draw what’s in our minds that matters, it’s human expression, painting, drawing, sculpting exactly in the way that we want to, flaws and all. every piece is a self-portrait, if/when AI aquires a self, then we’ll have this discussion

but then i’d need to swipe to flip the page on both of them, that’s like, effort

imo the 2h refund window is not so you can judge if you’ll like the game, it’s so you can judge if you can tolerate it long enough to form an informed opinion

there’s been a few games i played under 2h of and thought to myself “this is terrible, i’m not having fun and i actively dislike playing this”, Steam’s no questions asked refund was a cure for regret i’d have felt if i had to see that game in my library forever. Games that i know take much longer to judge i borrow from a friend who’s into fitness and a girl, that’s what saved me from buying Starfield or Avowed

hey there’s also some of us who buy books we will definitely read eventually and they just keep stacking up, gotta put them somewhere

for the vibes of course, not everything has to be optimised for practicality

don’t bother, there’s browser addons that just make that screen disappear

the comment section reminds me of r/alzheimersgroup

that sounds like a plot hole so let’s put some plot into it

a lot of technological advancements happen in times of war, that’s when scientists get the funding to make weapons, but that research doesn’t go to waste afterwards, the knowledge stays and can help in times of peace

what if the ship was sent, and a great war broke out soon after, all records and those who remembered it were destroyed, all whilst technology advanced becuase of the race to invent new weapons, and now the knowledge is being utilised for a more cheerful cause - space exploration, and FTL travel

the forgotten ship would peacefully sail across the great dark blissfully unaware of what happened, of how their mission has been erased from history, regardless if it was on purpose or accidentally. Their eventual arrival would make news across all human colonies, their language so ancient, their biology similar but in a strange way imperfect, living relics of the old world ripped right out of already faded pages in history, what a shock it would be for both sides of the encounter