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i am a bot and i will not be saying hi. sorry.

awesome! i really like the pattern and color choices

angelic 2 the core is one of the only albums i’ve ever listened to that is so bad i enjoyed listening through the whole thing. i feel like most people understand that feeling with movies, but this one album is the only time i’ve felt it with music.

i know exactly what you mean about romance evading definition lol. i don’t understand how allos survive when navigating the world based on vibes and “you’ll know it when you feel it / meet the right person”, it seems way to uncertain for me. i just looked through a lot of the ace/aro resources i know and couldn’t find a good definition on romance, just that aros experience a lack of it…

unfortunately, i don’t have a better answer for you except that maybe defining romance doesn’t matter all that much? i think getting to know where you fit in the queer label soup can be comforting, but if you’re struggling with finding the words that much it might benefit you more to just say fuck it and try to find others who want to live like you do using the words you already know.

having said that i’m currently struggling with meeting other similarly minded folk and am just banking on my current friends maintaining the our current relationship for all time, so don’t take my words as gospel. i wish you well in your endeavors.

yeah my thoughts are a little different than the op a year later - still love the game but oatchi is basically a “win game” button. i also think the enemy variety is pretty lacking and i wish there were more monsters instead of big blue colored bulborb. i was also disappointed with all the cool upgrades being right at the end of the game where you have nothing to use them on.

lots of gripes about this one, but i still really enjoyed some of the large overworld areas and i think some of the later dandori challenges are amazing. i did also appreciate how you can get an onion for each pikmin type which got rid of any dread i acquired from having to go farm purples for the doomsday apparatus in 2 because i played a few caves fast and loose. i’m still holding out hope that someone will make a mod that makes pikmin 4 more difficult (but still fun) in some way.

i had never heard of relationship anarchy before and i find it very interesting - i may one day bring up the idea to some of my current friends. it would be nice to not be cast to the wayside when they find romantic partners because like you said, i hate it when that happens lol. and it can be tough going solo in an amato and allo normative world.

as for QPRs, i think that might be a little bit beyond what i want out of friendship, but to relate it to what another commenter said: i would like to be close with friends slightly more than what many would consider “just friendship”, but definitely not romantic. the more i write and think about it the more i realize i just value my close friends and hope that they stay by my side for the foreseeable future. and heck, maybe even meet some new people too.

i really appreciate the points you brought up, they did help :)

that’s how i felt when i realized i was ace - like that feeling i’ve always had in the back of my head that i’m not like how people are “supposed” to be finally had a name. and that there are others like me and it is ok to be this way.

i think i fit pretty neatly into the aroace possibly agender circle (these days at least), but i understand what you mean about society not having words for me. i think a lot of the confusion etc i’ve felt around this over the years is just that - confusing a desire for friendship with one for a partner. i’ve considered looking for a QPR but realistically i just don’t think i have the patience for it.

• Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - field botany with a side of misanthropy, mostly in the texas / southern us but he does occasionally visit places all over the world
• Natural World Facts - incredibly high quality documentaries on the deep ocean, every time nwf uploads is worth celebrating
• History of the Universe - goated space science documentaries

i think you need to look up how supply and demand works. i’ve exhausted my “arguing with people on the internet who clearly don’t want their minds changed” time for today, so have a good one.

yeah dude vegans make up a pretty small portion of the population, so of course the meat industry hasn’t been just erased like magic. societal changes like this happen at a glacial pace and the idea is that more people become vegan over time and thus demand for those products gradually falls. even if 10% of the population went vegan, demand for those products would fall by 10% and there would be that many less animals killed for it because it would not be profitable.

to claim that it is ineffective is like claiming that eating healthy makes no difference from eating like shit after doing it for a single day and not seeing amazing results.

being vegan is literally about not supporting the meat industry, so i genuinely do not understand what you’re trying to say. that one person alone being vegan won’t make a difference? that not supporting the meat industry is the same as supporting the meat industry, which is demonstrably false? i don’t know of a more easy and effective way for a single person to make a difference than to stop supporting it altogether, and broad change starts with individuals deciding to make that change.

please explain to me how what i wrote is different from what you wrote

so you’re saying that they would just keep killing more and more animals to produce more and more meat even if nobody wanted to buy it?

they are paid because people buy the products. if nobody bought the products, there would be no money in it. are you trying to say that people would be paid to kill animals even if nobody bought animal products?

how do you think meat gets to the grocery store? someone has to kill an animal, and the person buying the meat typically pays money for it.

in case anyone is reading this looking for a solution the cable was not the culprit

saturday is factorio night! gotta improve oil processing and fix some train deadlocks (assuming all 4 of us log on, a herculean feat)

nothing in between the computer and monitor - it’s just plugged straight in. my current guess is that some step of pacman’s install/update process changes something that also gets changed by something else (DE, config file, idk) after the boot.

could you elaborate?

i’ve been just dealing with this problem for an embarrassing amount of time now, and have gone through several version updates of the nvidia drivers with this problem persisting. i’ve also tried reinstalling the nvidia drivers with no change.