I wonder what ever happened with the rat hole. Last I heard, Roscoe Village was gonna sell it to some bar, but I don’t think it’s actually being displayed anywhere.

This is the part that always gets me laughing. At the level of effort that would be necessary to actually get voting reform, we might as well just overthrow the government. That is how difficult it would be, it would require a nationwide coordinated mass movement hitherto unseen in the United States, and it would only really solve one of our problems.

I just don’t know what will actually be done about this. Even if this is enough to break through to MAGA, which is clearly the point because the rest of us have known he’s a pedophile since at least 2016, what happens next? The US isn’t going to suddenly revolt against their fascist govt, people are too spineless. Maybe we see a rejection of the GOP in 2026 to at least bring the country back to gridlock, but I don’t believe we’ll have free and fair elections by 2028.

I think this is the big difference. For the really successful companies, their proprietary engine is their baby, and they have teams spending dozens of hours every week trying to improve its performance, squashing out bugs, doing refactoring, etc. I’m thinking of companies like GrindingGearGames and DigitalExtremes who’ve been on their engines for over a decade and continually push improvements with every major update.

I simply don’t believe that work is being done at Bethesda. I’d be shocked if it was. It feels like they treat maintenance of their engine as some kinda punishment they make junior devs go through or something. At this point, they’ve accumulated such a mountain of technical debt that it might honestly be more efficient for them to start from scratch, which is a pretty damning statement.

I can only speak for Americans, but it seems like having respect for your surroundings and empathy for others is completely dead. People care for only themselves, and have no sense of shame to override their decisions.

This is just Mashle but green

I could, but I would almost definitely get a tummy ache

It’s not porn but it gets surprisingly close a few times.

Did not really expect a gripping story about horny teens having to come to terms with puberty in my “Japanese clearly misunderstanding an American cultural artifact” manga.

I dunno who needs to hear this, but minimum wage workers do not care about you. They don’t have the time or energy to judge you over silly stuff. If you make a minor faux pas, they might chuckle about it for a couple seconds at most, and then they have to get back to work.

In my experience working a few different fast food jobs, the only customers I still remember are the ones who were incredibly rude assholes or straight up threatened my life. If someone was generally friendly and came in like 10-12 times a month, I would maybe remember their name. Typically though, the only thing that was on my mind was making it through my shift, and trying to figure out what food I could steal so I could eat dinner that night.

I’m a big fan, but I would also not categorize myself as a power user. I want my computer to “just work,” and I have more than enough storage space that I’m willing to accept a trade-off in storage size to not have dependency issues. I never really notice and issues permission-wise though, if something really should have access to other files on my computer I just use Flatseal.

okay but let’s go in a different direction: how would you make drinkable pizza? what’s the line for drinkable, because I think consistency-wise it’d have to be close to bread pudding. what kinda cheese could you use?

do you happen to have lemmy.world blocked? Most of the centrist shitlibs I’ve interacted with were from that instance, and before I blocked them I would say Lemmy was closer to a 50/50 split between leftists and blue MAGA.

I mean to each their own, I was not impressed by the lack of meaningful roleplaying decisions and the lack of other faction questlines. I felt like the game had very little to offer outside of the main storyline, it really felt like settlement building took too much of the scope despite being rather lackluster. I also think “good with mods” is the same as “fun with friends” in that it applies to literally any game.

In case you were wondering, Starfield was much of the same. Lots of “Yes, Sarcastic Yes, No” dialogues, lots of focus on the main story, with the big twist being that they added lots of New Game+ easter eggs to encourage replaying with the same character.

There’s absolutely no way it’ll be able to live up to the hype. Fallout 4 was a disappointment compared to the rest of the series, Starfield was a disappointment, I just no longer have confidence Bethesda can produce good games.

I haven’t quite hit thirty yet, but my friend has. She’s taken up boxing, which might seem counterintuitive, but building up your strength is a great way to avoid having a weak core and knees. It also means she does regular stretching.

I like it when the twist isn’t obvious. Realizing the Guardian Ape was getting back up for the first time, for example, is such a great “oh fuck” moment that it’s worth any frustration of having to learn two very different fights. For something like Sister Friede from DS3, however, where it’s very clear that you’re gonna fight Father Ariandel too and there’s a third phase with just Friede again after, I would have preferred one very big health bar for the entire fight.

I think my bar is really focused on “is the boss supposed to basically die and then they get like a Zenkai boost from DBZ, or am I just gonna fight the same guy the whole time and they’re just getting new moves as their health lowers?”

Without actually funding the USPS, this will effectively kill mail-in voting. You could send your ballot in a month in advance, and it might not get counted because USPS can’t be bothered to get it in until the week after Nov 5th.

You mean the ones in 2029? Other than Fetterman, the ones who voted no are not up for re-election for a long time. That was by design. Their assumption is that we will have forgotten by then.

our govt was the beta for democracy and was primarily structured by the wealthy elite to maintain power for the wealthy elite. We’ve now gone so long without a much needed revolution that we can no longer do so without bloodshed, and I guess material conditions still haven’t deteriorated enough for people to be willing to put their lives on the line for their children’s future.

both are kinda wrong. in my experience, there’s like three different kindsa burger places. There’s the shitty ones, which are usually at least hella cheap but are no better than McDonalds or Burger King. Then there’s the good ones, where you can get a tasty burger with a house burger sauce and like caramelized onions. For both of those, yeah if you’ve ate at one of them you’ve basically ate at all of them. You’re not gonna find a burger so orgasmic that it fixes your depression or anything; there’s an upper limit to how good one can be. (though if you do plz let me know)

However, there’s also a ton of places that I’ll affectionately call “weird” ones. this encompasses a wide range of wild shit, like a place that’ll make you a burger with six patties stacked on top of each other like some kinda beef monster, or make an “italian beef burger” which includes italian beef and giardinera on top of a patty, and the whole thing is dipped in meat drippings, or a place that uses donuts instead of buns and deep fries the sucker. These are all very distinct foodcrimes, and IMO it is worth going out of your way to behold them if you find yourself stateside.