They meant buying all eight, which is funky to me since a day’s income for me is more like $120 CAD. edit: but also an extra ten bucks is zero surprise, we already have that issue in cad for exchange rates and aus likes to put extra charges on video games tho i dunno about dlcs.

You know, we’re all coming at this like ‘wow this person is stupid and hateful, saying swings and roundabouts when they meant what goes around comes around’, but what if they actually just said it in a ‘c’est la vie’ kind of way? Like ‘well you made me sad and I made you sad. Such is life.’ Especially when you add the context of how they probably HAD to refuse said mortgage application instead of exercising leeway to do so.

Since Doug hasn’t replied, I assume they’re a juice fan. Maybe some milk, or herbal tea, or ooo I should go make some hot chocolate now that I’m on this spiel lol also not diet could mean non-caffeine sodas like sprite? Since nobody would expect diet juice or diet tea lol

Yes, I would. Nothing wrong with expecting someone might watch them.

The same way arts and crafts were invented - humans want to do things whenever they aren’t stressed out of their minds.

Okay but that’s literally not what multitasking means. She would have to be reading one course in a book and an entirely different subject on her phone at the same time, with zero loss of retention or speed. There are ways the military trains people to do actual multitasking specifically, but for the vast majority of us we only have single-threaded thought processes that switch between lanes ALMOST but not quite instantly, so you’re just introducing stops and starts. It’s like how talking to someone while you’re driving WILL distract you, and the line on what kind of distracted driving is banned or not is based more on what kinds of things are enforceable (physical presence of a phone at x minute and location or some such).

To be fair, some of the overcomplicated electric soda streams have pre-measured carbonization settings instead of the push to carbonate mechanical system. Personally I’m using one of the cheaper third party versions I got on liquidation for like 30 bucks lol

I mean it sounds more like a discussion I’ve seen before: being trans does not automatically equate to suffering. Dysphoria is not a requirement. You can be trans because you seek gender euphoria, or you can see unique positives or at least perspectives in the process of transition, and even when medical care is readily available a lot of trans people don’t ever want to physically transition. Saying no one would undergo surgery is probably an exaggeration or naive take on other people’s circumstances, but it’s true that in a lot of cases, social transition being readily accepted has been enough, and I’m pretty sure I remember that the majority of trans people stop at HRT in the long term even when surgery is an option. At the end of the day, we can’t know if she’s wrong or not yet because we can’t just will that hypothetical society into being, unfortunately.

Also most people in communities like autism and lgbtq+ would tell you that it’s way too dangerous to start genetic testing for this stuff in our current global climate, and that the perceived possibility of good may never be worth that risk, or be such a huge help in the first place. At the end of the day, the genetic component (if it even exists and doesn’t end in more truscum nonsense like the artist suggesting people could be called fake trans for not having the marker) really hasn’t been seen as that helpful in any group studied like this I’ve seen so far, and it IS a blatantly helpful line of research for eugenics, so really that panel doesn’t read as ‘extreme’ at all aside from the frontloaded buzzwords. Genetic testing and cure research is INCREDIBLY unpopular for a LOT of neurodivergency, and obviously for the LGBTQ too.

And besides, when you look into how long ago transness has existed, and all the ways it worked out when it wasn’t pathologized, there can be some merit to not trying to pick apart and justify every part of the trans and genderqueer life. Justifying just leads to more truscum (people who say you’re not really trans unless you get your genitals changed) moving the goalposts on who’s really trans, which is probably what she was defensive about on the genetics point.

Agreed, but seems like then you should do it for yourself (physical and mental health, stimulation from learning skills, broadening horizons) and if you make friends in the process that’s cool.

I meant more that chat implies it could be literally anyone because it’s anonymous. Like when the game’s developer or some guy with 100k followers suddenly drops in to a little guy’s stream. You wouldn’t know unless they announced themselves lol

It’s also the most unbiased word for referring to a group in a gender neutral way I’ve seen lol most others have implications of status (gentlepersons, folks), are still technically gendered (guys, not to mention this implies relatively young people too), or overbroad (everybody is well, everybody. Chat implies you’re addressing your community or a small group since they’re the ones who would be talking to you).

I mean that’s what hormone blockers are for, anyway, though since a lot of places put medical rights at 14 you could start there. Precocious puberty is overrated.

I’m pretty sure the body IS property of the person who has it, at least once they’re old enough to make medical decisions. That’s why you can donate it to science in your living will. In the ‘relatives should be able to do what they want with it’ case, cutting it up would damage its integrity, and if the will doesn’t specify who owns what then it could be a dispute that requires arbitration, much like when people have to agree to sell a house together in an estate, and then you’d need to i guess freeze it or something while they legally hash that out. Of course religious-born laws on mutilation of bodies means that you can’t actually put that in your will, even tho if you go the science option the government will totally do that. It’s hypocritical, I agree.

Well, between their incredibly abusive behaviour towards fans making content on YouTube even though that’s free advertising, the mess with the smash tournaments and them breaking agreements to side with some new band of assholes -

their previous efforts to destroy companies by patent trolling and their current efforts to undo Palworld that have pretty much only been prevented by them teaming up with Sony -

and their very heavy-handed protectionist approach to ROM preservation even though they keep taking away people’s access to their older catalogue, I certainly wouldn’t consider them ABOVE board.

Before sony’s completely ridiculous 2024 I would have firmly called them below-board, but enshittification really hit hard, jeez. (Dashes were for breathing pauses cus that was getting a little long. I was also going to mention an issue with them being a lot less transparent with whether or not they’d ethically sourced their rare earth metals vs the other big two, but I don’t remember quite when that was, just that it was discussed during the switch era).

Edit: tbc I still upvoted cus physical games ARE still important, but I forgot to mention that they don’t let you downpatch digital games so speed running, or even just wanting to play TotK with the dupe glitch, is forced to sometimes be way more expensive thanks to REQUIRING physical AND having to play offline forever cus I think it tries to force patches?

The story is also much simpler than KCD so you don’t have to pay attention. Characters are also quite one dimensional, it’s easy to follow, much like Avowed.

There was nothing factual about bringing the character simplicity into this because you made it sound like the reason they failed to find an objective was because they weren’t reading and enjoying the story, when what they explained perfectly well was that they picked one dialogue option, not realising it was going to be mutually exclusive with the other because both options just looked like informational inquiries, and the other option with relevant info was gone forever. Simple characters has nothing to do with that, and made it look VERY much like you were saying they weren’t up to the task of enjoying a game with interesting ones.

How often do they use mice and keyboards? I get what people who don’t use shortcuts look like to you all, but I know how many times I’ve had to help someone older who works with computers, including just straight up DOS-looking internal text prompt systems fine, remember how to highlight text on a phone to copy, or even be able to look up their apps without clicking on the homescreen ones.

Some people just really only get good with one tool at a time and don’t have the energy for more, and for the younger average person that tool’s gonna be the one they grew up with, the phone.

Nylon? I would think this would be a ‘print the moulds we use to pour in silicone’ situation, if we’re going for usability. https://formlabs.com/blog/casting-silicone-guide/ On an engineering note I’m also sure I’ve seen this exact thing before, but I wonder what would improve it. Self-heating? DIY solution could be a hidden pocket for reusable handwarmers lol

Tbf they say their main thing is Youtube with dual-streaming to twitch. I was looking them up and wondering why all their twitch vods were 5 years old lol

To clarify, sales figures don’t exist anymore because you have to count the people who take a $20 sub to ubisoft to play this instead of buying it.

https://lemmy.world/post/27216049/15931778 here’s someone linking the PDF that explains what they mean. pertinent screenshots: