I mean, you can criticize the reaction, but be aware that much of the world is going to have it, as a natural human thing.

You’ve been lonely in your life, you feel like you’re getting along well with someone of the opposite sex (potentially misreading friendliness as romantic interest) and make an offer, working past many layers of butterflies in your stomach. The worst she can say is No, right?

No, turns out, the worst she can say is “Maybe. I’m kind of busy with finals and some other stuff going on, but we’ll see.”, which your mind takes as a Yes, getting you all excited - you then text them later, at a polite rate, to try to follow up and make something work. Only weeks later, after conflicting possibilities and doubts clash in your mind from a bunch of unreplied or vague messages, do you concede to the fact that not only were you not good enough, you were so scary and horrible to the person in question you weren’t even good enough to give a direct answer to. You’re a destructive, potentially murderous monster they needed to protect themselves from. All because you were just interested in spending time with someone attractive, as all of us are wired to try.

Not all of that is an honest, objective take, but that’s still how it comes across in the mind of the receiver. Similarly, there’s no legal requirement that each person say “Good morning!” to each other each day, but being denied basic pleasantries and human interaction, even as much as receiving an honest and flat rejection, can wear on someone, even if I fully understand (as I said) why it happens.

Any individual does not owe any one individual their attention. But each individual is owed some attention by someone.

Uh… Arugula ad for hummus!!

1. Panel shows a man with a canvas and palette. He appears to be a man.
2. ”I am going to make an art.”

Commenters furiously scrambling out to reject the premise that all men are artists capable of producing the Mona Lisa

Between the comic and even this thread, you’re the first person to mention incels. This isn’t a gotcha and even if it was, it’d be a pointless observation.

Sorry, pal, but:

• I’m a guy
• I’ve been ghosted when I expressed interest in a woman who was possibly scared of me
• I’ve been incredibly upset about it
• I still understand the comic and feel okay with the reaction

The thing is, I don’t blame women for valid self protective instincts. Ghosting is antisocial bullshit, but it’s the easiest solution available to a potential for real, serious harm, especially when you are only one of some dozen guys one woman might be dealing with on the subject.

I know the women who’ve ghosted me are making generalizations. I know they’re wrong, but I can’t blame them based on what they knew. It always feels personal, even when you’re seeing learned behavior by trends.

I agree problems would be solved if women did the approaching more often, but I get why that’s hard (for everyone), and I can see how they get used to the routine of being approached and deciding based on that.

I upvoted you because this has been my experience.

When W10 got cut off, I made one more bid for CachyOS and enjoy it, but even then, I had to prep myself with “I’ll run into stupid shoot that annoys me, question is, is it more stupid shit than I get on Windows”.

I genuinely hate all the Linux ads that try to use the Mac “It just works” mantra without recognizing all the stuff people will have to do, not to mention the discovery process of those things.

“Want to install an app? Simple! Just ‘sudo pacman -S app’! Want to find the name of a package to install, so you can start figuring things out for yourself instead of doing exactly what the tutorial prescribed character by character? Er, sorry, not in this guide, also your wildcards are used wrong!”

Electricity (optional)

Damn, I’m going to work hungry because I stuffed my breakfast banana in a car’s tailpipe.

Recently this channel came up in my feed. There’s a few like this, that will highlight interesting games on Steam that haven’t had much attention.

https://www.youtube.com/@IndirectGames

I’ve had an idea of making a visual novel with gen AI, but I’d want to attach “Placeholder: AI Artwork” in a visible location for each sprite. And I only even consider that because I’m not exactly a known game dev and don’t have ready access to artists.

Larian should likely expect if they’re taking shortcuts in their position, they’d get backlash. I can at least recognize that they’re trying to be moderate about it.

We’ve seen the buyout/burn down methodology against a lot of smaller companies; it sounds a bit like Microsoft is doing that internally to Xbox division. It’s all I can think of to explain so much of the intentional damage.

So, the console war is now basically Nintendo, Sony, and Valve.

Ah yes, the Galbrush problem; in which designing something and then swapping a character’s gender suddenly makes it a gender commentary.

I won’t really fight anyone suggesting “Yarr-harr” approaches, but if you’re just looking for something to watch and legality becomes a hurdle as you describe: Libraries offer a huge backlog of stuff (watched some old Disney stuff I’d targeted, without sending the mouse money) as well as some digital services. It should be pretty easy to rip the DVDs they have on offer too.

This concern exists regardless of what device is running on the TV.

If you have a wireless keyboard that’s comfortable on the couch, use that. Otherwise, just use a controller and launch in Steam Big Picture mode (now basically looks like Steam Deck’s main screen).

Good launchers (not all of them) also take controller input.

EDIT: But I think to reinterpret your question, yes, the device on the TV generally should have the input connected directly. That can be done with Android TV and I think Apple TVs.

May I introduce you to Sunshine and Moonlight.

No, I’m not asking you to open your curtains. Long as you have a good connection between your PC and TV, and some small TV device, you can play a lot that way.

Syrup and gravy are too liquidy for that to work. Honey can get VERY slow and thick, which seems to be why the premise works with this thing.

Emulation seems neat to me, but I know behind every comment on it there’s a whispered implication: Piracy. Very few people are imaging their own game discs. That unfortunately makes it less appealing to me, especially as trustworthiness shifts at many of those sites.

I so want to go back to a wave of media about brutal violence towards Nazis.

Sure, put in a moral dilemma. A little “Is it really okay for us to be doing this?” Just certify that the answer is YES.

Best way of handling this is to load the environment with random events that can occur on various return trips. Sea of Thieves and Red Read Redemption 2 do this, though it doesn’t work for every game.

The other good way to handle it is a fun movement system, eg Insomniac games.

I see this design on earwax cleaners. I think the idea is to be useful for retrieving a thick, viscous substance from a tight place. Rather than scooping it, it provides a space designed for the stuff to “get stuck in” the cracks.

Given honey appears in various consistencies, I can see how that would be useful; maybe more for the beekeepers than the consumer.