And also add to that that this is more like escaping from a cult than it is merely admitting you were silly and wrong.

… They’re like the opposite of doing nothing.

MSFT in particular has been essentially utterly out manuevered by Valve and their developements.

Its… its actually rumored (by Moore’s Law Is Dead) that the specific weird custom chip the Steam Machine is using…

… was originally going to be used in something like like a planned Surface Super Duper Pro tablet.

But MSFT cancelled it.

After AMD had already made a bunch of the chips.

… And… then Valve comes along, figures out how to build a PC/Console out of MSFT’s abandoned scraps, which also functionally hammers the final nail into the coffin of Xbox as an actual hardware device.

Valve beat MSFT at large segments of literally their own game.

Proton and Vulkan, both largely funded by Valve, flipped the fucking game table into another dimension, but MSFT did not notice untill it was beyond too late.

… Thinking with portals, you might say.

… Their… monopolized… operating system?

Which is completely open source, and thus free to everyone… and also forkable, modifiable?

… Genuienly, what are you talking about?

Yes.

Windows has MO2?

Linux has Limo.

Very, very comparable mod managers.

If you mean… actually develop your own mods?

Also yes, but personally I’d recommend swapping out SteamOS for Bazzite.

And yeah, you could build your own cheaper.

I call BS.

At what theoretical price point for a Steam Machine, can you match the or exceed the specs, for less cost?

Ok, now also try to do that, and match the Steam Machine’s power draw, and form factor.

… Go on, show me your build, with current US prices.

Unless I somehow missed an actual price announcement for the Steam Machine, I wanna see how cheap you can get an actually comparable build done for.

Bikini tan lines?

Nah, VR/AR/XR/HapticSuit tanlines.

My first thought was Zora’s Domain.

(Arguably)UnethicalLifeProTips

Entirely seriously, learn how to make a game in Godot.

Its literally completely free, only costs you time, and assumes you have at least some kind of existing computer, doesn’t need to be a monster rig.

Alternatively: Find a video game you like.

Make mods for it.

Here’s another one that’s basically free:

Becoming/Staying fit, gaining strength and agility.

Make ‘weights’ out of milk jugs with water in them.

Maybe get a resistance band or two, they’re not that pricey.

You can absolutely do a ton of stretches, calisthenics, and light to modetate muscle group workouts with basically just random shit lying around a typical home or apartment.

You can find basic guides for these excercises often just freely available from reputable medical organizations.

You can literally just go on a 20 minute walk, 3 times a week, and be in better physical shape than something like half of the US adult population.

Back to computer shit:

Blender is free.

Learn 3D modelling, rigging, UV wrapping, how texturing works, how to make animations, etc.

Same with Krita.

Become artist. Draw stuff good.

You can find probably literally millions of free tutorials for how to do basic and intermediate level concepts.

Whsitling/Singing/Voice Acting.

These are developable skills much more so than they are just… things you either can or cannot do, for some reason.

You can teach yourself how to do these, again to a basic or intermediate level, for pretty much free.

Same thing with at least some kinds of dancing.

If you’re feeling more EXTREME: Parkour and/or Urbex.

Lockpicking.

Go find the Lockpicking Lawyer on youtube.

Pretty sure he can recommend you a not too pricey basic starter kit for learning the basics.

… I could go on, but my hands are tired from what I’m going to call ‘autism posting’, one of my totally free, personal hobbies that I often indulge in.

… so long as it does not materially impact your ability to provide basic necessities for your own wellbeing, food, water, shelter, some level of climate control, etc.

… and you are not directly, indirectly, or functionally spending other people’s money on your hobbies.

Swap sexes/genders.

Exact same thing plays out, with slightly different wording in panel 3.

Probably the woman accuses the man of being gay, broke, and/or busted, and/or ‘probably having a small dick anyway’, possibly also remarking on their asserted status as a virgin/incel/creep.

The woman is … roughly as likely to post a tiktok of this encounter, aimed at socially destroying the refusing man’s reputation, as the man in the original situation is to respond to being refused with additional, actual physical violence.

Both cishet sexes and genders objectify the refuser’s sex/gender in a mocking/insulting way, in their indignant retort.

That.

That’s about what I expect.

That immature and insecure people are unnecessarily cruel when their egos are damaged, and are roughly equally likely to escalate their indignant response to something more serious and damaging, its just that the manner in which they would perform that escalation differs.

A… commerce degree?

Forgive my American dialect, but is that… Canadian… for a Business degree?

Uh anyway, myself having degrees in Econ and Poli Sci, here’s my attempt at explaining it, at this late date:

Sunk Cost Fallacy.

IE, its now essentially its own self-perpetuating delusion, its own bubble all in and of itself.

How did it get to this point?

Uh, Elon is a con artist.

See the same part of the Poli Sci textbooks that attempt to answer ‘Why do people who are directly, negatively impacted by Republican policies keep voting for them?’

Though at that point we may need to just delve more into Psychology, groupthink, socially performed identities, cults, etc.

… Servo appears to be missing a huge opportunity by not having an ansgty gumball machine mascot.

In the mean time, while we wait for IP law to fix itself over the course of decades, or probably just never: I have physical copies of most of my games.

… on an SD card, that I bought, formatted, and moved files onto.

Steam lets you make game backups, GOG releases are basically portable… make a backup, compress it, put it on a backup drive.

… and thats all without my pirate hat and pegleg on.

Banking on it, you say?

Meat and dairy prices are only gonna go up and up, pizza is gonna become a luxury food item in not too long.

He has LOD order precedence/scaling set in a manner that makes sense for his use case.

I would imagine possibly also oclusion face culling as well, given that the tree is practically unobservable from many angles, for users with uh, other rendering configurations… so long as they obey the laws of physics.

Fennec has been working well for me on Android, I I’ve been using Waterfox on Bazzite via flatpak for almost a year, good stuff, and I think the other fork you’re forgetting is maybe… IronFox?

Waterfox.

Uh, in lieu of a mascot that I do not think they officially have:

(Author unknown, someone on Pinterest somewhere?)

Beyond a functionality/usability focus, check out that built in Oblivious DNS, DoH solution.

Yeah ok so you’re levered up, think everyone else doing the same thing are ‘fucking stupid’ ‘idiots’, dumber than you, because you have the secret sauce to doing it slightly differently.

I will now quote my original comment:

… you’ve got the day traders, and they almost always get their clocks cleaned, they just develop a neurotic-obsessive personality based on ‘no, I’m the one guy that can outsmart the market’.

I didn’t expect one to actually appear, but, well hey there ya go.

I guess I should also amend ‘grandiose narcissist’ to my psych profile of the kind of person that does what you’re doing.

Here, lemme throw the ZeroHedge motto at you:

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

Good luck with your dance.

… I don’t know what half those words mean.

I know loli is basically drawn, prepubescent girls.

I don’t know what a lolishota is.

And I am afraid to look it up, lol.

I also do not know what an … ‘anit’ … is?