I’ve heard it somewhere in movies or music. But it was uncommon to use because a lot of the time the camera part wasn’t relevant so you’d just call it a phone

They may be getting them. Just not from their husbands.

How DO you force the competition to be better? Because EGS plain sucks.

The price fixing part is an issue, but they don’t technically do any illegal price fixing. They just say they don’t want to see your game cheaper elsewhere - you can drop prices elsewhere AND on Steam though.

Well I’m sure that they can charge it when docked. Would be idiotic if they didn’t factor that in, given how much time yachts spend docked.

And marine diesel engines also usually run at a fairly steady speed, they don’t really get revved up. The big ones anyway, I mean. In diesel-electric systems you can run the diesel engine at its most efficient speed to power the electrical system which is what actually moves the ship.

So I think it’s a net good… compared to a straight diesel yacht. But obviously the better option would be no yacht.

I hate Elon, Trump and Bezos for reasons other than their expensive hobbies tbf. The company Gabe runs may have what is essentially a monopoly, but it doesn’t engage in monopolistic practices and it gives a lot back to the community, especially if you’re a Linux gamer.

EGS just sucks and Sweeney himself said he’s not interested in improving it, except by paying for exclusives. Which is funny, because Epic Games used to be pretty great for the gaming industry - with their grants and stuff. GOG is cool, but often publishers don’t want to sell their newer games without DRM. Steam is just the de facto best experience for buying games.

I mean yachts seem to be his hobby, he has several. Idk, they can be kinda cool, but only in retirement and on vacations. Day to day, completely useless and cost a lot of money to maintain even when not used. And I don’t think megayachts are as cool as smaller ones because part of the appeal to me is to get away from everyone. I wouldn’t want 100 people on my yacht. Maybe 4-5 of my closest friends, but you can do that with a yacht costing two orders of magnitude less (and even that is if you want a passagemaker. Something that doesn’t have to be able to cross the ocean can be had for well under a million I think)

Supercars are fun IF you track them. Wouldn’t want to drive one in traffic. Much prefer a luxury car for that if I was rich. Of course I think any rich person who owns supercars and hypercars, also has luxury cruisers to waft around in (or to be wafted around in).

HOAs I’ll never get. Fuck anyone who thinks they can impose rules on what I do with my own yard.

With examples of masculinity like Donald J. Trump, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan, I’ve given up on maleness

Yeah, male here (born as male, identify as male), I don’t think most of us see any of those guys as very masculine. I think every single one of those, but particularly DJT and Joe Rogan, have some really deep insecurities that cause them to be the way they are. Joe Rogan probably has body dysmorphia and a whole host of other issues. I think DJT is an asshole because his own family saw him as a failure and so he’s been trying to prove himself to everyone, but nobody gave a fuck, no matter how big he made his public image.

Real masculinity is something else entirely. Our elevated T levels are because we’re supposed to be providers and protectors by nature. This doesn’t mean that in modern day you should still financially provide for the entire family alone (women work too now, and that’s fine), it means that if you see someone pushing a car that ran out of gas before reaching the gas station, you offer to help, regardless of the other person’s gender identity or skin color. It means that if your elderly neighbor can’t shovel snow off their driveway anymore, you offer to help. And most importantly, you stand by your family and others close to you, and help them protect their own rights (particularly children who don’t know how to stand up for themselves yet).

And some men are not masculine, that’s fine. Some women are masculine too, that’s fine too.

And you know what, I WILL toot my own horn now. I may not be an example of peak masculinity either, but thinking about it, the above mostly describes me. I help anyone I can - especially with physical things, because I’m a force of nature. When I can of course - I still have to put myself and my family first. I take care of my child without any real involvement from my ex - because she wasn’t really capable of being a loving mother. When we were together, I slept 2-3 hours a night to provide for her and the kids (one being my stepkid). I probably did more at home than she did, and I also worked more than full time. Other than two of my exes being physically abusive because they knew I wouldn’t hit back, I haven’t been in a fight since middle school. Not because I’ve pussied out - because I got so big through powerlifting that nobody dares try anything anymore, and I NEVER start a fight. The one thing that I guess is not particularly masculine about me is that I’m not assertive enough. I let people push me around and then erase them from my life, rather than immediately telling them off.

The manosphere will probably call me a beta. I don’t sleep with a bunch of different women, I don’t fight people, I let my ex sleep around without immediately dumping her or hitting her or whatever because I didn’t want to break up the family, one of my best friends is a trans woman. Etc. But fuck that noise, they don’t know what being a man is.

So keep this in mind when you re-evaluate what you think of gender identities. Feel free to stay undefined if that’s what floats your goat, but if TRT makes you feel like you identify as a male, don’t be ashamed of it just because of some noisy ass idiots. Realize that most men, just like most women (and enbies), are just quietly working away at improving the lives of people around them, as well as their own lives. You never hear from those men (or women or enbies) because they don’t have any desire to be public or spread some kind of message.

We’re just in a period right now where male loneliness is a huge issue and unfortunately as a result, a lot of young men do look up to some warped ideas of “masculinity”, while the real issue is that they don’t have enough female friends (and friends in general) in their lives. And of course that’s not anyone’s fault in particular, but I suspect that fans of Andrew Tate or Ben Shapiro would have more luck finding female friends if they weren’t fans of Andrew Tate or Ben Shapiro.

At my latitude I think it’s more like 4AM on that date 🙃

I’ve forked a person. The fork is certainly much more agreeable than the original that I’ve since abandoned completely, but being a solo maintainer on this project is pretty rough.

Well, we don’t know if the Putin part was a joke or serious. They seemed to be in a joking mood in the emails, so perhaps they were talking about an event that happened, but joking about Putin having the photo, as this was when a lot of people talked about the supposed Trump pee tape IIRC. Definitely sounded like Trump blew someone for real though.

As for who - Mark Epstein’s spokesperson apparently said Bubba refers to a private individual, not a public figure. But tbh it’s an Epstein so not exactly a trustworthy source now is he

Besides it feeling nice to do good, it also fosters a better world around you. It’ll be paid back to you in subtle ways you might not even realise.

This is why I can be a fairly good person without believing in eternal damnation for one

nyaa, if only there was some way to grab it without the site being up. Si, that would be very nice indeed.

Or what I guess I’m trying to tell you is that you can download it from nyaa.si

WoW just fucked everything for me. It was never worth the time to learn about an area, because you’re already past most of its content and getting to the next one by the time you sneezed from the book dust.

WoW has been getting worse and worse at this in the later levels after the scaling rework, BUT if you start a new character, then anything that’s not the most current expansion, you can start doing the content from a lower level and actually take your time through… Well probably one expansion’s story lol

So if you go to Northrend or Pandaria or whereever at level 10, you have plenty of time because you can keep doing these zones till you’re level 60 or 70 or something and only then do you actually HAVE to move to the newest region to keep leveling up.

Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor of course are so big that you’re going to have to do multiple characters to get all the storylines done without doing some at max lvl.

I don’t disagree that it died when he left, nor that he was the star of the show.

It’s not humor that offends someone that I can’t tolerate, it’s the cringe. Maybe it’s because I was awkward growing up and I still sometimes blurt out things I shouldn’t (I blame ADHD for this one, I often don’t realize what I’ve said before I said it). Michael has the parts of my personality that I’m the most insecure about, amplified 100x.

You can directly make fun of me as a person and I’m not offended. Call me a planet, tell me I’m an idiot in some creative way, for any number of the stupid things I’ve done in my life, whatever… But Michael’s cringe just… hurts my soul.

My friend who went, always says that Catholic school is the biggest producer of atheists.

It’s going to be limp, but maybe she’ll figure something out.

I took edibles before flying once. Slept across the Atlantic and then a bit more on the connecting flight.

Add well, whatever floats their goat I guess

I wish my ADHD and other issues would let me work 85 hours a MONTH with my toddler around all day every day. I’d be able to pay myself a very decent salary for the part of my country that I live in right now. If I could consistently work a reasonable 150 a month, I’d have the deep into 5 figures amounts of debt my ex put me into, paid off in 2 years. Worst part is, I used to be able to work over 200 a month easily, but I wore myself out like that and now that I’m an exhausted single parent, it’s so, so hard to get anything done.

Best of luck to you and your kitty. It sucks that you need to work so much to be able to afford necessities.

I’m assuming that’s a pretty high cost of living area compared to Bumfuck, NW though. Sucks for anyone working a low wage job in said HCoL area of course, but this is somewhat of a state issue rather than a federal one, since HCoL states and areas should have higher minimum wage than federal minimum wage. And I mean California is at least doing that already, but I think even Cali needs to double its current minimum wage.

Note: I’m not even American, these are just my ramblings.