Broken clock miracles or something, go figure :)

Ew, sexy demons

At times like these I’m kinda ok with portuguese lacking a “proper” word for berry. “Bago” or “baga” isn’t really used, at least not in everyday life, everyone will always refer to them as fruits

For some reason, you made me think of 4chan and how it’s always been a cesspool, no capitalism needed. Little did we know how most corporate social media would devolve into “4chan, but with ad-friendly moderation”

Took me a while to realize that for most people, it’s less about religion and more about maintaining rituals and, more importantly, belonging to a community. To my knowledge, atheists don’t have the latter outside the internet.

That a dictatorship led by a “good, strong leader” would be enough to fix any country. Held that belief from ages 16-22. With time, I understood that it would devolve into a bad strong leader anyway, especially because any one single person cannot realistically do everything at such a large scale, nor can they ensure that everyone down the chain of command is “good”. Paranoia would seep in, more and more resources would be spent hunting “the bad ones”, innocents would be wrongfully accused either by honest mistake or by malicious enemies.

Nowadays, I really enjoy the idea of “Do not take for yourself any power that you would loathe your worst enemy to have” and I wish it could be applied to all levels of politics.

The only autocorrect I liked because I have no clue how to manually insert an em-dash otherwise

I feel the same about Eternal. In 2016, once I got the upgrade that gave me infinite ammo while at full health and armor, I had some of the best fun in the game, using the railgun like a maniac

I didn’t finish Eternal, I think I stopped before the cathedral where you’d kill the 2nd evil archbishop or whatever. Combat was annoying and the parkour more so

The UI and every interaction is unnecessarily slow and that really builds up stress, not to mention the many times your aim is pretty fucking clearly centered on a vegetable or box or whatever, but the interact will target a nearby NPC because fuck you.

Learning alien words is one of the worst chores of NMS

Nah, monkey brain would still think “THIS time I’ll win for sure!”

Vtubers are people pretending to be anime girls

Entertainment is a “social lubricant”, so it’s not entirely useless. A live show, a party, a sports game or a theater play are great for bringing people together and give them something common to talk about.

The problem is that a lot of the electronic entertainment (games, movies, series, internet) in the past 30 or so years has become fully individual.

Celebrities, French language

I’m fired, aren’t I?

Now now, we don’t use that kind of language here, this is a family company, because our bonds create greater amplification of the synergies between the aligned areas. HR Family Relations will have a constructive discussion about your behavior paradigm within the family

He’s really good at scamming people

Emacs is a table saw, vim is a chainsaw, nano is a scissor. Every problem those 3 solve is a differently sized single sheet of paper.

Gamewinners. While GameFaqs has largely taken over and a lot of games no longer offer actual built in cheat codes, GW was one of the best resources and even had cheats that aren’t on GF. Thank god archive.org still lets me browse GW

Also CMGSCCC which had soooooo many gameshark codes! It still kinda exists as codetwink now

I supposed the alternative would be browsing i2p or freenet sites, pretty much nothing but weird small blogs, almost all of them focused on security and privacy tho

I think you meant geocities :)

Mine happened over the phone back in 2012. One of the best decisions I’ve made was to break up with her. We were arguing about something (no idea about what, anymore) and I angrily shouted (in ptbr) “You don’t need to call me anymore, ever again, it’s over for us! Good bye!” - She was very angry at me and tried to call me back several times, I turned off my cell phone and disconnected the cord of the home phone. Since those weren’t working, she called my mom, to which I replied “Whatever you have to say, I don’t want to hear.”, finishing the call without letting her speak.

The relief I felt then was HUGE.