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Tarquinn2049

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  • Ragnarok Online

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  • Eh, I played RO again recently, still awesome. They got the grind right, I think. Even though the game felt so old even when it was new, it was always good times.

  • Are there any cultures where kissing is taboo?

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  • If you are 'hoping' to find one. The answer is more that you will find that in other individuals. Everywhere has some people that are personally averse to it. And it's ok if you are too, you will have to advocate a bit, but most people will be accepting of it.

  • Which one is it? 👀

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  • First guess is they wanted lower case/exact match and threw the wrong error code. But who knows, maybe it was just vibe coded with no sanity check.

  • AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release

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  • But they might be able to make a similarly powered device with older style ram, it would take a significant re-work though, one that would delay release.

    So this basically confirms they didn't go that route.

  • redacted

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  • Quick, we need a positive ID based solely on the one uncensored hand. Ideally on all 4 of the individuals, internet, do your job!

  • What's an objectively terrible movie that you love anyway?

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  • Ah, well there is an official classification, that is what I am going by. An origin story can still be called an origin story even if it's the first story, if it follows the origin story format. If however the first story doesn't follow the origin story format, then it isn't an origin story even if it's the first story.

    An origin story is named that based on what happens in it, it doesn't have to be a pre-quel to qualify.

  • What's an objectively terrible movie that you love anyway?

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  • Origin stories tend to resonate with people, it's basically "how did this person go from being a normal everyday nobody, to one of the most powerful people in the universe" and, if done right, you can empathize with their journey.

    Some origin movies maybe suck at that, but that is them squandering an opportunity, you get alot of potential baked-in just from the concept alone.

    The Matrix was maybe one of the most successful uses of an origin arc, but most origin movies have a similar free boost, whether the rest of the movie supports and earns that boost is up to them. But many still do.

  • What's an objectively terrible movie that you love anyway?

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  • I liked reloaded and revolutions even on first viewing, but I didn't need them to feel the same way the first matrix movie felt in order to consider them good. Like, The Matrix stood out from pretty much every other movie I had seen before. You don't get that a second time right away, especially from another movie of the same type about the same thing. They continued and closed the story very well, but none of them were an origin story, and origin stories are pretty much always more awesome than the other movies in the same series, no matter what order they are made in.

    The Matrix was unfollowable, and they managed to follow it ok. They were always gonna be worse in comparison, but they aren't actually bad.

    I haven't seen Resurrections, not for any particular reason, just keep forgetting anytime I do manage to remember it, before I remember it long enough to see it.

  • World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider

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  • It might be about general knowledge of how colliders work, the sentence structure does it no favours, but half way through I realised it had to be intentional/beneficial due to knowing the only possible way a collider generates heat as a byproduct.

    Where as someone that doesn't know much about colliders might read that sentence and assume it's like radiative heat or something.

  • 'Trump is really worried': White House officials reveal president’s next foreign target

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  • The worst part is he's accelerating towards it so hard that half, or more, of the frogs are going to jump out of the boiling pot. And they will have a civil war at the same time as starting WW3... so they will also lose WW3.

  • A little whimsy should be allowed

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  • The cockroach mice might be that they had only heard about or seen other slighly less terrible drawings of lobsters.

    Edit: Oh wait, thats the ET thing.

    The cockroach mice are little paisley looking ones.

  • A little whimsy should be allowed

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  • Stuff like this makes a bit more sense when you think about how Autism has been a thing for a very long time. This is the kind of shit we still get up to now.

  • How many hours do you spend on the computer/in front of a screen?

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  • My solution is that my screen is 20 feet away and battery powered, and I keep the batteries on a separate floor, so every 2 hours, I have to get up and do the stairs at the very minimum. But I also tend to walk around or do my life while using the screen, since it also floats around and follows me wherever I go. And when not using a floating screen, I just visit other random worlds that tend to involve alot of exercise, like people trying to murder me but I have swords, or magic, or guns... or maybe a world where the objective is dancing... but usually the murder worlds.

    Been doing VR for 10 years now, only the most recent headset (Quest 3) has been a full-day headset, before that, most headsets were 6-10 hours at most even fully modded. Looking forward to future headsets too, now that they don't have to come from meta anymore to be good. It's crazy how much firing most of their workforce and replacing them with AI has tanked their software and firmware dev. They used to have it all(enough that it was worth buying their stuff despite meaning you have to buy 'their' stuff), but then they threw away what they had, first the software and firmware, and then at a critical point of time they decided to throw away hardware too.

    Looking forward mostly to Steam Frame at the moment. And of course with my lifestyle, the number 1 expansion port upgrade I'll be getting is high-res color passthrough. Glad I get to pick it rather than having to use whatever is good enough/cheap enough for everyone. I would easily sink 200$ into that feature alone if someone makes one worth it. Rather than whatever 20 dollar 'pretty good' option would have made sense to include en masse by default.

  • Sudden drop in fentanyl overdose deaths linked to Biden-era global supply shock

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  • Yeah, making life harder for as many people as possible tends to not have the effect of lowering crime. Investing in people is the way to go. But it takes more than 4 years to really show, sometimes it takes multiple generations before the positive effects are felt. But they are felt.

  • Professor Reinstated After Being Fired For Charlie Kirk Post

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  • The apology is literally "sorry we didn't fire him properly", there is nothing about firing him being the wrong course of action. Every word of the apology is carefully crafted to avoid implying that firing him was the wrong move, just that they didn't fire him correctly.

  • Is there a self-help way to deal with fear of germs/"contamination"?

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  • It sounds like more knowledge about virus and bacteria lives can help too. So you know how long a surface just has to be dry for before no virus and bacteria could have survived that long, and stuff like that. There are definitely surfaces and conditions that can increase their life spans, but the average life span without water and in the light, can be surprisingly short.

    Definitely still a good idea to be careful, but very helpful to know more about how careful is the right amount of careful.

    Also, viral/bacterial load is a huge factor. Like, you have to notice how despite how "gross" everything "should be" people still aren't getting sick as often as you would expect. Just cuz some bacteria got somewhere, and is still alive, doesn't automatically mean someone would get sick if they touched it, or brace yourself >!licked!< it. Most traces are going to be too little to make a difference against someone's immune system. That of course goes out the window when there would be no defense, or very little defense. But even there, people on chemo are still exposed to "amounts" of bacteria and virus all the time and they only get sick sometimes despite being immunocompromised. There are alot of hurdles to getting sick even when a bunch of them are knocked down.

    But yes, definitely try to be more careful than the average person is, but you don't need to drive yourself crazy trying to get down to zero exposure.

    Especially since that can lead to lowering the strength of your immune system long-term. And then you really will "have" to be careful. You don't want to get there. Your immune system needs to keep taking it's new tests every day in order to not fall behind the rest of the class. The more often you come in contact with an amount of bacteria or virus that doesn't make you sick, the better. But it is of course a gamble, and more knowledge about what the actual risk is, is very helpful to win those gambles.

  • Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework Stardew Valley uses, as well as 'an ongoing monthly commitment' in what the team behind it calls an 'extraordinary show of support'

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  • The Harvest Moon games were also all dating sims. The main thing Stardew Valley does is have like 20x as much content and variety as a Harvest Moon game with significantly fewer bugs or abandoned concepts. And the Harvest Moon games were already great as they were. But yeah, if you literally rolled every single Harvest Moon game feature into a single Harvest Moon game, it would still come up short against Stardew Valley. And it was made primarily by one dude that charged way less than any single Harvest Moon game for it.

    For the purposes of this comment "Harvest Moon games" refers to the ones made by the real Harvest Moon team, that eventually moved on to "Story of Seasons" when their franchise name was stolen from them. And also includes Rune Factory.

  • 'An Absolute Joke': Trump DOJ Partially Releases Epstein Files, Many Heavily Redacted | Common Dreams

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  • There is always the chance they incompetently bungled something, like all the previous times. We'll know once they've all been parsed. Though this is the most important one, so we'll see.

  • Deputy AG: Bondi to hold back 'several hundred thousand' Epstein docs in Friday dump

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  • It's really kind of them to protect all the democrats they say are the only ones implicated in those files. They've gone to so much effort to protect people that no one wants them to protect. Other democrats don't want them protected, and republicans don't generally want anyone protected other than themselves, like each individual republican. So it's quite the uncommon situation to have so many republicans choose to protect people that are not only meaningless to them, but people you would think they would see as their enemies as well as criminals.

    So yeah, anyway.... it can be pretty tough to keep 100 lies straight, unless the person you are lying to is also invested in those lies being the truth.

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