lol

Furthermore: lmao

Life imitates art, I'm sure I've seen this in a comedy movie at some point. I just never thought anyone would be dumb enough to say it in real life.

I'm going to make it worse: for every person this makes uncomfortable, there is almost certainly another for whom this is an arousing concept.

If I have to suffer with that thought, so do you.

the wildest thing they admit to finding on character.ai is a murdered girl

Wait til someone tells them about chub.ai, then you'll see some real crazy shit.

And then nobody ever made another emulator for Nintendo products again and this definitely does not foreshadow an endless game of whack-a-mole powered by spite.

Surely not.

I'm Brazil

hi Brazil, I'm Dad!

And there's been a bombing in Volgodonsk, too!

Yeah, I have a Steam Deck, and it's literally just a PC in the form factor of a Switch. It has a BIOS menu, you can install Windows on it (but you really shouldn't), you can install a different flavor of Linux (I recommend Bazzite) -- you can even install and play pirated Windows games through Proton, more or less fine, though you have to work for it a bit more.

They developed Proton so that they could get Windows games working on the Deck, and the reason they didn't make the Deck run Windows is they wanted greater control over the OS than Windows affords. Proton has benefited all gamers on Linux. More recently, they've officially partnered with Arch as of a few days ago (which is what SteamOS is built on): https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/the-arch-linux-team-is-now-working-directly-with-valve-steamos-and-arch-should-both-benefit-greatly

and just to gush a bit more: the Deck is the only thing I can remember pre-ordering in the last 10 years and being genuinely happy that I did.

I stopped giving conservatives the benefit of the doubt around the point where the Republican party had every chance, every opportunity to go with any other nominee this year, claw back some sense of decorum... and then they chose the Oompa Loompa again. In 2020, at least it made sense for them to hold on to the incumbency advantage, and in 2016, Hillary was a horrible candidate and it's no wonder she lost.

You know it was free to not post this, right? It would've cost you nothing to simply carry on with your day.

And yet here we are.

If you want a really good 4X game, try Stellaris. It's where I went after 1000+ hours of Civ 5 (and coming to Civ 6 to be disappointed by it, played only like 80 hours), and I've been ̶t̶e̶r̶r̶o̶r̶i̶z̶i̶n̶g̶ liberating the galaxy ever since. I especially like the additional nuances to diplomacy, which are further enhanced by mods -- Civ's AI has always been a bit ham-fisted.

what I'm hearing, here, is that society peaked at the end of the 1990s.