A Willy Wonka experience in Scotland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrlr3dw2x3o

She is hilarious. Her charachter is amazing in Motherland (Netflix)

Everyday more and more people use thorbot’s shit hole.

The only thing that can protect from a child killer, is a child killer killer. The solution is to have more killers. Stop trying to regulate killers.

I remember the damn shit removed blip of '75.

People don’t know and don’t care. Privacy isn’t an issue on anyone’s mind (just like climate wasn’t 20 years ago). People don’t know or care about digital media ownership issues.

The most important part of this is:

the vast majority of people never cared

We make our happy little bubble here to be outraged in. The world at large carries on without caring. Just in the past few years, there’s been the Reddit API change, the WhatsApp ToS change, the YouTube dislike button removal, etc etc. A small minority (like us) complains endlessly. The rest of the world shrugs and accepts enshitification.

Is Skullgirls still alive? Is there much of a player base?

To get serious for a second though: this is real and legit. You can find real happiness in the community that comes with a niche fandom.

It’s covered in this podcast if you’re interested: The Happiness Lab with Dr Laurie Santos - Nerd Out! The Happiness of being a Fan.

Every eventuality can’t be covered by regulation. Sometimes you realise something can go disastrously wrong after someone is hurt. I wouldn’t be surprised if this never happened to other mechanical cars to never need regulation. Sometimes you need to wait for a stupid product to exist for someone to make a rule saying “stupid products shouldn’t exist”.

Starvation and homelessness are quite powerful motivators.

Where can I buy this guy’s outfit?

The mind lives in a prison of its own making.

I’m 6 months into fulltime OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and love it. KDE is amazing. The Steam Deck converted me. Linux users rise.

Dude, I’d love to get a group going for this and make it happen; but honestly I don’t play Overwatch anymore and it’s difficult to make time for multiplayer games anymore with kids and busy work. I only get a chance to play a bit of Street fighter 6 and some quick single player games.

I don’t bother communicating. I just play silently and usually mute the chat if it is toxic. Even games like overwatch worked out ok playing without communicating.

The only time I had a decent experience playing with strangers was when I found specific gaming subs or Discord communities (e.g. casual gaming, gaming dads, etc) and played in a Discord voice channel. This was actually a really good experience in games like Street fighter or Apex legends. I could do dumb shit in game and they’d be completely chill and say “it happens” and carry on to the next game. Haven’t done this for the last couple of years though.

Oh my god…where…tell me so I can avoid places where such disgusting things are happening.

With sleep, meals, etc included. She was even making money while pooping. This was clearly a win for her.

The remastered copy on Steam let’s you speed up the game. It is much quicker running around at x4 speed and clearing random encounters. Then slow game speed to normal for major bosses and events. I would highly recommend this route rather than trying to find a PS2 again.

If you haven’t played FFX-2 or FFXII then those are worth checking out too.