Nothing good happens there.

That’s a peak western chauvinist take right there. My wife and I are lowkey planning a trip to Thailand to explore the food, suppose that makes us some sort of creeps?

This whole concept of some places being judge worthy is racist as hell.

A lot of folks are listing their favorite games but this is the one that truly fits.

• Unusually long development time by a studio known for DnD-simmiliar RPG games getting the next installation for the series that defined the genre.

• Cast voice actors for several years, ones that are still playing their characters on a variety of platforms.

• Just chock filled references to DnD lore, cute in-jokes, and faithful updates on old characters.

Everyone involved clearly loved it!

WARNING : Playing excellent, well told, thought provoking puzzle games about AI will make you so much madder about the silly folk that say “I turned AI sentient” folk. 🙄

Great game, solid sequel too.

Oooh I was thinking of grabbing Steins. I know I watched the anime several years ago and enjoyed it, but only have hazy recollections of the plot. Doing the VN seems just enough same, just enough different to be fun.

Just finished Tyranny and Pilliars of eternity so I’m picking up the sequel Deadfire. Checked out the price history last week and seems like it’s regularly 75% off during seasonal sales so I’m pleased to see it at $10.

I see what you were going for. ♥️

Hugs!

I mean, I absolutely agree. Was it life changing tho?

Oofh. I sorry friend, it’s a fantastic movie but also a rough watch. Hope things are better now! 🤗

If you haven’t seen it, “Don Jon” (also staring Levitt!) approached the same flawed relationship story from a totally different angle but in a quite fuflling way.

Attack the arguments, not the person.

I mean… Piratesoftware certainly went after the person.

Adam ruined reddit.

(Go with me on the joke, reddit was ruined long long time ago. Adam did an endorsement of Orb a few weeks back, got called out and did an apology.)

I’M STILL BLAMING CONOVER THO

Highlights from the Wikipedia article on Pain in fish

The central nervous system (CNS) of fish contains a spinal cord, medulla oblongata, and the brain, divided into telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon and cerebellum.

Studies show that fish exhibit protective behavioural responses to putatively painful stimuli. When acetic acid or bee venom is injected into the lips of rainbow trout, they exhibit an anomalous side-to-side rocking behaviour on their pectoral fins, rub their lips along the sides and floors of the tanks and increase their ventilation rate. When acetic acid is injected into the lips of zebrafish, they respond by decreasing their activity. The magnitude of this behavioural response depends on the concentration of the acetic acid.

Early experiments provided evidence that fish learn to respond to putatively noxious stimuli. For instance, toadfish (Batrachoididae) grunt when they are electrically shocked, but after repeated shocks, they grunt simply at the sight of the electrode

In a 2007 study, goldfish were trained to feed at a location of the aquarium where subsequently they would receive an electric shock. The number of feeding attempts and time spent in the feeding/shock zone decreased with increased shock intensity and with increased food deprivation the number and the duration of feeding attempts increased as did escape responses as this zone was entered. The researchers suggested that goldfish make a trade-off in their motivation to feed with their motivation to avoid an acute noxious stimulus.

We could go philosophy 101 and wonder if you see the same color blue as I do, maybe yours is red? It is easy to say that’s immposible to know, but that ignores everything science understands about visible light spectrums, cone recpetiors in the retina and the genetic markers that lead to color blindness.

Fish have nerve endings, they have brains that can process stimuli and their reactions to human standard “painful” stimuli is identical to our own. What reason is there to even doubt they feel pain simmiliar to our own?

Well, IMO that’s actually pretty easy to determine. I assume the pain you feel being cut by a hook is simmiliar to pain I feel being cut because we react the same way. Basically every living thing reacts the same way to cuts, yelping, bleeding then flight/fight. Cats, dogs, animals of all sorts go through the same steps when they are cut so it’s a safe assumption their pain is simmiliar. And things that don’t react, such as cutting a techincally alive potato, aren’t really feeling pain. Idk maybe potatoes silently scream, can’t disprove it, but that’s just not the same as creature that flee from threats

So while we don’t know what a fish thinks about suffocating in air, it’s a reasonable assumption that it’s similar to humans suffocating in water, unpleasant. We both thrash around and do our best to breathe again. Sure, in a philosophical sense it’s imposible to know what other creatures think, even other humans that can verbally communicate, but that ignores some of the more obvious context clues.

Ooooooh, that’s a good one!

Well, we won’t call it that. Vietnam was techincally “a police action”, but we all know it was a war. This police action will get folks killed in an effort to take prisoners, which sure sound like a…

Some of those who burn crosses, hold office.

I hate this stupid fucking bigoted ass country.

Bastion and Transistor, sure. Without a doubt, imoactful clever stories that were well delivered.

Pyre always felt like a buggy mess tho. I tried multiple times to get into it but it’s just not on the level of the first two.

It’s a niche masterpiece, but my 600 hours of play time agrees I am in that niche

It still feels a little odd to me that restaurants don’t ask “smoking or non?”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m delighted everything stopped smelling like ash. But it’s surreal to remember my grand parents chain smoking over pancakes at Dennys.

Hey sis, I feel where you are coming from and I truly understand, there are a lot of scary things happening in the world and what others do with their time isn’t something you should ever worry about.

I have a lot of emotions when I see people talk about HP, primarily dissapointment, my guess is that all trans folk do. But it wasn’t a fight we lost, because it wasn’t a fight, but slow incremental progress. If something simple as media choices are a stumbling block for “allies”, then they are just fairweather friends. Naturally people react defensively to criticism, such as GirlfriendReviews, but that doesn’t make make giving money to those that persecute us any less valid critique.

You’re exhausted, so am I, we all are. Transphobia is rampant, yet it’s better than ten years ago, better than 30 and better than a 100. The progress is slow, but talking about the ways our community is harmed is the way to make the next 100 years better.

Ugh, first that kid only getting his ear and now THIS?

do better