Eh possibly, but many of the women I've slept with have told me that I make them feel safe and that it's a huge turn on for them. Shocking, I know, that people might want to feel secure before they get intimate.
My reaction when I heard it was trending was to slap this together:
As a tall man who likes to walk at night, I have long understood that women alone at night do not wish to encounter me. So when I happen to find myself following a woman down the street, I will either slow down, cross the street, or stop and look at a sign or something for a minute to give her some space.
In a dangerous and shitty world, a person has to find subtle and quiet ways to express care, compassion, and solidarity. It costs me nothing to make a woman feel safer.
As one-hit wonderland would call it, "the failed follow-up" to Torn. Smoke's a great song too, a lot of similar vibes, not as good of a hook though. I'm astounded to see that she's still active in music, I'll have to check out some of her recent stuff!
I like how I know this story didn't happen anywhere close to me since: no one calls them "cycle paths", we hardly have any "bike lanes" anyway, and we definitely don't have any trains to ride while discussing biking.
Now, if this had been a story about guns, trucks, and psychopaths, it would have been very relatable.
The book is very good! I happened to catch wind of it right after it came out. Its a great mix of Visitor's personal experiences in TV, and her research and interviews with many women who've worked in Trek over the years. She writes well and the stories are both personal and educational about the history of the show and the medium.
46 LPs, holy hell, now that's a collection!!
Mmmmmm.... gonna just put this on the Christmas list for now...
LP24 / LP25 / LP26
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS, SS)
LP27
Castlevania: Bloodlines (GEN)*
Wow, just put those 4 on repeat all night DJ! A shame there's nothing from the Mercury-Steam games though, Lords of Shadow had some pretty good tracks.
He likens Arkane's approach to studios like Larian and FromSoftware: "Those are people that have been doing, over and over, the thing they know exactly how to do, until it hits super hard. So to me, that's what Arkane had to do."
Damn, what a concept: doing the same kind of game multiple times, iterating on the design to perfect it. Obviously Bethesda gets releasing the same game over and over again, but this idea of "improving" the design is so alien to them. Wouldn't adding thousands of microtransactions be an improvement?
I visited Ecuador several years ago and got to chew on coca leaves, but they also had coca leaf candies! Both were excellent for helping with altitude sickness, and I really enjoyed the flavor. Had a gentle mood lifting effect too, like a nice cup of tea, but in the form of chewed cud, haha.
I'm making fun of the common practice, exemplified by Bethesda, of leaving bugs in their games for the modders to fix. The joke, in this case is that Rocket Werkz is leaving an "unfinished feature" in that is a Hard Problem in physics. There isn't a general, easy solution to the N-body problem.
I also got randomly sent this image from a matrix on the technics.de server. Aside from all the antisemitism and nazi stuff, I admit I was a little charmed by it. Reminded me of timecube and the good old days of how the Internet used to be a place for nerds, outcasts, and complete fucking psychopaths.
Edit: Link to proof ཚྒྷཚྒྷ
I didn't get Hexcodle #448 :( Score: 57%
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https://hexcodle.com
Ugh, this one was annoying, couldn't quite hone in on those second digits.
One reachier goal is to add an n-body physics system. [...] RocketWerkz say there's a "small chance" of RocketWerkz developing such a simulation internally - they're currently trying to hire somebody with a PhD to apply the requisite high-density brain-magic - but it's likely this will be left for modders to figure out.
The next Bethesda game is just going to have a bug dependent on solving the Reimann conjecture, smh, always waiting on the modders to solve the company's intractable math mysteries.
I've expressed a similar sentiment as "it's easy to be enlightened up on a mountain." As in, big whoop to all the wise hermits who fled society to find peace: that's not being above the problems of the world (except literally), it's hiding from them and pretending that ignorance can be bliss again. The real work is maintaining peace and wisdom in the face of monstrous injustice.
I'm not posting a Snopes link or whatever, but it was Mussolini who allegedly got the trains running on time, and he didn't anyway. Improvements to the Italian rail system were begun under the previous government, and actually the trains weren't particularly punctual under his regime anyway.
I love how insane this guy looks and sounds, but he's always very committed to safety and explaining the safety measures. (Also, he sounds like the Ordinary Sausage guy a little? Is squeaky voice like an engagement thing?)
Last Day of LemmyFriends Server
I wanted to take a moment to thank @[email protected] for the multiplayer server they set up! Tomorrow is the last day for it, and I thought I'd share some screenshots!
@[email protected] and myself managed to meet up online a few times and had a blast building up the factory! We got half-way into Tier 4, unlocked a lot of goodies in the MAM and the ticket booth! A few more days and we'd get to phase 3!
Sorry I never ran into you Jet, but if you decided to keep the server up for a little longer, I wouldn't complain. I'd pitch in some monetary support as well.
Anyway, here's some of the fun we had!
! BadCodeCat glides over the moon.
! The parking lot at night (yes, we unlocked the cybertruck, even parked it correctly!)
! Close up of the skate park (for doing sick flips in the cart!) Back-to-the-Future-style hoverboards when, Coffee Stain?!
! I rode the freighter up to get a high overhead view of things!
! A final shot of the factory at night.
This was my first Satisfactory multiplayer experience (and kind of my first factory game MP at all!) and it was a great time! Thanks again for setting it up Jet, hope to catch you online some other time! And thanks to BadCodeCat for being an awesome Pioneer to work with (and taking many of these lovely picture!)
King of the Bebop
Someone posted an Evangelion joke elsewhere that reminded me of the incredible Propane Genesis Evengelion.
I was rewatching that when I ran across this brilliant parody in the same vein. There's a sequel for the closing theme as well.
All that the light touches
I was scouting a high place to set up a radar when I noticed this great view! Couldn't quite get everything in (there's another factory off to the left, and my main/initial layout is directly under me, as evidenced by the space elevator) but I liked how my little empire looks, pockets of industry in a wild world.
I like also the evolution of my factory building as I unlocked parts and started to care more. From naked buildings on platforms at the far right (and below) to a roofless but walled factory in the distance, and then my most recent building in the mid-right distance. The only one so far with walls, floors, AND a frickin' ROOF! It's even got lights and windows! Yeah, we get a little fancy sometimes, haha.
How's your factory/empire looking?
Electric Six - Gay Bar
From their 2003 debut album, Fire, which it pretty much is all the way through. I remember this song exists about once a year and binge it for a day.
The Fresh Prince was apparently anything but that day
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/36965
CONSIDERING HIRING AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR!!! AROOOO!!!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20367057
> Ah, I knew it..
Garfs of the Deep, Rising
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25352537
> Anon tells the tale of the Garfield phones
(LP) Paradise State of Mind - Foster the People
Paradise State of Mind is the fourth studio album by American indie pop band Foster the People, released on August 16, 2024, through Atlantic Records, their first under the label. It is the band's first studio album since the release of Sacred Hearts Club in 2017, although they released an EP and a ...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18722992
> Foster the People has a new album out, pretty good! Torches, their debut, is one of my favs, and I've enjoyed some of their later work too. This one definitely sounds like FtP, though I think there's a little more brass and other jazzy sounds being pulled in. I haven't listened enough to have any album picks yet. > > Have you listened yet? What tracks did you like best? What's your favorite FtP song?
(LP) Paradise State of Mind - Foster the People
Paradise State of Mind is the fourth studio album by American indie pop band Foster the People, released on August 16, 2024, through Atlantic Records, their first under the label. It is the band's first studio album since the release of Sacred Hearts Club in 2017, although they released an EP and a ...
Foster the People has a new album out, pretty good! Torches, their debut, is one of my favs, and I've enjoyed some of their later work too. This one definitely sounds like FtP, though I think there's a little more brass and other jazzy sounds being pulled in. I haven't listened enough to have any album picks yet.
Have you listened yet? What tracks did you like best? What's your favorite FtP song?
TIL: "Doom + Doom II" defines a new standardized compatability level for mods, ID24
ID24 is a specification and standard specifically aimed at mod authors and mods in general. It builds on top of the possibilities shown in the MBF21 standard, acting as a super-set of it, and was first implemented in the KEX Engine source port of Doom + Doom II. It was first used there for the Legac...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18580092
> I had wondered about how some things were done with the new episodes. I'm glad they released some documention and kept the standardization so that the rest of the broader Doom community can build off the new release.
TIL: "Doom + Doom II" defines a new standardized compatability level for mods, ID24
ID24 is a specification and standard specifically aimed at mod authors and mods in general. It builds on top of the possibilities shown in the MBF21 standard, acting as a super-set of it, and was first implemented in the KEX Engine source port of Doom + Doom II. It was first used there for the Legac...
I had wondered about how some things were done with the new episodes. I'm glad they released some documention and kept the standardization so that the rest of the broader Doom community can build off the new release.
Donald Trump Photo Without Ear Bandage Raises Eyebrows
Famous photographer Pete Souza has seemingly deleted his X account after a post doubting whether Trump was shot in the ear.
Updates:
Might be best for mods to lock this post at this point (is that a thing on Lemmy?) because this story is basically wrapped. The FBI says a bullet caused some ear damage. Maybe it was bullet shrapnel from a ricochet or something like that, but later photos show the teleprompters in-tact so it wasn't shards of glass from those. Trump's usage of the bandage (and the assassination attempt) as symbols and political tools has been discussed at length and I don't think conspiratorial thinking beyond that is very productive. Pete Souza took his own account down after getting a lot of harassment, so no further conspiracies are needed regarding X-formerly-known-as-Twitter at this time.
> A photo of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taken on Saturday without his ear bandage has sparked a wave of speculation.
> The image, taken by Alex Brandon of the Associated Press on July 27 and shared by photojournalist Pete Souza on X, formerly Twitter, shows Trump walking up an airplane staircase with an apparently fully healed ear wound just weeks after he was shot with a high-powered rifle.
> Souza, known for his tenure as the chief official White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, posted Brandon's photo on his now-deactivated X account on Saturday, writing, "AP photo this morning. Look closely at his ear that was 'hit' by a bullet from an AR-15 assault rifle."
> Souza's profile, @PeteSouza, which had over 200,000 followers, now reads, "This account doesn't exist, try searching for another," implying that he has deleted or deactivated it. If he had been banned, it would read, "Account suspended. X suspends accounts which violate the X rules."
Commanding the Room: The Spread of Christian Nationalism in Louisiana Politics
“But it is dominion that we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. It is dominion we are after. World conquest… we must never settle for anything less.” —George Grant, The Changing of the Guard: Biblical Bluepri...
I really enjoyed this high level review of how we got to where we are, and where they're trying to take us. From my favorite local left wing rag.
PlayStation has no games!
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35692489
> A callback to the PS3 early days.
Ashes: Hard Reset OST by John S. Weekley
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16392555
> Ashes: Hard Reset OST by John S. Weekley > > I saw over the weekend that the soundtrack had been released ahead of the upcoming (!) prequel (‼️) to the amazing series of Doom mods. The Ashes series rules, play them if you haven't. The soundtracks also rule and I had the Afterglow OST in heavy rotation all last year. > > This one is pretty good. Very heavy with callbacks to the previous OSTs and to the original Doom's music. "Romero Waiting for the Train" is particularly fun for it's mix-in of my favorite OG track. I can't wait to wander more post-apocalyptic subways to this groovy tune!
Ashes: Hard Reset OST by John S. Weekley
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16392555
> Ashes: Hard Reset OST by John S. Weekley > > I saw over the weekend that the soundtrack had been released ahead of the upcoming (!) prequel (‼️) to the amazing series of Doom mods. The Ashes series rules, play them if you haven't. The soundtracks also rule and I had the Afterglow OST in heavy rotation all last year. > > This one is pretty good. Very heavy with callbacks to the previous OSTs and to the original Doom's music. "Romero Waiting for the Train" is particularly fun for it's mix-in of my favorite OG track. I can't wait to wander more post-apocalyptic subways to this groovy tune!
Ashes: Hard Reset OST by John S. Weekley
I saw over the weekend that the soundtrack had been released ahead of the upcoming (!) prequel (‼️) to the amazing series of Doom mods. The Ashes series rules, play them if you haven't. The soundtracks also rule and I had the Afterglow OST in heavy rotation all last year.
This one is pretty good. Very heavy with callbacks to the previous OSTs and to the original Doom's music. "Romero Waiting for the Train" is particularly fun for it's mix-in of my favorite OG track. I can't wait to wander more post-apocalyptic subways to this groovy tune!