SimCity getting absolutely annihilated from existence be releasing a corrupt flop of a game just before city skylines offered a much better base game out of the box is something I wish would happen more with games that singularly rule their subgenre (The Sims, I'm looking at you).

I wouldn't be surprised if basically every person with over 1k hours in a game isn't seeking some sort of escapism, not counting the anomalies like people leaving servers running etc.

I suppose every minute in a game is escapism of some sort, but escapism from dysphoria or something else significant, I think would be common.

A few years ago in my home town (UK), some people were arrested for making cocaine in their bathroom, by recreating the climate of south America in their bathroom.

It would be wildly impractical and very silly, but also a great experiment, to set up a coffee plant in your home, simulating the humidity, temperature, light and air pressure of high-altitude rainforests, just to have your own sustainable coffee.

If locally sourced and sustainable are your goal, there are some amazing mushroom coffee alternatives that do taste like coffee, one of my local coffee shops offers it. But I also understand the tempting voice in our heads that makes us want to do it the hard way, and get the correct product from a 100% self sustained route.

Or anyone can tell anon is alone in one glance.

This is what the US have encouraged Taiwan to do. Taiwan wanted to purchase a few incredibly expensive fighters and ship from the USA, but basically all war simulations just had China target these and secure a fast win. The USA instead encourage Taiwan to take the "porcupine" technique, spreading many small weapons, particularly handheld anti-aircraft type weaponry across the country. The plan is to make invasion too inconvenient. The flip side is that without a reliable way to show a display of strength, anywhere the larger aggressor does pick on (USA to UK China to Taiwan) can focus on one part of the country and reliably cause massive damage there.

The chances of a future where the UK and USA go to war where those military bases aren't long since gone is nearly impossible.

For me it's the weird ones. I never get ID'd buying alcohol, and it's got to the point where I often don't bring it out (I don't drive). But then I'll be buying a wood file where I need to be 16+ and get ID'd.

I think being assertive and more socially active meaning you're more likely to be a bully is a bit of a myth. Although the cliché school or work bully may be assertive and socially active, there are many unpopular and awkward people who bully those around them, and it just goes unnoticed.

I agree, it's unfortunately impossible to boycott AI outright. The game you love that didn't use it for the writing, art or code probably still had plenty of planning meetings where copilot PowerPoint tools were used. A programmer who doesn't use AI may use something from someone who did. An artist may get a job over another because they used AI for their job application.

And that's ignoring everyone that uses it intentionally for projects. I genuinely loathe AI content but it's not worth boycotting like many other causes.

In the 19th century, the Jacquard loom became widespread, using punchcards to automate weaving. Belgian workers who lost their jobs from this would protest by throwing their wooden shoes, their sabots into the machines. This act is the origin of the word saboteur. This era of industrialisation was shared by the movement of the romantics. Romanticism existed to contrast industrialisation and enlightenment, to celebrate nature and imagination and individuality. Poets like Lord Byron led wonderfully flawed but human lives, while capturing this feeling in their art, poetry and philosophy.

But humans although wonderfully flawed, seek convenience. Evolution loves convenience, dopamine loves convenience, capitalism loves convenience. When it's allure comes from all directions, we cnt fault ourselves for succumbing to it.

Although their name lives on, the saboteurs couldn't stop the world seeking convenience. Although Romanticism always existed before it's heyday, it eventually diminished. From the punchcards of the Jacquard looms, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace (the estranged and father-loathing daughter of Lord Byron) developed the general purpose computer. Technological convenience survived.

There is a growing opinion that we are living through a new romantic era, this time opposing the digital world, the algorithm and artificial intelligence. I agree with this sentiment. Although I consider myself a socialist, pro workers rights and supporter of radical ideals, I don't see the new saboteurs winning; I don't see boycotting AI, or poisoning our art and media with AI confusing language and imagery as a path to victory. Eventually convince always wins. Instead I want to be a romantic, who can celebrate everything human that AI cannot be, without believing that I can exist outside of it's influence. I can both love human made art, media and content, and consume that which has been touched by AI.

God knows why I wrote this all I guess it's just not a conversation I'd ever get to have in real life. There are probably typos in here, I hate to proof-read.

How do you mean? I know it's pretty standard to pirate the Sims games because of their dlc costs, but I don't know any way to get it legally and on steam.

I got in to fasting on Reddit about 5 years ago, which was stupid but I was super overweight at the time, and young enough to be resilient. It's not something I'd recommend to others but I was blown away by how much safer it is than it's often portrayed to be.

There was a whole tag on the subreddit for the "longer then jesus club". For the vast majority of people it's dangerous, but if you have the weight to lose, drink plenty of water and take salt, magnesium and potassium supplements, one month is fine. Humans, along with most animals, are surprisingly resilient to starvation, because of course we are.

Although of course, if you don't have the weight to lose, it gets potentially deadly very quickly. This is why I'd not recommend it to anybody.

There are actually 0 OSHA incidents every year, but Workplace Incident Georg has 10,000 workplace incidents each day and is an outlier and shouldn't be counted.

I'm on a GTX 980ti and my plan is to pick up a 4000 series, maybe a 4080 super, when the 6000 series is announced.

To be fair, my 980ti has been amazing at punching unreasonably far above where it should.

In this case is it not the same map because it's the same data?

Not to play devil's advocate but I have learnt to take even the most plausible Reddit comments with a grain of salt.

I saw an announcement from Sega a couple of months ago saying that they're looking to return to their MO: Being the punkrock to Nintendo's mainstream pop. I think this is really the difference between Sega's Sonic Vs Paramount's Sonic. Paramount want to make a mainstream Sonic movie and mainstream mean filing off the rough edges.

I don't think it's got anything to do with today's political landscape as much as the nature of all high budget cinema. Never mistake the film industry as anything but venture capitalism, with art being incidental and anarchic messaging being a facade and only existing for profit. Any for-profit art, particularly a $122 million cost piece of art, is going to only care about the most profitable choices.

Honestly I think their higher upvote / post ratio is a better formula. Most of Lemmy has too little engagement on it's posts for my tastes.

I think he's holding it deceptively far from his body to make it look bigger, and it's having the same effect on his hands.

I'm so lucky to be born in '98 and just dodged the great aging.

I've been told by literal Brewdog barstaff that if they know he's coming, they need to encourage their female staff to either dress moderately or not come in, to minimise his sexual harassment.

I don't know how true that is, but the city I'm based in, which is pretty happy to boycott assholes is filled with people who boycott Brewdog.