My dumbass was hoping an e-rickshaw was a cart that’s pulled by one of those Boston Dynamics bipedal robots

Imagine you had never seen a crab before. Then someone shows you a picture of a true crab and says “this is a crab”. Now imagine after that you are shown a horseshoe crab. There’s no way you would think that’s also a crab.

If you think about it, Netflix doesn’t get paid by the view, they get paid by the subscription. So the ideal Netflix show is one which is desirable enough to draw in and retain subscribers while being cheap to produce. Whether or not people actually watch the show is irrelevant to them. If it gets people in the door it’s a winner.

Gboard used to be flawless for swipe typing, but in the last year or so I’ve noticed the autocorrect become far less reliable and actually prone to replacing the word I wanted with something else. They must have made some change within the last couple of years.

I like that everyone thinks it makes a difference whether or not this is a feature, when in reality people have a tendency to carve a desire path to anything they feel makes sense. Twitter may not have a downvote but they do have the “ratio” which does basically the same thing using the mechanics of Twitter.

I just picked up and started playing Brütal Legend. It’s pretty fun. If you are a fan of Tenacious D or anything else Jack Black has done you will probably enjoy it. It’s basically an Isekai story where you play as JB in a fantasy world inspired by heavy metal aesthetics.

Oh for sure, patient gaming all the way. But I was more just pointing out that Denuvo does make things unpleasant for pirates too.

Because sometimes I feel like I attentively listen TOO much, and I’m just there nodding and dispensing a digitized voice-line of “wow!” “awesome” “fun” “cool” “Oh that’s interesting” and so forth…

That’s fine, but I assume you mean that you’re not sure when to say something more substantive than a simple affirmation that you’re following along. A couple of other tips I’ve picked up that help with this:

• When someone stops talking, that usually means it’s your turn to talk.
• The default way to keep a conversation going (assuming you’ve been listening attentively) is to ask something prompted by something the person emphasized when they were talking. If nothing seemed emphasized, you can use the last thing the person said as a default, or else whichever part of what they said gave you an idea of something to say.

So for example if they are talking about their plans for the weekend and mention that on Saturday they are visiting their parents and on Sunday they are going to the beach, you have two prompts to build on there. You could ask “where do your parents live?”, “How often do you visit them?”, “which beach are you going to?”, etc.

Generally try to ask open ended questions rather than yes/no questions. And remember my first tips that the question you ask is also a way of conveying where you want the conversation to go. So if you don’t want to talk about your own parents, maybe it’s better to ask about the beach. And don’t be afraid to say “me too” and then if they say something like “really?” then it’s your turn to talk for a bit as you relate the thing you have in common with them.

Oftentimes, I find it hard to gauge what the other person might “want” to talk about. This can be challenging with people who are more shy or not necessarily big conversationalists from what I’ve experienced.

This is a bit trickier. It depends a lot on the context of why you’re talking to them. It’s helpful to have a roster of icebreaker questions that are socially acceptable to ask as the beginning of a conversation. Stuff like “what do you do for work?”, “What do you like to do for fun?”, etc.

One way or another there’s waiting

Yeah but it also means they have to wait for her to do her thing before they can get access to the game.

I’m not American but IMO it has become far too associated with Anonymous and the stereotype of a rogue activist black hat hacker. Most people wouldn’t get the reference to the movie. They’d just wonder if you are the notorious hacker known as 4chan

Also punishes pirates because the only person in the world who can crack Denuvo is a completely unhinged psycho asshole

I’m by no means an expert, but something I lean on a lot is two key assumptions:

1. People tend to talk about the things they want to talk about
2. They expect everyone to be aware of 1. and to converse accordingly.

What this means is that if you set a topic of conversation, you are hinting that you want to delve deeper into that topic. This can be hard if you’re ND because sometimes you just think out loud surface level thoughts that you don’t actually think would make a good topic of conversation. It also means that if you want to talk about something, often the best way to start that is by asking a question to the other person where your answer to that question is the thing you want to talk about. People often reflect a question back at the asker after answering it. So for example, if I want to talk about a movie I watched recently, I might say “did you see any good movies lately?”

Sometimes it’s only a weakness because of the different medium. Like there’s really nothing wrong with Produce Flame in 5e, but the wording of it would make it difficult to port into the digital medium.

Polygraphs are also complete pseudoscience. The guy running the test can make it spit out whatever results he wants.

Environmentalism aside, I think it’s shitty that a company can waste so much energy on frivolous things anyway. Even if we were using more nuclear I still wouldn’t want it going to generating more porn of three-breasted women

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Some of the stuff on there is actually close to the same quality as what premium studios put out (though yeah, it’s mostly really amateurish). But basically every major professional performer has bailed on the studios to do OnlyFans instead. I guess it must pay better.

Lol yeah, but that site only tracks photos and free videos. Paid videos are almost never on there

But for example replacing sudo is needed.

Seriously asking: what’s wrong with Sudo? And aren’t there already loads of alternatives?