I was talking to someone about a serious and personal topic, and caught myself saying “lol” quickly, and apologised in advance explaining that it’s a habit.
“Man, that sucks lol”. They understood it already as a force of habit, yet I didn’t realise how difficult it is to shake lol!
Edit: damn it…

New lore unlocked: maybe this is why.

I dunno, I have a feeling Ken may be up for it.

If a man is freshly circumcised, and Wolverine quickly circumcises himself and then sticks his penis to the other man, would be become conjoined to the other person at the penis (as it heals)?
What effect would this have on the other person, if the blood from Wolverine’s boner now extends to the other person? Does he get regenerative powers too or only around his junk?

When I played the first one I just camped at the teleporters, and got many kills. It was a very long time ago, perhaps around that same time.

I hope there’s a radio station like this, however all the songs are really terrible and poke fun at AI throughout.

I thought that was the Blumpkin mod.

Whilst I’m on the other side of the fence, I can very much understand this.
I figure this is the sort of market Valve are gearing towards, with the Steam Deck and soon the GabeCube.

It doesn’t check all of those points, however a good number of them fit the new Sony Xperia, they have two models, one that’s more powerful and expensive and a cheaper (€400) model.

I’m sick of my Samsung tbh, have had them for a while now, but as soon as I saw that the Sony phones have a headphone jack and Micro SD slot I’m sold for my next phone. No camera hole punch either (I’m not a fan of it, I can understand people liking it though).

I’ve done it a few times. Colours pop, some mood change, but overall it’s weak and not worth it. I didn’t get negative effects, it’s just a crap mushroom experience if you can get ahold of psilocybin mushrooms.

This is how I felt about it. Cranked the graphics up, thought it was beautifully made, yet overall the gameplay and execution felt generic. The combat becomes predictable and nothing special.

That’s the general consensus around my friend circles, over the years. It did spawn the short lived joke, “I’m so hungry I could eat a Findus” though.

People around me stopped buying Findus not because of the scandal, but because they just didn’t taste as good once they changed their recipe.
I can’t say if it was the horsemeat, but the ready meals tasted better before. I don’t know how to word this without sounding awkward.

Monopolies are just an effect of capitalism in its current form.
I’m more concerned with the games companies who aren’t even monopolies, and are already seen as shit services run by shitty people (unless anyone actually likes Ubisoft, EA, and their launchers???)

Gamers have respect for Gaben, and I’ve heard more faith and less worry about his son taking over than practically the entire team of owners from Valve’s competitors. They have a monopoly because it’s a good service, and the fact that it’s has a user base as big as it does shouldn’t surprise anyone: they seem to be doing things right enough to not be a bother. That’s what matters more than the inevitability of a business getting big - there’s a lot more Nuance and that doesn’t just magically happen, nor is just pointing it out helpful in sensible critique.

I find that hard to believe, since I would go to India sometimes twice per year when younger (for over a decade).
In 2005 we were told to be cautious of I think cabbage containing dishes, because it was making many people sick. It was also common for milk to be sold highly pasteurised and in blue bags within the city.

I’ve also had questionable and not good food from those little backstreet fast food places whether in Atlanta, Minnesota, Arkansas, and I even had a rather average Chinese dish from near Santa Monica (which I didn’t rate well).

There’s a good chance you were in the right area for good food, but that also exists here (example: Camden Town, which has been a ‘Foodie’ destination for a while now), or the plethora of food festivals all around London.
I apologise if I gave the impression that they’re hard to find: they’re really not.

Mostly a stereotype perpetuated by cheap or hastily found dining places.
When you get fish and chips from a good place that handles fresh catches, there is considerable flavour, yet buy from the fast food place in the middle of a high street and you’ll get a soggy representation from the frozen cod.
Same situation with a good roast, or a cottage/shepherds pie, or pie and mash that isn’t just a casserole with a hat, etc.

Honestly I’ve stepped foot in 39 US States so far, and it’s a similar thing there. I just think the “British food bad” thing has stuck as humour, there’s plenty of theories about it I won’t get into but it’s just a thing I suppose.

What I’ve noticed is YouTube recommending me more obscure videos, from very small creators.

I very much appreciate whatever they’re doing, regardless of how these bigger channels are being hit by it. Yesterday I got recommended a video by an elderly woman, showing a mug warmer she bought. It was very sweet, had less than 30 views and it was a lovely contrast to the flashy, over edited videos stretching a paragraph to 10+ minutes.

Not saying the big channels are bad, I just personally like the small time channels and appreciate that YouTube has been (at least with the algorithm it has set for me) giving these small channels a shot at getting an audience.
I’ve connected with a lot of people from smaller channels, joined communities etc. yet this is much more difficult with the larger ones (in some I’ve been to, over the years, the chatrooms they set up are so huge the moderation sometimes just gives up or doesn’t even exist in any practical way).

Whilst this is true, it’s also a good reason to move to self hosting if possible.

I’ve been slowly removing my reliance on these ad filled services, even though the apks I use have ads removed, and this news just gives me more reason to ramp this up since these same APKs may no longer work without some trickery by 2027 (if they go with this plan).

Still, this all seems like constant patchwork as any and all effort is being taken to rid ourselves of control over our devices. It’s an iffy situation and I just hope people smarter than myself will continue fighting, in some manner.

I saw a doctor in Amsterdam about it and he slid me €20 and kept saying, “I’m a real doctor”. They really do things differently in Europe!

I hope they don’t block VPN access.