I’ll take honest indifference over pandering lies.

Bread and circuses are getting expensive. The emperor’s throne is held by one who could never wield it’s authority with the competence and loyalty of the one who built it. What year is it again?

Because no one I’m seeing in these comments is bringing it up, there is something to be said for wanting to do a thing yourself. Sure, if the goal is just orgasms, shove her on a sybian and go play video games. It’ll be very efficient. However, if your goal is to engage in a shared experience where each of you is dedicating yourself to the labor of pleasuring the other in the most intimate way possible, even if it doesn’t result in an orgasm, then the vibrator is not working toward your goal. Look at oral. Almost no person is going to orgasm from giving oral. We do it as an act of love, giving pleasure to a partner without pleasure being automatically recieved. A vibe will make your partner cum whether or not you are there. The genAI of orgasms, a machine producing using raw electric power what a person would produce using skill and emotion. Using it doesn’t have the same demonstration effect. There is a special satisfaction in being the one who puts in the work to bring a partner to orgasm, and a special satisfaction that comes from being the one they are willing to put real effort into bringing to an orgasm. Which one matters more to you is subjective but this take is overly flattening while pretending to be enlightened.

There are rings to make that more convenient.

Uh… edited images are photoshopped. That’s kind of what that word means, despite what Adobe’s lawyers would like people to say.

While I am in favor of removal of cheaters from pretty much every online space, I’m not in favor of any company having that kind of power. Only I should be able to brick my devices.

It doesn’t give satisfaction as itself. It gives satisfaction after the fact in the same way a man who was abused for years as a child can say ‘I’m glad my dad beat the shit out of me because it built character.’ He’s not lying. He really believes it. But if you measured his happiness at any point in the abuse, and even after he reaches the stage where he can say that, it’s not going to be positive. If souls players are masochists, they are at least enjoying themselves. If they aren’t enjoying themselves, they’re just… what? Manipulated? Victims of social pressure? Delusional? Masochism is actually the least awful interpretation of why someone would do something they don’t enjoy. Take masochism as a win.

I can understand basically any game’s audience because I can understand three things: masochism, operand conditioning, and social pressure. Souls games are just an absurd level of self flagellation. Grind games are just a process of rewarding a behaviour over longer and longer times to trick you into thinking you are doing something fun when you get to the release point. Social pressure takes individual tastes and grinds them away because if you want to have friends they will naturally congregate in cheap friendslop games because shit’s expensive and tastes vary, but any gamer crew can afford $7 a piece to have something mediocre to complain about together.

A pool of vomit at his feet.

Regardless of what some so-called expert out there might say the right course of action is, only you can say for sure. No one is better at being you than you.

Then why do I keep fucking it up, Dave?

In my experience, Debian has been way simpler, more intuitive, more stable, and cleaner. Start there. If you need the absolute latest bleeding edge drivers or software, consider arch, then probably just run it on Debian because the software is still available, just not preinstalled.

Disney’s been trying. ‘Once More With Feeling’ is a whole podcast about the reboots. Did you know Disney remade Pete’s Dragon and The Shaggy Dog? I didn’t.

More like big Debian. I see no new, bleeding edge toppings there. Just nice, stable, old-fashioned ingredient layers.

Hard Space: Shipbreaker

It’s nigh meditative.

I got Slime Rancher as similar. Much of steam’s ‘similarity’ system is broken by the popularity of games tying together things that have nothing to do with one another.

Aw, poo. CWA doesn’t stand for Coastal Wizards of America.

Un-normalized data presented as a graph is just encouraging bad interpretations. I know it’s just a look at stupid game sales data but bad data visualization is bad data visualization, regardless of the data it is made from.

No way this is a remotely sane comparison.

Any Tetris game released after 1988 is essentially a sequel while most of these games have no sequels to include, and even if you just dismissively wave that away, it has had almost 40 years to sell those copies.

What you’re talking about is the movement toward live service games, loot box sales, and ‘friendslop’ in just the last several years, but you forgot about the cynically made sequals created purely to milk nostalgia for established IP. This is the result of the investor class trying to colonize the games space. Start taxing the fuck out of the unproductive rent seekers and I expect things would improve.