Poe’s Law hitting hard on this one.

They used to be, but then again old forms of many things were more dangerous than they are now.

I could see a show that’s basically kind of like Dexter, where a group of various kinds of queer people who lost their loved ones to anti-queer violence join a support group but then go Dexter-y and start tracking down and gathering irrefutable evidence of bigoted violence and then murdering the perpetrators.

Bigot: “What are you gonna do? Drown me in rainbows?”

Gay Dexter: “No.” *slits throat* “I’m not that kind of fairy.”

That’s just repeating the concept in the OP and ignoring my point. There is a value in the personal touch. Which would signal a better partner to you: a woman who knows you like to have food sometimes so she installs a vending machine in your apartment with all the options set to ice cream and the prices at 0.00, so you can always have as much of this one thing to eat, any time, any day, with or without her, as you like as long as you keep paying for power, or one who knows you like food, so she figures out what you like and dislike, learns recipes that she thinks will make you happy, spends time finding or growing good produce to make those recipes, and only when she’s feeling ill or burned out by work, reaches for the vending machine? The vending machine is always there as an option, but not wanting to use it is not just weakness. It’s often a desire to be the best version of yourself for your partner, not as a competition with the machine but a competition with the limitations of human language and form to express the inexpressible extent of your love.

Yes, fuck that fucker! My PC is an asshole.

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.

Not something I’ve experienced in a long time but you could try Super+Shift+left/right arrow to see if you can sling it over.

Not something I’ve experienced in a long time but you could try Super+Shift+left/right arrow to see if you can sling it over.

I’d more go for, “Fuck! Dragons?” because it’s silly to hate dragons but if there are dragons involved, it’s probably not going to go well for some lame little 2m tall doofus with a magic stick.

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.

All DnD characters are weird by definition. They are generally magic-weilding mercenaries in worlds that are populated almost exclusively with people who are not. They are the types of loons who hear, ‘There are monsters in that cave that will paralyse you, bind you, fill you with digestive juices, and then leave you to die slowly over the next few days, but there MIGHT be something of value in there, though there’s no reason to assume there is,’ and decide to run in so fast they forget their pants.

Fireball.

How is th–

Fireball.

I never thought about it much but how hard would it be to add PID to your power info?