We cannot be living in a simulation because the amount of energy to simulate and calculate all the possible atoms, quarks, and other particles and all their simultaneous interactions every fraction of a millisecond would far exceed an exponent of zillions upon zillions of all the possible energy that could ever exist. We wouldn’t even begin to be able to comprehend anything.

“Well… the forerunners’ physics operate differently, duh!”

Uh… if you were to believe that delusion, then I wouldn’t know what to tell you; then you could just rig whatever answer you want to anything. And even if that were true, then the “real” world must be so vastly different from anything we could possibly connect with or perceive that it wouldn’t be relatable anyway and would therefore be worthless or just academic to think about. I guess you don’t want to hear it but this is unfortunately our actual life and that guy was just weird. Ask him if you can buy any potions from him next time or something.

Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads.

The average person has less self-control than you, sadly.

Yes, they’re terrible because you can’t navigate through their settings without a mouse. Tab only goes so far in KDE. I couldn’t stand it.

You are correct; they have unfortunately also become risky. I literally, unironically minimize veggie intake because of these issues and eat spirulina powder. Algae is the future of food. JOIN ME!

Yeah, we can no longer msg other participants without paying. I guess they’ve picked up on it having dating potential since it has a “Single” designation so it may get added to Match’s ever-growing portfolio down the years, haha.

Yeah, I was about to say that I thought this was already considered old news. Probably all chocolate is infected. Good thing I wouldn’t care if it went extinct.

No, but I used to be more active until I saw that they started to increasingly prevent you from talking to other participants, and even seeing who other people are (can’t even tell gender or anything) unless you paid for their higher tier. I literally saw it get added out of the blue after years of no such restrictions, and they’ve only dug deeper and deeper. I couldn’t even connect with someone with whom I met just because I didn’t attempt to get their number immediately on the spot.

I hope they eventually crumple from hiring stupider and stupider team leads, then.

It’s just platform-milking, just like Meetup.com’s latest antics; there isn’t deep analysis needed to everything, haha. “Capitalism” is totally a legitimate answer despite being just one word.

I agree with all of these points. Aliens is awesome, and I think Wreck-It Ralph is actually another great example of a tightly written movie.

I cannot place AntennaPod’s long widget on my S21 FE running Android 12 and One UI 4.0, either, though the 1x1 widget is fine. It really cannot handle widgets well which is almost a deal-breaker if it wasn’t open-source (I don’t know anywhere near enough to program the fix myself, unfortunately).

I always felt like I was acting a certain way just to make my current girlfriend stay around.

That is so sad that you felt that way. I never catered to anyone just to keep them around, and I hope you can learn to do so, too (like, actually doing so, not just avoiding romance entirely as a bypass).

Thanks, TIL! Here I was thinking it was all manual!

1. You don’t need premium membership to play premium-only games; you only need 1 person at the table to have a subscription and then everyone else can enjoy the game for free. There are usually tables open looking for players, and if there is no open table to join, free participants can even put out a request for a subscriber to make a new table for strangers to join.
2. You can get 1 month of premium membership at a time for every 100 gift points that you acquire (which gradually expire if left unused). You can gain 5 gift points for winning for your first time at any game, so you can even rig it with someone else to just win at Battleship, Chess, etc. You can also acquire more gift points by contributing to tutorials, wiki entries per game (rules, strategies, etc.), or I think even filing bug reports or improvement ideas per game that get approved by the developers.
3. TTS and Tabletopia are 100% manual so you must already know the rules really well per game, whereas BGA holds your hand through all legal moves, so my circle of friends and I have even used it to learn new games blind (even though they also often have a tutorial). It also has a note system so you can type notes for yourself to remember things between rounds, if you choose to play in the optional turn-based mode (make your move whenever you’re next able to, versus real-time in which all players must be online simultaneously).

Board Game Arena is so good already, though!

Discord doesn’t like it when it comes to voice-chat in the Android app, sadly (even though I know we should all leave Discord, but Revolt and Matrix can barely hold candles to the flame of its incredibly sophisticated streaming system), but yes, I’ve been on Waterfox for some time now.

Vivaldi is not open-source, so it shouldn’t even be considered as an option. Try !waterfox@programming.dev!

Dang… Thanks for the reminder about Milkytracker. I gotta dig into that… Also, I’m fine with that top GUI as well, haha! Unclear boundaries are visually tricky to me, too.

my idea of a good GUI

Examples?

only

As in, what, you want more? Such as…?