Fuck webp and the horses it rode in on.

Or I should say, the several supported horses it rode in on, and the rest of the horses standing there looking confused like they have no idea what a webp is even though they can make a preview thumbnail of the webp image, but just can’t do anything else with it.

Okay but that scene wasn’t Andor, that was Mandalorian.

Bur is just as likely to call out stupid behavior on the left, he’s not partisan. It just so happens the right is doing the worst shit right now, but he’s been vicious in attacking leftists in the past. As he should be.

Three times now. At this point I’m used to it and expecting it and have a pre-printed letter with questions to ask.

• “What kind of compensation package am I receiving and what are the terms?”

• “How long will I stay on company benefits after today?”

• “Will there be any opposition on this company’s part in my filing for unemployment insurance?”

• “Do I have any legal restrictions in seeking employment in the same industry?”

• “I have ordered several tons of fresh steer manure on the company card, to be delivered to the lobby by later this afternoon, do you fucking like that?”-

Yah they already have inherited wealth and privilege, will it make ANY difference for the rest of us if their kids don’t get the diseases that they can afford to treat anyway?

Lets say they do make ubermensch super-babies and create peak physical perfection… it will take generations before that creates enough of a class-divide that it will be noticable and by then, enough of them will have fucked around and bred with the common-folk that the edges of that divide are also going to get fuzzier and fuzzier. The world is full of rich people who mingle everywhere and are allowed to impregnate who they want and nobody cares.

The only way you get the science-fiction dystopia with beautiful rich monsters with super powers versus the plucky gang of resistance fighters who are rough around the edges but have hearts of gold, is if you separate the wealthy elite out and make them live on Mars or something.

It’s really going to be a shocker for the inhabitants of that expoplanet once you get your shit together and get over there yourself to start making changes.

They’re not wrong necessarily that it’s not strictly necessary to shower every day, depending on a variety of things like your daily habits and work, your overall environment and how clean you keep everything around you, how often you change your clothes, if you sweat a lot or have a lot of body oils, if you cook a lot, and so on. You can get by fine with light cleaning and a shower every other day if you have a simple, inactive lifestyle that doesn’t make for conditions that make your body smell, and it might be healthier for your skin.

But jeez, always shower before going out to socialize, that’s the part that baffles me… sure you can live fine with… once a week(?!) if you’re at home and not expecting company, but to use that as a rationalization for being that lazy is just a sad glimpse into people with problems.

The general rule of thumb is to assume you can’t smell yourself but others can, and if you CAN smell yourself a little bit, others can smell you a LOT.

That said, I wouldn’t use this as a rule, people have very different sensitivities and you may never get a whiff of yourself even if you’re fermenting. Your nose is particularly good at tuning out regular smells like your own room, clothes, bedding, and most of all your own BO. It’s better to take preventative actions than trust that you will be able to tell when something is bad.

I used to have a job adjacent to the gaming industry, I went in a number of gaming stores to try to find partners for the products we were selling.

I could talk at length how sad and strange gaming stores are, but I just wanted to share one incident where I was in Phoenix in August and entered a small shop in a business plaza that looked relatively clean and new on the outside.

On opening the door I was hit with the worst BO wave that has ever crashed over me, and having been in gaming stores before, this says a lot. There were some young guys sitting at tables surrounded by backpacks, which I can only assume were full of fermented roadkill, and playing various games, looking up curiously as I tried my best to smile and nod a greeting. My eyes watered and I left immediately because I felt like I was going to vomit.

I checked up on the store 6 months later and it had closed doors pretty fast. I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t get business.

The memes and jokes are not an exaggeration. Gamer boys are TERRIBLE at self-care and hygiene. I don’t know why it’s so hard to reinforce the concept to people that just because you can’t smell yourself, it doesn’t mean you don’t smell, you NEED to shower, change clothes, all of them, including and especially socks and underwear, and you need to clean your fucking rooms, your rooms are stink nests and that smell seeps into EVERYTHING.

You know how angry incels will vomit spiels online how frustrated they are that they get the advice to “just shower?” I love this common exchange because I know for a fact that probably more than half of these boys screaming online how nobody wants to touch their weewee are also completely disgusting and do nothing to maintain and manage themselves.

OnlyFans getting more and more specific in it’s diversity, I guess I’m here for it.

I love the game’s potential, I will regularly log in just to walk around stations or planets or hang out in my ship and enjoy the aesthetic. I like to fiddle with things and see what’s new. I love the sense of scale and freedom, just knowing at any time you can get up out of your pilot’s seat and open your cargo hatch and yeet yourself out the back just makes me giddy.

All that said, I grow weary of the endless fuckery and delays and just uninstalled for the dozenth time to let the thing cook longer. The graphics, for all their beauty, require more power than my PC can put out so the frame-rates are almost unplayable in many areas. Quests and missions are still a complete dice-roll if they’re going to work or break at any moment. NPC’s in the ground missions are either dumber than rocks or clip through walls and you can never find them. The map/navigation system on your wrist computer is so janky that I dread having to use it, and that’s after several major overhauls.

Server meshing is an amazing technology, but you have to have all your servers working, so there is always at least one area of the solar system that just plain doesn’t work. Stations that don’t answer your landing hail, quest locations that don’t work, lagged out doors and ship systems.

The universe truly feels more vast than any other game, ever, because you feel like a tiny human in a huge expanse. Too bad that’s about it most of the time, there’s no sense of permanence, no bases you can build, no personalization you can do to your own apartment, no storage locker in your own room like every other game ever made, everything including accessing your personal gear has to be done through kiosks in lobbies. The lack of personal items and survival components other than eating and drinking once in a while leave a good 80% of every station or base useless.

Sure you can buy a few cheap ass toys to put in your cockpit, but since most likely your game will crash and you will have to file a claim on your ship, you will hardly want to do this more than once.

Ship interiors feel real, it’s highly convincing. It’s just too bad that they’re mostly useless. Other than moving cargo around a cargo hold, there’s very little else you can do on a ship.

And you know what… I would be okay with all of these shortcomings IF THE GAME HAD GOOD CONTROLS. Seriously, look at a game like SCUM, it’s a survival PvP MMO where the gameplay is so detailed you need to manage your protein levels to build muscle and you have to poop regularly, you can even die of a heart-attack. You can load your magazines with several types of bullets and it will fire them in order. You can adjust how deep of a crouch you’re in and you can craft a vast array of useful items to survive and fight.

And it does it all smoothly. Sure it takes getting used to, but it’s never tedious. You never fall through the floor. You never have to fiddle with a door panel, you don’t have to make sure you point your cursor to just the exact position to open a hatch, you can actually trust the line-of-sight from a hostile mech so you can avoid it.

And that’s a game that’s far, far from perfect but they make a better gameplay experience than Star Citizen which has made exponentially more money from its players.

I will still keep trying it out from time to time, but I really, really hope some new game comes along and takes all the best lessons from SC and makes a more polished game experience that keeps the scale and detail and freedom but gives you things to do.

(No, I know about No Man’s Sky, it’s like a muppet/minecraft version of a space sim and too silly and unrealistic, totally different experience.)

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Oh shut the fuck up, learn how to communicate like an adult and then try to engage people on “science” jesus christ the children on this site.

I have noticed that you can broadly put people into two cups.

People who understand why this is an unanswerable question, and people who say “Bro, what the fuck are you on about, I can see blue just fine, it looks the same as it does for anyone.”

Both of those cups are out in force in this post.

It’s not really evidence, the question if we perceive the world the same way is deeper and more fundamental to experiencing the world. It’s not a mechanical question that can be answered materially.

Yah it’s clickbait research, the idea is fundamental to experience, it’s not a mechanical puzzle to solve, it’s literally part of the “hard problem” of consciousness.

Ok

There are over 8 billion people on Earth, and most of them are not living near grocery stories that have protein alternatives and they view meat-eating as culture, as family connection, as celebration and deep roots through community so you’re not going to change them. I would love if our world went vegan and we all became bean-eating human beans, but that day is sadly a long, long way off so I advocate for cultured meat because our species is nowhere close to what we hope it could be.

Realistically, we’re going to be eating every last bug and sea cucumber and coral polyp when we’ve eaten everything else we can before we switch to alternatives.

At Dragon Con I saw a huge Robo Rally game being played on the auditorium floor with real little robots. I was disappointed though that the conveyor belts weren’t real.

Wikipedia is not perfect, but it’s one of the best things we have ever had in the world. You should delete this dumb question, then go download it. Get it on a thumb-drive, and lock it in a safe.

Everyone should. We need to preserve the archives of information. You can hem and haw all you want about people being allowed to edit articles and the constant propaganda wars being waged through the most controversial pages, but it’s STILL the best we have.

Before this, people could just publish whatever books they wanted and that would become canon history for a thousand years. At LEAST wikipedia is largely self-balancing and so far not in the direct pocket of any one, single entity trying to control knowledge and history. For now.

Dividing it up into a cluster of biased, self-serving spaces would just harm knowledge and further atomize our world.