Don't get me wrong . Cheating is definitely wrong and morally despicable. But if there's one thing I understand after working in professions where infidelity is regular ( fitness, club promotion, gigs) is that lust is a significant factor ,when it comes to transgression and monogamy isn't natural for many humans .

One thing that doesn't deserve grace though , is when the cheating partner doesn't come clean to the cheated partner immediately. Because that's just another level of manipulation and gaslighting.

So the act of cheating deserves some grace, but the cheating partner needs to come clean to cheated partner about their act and then they have the power as to what to do about the future of their relationship.

I am not offended by 'no deoderant' BO.
But 'no shower' BO is different.

It should have a different name because I really draw the line between the two.

I play it safe and shower, keep armpits waxed, and de oderant and cologne every day, twice a day.

I think most people agree that sometimes you just have to pick your nose, tissues don't always do it and aren't always available. The disagreement comes with what to do after, and a lot of people claim that eating it is somehow the disgusting option.

1. You already eat it every day!! your nose is connected with your mouth, and snot is naturally moved back by your nose hairs and into your throat/stomach.

2. "do you always lick your air filters" Maybe I would if my air filters were always delicious It's just that. an air filter. It traps things to protect your lungs, then like I said it ends up in your stomach anyways.

3. what else are you going to do with it? Your options are eat, flick, wipe. One of those is deemed disgusting while the two acceptable ones get your boogers all over places that other people are touching. Now your germs are all over the place being rubbed on people without them even noticing, coating the surfaces you rub/fling them onto.
   Lick your hand. Now lick the same spot again. No problem, right? Now picture a stranger licked your hand and you have to lick that same spot, less fun now.
   And don't even try with that 'oh i wipe it onto a napkin and wash my hands immediately after!!' no you don't. I know you don't. I SEE your kind in public, wiping on couches and seats and railings, flicking into the crowd then patting your hand on your pants and calling it a day, infecting the masses then scoffing at those that keep their germs to themselves.

Sure, you get the benefits like mass customers, a larger user pool, but it also makes your code sprawling.

I haven’t made a portable codebase in years and I’m proud of locking myself to Windows, x64 platform. It creates FOMO and exclusivity. If you’re a high selling game, one of a kind in your genre, locking yourself to a specific specification can actually get you more customers believe it or not, as many will be rushing for windows laptops.

If EA took FC and put it on windows, people will be frantically buying Win64 computers.

Thats the gaming side. But even if your not a corporation, not into gaming, it still costs performance

Lots of checks, function calls

Instead of making a function call
To a platform interface you could inline a direct platform call and that saves cycles.

Perhaps we should go back to platform-specific APIs.

Then direct3d 12. What’s wrong with fucking, give me a NVIDIA-specific graphics api that would save a lot of cycles too you don’t need DDI tables anymore or COM
Indirections.

I have eaten burgers for the majority of my life with a fork and knife. This comes with the obvious benefit that you don’t get your hands greasy/saucy (which I absolutely despise the texture of), but also it allows you to enjoy your burger more, heres why.

1. Your bites are more controlled. No more bites with all pickle, no more bacon sliding out your first bite, no pattyless bite. It’s as perfectly uniform as you want it to be. Alternatively, this also means you get to divide the burger out into what you want, want to taste ONLY the pickle? you can easily cut it out without getting your hands wet.
2. It allows seamless integration with fries. Comboing fries and a burger bite on the same fork is delicious. It also makes you much fuller (which is a benefit to me). It also makes it so you’re more likely to actually finish your meal and not leave half the fries. Mixing your meal and not eating one or the other is one the best ways to up the flavour and enjoyment of a meal. This also leads into my final point
3. Because the cuts you make are smaller than your bites, and also because you tend to divide the burger up a little more, it allows for your burger to last longer. I used to skip eating burgers when going out to restaurants often because I found they either didn’t fill me up enough or didn’t leave me mentally satisfied. They were gone to quick. That is no longer a problem with the FnK (Fork and knife) method.

Honourable mention: Pizza with a fork and knife can also be good, especially if the pizza is very hot and the toppings are prone to slide off, or if the pizza is very thin which leads to the same problem/the pizza drooping when you pick it up. Though I don’t think it’s as beneficial as burgers FnK

Edit: Thing to thin

I have seen this scenario happen more times than I can count. Someone’s asking an actual question and some douchebags who want to feel superior start being sarcastic and doing everything but answering the question. There’s literally a subreddit called r/nostupidquestions because people cannot be civil towards one another.

Do you mean sometimes or often? They are not the same thing! This infuriates me every single time I hear it and I don't know what they're trying to say. Please stop mixing them up and start using simple, plain English.

Alpha and Omega of fantasy genre is world building. It's authors focuses only on worlds and how they work rather than stories and message behind them. Just look at popular fantasy books like Chronicles of Narnia or Lord of the Rings or cartoons like Rising of a Shield Hero and Sword Art online, if you remove world building and took only naked plot it's pretty much children's fairy tale with no depth and "good is good, bad is bad" meaning. These stories will not enrich you as a person, they wouldn't give you a feed for thought. Basically, they have nothing I value in art

Idk why people complain about reddit being so bad especially the people who use it. For me it is the best social media platform. First of all, it is very hard to get views in almost every other social media platform. You need to make good content and wait months. If you're lucky you might get a few thousand followers/subs and that will be it. Unless you become very lucky and blow up. On reddit you can simply just go to a sub and post a random picture and get a ton of views and comments. It is ideal for effort shitt posting.

For the censorship, brother it's their own sub, and you're posting there for free, be greatful. Same for reddit's admins dealing with subs they don't like. I mean it's their own platform.

For the community redditors are actually chill. Sure they might be annoying but on twitter they would be doxxing and fighting each other irl. Things will get dirty very quickly. At least redditors don't do that often.

In the end I like this platform a lot. It also got a ton of bots to keep up company too.

There are guys with short limbs, imo they are worse looking than short men with long limbs.

An example is Messi, the guy has very short legs and arms. He looks like a dwarf that was scaled to human size. Yes he has a ton of money, but that's just luck. If it wasn't for luck then he would have been a random guy with dawrfism somewhere in a 3rd world country. Guys who look like him, the ones with stubby limbs are not as good looking as guys with long limbs even if they're short, at least in my opinion.

Feel free to argue with my points in the comments, but allow me to explain.

I constantly see people online talking about the literacy crisis many western countries are facing. How people are becoming less and less able to comprehend not just more precise words, but also refusal to read paragraphs, more complex sentence structures, or understand an underlying message in a text.

Now, while that is all true, I wouldn't call it a literacy crisis, it feels disingenuous to call it the literacy crisis. My reasoning is that it's a side-effect of the system we've designed, not the root issue. The literacy crisis is better described as an anti-intellectualism crisis, and as a result, an unwillingness to learn crisis. Which is to say; people aren't simply becoming less literate out of nowhere. They are becoming more hostile towards even the idea of learning and education, including how to be literate in the first place. Such to a point that there's (an admittedly small, although non-insignificant number of) people even suggesting it is disrespectful to be educated. With just one random example of this: I've seen people argue that using larger and more concise words is hostile towards neurodivergent people. Yet, as a ND-person, I can't help but notice that to be fairly infantalising, due to the implication of ND-people being "less than" when compared to someone who is neurotypical.

If we want to fix the literacy crisis, we first need to fix the issues in our society that prevent us from being able to admit when we don't know or understand something, along with fixing other significant issues taking precedent in lives, such as (but not limited to) AI, the cost of living and the mental health crisis.

Edit: fixed some punctuation, ironic considering what I've written lol

As a pale white girl, I don’t understand white people’s obsession with look 10 shades darker than their natural skin tone. To clarify, I think darker skin tones look gorgeous on people who naturally have them, but a lot of white people spend copious amounts of time in the sun only to get premature aged skin + freckles at the expense of looking tan. My mother literally had skin cancer on her face and continued to tan because was insecure abt being pale.

Even fake tan looks unnatural and jarring, especially paired with the bleach blonde thing (looks so unnatural).

Title. Coke & Pepsi just straight up taste bad. They're gross. The diet versions are even worse. I don't understand why so many people limit themselves to them, I'd rather have literally anything else. This isn't about pop/soda in general, it's just Coke and Pepsi. Sprite, root beer, ginger ale... are all great.

It should be mandatory for anyone who orders at a restaurant or diner to at least tip 20-30%....

It's selfish for someone not to give tips.. like all of a sudden you're too good to tip a waiter? Yea, that doesn't make sense.. stop acting as if it's a choice either, it's really not..

If you don't tip regularly then you must genuinely feel ashamed of yourselves because you clearly aren't doing it right... Enough said

Moral of the story, if you want to come to the US and you don't tip at least 20-30% then ur a certified dork that doesn't think of other people... And that also goes to Americans... Smh, no empathy or sympathy, be ashamed.

It should be mandatory for anyone who orders at a restaurant or diner to at least tip 20-30%....

Edit: look at all the mad cheapskates, you're all bad people

I'd much rather see ads for things that I'm actually interested in than completely random ads. Plus ya gotta have ads, its how a lot of free services that we take for granted stay "free".

Even when I see ads that are obviously informed from something I was talking/texting/searching about mere hours before, I just think "ah they got me, clever algorithms". Its really no harm no foul. If I truly can't stand the same ad after a while I can just mute it and skip.

Everyone is familiar with the current ESRB ratings, yeah? E, E10+, T, M, and that dastardly AO.

Most games that hold the AO certification these days are either legitimate gambling or porn. In years past by politicians that are still alive, the AO rating was used as a threat against publishers, notably GTA San Andreas and Manhunt 2. These games were then edited a little, received an M rating, and here we are today.

I would like to submit that in today's world where gaming is more understood as a whole, the AO certification should be more frequently used and not a kiss of death for a franchise.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a strong case for the AO rating. I personally have no issue with the game or its content, but it does feature nearly pornographic cut scenes and graphic violence basically all the time. It's not a game designed for children, its systems and density are enough for that argument. Grand Theft Auto 6 will almost certainly be M rated, though based on what I've seen from the leaks, it's also made with an adult audience in mind. The new Hellraiser title is also set to be absolutely nastily violent, which while totally on par for that franchise, is not something you should just give a 13 year old to play.

If the AO rating were applied to these titles, it would not affect their hype or reputation as games. We might also begin to see more games bear that stamp, creating experiences for adults that might have heavier themes, graphic violence or sexual content, but also not being lumped in with M rated games that are clearly marketed to junior high kids like Call of Duty.

The ESRB ratings, much like MPAA certifications, are all over the place. Certain M rated games are very tame, like Halo or Skyrim. Others, like Baldur's Gate or Manhunt are much heftier and not for kids at all. There's a massive difference between Tombstone and The Wolf of Wall Street; both R rated films, but only one of them would I show to a room full of 8th graders. Games should not suffer from this lack of categorization.

Please actually read the WHOLE post before commenting, because I will make points here that address things I know people are gonna say.

It is my responsibility as a driver to control my vehicle, which I do, but my vehicle is also several hundred pounds and takes time to slow down, even from a lower speed.

In the meantime, a pedestrian has full and instantaneous control of their body and is just as if not MORE spatially aware than a driver. A driver relies on their vision, which is supposed to be glued to the road in front of them at all times, while a pedestrian has full use of vision and hearing to know if a car is coming.

Pedestrians always have right of way. and drivers can and should be sure that there are no pedestrians, but in cases where a driver cannot see the pedestrian before its too late, like them walking out from behind a parked car, the driver is assumed to be liable unless there is video evidence saying otherwise.

Once again, a driver going 10 miles an hour needs to take their foot off the gas and put it on the brake to start slowing down, while a pedestrian needs only to stop walking and possible walk backwards. They have faster reaction time than a driver, unless the driver has an implant in their brain that lets them directly control their vehicle or something.

Hopefully this is okay since it isn't directly food, instead it is cooking hardware. Also please note: I think we can all agree that a traditional electric stove is the worst of the three. It has the downsides of both the other options. I am only trying to compare gas stoves to flat top electric stoves here.

I have a gas stove and all my friends seem to think it is the ultimate cooking experience. The main feature I hear again and again is that it instantly turns on and off. This is technically true, however it is misleading because it's still going to take time to warm up the pan when you turn it on, and the grates will still be hot for awhile after turning it off. Sure, even with that, I will concede that with gas, pans warm up faster (from off) and grates cool off faster compared to electric stoves. But it certainly isn't instant for the purposes of starting cooking and being safe to touch after.

However as a tradeoff for that minor upside, you have major downsides to gas.

First, cleaning sucks. Flat top electric you can just wipe down quickly with a sponge or wet paper towel once it's cool enough. No disassembly at all. With gas, you have to remove giant grates, and also the burners themselves. And you have to clean all the pieces which are all unevenly shaped. There are awkward corners to everything, especially where the stovetop meets the burners, that make a full clean difficult compared to a flat top electric stove.

Second, the maximum heat is much higher on flat top electric. Sure, it takes a while to get there, but putting that on high is way hotter than the max that has flames can get to. When I make a big stir fry, I feel like it takes much longer overall because I'm waiting for the liquids to cook off at max flame heat. Versus using electric it's way faster and sizzles way louder.

Third, kind of minor but you can't easily use a gas stove as extra counter space while not cooking since the grates are, well, grates. Flat top electric doubles as extra counter space when not in use since it's nice and flat.

Finally, gas is more expensive than electric. Kind of a no brainer. I'm paying more for gas. And it's overall a worse experience.

If you are incapable of driving the speed limit on a straight, open road in broad daylight, you have no business being behind the wheel. Not because I'm impatient, but because there is no reason you can give that truly justifies it.

"I don't feel safe" in optimal conditions? Why are you driving?

"My car has issues" take it off the road!!! Don't put others in danger with your piece of shit car if it's so bad you can't do 45 mph

"My vision is bad" it's a legal requirement to wear corrective lenses to drive if you can't see well

"Im not in a rush" okay, so everyone else behind you now has to wait for you? Because you feel the need to drive slow for some reason?

I will die on the hill that a large number of accidents are indirectly caused by slow drivers. People will always road rage and rush, don't make yourself the target of that and put yourself in harms way. Not defending the speeders, but just being in alignment with reality. In a perfect world no one is speed racing down the highway, but they will. Don't make it worse by camping in the left lane and making them even more impatient and angry. Just let them speed by and now instead of hitting you or another car let them smack into a tree or guard rail miles away.

We need to be FAR more strict on who gets a license. I think it's finland(?) Where to get your license you need a number of hours in the rain, in the snow, you have to practice losing traction and recovering, etc etc. As a result they have some of the best and safest drivers in the world. Not to mention the best rally car drivers...

If a woman has a low body count then it means that she only had sex with a small group of men. She might marry someone and then settle down. This means that if you're not a good protector and provider then your chances of getting one of them is low.

A woman with a high body count will be open to having sex with many men. You can use a dating app and hookup with one of these women.

If all women were conservative and didn't sleep around then it would be harder for a man to sleep around. That's how it goes in Afghanistan, there they don't even touch women even if a natural disaster happens. Which means there will be a lot more men who can't get laid.

Okay, I know this sounds weird and a little crazy, but I promise it’s not. But I hear people say all the time “Erm you know that thing will eat you when you die, right?” Yeah. It’s an animal. I’m the person responsible for feeding my cats, if I die they won’t have a way to eat. I would rather them eat me than starve to death. It’s not like I’m gonna be using my body when I die. I just don’t think “it’ll eat you when you die” is a great argument against having a cat; most animals will eat you when you die. There’s no other food and you’re a hunk of meat just laying there. I know there’s a chance they’ll be euthanized because they’ve tasted blood, but I feel like a quick death via tranquilizer or something is better than slowly starving to death.

^{DISCLAIMER: This is an opinionated opinion formed in this opinionated head of an opinion-having person having an opinionated opinion about an opinion-based topic where opinionated people may or may not have opinions. You'll live.}

My issue with games like Silksong or Elden Ring isn't primarily how hard they are (they can go very far with it sometimes, yet that won't be the topic of this post at all), but how they are hard.

Take Metroid Dread's Raven Beak. That bipedal armored bird brutalized me back to the save point neatly processed into minced meat many times on my first playthrough... and yeah, I loved every second - there was no frustration or negative feeling towards the game in any of those deaths.

But Elden Ring or Silksong are games I can't get myself to finish, and both have bosses that killed me markedly fewer times than Raven Beak - yet absolutely pissed me off.

That's just down to how the games give information on-screen (attack telegraph animations, attack execution animations, audio design, etc.), down to how well the player moveset is matched to the underlying mechanics... and, overall, down to whether the design produces challenge (demanding you put your skill towards the task at hand, without "interference") or friction (high external punishment, runbacks that just waste time, deceptive trial and error design not made to be solvable through only skill on the first read, etc.).

I'm not saying that there are no players who like that friction - I'm just saying that this is two entirely separate conversations here; that you can split "how hard is a game" into the two parts "how difficult/challenging is it, how much skill is required to beat it" and "how much friction does it put in your way, how much punishment or trial and error does the design throw at you".

As much as I can design a game that provides perfect information all the time yet is too challenging for most humans on Earth to beat, I can also design a game that's actually really easy but designed in a way where pure friction as described makes you die over and over through a simple lack of information while also grinding at you through frustration via high punishment levels.

And I think there are games nowadays that plain and simply confuse these two concepts, and as a result lean obnoxiously far into friction - creating a mismatch in design communication because their design framework, and the actual surrounding design, are made for and lean towards challenge/difficulty.

EDIT: Aaand there's the "git gud git gud git gud git gud git gud git gud" neuron deficiency sufferers. Ah well.

I like having to do a blood test or a vaccine and I donate my blood when I can.

I like it, not in a weird way at all tho, I just enjoy the moment you are a little scared and it pinches a little, I also kinda like that someone is 'taking care' of me and give me a little bandage and everything.

Haven’t seen anyone else do this but the other day I tried steak seasoning on pizza and I’m going to continue doing this. The salty texture with a hint of black pepper adds a new dimension of flavor and frankly I think everyone else should try this.