I put ~100 hours in and that was my biggest gripe. There were a few other minor things I missed, but none were as annoying as that. I never thought they’d lock a companion behind a skill check you could just totally fail.

Just save often, and maybe check the wiki after you’re done with areas so you avoid spoilers.

The numbers don’t lie!

If you fail to get Gale out of the portal, reload your save. I thought he’d just show up later if you fail. He doesn’t.

…all known laws of aviation, the bee shold not be able to fly.

Yeah a lot of people find stress to be a blocker for arousal. I imagine gender dysphoria very stressful. My first thought when reading that was how do they account for that?

Damn, that sucks. When does my Arch support end?

I love love love that we use ounces for both weight and volume 🤩 I love love love that we use volume for measuring things like sour cream in recipes but weight in the store! America number 1!!! 🇨🇱

I haven’t ever seen Lovense’s products not at ~50% discount. I was buying something on Christmas and rushing to beat the sale in case another wasn’t for a whole, but as soon as midnight rolled around, lol and behold the Boxing Day Sale went live.

I’d only invest in total world ETFs, but specifically investing in foreign ones (so a “manual” split between US and non-US) in non tax advantaged accounts gives a minor tax credit.

Prior to me switching to Linux, the main reason I preferred Steam over others was the Steam Workshop. Modding is typically so easy on Steam. As far as I’m aware, none of the other stores have that. I’d love to proven wrong though, because that just means more games can use mods.

But now, as far as I’m aware, Steam is the only major one that supports Linux.

FOR THE HONOR OF GRAYSKULL!

NI!

NO RULES!

The sound of a balloon inflating.

Stealing from the poor to give to the poor.

We’ve got driverless cars and CRISPR gene editing. Those weren’t around 20 years ago. You don’t think those are major advancements?

I feel like y’all are just being contrarian doomers. Listen, I get it. The ruling class of billionaires use technology for nefarious purposes to control us and extract every penny of money they possibly can by selling our attention spans in ever increasing ways. I’m not saying they don’t. I’m not saying we live in a utopia. I’m just saying that there have absolutely been a lot of technological improvements in the past 20 years.

Folks saying “actually PDAs had internet access in the '90s” are, fuck, not even missing the forest for the trees, they’re just covering their eyes and refusing to acknowledge that they’re surrounded by trees.

We’ve got driverless cars. Yes, they’re far from perfect, and I wouldn’t really say they’re adequate, but we do have honest to god driverless cars. Electric ones too! And they aren’t just a gimmick, they really do give gas cars a run for their money. 3d printers are a home commodity now much like traditional printers have been in the past. CRISPR lets us modify genes. The idea of watching a 4k video on the Internet in 2006 would’ve been crazy. AI has improved a lot, and I don’t even mean the modern generative AI like LLMs or Stable Diffusion, even prior to that machine learning was a huge thing.

Relevant XKCD.

That was released in 2014. You know what I can do now with my phone? I can take a picture of a bird and search to see what kind of bird it is. Reverse image search has been around for a while, but it used to just find things that were mostly pixel for pixel matches. Now it’s much more capable.

Again, I was a teenager. The TomTom was a gift. Sorry they didn’t give me a damn iPhone, I guess? 🙄

What settings do I change and how? Thanks in advance. 💜

Why are you being so condescending about this and making so many assumptions about me? I wasn’t a “late adopter.” I was a teenager. I didn’t have a smart phone. I didn’t have a “new car in 2010” nor a built in navigation system. I was using a standalone TomTom GPS in highschool in a 1996 Honda Accord. That was 20 years ago. Technology is significantly better now.