It’s not fundamentally different but it is improved. If you keep your armor on and load up on potions you can probably mash your way through anything.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 gets my vote for game of the year 2025.

I set my age to the max in Steam back in the day, now I’m well beyond 100 years old.

Bring a fake checkbook, fraud was a lot easier back in the '80s.

In situations where your product is dependent on a problematic supply chain it can make sense for a company while also being beneficial to consumers. Imagine you need 100 widgets a month to build your product but the market is only capable of providing 10. It might make sense to start making 90 widgets a month to supply your own unmet demand. Especially if there’s also a widget cartel trying to squeeze your margins so producing the widgets yourself lets you cut them out of your supply chain. That could be the difference between your survival and failure.

The things people say they believe and how people actually behave are only loosely related. Not many people have a fully formed and coherent ideology that’s also congruent with their real life.

It sounds like the dude got exactly what he wanted.

No. I think people are extremely diverse in how they experience and engage with their individual subjectivity. I think a lot of people are like that at least some of the time, but it’s more complicated and probably a nonconscious behavior for most people when they are doing it. Describing it as a “mask” I think is potentially misleading because I don’t think that’s necessarily how people experience this phenomena subjectively.

VR is the best medium for horror. Everything is scarier compared to flat games.

Your mom is an asshole.

My standards aren’t especially high when it comes to cleaning before guests are over but definitely higher than many. Any area they will be in or anything they will interact with is my top priority, beyond that I am a lot more relaxed. If someone tried to make me feel bad about something minor like cat hair or a little dust they probably won’t ever be a guest again because that’s dickish and rude. As a guest you should never make your host feel embarrassed or uncomfortable, even if there’s a legitimate issue it should still be approached respectfully and with kindness.

The basics of investing. Open a Roth IRA (or the closest equivalent if you’re not in the US) and then try to max it out every year. Learning how to manage money for the long term now will save you a whole lot of hassle down the road.

I think Tucker Carlson might be able to, once Trump is out of his way.

It might be more prevalent with fentanyl but it’s not unique to it, I remember seeing the fold happening decades before fentanyl was around. I do think it is unique to opioids though, there’s a similar thing that can happen with dissociates but it’s got a different character to the movement and poses.

It’s not just fentanyl, it’s opioids in general. Junkies have been doing this long before fentanyl was available.

20 years sounds incredibly optimistic for any Samsung appliance.

That doesn’t seem true though, most actual leftists don’t like tankies and the people on Lemmy complaining about tankies seem to mostly be leftists themselves. Tankies are like LaRouchites, no one takes them seriously because the things they profess tend to be silly and they usually have that obnoxious College freshman master-debater energy. It’s not a left or right thing.

It’s vague on purpose, what contributes is entirely contextual. It would take a lot to explain in detail and I don’t see a reason to spend the time when a high level summary gets the idea across.

I upvote things I disagree with if they contribute to the discourse in some way.

I set alarms and/or calendar reminders as a coping mechanism. I don’t always do the thing when the time comes but it at least gets forced back into my head over and over again until I eventually do it. My life has gone a lot smoother since I started doing this.