This is a seriously cool article. An accretion disk tens of thousands of light-years across is fucking wild. That’s getting awfully close to our own SMBH at our galactic core, sag A* if LID was placed between us and our SMBH.

A fucking plasma of superheated matter from a black hole could be crisping our black hole and Earth simultaneously. Jesus.

Just like Venezuela. Jesus.

Not to be a downer, but the political ramifications matter significantly, and vice versa. This planet is way too small now, and I patiently monitor the politics of many countries to see how the world shifts in relation to peace and climate change.

This corresponds to everything, including games and distros if one country (not just the US) suddenly collapses.

I happily await the day politics calms down, the wars settle, and we focus primarily on climate change and science as our main passions once again.

Yes! Whole family AND friends and even friends who were gonna throw away their votes (changed their mind and voted well). Got people in big big online group chats to vote as well. Fingers crossed for the good outcome :)

I wish we had the werewolf sticker here. So cool!!

Even if they did, starting a chip company is fucking difficult AF. You don’t want one mega company. You end up in a situation like Canada where they have one airline company and barely any cell carriers.

Competition is healthy. Fingers crossed that Nvidia starts making x86 CPUs as well as Qualcomm. AMD needs more competition too.

The GPU industry also needs some real competition.

Tbh, I’m fine with big AAAA games burning in financially, like Anthem or Redfall. The AA games from smaller devs are great, and I just don’t buy the next game if they buy out a smaller studio and all the OG devs go on to building a new company. That’s how we got games like Half Life, when MSFT devs got sick of working for a mega company and decided to build their own game.

If they buy out a studio and all the devs leave and form a new studio with the proceeds of the prior studio, it means more quality indie titles.

I actually ate the onion. Spooky that this one feels believable.

Ugh. I’d probably pay $15 for it on sale, but the launcher makes me want to pirate it just to avoid that crap. I literally just want to play undead nightmare.

Not to that age yet, but I feel slightly envious of families that I see at downhill mountain bike parks or camping or sledding. I want to have a family just like that someday :)

Is tildes still around? I haven’t heard from it since the blackout.

We had great heat pumps in Montana already. And if it gets insanely (-38f) cold, there’s a resistive fallback mode. But I’d wager most places aren’t gonna get to 38 below.

Both of these broke my brain.

If Margaritas are gay, who wants to be straight?

Seriously. If I was a girl, there’s no way I’d want to fuck someone with a filthy asshole, especially on my sheets. Skidmarks on the sheets and smelling like old shit is gross.

Wash your ass and groin with soap and water just like you do your armpits and feet.

My unasked for advice? Keep your butthole hair trimmed or shaved. Makes it much easier to keep clean, and it takes two seconds in the shower.

Depends on the bar, but gay bars can actually be pretty chill. Everyone there was really nice and the atmosphere is fun.

The first time we went in, we were super awkward, and a nice older guy saw us standing in the doorway and kinda scooped us up and showed us around the place (coat check, pool/games area, etc). It gave us the warm fuzzies. :)

Both my SO and I aren’t straight, but people are pretty respectful and nice at that bar, and I wouldn’t feel unwelcome even if I was batting for the other team.

I agree. Most people kinda look similar. And you kinda tune it all out anyways once it becomes mundane.

Honestly, I fucking hate parking apps. You always gotta download a new one, you gotta create an account, verify it, type in your credit card by hand, search for the stall ID number, then the app errors out and tells you that they encountered an error.

So then I just uninstall the app and hope I don’t get a ticket for a 15 minute errand.

Back in the day, I loved stuffing a $5 bill in the parking meter cash box and then not having to worry about it for a few hours.

Plus, there’s a real community aspect, which is nice.

Occam’s razor suggests it would have already happened had that been the case. When the chips were down, Jan 6th happened and Trump was still in office despite government buildings being seized and civil servants were threatened or even killed. If there was going to be something like that, it would have been on Jan 6th while the president was watching from the White House.