February jumps for joy!

do you also consider “awful” to mean “full of awe” and be a synonym to awesome?

coordinating bullying with the intent of causing suicide is frowned upon

It’s wild how many people who do not have mods published on nexus/workshop/bethesda are happy to speak on the behalf of modders.

Imagine “roko’s basilisk”, but extended into an entire philosophy. It’s the idea that “we” need to anything and everything to create the inevitable ultimate super-ai, as fast as possible. Climate change, wars, exploitation, suffering? None of that matters compared to the benefits humanity stands to gain when the ultimate super-ai goes online

in '86

I don’t think that has been the case for at least a full console generation, maybe more.

Look at the rise and fall of pre-order goodies to get a rough estimate of when publishers really, really wanted you to buy the game day 1 (and when it stopped mattering as much)

to the best of my knowledge even after this ruling, you would still need to be sterilized to get your gender marker changed as the requirement of having genitalia that matches your preferred gender is still in effect. You also need to be 18+, unmarried and have no children who are minors.

60fps complaints go back to the dark days of 360/ps3 ports where HD resolutions on the consoles meant high framerate was no longer a viable option there. Since AAA games started using console as lead platform pc became saddled with 30fps caps as well. It possibly happened even earlier, but that was the time where I started noticing it.

I do not. The “free” feature set is good enough for my needs.

The Fitbit Versa series give me the vibe that this is where pebble could have headed if they hadn’t gone under. Since Fitbit bought the Pebble estate I guess that’s plausible. If you care more about health than fitness I would look into the Fitbit “Sense” series. They have most of the fitness options from Versa but also ECG and stress tracking.

No 3rd party apps, but they’re pretty good on battery life (My partner’s Versa 3 will last 11 days on a charge).

Still waiting for the “to be announced” steam release date. I’ve tried getting into it on mobile twice, but it’s not really the type of game I’m looking for on that platform.

any sufficiently advanced incompetence (elon musk) is indistinguishable from malice

the DDG browser can setup a “fake vpn” tracking blocker for your entire phone. Last I checked certain apps were excluded by default as the tech is quite new and some apps don’t work right with it. It’ll then give you an overview of how many tracking attempts it blocks for each app.

They probably still do a lot of those, but recently they’ve been using opinion writers to create outrage bait with writings they should know better than to print.

In the last few years they have been willing to post a large amount of transphobic nonsense. To the point where early in the year almost 1000 current or former contributors signed an open letter complaining about the issue (and made a callback to the paper doing roughly the same thing with gay and lesbian people in the 60s through 80s)