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Cake day: September 16th, 2025

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  • I’m just going to put it this way.

    People will find a way to be violent.

    So we take away their guns, what are we down to? Sharp weapons.

    We take away their sharp weapons, what are we down to? Blunt objects.

    We take away those, what’s next? Creative ways people can get with non-conventional ways of harming others.

    What then? And if we somehow regulated that or controlled it, people can get violent just by their hands alone.

    The point again of the matter is, people WILL find a way to get violent, even if you take everything from them such as weapons.



  • Your answer right here, is why people need to think a little about age gaps. Like, I’ve heard and see people date where one is 21 years old and the other is like 32. Perfectly legal, however, that is a giant gap of this experience and power. The 32 year old will be in a considerably different worldview than the 21 year old and it’ll be completely jarring to function as a normal relationship.



  • 39 and 16? Bad. 25 and 15? Bad. 55 and 17? Bad.

    Glad we cleared some of those examples up. Oh and so long as this 16-19 relationship isn’t all sexual because the moment someone figures it out that it is, it won’t matter what your beliefs are, past 18 is legal adult age and she’s still a teen. That’s like, going up against a universally agreed wrong thing to do vs your beliefs.


  • You need to stop doing this thing called generalizing, which is what you’re doing. You’re assuming that there are NO good games released in what, 5 years? 10 years? When there already has been. The problem is you, you looking in the wrong areas and it also sounds like you’re relying on AAA gaming development to deliver something for you which you need to stop expecting them to. They’re on autopilot, in which, they don’t care what you think.

    Also, some people are recommending good games and there you are shooting them down because you’re being prissy. Maybe the other problem is you just being too picky.



  • For me it is, wearing myself down. It is about the only thing I feel that I can achieve peace from being online. I’ve been online for a long, long time. You just suddenly become so tired, so worn, so repetitive and so beside yourself that you do eventually just do it. You don’t plan it, you don’t announce it, you just do because at somepoint, something is going to make you do it before you realize it.

    I think it is advisable that you get hobbies that don’t involve a computer or the internet. Like go thrifting, just find something that piques your interest and that you want to pursue it. It is like entering a store full of hobbies to choose from and the entry fee is cheap by whatever you pick up and want to learn more about or get into about.






  • Jesus yes, the fanbase, more primarily the die-hards.

    The kind that feel they have to be the jehovah’s witness of operating systems. Can’t tell you how many times someone wants a software or even a hardware issue troubleshooted and it never fails, there’s that one guy or two going “GO LINUX!”. “Have you tried Linux?” they butt in, disrespecting the inquiring user just wanting their problem solved so they can continue using their computer throughout the day. They’re not interested in being marketed to or browbeaten, even if that thing is free.

    It’s happened to me before. Game won’t run? Linux. Can’t boot? Linux. Your computer is on fire? Linux because I guess it is capable of virtualizing a fire extinguisher to cool your computer down. It is no wonder some users online find Linux users insufferable this way.

    The only worst thing a Windows user can do to you is just nag you to upgrade the OS but you can tell them to fuck off. With a Linux user? It could turn into an hours-long debate.




  • That’s exactly how I feel about it as well and largely contributes to my hesitation.

    I read and hear how so many people just gush and gush about how Linux Mint or this distro just ‘works out of the box’. What they don’t tell you, is how they must have had to spend hours getting something to work. Like sure, Linux Mint or a more friendlier distro will work out of the box - if you do nothing but just browse online and maybe install/uninstall programs you may want or need from the software package manager.

    But I have had my battles before trying to make things work on linux distros, like getting proprietary functions of a browser to work. Hell, I have even had to fight a little just to get a displaying clock! Like with its formatting from 24hr to 12hr, I’m not saying getting it to display or anything but I don’t get this desire to default to a 24hr format. And I have had to fight at times to switch formats.

    The point is, I or others should not have to spend more time than we need to, to get things to work when there is already an OS that readily does that without question. It doesn’t make us dumb, it doesn’t make us incurious or boring or uninterested in computers and technology. It’s about patience and respect of time and if some Linux distro is not going to respect my time or patience, regardless of how welcoming it appears, then it is not worth swapping to.




  • I’m just sick of the Saudis forcing their way into everything just because they have lots of money and oil reserves to do it with.

    They’ve recently acquired EA. They have a WrestleMania being hosted in their capital. They’re having the 2027 Olympics hosted there. And now this.

    It’s like we’re all catering to this idea to humanize a country that has a history of religious extremism, extreme misogyny and absolute corruption. It won’t change a thing.