I’m in agreement. Science tells us more and more that there is no safe amount of booze. I work in addiction services, and I’ve noticed that doctors won’t even prescribe benzos anymore unless it’s for acute withdrawal treatment, typically with a rapid 3-5 day taper. Because they’re mother’s little helpers - booze in pill form.

I also think the true underlying reason for less alcohol use isn’t a virtuous one. It’s that there’s just better mood alteration out there now with far fewer deleterious effects. I’m dating myself a bit, but when I look at how much pharmacological knowledge the average 20 year old has now, it takes me back to my youth when simply going to the library to get a book with information about psychoactive drugs was nearly impossible. And now looking back with actual science, I can see most of what I was able to research back then was tenuous at best, and outright fabrications at worst.

So I think people are engaging in mood alteration more now than ever before. We’ve just moved on from yeast poop mind-fucks.

I have a lifetime boycott of all things Ubisoft for this very reason. I bought game after game after game from the late 90’s until early 2000’s. 100% of them were legal purchases and with the CD in the drive… "please insert CD " error

Then I became the lead developer for gameloft.com and saw how completely incompetent the French leadership of the company is. Absolute morons to the highest levels.

Never another penny shall be conveyed to Ubi from my holdings.

edit: You wanna know what I’m talking about? Ok. They import the director from France. He does not speak English, he does not speak Quebecois, which is very different than Parisian French. He has no knowledge of the games industry whatsoever, but is a cherished family friend. He cannot communicate with anybody in written or verbal ways. He shows up for work at 10am and takes 2 hour coffee with other “leadership” and then lunch. Then he comes back from a 2 hour lunch, and him and come C-Level turnip laugh at his Billy Bass for 30 minutes. I am not making any of this up. This man installs a friend he met into the position of Executive Producer. The man’s previous experience was managing an Esso gas station. No embellishment. So I’m the Sr dev and I’m the fucking acting director, account manager, game designer, executive producer, producer, technical producer, project manager, director of production, developer, creative director, QA lead, every god damned thing just to get some corny-ass games produced.

edit2: Laughing at a Billy Bass. A Billy. Bass. Singing. Fish. Laughing at it uproariously.

How do people who are grotesquely underqualified and constitutionally incapable of performing well, end up with great jobs?

I cook everything from scratch and I eat a ridiculous amount of fruit and vegetables.

I’m just saying, I know my body, and it seems to get really upset when I don’t give it animal meat. I have tried to transition to chickpeas and all different kinds of protein sources, hemp, my body just knows what it wants.

And really, 150 g of meat? Explosive diarrhea? You don’t need to exaggerate so much LOL

In regards to alcohol consumption, I’m glad you raised that. I’m also glad it’s going away.

I kind of follow these things a little bit, a bit of a nerd in this regard lol

I’m 51, and now I’m 10 years sober, so I have a longer view, and I have my own multiple viewpoints now that I’ve gone from a drunk to a sober dude.

I have definitely noticed a massive shift in attitudes from the younger generations now, compared to when I was young.

It seems the generation just reaching legal age now has almost no interest in alcohol whereas when I was young, drinking was almost a given. It was just what we did at every opportunity and all the socializing happened on Thursdays and Friday nights where we get mutually blasted at various locales.

And our federal government here in Canada has finally clued-in how hopeless it is to generate revenue with alcohol sales and taxation. They ran a study called the Canada Alcohol Deficit which showed that when you factor in all the social ills of alcohol consumption, we lose money on it by like billions. I can’t link it because I’m fooling around with mobile, but it’s an easy search.

But I think that attitude is across all the generations now, even the people who were hard drinkers in my group are not really interested as much. Our provincial government saw a precipitous drop of alcohol sales, and panicked and expanded sales across our province in so many ways.

So yeah I think it’s on the way out the door for good soon. People don’t want to anymore when there’s better and less destructive mood-alteration, and the government has seen the futility of booze.

I tried to go completely vegetarian but my body just goes on revolt. So I limit myself to around 150 g per day. But I would be down with eating lab grown meat. I mean, it’s just chains of amino acids turned into proteins right. Making that has to be an order of magnitude less footprint than growing and harvesting cattle.

Radios

Drive through speakers/mics that actually work

Get computer duster spray, mask off the area around the mole with duct tape, invert the can and spray the propellant which will freeze it and substantially reduce its size.

edit: clear the area of hair and oil, use a hole-puncher to make the duct tape mask. I’ve done this for warts, facial blemishes, those raised lip things… etc. Clean the area, use basic sanitation practices. Don’t pick-at or hassle the layer that scabs over and replenishes. Don’t go hog-wild with the freezing - try a smaller amount first and give it a week to see how it responds. That propellant is no toy

Oh hell yeah, I knew all along that the steam link, the steam controller, that was a research project

And I have confidence that the new one will resolve a lot of the build issues. Cautiously optimistic

I’m so glad the steam controller is back.

I was an early adopter, I got my first steam link and steam controller in November 2015

I went through 17 steam controllers.

Seventeen.

Because they were built like absolute fucking shit, and my ear actually got attuned to the sound of the shoulder spring breaking. Crunch.

The first one I bought was totally DOA, the replacement was DOA with a broken button membrane, the replacement for that DOA with a malfunctioning back paddle. The fourth one, and first functional one I got lasted two months before the shoulder broke. There were ones I got new out of the box and the shoulder broke within an hour.

So I’m happy as fuck that it came back, but I’m so hesitant. I choose to believe that they have corrected the shitty build problem, but I guess I’ll find out!

Trying to explain to renters that despite what the noise bylaws of the city say, those have nothing to do with how much noise they are allowed to make. They are allowed to make a reasonable amount of noise that does not disturb anybody at any time of the day or night.

No I’ll just block you, I can’t stand dealing with petulant little turd bags like you.

Yeah well it is.

Just go click the link and stop bullshitting.

Start by remembering that nobody gives a flying fuck about you, just carry on like nothing happened.

Really, nobody cares about you or anything you do on this platform.

Nobody cares about me.

It is not taught in detail because they got their asses kicked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

Can you not just click and read the web page? It seems to be all there.

That’s the hilarious part hey lol

Just throws out some random baloney, when questioned folds like a house of cards 😂 can’t even be bothered to cook up some silly explanation for their alleged personal experience

I mean yeah you can still eat the bananas, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing to have them under ripened as you do end up with a different range of nutrients. I just don’t think as general practice, most people are going to get the best experience if they refrigerate them. Maybe it’s just a bananas I get in my region but I’ve never been able to successfully refrigerate a banana and have it be as good as just left out to ripen naturally

Again it was just a shower thought which is the requisite for this comm.

Wrong.

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