So this is why some gyms like mine are now doing discounts for using a checking account now. I wondered why that was when I set up my account last year.

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I speak only for myself, but I’m not mad at any developers for following with this. I wish they wouldn’t, but I can’t blame them for following the law to protect themselves.

I still think this is bullshit and just going down the slippery slope. The next thing is “this value doesn’t do anything. Now we need a law that actually checks an ID!” And it just keeps getting worse and worse.

Don’t give them an inch on any of this bullshit. And by them, I do mean the governments trying these stupid laws that, at best, waste taxpayer money and valuable time spent on other worthwhile things.

Personal computing is being chipped away and the goal seems clear to force everyone into cloud computing or something similar to it in the very near future.

Both businesses and governments benefit from this move.

Businesses want control over your data and what you can and cannot do. Allowing you to use open source projects causes too much disruption to their business models to continue to allow that. SaaS is a much better model for them to continue to grow and maintain their presence over your choices and wallet and wall you into their garden and this would allow them to do that indefinitely in some cases. Even for gaming companies like Nintendo, it would be best for everyone to only ever use approved hardware. Allowing emulators is a hit to their goals and if a business like Microsoft owns the virtual computer you use, then they can refuse to allow emulators to run on their computers used for cloud computing at Nintendo’s request, whether willingly or by force.

The exception I see to that is a business like Apple that relies heavily on selling you new hardware as often as they can. Just one more device and also ensuring you stay up to date with the latest hardware. I’m not exactly sure how a business like theirs benefits from the reduction of personal computing, but they’re not doing much to fight these advances. Perhaps they see themselves selling us the hardware clients that serve no other purpose than to connect to the virtual computers.

Governments like it because businesses cave to their demands. Damn be the Constitution and other laws that purposely limit their overreach into your life. They just get the company to do it for them and override your freedom to choose. See covid and ICE. Both political spectrums are doing it for different reasons but likely with the same common goal at the end of the line.

Shortages like the RAM and GPU shortage greatly favor this push and causes consumers to view cloud computing in a more favorable light. At least, that’s what they hope for, but it’s difficult to do that when cloud computing and AI are the reason you’re lacking new hardware and it’s not for another more justifiable reason.

It seems inevitable at this point as they keep trying to force it.

Wow, the “premium” edition is now the price it should have been on release.

These companies are nuts thinking these prices are reasonable.

The premium edition is what we would have gotten on release 30 years ago until the next game in the series. Now they expect you to buy the base game, wait for the day 1 update and another update to fix game breaking bugs, pay for the season pass, pay for another season pass because the first one didn’t cover all of the additional DLC…

It depends on where it comes from too because some countries have been letting people use theirs specifically because it makes sense given what the content is. I learned this for the .tv domain which is for the country Tuvalu but they’ve found it a nice way to make some extra money for television shows wanting a neat domain.

Not as easy to put out a reskinned game every year like they can with Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed.

California is joining in too with AB-2047 and New York has AB-2228 requiring a criminal background check for buying a 3D printer.

This is what actually tired me more than driving when I did Uber for a while. I felt exhausted from socializing but probably more so because it was the same conversation each time “how did you start, when did you start, do you do anything besides Uber…”. Ironically my first passenger was probably the most enjoyable conversation I had while doing Uber and we drove over 70 miles to her destination talking the entire way.

Getting an Uber driver/passenger who didn’t want to talk was always the best for me. Not trying to be rude, but I enjoy driving in quiet more times than not, even when alone, I don’t always listen to music or anything on my radio. I don’t get why some people can’t seem to enjoy silence and constantly need some sort of artificial background noise.

The wear and tear on my car and the expensive trips are why I don’t drive or take Ubers anymore. I pulled up the app a few weeks ago to get a lift to somewhere 5 miles away and the trip just getting there was like $20. Paying that much in gas could get me well over 100 miles even in my area where gas is insane.

I love when I encounter a barber who picks up on this for me.

I try not to be rude and converse back if they talk, and I’ve had some legit good conversations with some barbers, but I so enjoy the quiet when getting my hair cut and enjoying it like a massage.

California is less than a year as it goes into effect this upcoming January 2027.

So it sounds like he did that on purpose with some intention you’d be injured because he was angry with you…? That’s scary…and he’s involving strangers in this violence too, which just adds to that. What else is he capable of if this is how he’s handling his anger and he’s aware of it?

Like it’s one thing to react in anger and not realize you did something stupid in anger, but this dude straight up admitted it with full consciousness and maybe even pride. Granted, he was probably still angry, but that’s probably worse since he’s holding to anger for much longer than is reasonable and maybe even over something that didn’t deserve anger in the first place, perhaps? Worrying that he is not managing this after therapy sessions and doing things like you had suggested, letting you take the wheel when he feels this upset.

It sounds like he needs anger management on his own in his own therapy. If he keeps acting this way, his best outcome is going to be involuntary if not a worse outcome meeting the wrong person who’s not going to care how he’s feeling.

But either way, you do what you have to, to protect yourself.

It doesn’t sound like something I’d be interested in, but who cares? Write it anyway.

I hate it when people say “no one will read it”. That’s untrue for most things. There is at least one other person who will read it and like it out there. If nothing more than for you to finally get it out there and on paper for your own satisfaction of doing it. And even if no one else does, it doesn’t matter.

It doesn’t sound like you’re doing this in hopes of being the next Jack Kirby or Stan Lee or to get rich. It sounds like you just have a story you think is cool that you’ve been sitting on for a while and you want to flesh it out. Go for it. Spend some time and get it out there and then release it for others to read.

I don’t think I’ve seen a better looking pizza. That looks so fresh.

I seem to be this minority. Civ 4 on the Xbox 360 was my first but Civ V was the first on PC and I have wasted away many Saturdays playing.

I almost deleted it from my MacBook before forgetting that I still have a game from a few weeks ago I’m near completing. I branched off to nuke Alexander off the map because he was a dick to everyone but then everyone feared me and I felt bad and haven’t returned.

At one time, we were promised that having cameras in our faces wherever we go would make things safer. “This invasion of your privacy will make you safer.”

That’s clearly not been enough to completely stop this so now we need to take it one step further and use lasers.

That will be the end all, be all to put a stop to this.

But if and when it isn’t, it’ll just lead to the next victim feeling we didn’t go far enough.

Next is going to be requiring every citizen have a drone fly behind them and follow them wherever they go and they pay for this invasion of their privacy. The laser thing just wasn’t cutting it. Someone got assaulted and the people who were supposed to help her didn’t show up. But now having drones follow you and monitor your every movement is going to stop it once and for all. Of course it won’t follow you into your bathroom because that would be taking it too far…

…until someone gets assaulted in a bathroom, then we’ll move to now violating your privacy there as well and that will be the end to all of these evil people being evil, once and for all. We promise. That’ll be the last time we violate your privacy and the evil people will stop being evil for sure 👍

I’m so hyped for this headset. Can’t wait to ditch my Quest 3 for native Steam functionality.

I was at one point, was really into KDE Neon for a while and used it everywhere. Then shifted when they released a new distro away from Neon.

But now I use Debian on my two servers and looking at DietPi for my Raspberry Pi and use Linux Mint Cinnamon for my gaming PC. With the Nvidia RTX GPU I have, I had nothing but issues on any distro that used Wayland so I felt forced into this and been here since with no issues so I will be here for some time.

I don’t know if I’d want my name attached to this game.

It doesn’t even look good by PS1 standards…yeesh.

There’s a few games made nowadays made purposefully to look like PS1 like Easy Delivery Co but they don’t look anywhere near as bad as this.