I think they sound silly sure, but I generally like them so it’s not in a mean way, just a “yeah these friends sound silly talking about their bin chickens, multiple marsupials, and such”

Totally fair lol, I too can get a little over sensitive to online comments for similar reasons.

Ope sorry if it came off critical, I meant it in a form of “this has been said many times and yet it continues to bear the repetition that you engaged in and I’m about to”

Yeah the Sims is a game that the older I get the more I see it as serious gaming. The people who were into it were so much more into it than the people who played standard fpses were. And people of all genders were playing shit like bioshock and skyrim when I was in high school.

The only reason the Sims isn’t treated as a serious game is because it was significantly more popular with girls than boys.

Yeah, it’s not a clever or new observation to point out that the men who are mad they can’t meet women are the same ones who make being a woman in nerdy spaces suck, especially online gaming (but also plenty of irl spaces, my ex was a female magic the gathering judge and oh boy did she get treated poorly). But it is something still worth mentioning.

This also gets worse when genuinely nerdy women are anything other than the equivalent of the worst stereotypes of nerds. When you ask the question why wouldn’t some women of all sorts have been Tolkien heads or been playing ttrpgs since they were teenagers (or have always wanted to try), or been gaming since they were kids, then this behavior gets even more absurd.

If led Zeppelin could be super into Tolkien, why can’t Billie Eilish be a gamer? If Henry Caville can be as nerdy as he is, why can’t a similarly attractive actress be equally nerdy? If some of the guys at the game shop grew into their face and got into working out, why should you assume that that’s not a possible story behind a pretty woman who decides to come in?

Yeah Catholics are supposed to like vaccines

Because it requires a lot of biological investment to eat it. It’s rough on teeth and requires rumination or similar calorically expensive techniques to extract much nutrition. We evolved in the opposite path and optimized heavily for easily digested foods. We then take it a step further and cook them breaking the difficult to digest parts into an easer to digest form.

Also we do eat grasses, but only their seeds and fruits. Wheat, maize, rice, and bananas are all grasses

Yeah I think some people think laid off and fired are synonyms. I was just low seniority in my union

Honestly, I do respect the decision to publicly declare that the laid off employees were very good. I’ve done job searching while laid off and it does suck the suspicion through which you’re viewed by interviewers when they ask about it

Yeah I’m crashing Franco’s plane

Yeah my wife teases me about the things I say when I fall asleep in the wrong place and she’s trying to move me to the bed. Among them is “you’re not my wife”. I also apparently am regularly confused when she comes to bed after I fall asleep, despite us sharing a bed nearly every night since before the pandemic.

Send him a homemade frozen casserole. It’s Midwestern for “I care”

When I don’t know what’s missing a dash of lemon or lime juice solves the problem. Acid fixes issues of depth, salt fixes flavors not coming through properly

It’s not contouring, it’s adding muscle lines, that I interpret as pure scaling up. But yeah as someone who wears makeup, I stand by my position especially on the lip color. It just reminds me far too much of the incel redesign of Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn. It also plumps the lips and gives them more variance from center to edge.

And I want to be clear here, I don’t think they did this on purpose. I think that the training data is more likely to use more conventionally attractive women’s faces including ones with makeup and so it accidentally does some light beautification while in there.

Ok but the included picture added eyeliner and a red lip stain.

Caesar salad in honor of the ides of March

Oh, I’m finally an old and out of touch member of the community

No, I’ve got nobara on my gaming rig, batocera on my wife’s retro console that’s just turned into a kodi device, and proxmox on my server

Exercise and eating right actually do help. It’s just really hard to do without meds for me

Also trip a few times if your genetics agree with it. If they don’t, see if you can enter trances while meditating (it’s a special type of meditation). It’s good for you to feel one with humanity sometimes