Morrowind
project zomboid
Startcraft 2
stormgate (during the beta only)
factorio

Theres also a game called drift wars which is an rts made by literally 1 guy but we’ll see where that goes.

It’s people stuck in the past and are playing because they have nothing else going on, and people who are there because they like it, at least in my experience from osrs

My personality is telling people to use rust, but linux is mainly in C, what do??

It’s kinda even worse than that, it’s very close to just being a cult, they will give up almost all their values because the things they’ve blocked out that they’d have to face (everything really IS that bad, climate change is real, the immigrants I’m targeting are humans like me) is just too high a cost.

I personally know many trump voters and almost all are legitimately racist and do not care what happens to illegals, so long as it’s not in their immediate circle. Go look at polls of Republicans, they care about people in their family and friends, past that they don’t care. This person would not have cared even a little if it wasn’t their family member, and most likely would’ve had nothing to say. The fact that they were lied to about “immigrants taking their jobs” doesn’t make them caring so little about their fellow man any less reprehensible.

Reminder he was such a loser he couldn’t even get invited to epstein island

Well it’s truly pretty rare that I block people, and maybe people do do that for things that they just disagree with, but I took it as the “block negative things out of your life.”

Lots of crazy people on the internet, I just try to remember that sometimes I’m the one being smugly incorrect (and was that way up until like 25) so I can’t get too mad at other people for it. It’s why I heavily err on the side of caution, only when someone does the maga loop back to something they already agreed is false that I’m like ehhhh…

Well maybe bad faith wasn’t the right term, I think for me it’s just that if someone disagrees with me, my response is almost never even close to “I don’t like this,” unless they’re being hateful, unreasonably rude, saying proven false conspiracies, etc. Most of the time it’s “oh I think they don’t realize or haven’t considered xyz” and most of the time either they didn’t know or they correct me on something.

For things I would block, if a racist maga person comes in and says something, I gain absolutely nothing from hearing how climate change is fake, how libs are the real racists, how we hate trump for no reason. It’s just negativity conspiracy brainrot and it’s a huge waste of my time. Same for posts about what random out of touch billionaire #45 said, same for people generally being mean or super negative towards others, that’s what I actually don’t like and am happier having blocked it to never see again.

Yes which is why I’m not against ai as a whole, just in its current form it needs massive regulations. I would still not be happy about how it’s ruined huge portions of the internet, but I would probably put up with that for the value it provides.

Sure not all the critique is accurate, but in its current form, it causes huge issues with water and noise pollution in places the data centers are built, and are sucking unbelievable amounts of power, while essentially DDOSing tons of sites to scrape data, and often using copyrighted material that they have no license for. It is also reducing people’s ability to think critically because people turn to it immediately.

I’m not an idiot who will say it’s not useful, but we need to slow down by about 20x with what we’re doing with it now, and save it mainly for medical usage until we have a solution to those massive problems.

I think this is for people who are less “annoying” and more “actively lying and being bad faith.” If someone says the elections were stolen, vaccines cause autism, and liberals hate America, I have other things I would rather do than investigate every one of the infinite conspiracy theories that I already know many others have debunked. It’s essentially an exercise in bad faith rhetoric at that point, which is just so incredibly boring. I’ll look into a few to see the patterns of how they lie, and then I’m good.

That is how you should read anything you are not an expert in, yes. A layperson can very often misunderstand what they are reading (mixing up correlation and causation for instance) and draws incorrect conclusions, so you defer to what the experts believe, i.e. their conclusion.

? Did you read the conclusion, which is what the researchers believe you should take from these findings? I picked some random paper because this is well established that they have negative effects

The excessive consumption of these beverages does indeed pose a threat to health, as it impacts many organs and systems.

Some of the risks are listed as follows: mental health (including incidental mood disorders such as depression and eating disorders such as bulimia); delays in child neurodevelopment when consumed by mothers during pregnancy; cardiac remodeling (increased LAD and LVM); evidence of worsening retinopathy as well as increased HbA1c in diabetics; increased urinary symptoms in women; incidental ESRD, a modest association between consumption of ASB and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as well as multiple myeloma in men, incidental rheumatoid arthritis in women; increased risk of hip fractures in postmenopausal women; incidental dental erosion and caries; and finally, increases in BrAC when used in alcoholic beverages.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9891650/

I’m not sure if this includes Stevia but artificial sweeteners have some pretty bad long term effects

I’m a millennial and baaaarely avoided dial-up, it was phasing out in the late 90s but I still have the sound burned into my head so I assume my parents used dial up when I was super young.

I thought that line was a worm on my screen

Some disks don’t even contain the game, they’re basically big circular CD key, it’s really stupid.

People take it for granted but it’s actually such a cool bit of engineering, we had a world-changing technology, but it would take decades to get lines set up and wouldn’t really be too useful until then. But engineers realized by literally playing and listening to beeps over an existing widespread utility in phone lines, you’ve just given almost everyone access to the internet overnight, with almost 0 infrastructure cost.

It’s actually so insane how much of a cult it is, I have long covid and live with maga people who DAILY see me be in bed for 16 hours and barely able to do things while not in bed, and STILL say “covid was just the flu and overblown.” I have no explanation besides they’re just too bought in at this point.

It’s the standard “my enemies are so unbelievably stupid that they can’t do anything correctly and are utterly incompetent, but also they are smart enough that they are sabotaging us at every corner in ways so sophisticated no one can prevent it.” Somehow this actually works long term…