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  • I get what you mean. I am 100% behind any humans right to be whoever they want to identify as. I am also not naive to the fact that hormones do alter muscle density and development.

    I am not an expert, but I do have critical thinking skills.

    That being said, I feel like if a trans person wants to participate in sports with cis gender of the same sex, maybe they need to have their hormones monitored to be in line with the average of that gender for a decent period of time so they don’t have hormone based advantages?

    If anyone has a better suggestion, please by all means, let me know. That idea is the best one I could personally come up with while defending the trans community from a co-worker that leans very far right and brings up pedos claiming being trans to go to opposite gender bathrooms and trans people having unfair advantage in sports after some body builder claimed to be trans and got world records even tho it was obvious that person was doing it specifically to get the unfair advantage…


  • As long as you aren’t expecting it to run games like it has a RTX4090 in it, and are fine with the limitations of both the battery life away from a charger and the fact that some games might have issues related to the fact that the SteamDeck runs Linux, you will probably not regret your purchase.

    The new OLED version is slightly updated for better thermals, and from what I’ve read is slightly more capable than the OG Deck.

    I have had an OG deck since I got the chance to purchase after putting $5 down to pre order (I want to say a little over 2 years?) and the most demanding game I’ve played on it was Baulders Gate 3, and I had no issues with performance, and the small screen at 1280x800 resolution looks good on the OG but I’ve heard the OLED is even better.

    I just bought my sister in law a Refurbished 512 OG Deck for $379 after tax/shipping, which about half what I paid for mine as an early adopter. You might see if you can pick up a refurbished one or get the OLED with a smaller SSD and upgrade it yourself.



  • I was on Darktide, but, I was an Anti back in the early days and was never part of any RPK monarchies like Blood…

    I was in Schattenkind -> Fists of Vengeance -> Samite -> Killer Whale -> Art of War… then went on hiatus and when I came back in like 2014 I joined Charlie Chans and I’m still hanging out with those guys


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    AC was released in late 1999, I started playing in August of 2000 and played till around 04, took a break on and off for several years and in 2014 I came back and and played till they shut the servers down in 2017…

    Even played for about a year on one of the emulators around 2019-2020…

    It’s the only MMO I’ve played—and I have thousands of hours in GW2, hundreds in WoW, and hundreds more over Warhammer Online, Aion, Lineage 2, DAOC, RS Classic, New World, and I’m sure several others I forget now—that truly scratched that itch for me.

    You can make whatever type of character you want and the best armor in the game is loot gen.

    There were like, 14 years of monthly updates…

    I will say, getting used to Decal and all of the plugins will make your head spin that those programs were allowed during retail…

    It has been the one MMO that I want to suggest to everyone, but it’s kinda hard to get into and even during the height of its popularity the servers never had more than like 10k people online at a time…


  • “over the past 60 years the West has begun to shift away from the culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion, with economic growth slowing over the same period. The frequency of terms related to progress, improvement and the future has dropped by about 25 per cent since the 1960s, while those related to threats, risks and worries have become several times more common.”

    I mean, when people are struggling to survive it’s hard to let yourself get excited about technology that will likely only benefit the most wealthy. All of the “easy” discoveries have been made. Anything else getting research funding is to further capitalism.




  • I wasn’t going to respond to this thread again because honestly I was just trying to get people thinking about the little guys, but people are taking it to the extreme, so sure I’ll bite.

    There was a period when I was younger where I was barely making minimum wage, was on food stamps and WIC for my wife and newborn. I was lucky that I got out of that situation, but not everyone gets lucky.

    When I look at the direction the future is heading with self serve kiosks, self checkouts, automation systems everywhere you look… I can’t help but worry about the people that are being replaced for the sake of corporate profits.

    If we had universal basic income, I would say bring all of that stuff on. Since we don’t, my sympathy lies with the workers, not the corporations.



  • I would like to offer a different take on this, even if I’ll be downvoted to hell for it…

    So, using Walmart in the US as an example:

    They hire people to push carts from the cart returns back to the building and those people are also responsible for snagging the stragglers as well. By putting the cart back in the correct place you are reducing the amount of work that an hourly employee has to do during their shift, thereby reducing their potential hours and potential pay.

    For me, it’s the same reason I hate the self checkout, because I’m not getting a discount for running a self serve register but Walmart is saving money by not paying an employee to do it.

    I get how using a self checkout is nice because I don’t have to deal with a human, but the human I no longer have to deal with is another potential employee that was getting a paycheck…