Carl [he/him]

It’s too case by case to make a sweeping statement. Sometimes a pet’s quality of life is extremely bad, sometimes an animal’s instincts will tell it to stop eating, sometimes you could have an old pet that does that and think that they’re going but then it turns out they have a totally treatable kidney issue and go on to live five more years after two weeks of pills. That last one happened to me with my thirteen year old cat who went on to live until eighteen.

I wouldn’t put down an animal unless they were suffering and an expert told me there was no way out of it - but of course that’s easy to say in isolation, when in the real world vet visits cost money. I guess what I’m saying is that I wouldn’t judge someone on the decision they made for their pet unless it seemed that they were acting without compassion and didn’t consider all alternatives.

break the lever so that it cannot be pulled

they knew

there should be a “block instance” option in your settings, though I don’t think that blocks them if they post in a separate instance which is the whole point of the fediverse.

For real, they should have either bought or cloned VRChat as a first step, and then looked into expanding from there. That shit is a metaverse that people willing go into primarily because it enables a ton of free expression.

Can electroplasma be used to spin a turbine? Asking for a friend.

I find it hard to believe that imperial china didnt invade anyone between 598 ad and 1912

Have a drink with ice. Hands down that and air conditioning would be my top two missed conveniences if I went back in time.

Not really interested in the Machine but the Controller v2 and the Frame look absolutely perfect. Especially that controller - every single annoyance about the v1 seems to have been addressed, from the lack of a real D pad to the ease of accidentally touching the trackpad without meaning to.

Unfortunately for Valve, I’m the type of person who will continue using my Index and Controller v1 until they literally disintegrate in my hands, which hasn’t happened yet because they made them so high quality in the first go around, so I probably won’t be buying either for a while if ever.

openly begging for the US to bomb the country to smithereens

nobel peace prize winner btw

I think Hasan Piker likes Janet Mills or something.

I actually can’t tell if he’s being serious or ironic when he says this.

lame people: there are too many magic items in d&d, everything’s a monty haul campaign

cool people: haha fire sword go brr

i had a game once where every player showed up with a broom of flight. 10/10 game it basically turned into touhou

ooh I like that helm, stealing that

[gaming laptops]'re desktop replacements and they’re just worse than a desktop in every way and cost more

Learned this the hard way when I was nineteen. Had a fat ass Alienware, top of the line everything, played Crysis, lasted about one day past the warranty and promptly died.

About four years ago I bought a laptop for work, an old Thinkpad. It was used when I got it and it’s still kicking. Runs a web browser just fine (and stuff like PuTTy and Teams) and can hang with indie games.

The only reason I would consider buying a laptop that’s more than a web browser/video streaming machine now is if I really needed to be able to use it as a tablet for art and stuff.

just have public toilets my god

“lesbians are accused in 100% of space crimes” is a much less fun statistic.

retvrn to downloading mysterious .exes on the internet and running them

It’s always projection. Even if they’re not literally doing the thing that they accuse their opponent of doing yet, the fact that they’re making the accusation reveals their intention.

Ah shit, this means they’re gonna do everything they made up about Xinjiang (if they’re not doing it already at the alligator place)

You’ve heard of jumping spiders? Wait till you get a load of the new and improved flying spiders!

This is very game dependent. Right now I’m in a pretty brutal one where everyone is branded by the goddess of mind control and we have miniboss encounters with our own former PCs who’ve been turned into grotesque monsters - but I’ve also played in games where the PCs were newcomers to Olympus and more or less ended up recreating the first few God of War games.