You joke but I’m being dead serious when I say that I’d enjoy it if someone sent something like that to me

…I’d probably feel slightly lesser due to me struggling with coming up with something as creative as that

Yeah but that applies to ages less than like… 5. Not ages up to 18

Rip Malori

Pros: they never stop coming up with ideas and thoughts

Cons: they never stop coming up with ideas and thoughts

Fuck I didn’t realize that’s what it was alluding to lmao

Ok now it makes sense

So I went and looked it up, and signal-desktop is listed as a reproducible build, so theoretically you should be able to go and check that it conforms to the source

https://reproducible.archlinux.org/

But this isn’t anything I’ve looked into myself, so feel free to look into it

And you also need to trust your OS not taking screenshots of your apps or recording the text displayed onto your screen

There’s plenty of links in this chain, there’s a lot you need to be aware of if you’re going to those lengths. Pick your battles

It’s also in the official arch repositories, so any arch-derived distro has an easy install. I don’t know about other distros however

Signal has a Linux client though? I literally use it myself

The game was originally planned to be a PvE only game, but the game wasn’t fun according to the data by their playtesters

There’s work that is involved in properly making and balancing and creating content for a different mode. You design the entire game around how you play it, in those case PvPvE. So no, they shouldn’t. And neither should devs be forced to make a game they don’t want to make. If you remove the PvP from the game as-is, you will lose out on a lot of what the game is supposed to be, and the interactions and moment-to-moment gameplay you have. Not to mention you’re gonna split the playerbase which is rarely healthy for a multiplayer game.

There’s a reason PvP is included, and that’s because it a straight up impossible to implement the sort of dynamism and unpredictability PvP adds.

There’s not a lot of games like Arc Raiders, and it is the kind of game that I want. Not every game is, or should be made, for everybody. That’s how you get the sort of environment of undifferentiated AAA games where they all look and play the same all designed by committee to appeal to the greatest amount of possible to earn as much as possible

Two editions, the current one and previous one, I believe

And the space hog is like a few gigabytes. I think that’s well worth it for a beginner when it means that in the worst case you can always roll back when we have like terabytes of space

Body doesn’t eat itself before almost a week or no food. Yeah you’ll be using up fat storage and such but that’s not it eating itself

I think it can be a valuable insight for many. Having that sort of wake-up call. Yeah, maybe most people have figured this out by now, but its possible many are still going on that sort of autopilot mode where they keep being harsh on themselves due to learned and instilled behaviors

I do also want to point out that stuff like “The conservation of energy” law, in other words, that energy cannot be created or destroyed, does not hold for our universe with our current models. An expanding universe violates the time-translation symmetry

This is our current models. This is what our current physics says. And we know it’s incomplete.

When it comes to scientific predictions, you always, always, need the caveat, “under our current model of”.

For what is essentially top-of-the-line gear? Yes. That is cheap. Remember, I am talking about the upper limit here. As in, there’s no more money you can reasonably spend than that, as you won’t get any further benefit. Top-of-the-line GPU, CPU, 64GB of RAM, the best OLED you can get, extra budged for cheaper elements such as additional side monitors, etc. in practice you can get by with much less

I mean, just look at the prices of any other hobby. Hobbies aren’t cheap! A “fun” car and its mantainance isn’t cheap. And what about a really good bike? Or a good instrument and music lessions? A small fishing boat, with fishing gear, and a way to transport and store it all, won’t cost little either. We could even talk about practical hobbies such as woodworking, working with metal, leather working, but those definitively can be very expensive, especially in material costs. And especially if you include the space they require as part of the price.

You need to keep in mind maintenance costs, or the money it takes to partake in hobbies over time, as well. For video games this is low compared to other hobbies. Even I, who considers video games to be my main hobby, rarely spend more than a few tens of dollars a month on new games on average, and I feel like I play new stuff constantly. A lot of the games I like to play are simply not AAA prices, I play replayable/long-playable games I already own a good amount, and I simply don’t have enough time to play through games quickly enough to spend more

Of course, you can do a lot of hobbies cheaply, but not if you go for high-end stuff. You can do video games cheaply as well. You probably need a computer for work anyway, so spend like 200$ extra, and you got something that can play a lot of interesting games.

Honestly computer and gaming are pretty cheap as far as hobbies go. The best possible consumer-grade PC you can get is a few thousand dollars at most

Now 3D printing sounds more expensive, but I don’t have nearly as much knowledge there :3

It’s fun

Time capsule for future society that can crack our encryption

Perfect protein to write a paper about

In case you are being serious, auditory hallucinations when falling asleep/waking up are fairly common, and not usually a sign of anything more. It’s more that the in-between states are kinda weird lol