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[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nobody is answering the prompt lol. Everyone says all of this shit all the time.

You live long enough to never feel at home. Sure the loneliness sucks or whatever, but who do you root for at the football game?

Having to buy new shoes for the rest of eternity. You know how much work I've literally just put into finding shoes that 1) don't suck and 2) aren't made with slave labor? It's impossible. Drives me insane. I'd found my own shoe company once I become immortal rich just to fix that problem alone. Maybe other stuff too we'll get there

I suppose on that note: it seems like a really bad idea to become a public figure after a while. Like you obviously don't want your immortality found out. You have to have like illuminati power before that point though, but it could happen at any time. Like if something happens and you become a news item (i.e. helping someone out and a video goes viral online). Not saying everyone is all that close to going viral, but over a sufficiently long lifespan you're effectively rolling that dice a lot.

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

Fuck I thought men were featherless bipeds?

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

first I've heard of this show, so forgive me if you've heard this before. But. Aren't all LOTR stories generic, because "generic fantasy" (as we know it today) was defined by LOTR in the first place?

At least, any LOTR story that would blend with the original texts/movie. Peter Jackson's even on the poster, though IDK what his relationship with this work will be. I'm sure you could make an out-there story set in middle-earth, but I'm skeptical that it would be recognizably LOTR.

Depends on if you want it to be recognizably LOTR ofc

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

What's the traffic on invidious? Like, while I don't necessarily agree with the ad-block-block, the profit motive makes sense given their ubiquity. But are there really enough users of alternate YouTube frontends that Google is capturing any meaningful profit? Especially when developer hours are expensive and could be used elsewhere on more valuable projects?

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Reminder that the 30% steam tax is absolutely greed. Gabe is a libertarian and charges it because he can get away with it. It makes games worse by affecting the equation measuring what is profitable to make. Gabe doesn't care about that, and that should be taken into account when considering if you actually trust him.

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

It's for me that car is for me

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Shot in the dark, but would anyone be willing to share a deadlock invite?

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't you want to buy more during a plunge anyway? But low sell high and all that

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago
[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Typically you pay for a battle pass with some sort of currency that costs real money to acquire. The battle pass isn't anything on its own, but if you play the game you'll then unlock experience or whatever with the battle pass, thus unlocking whatever it contains. Often that's cosmetics for the game, sometimes useable items, and sometimes it's more of that currency that costs real money.

IMO they suck. Usually they expire at the end of the month, so if something comes up (family emergency, computer died, whatever) you wasted it and paid for nothing. It's a cheap trick to devalue a player's purchase, and to try and boost player count in lieu of good gameplay.

But apparently if you completed the battle pass, it would give you enough premium currency to buy the one they out next month. So theoretically you might only have to buy it once if you were diligent in finish the pass before it went away. Now they've taken that away because they wanted more money.

 

Like most folks with ADHD I have some spares for situations like the recent shortage.

Every so often it seems like the pill isn't really doing it's job. I start to wonder if I'm building up a tolerance, and need to ask for an increased dosage, and then suddenly I'm doing fine again.

Well, I was going through that recently, and I realized I just switched to my newest bottle. Now it feels just as strong, if not stronger than it used to be. As it happens, I tend to have some spares from days I forget and whatnot, so it's been maybe 2 weeks. That also means this last bottle was over month old, too. I wish I could remember if I'd just changed to the new bottle the last time this happened too.

I'm using Walgreens, and the shape of the pill changed last month, so maybe there's a different formulation? I just keep going through this feast and famine of medication efficacy, and Itd be nice to know if this is a problem I can actually solve without going to a higher dosage. Idk, maybe I'll keep them in the fridge while Im not using them or something.

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