I don’t agree with the person you’re responding to, but you’re also incorrect. DND was not a power fantasy when it was created.

Its not possible by blocking the barrel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2005_season)#Finger_in_a_Barrel

Likely this barrel was deformed manually using tools.

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There might be others, but The Dagger of Xian plotline in Tomb Raider II is a little “woo woo Chinese mysticism”. You plunge it into your heart and turn into a dragon.

I’m not offended by it but I’d imagine that’s not the kind of thing you’d write in a video game today.

It looks more like Cotton to me.

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zed pls.

Don’t blame me I banged Lae’zel.

I’m from the PNW and I read this thinking “mmhmm yep I could see how that could happen.”

No Such Thing As A Fish - 30 mins a week where 4 professional trivia compilers and comedians take turns sharing odd facts they’ve learned over the years

Hardcore History - like a history lecture from your favorite high school social studies teacher, but compressed into a professionally produced 4 to 10 hour audiobook

FiveThirtyEight Politics - analysis of political opinion polling in the US. no ideological opinions either way, just strategy and political science applied to current events.

The Magnus Archives - a found-footage horror fiction anthology series where the real story turns out to be about the character we hear narrating the stories

Wow you really love giving bullshit psychoanalytical advice on the internet huh?

I don’t want to link to the website about a river that flows through Brazil on Lemmy, but I’ve found that just picking the top generic option on there works fine. IMO the Bose brand replacements aren’t noticeably better for their 2x markup.

Bose QC35 headphones for me.

They felt extravagently expensive at $300. But I’ve had them for 7 years now, wear them a few hours each day, and they still work like new. They sound amazing and the noise cancellation has had a tremendous positive effect on my sanity as an apartment-dweller.

Every year I buy a replacement set of earcups for like $15. I’ll keep using them until they poop out.

The problem is that its so expensive to build from scratch. All Unity does is build just the engine, and that’s enough to make it a 7000 person company. Trying to build a game engine and then an actual game on top is a herculean effort.

This is why open source software is so important. It enables these small companies to pool their resources and share an engine as long as they each contribute fixes back.

The person who runs Unity is a shithead.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/18/23269218/unity-ceo-john-riccitiello-apology-game-developers-fucking-idiots-ironsource-merger

I’m a news junkie too, and I also used to have a problem with online conflict. I got so worked up posting on Twitter in 2016 that I broke into hives. No joke…

I took several years off from the news, but I reestablished a healthy relationship with it 3 years ago. What revelation did I have?

Comment sections aren’t informative. Just stick to factual reporting and if you need to hear some opinions to help you contextualize things you learn, stick to centrist sources and try to read at least two differing opinions per topic.

I only get news from AP News, Reuters and Five Thirty Eight.

If I desperately want to hear an opinion, I’ll read an editorial in The Economist or I’ll look at polling numbers.

I was able to lucid dream for about 6 months when I had a good environment for it.

I lived in a foreign city, and had a very well insulated high rise bedroom with climate control and a professional blackout curtains installation. As a result I slept very deeply.

I also did regular reality checks 5-10 times per day and spent time remembering every dream I had right when I woke up, a dream journal-like exercise but lazier.

Unfortunately, lucid dreaming sometimes triggered sleep paralysis for me. Its very unpleasant.

I don’t lucid dream anymore but I have retained the instinct to recognize a bad dream and snap out of it to this day.

If you’re an adult who is out of school - through organized hobbies.

For me, I like D&D and other RPGs. I moved to a new neighborhood of my city this year and pinged the Discord server of a local game store to organize some games. I was able to get several groups of people together over the next few months, all of whom had a lot in common (gamers), and out of those groups I’ve made two good friends who I now regularly hang out with in a non-gaming way.

Physical activities that happen in a central location are also great. Rock climbing gyms, adult beer leagues and meetups for activities are some examples.

Basically if you’re too socially awkward to just randomly start talking to strangers, try to find a setting that strangers show up to with the primary goal of wanting to do an activity together. Then use interaction during that activity to feel out people who you could be friends with.

Nice! I love this game but have been having issues with performance. I have a 3070 GTX and regularly see my GPU hitting temps of 80-85°C at High settings at 144hz 1440p.

Really looking forward to this patch, I hope it helps!

Found the scam caller.