Jaycifer

Most of my friends who have VR headsets have gotten enough satisfaction from it. The Steam Frame fixes the things about those older headsets such I will be getting one eventually.

Frankly, to be asking your question about internet speeds makes it obvious that you’ve done barely a cursory reading on what the Steam Frame is. Until you’ve fixed that I cannot take what you say seriously.

Huh, I guess my well of embarrassment for my country has officially ran dry. I didn’t feel anything from reading that, just acknowledged that I should be embarrassed!

That is too narrow a definition of racism. Merriam Webster defines it as a belief that race is determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of one race over another. Racism is also defined as actions that reflect or foster that belief. It can also be systemic oppression of people based on race.

Based on that, you could maybe argue that language is cultural and not racial, therefore this is cultural discrimination more than racial discrimination, but in a place with an incredibly low ethnic and language diversity for the size of its population that’s just a distinction without a difference.

What this sign indicates is that they only want Japanese reading people, and in Japan that’s going to be almost exclusively native Japanese people, so it’s not a stretch to say that they do not want non-Japanese reading and therefore non-Japanese people. A policy like that is reflective of a belief that non-Japanese people do not belong in that business, and that is racist.

It’s certainly not the first thing I think of when I meet a couple, but now you know.

The common wisdom (at least in the US college I attended) for the youngest acceptable age gap for a person is to halve their age then add 7 years. So for a 24 year old, 19 is as young as their partner can acceptably be in a relationship.

You didn’t ask a question, you gave an unprompted command without even giving a reason for why anyone should follow it.

Hmm? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_corporatism

I hear something I remember was 20 years ago and my first thought is that it’s so cool I got to witness that! Then I think about the people older than me and want to extract their experience of the things they lived through. Then I think about the people younger than me and wonder what they think of the things I remember and they don’t, hope they have some interest in learning of and from those things. Then I realize some day I’ll be older than most people and will have very few people in my life that have shared my experiences and get a little melancholy.

You wouldn’t happen to be talking about the new data center in Fargo, would you?

I think it’s supposed to be his hand being held up in front of him in a gesture.

I always keep a box of cake mix on hand for similar reasons.

I think most of those are inappropriate to try doing on a plane, so probably for the best you haven’t tried them.

Intimacy and sex with strangers is generally frowned upon, material benefit (I’m guessing that’s what you meant) doesn’t really form a connection, religion is a tough sell if you’re not trained for it and not all religions are great, violence would likely create some animosity.

Talking to someone though can build connection and trust, which makes it easier to help someone find a better path. I do find taking LSD myself helps me become acquainted with new people, so if you’re like me maybe take a trip in search of sad, lonely people to talk to?

Most of what I’m going to say here is stuff I learned/thought about a decade ago. I went to the Porcupine Freedom Festival (Porcfest) in college, the largest libertarian get together in the US (it took over a mid-size campsite for a week). What I learned was hardcore libertarians tend to be anarchists. A lot of what I heard from others was centered around individuals being engaged in their own governance.

In one case that was a blockchain voting system where a person essentially owned their voting registration instead of getting registered with the state. The more interesting one was a presentation that put forth that the best organized groups are in sizes of eight. Therefore the best government system would be a council system in which individuals sort themselves into groups of eight, then choose one of them to be part of a group of eight groups, and so on until a country has built up a national council that directly traces each member to every individual they represent.

Based on those I think what most anarchists take issue with in our current world (of the US) is that the government comes out every four years to say “hey, here are some people to vote for, take your pick.” It’s a lot more top down than it might look on the surface, and anarchists demand a bottom up approach.

If you want an interesting portrayal of hard libertarian/anarchist ideals, I recommend The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, which is about a libertarian revolution on the moon.

Elaine: You guys need water just to take a little pill?!

Well in the case of this post you lean forward and strike up a conversation with the guy instead of posting about him online.

Ah, I see you went with the ridicule.

Go Bison! :P

Alright, so Japan played Brazil with Hatsune Miku on the line and lost. Then Brazilian Hatsune played Norway and lost. Then Norwegian Hatsune played England and lost. Then English Hatsune played Argentina and lost. Then Argentinian Hatsune played Spain and lost. Now Spanish Hatsune Miku is the ultimate winner.

Jean Claude the bard. My favorite litrpg series, The Completionist Chronicles, has a character named Jaxon who has his charisma stat so far below his others that the game system morphs the words he hears into different sentences, and he is the most off putting and creepy guy most people meet. Luke Daniels does a good job conveying that, so I thought what if he was actually charismatic but talked like he wasn’t?

So Jean Claude was a speech bard that literally could not roll lower than a 17 on his persuasion and deception checks, was lawful evil and wanted power but was basically useless in a head on fight, was jealous of his pro-athlete little brother wizard, was the only mage in the party with a magic license and a part of the mage institute everyone else was rebelling against, and to top it all off his best friend was a guy who had no friends that he would cast friends on whenever they saw each other so Jean Claude could get some magic practice and the other guy could feel like he had a friend.

Maybe not silly by design, but I chuckle at the juxtaposition of his character’s abilities and personality every time.

Oh no, I hope they don’t rearrange it into one of the other 3-4 layouts every grocery store uses! I can walk into a Target or Walmart for the first time, check if the electronics section is in a front corner or the back of the store, and based on that I can track down anything in the grocery section to within an aisle without even looking at the signage because they all use the same design principles.

Dedicated grocery stores can mix it up a little since they have more than one line of aisles and a wall of refrigerated space, but generally they fall into similar patterns as well.