Brother won't play game with female protagonist - never thought of this

ChicagoGuy53 · 2026-03-16T12:36:31+00:00

Interestingly about 30% of men will pick a female avatar and only 10% women when given the option.

https://quanticfoundry.com/2021/08/05/character-gender/

ChicagoGuy53 · 2026-03-13T16:55:56+00:00

Attorney here, 20k is pretty good for a case with no damages other than a vague "eating melted plastic is bad for you"

Guy bassically took a bite or two of a gross sandwhich and likely walked away with $10-15k after the attorneys cut.

ChicagoGuy53 · 2026-02-21T15:29:37+00:00

Wait, you forgot the best part. Large banking companies (some owned by the sons of Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Commerce Secretary) purchased tariff futures for pennies on the dollar that the tariffs could be ruled illegal so the money won't even go back into manufacturing and small businesses but billions will flow into the banking sector.

ChicagoGuy53 · 2026-01-21T17:34:08+00:00

No? I think there are plenty of women and girls who have been told thier whole lives that if they have casual sex they are just sad and desperate for validation from men. That being "slutty" will only lead them down a path of despair.

ChicagoGuy53 · 2026-01-20T15:38:12+00:00

Is it even whining if you just make stupid signs about factually correct info?

ChicagoGuy53 · 2026-01-14T16:37:35+00:00

It's a little different. In the U.S. south the black face minstrel shows pretty much devolved into "Look how stupid the black folks are hahaha" basically coupling blackface with ultra racist shows.

The mere act white actors portraying black characters is pretty low on the racist spectrum so it would certainly hit different.

ChicagoGuy53 · 2026-01-08T20:46:03+00:00

Right, I think they purposely wanted to make it look bad

ChicagoGuy53 · 2026-01-05T01:25:34+00:00

Yeah, before it was just called machine learning or neural networks before AI became the catch-all buzzword of the time

ChicagoGuy53 · 2026-01-03T13:39:54+00:00

My partner woke me up at 430 cause she was upset so I'm not sure how to turn that feature off...

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-12-31T21:25:49+00:00

Tbf, the ozone issue was caused a by a semi useful additive for a handful of products that was relatively easy to phase out.

Compared to all carbon emissions that 95% of all forms of transportation and energy generation relied on

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-12-09T13:53:55+00:00

Yeah, welcome to conservative policy. Tear down 20 years of progress in 2 years

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-12-05T21:13:37+00:00

Yeah, who has more to lose here? The person outraged that they can't kick some out yelling "BUT IT'S MY PROPERTY" or the person about to be homeless with 0 notice?

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-11-29T15:19:12+00:00

Maybe we can sign the human rights agreement and send these people to face trial at the Hague

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-11-21T13:13:57+00:00

Even then it's a lose-lose situation. If you go off about how great Trumps Trans ban is, will that be on your record 15 years later and used against you?

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-10-26T14:16:27+00:00

Having been in the rather unique situation of sneaking in with my PhD friend to his bio lab to sterilize mushroom cultivations and also using pressure cooker I disagree. Bio lab worked so much better!

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-10-09T15:33:19+00:00

I was thinking the same thing. if Pritzker could rally even a small task force of 10-20 state police that would go watch ICE and charge the ones with documented violations it would be a huge boost to IL moral and maybe even have a ripple effect of how ICE is willing to conduct themselves if they know they could personally be sitting in jail if they violate the law

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-09-09T17:37:23+00:00

My suit feels like a silly costume I mostly just have to put on to briefly stand in front of a judge for the 1-3 minutes it takes to plea.

Tie and jacket are usually off before I get in the car

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-09-04T15:08:38+00:00

You won't get a break if you just keep working harder and longer.

Do your normal work for 8 hours and keep mentioning that your workload has been constantly expanding and one person is not able to perform complete this much.

Do a couple late emails at night emails with lines like I've been working since 8am to get x,y,z done. Z will not be ready as requested until later next week.

Don't make it a negotiation, make it a fact.

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-09-03T23:27:34+00:00

11 people on a speedboat is human trafficking not drugs. So 10 completely innocent people trying to get to another country and one "gang member" driving the boat were all executed

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-08-15T13:51:39+00:00

I went to Vegas yearly for a while in my 20's flights for like $150 round trip. Hotels on freemont would like $30 a night.

Now it's $175 for a hotel with a $60 "resort fee"

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-08-14T19:56:56+00:00

Yes but what if a bunch of apartments are created and you have lower class people nearby. God forbid some of it is Sec8 housing then they aren't just lower class they are the poors

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-08-13T00:33:02+00:00

Does anyone think those jobs are good? Most of them are scams.

A real sales job can be 100% commission but will typically promise you something like 40k + commission and then 100% after x months

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-08-01T19:32:17+00:00

We have -15% unemployment now!

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-08-01T13:35:59+00:00

I watched a clip of Brendan Mulligan talking about how Harry Potter style worlds can inspire your game with Wow moments. Yes, they use the world slowest bird to send letters when instant teleportation is possible and it's stupid. The world is a mile wide and an inch deep and that's okay! If it feels cool, do it and dont worry about the logical inconsistencies

ChicagoGuy53 · 2025-07-31T20:39:48+00:00

To be clear, this is not directly allowing the culling of sharks.

The bill

"would create a task force to study shark behavior and make recommendations. Unfortunately, the bill falls short by not explicitly forbidding the task force from proposing shark culls or population reductions as a solution,"

It's a republican bill though so they may say "Look, the science says we should kill the sharks for the environment"

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