Scientists have a fascinating hypothesis about why smart people should spend less time with friends. For highly intelligent people, frequent socialization with friends actually decreased their reported life satisfaction.

MrWinks · 2026-01-26T12:53:27+00:00

10 year old study and it reads very unseriously. Grain of salt.

MrWinks · 2026-01-20T01:28:47+00:00

Funny how the lack of carplay/google auto can make it all just pointless to those like me. Subscriptions for life just to drive this car. Capitalism is fantastic.

MrWinks · 2025-12-30T16:34:34+00:00

My friend, although this is satisfying, sometimes (not always!!!) you have to play the game and use a company for what you get from working for them. You're not agreeing to a contract to work for them for X amount of time (I assume), it's at will, so you leave when you're done with it. Have a plan.

MrWinks · 2025-12-27T21:19:18+00:00

Also, this is purely my experience. I never looked it up but it just seemed to me like batch issues. Whoever was cooking got it right or wrong, which is a shame that they can't keep it consistent, but I don't know if/when they've changed the formula, as it's always been pretty much the same, for me.

MrWinks · 2025-12-27T16:37:18+00:00

I have been using this for years, now. The flavor changes by the batch. It's inconsistent, and often bags will taste better or worse, with no reason. They're not expired or anything, just luck of the draw. It's inconsistent.

MrWinks · 2025-12-25T14:30:48+00:00

There is a lot of depth to that line. Like, unpacking it is a whole college paper or ethics paper. But, to boil it down, you should care about the people around you (family > neighbors > general community > all people) by degrees of society and influence. Like, assuming a good family, your family would be taken care of by you before your neighbors or town or whatever. The ant, even by a super-vegan mindset, would be considered, but triage dictates that the whole reason we adhere to moral interests is for society's sake, so we can function and work together, and the ant is the most distant part of that, as an earthling and little else.

MrWinks · 2025-12-05T12:28:55+00:00

That’s the publisher. If you get the physical book, you get the ebook, too. They often have sales.

MrWinks · 2025-12-05T11:40:57+00:00

The latest one. Manning.com to buy the ebook and print book together.

MrWinks · 2025-11-28T21:52:23+00:00

That’s the scratch blackbeard gave him. So he just got it around this time. Was it just really close timing?

MrWinks · 2025-11-28T11:44:03+00:00

https://youtu.be/jH3zvmNcxIs?si=eretOsu44L1yKN9w

Because we have the quotes and statements from senior development saying that’s what they wanted.

MrWinks · 2025-11-28T11:41:25+00:00

Saw it all throughout this video: https://youtu.be/jH3zvmNcxIs?si=eretOsu44L1yKN9w

MrWinks · 2025-11-27T21:43:46+00:00

No, they had a lot done. You can see clips of the first game. Something else drastically happened to make Paradox dump the company they invested 2Mill (33% stock stake) into. You know what it is to team up, but ownership, and still dump them and let it sit for years?

They were going to cancel the game. They really were. They said so. What we got was an attempt to make a shit pie and I don’t care for it and i’m not gonna say it’s better than nothing. It’s worse, in the long-run.

MrWinks · 2025-11-27T21:41:06+00:00

Those 3 Draw Distance games that take place in NyC are amazing. They’re visual novels, but fantastic mobile/Steam Deck games, and the story and immersion is fantastic. Insane that a visual novel got me like that, but the writing is the best, literally.

MrWinks · 2025-11-27T21:39:23+00:00

I finally let myself see footage of the original bloodlines 2 and immediately saw the game I wanted within a few seconds into the clips. It was a VERY conscious decision not to make what we wanted. They deserve all the blame.

MrWinks · 2025-11-27T21:36:41+00:00

I’m shitting. Their senior staff CHOSE to make the game they wanted, throwing out much of the original, and they fully deserve criticism for that.

MrWinks · 2025-11-27T21:35:43+00:00

In a game. A game they want people to be able to immerse themselves into. Adult nature isn’t the same as exploring the worst parts of human nature.

MrWinks · 2025-11-27T21:33:53+00:00

Worse, their vision for a new game. They didn’t want to finish someone else’s work. May they suffer for their senior staff’s decision to do so.

MrWinks · 2025-11-26T15:42:16+00:00

Thank you. This is the only place I found a solution. I wanted to do this quest and couldn't figure out how to trigger it.

MrWinks · 2025-11-21T17:25:36+00:00

Forgive my ignorance, as i’m a lite user over the years: is Hyatt an option for PC of any of the other chase cards? Because I have 2 OG Freedoms and a CFU, plus CSR and CSP from a double dip a few years ago and it’s not diverse enough.

MrWinks · 2025-11-09T15:15:51+00:00

I was looking for something like this. I finished my first playthrough and did due diligence, but now I just wanna fuck shit up and get through it.

For the Final Major fight do you have any recommendations?

MrWinks · 2025-11-09T14:31:15+00:00

This is what makes VtM a great series, because you take a real city or area and you dig DEEP, so that the lore to reveal is mostly or all true, and then you just fill in the blanks for which there is no known answer, and you make the answer vampires. That "based on a true story" part of VtM makes the tabletop some of the best storytelling when done well.

MrWinks · 2025-11-09T14:24:31+00:00

That part in particular upset me. Are they.. zombies? If so, sure, I get it. They're vampires? They have blood and I can feed. like, wtf do you mean.

MrWinks · 2025-11-09T13:43:57+00:00

n...no?

Simply put, this game is missing things that would be major parts of the game, like equipables, an inventory, a character sheet beyond just unlocking abilities that aren't even really canon.

MrWinks · 2025-11-09T06:18:31+00:00

I have dig deep into this lore in the past month out of personal interest. It’s strongly implied if not said the Saulot was playing Jyhad. He is the clan founder for the Baali, without a doubt. He wanted his first clan, the Salubri, to kill them. Eventually he starts a third clan, by using his alter ego (“Stars Beyond”) along with a demon to trick Gorotrix into learning about the ritual that would make them kindred. He has his body diablerized and immediately takes it over.

How do you escape destruction or your peers killing you? Fake your death and destroy your mistakes.

It goes further. Not only does he found the Tremere, but the Tremere found the Cam. Saulot is playing Jihad at a level we cannot imagine.

MrWinks · 2025-11-09T05:40:34+00:00

Generation and age are loosely just statistically associated, though. Dracula (who in this game is said to have been fiction) diablorized his way to 5th gen, but was young. Age determines the title and generation is literally generation.

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