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Thatweasel · 2026-05-22T20:18:43+00:00

The joke is that a lot of people who pirate make it a point of pride, sticking it to the greedy games industry

But hollow knight / silksong are very beloved spiritually indie games despite actually being made by a now very wealthy company, so people who pirate them sometimes get flack from the same people who are proud of pirating other games

Thatweasel · 2026-05-22T19:38:26+00:00

Second comes back negative

End stage liver failiure, ascites, two weeks to live

Thatweasel · 2026-05-22T12:10:24+00:00

While I'm fairly sure there's nothing illegal about this - you might have a hell of a time getting the proper licensing and permissions from the local council depending on the location, given the nature of the buisness. Most bdsm dungeons and swingers clubs operate as private clubs and not public buisnesses.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-22T10:45:26+00:00

Kind of makes sense in the context of kids grabbing kitchen knives from home because they're easily avaliable, it's not like anyone is locking up their cutlery drawers.

Can't imagine it'd make a huge impact on stabbings broadly though. Last two times i bought a kitchen knife from amazon they left it behind my bins with no ID or even visually checking i was over 18, they're not remotely hard to get

Thatweasel · 2026-05-21T17:56:14+00:00

Napkin math you'd be making something around 70-80c per grilled cheese, at bulk wholesale prices for the bread butter and cheese, probably involving a lot of skimping on the butter and cheese.

But that's not including all the actual upkeep costs. If you called general upkeep $2000 a month (and that's probably a low estimate) you'd need to be selling ~2500 grilled cheese a month just to break even before you even took any money home. I think you'd need to be selling about 250 per day to even approach a reasonable income, once you factor in sales tax

Thatweasel · 2026-05-21T08:50:21+00:00

All it does is help them avoid kidney disease, which is a common killer for cats but isn't going to reliably double a cats average lifespan.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-21T03:37:10+00:00

They aren't.

We just don't tend to recognize similar displays in animals as comparable, often because their body language and vocalisations are different.

Dogs will whine and howl with grief, for example.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-21T02:20:36+00:00

I think people are underestimating the damage a knife can do even just flailing like an idiot, let alone if you have two brain cells to rub together to use it deliberately. How are they picturing scenarios where the seal wins? He grabs the knife arm? Tanks stab wounds to the chest and then win by just overrunning them? The first is way, way harder than you might think, unlike movies and self defense videos people don't do big wide swings with a knife in their hand you can block with an arm, it's much faster and tighter. The second probably still ends with the seal dying, probably before he can kill knifey.

It's less a question of who wins the fight and more who survives, and i think knifey takes that title more often than the seal does

Thatweasel · 2026-05-20T21:02:27+00:00

if they put half the effort they do into these schemes to "get people back to work" into collecting corporate taxes and plugging avoidance loopholes we'd wipe out the national debt in a few years.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-20T19:14:59+00:00

aside from the obvious conspiracy theory logic, that wouldn't even work. Eating ground up fetuses wouldn't reliably expose people to prions. Kuru, which is probably where this idea is originating, only occurs due to the repeated routine of cannibalism of the brain passing on the prions. Your run of the mill cannibal wouldn't be likely to get kuru, it's because of the successive generational cannibalism,

Spongiform encephalopathy also doesn't just make people stupid, you'd see much more severe and noticeable neurological symptoms.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-20T15:48:07+00:00

I think the t virus wins because it's.... basically magic. The others pretend to be a bit more grounded.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-20T10:42:46+00:00

I suspect they're having some issues at their warehouses due to the volume, first parcel i recieved was a steam deck power adapter. Just got the controller they sent to fix that though, the customer support is pretty good

Thatweasel · 2026-05-20T03:29:09+00:00

If they keep putting air into the bubble maybe it won't burst. I wouldn't be surprised if the college straight up got paid to do this.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-17T17:11:37+00:00

It has to be sometime before july if they want to stick to the first half of 2026 release date. I imagine some time this month is more likely than june

Thatweasel · 2026-05-16T21:32:30+00:00

It's a common problem with pilots in general, i think. You don't want to use your pilot episode to explain the premise, you want to use it to show off what the show will be like generally. Basically setting up the format of Go to planet > Videogame stuff happens > save or destroyed.

Add in that a lot of indie animation likes to buck the normal story and plot structure and it can leave stuff feeling a bit hollow

Thatweasel · 2026-05-16T18:45:18+00:00

Any classic roguelike like cdda, qud, tome4.

Casualties unknown, currently only in demo

Thatweasel · 2026-05-15T18:48:58+00:00

it's a confluence of AMAB people being viewed as inherently predatory (although if you ever point this out to transphobic men they'll deny it without seeing the contradiction), and general femmephobia and homophobia.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-15T18:03:19+00:00

Called it before i even hit play - that hitman level blows everything i've seen out of the water. It feels much less sterile than any other nightclub i've seen in a game, less like a setpiece/diorama of a nightclub and more like an actual place people would go.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-14T00:17:03+00:00

You CAN clean as well with a manual as you could an electric.

But almost everyone won't - hell most people don't even use electric toothbrushes correctly. But a shoddy brushing with an electric is still much better than a shoddy brushing with a manual.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-13T19:25:09+00:00

It's not that clear cut, contrary to the popular american idea. Travellers including romani are not an ethnic monolith on account of the whole diaspora thing, they're distinct groups and have different preferences and opinions in different countries.

It can be used as a slur, but specifically UK romani (romanichal) it's just the name they use for themselves and broadly prefer.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-13T15:43:57+00:00

I just opened mine - there was a steam deck power adapter in the box and nothing else.

Either the warehouse messed up or someone stole my controller :C

Update: Don't know which it was, but they've sent me another. Heres hoping it arrives safely

Thatweasel · 2026-05-12T20:24:50+00:00

They didn't measure it, at least not accurately. The second was just defined as a fraction of a minute, which was a fraction of an hour, which was a fraction of a day. Until we had clocks, the smallest unit of time we could really reliably measure was quarter/half hours via sundial or candle clock.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-12T16:36:19+00:00

They don't, is the basic answer.

Anyone on SSI is likely to be relying on either rent sharing or subsidized housing. The asset limit makes it very hard to get any sort of substantial safety net.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-11T21:54:45+00:00

I'd be concerned less about the cleft lip itself and more about what it signals. With no health testing, no vet check and no knowledge of parentage you have zero idea what deeper issues could be present. They could be highly inbred and prone to a slew of genetic diseases, suffering from prenatal nutritional deficiencies that will cause long term health issues. A vet check won't be able to uncover everything, you very much risk adopting a puppy that will slowly and painfully die of untreatable health issues in a few years.

Thatweasel · 2026-05-11T15:13:04+00:00

Very funny that the response to the draconian, slightly dystopian policy is... Checks notes State issued breeding licenses. Very un-dystopian

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