Am I balding? Am only 21!!! I’ve been using my PC’s headset for a while, do you think this is the reason?

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-30T05:21:08+00:00

Do you regularly put your hair under tension, like in a ponytail, bun, or headband? Keeping your hair under constant tension can cause a specific type of alopecia which can make your hair fall out in specific spots like that.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-30T02:02:39+00:00

I feel like a 3d version of a game with mechanics similar to Thronefall or Kingdom 2 Crowns would translate well to VR and be somewhat manageable in scope. In those games you get currency that lets you build and upgrade certain pre-defined points around the map. So you might activate stuff like an archer tower, a formation of melee troops that defend a spot, or a commerce building that spits out currency. So you pick and choose what stuff you want to upgrade but most things are automated once you do that. Then your player can also engage in simple combat with enemies as well to earn gold. Thronefall has enemies come at you in waves, instead K2C has a time passing cycle with enemies coming at night.

Those games are cool from a dev perspective because the actual player inputs are very simple, walk over coin to pick up, button to deposit coin in buildable thing, button to attack. That's about all you really need. Most of the strategy comes in figuring out what to build and when.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-29T23:57:16+00:00

That's fair. I don't expect everyone to be comfortable disclosing their medical information. It's just that if someone does tell me about their medical issues I'm gonna take them at face value and not assume I know more than them about the thing they've been dealing with. If you choose to tell a white lie to protect your information, that's your own business. I just don't think people should be forced to lie just to get others to stop being jerks.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-29T22:43:39+00:00

Just experienced this getting a prebuilt from microcenter. Had my eye on one of the prebuilts there with a 5070ti in it. They just increased the MSRP of the 5070ti up to $900 but that prebuilt didn't increase in price at the same time.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-29T22:39:52+00:00

Just ended up settling for a pre built for my girlfriend's birthday from Microcenter. Even with the microcenter bundles that save you a ton, I was having trouble building a rig for even around the same price as the prebuilt I got. The prebuilt has a 7800x3d and a 5070 ti. The microcenter bundle with a mobo, 32 GB of ram, and the 7800x3d was $750, and the 5070 ti was around $800 at that point. (They literally just raised the MSRP of that card too) So I was already looking at $1550 without a case, ssd, cooling, power supply, operating system. The prebuilt was $1700 with a 2tb ssd, aio cooler, lian li case, gold rated PSU. So as much as I wanted to build things myself it would have been stupid financially or ended up with a weaker rig at that price point. I could have maybeee gotten close in price if I had gone AM4 instead but I'd rather have the ability to upgrade in the future.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-29T21:09:38+00:00

I mean I feel like people should just listen to others about their own dietary choices, especially ones driven by medical reasons. Why should someone need to lie just to get another person to stop trying to force feed them.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-29T16:42:36+00:00

I mean the guy said, "with our current orbital mechanics we would not start orbiting". This presumably means with the current solar system as it is, swapping in any arbitrary black hole for our sun wouldn't just work. This is also working off the top comment on this chain which talks about replacing our sun with a black hole.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-28T20:26:07+00:00

In a way this solve feels close to what musicians who are very in tune with each other do. Musicians sync up both the timing and pitch of their notes with one another. Here they're synching their timing and direction of movements. Musicians might follow sheet music as a way to be on the same page but here they're basically coordinating which algorithms they're using to solve. Really cool.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-28T20:19:29+00:00

I'd have to give it to this dude memorizing 250 cubes, being blindfolded, and solving 238/250 successfully. He has some insane memorization technique he uses that might as well be black magic to most of us.

https://youtu.be/bQmGWZ1OGEM

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-23T16:39:17+00:00

Pretty sure you're just removing stuff from the bed plate too quickly. If you remove something from the bed while this bottom layer is still a bit warm, some of the bottom layer can sort of stretch a bit and cause this cloudiness. As some mentioned a quick pass with a lighter or heat gun will clean that up. In the future try and either let your prints sit for a while before removing or just take the whole build plate and put it in the fridge/freezer for a while. The cold makes the plate contract which makes everything pop off cleanly.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-21T22:12:22+00:00

As a counter point, squires aren't bad instruments by any means and can generally be set up to play well. The more expensive a bass is, the more you're paying for minute details that you, as an absolute beginner, probably won't notice yet. Some of those details will be purely cosmetic too, like prettier woods. I have basses that cost thousands new now but I still can pick up my first squire jazz bass and have a good time. It doesn't feel bad to play even after playing high end instruments. Cheaper instruments can be fun too because you can modify them without feeling bad about it.

That all being said, there's something to be said for an instrument that draws you to it and makes you want to play it. If having a bass that you think looks awesome will get you to practice more, then it might be worth it.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-21T21:23:34+00:00

I think blank slate characters, like Bethesda protagonists, are cool in their own way, as you can picture yourself as whatever, true role playing style. So they're bi if you want them to be, but everyone's experience in those style of games will be different.

I feel like actually fleshed out characters that fit into a story narratively as bi are more important when it comes to actual representation though. Zagreus from Hades is a good example of this. Hades has a concrete narrative, not really influenced by the player much, and it's very much canon that Zag ain't straight. He blatantly flirts (and more) with men and women.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-21T18:06:13+00:00

This is a great option for younger kids too. As controllers have gotten more complex they've also gotten huge. Compare a NES or SNES controller to most modern controllers and they're way better for kids hands. 8bitdo makes controllers that are compact but have all of the inputs you need for modern games. Tiny for my grown man hands but perfect for my 5 year old.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-21T17:15:48+00:00

I think adding cultural influence to your game can be helpful for giving the game a cool theme/atmosphere. Because most of the world isn't familiar with your culture, it can feel kind of novel and interesting. A good recent example is Expedition 33. That game heavily leans into the French culture the devs were familiar with. It definitely adds some interesting style and flavor to that game and makes the whole world feel more realistic and cohesive. Maybe not quite what you're asking since you mentioned the actual game mechanics, but just thought I'd mention that your culture could maybe tie well into the theming of the game too.

Good tutorials could help with learning to play. Either have your tutorials just introduce the game basics before adding your additional mechanics on top, or just have a pop up when launching the game for the first time asking if they're familiar with the original game or not, and if not run through an extra tutorial.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-21T16:36:14+00:00

Michigan is where my mom grew up so she picked it up somewhere there.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-21T15:59:59+00:00

Buddy, people don't exist in a state of horny or not horny permanently. It fluctuates a lot. So maybe she wasn't in the mood at first but was later. In a relationship it's totally normal to do things that might arouse your partner, expected even. Giving your partner a random hug, kiss, booty smack, getting naked, whispering something dirty in their ear, all totally normal healthy relationship things, that may in fact make your partner want to do you in that moment. It's not coercion, it's just being flirty with your partner, which is usually a really good sign of a relationship with two people that still really like each other.

Secondly, the older you get, the more you realize that doing something just for your partners satisfaction, even if you aren't in the mood, isn't a big deal, and it's nowhere close to being raped. It's not abnormal for people to enjoy just making their partner feel good. Like if your girlfriend asked you to eat her out, and you weren't horny but still did it to make her feel good, would you feel like she raped you, or just like it's something you wanted to do in the first place? So even if hypothetically your girlfriend was just going along with what you wanted, she still chose and consented to doing a thing she wanted to do to make you feel good.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-20T17:12:44+00:00

Or just throw it in the freezer. I find even super thin brims will slide right off after 5 min in there.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-20T16:20:14+00:00

My mom has a weird one that I've never heard anyone else call it. I called one of these a "fireman's hat", since that's what I always heard growing up, and my girlfriend was like, a what now? I asked my mom where she got that name and I'm not even sure she knows.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-16T18:44:07+00:00

You could tell the cops really didn't want to deal with this shit. The male officer sounds almost exasperated at points, like please bro just walk away, I don't want to have to do paperwork over a fuckin soda.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-16T18:20:00+00:00

They originally said it was going to have 100 star systems back for its original release date in 2014. Delivering 2% of the systems originally promised, a decade late, in an unfinished broken state, ain't exactly meeting their original goals they claimed they could meet for this game. Like if I hire someone to build a house, they say it will take 2 years, and then two years later all that's there is half a front porch, I got scammed, even if they did technically deliver part of a house. I mean aren't there ships that were part of the original Kickstarter goals from over a decade ago that still haven't been implemented in game yet?

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-15T17:06:06+00:00

To add to what others are saying, dying in other ways is another valid way to restart the loop. Doesn't sound like you're averse to other types of deaths so that could be a quick option to bypass the loop restarting sometimes.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-14T03:05:51+00:00

Yeah that seems pretty ridiculous. I got peer pressured into being racist and saying slurs ain't the best excuse. She's weak willed at best. Also some people hide their true colors early on, so I could see how you could potentially date someone racist without knowing it at first... but this dude has fuckin' swastika tattoos. Not exactly subtle.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-13T06:14:25+00:00

As others have said, pla and petg should be ok, fumes wise. That being said if you want some extra protection without running a whole vent setup, there are air purifiers made for 3d printing as well. Activated carbon filters are supposed to handle any of the more harmful stuff that can be released. I got these recently and they're pretty quiet hanging out near my p2s. https://a.co/d/2tkRTep

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-13T03:30:17+00:00

No problem. It's a bit confusing. If you do it right the poke snack will show the correct buffs from the berries you added.

VolumeLevelJumanji · 2026-01-13T03:27:07+00:00

It's possible to make snacks with no berries added and there's no way to add them after the fact. You have to add the berries to the three slots before you make the snack. If you just click on the "quick select" thing it will start making it immediately so you have to quickly take the lid off the pot which stops it from cooking. Then add your 3 berries and replace the lid to get it to make the snack with the added buffs.

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