MrVilliam

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Tony’s Chocolonely can’t even be certain

Tony's is really fucking good. And because chocolate is 100% a luxury good, I have absolutely no problem reducing my candy bar intake down to one or two expensive chocolate bars per year when I know that they're doing their best to fairly source their objectively superior product. And I make it last a week or two by using a ziploc bag. Tony's is best in small doses, and I prefer to pair it with a nice bourbon as dessert, but maybe that's just me being a bougie bitch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

For anybody just casually interested but with lesser needs than OP, I bought a 65W supply to replace a phone charger I forgot at a hotel and I've been very happy with it. Don't just buy a single port replacement if you fuck up at check out like I did lol. Here's what I bought: https://a.co/d/2TKDE2G and it's $40 right now.

It has 3 ports total, 2 USB C and 1 USB A. The only issue is that it doesn't come with cables, so I also bought a 3 pack of 2m USB C to USB C cables. No complaints.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Idk, I'm pretty sure trump is gonna get at least fifty million votes in less than 3 months, probably closer to eighty million like last time. He's obviously a fascist piece of shit that's falling apart and frothing at the mouth, but he's still wildly popular with like 30% of voters, and like 40% of voters tend to not show up, flip a coin, or just go by name recognition. A shitload of people are not paying attention. This election will be really close, despite what an absolute dumpster fire that dingleberry incarnate is. I think it would be incredibly foolish to get too comfortable while so much is at stake. The guy is still threateningly popular with a large and passionate base, just like Elvis in his later years.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Even if it weren't an expired trial for Disney+ though. I think it's incredibly unreasonable that an agreement to arbitration related to your streaming service should apply to restaurant liability. No reasonable person would believe that they should check the clauses of their Paramount+ contract before eating a Sonic the Hedgehog chili dog from the spot in the park next to the aaahh real monsters log flume ride. If we decide that that's how we should legally be living, then it's absolutely time to rip subsidiaries out of the hands of parent companies. When there are only like 6 companies in the world, there is no legitimate competition. I reject the logical conclusion to this strategy, which is that we are cash cow consumers, paying a subscription for company membership to continue being alive and waiving all personal freedoms and choices.

It's way past time to break up these gigantic conglomerates. But better late than never.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But also, cops like having an excuse to violently punish their comrades. So they're happy with whoever gave them that excuse, billionaire or not.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For my entire lifetime, there's been an obvious trend of Republicans absolutely fucking the economy and then Democrats cleaning up the mess. Anybody who trusts trump more than Harris in this topic is incapable of pattern recognition, even if trump were "one of the good ones" if you believe such a thing exists. It just so happens that he is particularly terrible on every topic, including the economy, but even if he weren't, any modern Republican would still be poison for the American economy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I've never asked so I can't say for sure that it's not impossible, but I've personally never heard a couch speak. Therefore, I'm not sure any couch is capable of consent. Ergo, all couch fucking is couch rape.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Excellent question. Idk, I can see indirect sex work like camming or porn still happening because that could be connected to a desire to perform for an audience. Maybe less prostitution but I'm almost certain that it wouldn't go away completely.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What a terrible day to have eyes.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, that would be stupid. He changed the password to maga2024 like a smart person.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't you realize that they wouldn't be this close minded in the first place if they were traveling and meeting other walks of life? They're incurious people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

At least that's a consistent viewpoint. What I despise is demonizing sex work but not exploitative labor practices. It's totally illogical to me that people will pride themselves on working 12+ hour days, skip breaks, come in on days off, work nights and weekends and holidays, etc but look down on people who have an OnlyFans or whatever. I don't really understand criticizing one without the other.

Personally, I don't give a shit about sex work. If it were fully legal and workers were protected and everything, I still don't know that I would pay for it, but I sure as shit wouldn't fight to take that choice away from others. It just wouldn't really affect me. Same thing for access to safe drugs or abortions. I'm not going to advocate for other people to not have choices in their personal freedoms, so I guess I'll fight for people to have access even for things I'm not that interested in for myself.

 

BEWARE OF POTENTIAL SPOILERS IN COMMENTS!

I played The Forgotten City for free via PS+ Extra and it's one of my all-time favorite gaming experiences! I urge anybody remotely interested to not look up a goddamn thing about this game beyond this blurb of mine (because spoilers are easy to stumble upon) and play it ASAP!

What is it? It started as a Skyrim mod developed by a lawyer who wanted to make something that's less of a game per se and more of an interactive story that delves into philosophical quandaries like the nature of morality. It's a first person game where you go to an island and wind up in an ancient city of sorts. There's a kind of groundhog day element to it and you have to figure out how to stop that from happening. It's a bit of a mystery, but nearly all of the gameplay is running around and talking to various characters, all of whom have unique personalities. It's like a really robust Fallout New Vegas mission, but without all the combat. You'll probably get through it in 20-40 hours.

Okay, now that that's outta the way, who wants to rant or gush about this little game?

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