Vodulas [they/them]

@Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
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That might be part of it. The shooting doesn't do it for me, and the movement feels bad unless you nail it.

I'll for sure have to see how it plays out in match. Part of it is I also am not a fan of MOBAs, and Deadlock seems to pull a lot from them. We were also looking for a game that my partner could play kinda like Overwatch, bit I think she'll bounce pretty hard off Deadlock.

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Sadly, no ranked choice here, so Kamala Harris on my official ballot. If I had ranked choice it would be:

  1. Claudia de la Cruz

  2. Cornell West

  3. Kamala Harris

Finally got an invite to Deadlock. After watching a let's play and messing around with different heroes in the Hero Sandbox, I think there is just too much. I know it is a MOBA shooter combo, but between the movement mechanics, skills, and item shop, it just kinda seems they added stuff just because other titles in either genre have them. I might still give it a few matches, but it definitely dropped in priority.

Been playing through Raft again with my partner, and that's been a blast. I love a survival crafter, and realized she had not played since the full release. Kinda a cozy survival game if that is even a thing. The only downside isn't it has been moving our normal sleep schedule later, and we need to move it earlier bee laugh sweat emoji

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And I don't think gun control is even a campaign promise. Just shows either lack of forethought or lack of understanding from their campaign

I mean, the MSG scare was 100% racism.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-rotten-science-behind-the-msg-scare/

This seems like a holdover from that

No offense to your father, but that doesn't seem like it invalidates what i said. Sounds like a shitty therapist. I understand the trauma of a shit parent, but that seems like a sketch mix of bad therapist and distant (at best) parent. I'm legitimately sorry you had to deal with that.

As someone that has dealt (not well) with depression, I get the work it takes to find a therapist that clicks, but fuck it might save your life. Be up front about your history. If they are worth their salt they will give 0 shits about who your father was.

If adding MSG makes it ultra processed, then I guess I make ultra processed food at home.

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Ah, exactly what we need. An inaccurate search engine to replace the dominant inaccurate search engine.

Yeah, saying the presence of a single ingredient can indicate ultra-processed food then including an ingredient that is in a lot of Asian food seems like the racist MSG scare from the 70s-90s

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I think there is consensus that processed foods are not as good for you as food in their base form. They tend to have more calories from sugar and the like. It is not that they are inherently bad, but that people eat too many of them, thus getting most of their calories from sugar instead of other macros. This study is older, but has better definitions:

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/3/e009892

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For sure! And this article seems to be hinting at ultra-processed foods being a huge problem, when the actual problem is probably late stage capitalism and the poverty it creates (to be less than nuanced myself, lol).

I am by no means an expert, but I think the idea boils down to, as long as you have them in moderation, you're fine. The issue arises when people can't afford or don't have access to non-processed foods (food deserts for example). It is a deep, complex, and nuanced subject, and I don't think a single article that boils down to "ultra-processed foods bad" is really interested in the nuance.

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I am not a mental health professional by any means, but if this was your experience I think you may have had a shitty therapist. Everybody I know that is in therapy and likes their therapist complains about late stage capitalism with their therapist.

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For a better reference than just single ingredients, the article lists what it considers ultra processed:

Ultra-processed foods include carbonated soft drinks; sweet or savoury packaged snacks; chocolate, candies (confectionery); ice cream; mass-produced packaged breads and buns; margarines and other spreads; cookies (biscuits), pastries, cakes and cake mixes; breakfast ‘cereals’; pre-prepared pies and pasta and pizza dishes; poultry and fish ‘nuggets’ and ‘sticks’, sausages, burgers, hot dogs and other reconstituted meat products; powdered and packaged ‘instant’ soups, noodles and desserts; and many other products see online supplementary material, Supplemental Table 1).

The supplementary material they mention is linked later on, but the link does not work for me

To view supplementary material for this article, please visit https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018003762

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There is one stockholder that has tried multiple times. The issue is the whole Tesla board are all his cronies, and a large portion of stockholders have bought into the cult of personality

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Todd in the Shadows went a little deeper on that. Mostly saying they were so fit and sexy that they inspired American fitness culture. Which is just not true.

I've played through all 3 acts. Obviously in no way have done everything, but I never ran into a situation where your character would get killed for a bad dialogue choice. The "Volo's eye" event referenced is for sure an example of the telegraphed outcome being the opposite of what actually goes down, but I really can't think of another time that happens. Even that choice did not end in death. Some options end in tough fights, and maybe fights above your level, but I was never surprised by them.

Bringing up save scumming is an odd criticism for a CRPG. That has been a long running discussion, but you can choose not to do it if you don't like it. It doesn't mean it is bad game design to include saving whenever you want.

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Seriously fuck this day. The innocent pranks are so outweighed by the sheer bullshit, and anything announced can't be taken seriously.

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I am not a fan of the Guardian, but according to the subject of the article (they call him Li), he is a dissident and was under active investigation. I don't think they would have just let him leave

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Is no one paying attention or does his base see that as a feature? I have seen folks talking about this shit since his first campaign

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Wow, what a garbage article. Surprise surprise it's origin was Fox News. The amount of sarcasm quotes is kind of impressive, though.

Gods forbid you have to take a look at your privileges then unpack what that means. Oh, and then you have to try and empathize with people that don't have those same privileges. Scandalous.

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He left the tweet up. It is still there (from February 17th). Just...wow

JFC what kind of terrible human do you have to be to say something like

"Like, you can say, 'Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labour,' right? Or, you can say: we are offering people anywhere in the world the capability to get a job, and even like an income.

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Meh, it is illegal, but personally I don't find it immoral. Laundry machines like this are just another way for landlords to extract money from their tenants for basic needs. They have them in a captive situation and should be providing either hookups in unit or free laundry facilities.

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Both sites were temporarily offline after their domain registrar received letters from the UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) asking them to suspend their domain names.

Were they hosted in the UK? If not, seems like a huge overreach

Hopefully folks can still get the supplies they need. I can see a lot of sketchy VPNs giving info to the UK government though

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It looks to be reusing a bread bag and an empty bottle, so those would have been trash. Reuse/repurposing is better than just throwing away.

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I haven't been safe to go to Florida for a while, but now I am officially unsafe. My license has X for my gender marker, so I don't think they would like that

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Who is spamming GN videos? Nobody on beehaw, and I am pretty sure the 2 people that post them are not Steve Burke. I get you don't like YouTube, but using a shitty AI summary is also not it. That summary only included the info from the intro and removed a whole ton of context that shows that GN does know what they are talking about and took the 10 minutes to cover a very complex situation. You might want to check out the article version posted by exu and not trust the site you used for summaries.

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Having worked in customer service, if you actually want to help customers, yes.

I dunno if that is true of refrigerators. Newer fridges have more electronic components, vs just a compressor and some simple mechanics on older fridges. The cooling tech on fridges hasn't changed much, but the extra amenities sure have.

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Hey bud, no need to deadname anyone.

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"What about the good things Hitler did?" Is not the flex you think it is. Also, using the Autobahn does not send support to Nazis

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Amoral at worst. Public transportation shouldn't have a fee at use. Tax the rich, invest in transport

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Good news, most folks at beehaw know and the admins have decided to move to a new platform

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Fuck, I thought those were federal laws. Sounds like they should be, oh wait right wingers want to get rid of federal labor laws too

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Regardless of how wrong you are about pineapple on pizza (pepperoni and pineapple is always a solid choice), school glue is made from PVA, and while not toxic, is 100% not food. Pineapple is still food at the very least

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What's a jerk sock? Also, if you get use out of it, you arguably did not ruin it.

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