Too far away in the US
LainTrain
joined 1 year ago
On raspberry pi host VPN
On strawberry eat
What specific current circumstances?
Holding cell in a North Korean political prison, awaiting sham trial and execution following crimes of wrongspeak against dear leader. Only £99.99 on TUI!
Enjoy not having a job with your natural botox-free filler-free face and bitten-nails
Tabletop/card games seem inexplicably complex like bruh.
Something about the teaching method of some guy explaining something to you haphazardly, while sitting physically across from you making facial expressions and body language gestures and whatnot, something about the societal pressure to understand the rules in a given time limit as to not hold up a game, yet also make sure you actually do understand it and not come off as an idiot in a group which often features people you don't know that well, meaning you're now vulnerable in front of strangers, the way it's explained purely in the abstract without any relation to the real world which just makes the rules seem extremely arbitrary... It just makes for a rotten stew of incomprehensibility.
On the one hand I actually like it because how much of a challenge it is to my brain and the sheer novelty and shock to the system that the experience brings.
Most of the time games you play either have a commonality with others (genre i.e. FPS) or simulate a real world activity (i.e. shooting people) that have a certain logic to them that's just self-evident (point at target and pull trigger) and speak a sort of shared language that's designed to be as ergonomic as possible and on top of that, teaches you as you go with contextual instructions.
Even very complex games like HOI4 (or any Paradox or Paradox-type game) with enormous amounts of intertwined highly complex systems still simulate a real world activity to some degree, I don't actually have to have any game-specific knowledge to understand that if my government budget is in the red my immediate solutions are to cut costs or increase income (tax) and borrow to invest in infrastructure to increase income long-term and if the menu is intuitive enough, (e.g. Victoria 3), you can just find it.
And games with just absurd amounts of knowledge required like Warframe don't necessarily expect the player to actually know all, most or really any of it to play at the most basic level, and it's kinda understood that learning the ins and outs of later content takes hours and hours of periodic wiki perusing and game progress.
So board games that force completely abstract thinking among arbitrary rules going on half understood words of someone with an ever-thickening accent instead of the safe warmth of wiki text on a screen are actually a fun challenge, if you're the kind of person that likes to blast yourself with ice cold showers to wake up (me).
On the other hand - unfortunately I feel apprehensive about it due to past experience where sincere engagement probably gave my gf's friend circle the impression that I'm a stunted or something, it kinda sucks to feel like my game performance is judged, when obviously such things are intended more as a mutual activity to stimulate conversation and alcohol consumption rather than some cutthroat assessment of skill. I don't even know if it's the case, but I felt that way, so now I've just learned to say no completely out of hand to any and all interactive things at any social gathering for the most part.
Because few artists use CC as-is, because they have a petit bourgeoise mindset and are largely cutthroat narcissists who only care about "making it". I hope sincerely the breadline teaches them a lesson.
I ain't reading all that.
You are angry asf and need to chill tf out, restating your points over and over doesn't make them true, but it does make you sound like an aggro troglodyte.
You need to back up your shit and learn to formulate actual arguments, not just arbitrary statements you keep repeating. Stop being an aggressively incorrect moron and start thinking.
Neckbeards Mouth-foaming screed Braindead
Speak for yourself bruh.
Anyway, it's not very hard to understand:
Root access = control of device, control of device = ability to experiment. Ability to experiment = potential for tech literacy. Potential for tech literacy = tech literacy
Mac OS = locked down and dumbed down = tech illiteracy Chrome OS = Linux with chrome = tech literacy.
Also, blocked.
Wait, sushi places have spring rolls? Never seen one offer those. I thought it was a doner kebab thing, I get them with cream sauce or garlic sauce or something. Definitely not soy sauce yuck.
More importantly, is that soy sauce? Y'all eat spring rolls with motherfucking soy sauce? Ewwwwww
I love movies like Battlefield Earth and Showgirls, there's just something about them y'know?
I always go home and eat it there. I think you'd have to be a psychopath to go out of your way to go to a takeaway, sit down in the middle of said takeaway and just chomp into whatever and find that enjoyable as the crowds look on in pure terror, wondering what society has come to and if there was anything that could be done differently, mothers looking on in disapproval, clutching their phones and men getting clutching their fists, readying for a potential confrontation, as they watch your teeth rip animal flesh and bread, mixing the two into a fine mix before disappearing it down your throat.
It sure isn't the same as outright terror, but it is a threat, and people will see it as such.
You could just get better hot dogs, in fact - most hot dogs do not turn into "cold dogs" or become soggy or otherwise unpleasant in 4 minutes, honestly not even in an hour, those things are packed to be delivered in foil, in fact in some places like Five Guys, the food actively continues to cook inside the foil packaging, making it actually better after it's been inside the packaging for some time.
People around you do know this, they know you are making a choice.
For the sake of yourself and others, please choose differently.