I’ve honestly been having some trouble getting into Prey. Don’t know why. It theoretically should be everything I enjoy in a first person game, but somehow I always turn it off after a half hour or so. I’ll keep trying because, hell, I paid for the damn thing. But yeah… It’s no dishonored (but what is really)

I’d go a step farther and say it’s time to come up with an entirely new type of monster.

I don’t mean “villain” like a Candyman, or a Jeeper’s Creepers, or a Terrifier, or something like that. People make up new ones of those all the time.

I mean an entire new class of monster. Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, etc… Where are the classes of monsters that represent our modern sensibilities?

Technically there is no such thing as a “completely secure system”

What Linux offers is the fact that by nature of being FOSS, there are millions of eyes on source code at any one time, and so potential exploits can usually be spotted and mitigated faster than waiting for the software maker to fix their own shit. And the fact that, in most cases with Windows, the call is coming from inside the house, so-to-speak; It’s the operating system itself that is malicious and anti-user.

To put it simply: Yes…linux can be attacked just like windows. But we live in an open-concept house with no hidden corners, and we’ve got a pretty great neighbourhood watch thing going on. Versus Windows users who live a house filled with cameras and alarms, surrounded by a giant wall that they can’t see over, and they have to rely on the security company to do anything about the burglar trying to get in.

I’ll take my chances with the community approach every time.

Nobody ever says the AUR is safe. In fact they say specifically that it’s not; for exactly the reasons you mention.

That’s why it’s the Arch USER Repository. You take your fate in your own hands when you choose to use it.

As for your comment about using a distro that has everything in the main repo? How so? Every flavour has software that isn’t included in the main repos. For Arch based systems, that means either the AUR or Flatpaks. For Debian based systems, that means adding new repos to your sources, which is exactly as unsafe as the AUR in most cases, or using Flatpaks.

If you’ve ever added a repo on Ubuntu, than you’ve essentially used their version of an AUR. The end result is no different.

Which one? I don’t recall running into anything critical.

I would desperately love a remaster but upgrading the squad mates AI operate similar the Mass Effect squad mates.

XCom 2 - War of the Chosen (with the Long War mod) is easily in my top 3 games of all time. Its a must-play.

X-Com: The Bureau Declassified

Its fatal flaw was simply that the A.I. squadmates would far to often make suicidal decisions unless you micro-managed then, which made winning far more about luck than skill.

But the setting, the writing, the story were all super interesting to me. And the graphics hold a special charm for me (I still say the facial animations were better than LA Noire)

I go to ebay and select “Canada Only” when trying to find a particular item. (Am Canadian)

Choosing the easier path when it really mattered

Goddammit. Why can’t we have nice things?

Same as always. Just going with the flow.

The Sykes-Picot agreement basically fucked over anyone who wasn’t white or Jewish.

At the end of World War 1 it carved up the middle east into areas controlled by the allied powers (France, Russia, England. Although Russia was only there as an observer mostly). Each of those sides puppeted their zones of control with varying degrees of civility, while the original groups that still had to live there day-to-day radicalized over being controlled by outsiders.

That was exacerbated by the Balfour Declaration in 1917, in which Britain basically said “tough titty-toenails, Arabs. We’ve promised to give the Jews a homeland, and we’ll have to take it from you.”

“Aim”? What’s this “Aim” you speak of?

The only way I’ve ever known is to stand four feet back, whip down your pants and skivvies right down to your ankles and just firehose that sunuvabitch.

As God intended.

Within less than an hour, Rule 34 will come into effect and someone will make a porn-film about them.

Corporations are not your friend. Ethics plays no part in it. It’s economics. If they price themselves out of the competition, that’s their problem, not yours.

My dad’s a gynecologist. He looks at vaginas all day long.

ummmm…so what’s with the knife?

“Intimate” is a completely subjective term. Some people, like it or not, don’t consider nudity to be intimate and are therefore more than happy to use it to their advantage. Just because you wouldn’t, doesn’t make you the arbiter or what is or isn’t considered intimate.

So, as you say “Clearly being the more preferable job” is a meaningless statement. A vegan wouldn’t rent out their body to work in a slaughterhouse. A pacifist wouldn’t rent out their body to the military. Just because you wouldn’t rent out your body for people to enjoy on the internet doesn’t make it objectively worse than any other profession. It’s just your perspective.

I’m not saying that there aren’t issues in the porn industry. Of course there are, tonnes of them. But renting out your body to perform manual labour or renting out your body for people to look at on the internet are not as different as you think.

if someone has to grant access to their body, under threat of starvation or homelessness

But that’s employment in a nutshell, though. A welder rents out his body to a company to weld steel beams for 8 hours a day. An accountant rents out their body to sit behind a desk for 8 hours a day and crunch numbers. A salesperson rents out their body to cold-call for 8 hours a day.

No matter what, we’re coerced into giving or body to perform someone else’s labour. The fact that it doesn’t always involve nudity doesn’t change anything vis a vis your bodily autonomy.