Very much so. They just call them "gifts" from "friends" and that's the end of it.

Pressure and mockery? Pretty sure he died of physical abuse and malnutrition. He didn't die because Putin made him sad.

The whole point of the cat thing was to point out the absurdity of the claim that reality isn't real until you know about it. The cat is already in whatever state you observe when you open the box. It's not both alive and dead, it's either alive or dead. The thought experiment isn't serious, and it's not supporting the idea that the cat is somehow magically in both states just because you haven't yet manipulated the lid of a wooden cube.

Given that the tech they need to understand here is paper, empathy is hard and it's just frustrating. Computers, complicated. Paper, extremely uncomplicated. This is just refusal to use the noodle.

I guess I better buy a new Pi before they quintuple in price for half the quality

Or just don't connect the TV to your network. It has inputs. Use an input device you have control over. The end.

But he unfortunately also gets what he doesn't deserve, like billions of dollars

Who wants to bet they just had their fingers bent when they stenciled them?

People are being entitled taint-lickers. It does suck that its optimization is poor, but I'm on a 4 year-old PC build and my CPU was not top-end even then, with a 3070 and I have had zero issues running it. The space travel should be more interesting, they really fucked up by making space piracy basically impossible, so you can't ever profit by taking the ships of people who actively try to murder you. There's a lot that could be more engaging, but also the reviews of Elex are mostly positive and it's one of the worst, most quest-bugged half finished pieces of shit I've ever played, with basically nothing going for it beside decent art and a unique story. The game is trash and I wasted way too much time on it. Starfield is vastly better. Not amazing, but solidly OK. Without the social-media circle-jerk, there is no way the reviews would continue to get worse as they continue to address performance issues and fix bugs.

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That's a flash-forward, a flashback is a dip into the past, hence the "back" part

"OMG we thought they were unarmed Palestinians!"

Minotaurs?

But it's Meta, so who cares? I feel like it's still Vive or nothing because the Zuckersphere is a horrible place to be.

They do wear out eventually, but the end of their useful life is a whole crapload of rounds if they're well-made, and most good guns can have parts replaced either by the user or by a smith, so you can keep them running a long time if you oil them and keep them relatively rust-free. If a gun is so messed up it can't fire or if it fails catastrophically and blows up, if it's truly and permanently at the end of its life, I think most folks do indeed throw them in the trash, assuming they have no historical value. Maybe disassemble them or cut them up with a hacksaw first. Once it stops being able to be a gun anymore, it's just junk.

Yarp, secret service used to get Uzis

I will absolutely eat a whole can of olives and not regret it a bit.

But an acronym that was intentionally made to be the name of the animal, so it's just a duplicate, like all three of the non-singer seals, which just mean to lock something in or out. There are only 2 meanings of seal here, plus a singer who named himself after one of them.

Awesome, but also, no "Cabbage patch" jokes? Come onnnnnnn

Wait until you hear about The Sims