Echinoderm

Personally, I like games where you start as a relative nobody and have to claw your way to success. I enjoy how in Kenshi you start having the snot beaten out of you by absolutely everything, but can eventually have the skills and equipment to be taking out whole factions.

You are right about the lack of support though. I think the intention is to play to fail and learn from mistakes, but it's a harsh lesson when you wander into a new area only to be knocked out and imprisoned by cannibals. I don't have the fortitude to keep failing, so end up just using the wiki at times.

I think this guy needs to consider the difference between invisible and intangible.

If I pay for an invisible hotdog, I still expect it to taste delicious.

Or an uninhabited island that becomes full of cannibals.

Don't forget being able to treat women like property!

This couldn't possibly be the supermarket duopoly using current events to raise grocery prices to the point they drive inflation, and then mysteriously not dropping prices once the situation has passed... again. Could it?

I didn't expect John Farnham scholarship as part of this topic, but I'm into it.

My warlock was a dandy with a fey patron who would buy a new outfit whenever he had a chance to spend money. It was a fun character.

As someone that age, "old but not very old" is an accurate reflection of how I feel.

Please define social media for me, because it seems like everyone’s take on it is “a website where you interact with others”, which is way too broad and I would say that applies to the entire internet then, which is a slippery slope.

That is effectively the definition from my understanding. Lemmy, Reddit, and similar boards are social media because the content is primarily user-generated.

It probably feels like the entire internet because it's where many of us are spending most of our time.

The perception that it's primarily powerful men is a distortion from the Epstein files. Those are the ones that can traffic victims maybe, but more often sexual assaults on children are by people known to the victim, like family or friends of family.

Which one has the greedy attitude if the parents decide "only one of our children gives a shit about me, the rest suck" and chooses to leave it to one child?

Are the greedy ones the other children who say "screw that, show me the money"?

Or is the greedy one the child that says "I sacrificed economically and personally to do unpaid domestic labour, now I'm getting paid back for my kindness"?

Link to article: https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/13-02-2026/its-kakapo-fuck-season