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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I would use Minecraft as a counterpoint considering it’s perfectly reasonable that someone could play the game exclusively online using nothing but community servers while completely ignoring all single player experiences (which I’d argue hasn’t truly existed in a long time since the game now hosts a local server which you connect to during “single player”), but I get the feeling you’d still take issue with that example because it does still have a single player experience you could do.

    So for a (as far as I recall, it’s been years since I last played it) multiplayer only experience: TF2 and its community servers. Valve could shut down all of their own servers for TF2 tomorrow and (aside from a hiccup in operation with making a server to distribute the list of community servers or making some other work around) the game would still have a thriving online community.








  • You say that like it was unprompted. Like OP didn’t very literally ask for these types of comments. If we were talking about some chess discussion that turned into anti-catholicism, you might have a point however you’re literally pointing at a thread asking “why do people dislike my religion?” as evidence for “this is why I’m prejudiced against.”

    Someone asked for reasons, people supplied reasons, and now you’re bemoaning that reasons were supplied. I don’t know what exactly you were expecting to see when you opened this thread especially considering it’s about a historically very controversial group that’s existed for millennia, but I certainly wasn’t expecting an outpouring of unanimous support.


  • Religious prejudice will presumably continue to be a popular pastime for the next millennium as it has been for the last few.

    Persecution complex much? I mean it’s not like atheism, homosexuality, or even left handedness were literally beaten out of people for centuries by religious leaders. No no no, you’re still so persecuted like you have been for centuries the way you can’t celebrate your faith (or lack thereof in other faiths), or marry the person you love regardless of gender, or use the hand that’s more natural for you.

    Pointing out reasons to be against your religion (even if they were blown out of proportion, which they aren’t) is nothing in comparison to the centuries of shame, abuse, and death caused by your religion. Bemoaning those complaints as millennia of “religious prejudice” only further reinforces the existing image many Catholics create of being tone deaf crybabies.




  • Yeah that’s exactly the reason I was so baffled by his instructions. I just stared at him and said “but this isn’t a mechanical issue, it’s an electrical issue” “oh well that’s what I do most of the time and usually it works”

    Seeing first hand how he couldn’t diagnose a basic issue like that and how he just trusted some catch all solution to fix his problems (for that particular part) really connected the dots to why exactly he seemingly didn’t trust scientists or the scientific process at all.



  • One of my jobs I was working next to an older man who didn’t believe in climate change because “they told us dinosaurs had scales and now they’re saying they have feathers!” He also once told me to fix an electrical component by “spraying WD40 on it” as if the electrons just needed some lubrication before they’d start moving again.

    Both of those incidents helped me to realize who not to go to for help with that job and shortly afterwards he was let go after having an entire week with no work completed.


  • It took me a while to vote last week because I went on the last day of early voting and even then it still was 60-90 minutes. If I had gone even a day earlier this would have been much lower, and despite that fact I’m still fine with the amount of time I “wasted”.

    I’ve wasted far more time on far less productive activities before, and I’m probably going to do so in the future as well. I can spare an hour and a half on the off chance that my vote actually helps something.


  • In terms of total time since I first played the game to finally beating it, probably Cave Story’s Ballos fight for me. I had a fan made port of the game for the PSP back in '06 ish, struggled a lot to get the regular ending, found out about the true ending, and couldn’t ever beat the Last Cave (Hidden), much less gauntlet of challenges beyond it. I think at the most I had seen that there was a secret area beyond the “final boss” for the true ending and the fan name for it, but never been. I might have once gotten to it but I know for certain I never ever beat it or the true final boss.

    At some point around about 2018 ish I think I saw that they had a rerelease for the game on the Switch titled Cave Story+, where I fell in love with the game all over again and finally played it to its true completion. I still have all of the screenshots and videos I took during my first completion of that boss fight. I think since then I have beaten it on Hard Mode, but only ever on the Switch version with Co-op mode which allows you to double your damage output being that you have 2 players, so it’ll be interesting trying to go back and complete it again soon without almost any Health pickups at all.