Dude has to get up for work tomorrow, he doesn’t need the shoulder and back pain just for your entertainment.

Source: similar age, sore shoulder from randomly sleeping on it “odd”

That when I step away from being online/social media/horror show that is the rest of the world, I live in a great place, have a good life, can touch grass and that that reality is more truthful than anything online.

Ben? As in Benyamin?

Not enough high windows to go fully Russian

This is why, as an Aussie, I’m very disappointed in our subservience to the US all the time. It’s honestly pathetic. We abandoned our initial plan for, admittedly not cutting edge tech, french-built submarines to go with far better-specced US-built subs but who knows if we’ll ever actually get any of them.

Honestly, I don’t trust the sepos not to hamstring them somehow.

A decade? I had a Windows ME upgrade disc - M$ has been at this for a long time.

It’s funny. As much as I detest DJT and all the terrible things he’s brought to the world order/markets/general stability, I do have to be thankful that he’s helped spur on digital sovereignty and sparked a revival in independence rather than US hegemony. It’s also a shame, but the US has proved itself too volatile and an unstable partner.

Whilst I agree, and capitalism sucks, I will give it credit for one thing. The build up of trade between nation states has helped reduce wars between trading partners as trade is a major part of capital.

But I also work for a government (non-US) so not exactly flying a capitalistic flag

Women have to protect themselves from weirdos somehow.

Jefferies and Schumer.

It should be pointed out that it’s not like a parliamentary opposition as seen in many other democracies with political discourse over a dispatch box with the leader of parliament.

This is a good time to remember:

If it bites you and you die; venomous
If you bite it and you die; poisonous

Huzzah! Can’t wait. I’ve never liked the idea of eating brains, now it’ll be my favourite meal

This isn’t something I’ve seen online either tbh. But the UK thing was certainly very popular having talked to people in their 30s-40s, though admittedly this was about 25 years ago. Nowadays life is much harder so just the idea of maybe one day affording a house and having survivable wages is more of concern! The dream of owning a pub is so far above what current 30yos could reach. Plus, pubs are all owned by breweries these days so the of the old freehold pub has died.

In Japan, it’s something I’ve seen several times in Japanese documentaries on NHK, which have been translated. Again, I don’t know if this is still the dream of the younger folks - it was 50yos that wanted to do that previously. The US equivalent was “the American Dream” that people still wish for, even though it’s unlikely. It’s a similar feeling, or hope, that for most won’t come true, no matter what they do. These aren’t “specific online spaces”. These are the hopes and dreams for a better future - if you need to have those, you’re making a statement.

You don’t need to read the language to understand what they’re meaning by it (I don’t speak Japanese) and there’s examples in other countries of this too, including English (in the UK it used to be the dream to run a pub). Anyone who “has a dream” where they escape the rat race and/or becomes their own boss and/or moves to “the country” or even out of the country is making a political statement with every one of those thoughts/dreams.

THAT is the subtext, not the actual text. It requires no deep understanding of verbal/written language, just an understanding of human communication which is more nuanced than simply what we say or write.

Everyone complains about their own country. The Japanese complain about Japan all the time too - the whole “salaryman running off to start a ramen shop” dream is a complaint about th country. Just because you can’t see it means you’re not understanding subtext.

It’s not about the physical size, it’s about its oversized influence especially in online spaces. Plus we’re all writing/reading English at this moment so there’s an anglosphere bias.

Runs perfectly. Arguably better than the Steam version directly (though that’s where I bought it through) which kept crashing for me. Add on the mods recommended in the Steam community page and it gives it a big boost too. Highly recommended.

They do. But not at 3am when he’s on the shitter which is when he does the rants/literal shitposts

I use it for The Longest Journey. Means you can add mods to make text more legible for example

All movies with a manic pixie dream girl seem to have the point missed. 500 days of summer, eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind, garden state, Scott Pilgrim etc.