a big group of people have always liked feet. It's one of those kinks accidentally caused by our anatomy - the nerves going out to your feet connect to the spinal cord close to the nerves going out to your genitals, and sometimes the signal travels along both lines.

It's such a close connection many people, myself included, can feel a particularly strong orgasm in their feet. It's a very distinct feeling as if electricity running down through your leg, into the foot, and "climaxing" in your ring toe, making it curl and twitch a bit (i also suspect this is the exact reason why the ring toe is associated with love [though idk how farspread this factoid is]). I don't have a foot fetish but I can definitely see how it'd be very easy to create an association between strong arousal and feet

and per the popularity part - people are just much more open about the kinks they have. To the point where even vanilla people start getting curious about soft kinks like spanking, blindfolds, or fluffy handcuffs

bigots' "reasons" to be bigots aren't really reasons, they're smoke screens. Against my better judgment I argued with many in the past, with one particular person I managed to take the conversation to a logical conclusion, after hours of disassembling their baseless arguments there was just one left - "i don't like them they disgust me". Facts over feelings my ass. I believe this is at the core of all bigoted ideas - fear that then transforms into resentment and disgust, that then gets dressed up in all manner of reasons and arguments so they can feel justified in feeling that way

steam has changed people's login names when they cited the fact it contains their deadname and they want it changed. so contact their support about it

i haven't used apple devices in ages, but if this was an android issue i'd also make sure the way your own contact is saved is updated as well. I mean the way your own number is saved as in your phone. Maybe try that?

i've seen people use "any/all", maybe that?

oh dang that's so cool! thank you for sharing

probably because the screenshot was found on a platform that would shadow delete a post for "bad words", think tiktok or instagram

oh yeah right, wasn't v the precursor to u?

yea precisely. Sound design is less about how it really sounds, but more about how you think it should sound + some flair to make it a show.

Fun fact! sometimes in movies when there's a big fire sound designers will put animal roars into the fire sounds to add an extra layer of fear you don't even realise your body is going to react to

I think this is more of a defence against scammers honestly, with a convincing enough scam you could make valve belive an account holder was dead and you're a family member wanting to transfer their account to yours.

Hell, I saw my dead friend's account message me in Russian, contacted support about it, and all they could do was remove the hacker's access, not even lock or delete that account.

And how could they? Unless you have your full name, address, and other identifying information somewhere on your account (strongly ill-advised, obviously) Valve can't cross check it with a death certificate and take action, for all they know you could be cooperating with the hacker or submitting fake information to "prank" your friend by getting their account removed.

Allowing account transfers would open a whole new can of worms.

Just write down the password and login if you know you're going to go. I don't think Valve under Gabe would have issues with that. Though I do worry for its future

i'm guessing they used those single banana plastic containers as mold for uh, that

ohhh thank you! yeah my 2 year old knives definitely need a whetstone at this point. I suppose the honing rod can only help you so far

I don't know where I read it but the best defence to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" is "I don't have anything to hide but I don't trust your judgment or intentions"

thank you lemmy, for showing me this post 2 days after it was made

but then suddenly somewhere in the description of them eating stale bread it turns out 2 weeks have passed

I think this is Tolkien describing the history of the world. Like I get it, important council, but it's been 5 pages please, I will remember none of the 10 new character names I don't even know how to pronounce

the sound design of the real world is rather boring and often unappealing. Sound designers on movies are gods of those audiotary universes, they will paint it however they want

dang, what does the rod do? It was sold under the name of "knife sharpener"

yeah it's really weird. Like if someone said something racist/otherwise bigoted i'd try to argue with them too? And pointing out they have no valid sources for their bigotry is an effective tactic that might make them question their beliefs

then don't go spinning in a city, pick a village or a small town and go wild, it'll take them a while to notice and a longer while yet to bother stopping you, and chances are (with village police) they'd first sit down and watch for an hour or so. Adding it all up I'd say you're looking at at least 8h of spinning. In the end you'll just be told to stop since it's 100% legal or you could pioneer a new law in Poland! exciting

oh that reminds me, I need a proper whetstone, the metal rod thingy from tesco's is just not (making it so my knives are properly) cutting it