wizardbeard @ wizardbeard @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Maybe. It would entirely depend on my level of comfort with the other person, and their personality.

I've had wealthier friends, who I did not have a sexual relationship with, pay for my share of a hotel room for a convention. A different one treated me out to a (cheap for a concert, but not cheap for me) concert. I had known those friends for at least a year in both of those cases and had no worries about them or their personalities.

As another commentor said, what happens if you have a falling out while you're over there?

Also, depending on your relationship, and the personality of the person paying, they could use this as a form of control. They could effectively treat this as entirely their vacation, and you're just the human sex toy they brought along who's going to stay in the room the whole time until they want your "services". Or you're just the trophy boytoy to hang off her arm and look pretty. You wouldn't have much room to push back on it.

Or this could just be someone living in a different income bracket to you trying to do something nice for you that isn't a big expense for them. I personally think that's less likely with a trip to the Maldives, but it's not impossible.

Or this could be them trying to turn the FWB situation into something more serious.

As with most things in relationships, even FWB, it would probably be worth talking with them. "Hey, I'm happy that you'd do this for me, but I've never done something like this before. Is there anything you're looking for from me as your plus one?"

This is the exact sort of thing the cornposting was started because of. Fuck off with this.

Beyond that, there's definite value in being able to create queries using natural language, and not needing to always know the specific technical terminology of something while still being able to get pointed in the right direction.

It's the whole non-deterministically regurgitate a poor quality combination of all your stolen training data while not citing sources and using absurd resources that I have a problem with, personally.

Didn't you get the memo? We corn now.

We were warned, but it's too late now.

;-)

Somewhere in the distance, you hear a Mariah Carey. Check the doors again. Locked. Good. Safe.

Louder. Closer. Maybe the neighbors? Blinds closed already. Won't see movement through the windows. Wait! Lights. Turn them off? Risky. It could see the change. Sounds like it's at the end of the street. Risky. Still may be time. Risk it? Don't?

Crashing noise. The "song" rises to a frenzied pitch. Screams. Not yours. Quick! While it's busy. Lights off. Safer. Safe enough?

Closer now. "Song". Disgusting mockery of humanity, cheer. Clawing at the edges of your sanity.

Sudden quiet. Blessed silence. Over? No. Muffled crunch of "footsteps" in snow. Close enough to hear. Safe enough?

A thump. Against a door. Your door? No. Close.

I don't want a lot for Christmas...

Scratching. Nails against glass. Not your window. Safe enough?

This is all I'm asking for...

Sudden cachophony. What did it do? No. Inside. It's here. But no. Outside. Continues."Song". More noise. Here! Inside!

A duet! Not safe enough.

Translation: Creating a recurring meeting to look into changing to the our processes to have better PR while not costing any money.

Roughly translated from management speak: We'll need to come back to this specific aspect of the discussion on its pwn later, so we can more directly focus on this one part.

Could be blowing smoke to get someone stuck on something to let go so the meeting can move on, or a legitimate "this part deserves its own dedicated discussion".

There's a decent bit of good "steering" of groups and discussions that comes out of management speak, but the word choice and phrasing makes it needlessly opaque, and very "fellow kids".

Sometimes the opaqueness can be intentional too, to avoid making someone feel like their idea has been dismissed, or to slow down somebody while they parse what was just said so they can't keep rapid fire talking and dominating the conversation.

I've been lucky enough to find a job under capitalism where I have more than enough freedom and power in my environment to feel myself.

Checkmate Marx! All that stuff about worker rights is bullshit! /s

But seriously, I wish that wasn't such a ridiculous unicorn of a thing to find, because that aspect in and of itself has become it's own shackle. I'm afraid to seek out more competitive pay and lose the (relatively) happy/fulfilling aspects of my job.

Exactly. You need a level of autonomy to be trusted to solve things, and to be given the permission to try.

No matter what I'm being paid to do, I'm going to try to do it as best I can. Gives some minor goals, pride, and accomplishment. Helps the drudgery go faster.

Yeah. There's not enough naturally occurring forage to support everyone, hence why argiculture is a fucking thing that existed before explicit monetary systems.

You also have the inherent issue of greed. Not everyone out there collecting the forage wants to share. I guess that's an abstracted version of "building fences".

You can't find a solution to things if you're going to ignore the path and reasons why things ended up like this in the first place. That reason is that some humans suck, and selflessness has not always been a virtue over time. There is purpose and survival value to selfishness in certain scenarios, so even if we could magically erase it, it might not be the best idea in all situations.

"Put on your own mask before helping others." "Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm."

Like a lot of things, moderation is key.

This is also why so much of so many cultures, society, and even religions are attempts to create external motivations to look out for your fellow man.

"The world would be so much bettee if people weren't, you know, people." is not a particularly groundbreaking thought, lol.

Also, "No one can explain why effort feels good but work doesn't." Because you don't enjoy your job, which is fairly normal, unfortunate, and not a guarantee. More often than not I get all those warm fuzzies of stretching myself, solving a difficult problem, and accomplishment from what I do for a living. It's one of the big reasons I haven't fucked off into the woods. Not every day is enjoyable, but more are than aren't.

The way I see it, if I enjoyed it too much they wouldn't pay me to do it.

I'll go get my walker. Gen 4 was a big dissapointment to me (outside of the physical/special split) and where I stopped keeping up with the new releases. The plot didn't grip me, but I also never picked up Platinum. Maybe that one somehow makes it better.

In my entirely objectively right opinion, Gen 2 had the best "world"/"setting" and Gen 3 had the best "mysteries"/"secrets" and postgame with Emerald. Someone deserves to be jailed for leaving the Battle Frontier out of ORAS.

I tried to love Soul Silver, after all the many hours I put into GSC, but never finished it. I've also tried Black and White, BW2, XY, and ORAS. A good amount of the "gold standard" rebalance/QoL hacks too (Drayano is the GOAT). It just doesn't keep me like it used to. Get at most 3 or 4 gyms in and just lose interest.

Yeah, if you search from the google bar/search bar, google hijacks the links into that. Yet another google "win". "Don't be evil" or whatever, lol.

I'm kind of surprised there isn't a Christmas themed hack floating around, now that you've put this cursed idea in my head.

Would probably be easiest to setup in Brawl, if the BrawlVault site is still up. There was an absurd amount of modded content available for Brawl. Makes me sad that Ultimate doesn't have the same amount still.

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mata

AnalogNowhere is leaking.

Soichi Terada- Apparently a big name in the 90s House scene in Japan. Seen his style also described as Jungle or DnB. Mostly known outside of that (if at all) for doing the OSTs for Ape Escape and Ape Escape 3.

I grew up with Ape Escape as one of my formative gaming memories, and finding that the music was an entire style was awesome. I cannot express how much I love this artist. There's chill if I need it, energetizing if I need it, repetitive enough to just "zone out" if I need something to quiet my mind.

Some good non-Ape Escape stuff of his:

• Asakusa Light, his most recent album, laid back/chill stuff.
• Grand Senshuraku, from his Sumo Jungle album, more middle ground.
• Acid Face EP (more energetic).

Revanced Extended was created by someone who was contributing to the main Revanced project. It was made as a test bed for new patches and a place for some patches they didn't think would get accepted into the main Revanced project. That's where it branched off.

After a while they stopped maintaining their own Revanced Extended patch manager separate from Revanced and just had users point Revanced Manager at their Revanced Extended patches in order to use Extended.

Then a little while later they after that they got most of their patches into the main Revanced project (folded back into the main thing).

They then stopped maintaining Revanced Extended as a separate thing, but they still contribute to the main revanced project.

Granted, this is all info that's a few years old. Might be out of date or misremembering things.

Revanced extended folded back into revanced last I heard. But yeah, Smarttube is kind of like that for Android TV boxes/dongles.