This approach is honestly a non-starter. It lacks organic engagement, and most of the posts from people who do this have no comments or very few. It also tends to end up with one person flooding with a bunch of shit they didn’t read. Personally, I usually block this as meaningless attention seeking, and I’m sure I’m not alone.
Are you saying that gaming increasing in popularity is a reason for companies to decrease the price? I’m not sure you know how this works.
You’re aware of the concept of inflation, no?
This could be an opportunity to arrive at a more sustainable baseline for personal computing, assuming it’s any easier to manufacture components along the lines of those that would have been made a decade ago. Computing power in the mid to late 10s was absolutely sufficient for modern use. Even going back a bit further, it’s not so much of a backslide.
The market needs to build its mid-range.
They’re also the smartest, and are an excellent way to work toward wearing down visceral fear toward spiders. Their personalities and forward-facing eyes make it a lot easier to understand them. You can see what they’re looking at, and their observant little movements make them come across as curious in a way that’s absolutely adorable once you get used to the legs.
I would strongly urge anyone who is fearful of spiders to have some interactions with jumping spiders. It can go a long way toward making you feel at peace with animals that are always around us and mean us no harm.
Art. Do something creative for its own sake. Play some music, draw something, write something, glue something silly to your wall. Remember that not everything you do has to come with purpose or justification.
You’re alive, and at this very moment aren’t being physically consumed by a predator. Take it in and let yourself enjoy it.
That does seem like a reasonable use for an LLM, but it’s very important to realize that an LLM is not a database. You don’t necessarily get out what you put in. LLMs can lose context, they can hallucinate, and they can make all sorts of weird decisions that might compromise the quality of your data. There’s no workaround for actually checking on that information when the stakes are high.
An automated system that isn’t an LLM would be more reliable.
I feel like this argument held a lot more weight before polymarket.
It’s pretty new and incredibly fun. YouTube and Twitch are bursting with streams and clips lately.
We have whole ass multiplayer Skyrim roleplay with 500+ people on servers simultaneously in 2026. No NPCs, all people. The world feels full. Like, it has as many people as it should to feel alive. The voice acting is impressive. I’ve met many people that feel exactly like running into a character in the game. I’ve also met a talking mudcrab that sold me mazte at a feast of St Veloth.
Public servers are predictably extremely goofy, but whitelist servers are really good. Right now the only English speaking server that’s currently up that I’m aware of is Keizaal, but Mereth will be launching their beta soon. Mereth seems to have cracked the NPC sync issue, so they should be able to fill the world with roaming creatures where Keizaal currently has spawn zones that trigger when you enter them (thus spawning NPCs in the same location for everyone), which then have a cooldown.
Look at you with your fancy extra buttons and your whole ass keyboard!
I dunno, sounds to me like blowing and hitting worked pretty good, if not for the reasons we thought.
This isn’t what you’re asking for, but Skyrim rp has really breathed new life into the game. Running around with hundreds of other people in a simulated feudal bureaucracy in the middle of a civil war is wild. I constantly forget I’m actually playing Skyrim.
We blew into Nintendo cartridges in the US too. It certainly did feel like it helped, but I imagine in reality the point of failure was the wobbly connection inside the console.
Though maybe the moisture was doing something?
Trolling is interacting with people, usually disingenuously, with the goal of eliciting a specific, usually negative, reaction. It certainly is possible to troll people by telling the truth (or without saying a word) and it’s certainly possible to be aiming for a reaction that isn’t negative, but usually there’s an element of being disingenuous to piss someone off.
Trolling is inevitable. Sometimes it’s politically motivated, sometimes it’s for fun, sometimes it’s literally a game with actual points. Some trolls are obvious, some are nearly impossible to tell from the genuine article.
The impact of trolling varies based on the subject, the target, and the method. Usually I find it’s best to ignore the possibility of trolling unless it’s obvious, simply due to the fact that assuming people are trolling may interfere with genuine communication, whereas assuming people are being genuine only interferes with meaningless interactions. Some say it’s better to ignore trolls, but personally I think it’s better to focus on content rather than intent. Interact when interaction is called for, ignore when it isn’t, and don’t pull your hair out wondering whether it’s a real conversation.
You do realize the issue is not the billions of people occupying the planet, but the handful controlling the wealth those people create, do you not? If the business interests of the richest people on Earth weren’t a factor in decision-making, we could do much better with our 8 billion.
It would be so cool if this worked with SkyMP when it’s done. I want to rp in Morrowind.
I feel so accomplished. 😔
Consider this. If you did live back then, if you managed to survive childhood and weren’t a member of a demographic that faced substantial discrimination by the society of the time, there are still substantial and significant limitations to what you can actually do and where you can go.
Travel could be deadly, especially travel over any substantial distance. If your horse is injured or dies in the wrong place or is stolen, you could end up stranded far from civilization with no way of returning. There’s no making a phone call or radioing for help. What you brought and who you traveled with are all you have. Communication outside of those who you interact with face to face or manage to get a letter to is non-existent. Unless you leave a forwarding address in a settlement with mail or even a telegraph service, there’s no way for anyone you actually told you were leaving to have any idea where you went. Given how long the mail can take and the very real possibility of mail simply being lost, there’s no real way for anyone to know you’re missing on a timeline where they might be able to help. It might take years for anyone to even realize you’re missing. If you manage to put up a smoke signal or something and someone actually sees it, you’d be left to hope it’s the right person, who will find you and help rather than stealing whatever you have left or simply ignoring you for their own safety.
Considering how much emotion and thought you’ve invested in RDR, I’m going to take a wild guess and assume that you’re probably a fan of fictional entertainment in general and interactive stories specifically. It should go without saying that your access to these things would not be remotely what they are now. You would be lucky to be literate and to have access to fiction at all, let alone a constant stream of new reading material. You certainly wouldn’t have access to anything like a video game.
Meanwhile, you currently are able to experience an idealized and risk-free version of that era in exactly the game this post is about. You can even join roleplay servers and interact directly with other people who want to immerse themselves in that world. If you’re really into it, there are all sorts of groups for people who are interested in recreating societies from this era. You could go find a week-long event where you can bring period-appropriate gear and dress and pretend to be in the 1800s with a bunch of other people in the woods. If it’s the city that’s bothering you, you can literally move to a town, right now, that’s in the middle of the woods and just live there all the time.
Both going to an anachronistic real world roleplay event and moving into the woods are trivially easy in comparison to the time period you’re talking about. You don’t even have to lose contact with the people you know to do so, and if you decide it isn’t working you can literally just move back.
Everything you talk about wanting here is attainable with less effort and less risk in the modern era. If you think you’re hesitant to leave what you’ve already established behind now, you almost certainly would have been even more hesitant to do so in a time where there was no safety net and potentially no way back. At least today your can talk to others who’ve done the same, and you can even dip your toes in a bit before you dive in.
Period games and period movies feel romantic because you don’t see the whole thing. You don’t die of an infection playing a video game. You don’t have to feel the exhaustion of being malnourished and trudging miles through the snow while your toes literally freeze off.
I would urge you to take a long hike. Walk a few miles through the wilderness and see how it feels. Go camping for a few days. Find a wilderness rendezvous or go to a Rainbow gathering and bring a canvas tent. If it scratches the itch, maybe push it a bit. Go further, bring less modern technology. Keep an emergency radio in the bottom of your backpack and forget about it until you need it. There’s nothing stopping you from getting a taste of what you want right now, and the barriers to doing so are infinitely smaller than if you lived in the same place 100 some odd years ago.
I don’t feel like the food I got in the cafeteria as a kid was slop, but there were definitely some dishes that did better when cooked en masse than others, and some that were more or less appealing. Like, pizza, ravioli, burgers, chicken sandwiches or nuggets, they all tended to be pretty consistent and good. The spaghetti tended toward being kind of weak and mushy because I imagine it’s tricky to get a proper al dente when you’re cooking for hundreds of people. Likewise, the baked chicken wasn’t anything to write home about.
Most of where they’d drop the ball was with texture or with things not being spiced as well as they could have been. But again, at scale I’m sure it’s tricky.
As others have said, though, the US is nowhere near as homogeneous as you’d assume if you only watch our media. A lot of the complaints about school food being inedible are also significantly overblown because it’s something to complain about and bond over.