What's on your mind?

[Fiend71]

32 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Wondering what all the anti-vaxxers will do about Monkeypox.

 

Blame the government, of course.

[Guest]

> It is good to know what is happening in the world but the news like this causes panics. 

 

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[Guest]

I think a lot about how our brains make decisions about 10 seconds pre-conscious thought. My meat sack has free will, but the individual personality that I am (I guess) self-aware of doesn't. Because the meat sack's grey matter gets to lay the groundwork for the decision well ahead of what I think of as me kicking in to offer her opinion on the matter. So how many of the billions, trillions, who even knows, decisions in my life have been made by firing neurons that I can't control or influence versus me? Potentially, at best, and seemingly, at worst, all of them. So I also think a lot about how "personal decision-making" does a lot of heavy lifting for some very big and scary things in American politics/society, and I wonder, "is that even a real thing?"

[steelpanther24]

2 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

> It is good to know what is happening in the world but the news like this causes panics. 

 

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[Darkpig]

16 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

> It is good to know what is happening in the world but the news like this causes panics. 

 

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I'm guessing some monkey forgot to wash their hands after taking a wizz.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

I'm guessing some monkey forgot to wash their hands after taking a wizz.

> It's good you can be humorous, but some people in our city who follows the news (like I do) are seriously considered about it. I heard some of them talking in corridor how they will visit their doctors and make them contact our ministry of health to start to work on vaccination.

Edited May 21, 2022 by Evaloves4

[Fiend71]

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[Fiend71]

4:19...gimme a minute...

[Grey Cloud]

13 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

start to work on vaccination

The standard small pox vaccine is highly effective plus there are monkey pox vaccines which have been around for years.

[Gukahn]

Ever since the pandemic started people got extremely sensitive about viruses and stuff..  Few Years ago when the bird or pig flue hit germany, people were devouring Steak and Chickenwings without a care in the world, today? "We found yet another virus! Like.. Every other Day cause we find new variants of stuff very, VERY fucking often and we're still here."

 

Let's Keep calm and eat a Schnitzel ?

[Alessia Wellington]

1 minute ago, Gukahn said:

Let's Keep calm and eat a Schnitzel

 

As long as it's not a Tillman's Toasty. 'Cause "Don't call it Schnitzel!".

[Gukahn]

1 minute ago, Alessia Wellington said:

 

As long as it's not a Tillman's Toasty. 'Cause "Don't call it Schnitzel!".

I would never.. ? But they aren't half bad tbh ?

[Grey Cloud]

I love this lady, she's as sharp as a tack and gives excellent explanations of various subjects. From what I understand she is a former actress currently doing a Ph.D in Classics and the jolly hockey-sticks thing is just a persona she uses for the vids.

 

This one is about the Trojan War and is a good overview of a topic which is one of my main interests.

 

The Trojan War Was Real?! | Debunking TikTok Ancient History Hot Takes

Edited May 21, 2022 by Grey Cloud

[Fiend71]

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[steelpanther24]

I would get into Sims4 but........that is a community that I fear to tread.  

[Fiend71]

15 minutes ago, steelpanther24 said:

I would get into Sims4 but........that is a community that I fear to tread.  

EA pretty much whores every part of that game too.

[steelpanther24]

11 minutes ago, Fiend71 said:

EA pretty much whores every part of that game too.

I was figuring the mod scene would compensate for that and so I went over to a few threads (not here but on others) and.....wow.....  I thought politics was divisive.

[Fiend71]

42 minutes ago, steelpanther24 said:

I was figuring the mod scene would compensate for that and so I went over to a few threads (not here but on others) and.....wow.....  I thought politics was divisive.

 

Yeah - thankfully I never entered that realm...just had the huge frustration of EA's constant updates breaking all your mods, and the fact that they use their own launcher/client dealy (Origin).  Fun times...lol

 

Great animations though.  Like fantastic. 

[Darkpig]

10 hours ago, steelpanther24 said:

I would get into Sims4 but........that is a community that I fear to tread.  

The thing I fear is the game itself. There are several mundane things You need to monitor in the sims including bladder levels. Or at I think it is. I'd imagine managing a family of 20 would be considered an achievement in the sims community.

[Guest]

> The beginning of the new weak starts with many obligations, problems of every kind at work, expecting unexpected (I so fucking hate this saying), any yet, I love my job and coming to the work every day, especially Monday.

[steelpanther24]

A stroll back into the days of playing EQ.   Yes the video is about WoW, but hey, the internet was young then and EQ had as much chance as being dominate as WoW.    Oh yea, lets forget about Ultima Online ("we were first, damn it").

 

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[Fiend71]

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[FauxFurry]

16 hours ago, Darkpig said:

The thing I fear is the game itself. There are several mundane things You need to monitor in the sims including bladder levels. Or at I think it is. I'd imagine managing a family of 20 would be considered an achievement in the sims community.

As a matter of fact, Full House challenges are very much part of the community's activities. In a very real sense, the Sims series is not merely some everyday RPG but a simulation which allows one to seal oneself into a mundane nightmare (except for the fourth installment. That one is a candy coated Hellscape all the way). It is Pleasantville in game form.

Of course, one group's Perdition is another group's Paradise. 

[Alessia Wellington]

16 hours ago, Darkpig said:

The thing I fear is the game itself.

 

The only thing you have to fear in The Sims 4 is Jim Pickens.

[Kashked]

17 hours ago, Darkpig said:

The thing I fear is the game itself. There are several mundane things You need to monitor in the sims including bladder levels. Or at I think it is. I'd imagine managing a family of 20 would be considered an achievement in the sims community.

 

When I try to make myself feel better about a glorified dollhouse being one of my most played games I tell myself that it's actually a pretty hardcore strategy game, it's just that people don't get it. Money isn't the limited resource, making money is easy, time is. The strategy is trying to fit... well, whatever you want to achive, into the limited time the sims have. Well, unless you turn off aging, then it's just a dollhouse.