xmunk

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[–] xmunk 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Calling it out harder publicly during the election would have just made a Trump presidency more likely. It's similar to how Sanders shut up after Hillary stole the primary and threw his full weight behind her train wreck or a campaign.

People who actually give a shit don't want Trump to win and will do whatever they can to keep that from happening.

[–] xmunk 41 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

Depends. Sometimes they take a bad swing at a joke and realize they fucked it up... sometimes though they're just assholes they are trying to cover being an ass.

It's usually a matter of context to tell which is which.

[–] xmunk 3 points 10 hours ago

I wish to take council with this fellow practitioner of the magical arts.

[–] xmunk 4 points 10 hours ago

If only... I'm constantly late.

... except to parties since they don't start until I arrive.

[–] xmunk 3 points 10 hours ago

Shudders in visual source safe.

[–] xmunk 4 points 10 hours ago

I maintain the balance of the spheres, put pride into the hearts of gender bendy men with my badass skirts, and keep the database server up.

[–] xmunk 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

These two things are not the same.

With GOG you're buying the license to freely download a reusable and unlocked installer - with steam your game state is managed by steam in a generally intricate manner that relies on steam being running to run the game. Some games do install stand alone executables but it is vanishingly rare to find a game with an installer included in the game files.

In theory with steam games if there are no other dependencies (like dlls or registry entries) you can copy the game directory to a new computer wholesale but often times even that won't be worth much if the steam executable isn't running.

Please note, a lot of this knowledge came from me tinkering with the overlay a few years back, it's possible steam changed things to make the overlay and client dll more optional but those are usually hard dependencies baked into the game executable files.

[–] xmunk 44 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

Unlikely unless Trump crashes the bond market by refusing to honor treasuries. If that happens a lot of banks will be underwater in assets.

[–] xmunk 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Just a note about flirting, communication, and fear of rejection.

If you're being subtle in a conversation to avoid coming on too strong and form a relationship... don't be. Any relationship you form by cloaking your personality will weaken when you reveal your true self.

The goal in dating shouldn't be to form a relationship, it should be to form a good relationship. Jumping into a bad relationship that you just barely work in is going to waste your time and cause a lot more grief than anything else.

If my advice is a bit surprising that's fair - there's a reason the divorce rate is so high among young couples and you really don't want to go through that experience.

[–] xmunk 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Flirting is part of a non-platonic relationship during the introduction, wooing and continued phases.

Flirting can take a lot of forms though, so if you're uncomfortable with what social media describes as flirting then you may simply have a different love language.

For context, my partner and I met digitally through (essentially) a text based MMORPG and have been married for about a decade and a half. Never were unironic pickup lines part of our courtship.

[–] xmunk 17 points 12 hours ago

I was also unaware of that distinction, thank you kindly!

 

Just a sanity check here but... yall ever been mid conversation with someone and confused that they've forgotten a thing you talked about... until you realize that previous conversation took place entirely in your head?

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