Well there’s two different things that people who relate to this picture may want: either the nature or the solitude (sometimes both); for the second, part of the fantasy is that they would never have to deal with anyone.

In reality what people want may be completely different, but the picture passes the message better.

Greentext knows its green stuff.

So he’s saying one day it may make sense to get one? Great sales pitch.

Would be fun if steam hid those from anyone who used those specific payment processors while still showing them to people who used alternative options - and then people started to disable those processors due to it.

Is there any average differences in hormones between gay and straight people of the same gender?

As someone with no interest in predominantly NSFW games, it does bother me a bit that that is the most common type of game that show up for me unless I disable NSFW completely.

But my problem is exclusively with the algorithm and not with those games. I’m surprised that in 2025 a 200+ hour rpg with one implied sex scene may get tagged with the same ‘NSFW’ category as a Sex Simulator type of game, with no way to hide one without also hiding the other.

All itch.io had to do was create a “monetization-unfriendly” tag and aplly it to those games and hide them behind an opt-in toggle (with some proper notification for current users). They could even target their ads based on that toggle and get even happier advertisers with it.

I think I had a Mandela effect. I had clear memories of news breaking out about Epic Games acquiring itch.io, but googling for it now, all I see is references to when they added it to their own store.

Tbh it took longer than I expect for the new owners to start ducking itch.io

Sorry I think I hallucinated some events.

I didn’t even start listening to music until I was already an adult.

I remember a comic I read at some point long ago, where power had gone out and a bored kid asks his grandma: “what did you do before TVs existed?” and the grandma says: “we would just sit around and wait for TVs to be invented”.

I’m now using that answer everytime I see a “what did you do before ___ was invented?”

At one point long ago (just for a short while), I thought Delphi was destined to take that place. It was much higher level while still letting you go as low level as you wanted- it didn’t have garbage collection but it made it pretty easy to keep track of what is or isn’t allocated, on top of having good tools to find leaks on runtime. But it had too many problems too: the Pascal base and the association with drag and drop coders being some of the first ones, followed by a series of bad decisions by whatever company was responsible for it at any given week.

As long as it runs the same code, yes. But things may change, clients may pre-emptively split the string or stuff like that.

Imagine getting a multi byte character at the right position to get it split so that one byte gets in and the other doesn’t.

Gonna need some context too

June and July deserve to share the same U too. In some languages it’s only the N/L that changes between them.

I’m not saying it’s good, I’m saying I expected it to be even worse.

Damn now how am I gonna live without “Change my cursor to Sims 4”?

Reading the paper, AI did a lot better than I would expect. It showed experienced devs working on a familiar code base got 19% slower. It’s telling that they thought they had been more productive, but the result was not that bad tbh.

I wish we had similar research for experienced devs on unfamiliar code bases, or for inexperienced devs, but those would probably be much harder to measure.

Back in school, one of my first sex ed classes, teacher says: “boys have a factory of sperm in their bodies”.

Me, trying to be funny: “oh so that’s why sometimes there’s smoke coming out of my mouth?”

Thankfully it landed well with the classmates, but the teacher was really worried I took it literally.

Not like there’s much else worth watching on Netflix these days.