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Virus posted...

I'm sure not a lot of you use virus scans frequently.

Literally never. Used to be on top of that, but never found malware. I don't think it's a huge problem like it used to be.

I think it's false.

Kazaa, downloading a "movie" that was a 3MB .exe file.

Irony posted...

How many mods are actually so big that they required speeds above that? I've seen mods that were like 2GB but I don't think that's that big.

Mostly hi res texture packs. Skyrim 2018 + 2020 is about 25GB total, and that's scratching the surface of all the texture mods I would install (A Noble Skyrim, Skyland AIO, etc)

I'm starting to want to play Skyrim again now...

Axiom posted...

awful mod manager

Vortex works great and is super easy & intuitive to use. I'll never understand why people hate it so much.

MrToothHasYou posted...

Pretty much all of these Universities have either money invested in, or receive grant money from, sources tied to Israel, and in some cases defense contractors whose weapons are currently being used to ethnically cleanse Gaza. One of the main goals of these protests is divestment from these, and a transparent process from the school administrators in doing so.

Here, for example, is a page listing the overall goals of the students protesting at Columbia University:

https://cuapartheiddivest.org/demands

Thanks for the actual answer to my admittedly stupid question and not getting too annoyed by my bit of facetiousness. I haven't followed these protests at all, but I've always been anti-Israel in the war. I honestly didn't even know Israel gets most of the weapons(60%) from America and that all these universities have money tied up in Israel. No excuse for my ignorance.

Possibly a stupid question but what are these protests at American college campuses supposed to accomplish regarding a foreign war? What are these students going to get done here in America? Why don't they just go home and play Minecraft?

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

You may think Jordan Peterson is a nuggetwanker but you have yet to adequately support the transphobic part. Jordan Peterson's stance and the views that inform it are well explored in various interviews and other appearances. Trans people have very little if anything to do with those views. By continuing to call him transphobic you assert that his feelings about trans people are a primary motivation for him. This is factually untrue.

The only reason Jorbpson became famous in the first place was for his obnoxious refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns in his classroom (pretend you don't remember that viral video that made him an alt-right hero) and then the subsequent media campaign wherein he whinged and moaned about Canadian bill C-16, which he either didn't understand because he's stupid or intentionally misconstrued because he's a transphobe.

No, I stopped watching at least a decade ago. PBS Nova & Frontline were/are great, some late night shows, that's about all I was watching.

What's the deal with not releasing the CK immediately? I didn't even finish my first playthrough of the game and I've just been waiting for the CK before I give it another go. Why does it have beta access? Did they not use the damn thing to create the game?

I like some Great Value stuff. Haven't tried the soda pop.

Kal Cahoone - Evita

https://youtu.be/HPThclY1qT4

You can try manually updating ublock filter lists. They update automatically like every 5 hrs or something.

uBlock is best with firefox, and shouldn't be used with other adblockers, including private browser ad-blocker.

Appears to be some kind of ad or maybe browser add-on malware.

While I absolutely love and adore the game, the original xbox version of Morrowind is probably the most broken game I ever played.

My honest thought would probably be something along the lines of: "ok"

I thought Year One was hilarious. Seems to be almost universally loathed.

Damn dude.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I suspect you haven't tried listening to his actual comments on the subject instead of what people are saying about him.

This pseudointellectual cringelord you mean? Listen to him whine about being suspended from twitter for misgendering, as he doubles down on the misgendering.

https://youtu.be/UYfKWQqvFac

Smoke weed everyday.

Hail Satan.

Wes Anderson movies.

Trees of Eternity - Black Ocean

https://youtu.be/xkkimPT3UlY

RIP Aleah

TMOG posted...

Nope, the entire episode was that Strickland hires a new employee who's on drugs (might have been cocaine and not pot, now that I'm thinking about it) and the company is forced to give him accommodations due to his disability to the extent that he doesn't have to actually do any work and can just show up and get high in the bathroom all day, so every other employee at Strickland Propane aside from Hank starts faking illnesses and disabilities so they can get the same treatment.

Ah, well, I'll just take this as a reminder that I really need to re-watch this show.

Love it. Maybe a little less than The Simpsons when it was good and worth watching still.

TMOG posted...

Like the one that suggested everybody on disability is either a pothead or faking it

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that this was probably a joke. Hank Hill is old fashioned, that's part what makes his character so funny.

g'mornin

Yes I had a Saturn and I loved those games.

Just mashed potatoes? No. With turkey & gravy? Hell fuck yes.

Is he not in prison yet?

Unfortunately I don't have that kind of memory.

Maybe peanut butter, or no bake.

When I was on SSRIs they just made me feel fucking weird, like a complete stranger to myself. On top of that I felt jacked up all the time and it was seriously affecting my sleep.

JFC I can't stand that dude. Like what is this moron even talking about? It's one non sequitur after another. ...Didn't he get called out recently by a lot of people, for not actually understanding anything he talks about?

A good way to get depressed is to watch animal rescue videos on youtube. Sure there is usually a happy ending, but just seeing animals in such a pitiful state knowing they went through so much suffering & abuse. Not to mention that youtube has a problem (go fucking figure) with fake animal rescue channels being run by abusers who pretend to rescue animals.

Waxitron_Gazer posted...

embarrassing and also just really bad fuckin design.

This pretty well sums up Tesla and everything else Elon Musk touches.

Krojen posted...

FSD has gotten crazy good lately.

Excuse me, you mean "Assisted FSD". Not FSD at all. You use FSD only when you're looking to die.

Just a nice instrumental.

https://youtu.be/VJrozHgXbCI

https://youtu.be/MbIXRtNyMzI

When it's ready.

https://youtu.be/F5QgZ1NiWUQ

EclairReturns posted...

Why does that sound slightly oxymoronic?

Because atheism is a negation or absence of god-belief, not a worldview or philosophy.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'd argue that most people do follow a religion, even if they don't admit it.

The more vocal Internet Atheists essentially have a strong belief system rooted purely in faith (ie, that there is definitely no god or higher power), and can be as judgmental and dogmatic about it much as any openly religious person, and as hypocritically guilty of most of the things they accuse religion of. They're just as convinced that they understand the fundamental nature of the universe as any other religion is.

They even have their own form of religious discourse - tons of videos on YouTube or conversations on various forums where they talk about other people's belief systems and all the ways you can try and dunk on them and prove them wrong. Internet Atheism/Antitheism/Angstheism doesn't just fit most of the criteria of a religion, it's an evangelical religion.

Even beyond that, there are a LOT of people out there who have essentially replaced faith in a god with blind faith in SCIENCE - with the new priesthood just being men in white coats (or just anyone with "doctor" in front of their name). These are people who may not understand the universe they live in (or how the actual Scientific Method actually works), but firmly believe that science has all the answers (and if we don't know something now, we will eventually). Like medieval peasants putting their blind faith in priests to know THE TRUTH and tell them what to do, people today treat scientists the exact same way (even when they should take advantage of all the available opportunities to look into things themselves, and understand that science is more of an evolving subjective understanding rather than an Absolute Truth).

Most people are blind followers. Without organized and established religions they've just found other things to follow. Because thinking for yourself is hard.

Maybe take a long vacation from the internet.

I think it was someone on here who turned me on to this guy years ago.

https://youtu.be/OjiS20NqNqs

RIP Daniel Dennet. High priest of the religion of atheism.

KCD. One of my favorite RPGs ever. Maybe the most realistically crafted open world I've ever seen too.

No. I wasn't raised to be religious. I tried Wicca for a while but didn't really believe in the supernatural stuff so I abandoned that. Then I read about atheism and realized that's what I had always been. Then for a long time I was pretty militant edgelord on the internet.

He's been in the news recently.

https://youtu.be/hvOSbH_oCa4