I have a hard time seeing this pov, as someone who likes their fizzy drinks (nay, requires them), but I also chug water frequently for a total of at least 2 litres each day.

It’s not like you need to only choose the one or the other. Some fizzy treats are dehydrating, even, so you kind of need to drink water on top of them.

You can have both! I love my cold water, it’s so refreshing and feels so good to down a 0.5l pint at one go! But I also love my fizzies, I need the stimulation of the fizziness on my tongue and back of mouth, it brings me such joy!

All to say, I find it weird there are so many comments about them being seemingly mutually exclusive.

Yeah I feel the same. I would love to get a really good and nostalgic tv series out of this, the movies were a big thing in my youth and I liked them, and while I can now see it and some of its themes and portrayals in a very different light even ignoring Rowling themself, I would argue the problematic stuff are in line with other cliche fantasy that have very similar problems. There seems to be a baseline of problematic stuff pretty much everything includes, likely there from naivety or ignorance rather than intentional malice, but there nevertheless. I can live with that small baseline amount as long as it’s clearly sensible, in that I can understand it’s probably not intended to do harm, and ultimately does not do much of it even unintentionally. And I can’t say I haven’t yearned a little bit to play the rpg situated in the world either.

BUT, and this is important to me, I can’t, unless Rowlings no longer benefits from them. The IP, if bought by HBO for example, leaving no royalties to the transphobic bigot, I could see myself even enjoying again. But the cutoff would have to be complete. Even if they managed to cut off Rowlings just for this show, they would still benefit from it in merchandise and the IP recognition in general, so I could not allow myself to enjoy the show even if it did not directly benefit the bigot.

But that’s not very likely, is it, to entirely cut them off? If anyone using the IP truly want to get the full potential, they should find a way to entice the bigot to sell off any and all rights and benefits regarding them and the franchise. But that’s not going to happen, because the hateful bigot needs the money to wage war against minorities.

It’s expensive to be hateful and oppressing. You need a money making machine to support such a campaign. And the bigot knows that.

The sad thing is, this will likely be a hit still. Most people don’t seem to care, and I guess that’s valid. But it’s harmful. Just like the game. People find ways to justify their consumption even if they are aware and agree with the problems.

Can’t do much else than try and educate the few people we face in our lives.

But if it was ever possible, I would do much want to try the game and ultimately watch this show too, if it ends up being decent in production terms. Just can’t see that happening, which is sad.

Outside of the more usual “microing” (not in English though, sounds a bit wonky in English but less so in our language), we do use “nuking” a lot.

I have personally never experienced this. The pizza around here is perfectly well balanced with pineapple too. No sogginess, and the pineapple is amazingly juicy still, not dry or hard.

You might have encountered someone using the usually tossed inner parts of a pineapple, that are more fibrous? I bake a lot of homemade pizzas and even I have never managed to dry out the pineapple in the short time the pizza visits the oven

Yeah, it’s a very common thing here in Northern Europe too! At least my corner of it. Even growing up in a very remote and small village in the Lappish wilderness a burger with pineapple was one of the more common ones at the local (and the only) grill-kiosk.

However, for whatever reason, pineapple in a burger seems to be almost always paired with a fried egg. I think it’s great but not really sure why exactly that’s so common a combo.

Oh man you are a visionary.

I can’t believe I never thought it suitable to just eat cheese cake for breakfast. Or any cake for that matter!

Seems obvious now that it’s been said, but never occurred to me prior seeing this. That’s a bit sad honestly, that I’ve become so reserved and “traditional” with my morning meals.

Edit: well just to answer the actual question so as not to waste space in the thread unnecessarily, the one thing I’d consider a bit more unconventional in my habits is just eating boiled eggs with nothing else. A cup of coffee and some 3 eggs, nothing else. I guess it’s not that strange, but I’ve got some funny looks when people are visiting or for example starting dating with someone, and I happen to do this.

As one comment already mentions, you could always meet in the middle, making the burden of transport shared, and neither has to do the very long round trip.

With no money, the options are limited, but things like walking in a preferably beautiful park and just talking about stuff can be very good for mental health too as a bonus.

What I do a lot is just grabbing a few (can be surprisingly cheap!) drinks from a grocery store, then sitting by the docks or in some green park or other nice and beautiful surroundings, shooting the shit so to say, drinking and enjoying the view and each other. Of course this is entirely doable without beverages, or the beverages can be non-alcoholic, but I’ve found it just gives the gathering a little bit of an extra purpose kind of. It’s better and more natural if there’s more of you, but works for two too.

Also, bonus if either can play an instrument (a portable one), and you bring it with and if either needs some time off social stuff, it can be good to play a bit and the others listen or let it be background music and continue just chatting. As a neurodivergent myself, that’s what I do. I need a lot of pauses from social stuff, but they need not be long pauses, as long as I can escape for a bit. For me it’s playing and singing with an acoustic guitar, but can be pretty much anything I suppose.

Oh, and one thing we’ve been doing in recent years, is bring one or two chess boards with us and just casually play while we talk about stuff and/or drink. Other board games too, but they have to be portable and minimal in moving parts to work. We have a few of those small magnet chess boards that fold into a case for the pieces. They’re fun side activity at a pub too, but that’s generally a lot more expensive so maybe not something for you guys.

Just a few things from my pov. Hope they help, if not directly, at least inspiring new ideas otherwise.

I’m surprised how few answers actually include actually practical and helpful tools such as a bathing brush with a good long grip to reach just about everywhere. Is this a cultural thing? I swear I’ve seen them in British tv series at the very least, so I know for sure these are a common thing at least in the Nordics and the UK.

But I mean it’s the best. Really gets the old dead skin cells and other stuff off, and the blood flowing. The bristles are a bit rough, but that just makes it that much more pleasurable, you really feel it!

Edit:

These things, surely they are mostly everywhere?

Okay yeah, you got me there. I did mean generative AI in general here.

Yeah I mean this really gets to me. AI is a very fundamental part of games. But not creating games. At least not the LLM stuff we got nowadays.

A game without AI is just a sandbox for emergent mechanics and events by the players. Probably not what most would mean with a “no AI” sticker.

If I saw a “no AI” sticker on a steam page, I’d skip the game because I like to play singleplayer games and those almost always require various kinds of AI to actually be interesting at all.

I think calling the LLM stuff just generally AI makes things increasingly confusing.

We are so primed for a replay of ww2, it is scary. Well, nobody’s fault but Israel’s.

I noticed using the explicit driver directly instead of pulseaudio in the game settings got my game crackless. It was an amazing experience!

Btw, just wait. The second one is even better, it’s so good.

Im not going to pretend to understand or really know, just what my general practitioner told me once I brought up the possibility of testing going keto long-term. I have pre-diabetes, which I suppose convinced the doc to go for it even if in an alternating fashion, since it’s good for my weight which is good for all of the rest. I could ask next time though, maybe mention this adhd connection in lab rats, seems like it changes things a bit more to favor ketoing

That’s interesting, I always said I felt somehow more sharp and sort of “present” when I am ketoing. Though I’d advice anyone considering it to first talk to your doctors. For me, I shouldn’t do it due to problems with my blood sugar and liver, but we figured if it helps, ought to find a way to make it work. So I do keto “periods” alternating with normal periods, which hasn’t, it seems, had much of an impact on my lab results. But this is all to say, it might have consequences you ought to be wary about.

I do wish to understand the core message, and I’m sorry that I came here for a laugh in a very unfriendly way. But you have to admit it’s extremely hard to infer the message, maybe you can clarify it a bit here

What is there to relate to, though? That page is trying so hard to sell you on something, but never really explains what exactly. And it’s only goofy marketing speech, how would one relate to any of that? I’m probably missing something here.

I guess they were serious when they advertised “zero theory”. There’s zero coherence or actual information as far as I can find

Huh. This has to be the worst promo site I’ve ever read. Whatever you described here does not seem to be reflected on that notion page.

You are very clearly selling something, so obviously this is a bad post to begin with, but in an attempt to make fun of the substance itself, I found none that is coherent. Can’t even joke about this, it’s so goofy.

Edit: I mean come on, what is this even

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🧠 You get:

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“No vague advice”, aye…

Edit2: This is actually pretty funny

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This is a quote from the resolution:

contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

It’s not specifically against nazis. It’s against things like putting minorities into labour camps, jails, etc. You know, the kind of thing a lot of the places that voted green actively do this very moment.

But let’s not let that bring our great ideals down. Surely they truly are against the very thing they do, they just can’t help themselves and need the rest of the world to make them stop. Or something?

Do let me know if you have the time to read it. I’ll do the same if I find some myself.

Precisely the Russian rhetoric on and around the Ukrainian war was what got me suspicious.

It could be that western countries just generally are not against nazis or neo-nazis and actively shoot down resolutions against negative things about nazis. That is not however my experience at all, or the de facto state of the law in many countries, such as Germany, that very strongly condemn any nazi associations or symbolism as unlawful. Do note that they also abstained for this one. There’s a reason for that, and while I could be entirely off base, I’m pretty sure it’s not that the western democracies just like nazis and Russia for example is just so nice and honorful to dare go against the western consensus on liking nazis.