as alive as you need me to be
I take offense to the first two, I'm neither stupid nor fat.
... I can be a bit of a catty bitch though.
=(Nyaa-!)=
Slut?
Well I mean, I've never cheated on anyone.
But I've also not uh... forgone a presenting and consenting opportunity to enjoy being single, lets put it that way.
Yep.
This is, at least initially, Todd's fucking fault, and I am never going to forget, nor forgive that.
I can still remember seeing that pop up on Steam and being baffled, thinking it was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen.
Then, within a few years, as I'm getting a degree in Econ, (during the GFC, lol) I realized....oh no... this is going to become the new paradigm for funding game dev, making money off of games, and that there need to be proactive pushes and discussions now to figure out how to manage and regulate this before it gets out of hand.
Unfortunately, most gamers are fucking idiots, so that discussion did not even start at a wider scale untill the paradigm was well established, and I had the same idiots who 5 to 10 years prior were telling me 'methinks the lady doth protest too much', well, now they're just telling me 'pff, bro, what are you gonna do about it? just shut up'.
Ross Scott from Stop Killing Games had been saying the kind of stuff he'd been saying about games preservation and DRM bullshit for a solid decade before he got any large amount of attention.
I know because I'd been following him since even before his Mind Of Freeman days, back when he was basically just making skits in either GMod from before Gmod was sold for money, or he was just basically writing his own HL2 mods eseentially, to set up and block out and film the skits.
People just fundamentally do not seem to understand that preventing an egg from falling off of a table is much easier than unbreaking an egg.
See also: Climate change, current US tariff policy.
Hey, I am entirely not trying to be an ass, but in situations like what just happened there, here is what I usually do:
Christoper
WalkenLee (EDIT: Derp)Something like that is what I try to do when I make a silly error, but want to showcase that I made the error, and then also accepted and made the correction.
That way, if somebody in the future, who reads only the edited version of the comment/post/thread sees it, they can understand that perhaps other comment chains based off of the initial error are not non sequiturs.
It also shows that you are humble and admit a mistake, and make a correction, which imo, are good things to showcase... as opposed to doing a 'stealth edit', which leaves no obvious signs of what the original comment was, in the comment itself.
TIL I am mad about imaginary scenarios, because I genderbent or genderswapped a comic.
Beyond asserting my emotional status, do you have an actual critique or disagreement with my inversion?
Or do you just have baseless insults, which do a lighter version of the same insult from my 'imaginary scenario' I suggested, ie, imply that i am a maidenless incel virgin who needs to touch grass?
EDIT:
Oh also, this is fun...
You are a 2 year old account, that has been dormant for ~2 years, but you woke up a few months ago to make one post, but no comments, untill 6 days ago, when you began to post a couple of comments, one of them being this one.
... yeah that's pretty normal, eh, @militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ?
Were you perhaps on some kind of... vacation?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
I think this is a kind of meta joke.
Initially I thought this was some kind of actual ban message, then read it again.
Its specifically formatted as if it were for reddit, not lemmy, and they're not actually a mod here.
So... its a joke aimed at reddit moderation policies.
EDIT:
I should probably add that this did effectively jump-scare me, so, its also successful as basically a prank.
I do not like being pranked, but also... it worked.
So... blegh. lol
And also add to that that this is more like escaping from a cult than it is merely admitting you were silly and wrong.
... They're like the opposite of doing nothing.
MSFT in particular has been essentially utterly out manuevered by Valve and their developements.
Its... its actually rumored (by Moore's Law Is Dead) that the specific weird custom chip the Steam Machine is using...
... was originally going to be used in something like like a planned Surface Super Duper Pro tablet.
But MSFT cancelled it.
After AMD had already made a bunch of the chips.
... And... then Valve comes along, figures out how to build a PC/Console out of MSFT's abandoned scraps, which also functionally hammers the final nail into the coffin of Xbox as an actual hardware device.
Valve beat MSFT at large segments of literally their own game.
Proton and Vulkan, both largely funded by Valve, flipped the fucking game table into another dimension, but MSFT did not notice untill it was beyond too late.
... Thinking with portals, you might say.
Yeah, Walken can tell you about how to smuggle a watch, though.
... Their... monopolized... operating system?
Which is completely open source, and thus free to everyone... and also forkable, modifiable?
... Genuienly, what are you talking about?
Yes.
Windows has MO2?
Linux has Limo.
Very, very comparable mod managers.
If you mean... actually develop your own mods?
Also yes, but personally I'd recommend swapping out SteamOS for Bazzite.
And yeah, you could build your own cheaper.
I call BS.
At what theoretical price point for a Steam Machine, can you match the or exceed the specs, for less cost?
Ok, now also try to do that, and match the Steam Machine's power draw, and form factor.
... Go on, show me your build, with current US prices.
Unless I somehow missed an actual price announcement for the Steam Machine, I wanna see how cheap you can get an actually comparable build done for.
Bikini tan lines?
Nah, VR/AR/XR/HapticSuit tanlines.
Swap sexes/genders.
Exact same thing plays out, with slightly different wording in panel 3.
Probably the woman accuses the man of being gay, broke, and/or busted, and/or 'probably having a small dick anyway', possibly also remarking on their asserted status as a virgin/incel/creep.
The woman is ... roughly as likely to post a tiktok of this encounter, aimed at socially destroying the refusing man's reputation, as the man in the original situation is to respond to being refused with additional, actual physical violence.
Both cishet sexes and genders objectify the refuser's sex/gender in a mocking/insulting way, in their indignant retort.
That.
That's about what I expect.
That immature and insecure people are unnecessarily cruel when their egos are damaged, and are roughly equally likely to escalate their indignant response to something more serious and damaging, its just that the manner in which they would perform that escalation differs.
... Servo appears to be missing a huge opportunity by not having an ansgty gumball machine mascot.
Banking on it, you say?
Meat and dairy prices are only gonna go up and up, pizza is gonna become a luxury food item in not too long.
Fennec has been working well for me on Android, I I've been using Waterfox on Bazzite via flatpak for almost a year, good stuff, and I think the other fork you're forgetting is maybe... IronFox?
Uh, in lieu of a mascot that I do not think they officially have:
(Author unknown, someone on Pinterest somewhere?)
Beyond a functionality/usability focus, check out that built in Oblivious DNS, DoH solution.
Hey I mean, honest self-awareness is far more respectable and admirable than blustering bullshit overconfidence and over inflated ego.
"If your cup is full then there is no more room. There is no more room for anything new to get in for any new idea, for any new feeling or thought and so you just have to continue to empty that cup. Continue to pour out and then you have the space for something new to come in and it does require awareness, it does require a desire to be present and to want to figure these sorts of things out.”
- Bruce Lee
Why isn't this posted in Leopards Ate My Face?
... this person... trusted... all their files... on someone else's computer?
... they... trusted a giant... tech corporation... to... care about them?
How is this person a developer?
Normally I'd say "clearly this person has never worked in software developement"... but apparently they have, and are just very naive?
... Maybe he just somehow never once spoke with someone who worked with databases ... ???
https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/the-crime-and-safety-blind-spot-are-random-acts-of-violence-at-an-all-time-high/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/forensic-insights/202112/the-truth-about-stranger-homicide-and-whos-really-at-risk
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/expanded-homicide
It is very, very difficult to actually answer your specific question with existing data.
Thats why I said roughly in my original comment.
However, in general, only something like 10% to 20% of homicides in the US are committed between strangers, people who have never before interacted with each other, people who have maybe only met a few times in passing, people who would not say they really knew the other person, prior to just meeting.
The vast majority of homicides are commited between people with significant, pre-established relationships... family members, long time friends, husbands/wives, established boyfriends/girlfriends, employers/employees, etc.
Its even more difficult to try and break down 'chance of being murdered by a stranger' by sex/gender.
Basically, men are more likely to be murdered in something like a mugging, by a stranger, and women are more likely to be murdered by someone they already know and have a relationship with, than by a stranger.
So, to attempt to roughly answer your specific question:
Roughly the same for both, in as much as the chances of any person being murdered, at all, in anyway, by anyone, in a given year, are...
... approximately 0.000064.
... or, about 1 out of 15,624.
In comparison, you're roughly twice as likely to die in a car accident, in a given year.
Men in general are much more likely to be murdered than women.
And men in general are also much more likely to be murdered by a stranger, than women are.
For women, its the devil you know, for men, its the devil you don't.
But, neither of those facts really shed too much light on this specific situation and questiom of yours, as they are not specific enough.
If you can actually find a data set, a source that describes the level of granularity amd detail required to answer your specific question;
"how often are women murdered by men they've never previously met, vs how often are men murdered by women they've never previously met"
... well then I'd love to see that data.
But in general, the chances of being murdered are very, very low, in any kind of context, for any kind of person... it would require an exceptional data set or meta study to even suss out if there is a statistically significant, numerical answer to your question, beyond 'roughly the same.'
EDIT:
You could also ask:
How often does the original situation lead to suicide?
... If you're worried about harm reduction, in general.