You have to consider: Do you actually want to meet a young woman who hangs out in bars, restaurants and airports? Spend all night talking about her Gucci bag from Dubai or some shit?

If those are the options you have, I’d choose the old married lesbian any day.

I had to mention both, because I like them for different reasons.

Initially I didn’t even like Vice City, because it was just an epigon of GTA3 with more lens flare, but the story and not least the music won me over. I know it’s a blatant mockery of Scarface, but that’s what makes it so great and funny.

San Andreas is probably the masterpiece of them all. Maybe it got a little too serious in comparison to previous games, but it managed to portrait a great feeling of freedom and doing whatever in-between the main missions.

GTA V is more like: Follow the arrow through this generic oversized map.

Main exports:

USA to Spain: Petroleum
Spain to USA: Refined Petroleum

Now, I’m sure this is bad business for both parts, but it’s a helluva lot worse practically for USA to be without refined petroleum than it is for Spain not to have petroleum to refine.

Anyway, I’ll make sure to eat double the amount of Spanish tomatoes this week.

I don’t understand why I would want to buy a new computer so their OS can have their AI do that stuff that they want.

Why don’t they just do it themselves then? I never asked for any of that shit.

If you liked Unreal, you will like Sauerbraten.

“I ain’t never said no such thing” - Albert Einstein

GTA V.

I liked all the previous ones, but this was just more of the same on a bigger generic map and a more convulted and stereotypical story. Online never worked for me either. Too buggy.

Vice City and San Andreas were the best of the series.

Map size/design is just more important than size. Same problem in Just Cause.

It’s better to piss in the shower than to shower in the piss.

It’s better to shit in the sink than to sink in the shit.

The great thing about representative democracy is that idiots don’t actually vote for anything. They only vote for whom to represent them.

I’ll admit, I’m somewhat of an ignorant idiot myself. I haven’t read nor understood the entirety of all laws. That’s why I choose someone else to represent me.

I think it’s only fair that mentally handicapped people are also allowed to choose someone to speak their case.

The problem in US isn’t the idiots. It’s the two party system. In countries with multiple parties, truly idiotic votes would be scattered randomly all over different parties, or they would be placed on the party that represents idiots the best.

That doesn’t work in US, because you actually only have one political party and then the opposition. It’s really easy for an opposition to trick idiots into voting against everything.

It’s a good starting point. The more people vote, the more people will be angry if the result is stolen.

Apathy is the worst threat against democracy. Especially when one part is cheating.

It’s wild how we still learn more and more about Epstein’s person.

He was obviously a sick bastard, but I don’t think he was the worst of the lot.

He was probably more like the frat boy whose parents were always out, so everyone would party at his place. He was thrilled with being the host of it, so he could mingle with the powerful people. If he was truly the mastermind behind all the illegal shit, it seems unlikely that he’d also be stupid enough to write all those files and keep trophy pictures of rich people.

This never made much sense to me, until I realized that someone else is behind arranging the worst of it.

This would explain how he had both ordinary and completely wild illegal shit going on at the same time.

Trump plays a larger role in it, but I also don’t think he is the mastermind behind it. He was allowed access because he took part in and knows the people doing the human trafficking.

I don’t think we know who called the shots in the group yet.

may

No. They’ve been doing it for years.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.

Where I live, the heavily autistic people or other mental disorders usually move out of their parents home long before the parents die.

They get social security payments and pay rent. If they need assistance, they’ll usually choose to live in condos along with other handicapped people, where services is hired as part of the rent. This can be structured in many ways. For instance as an institution owned by the municipality, as a privately owned institution, or as a self-owning institution which is becoming more popular. Regardless of the ownership, the institution or community gets paid by the government and is subject to the same laws.

Anyway, nevermind the details, the government pays for everything in the end. The point is that handicapped people are not legally incapacitated. They have the same rights as everyone else.

In severe cases, they can be financially incapacitated. Autistic people usually don’t need to, but if so they will then be appointed a legal financial guardian. From experience, I can only stress that it is most beneficial to have a legal guardian that is NOT family. The reason is that handicapped people get a modest social security cheque to cover their expenses. However being disabled and all, they don’t really spend a lot of money, so unfortunately family members acting as guardians find opportunities to start leeching. Disgusting, I know, but it’s unfortunately what happens when they get pursuaded to let a distant cousin to run their finances…

In case you were asking about minors losing their parents, they’ll be placed in foster care. Autistic or not.

I love the Streisand effect in defamation lawsuits.

I’d never have heard of that shitty company otherwise.

I’m not going to rule out the possibility of something existing that we don’t know of yet.

However, if we’re supposed to look for anything in any way, we first need to know what we’re looking for. So, what’s a ghost? Is a a soul, and if so, what’s a soul?

I think that’s an interesting question with or without ghost.

People who believe in souls, should attempt to explain what a soul is and how they experience their existence. Is it an emergent feature of the electrons or brainwaves that can travel in other dimensions that our normal physics can’t detect or something completely unknown?

People who have experiences with ghosts and souls should be investigated. How do they detect their observations? Are they somehow able to sense things that happen in other dimensions? That’d be really cool, and I still won’t rule it out. The human mind can do weird stuff. For instance echo localization like bats do, seeing more colours than normal or even just perfect pitch. Stuff like that is provable and shows that our senses can be expanded by training. Perhaps we even have dormant senses like seeing magnetic fields like birds do.

So let’s say some people can see ghosts but we just can’t measure it currently, because we don’t know how it works. We can still make an experiment where we compare the observations from these special skills and see if they align. If it turns out that the people who can see ghosts agree, then we should definitely investigate it further and find out what happens in their heads when they see ghosts. Where does the brain impulses come from? That’ll teach us about the special sense, which could then prove the existence of ghosts.

I doubt their observations match up in a controlled environment. It’s a shame because it would be really easy to prove the existence of ghosts.

I’ve read speculations about him wanting Americans to riot so he can declare an emergency, and that’s why people should refrain from rioting.

However, it’s pretty clear that he’s going to try to stage that emergency to grab power, whether or not the Americans riot.

Maybe he should have a national emergency. A real one that prevents him from grabbing the power.

I’ve tried Jerboa, Connect and Voyager. By now these all have the options to customize the view exactly how I want it. (Dark mode, tiny list, thumbnails on the right.) I don’t care about clients that can’t do that.

Jerboa was kind of buggy. Maybe it’s better now, but that’s what made me switch.

Connect has a lot of options. The developer is active in the Lemmy community trying to catch up with the bugs that somehow creep into every update. It has the superior text editor of these and also its own tagging system.

Voyager, previously known as Wefwef, is basic and stable. Maybe too basic.

I’m currently using Voyager, but I sometimes still use Connect when I need to quote text from the post I’m replying to while writing. For instance if I need to quote two separate paragraphs or whatever. Can’t do that easily in Voyager. Also when I want to embed pictures in a reply, then Connect is ever so slightly easier. Small differences.

If I were to recommend just one for a new user who doesn’t care about customization and weird options, I’d have to say Voyager, even if I myself prefer Connect. Voyager is easy to use and it’s stable.

I usually refrain myself from commenting on other people’s appearances, because God knows I was last in queue, but when someone goes out of their way, and spends lots of money to look like a clown, it’s only fair for them and everyone else to laugh at them.

Plastic doesn’t age well I see.

She’s 54. Act like it.