I remember trying a Game Shark on a few games back in high school, and what I found is that it made the games boring really fast.

More recently I tried applying cheats in Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I still didn’t make it past the first level. 😭

Higher taxes on the rich don’t go far enough, because they can just leverage their assets to corrupt democracies and roll everything back.

Corporations need to be banned.

I love some classic Mario Kart 64, but a family member and his friends kind of ruined that one for me. It’s a game that has relatively little content and is best played in small doses to not get sick of it, but they didn’t do that. They went through a whole phase of playing it every day and gaining expert level skills in it. I was not aware of how deep the meta for MK64 is, because the last time I played against them, they were exploiting glitches in virtually every track and leaving everyone else in the dust.

Was always more of a Diddy Kong Racing fan anyway.

Secure from what? Security isn’t a dick measuring contest, it’s a living process and arms race. If someone is trying to tell me, “My stuff is the mostest of the biggest security because, hard!” - what I’m hearing is that their threat modeling is ill-defined, maybe not defined at all, and something misleading is going on. Especially when the lead dev of a platform appears to be screaming and shouting about everyone else with a dubious persecution complex.

So in the drama between the Graphene team vs every other privacy-focused Android dev - who should I trust?

Also since no one else suggested it yet, tofu is always a great option for easy protein. And albeit unorthodox in instant noodles, I’ve found beans to be a perfectly fine addition.

Most straightforward path from a health standpoint is switching from refined forms of noodles to whole grain noodles. I’ve never been able to find whole grain pre-formulated instant noodle brands that I like, so I just get plain noodles and flavorings separately.

Ohhh, great idea. I need to do this.

Instant Pot is a game changer. No need to soak overnight anymore. Just drop em in for the recommended pressure cooking settings, give it time to dissipate the pressure naturally (for easier cleanup), and you’re good to go.

I like to match beans and grains that have the same or close to the same cooking time, and make a bunch at once. Bam, easy base for a wide variety of meals for up to a week. This was a life saver when I was doing 10 hour shift factory work. My getting ready for bed routine involved making a coffee/tea mix because I like my caffeine to be ready to drink as soon as I wake up. I would also load a 36 oz leak-proof lunch container with soy curls on the bottom, add some spices and water, pile some Instant Pot gains and beans on top of that, a layer of fozen veggies, and then top it all with whatever sauces or condiments I was craving. Then just heat it up in the microwave at work.

Each batch would last about a week, so including other meals, I would only have to do any cooking 1-3 times a week. Both more easy and convenient, and far less expensive than eating out all the time.

I like the ds4 - so much so that I want to get a new one and mod it for more modern features. But it’s still distinctly larger. It can be kind of surprizing to re-experience just how small and light the ds2 is compared to newer controllers.

I would call it less of an issue (at least in my case), and more of something that became apparent only after going back and experiencing the smaller controller to compare others to.

I really wish there were a modernized controller in the exact form factor of the classic ds2. Like if it had tmr sticks and a better dpad, but was still a wired controller and had 4 shoulder buttons instead of two triggers. Don’t get me wrong, triggers have their place, but there are some games that work better with all buttons, which probably partly explains the popularity of hair trigger mods.

As someone also with large hands, I still love well designed controllers that fit well for smaller hands - like the classic Dualshock 2 controller. I used one again pretty recently. Had to stop because the analogs were virtually useless, but the smallness of the controller stood out to me because after enough time playing a game I noticed I could more easily forget the controller itself and focus on the game (except those damn broken sticks).

When I went back to the DualSense, it felt clunky and unwieldy by comparison. I feel bad for gamers with small hands, because all the standard controllers must be monstrous for a lot of people. No wonder mobile gaming gained so much traction - game companies forgot that kids play games too.

I do appreciate that the grips are flared out at least a little on this controller. The 90° ones on the Steam Deck can be quite uncomfortable, especially given that it’s a pretty heavy and cumbersome device.

My biggest skepticism is the dpad though. It looks nearly identical to the Steam Deck’s, which is easily one of the worst dpads I’ve ever used. Hopefully the underlying mechanisms and feel of it has been improved.

I don’t like the look of this controller… I’m still gonna get one. Everything else I love.

Especially that SteamOS is apparently going to become available on ARM devices.

Had a Game Gear and really wanted one of these as a kid.

Still have that Game Gear and still really want one.

Literally everything you just said is plain factually incorrect. What it really comes down to is extreme avoidance of confronting your own cognitive dissonance. No one wants to believe that they do wrong. No one likes being confronted about their injustices. Your rights to live the way you want do not justify the harms that come to others as a result of that. Those animals do not want to die no matter how tasty you think their flesh is. There’s nothing religious or extreme about that, it’s just a moral baseline.

Crop deaths have been thoroughly debunked, the numbers of animals killed as a result of crop harvesting is so extremely overexaggerated that they are practically made up. Besides that, why would vegans get the blame for how farmers operate their farms? Those farmers aren’t vegan. There are veganic farms, but we need more of them.

And regardless of how many animals die of crop deaths, that would still be reason to eat plants instead of animals because animals need to be fed too, and it takes significantly more crops to feed animals for food than it takes to just eat plants directly.

Seriously you’re just going through the same merry-go-round of pro-omni talking points that are painfully incorrect and have been debunked for years. Have you ever actually taken the time to just suspend your prejudice and actually hear what vegans have to say?

Your question is outlandishly unrealistic and will never happen, as what is actually happening is that we as a society are seeing an increase in both adoption of plant-dominant diets, as well as ever increasing demand for animal products. The world will never go vegan over night, it is, and will continue to be a gradual process.

By contrast, when Biden was in office there were regulations in place to protect us from the spread of infectious diseases - particularly the h5n1 bird flu virus which at present can only spread from animal to human but not human to human. So far it has a 50% death rate for those infected, and it was estimated that if it did become a pandemic, it would result in 150 million deaths worldwide.

Part of those protections involved killing millions of chickens at a time whenever they would get infected with h5n1. So even if your unrealistic scenario somehow magically came to pass, it would still be less horrific than existing reality where they are slaughtered by the billions every year, because at least it would only be a one-time situation.

Three problems with your point about the worst being shut down. First, no they aren’t. The vast majority of animal products still come from factory farms. The worst is not some niche, it’s the default, because those are the only kinds of farming systems that are efficient enough to meet the extreme demands of consumers.

Second, so-called “happy farms” are a myth. For example, you could look at the investigative journalism of Joey Carbstrong for one example of abuses revealed at these kinds of farms. Every time even the most idyllic farms are actually investigated, abuse is revealed.

Third, even if the mythic pastoral happy farm were real, it still ignores the fundamental awfulness of treating sentient beings as if they are products. Of exploiting them for labor as if they don’t have their own lives they want to live. Of forcibly extracting their secretions, of keeping them in captivity, forcibly breeding them, and ultimately of cutting their lives far short of their natural lifespans. It is wrong to kill animals, and especially when it is utterly unnecessary.

Btw, you never answered my questions.

What is the morally relevant difference between cats and dogs, and animals raised on a farm?

Why does your “right to live your own life” take priority over an animal’s right to not be forced into captivity, held in cruel conditions that make them sick from standing in their own feces constantly and destroy their bodies over time from extremely cramped conditions, be abused on a regular basis, malnourished, before being slaughtered by a low-wage worker (who is most likely a minor or immigrant, who will end up with ptsd from killing these animals every day), being denied the ability to live out their natural lifespan by many years?

So “good vegans” are the ones who shut up and respect your decisions to materially support the ongoing systematic atrocities being carried out against virtually every other sentient being on the planet?

The concepts they’re referring to have more to do with Ken Thompson’s Trusting Trust essay. Laurie Wired recently came out with an episode about it. It’s a rather intractable problem in computing, and unfortunately, even with the best practices to overcome it, you can never be 100% sure that your system is completely free of compromise.