Main takeaway from this is, I want to go visit that taqueria. I want to buy some of this “too spicy” salsa.

Poor guy. It’s the ultimate betrayal.

The rest of the conversation, though, was about a (mostly) exclusively American thing, relating to lobbying and legislation against Wikipedia and IA. I’ve got no problem with shitting on the US for things we’re actually doing, but saying the public doesn’t support Wikipedia when we’re actually the #1 supporter worldwide of Wikipedia feels kind of disingenuous.

sane Americans largely take Wikipedia for granted

North America is Wikipedia’s largest funding source by a factor of more than 2. I’m not sure why you’re calling Americans out here.

Are you supposing that IA is better known in other countries than in the US? Are you basing that on anything?

Watership Down… The old one, not the newer remake. Just so much fucked up imagery and awful themes in that. Legitimately gave me nightmares as a kid.

Not really a kid’s movie, but I remember seeing Darkman on TV when I was pretty young and having the image of his horribly burned, disfigured face burned into my memory.

I’m sold.

Seems perfectly reasonable. How better to get close to people - looking like you’re cosplaying an assassin, or looking like someone the mark would want to get close to?

I know this may come as a shock to some people, but you do not have to buy the latest and greatest parts, and if you stick to parts that’re 1-2 years old, the prices are quite reasonable. Unless you’re doing some really top-end shit on your PC, DDR4 RAM will work just fine for you, and if you are doing something that’s too intensive to work on older parts, then discussion about “decent” gaming PCs doesn’t really apply to you.

I mean, excluding temporary price jumps that affect the entire industry like the current RAM and storage shortage… I assumed that was obviously implied.

Here’s the thing: you don’t need the newest, greatest graphics card. I’ve managed just fine for my entire life by never spending more than $800 or so on new PCs. (When I upgrade, I typically just replace everything and have a second PC, rather than replacing half of it and having spare parts). Do I have the best and latest? No, absolutely not, but I also said a “decent” gaming PC, not “the best PC money can buy”. Certainly comparable to - or better than - current gen consoles.

Consoles honestly don’t even feel necessary at all anymore. It used to be that you got better performance compared to a similarly priced PC, but that’s not really the case anymore; console prices just keep going up, and the price of a decent gaming PC hasn’t really changed much in the last 15 years. Even things like the Switch are largely invalidated by hand-held PC gaming solutions. Maybe it’s just time the consoles die off.

If this results in the AAA games industry dying and having a full reset in a couple years when this all blows over, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I don’t think indie games are going anywhere, so it’s not like we won’t have anything new to play, and AAA studios have just become so generally awful that there wouldn’t be any great loss there.

Well, this is a fresh kind of hell…

Game of Thrones (2011 - 2019) is really just the story of how a likable mostly non-verbal man acquired his disability.

I honestly love this. I find it interesting to spot the times when games do this. I think the Mass Effect elevators was the first game I really noticed it in, but some games are really good at hiding it.

Already has, but loading screens are too quick now to make it worth actually doing.

That doesn’t surprise me; I think the overlap between internet memesters and people who live in his area and are wanting taxidermy done is probably very small. Ad virality is probably only too valuable if it’s a product people can buy “as a joke” and post Tiktoks (or vines, I guess, at that point) of themselves showing off for laughs.

Not exactly what you’re looking for I don’t think but you might check for local Freecycle groups.

Not even questioning the horse or the rabbit, like it’s obvious why they were banned. That’s speciesist.

Those solar panels look pretty nice…

Possessing that would have immediately declared you the King or Queen of the Playground when I was a kid. Nobody would have even thought to contest your rule.