Widows is rapidly becoming unfit for purpose. This event is relatively minor in the grand scheme.
Other than circumstances like your work needing it, you should actively be transitioning away from Microsoft products.
If you don't take control of and ensure that you own your technology now, do not be surprised when you turn around and your tech owns you.
Too often it's just unattractive looking guys geting bad body image problems that are preyed upon. They get sold on some fairytale magic that will make them a beautiful princess.
This is not the case. Transitioning does not make you less ugly. What it does is make whatever positive masculine traits you do have into something deeply unsettling.
Any counter example of an attractive TIM was already quite feminine and attractive before transitioning. This is very rare. If there is any doubt as to wether one would be pretty after transitioning, they are ten times more apparent if one was to go through with it.
All people have an innate ability to identify an unhealthy person. Historically it helped us avoid disease. Nowadays it's why the uncanny Valley exists, and why trans people who don't pass look so goddam creepy.
In any case good for him. I don't know what kind of damage he's incurred, but here's hoping he's managing to pull himself back together.
Yes, the limitedness of well supported jellyfin apps is one of it's biggest weaknesses in my opinion. Making things like this pick up and play is important for people trying to administer it for others.
Jellyfin on Roku was basically perfect and no harder than any other streaming app aside from perhaps slightly clumsy controls during login. Web and computer App were also nearly perfect. Android app worked fine most of the time but occasionally did something weird. Minor stuff easy enough to troubleshoot, but not ideal if your mom is trying to binge watch her British soaps.
Jellyfin's getting there. Slowly. It serves my needs alright, though I must admit I don't push it too hard, and it does seem to be actively improving, and willing to do what I tell it to. Rather than Plex which seemed to get worse, and change things away from the way I wanted them with each update, prompting me to switch in the first place.
No, no, if a straight man has anal sex with a man who is infected, it will infect him just as bad.
Take this seriously guys. It might not even need anal sex. You could just be having sloppy makeouts with a man with strange lesions all over his body, and boom! Monkey Pox.
Nah, his politics have always been radfem/terf, rather than intersectional. It's just that terfs have pivoted to a conflict that aligns with sane people.
Remember, it's easy to conflate two disparate ideologies if they are distant enough from your own.
He does however skew libertarian/government skeptical, which is unusual for a radfem, but not strictly incompatible with the ideology.
The interesting thing for me is how Piracy went from a physical imperative (living in a rural area where most merchandise were not available), to an economic imperative (Being a broke teenager/ university student) to a moral imperative (the money almost certainly funding corruption, rather than encouraging the production of more of the product.)
All those "No excuse for piracy" screeds felt hollow at the time, but now we've reached the point where it's like attacking a fortified position.
There are so many checks things have to pass before I'd even consider paying money. Not because of any financial restraints on my part, but because at some point unless I'm paying a single person for a solo project, and sometimes even then, I'm almost certainly giving money to somebody who hates my guts, my way of life, and will almost certainly be passing that some of that money into a machine seemingly dedicated to destroying western civilization.
It's taking more and more work to convince me that it's ethical not to pirate something.
Steam remains the only platform which I use with any sort of regularity, it doesn't require a monthly subscription fee, and it makes installing games easy, and even then I feel more and more wary of it. I've been wondering if there's a good way to run Proton outside of Steam more and more.
I was about to say... Chris's IQ is probably like 70, maybe closer to 60. Well below what we'd call basic mental competence let alone normal.
It's probably more to do with their respective behavioral disorders rather than intelligence. Chris, for all his faults is normally in a state where a mentally competent person can control him with suggestions, and he doesn't typically get violent unless you insist on arguing with him on irrelevant details of his favorite media.
This guy is likely far more prone to violent outbursts that he can't be talked down from.
Yeah. A lot of outline work, never really bothered to fill out anything in to much detail, but I have about a dozen txt files with the outlines of stories in them, and another with a couple dozen one line concepts. I've started a two novels that never really went anywhere. I'm mostly only good at the framework stuff. Characters and intricate settings are the tough part.
I've though about maybe doing a game or something now and again, but what I do now is much more reliable at paying the bills, so...
Just some random thoughts.
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if this was an anime or something, I'd think it could possibly be cool, but since it's live western action my first thoughts are that the actress and character are probably both unlikeable cunts and she's unlikely to be able to sell the physicality to make the whole warrior woman schtick work. Women's fight choreography is so bad these days.
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they probably won't do this, but this sort of story is super easy to fix. Just have a older male protector character early on
Act 1) father or uncle or grandpa or whatever of main female character leads tribe against brains and brawn villain duo. Female character has youthful innocence and desires to be a cool warrior like the male character even if it's not something women typically do. Dreams are crushed as the harsh reality of combat sets in. Her various warrior skills mastered in peacetime are ineffective in a real wartime situation against foes larger than herself. Manages to stay alive, and gets just enough successes not to be a drag on the party. Male character leads tribe to near victory, but goes down taking out the brawny villain. He goes down a complete badass. He wasn't a Jarhead who needed a woman's advice to come up with a basic plan. He doesnt get humiliated. He was the heart and soul of his tribe. And his loss is devastating. The brainy villain gets away.
Act 2) things go to shit as social cohesion in the tribe suffers from loss of a great leader. She laments how she wasn't able to help more in act 1, possibly blames her weakness for old guys death. If girl ever tried to lead, she's shot down instantly and it only makes things worse. Main candidate for leader is younger male trying to succeed fallen protector, but his immaturity holds him back. He is not a dumbass, he is not a sexist pig who doesn't believe women can lead. He is a charismatic, intelligent, and idealistic young man who is trying and failing to fill some really big shoes. He's also probably being undercut by a pessimistic foil. Things get desperate as brainy villain gets revenge, and it's all she can do just to keep her and whatever few tribes people are still with her alive. Focus on warrior skills like camouflage, foraging, traps, etc. Instead of direct combat. If any direct combat happens it's immediately apparent that it's hopeless, and any attempt to fight back is futile. All she can hope to do is escape. Also, an opportunity to highlight other weaknesses in addition to lack of physical combat power.
Act 3) Brainy villain is lured into situation focusing on battle of Witts. Girl is able to regain some of her spirit and optimism from act 1 rallies what's left of her tribe. She never attempts to be a boss girl, and is never a cunt to anyone. She probably teams up with a younger male character from part 2 as part of a leadership duo and possible love interest. If this is more of an action movie he doesn't need to be a love interest. it might actually be more interesting if he was her brother, and they are both mourning the loss of their idolized father. Little details aren't that important. Brainy Villain is defeated with tactics and teamwork and a combination of already established skills from act 2 and creative uses of skills that failed in act 1. Girl plays instrumental part in bringing team together and bringing down villain, but teamwork is the clear focus.
There. A better story structure with a female lead than anything I've seen from Hollywood in a decade or more
Key points.
It doesn't hate men. The men are competent badasses who can be built into awesome characters even if they aren't the lead. Weaknesses of younger men are due to immaturity and serve to highlight the difference between him and the ideal which he aspires to. And he moves tangibly towards that goal in act three.
People on the same team respect and honor one another. There can be an antihero in act 2 if he's outlined as such, but your core characters act with each other's best interests in mind. If someone doubts someones strength, it's a real, founded, and rational doubt. The characters care about each other and the audience likes them for it. In this structure a brother-sister relationship in times of danger could be a complex thing that can be explored, as opposed to an opportunity for the sister to prove herself the superior sibling who is being kept down by sexism.
It doesn't make the girl hateable. She isn't a cocky asshole, she's an innocent maiden archetype with a tomboy twist. She isn't hyper competent and unbelievable, she's a young girl forced to flee from something a lot more powerful in act 2. Newsflash! This makes the audience root for her. People don't like to see the strong picking on someone smaller than them especially women. Makes you villain hateable and your protagonist easy to empathize with. Character is developed with weaknesses and strengths. Too often a character is designed with a list of cool powers and strengths they have, but weaknesses are ignored when they're almost as important.
Characters are given a chance to develop naturally, and attempt skills in a way that establishes that they are learning them, but aren't truly effective yet. This primes the skill in act 1 or 2 without turning the tide, so it doesn't feel like bullshit when a character randomly has a skill that saves the day in act 3.
Is this just the original star wars trilogy with Luke and Leia switched? Maybe a little, but this basic structure is older than that.
But we all know how this is actually going to go. She's going to be another cunt who is constantly underestimated by everyone purely to give her opportunities to prove strawmen wrong and then be a smug cunt about it. In combat she'll be a remorseless killing machine spouting girl power one liners, and the best any of the male characters can hope to be is a lovable doofus or effeminate cheerleader. The rest will be incompetent, evil assholes who get systematically humiliated for daring to challenge her on anything. Every good character agrees with her 100% of the time and likes her instantly. She suffers no setbacks that cost her more than 5 minutes, and her story arc is the straight line of a combine clearing wheat shaped obsticals.
Didn't intend to go off on a rant like that but I'm sure most of you guys know how frustrating it is to see how obvious it is to see how professional writers keep (intentionally) fucking up and it being obvious how to fix things despite not having much experience writing.
Speaking of which...
https://retroachievements.org/leaderboardinfo.php?i=23084
I'm currently the record holder on a very old video game. Anybody, want to take a crack at it? Pepper II is my favorite game from that era that hasn't be re-released ad nausium.
Yes it is. The smaller the unit things are broken into the easier they are to fix, and the less destructive they are if they implode.