I do this pretty regularly, with a default order. First is a simple guess the number game, then I update it to hangman. After that is either pong or minesweeper. Depending on what I’m learning that should be enough, or I can extend them in some way, such as multi-window pong or turning minesweeper into network battleship.

Basically, yes. In the olden days, cell phones sent a ping at least once a minute to the nearest tower, and sometimes more often. The tower would respond with a similar message. There was a 140 character field in the ping that could be used for a variety of diagnostics and network controls. That field was also used for text messaging and so was pretty much free for the providers, other than the very small amount of general network backhaul overhead of sending that message to another phone. Charging for texts was a hell of a rip off.

Just install Mint. Honestly, “gamer” Linux is a pretty silly concept. You can install Steam and Lutris on any distro which gets you access to basically all modern PC gaming. Even something as slow to embrace change as Debian has recent enough drivers and kernels available.

It has all of the typical YT influencer bullshit. “Wait 'till then end”, slightly faster than normal speech, reaction memes, overly long descriptions of things in order to pad in more time for ads, flat out ads in the middle, etc.

My old person trait is that I’d rather spend five minutes reading an article than 15 minutes watching a video.

Ah, a helmet big enough for Captain Pike’s haircut.

I’m curious, what AI features do you use and why? I can’t even figure out what one is supposed to do.

I’d never heard of gamersupps before either and that has got to be the cringiest weeb shit I’ve even seen.

How long do you think it will take for my sample pack to arrive?

I use caliente, picante, and aromatic to describe the meanings of the English spicy. Salty is just salty, or maybe seasoned if I’m feeling fancy.

Yoga clothes?

Yeah, no. Most members of most militaries haven’t directly killed anyone, even during wartime.

My ex-brother-in-law killed a family of four while DUI. The cops really screwed up the investigation so he was able to get the charges down to a minor moving violation. He never saw the inside of a jail.

When I was in high school a friend of a friend that I knew and had hung out with at a couple of times was a serial killer/rapist. He was one of the last people executed by that state.

Edit: My grandfather killed some Nazis in WW2. Several former coworkers killed people in the line of duty as soldiers. And, I worked as a records clerk at a nursing home, so I knew several doctors and nurses that had taken people off life support.

“Salting the Earth” is an idiom that references possibly apocryphal stories of ancient warfare where an invading army would literally put large amounts of salt or salt water in the enemy’s fields so that they wouldn’t be able to grow crops. This was done to make sure that the population couldn’t rebuild and become a threat in the future. Nowadays it is used to mean that someone is making really, really sure that something is destroyed and not coming back.

Edit: Part of the meaning is going out of your way in a big way to do it, because enough salt to actually have an effect, or digging a trench to get the ocean to fill the fields would have been astoundingly expensive.

Oh I have, a few times. Mostly them seem to be into mild restraint kink, though I know at least one who is into cross dressing.

Well now I have something else to add to my pile of half completed projects. sigh

That’s a damn good explanation.

Hell yeah it is!

While the original is down the archive has it: https://web.archive.org/web/20150105082427/https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

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My religion isn’t really based on belief, just practice. And I do the practices because they make me feel better and more connected.

Whenever my ex was low on gas she would park in the driveway in such a fashion as to block me in so I would have to move her car and probably end up just taking it in to work and get gas on the way home.