Sehän se

Thank you ❤️

Yeah the colors are all there, the buildings in that area have a sort of copper-like cladding on them so they’re pretty funky just by themselves, and people really seem to like wild room lighting. I actually just realized I never did an sRGB conversion of this so I don’t know how it looks on most monitors.

Here’s the original unedited version:

Just looks a bit more subdued compared to how vividly orange everything there is when using the Mark I Eyeballs

Aw, thanks ❤️ No I’m not, haven’t really done all that much photography lately, let alone with a DSLR (lost the charger when I last moved a couple of years ago and never got around to getting a new one, I’ve had… other concerns)

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.

We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.

It’s ok, you can say “cum” on the internet.

Or did you mean one of the following?

aum
bum
dum
gum
hum
lum
mum
rum
sum
tum

Looks like at least one reader agrees:

Not oppressed enough

Yeah, some real “DEBATE ME” energy here

Oh I wish it was. Eg. here in Finland sharing movies etc. among friends or downloading them off the internet used to be legal as long as you weren’t doing it for profit or distributing stuff to a huge audience, but that changed in 2006 because the new EU Copyright Directive required it, and that directive was hugely influenced by the likes of WIPO.

Governments rarely realize anything related to IP that the copyright mafia doesn’t spoon-feed them, unfortunately.

They’re “depressed and despondent” because they judge comic movie fans? This is some prime Dr. Phil level psychology right here.

THE PEETS

– Comrade Stalin, is it true that you collect political jokes?
– Yes
– How many have you collected?
– Four labor camps’ worth

If OP’s not from the US, turkey might not be an option – it’s not very common in a lot of places here in Europe for example.

Might be an option to just buy cat food (after they recover from their injury) and hide it in their room if the stepmom is that controlling

Gah, honestly I’m not surprised at all she’s like that, she sounds exactly like the type.

Holy crap, that’s sounds outright abusive

That’s known as a ligature and they’re pretty common in many programming-oriented fonts, which usually have stylistic sets with different ligatures for different programming languages that you can optionally enable in your editor’s configuration. For example, here’s the stylistic sets the Monaspace font offers:

Personally I’m not too fond of ligatures so I never enable any, but many folks do like them.

Edit: and just as a side note, ligatures are super common in many fonts, you just might not notice them. Here’s some classic examples from the DejaVu Serif font, with and without a ligature:

"A".reverse() == "∀"

Where is your god now?!

More of a tragicomedy, really

No thank you