I love evil Sims. They are so much fun to play, especially with mods. Nice Sims are too… real? Like, in order to have a nice or otherwise relatively normal sim, you kinda have to play them like a real person which can get too real. But evil sims can be played like a cartoon supervillain. My current crackhead is a hideously deformed twig named Shpingle Bab

Edit: also, in Sims 4 specifically I now have a tradition where Johnny Zest gets immediately marked as immortal whenever I start a new save because he becomes the neighborhood punching bag (thanks Vargskelethor for making this disproportionately amusing), his yard becomes the graveyard for that save, and the ghosts all get autonomous violence turned on. It’s fun to sometimes just watch the ghosts fruitlessly trying to kill each other with the occasional passerby getting recruited to their ranks.

My understanding is that’s usually how it works. It’s just that most people usually settle for like, transformation art or VRChat and don’t need to make an entire blockbuster movie trilogy to come to terms with being trans lmao

Do it at night when people are going to bed. Send out a message to get people to check their pagers, then detonate them. There’s still a chance of collateral, but it’d be significantly lower than detonating them when people will be out in public at the cost of what I imagine would be a slightly lower chance of hitting targets.

Hezbollah uses pagers for communication. Israel intercepted shipments of pagers and rigged them with bombs. Then, an unspecified amount of time later, Israel detonated them during the day, yanno, when people would be out and about in public places. Thousands of bombs went off across Lebanon and killed and injured children, elderly people, and adults.

Of course, mainstream media is trying to pretend that Israel didn’t potentially commit what should be considered a warcrime while assholes on social media are spinning this as a masterfully precise and accurate strike that didn’t have a considerable amount of collateral (I’ve literally seen someone say “only people with something to hide would be around a pager in this day and age” verbatim), and that anyone injured or killed was a member of Hezbollah.

Like, what if one of those had been on a plane when it went off?

When ISIS plants bombs on people and detonates them in public places then it’s a bad thing. Israel does it and everyone stands, claps and tips everyone with $100% bills.

Edit: I honestly wonder if it’s only a matter of time before some IDF or Mossad shithead hijacks a plane and flies it into the Burj Khalifa.

I feel like this should unironically be a war crime. The potential for collateral is ridiculously high.

Edit: I’m amazed at how successfully this is being spun as a highly-targeted, high-precision attack with no collateral when it’s pretty much the opposite. You can’t control what they do with the pagers after they get them. Ffs there were kids killed.

Extroverts don’t seem to understand that not showing interest in their sexual lives doesn’t mean disrespect, but simply that I don’t care about it.

I was on the fence until this. This is extremely unprofessional and, if I understand correctly, could even get the company sued. Here’s how I’d personally handle it; but take this with a grain of salt because I’ve never actually had to deal with something like this before:

First, talk to a lawyer. Tell them what’s going on an get their thoughts and suggestions. The suggestions following may be way off-base.

Then, start keeping track of every time she brings something like that up, and log how you responded, how it made you feel, how she reacted to you response. You’re collecting evidence for a lawsuit on the basis of a toxic and highly unprofessional work environment that’ll hopefully never actually happen.

Once you have enough info that you could potentially launch said lawsuit, double-check with your lawyer and then you go to HR.

YOUR LAWYER WILL LIKELY TELL YOU THIS: DO NOT THREATEN A LAWSUIT. DO NOT EVEN HINT AT A LAWSUIT. DO NOT MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT A LAWSUIT, PERIOD. IF YOU MAKE ANY MENTION OF LEGAL ACTION THEN YOU WILL DESTROY YOUR CHANCES OF HAVING A POSITIVE OUTCOME FROM THIS MEETING. THEY ARE ALMOST GUARANTEED TO FIRE YOU AND THEN IMMEDIATELY LAWYER UP. THEY MAY EVEN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY EVIDENCE IF THEY THINK IT’S PREFERABLE TO A SUCCESSFUL LAWSUIT.

Make sure you log your interaction with HR as well; what you discussed, if you felt your concerns were heard during the meeting, and then make a follow-up log a week or two later to note if there was any change as a result of your meeting.

If there was no change, talk to your lawyer and consider trying again (and log everything again), and again, do not threaten, mention or even hint at any kind of legal action whatsoever. You’re trying to give the company ample chance to respond to your concerns.

If there was still no change, go talk to your lawyer about the possibility of pursuing legal action. It could be legitimately worth it, especially if they decide to fire you after your first or second meeting with HR.

Your goal is to have a paper trail so long and thorough that you can hang them with it (figuratively, in court) if necessary.

I do too. It’s a comfort series for me and I’ve never seen someone who can make the Sims so funny. CallMeKevin and Jerma come close, but Joel’s series was a non-stop trainwreck.

Sadly I think too much has changed since Joel last did it for him to revive it without starting from scratch (I think he talked about it recently, but I can’t remember). His Sims 2 streams are a good spiritual continuation of it though.

Edit: Jerma woohooing the CBT wizard, Jill Valentine getting married to Nemesis at Johnny Zest’s house and Thanksgiving with Albert Wesker were 10/10 moments.

There are still companies that make physical copies, but typically it’s in limited quantities and sadly I’ve found that most of them (especially one of the big ones, LRG) can be pretty scummy. I think the only two I’ve found that are worth buying stuff from are iam8bit and fangamer.

Meh, give it another 10yrs and Wii games will be selling at the original prices. Rip game/vintage computer collecting. You were a fun and inexpensive hobby until the rich assholes got to it.

They’re scientists, not programmers. They may do programming as part of their job, but that’s generally not what they’re interested in. In other words, you (or someone else) will have to make it for them because it’s unlikely they’ll do it themselves unless shit gets really bad.

I love this. I might actually start doing this unironically.

I sometimes hear furries mess up and refer to women as “female humans” or something along those lines, but that’s mainly because furries usually think in “male/female” instead of “man/woman” (or at least all the ones I’ve met seem to). For an example, “Cat-woman” can be kinda ambiguous and (at least imo) sounds kinda odd since “woman” is usually exclusive to female humans. In this example, are we talking about a woman who’s obsessed with cats, a woman who is a cat (a female feline with human features), an anime cat girl (a woman with cat features), or a DC Comics character (a woman who dresses up like a cat)?

Otherwise though, yeah. Yeah, especially, especially when someone refers to women as “females” as in “check out those females over there”. That’s creepy. Even furries would rather say something like, “check out those gals over there”, regardless of context.

Edit: also, does this hypothetical person say “males” too, or is it “man/female”? “Man/female” is a massive red flag.

I don’t know if it really counts since it’s a full series, but Porkin’ Across America is really fucking cursed.

Honestly, that’s a reasonable take. I mean, there’s a world of a difference between using an AI to automatically unwrap and generate UVs or generate PBR maps from flat images vs having an AI auto-generate textures and models from scratch. What’ll be interesting is to see where the line ends up being drawn.

The problem with that is that copyright is viral. If you take a photo of a work under copyright, then your photo is also under that copyright. You own the copyright on the photo, but the original copyright holder owns the rights for the reproduction of the copyrighted work; meaning you both own copyright on the photo.

It usually isn’t enforced, but you can see an example of this when news stations get sent C&Ds or DMCAs because some chucklefuck with a loud stereo decided to harass them (at least, I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of news stations getting legal letters as a result of someone playing unlicensed music in the background).

To make matters worse, because anything can be considered artistic with a good enough story, you can potentially claim copyright on reproductions of public domain works if you alter them in some way; even if that’s just by changing the spelling of some names.

“Fun” fact: this is why some museums try to stop you from taking photos. The artifacts and paintings being presented may not be under copyright anymore, but the museum is claiming copyright on the presentation of the artwork or artifact, not the artwork or artifact itself. Afaik it’s never gone to court so no one knows if it’d actually hold up (I think they usually cite other reasons for kicking you out, which makes it harder to fight), but you’d have to go to court to find out and there’s no penalty for them falsely claiming copyright.

All that said, however, it doesn’t take much for it to be considered derivative.

Yet, still, just putting the image into a bot and tell it to make a copy wouldn’t be enough to free it from copyright; you just can’t claim copyright on the (unauthorized) reproduction. The bar is pretty low unless it can be proven that you intended to infringe on someone’s copyright (putting a image through a bot with the express purpose of getting a “copyright-free” copy would qualify), or even just awareness of someone’s work, even if you didn’t mean to copy it, can get you fucked.

There’s been a fun case or two recently where musicians got sued because their melodies were the same as someone else’s and the company was able to successfully argue that the original melodies were high-profile enough that said musicians must have been aware they were copying a melody.

Copyright is so fucked. It’s not a bad idea, but holy shit is its modern implementation fucked.

One gun + another gun = more gun. This is basic math. They could have taught you this in NCD 101 if you’d paid attention.

If your missile pods don’t have missile pods on their missile pods, then can you really say you’re missiling? Furthermore, if your missiles can’t transform into drones and back, are you really living in 2024?

Like, imagine it for a moment. Solid fuel rocket on a missile pod that has more missile pods attached. All the pods fire, releasing drones that come swarming out. The now-empty pod shells begin to break apart and tumble unpredictably through the air and slam into random objects, creating chaos while the drones swoop in and drop grenades everywhere.

Yes indeed! That makes much sense! Also! Moonlight helps your enemy to see on clear nights and clouds help provide cover for incoming drones! Obviously all of nature is against Russia!

What about Russian sunlight, moonlight or clouds? Are those complicit as well? This is an important question, pls respond!

Jesus, that’s insane. Tbh, that’s the kinda house I’d want: unassuming on the outside, extravagant and surreal on the inside.