Darling Nikki is a song that opens with a line about a woman masturbating with an object not traditionally considered for the task, if that helps you see what Ragged Tiger is getting at...

I had been holding out for PC mainly for improved localization, but if that patch is still coming Jan 30 separately guess I may as well get the console version.

It’s not even so much our bodies, as our habits. I think within a couple of weeks of regular exposure your body acclimatizes to extreme weather as much as it is (in the case of heat, you start sweating earlier). But you have to learn how to deal with it. When I lived in Houston I rarely had to adjust my clothing at…

I agree with the criticism that there’s an intended “path” through that area, and deviating from that path without being really good just gets you stomped (and if you do eke out a win you quickly overlevel for the other areas when you go back, removing the challenge). In general you should make your way to Driftwood,…

Here is a list of articles on the front page that will help you relax and unwind. Somehow you clicked the only one that would apparently upset you, and somehow you commented on it. Something to consider in your browsing!

Alone in the Dark. I have never walked out of a movie through sheer disinterest but that’s the closest I’ve come.

I’ll see your off-topicedness and raise you: In this case, I believe of is part of the phrasal verb “deliver of” and not a preposition. That’s an archaic use of the word deliver that’s synonymous with relieve (“deliver us from evil” for a classic example).

The NRO mission patches are all tongue-in-cheek and absurd, Since the actual payloads are classified they can’t have a mission patch that has anything to do with it, so you get art like that, and demons, dragons, and basically whatever the art department felt like cooking up. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu…

I thought the episode where everyone rated each other had a happy ending. She escaped that perverse world of trying to please everyone and the ending hints at a new friendship. That’s about as happy as could be expected.

I’ve been traveling for work the last two weeks and am dying from missing the release of war of the chosen and this. Jet lag will keep me up when I get home so I know what I’m doing.

I think Australia follows in the US’ footsteps, but without the recent overcorrection in US restaurants. In a cosmopolitan US city I can find reasonable, healthy things. You overpay for them but that’s life. Meanwhile I spend lots of time in Melbourne for work and am here right now and please somebody tell me a…

Americans drink lots of brewed coffee, while Australians seem to drink almost exclusively espresso drinks. That explains the sizes as a “large” espresso-based drink doesn’t really make sense, it’s either watered-down or comically strong. Though in my experience Australians don’t shy away from comically strong.

Makes me think of a couple of sci fi stories. The main character in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a successful technician because he can talk to the AI. The Black Mirror christmas episode has Jon Hamm with a career in convincing AI copies of real humans to essentially be slaves (by threatening them with an eternity…

Valve’s structure is strange, I’m not sure Gabe could command development of a new Half Life game if he even wanted to. The employees work on what they want amd I imagine their current workload-profit ratio is off the charts (at one time Valve was the most profitable company/employee in the world). AAA game…

Heh, did you trip the permadeath? Some reviews say it’s straightforward, the one person complained about dying repeatedly on various encounters (but no permadeath), so there seems to be a range of experiences.

I haven’t seen a single review where the person actually lost their save though. Including one reviewer who really struggled, dying 18 times to the first boss and frequently throughout. It seems this is more for tension and, if it actually happens, you’d have to be nearly trying to have it happen.

Blue apron doesn’t pre-prepare anything. If anything, my complaint is the recipes are annoyingly involved.

I had never heard of Hellblade until today (well, I must have heard of it, but just didn’t pay it any mind). Now I’m suddenly very curious. I also, in a fit of financial irresponsibility and poor impulse control, just turned my PC into a beast and I need something to sic it on.

I’m not defending the design, but the Minis have the speedometer in the center, and have for a while now. So I’m not sure we have to wait and see how it turns out.

It’s not really the refresh rate of the monitor. It’s the rate frames are being pumped out by the system which drives how fast loops are being executed and game logic is being updated. Ideally you wouldn’t construct your equations and scripts to depend on framerate in such a way that different framerates get different…