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AIR!

Mmmm I dunno if I can necessarily agree either way on this one.

The idea that a person with no mental issues (including a plethora of physical disorders that can cause mental changes) would just decide to pick up a gun and kill a bunch of people for no reason seems far fetched to me. I feel like it is much more likely that majority these individuals suffered from a mental break of some type, but were not in a position to be identified beforehand. I do notice though that your source isn’t inherently saying that mentally healthy individuals are committing the majority of mass shootings, it states that ~25% are diagnosed with a mental illness, ~25% are attributed to substance abuse (which I believe would potentially also fall under mental illness, as SUD is recognized as a mental illness)

I do find it odd that we are apparently splitting hairs between someone with “mental illness” and someone “responding to a severe and acute stressor” though. If the response was to eat their hair, self harm, lock themselves in their room and refuse to leave, or many other extreme stress response, this would be considered mental illness, but because they haven’t seen a psychiatrist beforehand, mass murder doesn’t fit?

That said, I fully admit this is an uneducated understanding of what mental illness is. I am more than willing to admit I am incorrect. But if that’s the case, it feels like we are simply arguing over what is considered a mental illness.

Care to elaborate?

Tinfoil

Likely a subwoofer. They do better in corners.

There are very few cases where this would ever come up without your consent, and fewer still it would matter, so you’re likely over thinking it.

The only case I’m aware of is being a pilot. ADHD is a limiting factor, and while you can still become a pilot, it becomes harder with more hoops to jump through. Stimulant medication is also completely off the table if you’re a pilot.

I am sure there are similar professions out there. But barring those, you’ll likely never be forced to disclose your diagnosis at all.

Very old comment and I’m sure you don’t care any longer, but yes. Any VM inherently includes performance loss if you’re aiming for “peak performance” but it can often be negligible when done properly.

Is joke

I do find it a little amusing the people complain about things that are (an admittedly advanced) config away from being the way they want. As if Linux doesn’t have settings buried in a similar way to registry changes.

It’s been a villain for years. You just hear more from the “stop using Firefox because it isn’t perfect” paid accounts around here.

I need to point out, IPA isn’t magical. If you’re just giving it a quick swipe, or mopping it around, you’re not actually cleaning it you’re just moving the mess around. It’s fine for some in between stuff, but scrubbing with soap and warm water is going to be much more efficient at cleaning the plate.

Yes but when do you start printing the virgins?

Funnily enough, the same thing goes for battery “packs” in UPS units. The UPS costs ~$2500? The replacement “packs” will cost a few hundred dollars at least. But the batteries are standard 99.9% of the time, and cost 1/4th the pack if you simply disassemble your existing pack and transfer the hardware onto the new batteries.

I’ve saved hundreds doing this, and since the batteries are standardized, you can usually find a great deal on them beyond their regular price.

To an extent I agree with you. The “problem” comes when people slowly start to realize that and open them or throw them out. At which point the items actually can become worth something. Though again, unlikely.

Part of the problem with most collectibles “meant” to be “worth something eventually”, are packaged in such a way that they are “enjoyable” in the packaging. You can put a sealed Funko or Beanie Baby on a shelf and you’re looking at the item itself. There’s no reason to open them.

If you truly want a “collectible”, purchase something like a game console and keep it in its box for fifty years.

Theoretically, it is possible that 70 years down the line it might actually be worth something, assuming it is still new in box, undamaged, and it is of something that is still culturally relevant.

But the chances are so slim as to make it a worse gamble than the stock market.

Clever girl

iPhones at least can now detect hold music and offer to simulate a callback so you don’t have to sit and listen.

sophisticated graphics also can make a game

I agree to an extent, but good graphics can’t save a game with bad gameplay.

I bet you’ve never heard “the game isn’t fun but I put hundreds of hours into it because it’s beautiful!”

In contrast, good gameplay can save a game with abysmal graphics.

I’m willing to bet money you’ve heard something around the lines of “it doesn’t look great but I just can’t stop playing!”

I dunno, this screams of “I want to be an asshole with no way for anyone to stop me.”

Not necessarily. If I use an anthropomorphic cat as an asset for a character who in the end is a robot, can you really say it took inspiration?

Granted, I haven’t seen any of the assets. But placeholders aren’t inherently inspiration. They can easily just be random things to look at before proper assets are made.

And even if they did take inspiration, that isn’t the complaint. Would there be a need to disclose if they used a generative AI to generate a picture, and they used that as inspiration? What if they saw an gen AI image someone else posted and used that as inspiration? Inspiration isn’t the problem, it’s the “use of AI in development” which seems silly when these could have potentially been wire frames and result in the exact same final product.