You’re absolutely correct, I had a similar experience

I played CS for roughly the same amount of time; my clan ranges from DMG to Global, but we had a rule that if you were in the clan, we’d 5-man with you regardless of your rank, so if you were Silver, you’d have a chance to rub elbows and learn strategies from the higher skilled players.

Then we got a Global, a girl named Moon.

Holy hell, it’s like people’s brains did a 180°, they were incredibly mean to her, for no reason, and eventually it came out that she was trans, and they bullied her even worse, out of the server.

I kicked everyone who bullied/demonized Moon for being trans; because at the end of the day, it was about being a honest human being, and not just a CS player/gamer.

Woah. She’s like a female version of Darth Maul, but without any clothes on.

Kinda badass, NGL

Helldivers 2 came out in 2024

By definition, that’s last year, so it’s an old game.

Bwuh?

I played it during an internet outage in 1999 - no walkthroughs, no strategy guides, no reviews.

I went into the game entirely blind, without having an iota of what it was.

I thought it was a generic JRPG and Final Fantasy knockoff like every other SNES rom I’d tried before getting to it, but boy was I wrong.

God had nothing to do with spiders (:

In fact they’ve been absent for quite a bit, left to buy milk and uh, y’know

Coughs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptin

TLDR: The body has a setpoint for weight which is tuned to environmental conditions and will attempt to reach it by modulating hunger.

It takes 8-12 months for these hormones to reset, so any diet is ineffective unless permanently maintained.

High setpoint? Prepare to be ravenously hungry all the time if you eat below your hormonal baseline.

I’m sorry friend; I still feel that childhood demiurge of “the game”.

I got teary eyed this morning playing a particularly satisfying VR title.

I guess my advice is: Try virtual reality gaming.

There was a king once named Damocles that had a sword suspended over his throne that could come crashing down at any random moment and kill him, to remind himself of the fragility of his power, and human life.

I have no idea how that anecdote might apply to people in power in this day and age, or why people would reference the anecdote.

Glares at the fraying rope

I’m probably going to upset a few Star Wars fans with this, but in the original version that I saw of the New Hope / Ep4, both Han and Greedo have their blaster pistols drawn under the table, and Han shoots Greedo first.

I’ve seen the entire internet argue about who shot first, but the irony is that if he didn’t shoot first he would get shot by Greedo and the story would end right there.

It wasn’t murder, it was quickdraw. :)

The bottom right “art” in green is pure schizoposting, the “DMs from the divine” and then walls of text are typical of degenerative schizophrenia.

I’m sorry OP, they might be an art thief, they might be insane, maybe both.

I just got it today, what’s going on at ani.social?

I go into a meditative, Zen-like Trance playing the Doom titles.

For reference, I’ve been playing Doom since it came out in 1993, arguably, I’ve played it for more hours than possibly anyone alive on the Internet at the present moment. Maybe over a solid 128,000 hours between D1/D2/D3/D2016/D:Eternal.

I still play it, various MegaWADS featured in the CacoAwards, and whatnot, but I digress.

My feeling with this is, as they’d say:

“Your judgement for the sin of wrath is an eternity in Hell”.

“Why are you smiling? It’s supposed to be a punishment.”

“No, adjudicator, I heard you perfectly. An eternity in paradise.”

You now own two cats.

Heavily approved

Amazing thread

No it does not

Jesus lol

Put four pots over the squares over the ground.

Shoot the dragon head statues, the pedestals raise.

The pedestals make stone grinding sounds and…

Only one pedestal has raised, the pots have caused the animation to bug out and the game engine to assume that the pedestal is in the final position on the floor.

The floor position has the lever locked.

The game developer never anticipated what a massive idiot I was

I guess reincarnation real?

Yeah, but is it any good?

It could be 900 pages of Gollum Porn for all we know.

TIL, I’m a minority of a minority.

Overclocked a $800 AMD 7900XTX to 3.4 GHz core with +15% overvolt (1.35V), total power draw of 470W @86°C hotspot temp under 100% fan duty cycle.

Matches the 3DMark score in Time Spy for an RTX 4090D almost to the number.

63 FPS @ 1440p Ray Tracing: Ultra (Path Tracing On) in CP2077