I didn’t want to do that at my first attempt for some reason (probably because it felt wrong/unauthentic to play Skyrim without first-person…). But after reading this, I tried it. It’s certainly a weird 3rd person perspective, yet I had so much more fun. So many many thanks for your suggestion!

I’ve spotted a devil fruit user.

I thought that not giving them a neutral option made this meaningless, but…

For data outside the United States, this analysis draws on nationally representative surveys of 28,333 adults conducted from Jan. 8 to April 26, 2025. All surveys were conducted over the phone with adults in Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Surveys were conducted face-to-face in Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa and Turkey. In Australia, we used a mixed-mode probability-based online panel. In the U.S., we surveyed 3,605 adults from March 24 to 30, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP). This report also includes some findings from a separate ATP survey of 8,937 U.S. adults conducted from May 5 to 11, 2025.

…I think it was already meaningless from the very beginning.

If I had to choose, I’d pick the computer as a whole. But learning on your own pace and at whatever depth you wish to is already possible. It’s the variety of different tools and learning sources that make it possible. A single “digital aristotle” would miss the whole point. The only “benefit” would be to have it all in one place and some people try to make that problem bigger than it actually is. If anything, the dependency on a single tool would create a problem to use others.

I think the closest to a disappointment is Skyrim, but it’s not the game’s fault. I was always looking forward to it. I love the non-linear role-play experience in a rich open world. I watched plenty of Let’s Plays. For some reason it took me a long time to get to it. But when I finally got to play it, I realized that the first-person 3D movement in this game made me dizzy and unwell to the point I couldn’t continue. I had this problem with some other games, too, but not to this extent. I might give it another try at some point. But maybe something like World of Anterra scratches that itch better.

An honorable mention is Planescape: Torment. I liked it, but having played Disco Elysium first, the writing and story in this game felt over-hyped.

If you are talking about the people who don’t believe you that you were born in 2008, that’s just an aspect about the internet society we have to live with. A lot of people here only have a stereotypical idea of how people of a particular age-group (even their own) behave, especially in the internet. It’s a little price for our anonymity that strangers won’t accept that you behave outside of your stereotype.

Keep in mind that most of them don’t mean you any harm. Predators that lure their victims with a younger age or otherwise problematic scammers are a big problem of the internet and people would rather wrongfully accuse you of that than letting such a scenario play out.

While personally I didn’t feel suspicious of you or have no reason to care, when I think about it, I can see that people get irritated by a person who is often highlighting that they are 18. If you really are 18, you probably didn’t even notice that and it’s natural. But maybe you can imagine that from another perspective, it may look different.

This was asked a month ago and it turned out to be this post that links to https://hiring.cafe/. Is this perhaps the job site you are looking for, too?

To be honest, the majority of shower thoughts here are just thoughts, especially in the last few months. On the other hand, it is not precisely defined in the community description either ¯\(ツ)/¯

We should build a time machine (with the help of AI this should be easy) and plant AI before mankind! We can avoid mankind and prevent that so much energy gets unnecessarily wasted on humans!

It’s not about whether or not you require knowledge or abilities to perform the jobs, but whether or not you are expected to already have certain qualifications to even get the job. So unskilled labour just means that it’s an entry point - you can learn it on the go.

I do not disagree that these terms are less important in today’s world where everything is overly automated and the entry-level has risen. But these terms did have their purpose. And not the wording “unskilled” has changed our society’s discriminating look on these jobs, but it’s the other way around.

Let’s go, another chapter of letting a small amount of AAA games dictate our perception of video game prices.

As a privacy enhancement even beyond hiding from ISPs, a VPN has value for the private person when they connect to a public Wi-Fi network and need protection from attackers.

The primary activity of a VPN, extending a private network over a public network, does not only have value for organizations, but for private people like you and me, too. E.g. you need remote access on your NAS with media or in general your devices without making them directly accessible from the internet.

But overall, it’s difficult to give you a definite answer, because it really depends on where you are from. E.g. in most European countries even bypassing geo-blocking won’t get you in trouble as they are regulating it within the EU in the first place, while on the other side in China most VPNs are prohibited in general.

You can hide posts that you’ve already seen by turning off “Show Read Posts” in the settings.

If you make that argument about the state of software in general, I’d agree to an extent in the sense that it should be more prioritized. But I don’t see how that applies to open source in particular?

In those aspects proprietary software is just as bad, if not even worse. The difference is simply that the default choice of software for most tasks is a proprietary software. They can have a shit ton of unusable and confusing mess, even intentional dark patterns, but users will adapt.

Subscription-based services are in general worth the money, if

1. you can cancel the subscription any time
2. you use it, because you actually want it
3. you know exactly what you get out of it

E.g. it doesn’t matter shit how much content on Netflix is terrible, if I use it for one month precisely for that one new show, a new season or a few movies I’m interested - just about anything that makes up an actual reason to starting the subscription.

Batista

Check your PM.

Nah, I don’t like to jab at the USA by normalizing the shit load of money flowing into their politics, especially into some stupid election campaigns.

I want to avoid time-consuming games like Dota 2 or Crusader Kings 3…

If this had been enforced consistently, it’s a different story. But at least at my school I was allowed to cite random blog articles, outdated news and anything else I found, as long as it wasn’t Wikipedia.