my mom told me that credit card interest paid used to be tax deductible and i looked this up because it sounded totally bananas to me but apparently this used to be the case until 1986. what sort of fantasy world were baby boomers living in
Weird how this is the second time today I'm reading a story about covert facial analysis integrated into a vending machine.
kind of obsessed with this security question option my doctors office has given me
...would you say it's your favourite?
Having anotheg 'gork we have got to get out of bed faster then this' morning
dasfsffadfjdag I meant girl but gork works better
I didn't even question it I was nodding along like I'm literally right there with you gork
Some of you don't have firm principles that transcend ideology, and it shows.
"Spreading blatant misinformation is okay when it supports a cause I care about, and if anybody corrects me, it means they do not share my values." 🤡
"Police brutality is okay if it's being carried out by a government ascribing to my preferred political philosophy." 🤡
"If this person has harmful views, then my criticism of them can't be [racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/antisemitic/Islamophobic/classist/ableist/etc]." 🤡
Like, please, I'm begging you guys to invest in some basic standards.
This is what happens when we base morality on who does certain actions instead of basing it on that of the actions themselves.
here are my biggest gaming hot takes:
- no game actually needs to run faster than 30 FPS
- no texture needs to be bigger than 2k, and most don’t need to be bigger than 1k (save for megatextures). A good chunk should actually be smaller than 1k
- lower poly counts > high poly counts
Once you pass a certain threshold, it doesn’t even affect the style of the game that much, and you’re just using exponentially more power to get exponentially smaller results
Like, for example, the original Skyrim was 4 GB. The remaster is 22 GB. That’s five-and-a-half times more space for the exact same content! The graphical improvements are honestly negligible, especially when you consider the massive leap in storage and RAM used.
These sorts of things just hit diminishing returns so quickly— My eyes can’t tell the difference between 1k and 4k textures.
We have so many fun ways to get the maximum mileage out of every pixel and every polygon. It’s sad to see those techniques slowly trickle away from big-budget games!
Even as storage space becomes less and less of a concern, there’s something satisfying about keeping everything as small and tidy as possible
Basically, there’s zero excuse for Baldur’s Gate 3 to be 150 GB when Skyrim is 6 GB
Fifteen years ago, the average file size of a big game was 11 GB.
Now, it’s almost 90 GB, with big blockbusters easily hitting 150 GB.
And this isn’t the difference between, say, 1990 and 2005. The games of 2010 are practically identical to the games of 2024 when it comes to content and scope. It’s the same stuff, just bloated to hell and back.
I’m curious what the stats are in this area of tumblr because in some settings I feel like my number is a lot and in others it feels like barely any. If you want you can put in the tags if you feel like your number is high or low to you personally
Now I know not all 3584 of you are telling the truth
once again, everyone saying they don’t believe the people saying 100+ could just admit they don’t know how to get bitches(gender neutral)
something that boils my piss about visa and mastercard and stripe and paypal unilaterally declaring themselves the final arbiters of what kind of legal business people are allowed to conduct is how much of their bullying is based on pure aesthetics. If you go through the retailer list of a certain specialty herb supplier, the stores that are dressed as legal highs and head shops have all got the banhammer but the stores dressed as wellness and lifestyle have the full suite of payment options available. THEY'RE THE SAME. FUCKING. BUSINESS.
It's the same with adult products, if you want a dildo from Horny Hank's Freaky Fuck Bazaar you gotta pay with crypto or bank transfer but if you want the exact same dildo from the Heterosexual Coupling Healthy Happiness Enhancement Emporium you can pay with paypal.
They don't even truly care what you're selling they only care how it looks. The image of respectable conformity matters more than the substance of the business and products. And actually I don't think anyone should have to meet arbitrary standards of what an acceptable storefront looks like to be able to draw a cartoon dick when drawing cartoon dicks is in fact perfectly fucking legal. You should be able to draw and distribute cartoon dicks in accordance with the law without being forced to dress your cartoon dick dispensary like a hot yoga studio, actually.
rosaries are just catholic stim toys
would yall like this more as an image?
It’s practically 2014 and you guys still don’t know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes
holy is the cunt that bears the bush
I deserve horns so girls have something to pull my head down with
Weeping with unrestrained joy at the aquarium because I saw a fish