Bro gaming is social life.

Pretty recently.

When the majority of people I grew up respecting decided to use their religion as an excuse to participate in or support a terrorist attack, a lot of things started unraveling pretty quickly. Turns out none of them actually cared about what Jesus wanted, but rather what that news station said.

With so many of my old friends and church leaders telling me hate was the answer, the cognitive dissonance didn't have any ground to stand on anymore.

My understanding is most NSFW posts are hidden by default unless you are logged in; if you are just visiting that instance directly and aren't logged in with an account there and changed your settings to view NSFW content it's gonna look pretty empty.

Just finished Doom 2016. Runs smooth as silk, and the controls are great. Just starting Hollow Knight now.

It's a newer image file format. You could think of it as a "better" version of a GIF or PNG. It compresses to a smaller file size with better quality, so lots of sites are using it now to speed up image loading without sacrificing quality.

I got my PhD in engineering just fine. Had to push myself to make a few connections and meet regularly with my advisor, etc., but doing research was really well-suited to my hyper-focus tendencies.

However the opportunities I had tutoring/teaching did not appeal to me at all. I pulled it off, and I enjoyed sharing my knowledge and being the "expert" in a room full of freshman students, but I would be highly stressed all morning in anticipation, and then out of commission for the rest of the day.

So, I opted to move into industry mainly to remove the expectation of teaching regular courses and the dependency on networking to successfully claim grant funding and collaborate with other academics. (Also money)

Several autistic-spectrum friends also left academia but stayed in research in some form, and are doing really well. A couple stayed in academia. One is doing great, and the other basically destroyed his marriage due to the stress.

Probably depends a lot on the specific responsibilities of your chosen academic field as well as your individual point on the spectrum.

Yep, if you liked the author, Project Hail Mary by the same guy has very similar vibes. Optimistic scientist dude stuck in space using science in creative ways to save the day.

GitHub issue has been reported here for those interested: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1895

"Living fuels" as opposed to fossil fuels?

The one time I brought my journal with me to an event where I wanted to take some notes, my whole backpack was stolen, and I lost two years of writing.

Never again.

Illustrator supports webp for a couple years now.

I get along with Autistics better, but mainly because we cope with social situations in a similar way.

In my case, we play a lot of board games and video games. We can socialize without requiring smalltalk or eye contact. If there is no such activity planned, we don't get together, and nobody is offended.

Yup... This is why I went into engineering.

This art stuff is too far beyond my simple brain.

Here's one study Pennsylvania University https://web.sas.upenn.edu/...

Do with it what you will.

Tetris doesn't really have an end. It just keeps going. So this is a very specific crash where if you get far enough into the game, it can't keep up with the player any more. You "beat" Tetris by playing so well you make the game break.

This is similar to getting pacman to crash by beating level 255 at which point incrementing the level goes past what can be stored and the data gets corrupted.

Hm, interesting. I have been getting better at noticing the buildup to a meltdown, but you are right it's not perfect. I might ask my doctor if there is something similar I could have in in emergency. Thanks for the tip.

I wear my normal earbuds but just don't turn them on. Blocks out enough of the high pitches but I can still hear what's going on.

I gotchu. I read it literally the way you say at first.

This is exactly the kind of joke I make all the time which is what prompted my friend to ask if I was autistic.

I'd still call it a legacy game. While legacy games usually involve physically, permanently, altering the pieces, it's not required; just that previous sessions carry some impact over to the next. At least that's what I've seen.

I would say simply adding and removing cards from the game counts as a legacy mechanic, since at any time my copy of Oath is going to play different than your copy based on our play history.

Maybe "legacy-lite"?

Edit: seems the term might be "Fable"? https://boardgamegeek.com/...

Huh. I can't find a single book on here of the last 100 i have read. Is this all just self-help books or something?