Enlightenment is just realizing truths that go against assumptions that get programmed into us by the way we are raised into society. Meditation, I think, is a way to think neutrally about things, which can make it easier to realize those truths, because we can have a lot of emotional attachment to the untruths they replace.

I don’t really meditate myself (hence the “I think”) though psychedelics might have helped prime me for several enlightenments (it’s not just one thing). Enlightenment doesn’t really solve any life problems but make it way easier to navigate life emotionally by adjusting expectations and entitlements.

I suspect the mysticism added on to Buddhism was intended to address the existential dread about the certainty of death (the reincarnation stuff) as well as try to temper those that realize nothing is really stopping them from doing whatever the fuck they want to others if they either have the power for it or don’t care about what happens to themselves afterwards (the karma stuff).

Personally, I separate the mysticism from the philosophy, where I consider the latter very useful for living a happy or at least content life and the former fun to think about, probably wishful thinking, but no real way to know unless there is something after death.

I have artwork where she’s coming out of a teletubby’s teletummy.

Or bath salts. And in reality, Hyrule is normal and peaceful. At least until Link, tripping balls, thinks 100 years have passed while he napped and the world has gone to hell.

His quests to collect shit all over the world were given in hopes that he would come down by the time he returns, but Zelda gets some really good shit (she doesn’t have a hook up, she’s the ruler of Hyrule and has a fully staffed lab) and likes getting Link high on various substances, sending him out on “quests” then does meth and follows him around disguised as a ninja until she crashes.

Then she usually needs him to deal with the head chemist, Al, who likes to invent even stronger shit and tries to take over the kingdom as his alter ego, Ganondorf (or sometimes just Ganon when he’s too fucked up to add the “dorf”) while Zelda’s out on her Shiek binge. The castle guards are too wasted to know what’s going on and prefer to patrol the garden (so they can just puke in the bushes when they need to).

Yeah, can’t say I’m a fan of the ugly cartoons style.

To add on to this, sometimes it’s better to switch from the linux runtime to proton. Most of the time when I have problems with a game running, it turns out they tried to support linux but for some reason the compatibility isn’t there like it is with proton. At least I assume it’s compatibility because they had to have tested it on some systems at least.

It comes in two pieces, a bottom tray, and a grid that is hinged and has a handle. Then, to break the ice, you just torque the handle, which shifts the grid angle, forcing each cube to move and come free. Works best if you move the ice to a different container at this point but you don’t have to.

If you do a search for “metal ice tray”, it should come up in the images (to avoid linking an amazon image).

I like it better than the plastic trays for this. Both can be a pain in the ass but in different ways. Plastic trays can snap when you bend them (haven’t had one snap in half but I have had one snap some of the structural supports) and often the ice just settles back in its place after you loosen it and you need to “bounce” it a bit until the ice turns in the cavity so you can grab it. With the metal tray, it doesn’t just free the ice easily when you break it (though still easier than the bouncing game) and if you lift the grid part out, you’ll probably need to use a different container or just leave the grid off until you make new ice.

Any nutritional value to that biofilm?

Bet if they had to put it on discs they’d do a better job optimizing and the game wouldn’t be 200gb.

Isn’t this the reason for using hot water to make ice?

Though if you’re using a plastic ice cube tray to make ice cubes, there’s a good chance you’re bringing your own microplastics.

Source: got a metal ice cube tray and noticed that weird “old ice” flavour and subtle sheen on the drink surface as it melted is no longer there.

I will say that sliced real Cheddar is also pretty good on burgers. The texture is different, but it doesn’t ruin the cheese or anything.

“American cheese” is more like a product category than a description of any cheese produced in America.

Just like “Canadian bacon” refers to a specific cut/style of bacon, despite most of the bacon I (a Canadian) have eaten is the kind most probably think about when they think “bacon”.

I don’t think I’ve ever had French toast from France, or Italian sausage from Italy.

And if someone didn’t like Canadian bacon (can’t really blame them; don’t hate it but don’t love it either) and concluded that all bacon produced in Canada was shitty, I can’t say that I would care one way or another. Nationalistic pride never made sense to me. I don’t make Canadian bacon or other bacon. That’s Jim down the road (though don’t tell him I don’t love Canadian bacon).

The retail store the physical media was sold in would take $30 of that $60, going by the usual retail margins. Though they did also have to pay for the shipping and people to put the games on the shelves, take money for the games, and prevent people from just walking out the door with them. But the game publisher would only see $30 from retail stores or $40 from steam either way.

Also I bet the retailers had certain ad budget requirements before they’d even consider putting them on shelves.

It won’t be no one but clearly this platform isn’t (yet) a cesspool for it like other platforms have become.

Though it’s probably more strategic to acquire nukes first and then tell the world you’ve changed your stance on it. Though I suppose with all the spying, the big ones probably already knew.

On that note, it’s possible this is just one of the competitors deliberately breaking one. Not that a failed system isn’t plausible, but it’s just as plausible that one of valve’s competitors is trying to create FUD.

Time will tell I guess, but it reminds me of all the complaints about the radeon 5700 XT when all I saw was instability caused by my mobo thinking it could just enable PCIe (x+1) when it was only engineered for PCIe x (forget if it was 3 and 4 or 4 and 5), and it worked great after I updated the bios so it stopped doing that. It was hard to tell what complaints were legitimate and I was just lucky to avoid vs what was being amplified because AMD was getting back in the competition and nvidia didn’t like that.

You have to be a member of the secret photographer society before they’ll tell you. They are a secretive and judgmental bunch, saying things like “Hey! Get out of the frame, this is a professional photo shoot, not a photography tutorial. How did you even get in this studio? How would you like it if I randomly showed up at your job asking why you did the things you were doing?”

Turns out that last question is not a request for an info dump about my job.

Wait, they have jokes on the internet now!?

Firmware shouldn’t care what OS the CPU is running as it’s doing its own thing, running on an embedded processor of some sort on the device.

Though it can be used to lock out unapproved software if it needs an encryption key or relies on an undocumented interface they only told their windows driver writers about.

So I’m not saying firmware can’t be used to lock linux out from being able to use certain hardware, just don’t believe them if they try to play it off as they would need to write a special linux version of the firmware to make it happen; it’s a deliberate lockout either via encryption or by making the information needed to implement it proprietary.

Though at least the latter case could be reverse engineered, especially if you can sniff the bus traffic.

Sometimes you don’t even want to go on the date after post-nut clarity kicks in and you can save some money by just canceling.