I can totally see conservatives processing it that way.

You know how they are always looking back to the good old days when they may have had it worse but people unlike them had it a LOT worse? Well if you keep going back as far as they want to take things, to being ruled by nobles or royal families, taking a wife in her teen years was absolutely nothing. And true servants of God need not be limited by the laws of man or some bullshit.

Consenting adult males, however, have penises and cannot make babies. So it is an affront to fragile conservative sensibilities as well as fragile conservative gods.

impossible! I checked!

I watched the Steam Frame VR headset video of his, after not watching for a long time.

His voice was grating, sure, but the overall delivery was so much worse. He was like a cartoon character that couldn’t decide if they were doing an advertisement or a school report.

Oh I’m well aware, that’s why I threw in the part about needing to be utilized. Because even if the engineers are good with their finished product, some VP will eventually ask their director why the team’s output has dropped or why they have so many people for so little work.

I’m an engineer working on a new product right now. Fortunately we’re a small outfit with niche customers.

That’s one thing I love about FOSS, that the only stakeholders are the devs and the users. The goal is to make software that’s good at what it does.

When it comes to any tech company’s product, you not only have all the stakeholders that corrupt the end product, but you have giant teams of marketers, designers, engineers, and managers that need to constantly justify their existence and or be efficiently utilized at all times.

Honestly it’s like lesser version of enshittification, the tendency of commercial products to always be changing things.

I’d say it’s even more unique than a valuable competitive mistake/opportunity.

Valve has the chance to grow the brand and make a bunch of money and all the other standard goals for a company, sure. But they also have the opportunity to benefit the world in subtle but significant ways while getting richer.

A normal megacorp might not give a shit about that last part. But a company that is majority owned by one individual who is already a billionaire that looks like santa claus and presumably cares about his legacy and maybe even other people… it might just be possible!

Well, like any decent VR game there are settings to help with that. I’m pretty sure I used the teleportation movement the whole time even once I was used to it and didn’t get nauseated.

Getting used to it was a huge factor on its own. Back then, I had been playing so much VR that in the flying game Ultrawings (think pilotwings for VR) I worked my way up to where I was flying the stunt plane with full FOV and no anti-nausea measures enabled.

That whole article reads like he was a reasonably intelligent person who was born into a christian family. So he’s been conditioned to automatically see homosexuality as bad, and been educated in writing eloquent arguments to support his position, but he’s just aware enough to not take a stand and actually say what he thinks because that would get him in trouble.

Even just considering your snippet:

I’m pretty sure there are genetic dispositions towards different kinds of sexual behaviors and patterns—just as there are genetic dispositions towards such things as alcoholism, racism, elitism, etc.

This is just an opinion and the logic seems sensible. But why make the comparison to only negative traits and vices?

A genetic predisposition towards homosexuality does not make homosexuality a ‘good’ or a ‘right,’ or even ‘okay’ for some people.

Stating the obvious then referring to 3rd party opinions. Doesn’t seem to do much other than keep up the negative tone.

Just as with every other human behavior, a wider worldview must be used to judge the righteousness of a human action or behavior—including acting on homosexual tendencies.

Whoa, I agree! And using my view of the world and society at large I hereby judge that we need to lay the fuck off of people who act on their homosexual tendencies and focus on actual problems! I wonder if the author can say the same.

Also, I just want to point out and give a “fuck that” to the heavy focus on “choosing” and “acting” rather than simply existing. In my experience that is a very common step in the short process of dehumanizing somebody and mentally writing off their concerns and rights.

Dehumanizing somebody for a trait they were born with is obviously doable, but it is still a tougher sell for some people than dehumanizing a person for an intentional act. Even if that act didn’t hurt anybody or anything.

I’ll leave the whole train of thought of “how can you punish people for acting like the thing they were born as” as an exercise for the reader.

If there was one organization with the motive and resources to help develop an open phone hardware platform, Valve sure seems like a good contender.

C’mon Gabe, make a name for yourself in computer history. Secure a place in the history books next to Torvalds and Stallman rather than Gates/Jobs/Zuck types.

Make “steam compatible phone” become the new “IBM compatible PC”!

That has traffic-flipping vibes of the upgraded Agency Supercar from the game Crackdown. I like.

When I look at this announcement, the hardware is very exciting, for sure. But it is Valve’s dedication to Linux that really has me smiling. I don’t see three hardware devices to buy. I see two big proclamations for which the hardware is the message:

1. SteamOS on desktop! It seemed inevitable but it’s still great to see.

2. STEAM VR USING LINUX AS ITS TARGET PLATFORM?!?!?

I will grant that it’s very possible I buy all three pieces of the hardware, even though I like building my own PCs. I will also grant that Valve’s support for linux probably would not be what it is without the enshittification of Microsoft’s ecosystem. But in this world I’m gonna go ahead and accept the imperfect good news.

House of the Dying Sun is a space sim with a strategic map view in addition to piloting a fighter yourself.

It is so good in VR.

My 200 hour playthrough of Skyrim VR back in 2019 justified my headset purchase and GPU upgrade (gtx 1080, oooh, aaah) all by itself.

You rest your thumbs atop the 9/3 spokes, right in the corner where they meet the wheel. You grab the wheel starting from that position and you’ve got a good solid 9/3 grip across the equator of the wheel for safety and/or performance.

Your distance from the steering wheel matters a lot too. To check that you can put your arms straight out in front of you while in your normal position. Your wrists should touch the top of the wheel with your arms outstretched like that.

I heard these tips from some professional driver on a TV show. I think it might have been Tiff Needel on Fifth Gear.

Yep, and we recently switched out our old “air fryer” to replace it with a toaster oven that has convection and an air frying mode. But it can do toaster oven stuff like bake and broil pretty well, and with a wider tray than any air fryer basket.

Our big oven is pretty good too. It has a convection fan and various modes and whatnot. The air frying toaster oven literally duplicates functions it already gives us, but it’s worth taking up a large kitchen gadget spot just for the speed and efficiency including sometimes not heating up the house. (I’m in the US, air fryers and toaster ovens use 120V 15A outlets while the oven is on 240V 30+A.)

I think you guys may be using different definitions of what it means to act like a christian. If you disagree on that then you’ll just keep arguing past each other.

When you refer to acting like a christian that seems to mean acting christ-like, or at least striving to, which makes sense.

The other usage I’m seeing, and which is probably more prevalent in societal/political discussions, is that being like a christian means being lily the actual group of humans who use that label, which often has nothing to do with christ-likedness other than in name.

The juniors on my team at work have been productive as hell lately while we olds ponder over the more obscure runes.

I love this one because his voice comes through SO clearly when I read the text.

please tell me it says HEE on the back!

Yeah it’s right in the amendment:

Thou shalt keep thyself strapped at all times when around shady electronics. What will YOU do when your printer makes a noise you don’t recognize?