There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus – and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it – that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

Mario Savio

Might I suggest a nation wide Mario Party?

Luigi already set up the board!

[Raises Hand]

… but you don’t have any lips.

I think they actually use a setup of basically … something like minature subwoofers, but I’m not 100% sure of that.

… Wow, you’re serious.

Uh, because it engenders a whole bunch of deep emotions / massive and unique neurochemical responses in people, particularly it plays a massive role in regulating oxytocin, and plays a considerable role in creating stable pair bonding between two people.

https://mindlabneuroscience.com/brain-chemicals-during-sex/

I’m genuienly baffled that you need this explained to you.

Apologies for using shorthand to refer to a whole bunch of complex neurochemistry, I’ll be sure to spell out the details next time.

Ah, you’re correct!

It quite literally fooled me, but you are right.

I guess worth noting for Steam newbies:

The trackpads can be configured to act as basically any possible kind of input.

You can break them down into 4 way buttons, 8 way buttons, 2 buttons, one button… make them work as a joystick, or as a mouse… they click in a bit at multiple points…

So, if you prefer a different kind of thumbstick orientation, you can basically emulate it.

Literally all of the buttons on one of these things can be reconfigured to do a whole bunch of crazy shit, you can make macros, you can make it so that a little hud popup with scrollable selectable options pop up, you can make combos of key presses do different specific inputs, you can make a turbo function… etc.

Hell, you can make the gyros act as a mouse/joystick input, in several different modes, maybe only when you hold the aim button down, if you want that.

Anything you run through Steam can be made to work this way with the Steam Input system they invented for with the Steam Deck, the Steam Controller 2.0 is basically a shrunk down Steam Deck without the PC and screen.

EDIT:

There is also an onscreen keyboard functionality, which pops up a keyboard overlay, and then you use both trackpads as basically two thumbs on a smart phone, sort of.

So, if you’re playing a game that is 99% controller input, but has a few UIs popups where you get prompted to type in your name or something like that, or I guess even a chat box in an mmo, you can handle it with this.

Also also: Most/Many games come with preset default Steam Input layouts made by the developers. Also, Everyone who uses Steam is capable of basically uploading their control schema for any game to the cloud, and then you are capable of grabbing it and using it.

So, with some games, the developer provided inputs are good, sometimes users develop alternate schemes that are actually better/quite popular, or, maybe you could be the one to make a better config that people like!

I mean, arguably… it isn’t a D Pad if its actually seperate buttons.

But anyway, with the Steam Deck, which the Steam Controller 2.0 is basically a scaled down version of, that doesn’t have the whole computer and screen… you can at least get after market uh… contact boards?

I’m not sure of the term, but like the internal platter board thing, that the dpad/abxy buttons actually physically connect to, with the trigger/switch mechanisms.

For my deck, I got a kit that replaces the original ones with ones that are much ‘clickier’, like a mechanical keyboard as compared to a membrane keyboard.

It has more tactile and also audio feedback, beyond just being more responsive… that was like $30 bucks or something?

For a while, it was the case that to do this kind of mod, you’d have to do your own solder, but I waited and eventually somebody in China somewhere started making ones that are pre-soldered, and just require an appropriate screw driver and some dexterity to install.

So… if the Steam Controller takes off, I’d say give it 6 months, and by then something similar will probably exist for it.

Such are the consequences of unsheathing one’s sword!

Now, have at ye!

… such a manuever may be frot with peril.

‘Sacred’ has a more colloquial meaning, and is more broad than purely as part of a religious doctrine.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sacred

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a: unassailable, inviolable

b: highly valued and important

I also provided a secondary phrase after that word, with or preceding it, to specify what I meant.

… The DM would be God.

And the serpent would either be the DM by way of acting as an NPC, or be a vet player.

I mean genuinely yes, this looks amazing.

I might have to come out of hibernation for a meal like this lol.

Its like a terrible translation.

Suit up, get your shit together!

->

Shit up!

Assert dominance: Piss on the guard.

… Is Margot supposed to be a spiteful bitch?

She’s also just wrong. As a man, I can tell you that men are entirely capable of oogling your ass or even legs as you go up a flight of stairs, in shorts.

Or your feet, as Margot specifically mentions.

Also… who… is running up and down stairs near your house… barefoot?

This is how you end up needing a tetanus shot, or worse.

In conclusion, Margot is a stupid, mean person.

The actual figure drawings are pretty good though!

I’m not myself a fan of the ‘Disney Princess circa 201X+’ style, but it is well executed.

Also you have functioning public mass transit where you can have someone else convey your drunk ass to the other side of town, for little to no expense.

Uh, no, I don’t.

The entire origination of my critique was against the claim that monogamy is unethical.

Thats… what started the entire thing.

You are confusing a subtype of monogamy with all possible variants of monogamy.

You’re describing patriarchichal, state/religiously sanctioned and ordained marriage.

I’m describing two people who are just having a relationship with each other, who discuss and agree to how that relationship works.

Doesn’t have to involve religion or even the state.

Just a commitment between two people, none over the other, both as close to equal as possible.

I’ve gone to significant lengths to explain how yes, monogamy is often formalized in a fucked up way… but it doesn’t have to be.

I keep saying that actual literacy is a required prerequisite to media literacy… pretty scary how many people functionally can’t read these days.

All that complicated logic should in theory apply to all those relationships as well, but it does not.

It does though.

Your friends could say they don’t like your partner.

Your partner could say they don’t like your friends.

Your partner could love or hate the idea of you fucking one of your friends, etc.

When you involve sex and/or deep commitment as a partner, like, a life partner… emotions and condiserations get more complex and of greater magnitude.

So… the more people you are partnered with, the more people there are with strong and complex emotional considerations going all ways.

But anyway, none of this addresses my original critique:

You have not demonstrated that broadly, monogamous relationships are unethical, de facto, 100% of the time.

I don’t think nonmonogamy nor monogamy are inherently, de facto, all the time unethical.

I just think that nonmonogamy is more difficult to do ethically.

You said monogamy is unethical.

Do you still hold this view?

If so, why, for what reasons?