Half life 1 is fun and all, but half life 2 is a lot more fleshed out in it's combat, story, enviroments and mechanics. Plus the gravity gun has to be one of the most fun weapons in any game I've played. And besides there are some parts in half life 1 that were a bit rushed by valve's own admission, whereas the quality in the sequel feels consistent.

Black pen or Blue pen?

Coffee and Black tea mostly. I usually take a vending machine espresso when I can catch a break between classes, and tea when I'm home. I used to be big on hot chocolate a while back, but now I have this poor quality cocoa bag I bought that I have to finish and that's been dissuading me from making myself some.
I also wanna try out some different types of tea but I don't know which to pick.

It really depends on how good the character customization is and what the game is. I'll really try to make them look good/cool(If I have a specific personality for them in mind), try to make them look silly (But only if I don't care for the game all that much) or just not really bother. If there is a "canon" look, gender or name for a character I will usually pick that.

I think the funniest character creator choice I ever made was making a dark side character in a star wars mmo who was an incredibly normal looking woman. Because she would just say the most exaggerated psychopathic, megalomaniac lines you would expect from the usual intimidating SW villains while also looking like someone you would meet at your local book club or something.

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It's... An ice machine.

This is really endearing and kinda creepy at the same time... Endearing because, yeah, that is a 13 year old kid from 2006 telling us how to pick a username alright, but it also makes me think about the ramifications of just letting these kinds of software loose on the internet. When this technology has advanced like, even a year or less, would we even be able to tell which people online are real? I mean theoretically we can already ask ourselves that but this is obviously way more advanced than any twitter bot or blog-ad-revenue-farm active right now... oh well, guess we'll have to see lol

I'm currently studiying the topic, and if is of any relief the company turntin claims to already have a software capable of detecting AI written text. For multiple reasons, they have a very big profit incentive to sell this thing so you never know if it actually works, but you know.
Also, while AI text is at a point where it's nearly indistinguishable from human text (Almost every article I've read so far pulls the "We actually wrote the last paragraph with AI!" trick and it works every time), the core argumentation of it remains weak for anything other than simpke tasks. I would share more but I'm still in the early stages of looking stuff up and taking notes. But I can share some reasorces if anyone wants them.

Oh I was looking for a chill server to play this game in. Thanks for setting this up! I'm going to try it out.

I think your solution was good. We need to remember that the things we share can influence people, and the more problematic memes are just normal memes floating around the more people are going to be subconsciously influenced by them thinking they're fun "taboo but funny" opinions to have. I think deleting or commenting offensive and harmful things is a good step.

Oh I definitely get you, but instagram has an archive feature where you can remove stuff from your account while still archiving it for your eyes only. My question to myself at the time was more like, "Should I force myself to look at what I was like (good stuff and bad) or should I just delete the parts I don't like today?".

We've talked about browsers, we've talked about search engines, now I wanted to bring up: What browser extensions do you use, and which do you think you could recommend to others?
Here are some I consider indispensable:

uBlock Origin: A well know ad blocker that also blocks a lot of other stuff too.
LibRedirect: An extension that automatically redirects sites to alternative front ends, like youtube to individuous and wikia to BreezeWiki.
I don't care about cookies: Gets rid of cookie warnings.
Tab session manager: Allows you to save an entire session (i.e your tabs) with one click and then restore it later.
Simple translate: Allows you to translate bits of text or an entire web page.

I'm currently looking for a spell checker extension too, but haven't found any so far. Any suggestions?

I very rarely play online games these days, but I when I feel like it I usually play a source game. Like tf2, day of defeat source, half life 2 death match... These games are pretty fun, and the latter two are pretty light to run. I guess I also like those two especially because those games are almost 20 years old now and the community that remained is pretty chill, unlike most online games which feel overly competitive to me.

Searx is my go-to and it has a lot of advantages: It's Decentralized, privacy oriented, and is a metasearch engine (meaning it aggregates results from multiple other engines). But it has a couple problems. Mainly that it's hard to find a good public instance if you can't host your own. And sometimes those public instances will go down meaning I have to use something like ddg as a back up.

I just finished Pedestal. It's an incredibly good mystery/investigation game with very interesting themes. While there was one specific thing about ending 3 that irritated me, I still really liked it. I really recommend it. Especially because it would be nice to have people to discuss it with, the game is pretty niche and recent so almost no-one has played it.

I'm sorry if tbis does not exactly fit the question, but I faced a similar conundrum a while ago.

I used to run an instagram account when I was 13-17. It was a "meme" account, even though it never got more than 40 followers which really just gave me more of an excuse for posting whatever. At one point, I just stopped posting entirely and used the stories feature to post whatever thoughts were on my mind at the time with white text against a black background, kinda like an impromptu twitter.

My problem was: A lot of the memes or thoughts I posted in the earlier days were really edgy, problematic and frankly embarass me to this day. While I never intended to return to instagram, I wondered: Should I delete this account, or leave it? I mean, it was a HUGE part of me. It's the only place where I really got to speak my thoughts, the only place I had to vent, and to this day the only place where I came out as bi.

I settled on using instagram's archive feature, while deleting the more problematic stuff. Maybe I should not have deleted anything, but I guess it's done now. I guess the internet makes us face versions of ourselves that we don't like.


I come back to it sometimes. And you know what? Some of 16 year old me's jokes are still funny and most of his videogame opinions are still correct.

More options/ the possibility of using a custom hex code for your default text color? The options just seem really limited right now. Some more font faces could be nice too. I know it's possible to do it with markdown, but it would get annoying to do that for every post

If someone wants a reccomendation for android, I suggest Mull, which is a privacy focused fork of firefox. You cant ever be sure if they follow up on the privacy promise, but I can say that functionally its a lot better than the default chrome. Most of all in the way that it lets you install extensions such as ad blockers. Only problem for me is that due to a bug you cant put some searx search engine instances on it but oh well.