Do you just say “seven pigs” or “Pigs 7”? Or do you literally say “pigs” seven times?

Are there seven of them?

(Looked it up, there are five of them and they abbreviate it to “Pigs x7”.)

Yes, it’s been finished for a year or two. The last part drags on so much though. It did have a good ending despite how long it took to get there.

Anime has entered the chat.

Tokyo Ghoul. Amazing first season. Body horror, depression, and zombie stuff all rolled into one. Masterpiece. Season 2 came out ahead of the rest of the books and it sucked. Seasons 3 and 4 adapted the second book series, but they speed ran it and only hit highlights and it was confusing AF.

Promised Neverland. Also amazing first season. Thriller with children trying to escape an orphanage that has a dark secret (revealed in first episode). They had like 5-7 seasons’ worth of content and started to do a second season, but the funding (and creativity!) ran out so they speed ran the rest of the manga, and it was so bad, the directors had their names taken off the billing.

“Second season when?” has become a trope due to so many with excellent first seasons followed by terrible ones. Attack on Titan almost counts. First season was awesome, we called it Japan’s answer to The Walking Dead when TWD was decent. Second season took 4 years and sucked, but season 3 more than made up for it. Season 4, “the final season,” “the final season part 2,” “the final season for realz this time”, “the final season trust us we can see the finish line” and “the final chapters” sucked, though.

I thought Dead Man’s Chest was mostly as good as the first one, but after that — meh.

For the Pixel to be iPhone priced and also for it to be selling your data off the back porch, I want it to have at least as good of performance as the iPhone it’s price matched to. Being that much weaker and selling your data means it should cost a lot less. If your personal data, and their savings on chips are worth that much that they’re doing both, that should mean cost savings passed on to the consumer.

Pixel owners are being robbed twice. You might say it’s because you can use GrapheneOS, but only a very small number of Pixel users actually do.

If you don’t care about gaming, which is the most demanding thing our phones are asked to do, the Pixel could be a good deal for all around phone use. The other commenter is talking about Genshin Impact. Fuck Genshin Impact. My iPhone 16 Pro Max can theoretically play Cyberpunk 2077. And by theoretically, I mean the exact same chip powers the MacBook Neo, and that can run Cyberpunk 2077. That said, the A18 Pro SoC clocks somewhere between M1 and M2 on the Mac side, and A18 Pro is locked in with 8GB of RAM — it cannot support more. I have two M2 Macs (a Pro Mac mini, and a base MacBook Air), and while both of them can run Cyberpunk 2077… there’s like no pedestrians and next to no cars. And the framerate is ass and I have 16GB of RAM and more GPU cores (especially on the M2 Pro). So what a chip can do vs how it looks doing it… I’m just thankful I have the game on Xbox.

Honestly I have yet to see a game play better on a phone than a computer or console. The exception is games like Subway Surfers that were made for mobile, but most of those are gacha trash and ad ridden with no way to just buy the game outright and enjoy it.

But as for Pixel and Android… If you care about performance, I don’t see why you wouldn’t just get a base Galaxy S26. It’s cheaper than the Pixel and more powerful. And TouchWiz OneUI is really nice these days. Shit, I thought it was nice on my S3 back in the day — loved that phone. Whatever version I have on my S10 — I also have an Android phone, pocket computers are cool and I like variety — is nice. Even 7 years later, that phone still rocks (AND it has a card reader AND a headphone jack). It’ll be a sad day when I trade up — I also like the size. I do not think I’ll find an Android phone at 5.8", 1080p or higher, SD card slot, with a headphone jack. I’ll give up the jack but I want the card slot (ideally, if it’s a faster/better card format). Android or Android fork, I don’t really care, I’m gonna customise TF out of it anyway.

The left? The right?

Progressiveness is defined by embracing change, sometimes to the fault of change for the sake of change. Conservatism is defined by embracing tradition, sometimes to the fault of rejecting change that benefits society.

However, some artists are politically left, and they don’t like AI because they say it steals their work.

I do agree those who take a moral stand against AI are putting themselves at a disadvantage to those who use it. Not everybody who is opposed to AI is in a position that would be improved with AI use, however. So there is that.

In American politics, I see the president doing dumb shit with AI (such as making himself appear as Jesus and healing Jeffrey Epstein) but we all know it’s AI and most people don’t take it seriously at all.

the physical media only containing some of the game files, requiring a download to play

Fallout 4 did this like a decade ago (and probably wasn’t the first). It came with a DVD that had like 5GB of data. The rest had to be downloaded.

It was a fucky situation because those of us who bought the Pip-Boy Edition but had slow Internet couldn’t play the game on day one, we had to download the whole game when we got the game in the mail. People who paid far less for the digital version were able to preload it and play on day one. I found a torrent for the preload (not the game and not cracked!) and put it on my computer. So when I put the DVD in and entered my code, it went to download it, found the preload, and just signed off on all of it, and I was off to the races. But that wasn’t how Bethesda intended for me to play. They intended for me to have to wait for several hours or the next day to play the game I paid for.

So yeah, nothing new there.

Source: guy, but married 20 years, and I have sisters and nieces

1. Not as much blood comes out as you (probably) think.

2. Tampons absorb most of it from the uterus, and very little if any gets past the tampon. Panty liners catch the rest.

3. The vagina isn’t just wide open all the time, it’s a “potential space” kind of like a deflated balloon (I know, not flattering). It’s getting “inflated” as it were (balloon analogy) as the blood enters the top/back of the vagina from the uterus, but the tampon is absorbing most of it. In ideal conditions, the woman (or girl) will change it before it gets fully soaked — that’s what the absorption rating is. Girls learn real quick how much they need as the flow changes throughout the cycle.

Disclaimer: still a guy and sisters don’t tell their brothers much, wives don’t tell their husbands that much more.

Bonus: Think about how often you actually swim. Most people swim very rarely, so it’s not an issue that comes up a lot.

When I was a teenager, I was swimming with a girl who got her period (not her first) while we were in the water. My best friend’s sister. All of a sudden a pool of blood came up. I thought she cut herself or stepped on something sharp and I went into first aid mode, started moving her out of the water. She pulled me close like she was going to kiss me, but whispered, “I just started my period, get my mum.” So I did. Let go of her immediately (she was fine, did not need my help) and went and got her mum. It was all good, wasn’t awkward or anything. I think she was 12, 13 at the most at the time, and she was real mature about it. They usually are if you just treat them like people. I saw blood, my mind went to injury, not menstruation, and that’s basically all it was.

Me, personally? No. I’m also good with handling and preparing raw meat. I use gloves, or I wash my hands, but I can butcher some meat and cut it how I want it, it does not bother me in the least.

Cooking the meat? Not at all.

First, YSK that doctors’ offices overbook patients. Most of the time, the doctor takes less time with you than he schedules. He’s got a lot of people to help (and money to make). But if he’s not helping you, he’s not your doctor and it’s time to find another one. If he checks you out, gives you a prescription, and sends you on your merry way and it works, don’t feel dismissed, he did his job efficiently.

People who break appointments cost the office money, so I get where they’re coming from. It’s still bullshit. If there were more doctors, the load would be spread more evenly and they wouldn’t do that, but there aren’t (in many areas) so that’s what you get. Not that it’s fair.

One time, my wife waited 4 hours to be seen by her doctor. I waited for an hour with her, then I started feeling unwell, so I walked home (only about a 20 minute walk, and the breeze felt awesome). She was there from 9 until noon, when they went to lunch. They all went out to eat at a nice restaurant while my wife waited. When they got back an hour later, they saw her. I thought that was messed up. But my wife likes her doctor and stayed with the practice. Couldn’t be me. I give it half an hour tops.

As for me, I usually arrive at appointments five minutes early to on time. Usually have to wait no more than 15 minutes. AirPods are great for this. “But what if they call your name?” iPhone has a feature where it will listen for your name. You don’t even have to look at them. The music dips, you hear a ding, you look at the phone, and it says “Urgent message: Maybe heard (your name).” You have to tell it your first name, your last name, and anything else you want it to listen for. This also eats battery because it’s listening constantly — this is something you would not leave on all the time. But, I figure everyone’s got a charger in the car, so it’s no big deal. As for Android users… there might be an app for it. I dunno. Android absolutely wins when it comes to customisation of the home screen, but iPhone wins on accessibility features. There are, like, hundreds in there. One I use (and it came in clutch after having some oral surgery) is personal voice, where you can make it talk for you in your voice. It’s a parlour trick until you need it, then it’s indispensable.

Yeah, I kinda wish the Xbox One didn’t exist, too. I get what you’re saying though, that stripped-down version of Windows isn’t something you can get outside the console. Still, you not being able to use it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It’s still a fair thing to test against. Windows as a consumer grade OS isn’t really meant for gaming. Xbox is Windows stripped down to what’s needed for gaming. You can configure Linux to strip down for gaming, so why not compare apples to apples?

You’re showing people doing an activity that requires people to hold their arms up over their heads for extended periods of time. That’s uncomfortable by design. Some humans do enjoy working. Especially if they can do so comfortably with people they like and/or with some good music on.

Ostensibly, the one with less overhead. Part of the dream of DirectX was a lite statement that could focus on gaming — that ultimately became Xbox. So look at an Xbox One (not Series!) and run Linux on similar hardware (no SSD!) and see if you can beat it. I think it can be done but I’m not sure.

You’re welcome! I was an older teenager when the worldwide web started taking off in '94 — is that what you mean? A lot of people associate the Internet and the WWW, but IIRC the first email was sent in the 1960s. I’m getting old. Sometimes I feel old, sometimes I feel young. As a gamer, I try to stay current with tech, but while I like some modern games, I’m having so much fun catching up on 360/PS3 and 3ds era gaming. Like my wife got Animal Crossing for the Switch, but I’m enjoying the 3ds version more. It’s a bit older, a bit uglier, my girl has hair like Claire/Molly Ringwald in Breakfast Club, but it’s okay, I’ll unlock the hair salon eventually.

I think there’s a guide. I follow them on Telegram and they post whenever they add something (with a direct link to the coordinates). Lately he’s been working on the flea market area with Link and Zelda.

Of course!

Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/

If they had guts they’d put the games on Mac and Linux as well to support players moving away from Windows… but they don’t.

Money. Cigarette ads were justly banned. The Marlboro Man and Joe Camel were iconic brands. The latter was designed specifically to encourage kids to smoke. As a kid, I thought Joe Camel was cool as shit. I didn’t want to smoke because of him, but I liked his vibe. (It wasn’t lost on me that his head was shaped like a penis; that was an intentional design choice, but he was still a cool dude.) That said, when I turned 18 and I tried smoking, I bought a pack of Camel filters, but that was because it was my mom’s brand. I tried like two. Decided it wasn’t for me. My mom’s only beef was that I bought a hard pack — she always bought soft packs. I never got that. Anyway, she got 18 smokes for free, and even back when they were $1.50 a pack, that was a heck of a deal. (Fortunately she did not make me chain smoke the rest of them. I learned my lesson. Plus, I was 18.)

Honestly if you’re over 40 or 50 and you’re using it yourself and not sharing it, I think you should be able to legally do drugs regardless. At that point you know well enough what it will do and should be free to decide.