The downside to infinite genders is a near-infinite (infinity-1) need to use the gender swap coffin.

The listed amount is actually an annuity that pays out over like 25 years. The base lump-sum amount is usually only around half of the listed amount. So a $2b win would only pay out about $1b in cash. And then that cash amount is heavily taxed.

You should almost always choose the cash option even if the annuity is a “larger” total, because the annuity’s rates very rarely beat inflation rates over the 25 year time period… So you’re better off just taking the cash as a lump sum and investing it in index funds and bonds, which will virtually always beat inflation rates over time.

But all of this is to say, it’s not quite an 80% tax rate. It’s more like 55%, once you consider the fact that the cash option is already only about half of the listed winnings.

My point was simply that EA will never release a new Sims game as long as they can keep expanding on Sims 4. They even outright said that they have cancelled production of Sims 5, to focus on expanding 4.

(The Sims, I’m looking at you).

It is 2014. I am twenty years old. I am booting up The Sims 4 for the first time. I find myself disappointed by the amount of content that is missing when compared to The Sims 3….

It is 2024. I am thirty years old. I am booting up The Sims 4 again. I have not touched the game for months prior to this, but I just spent $40 on the newest expansion. I find myself disappointed, but I feel like I need to play it a few more times to get my money’s worth.

It is 2074. I am eighty years old. I am booting up The Sims 4 again. I have not touched the game for months prior to this, but I just spent $700 on the newest expansion. The game now requires an entire 512TB drive. It takes 23 minutes and 41 seconds to boot up. My computer chair hurts my back.

Yeah, but people are getting tired of the soupmaxxing meta. I actually think the next meta is going to revolve around toenail clippings.

Solo Leveling has been straight heat so far. The manhwa is also very good; It’s one of the few comics that has a permanent spot on my e-reader (cuz comics take up a lot more space than regular books…)

Ross lived across the street, and Chandler lived across the hall. For Chandler, the difference between his own kitchen and Monica’s kitchen was 2 doors and about 10 steps. For Ross, it was only three flights of stairs. The only one who consistently lived farther away was Phoebe.

Plus it’s NYC. They’re not driving anywhere; They walk or take the subway. Even if Ross lived farther away, if Monica’s apartment was on his way to work, it would just be a matter of getting off at an earlier stop to pop by.

For every $10 earned, dues are usually $1.25

I think you forgot a 0 on that $10. If your union is charging 12.5%, I have a bridge to sell you.

Some folks have been saying that the photo and looped stream are being used by a stalker to impersonate her. No clue on the validity, but you definitely shouldn’t post the photo either way.

I’m a fan of live ladybugs for pranks. You can buy 1500 ladybugs for like $9. They’re intended for garden pest control. They come with some wet food inside the container, (which provides both food and water for them) so they can live in the container for a day or two after being delivered. And their instinct when you open the container is to fly away, because they naturally want to spread out and get away from where they hatched.

Quietly pop that lid open during a housewarming party, and they’ll be finding ladybugs everywhere for weeks. At most, they’re a minor annoyance. So it’s not explicitly harmful or destructive like some of the other options. If anything, they’ll actually help control more harmful pests.

Technology Connections: Deep dives into the random everyday tech around you. If you have ever wondered how your air conditioning or a traffic signal works, check it out.

Macho Nacho: Game console modding. Installing mod chips and software mods, explaining their benefits and drawbacks, etc…

Adam Savage’s Tested: Adam Savage from Mythbusters is a prop-maker turned machinist. He hosts a show where he does all kinds of tool tips, workshop experience, war stories from his time in the film industry, etc…

AvE: Machinist with decades of experience goes through tool reviews/teardowns, machinist experience, etc…

The Modern Rogue: Two certified idiots cover everything from attempted weapon builds to whiskey tasting.

Skill Tree: LARP’er tries to make his own gear.

Eoin Reardon: Traditional carpenter restores hand tools

Smarter Every Day: Scientist goes on a journey to learn as much as he can. He covers everything from nuclear engineering to why a frisbee is shaped the way it is.

Practical Engineering: Civil engineer explains how and why infrastructure is built the way it is. He covers everything from river dams to the slopes leading up to highway overpasses.

“Those kids” have already graduated college and are in the workforce. Computer labs got removed from my local schools in the early 2010’s, which was a literal decade ago. The middle schoolers (at the time when the computer labs were removed) have bachelors degrees now.

I call them Rubber Duck Managers.

There’s an old story about a website designer finishing a site. But they knew the approval for the site would need to come from one specific manager. This particular manager was notorious for changing things just to be able to say they contributed. Nothing could ever pass over this manager’s desk without at least one revision, because the manager wanted to be able to say that they had a hand in the project. They weren’t ever content with just sitting back and going “yeah, looks good. Ship it as-is.”

So the designer got the site looking exactly how they wanted it. It was perfect… And then right before they sent it off to be approved, they added a banner of spinning rubber duck gifs at the very top of the page:

The manager sent back “yeah, just get rid of the damned ducks before the site goes live.” By giving the manager a big bright “this needs to be fixed” thing to change, the designer was able to get the site they actually wanted. So if you’re ever dealing with a manager like this, be sure to give them a figurative rubber duck to “fix”.

Communist apologists. Nicknamed “tankies” because many would deny/defend things like the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Hungarian revolt of 1956, Czechoslovakian revolt of 1968, etc… Instances where authorities rolled tanks into town to deal with revolts, which caused images like this:

For a long time, communism’s first response to revolution seemed to be “send in the tanks to deal with it”, thus the nickname “tankies” for people who defended the practice. Lemmy has a lot of communist undertones. It sort of goes hand-in-hand with the “anyone can spin up their own instance and be their own admin” philosophy. The .ml instances are meant to stand for “Maoist/Leninist” so you’ll see a lot of tankies from those .ml instances… But some of the most prominent Lemmy devs use .ml as their home instance, so many instances are hesitant to defederate from them entirely.

It also means there are lots of disagreements about what “real” communism is. Discussions which would get buried on right-leaning (compared to communism) platforms like Meta or Reddit are up front and center on Lemmy. So you’ll see the word thrown around a lot here, especially compared to anywhere else. Because the only thing that causes more arguments than “left vs right” is “moderate left vs far left”.

Most of the leftists and communists at least recognize the evils that communism has enabled in the past. But you’ll inevitably get tankies with the “akshually it wasn’t communism’s fault, it was the individuals” every time anything slightly anti-communist gets brought up.

It’s a crossover joke about the Pixar movie Ratatouille and the anime Evangelion. In the anime, they pilot large mechs to fight aliens; The main character doesn’t want to pilot the mech, but is pushed into it because the leadership basically tells him “either you get in the mech, or we force her (the girl in the hospital bed, who he has a crush on) to get back in.”

Well part of it is that my distance is actually closer to 10km, whereas yours is only 6.6km. It sucks that highways entrench the need for cars, but they’re also extremely fast when the roads are clear. I can drive 70Mi/h (~115km/h) almost the entire way from my apartment to my job. So the driving time is super short in comparison to anything else.

This is my daily commute:

There’s literally no option for public transit, because I live near one rail system, and my work is near an entirely separate rail system. The two aren’t connected at all, so there’s no way for me to transition in between the two. Making a transfer between the two literally takes longer than simply walking to work, because the two closest stations are farther apart than where I live compared to my job.

My guess is because it doesn’t have a direct line to the destination, so you need to go all the way down to a station and make a bus swap to come back.

Like imagine you need to go two blocks south, from First Street to Third Street. But there’s no bus that goes north/south. So you go fifteen blocks east on First Street to the station, wait for your next bus, then come back another fifteen blocks west on Third Street in a new bus. Or you could just walk the two blocks south.

A lot of what you said was blatantly wrong. Original Gameboy carts were compatible with everything up to the NDS. Each new system up to that point only expanded compatibility.

In fact, backwards compatibility was one of the largest selling points of each new Gameboy generation. No need to ditch your old game library, you can keep playing them with the new console. No need to worry about carrying multiple consoles around, cuz the newest console always plays your current library on top of expanding compatibility. You could slam an original copy of Tetris (which came bundled with the original GameBoy) into a DS, and it would boot up just fine.

The first time they dropped backwards compatibility was the DSi, which didn’t have a gameboy port at all. IIRC the GameBoy Micro also didn’t support anything before the GBA, but it released around the same time as the DSi, so most players just ended up using their NDS to play anyways.

Then the 3DS was fully compatible with the NDS and DSi (at least, what few games actually existed for the DSi) library.

But you couldn’t play Advance games on the Color, which was why the Advance had that distinctive squatty T shape. The T shape was specifically to prevent you from jamming an Advance cartridge into a Color.