They used to be, but then again old forms of many things were more dangerous than they are now.

They’re implied, kinda.

I could see a show that’s basically kind of like Dexter, where a group of various kinds of queer people who lost their loved ones to anti-queer violence join a support group but then go Dexter-y and start tracking down and gathering irrefutable evidence of bigoted violence and then murdering the perpetrators.

Bigot: “What are you gonna do? Drown me in rainbows?”

Gay Dexter: “No.” *slits throat* “I’m not that kind of fairy.”

That’s just repeating the concept in the OP and ignoring my point. There is a value in the personal touch. Which would signal a better partner to you: a woman who knows you like to have food sometimes so she installs a vending machine in your apartment with all the options set to ice cream and the prices at 0.00, so you can always have as much of this one thing to eat, any time, any day, with or without her, as you like as long as you keep paying for power, or one who knows you like food, so she figures out what you like and dislike, learns recipes that she thinks will make you happy, spends time finding or growing good produce to make those recipes, and only when she’s feeling ill or burned out by work, reaches for the vending machine? The vending machine is always there as an option, but not wanting to use it is not just weakness. It’s often a desire to be the best version of yourself for your partner, not as a competition with the machine but a competition with the limitations of human language and form to express the inexpressible extent of your love.

I’ll take honest indifference over pandering lies.

Bread and circuses are getting expensive. The emperor’s throne is held by one who could never wield it’s authority with the competence and loyalty of the one who built it. What year is it again?

Because no one I’m seeing in these comments is bringing it up, there is something to be said for wanting to do a thing yourself. Sure, if the goal is just orgasms, shove her on a sybian and go play video games. It’ll be very efficient. However, if your goal is to engage in a shared experience where each of you is dedicating yourself to the labor of pleasuring the other in the most intimate way possible, even if it doesn’t result in an orgasm, then the vibrator is not working toward your goal. Look at oral. Almost no person is going to orgasm from giving oral. We do it as an act of love, giving pleasure to a partner without pleasure being automatically recieved. A vibe will make your partner cum whether or not you are there. The genAI of orgasms, a machine producing using raw electric power what a person would produce using skill and emotion. Using it doesn’t have the same demonstration effect. There is a special satisfaction in being the one who puts in the work to bring a partner to orgasm, and a special satisfaction that comes from being the one they are willing to put real effort into bringing to an orgasm. Which one matters more to you is subjective but this take is overly flattening while pretending to be enlightened.

There are rings to make that more convenient.

Uh… edited images are photoshopped. That’s kind of what that word means, despite what Adobe’s lawyers would like people to say.

Hmm. Insane is probably the best bet, rather than good or bad. The AI bubble is set to pop, but no one knows when it will because most thought it was going to repeatedly over the last year but it didn’t. The big tech IPOs are going to be devastating to anyone with a 401k. The possibility of a ‘super el nino’ year could be very damaging for North Americans. The shipping crisis has only begun to really hit so energy crises are going to be likely to hit important industries like food, possibly at the same time they are dealing with the input shortages.

Of course, the tech bros insist AI is going to make everything super easy and cheap to make at some point super-super-soon, so there’s always hope they aren’t full of shit, right?

Critics are cool. Snobs are pricks.

LLMs are not smart. LLMs do not know anything. They are token predictors. They are autocomplete with extra steps. Nothing about what comes from them is tied to the real world, just what text has appeared with what other text most often within a context window.

A pool of vomit at his feet.

An indication of available settings might help.

Gone With the Blastwave - a series of comics about soldiers trapped in the ruins of a former city. If you have some local areas with old abandoned buildings, it’d be a setting.

Wizard of Legend or Ziggurat - games in which you are a mage trying to complete a challenge to prove yourself worthy as a mage. Set up puzzles and challenges in some out of the way areas, maybe an NPC proctor to guide them through the tests, etc.

Receiver - A setting where you are a survivor of the Mindkill, an event that destroyed reality and left only those who trained themselves to be ‘Receivers,’ capable of retaining their identity in the face of obliteration enough to be reborn again and again to face the robots with guns sent to eliminate them, collect tapes that remind them of who they are and their training as Receivers.

Korgoth of Barbaria - Conan the barbarian but as a comedy

Stalker/Roadside Picnic - Books by the Strugatsky brothers. An event has created areas where the rules that govern reality no longer can be trusted. The stranger you meet might be your oldest friend, your father from before you were born, or yourself in a different hat. The path that runs East then turns left 30 degrees and now leads you Northwest.

Not exactly niche but there’s also ‘True Detective’ Something about a Lovecraftian detective LARP sounds cool if you could have some fun with it.

Coukd go take a wee in the middle of the night and ruin everything.

Then you would have incredible looking genitals, but still no one to show them to, and no guarantee they’d be as useful as they would be pretty.

Regardless of what some so-called expert out there might say the right course of action is, only you can say for sure. No one is better at being you than you.

Then why do I keep fucking it up, Dave?

Disney’s been trying. ‘Once More With Feeling’ is a whole podcast about the reboots. Did you know Disney remade Pete’s Dragon and The Shaggy Dog? I didn’t.

I have a hypothesis people seek out in fiction what is missing in their life. If everything is going well, people seek out cathartic drama. If everything is going poorly, they seek out cathartic resolution. Part of why people are so into things like comic book stories is how they usually have a clearly defined villain, problem, and solution, while much of our world right now doesn’t feel like there are any solutions to the problems, or the solutions are so complex people can’t understand them, or even the solutions seem like problems in themselves.

I tried installing Drauger before Bazzite but never got it to the point of stability before breaking it and moving on to try other things. (I know he put out a new version recently so I might pull something together to try it again to see if it improved.) Really, though, I’d say just go with Debian itself. Between Steam, Lutris, and Heroic, you don’t need to install gaming tools yourself much anymore, and if you are a fan of the Ubuntu toolkit, that’s mostly Debian. I’ve done a bit of gaming on Debian and never had any issue.

What are you having trouble with on Bazzite that you expect to be different on anything else, though?