For coffee: lower risk of heart disease, kidney disease, and type-2 diabetes. As well as lower risks for a handful of degenerative neurological disorders.
For tea: lower risks of some cancers, better regulation of blood sugar, and improved sleep quality.
https://www.webmd.com/diet/tea-health-benefits
Both also offer benefits to alertness and cognitive function, though that benefit seems to primarily stem from caffeine.
I would agree with you if they made caffeine pills in a range of doses. Though admittedly it’s been a while since I’ve looked into caffeine pills, I don’t remember seeing anything that less than 200mg of caffeine per dose. Which is a fairly high dose. Most energy drinks contain a little more than half of that.
This also ignores the fact that for a lot of people the act of preparing and drinking their beverage of choice is part of their daily morning preparation. That morning ritual is part of good sleep hygiene as it helps you transition into being awake and alert for the day.
Plus there are other health benefits to drinking coffee or tea that you don’t get from the caffeine alone.
If it means a return to random encounters, no absolutely not. There’s a reason I don’t go back and replay the older games even though I have fond memories of them. That reason is largely Zubat. Fuck you Zubat.
But also, aside from a handful of bugs and performance problems Scarlet/Violet and Legends: Arceus are the best the franchise has ever been. I’d rather they refine what they’re already doing and keep making things better rather then regress purely to appease someone’s misguided nostalgia.
I’ll believe HL:3 is real when it is for sale, purchased by me, and played in it’s entirety. And even then it might just be a particularly vivid delusion.
HL:3 is gaming’s dark matter. Until all other possibilities are definitively ruled out, it’s not HL:3.
Blu-ray is proprietary in the sense that companies have to pay a licensing fee to put the blu-ray stamp on their disc and officially claim to be a blu-ray, but is otherwise an open standard. DVD and CD are both the same way.
As for on-disc DRM, as long as it never touches the network, it doesn’t bother me that much. It’s still less than ideal, but it’s less of a problem when compared to online DRM.
As for GoG, I applaud their stance towards providing DRM free games, however they are still a digital distribution platform, and suggesting them as an alternative to physical media misses the point of the original post as an internet connection is still required to obtain the game.
It also ignores platforms other than PC.
Extreme tariffs are crashing the US economy right now by making it unprofitable for a lot of businesses to do business within that economy. It’s not a boycott if you can’t afford the product or if you can’t even buy the product because the company refuses to sell to you because they don’t think you’d be willing to pay the price they are now required to charge just to make a profit.
I absolutely want to go back to physical media. Preferably some sort of non-proprietary medium, like CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, or a USB connected flash storage device.
I don’t disagree with any of that. Except for the whole “vote with your wallet” thing. It’s pretty well proven that consumer level boycotts don’t work. Definitely do what you need to do to stick to your ethics and principals, I certainly will, but don’t expect to change anything.
If you want things to actually change, vote with your vote, because the only way to get things to change at a megacorp is through legislation and regulation. Although, at least in my country (the USA) even that seems to be essentially meaningless. I’ll still continue to do it for as long as I’m able, but holy shit our election system is broken.
I consider lootboxes and the F2P model to be a big part of what is wrong with modern gaming and I don’t think they’d be a thing or at the very least wouldn’t be anywhere near as prevalent if online functionality were required to be strictly optional.
Also, if a game publisher doesn’t want you to have access to certain content then they shouldn’t include it in the game files.
Depends on the details. If their crime hurt someone innocent (or had a high likelihood to) and it was intentional, yes.
If I’m likely to go down with them if they get caught, yes.
Otherwise, I ain’t no snitch and even if I were I don’t know anything about nothing.
I’m far from an expert on the topic, but I’ve worked around the military for a while, and have had some conversations with some more knowledgeable people about this.
Basically, it’s any kind of military work that isn’t affiliated with a government. On the more benign side of things that would be stuff like private armed security, the French Foreign Legion, or working as a contractor for companies that do physical pen-testing for military installations.
It could also mean working as a contractor for a group like Blackwater, where you are engaging in some likely shady military operations where the government wants some sort of deniability, which (IMO) crosses the line fully into the malign.
Yes. You’re supposed to use it anytime you’re about to turn or change lanes, including if you’re sitting in a turn lane at a red light or backing out of a drive way or parking spot.
Not doing so makes you a road hazard.
Sure, you could look at it that way, but an equally valid way to look at it would be based on human life spans.
Average human life expectancy is 72 years. Which is, conveniently very close to the age of the oldest video game (an implementation of tic-tac-toe from 1950).
Would you call a 14 year old human old? At that point they’d be ~20% of they way through their life.
My job’s unlikely to go anywhere unless I commit a heinous crime and I already live well below my means in terms of required expenses.
I’m probably going to be fine, but just in case I intend to increase my cash savings and stock up a bit on nonperishable food and other required household goods.
Other than that there’s not a lot of prep I can do.
“Sounds shitty, have you considered suicide?”
Younger me was depressed, pessimistic, arrogant, and very much so an asshole with selective hearing. He would only hear the parts of what’s happened that fit what he expects to happen.
And despite quite a few negatives over the last decade or so, I’ve managed to do pretty well for myself.
He’d probably also tell me to lift with my knees. I had to do some heavy lifting at work yesterday and now my back’s sore.
My recommendations are oriented towards people with a christian background, that said a lot of the ideas involved can be applied to religious belief systems as a whole.
Isaac Asimov’s guide to the Bible - an annotated version of the old and new testament that provides additional clarity and historical context.
The Skeptics Annotated Bible by Steven Wells - A version of the King James Bible with annotations written from an Atheist’s perspective.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - A book that walks through a lot of the logical fallacies, magical thinking, and cognitive biases that Dawkins sees in religious belief. As the title suggests the tone of the book is rather aggressive (which I think is a bit counterproductive) but if you can read past that there’s a lot of good information.
At least as I understand it (and there’s a good chance I’m wrong) there’s nothing in US law preventing a state from seceding. It was determined that the way the southern states decided to do it in the runup to the civil war was unconstitutional (and possibly treasonous? seditious? Something like that), but there’s no law saying a state can’t secede. It’s just that there’s no defined process for it and the only way it has been tried was determined to be wrong.
From what I’ve read on the topic, there is technically a way it could be done. The country would basically have to follow the same process as passing a constitutional amendment, just with an additional step.
So, not technically impossible just so difficult that it is effectively impossible.
I typed out the below as a response to you, then reread what you wrote. We might be making the same point just with different words. Hopefully I’m not coming across as overly adversarial.
I think most people on social media, including lemmy, exist in an echo chamber that amplifies specific views to the point that it becomes easy to think those views are much more broadly held then they actually are.
Changing the question around like you suggest might help some people realize that, but I also think that there are a lot of people who think that the views expressed in their slice of social media are actually indicative of broader trends.
I also don’t think I’m immune to this effect, but I do feel somewhat compelled to point out specific instances of it when I notice it.
Well, not on a modern Xbox. On the OG XBox however…
Basically the only games I want to play that have Denuvo currently are a handful of games published by ATLUS like Persona 5 the Royal and Metaphor: Refantazio.
I actually bought Metaphor, not realizing it had Denuvo, and then was just randomly unable to launch the game. After fiddling with some proton settings and reopening the game I got a very generic error message with a link to a website that told me I was locked out of the game for 24 hours.
I wound up returning the game.