Early humans already had mountain streams, which are refreshing as fuck in summer (or year round for the tropics, or winter for south africa). And Africa is actually pretty mountainous, it’s kind of an issue for infrastructure development.

Yes, I thought it made more sense this way. Bit of a bad habit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ‘edited’ indicator on Lemmy.

Are you Australian or just that freaky?

I mean, it’s winter sometimes.

The graphic includes long pants as an option - when it’s cold enough to wear long pants, it’s definitely cold enough for long sleeves.

You people sleep in tshirts instead of longsleeves?

IDK about you, but if I became a vampire, got 150 years old without visibly aging and recovered from severe wounds without medical assistance I would probably consider myself ‘immortal’.

I usually have a good time with isometric fantasy rpgs in the vein of Baldur’s Gate. They don’t really have grind, the world is generally well-filled with a relatively dense story and interesting quests (denser than Skyrim at least), and if the game becomes too hard you can turn down the difficulty. Though you do need to actually be interested in the combat mechanics (which are much more complicated than e.g. in Elder Scrolls games) to really enjoy these games, IMO. One downside is that these types of games are usually really long; I’ve dropped a couple of them halfway because they overstayed their welcome.

Some examples:

• Baldur’s Gate 3 (don’t really need to have played 1+2 to enjoy this one, though they’re still very good)

• Divinity: Original Sin 1+2

• Pillars of Eternity 1+2 (2 has much better combat, but the first one is pretty important to understand the world)

• Tyranny (this is a relatively short one)

• Pathfinder: Kingmaker 1+2

For more Skyrim-style games, I really enjoyed the Gothic series. I think their level of grind is about the same as Skyrim (probably a little less, but it’s been a while), and if you can get past the outdated graphics of the early titles they’re quite fun. Especially the dialogues, they aren’t as serious as Skyrim’s.

trigger happy police drones - I Can’t Believe It’s Not A Real Cop ™

Probably contains “AI”, though.

I know some basics from learning electric bass, but don’t ask me about chords (beyond major and minor) or chord progressions. I’m definitely aware that this is a huge blindspot even for electronic music.

Sex AND getting free labor? Move aside girl, I’m gonna date that handy(wo)man.

TBH for me, between the sales and the Linux compatibility it’s still worth it even if I’m effectively renting the games.

That’s not great, but it’s not ‘company thriving under a very literally fascist regime’-bad.

Steam being a US-based company kinda put a damper on my willingness to shell out the moolah for games I might not even play …

Traditional search engines like Google can already do that, though.

Best time to access that website is when it’s daytime in Spain, BTW. Though this is probably not a huge issue this close to midsummer.

I think there has been a certain amount of cultural change in the rightwing - used to be they just considered themselves the status quo upholders, the ones who were subversive were hippies, educated-but-not-rich city-dwellers, artists etc… Now that more progressive forces became somewhat mainstream and the rightwing radicalized, major parts of the rightwing have adopted a more subversive identity and messaging.

Alternative rock is fine.

In my language, ‘alternative’ is somewhat synonymous with ‘progressive’ (though we still have the bullshit meaning of ‘alternative facts’, ‘alternative medicine’). Is that not a thing in English, too? We rarely have an original thought when it comes to words like this.

Fair. There are a lot of bands that usually have a completely different sound from their popular songs (which can be pretty disappointing when you like listening to albums).

‘pop rock’ seems appropriate.