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On one hand, we have Wilhelm - court wizard, politically savvy, intelligent, keeps a library of useful spells bigger than your mom and never casts the same spell twice in a day.

On the other hand we have Chad Thunderballer, international man of mystique, thrower of nearly infinite lightning bolts, wielder of the forbidden school of Metamagic, slayer of dragons and thots alike. Unless that dragon is blue or bronze.

This is more or less the concept behind CBT

My brain knows that this stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is a wonderful and essential tool for lots of folks the world over.

My heart says the internet has damaged me.

Landry from the game Tyranny is one of the best examples of scholarly Bard I've ever come across. That game was underappreciated.

And America had inflatable tanks during WWII to take attention off of real units. I love dunking on the Russian military as much as the next guy but this is just a good common sense move. The enemy keeps striking your targets? Install fake targets, make their lives just a little more difficult.

I don't know why this fucking image macro of Eminem throwing shit is so funny to me, but damn if it doesn't get me every single time. You could put any object in that frame and I'd laugh at it. I think I'm broken

I feel like the only person on the planet who just couldn't get into Dune. Tried reading the first book like three separate times but it never grabbed me. I found the Dune wiki to be interesting as hell, and I love Warhammer 40k which I know is pretty directly inspired by Dune, so its weird that I didn't like it but something about the way it's written just makes it difficult to follow for me.

Maybe I should try the movies... Sounds kind of blasphemous to me though, even if they are legitimately good movies.

Frankly I don't give half a shit what 4chan loves, personally, because 4chan also loves producing and distributing CSAM.

I think that's a good policy especially because it doesn't make the bigots feel any better. Fuck 'em. Mutual tolerance is a social contract which they have chosen to violate and are therefore no longer covered by.

Kanye had an absolutely killer music career before he went off the rails

He may have always been a little crazy but the man can write a song, I gotta hand him that, no matter what I think of his personal or political life

I remember hearing something a few years ago about some companies working on better tactile feedback on touch screen buttons, making them more "clicky" and feeling more like real physical buttons. Sounded complicated and I don't think anyone really did anything with it except for Samsung making the home button super clicky on my old Galaxy. I wonder if that will ever resurface, it seemed like a good compromise for folks who wanted real buttons.

And you might want to interact with the product you're bashing before you talk so much shit about it. I own a 4 year old Z Flip I bought secondhand two years ago and I love it. I work in a mechanic shop and this phone has been dropped on concrete many times, had tools dropped on top of it, had chemicals spilled near or on it, been caught in the rain, and besides all that I open and close the fold a couple dozen times a day most every day. I put the cheapest Amazon phone case I could find on it and to date, I have developed a nearly invisible hairline crack in the very center of the fold that you can only even notice when the screen is off, and one tiny crack in the corner of the front screen that doesn't fold. Whole phone is mint otherwise. It's been incredibly durable over the two years I've had it, far above and beyond what I even expected when I bought it. And being able to fold out the screen for reading or watching videos, or gaming, or comfortable texting, is excellent.

Your point is taken in that yes a flat screen phone won't have a folding hinge that will eventually wear out. But my phone has lasted me two years, after being bought used two years after its release, and I expect an easy 3 more before I end up replacing it so long as I don't drop anything too heavy on it. I consider that a fine lifespan for a modern smartphone. I'll probably never go back to a slab phone unless I don't get a choice when the time comes for a new one.

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