wizardbeard

On mobile I use Youtube Music Revanced to get Youtube Music for free with no ads. Every so often I'll add the new tracks I've liked to a playlist and download that with ytdlp for local play.

At some point I'll get the *arrs set up to replace the shitty yt rip with higher quality.

This isn't a method to access any paid content for free. At "worst" it's an ad blocker.

And before you come up with some other shit, I'm from the pro-piracy lemmy instance. I don't actually care if I hurt Google, and if I want to support a creator then pretty much any other fuckong option than giving them more ad impressions on youtube will get more money to the creator. We're talking like 10,000 ad views for a few cents. It's not worth it, and the majority of creators I watch actively endorse ad blocking.

It's only a thing if you leave smartscreen on. Think it might also only apply to stuff downloaded through Edge, but don't quote me on that.

It's also important to bear in mind that at early ages, conversation doesn't really work. You still do it, because eventually it will sink in, but a certain amount of it is more for the parent than it is for a toddler.

My daughter is two and a half. She's better than I expected her to be about listening, but if she's already tantruming it's usually less distressing to her to just say no. Gives her less to fuss in response to.

When she's calm, depending on a number of factors we might be able to talk her through it. We always try. But we're also going to be talking her through it countless times until she gets it.

Texts, teams messages, etc seem to cause people to try and speak in single sentences

Oh my god this. I've gotten some well natured teasing from co-workers about taking a while to type multiple sentence teams messages (they'll see the typing icon in the full team group chat), but when the alternative is a back and forth that doesn't need to happen, or them having to wait a few minutes from first message until the idea is complete, I think it's the best approach.

Everything in the world of these people needs an overdrawn explanation and story of creation and meaning and it makes me want to projectile vomit on or near them.

If you haven't seen the Pepsi logo redesign doc from 2008 or 2009... well I hope you haven't eaten anything recently.

It starts off doing some weird stuff with circles, the golden ratio, and old pepsi logos, slowly building to a frankly cultish crescendo of absurd marketing wankery.

Maybe spend a few minutes searching before throwing shade. Cynicism's easy. Here's what I found in about 3 minutes:

He founded the marine research non-profit Inkfish, and a custom yacht building company OceanCo that builds ships for it.

Depending on the source I'm finding that they have 3 ships/yachts in their fleet with a new one under construction, and the Leviathan has most or all of the normal luxury features swapped out for additional lab space, hospital, 3d printing and fabrication workshops. One of the ships carries a crew of 75 scientists.

Their mission statement includes the intent to share all their discoveries freely.

You can look up images of the ships. They look like what I'd expect of research vessels, not billionaire pleasure ships.

Additionally, I'm seeing that he also co-founded the "Heart of Racing" race team that raises money for childrens charities, he's donated significant money to pediatric ICU in New Zealand (where he lives), and also co-founded foundry10 which is "a education research organization that funds and develops programs to improve youth learning."

Again, I'm not saying the man's a saint or our friend. Steam has a very positive track record, he is putting more resources into philanthropic endeavours than many others in his position, and he's not crowing about it so much that everyone knows he's doing the philanthropic shit.

As others have said, is Gooey, is friend.

Lorewise he's made up of the same stuff as Dark Matter one of the big villians, but the power of friendship means he's friend.

Mechanics wise, he's player 2. If you don't have a real player 2, he'll be controlled by a basic CPU that mostly copies what you do.

I've heard there's also some cheese you can do by spawning him when you only have one health (negating the one health cost to spawn him) and then eating him to restore up to two health, but imo Dreamland 3 is better without cheesing it.

Unasked for advice: In Dreamland 3, the game that screenshot is from, every level (except boss fights) have some sort of puzzle in the level you can complete to get a "heartstar" from whatever character is standing on the last screen of the level. You unlock the true final boss by collecting all the heartstars and beating each worlds boss while you have all of them for that world.

As is Kirby tradition, the true final boss is horrifying.

Depends on the program. I've got a handful of that old on CDs that still install fine. Checked when I was backing them up to ISO. There's little bits of weirdness and unintended behavior while running them now, but they still install and run to a fairly acceptable degree.

That experience varies wildly though. Wine tends to handle things better and more consistently.

Become ~~ungovernable~~ incomprehensible

It's even better when you can't do most of the socially acceptable de-stressing vices due to health conditions.

My lungs are fucky with asthma, so no smonking or vaping. Genetically recessive liver issue that I hit the jackpot on means I can't drink, or have too much sugar, or long term it might just fucking fibros-ify my lungs. Short-term it gives me migraines, nausea, and exhaustion if I try to cheat it or forget. Leads to some really sucky times after holidays when I just eat too much dessert.

I'm not going to self harm. Body is enough of a mess without adding extra pain and scarring.

Jacking off and gaming it is then.

Isn't at least one of them actually a marine research vessel, run by a group he founded/funds?

I get that he's not our friend like a lot of people think just because his company is less shit, but he seems to have at least a crumb of his soul left.