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Why pay for video games when

1. Lots of free video games exist, and
2. The paid video games can be pirated

The answers are;

1. The free games and the paid games are not identical. There are differences between Genshin Impact and Breath of the Wild. However, both games are great, and both have their own userbase.
2. If the game price is reasonable, it is more convenient to buy the game than pirate it.

You can swap video games with literally any digital product, including porn.

I worked with a lady who did this all the time. She'd over hear words and just start using them at work and even with clients. She offered people "dime bags" assuming it meant "a small bag". She heard someone call a charcuterie board a "coochie board" and thought it was cute so kept saying it. She called her husband "Big D" because his name starts with D and the default icon her phone gave him was a capital D and she thought it was a cute nickname.

So his father dies and he asks his school for counselling and they respond by calling the police who lock him in solitary confinement and CPS threatens his mother with taking him away?

Norway's wealth comes almost entirely from their nationalized oil production

Motorcycle licences should come with an organ donor registration card

Could have said "Meet 'N' Fuck Kingdom"

The different boards of 4chan have vastly different cultures. The tech board isn't much different than what you'd find on Lemmy. It's filled with Linux and Free Open Source Software geeks who love to ~~interject~~ argue over the finer points of operating systems.

There was a poster on 4chan's math and science board who solved a previously unsolved math problem.

The video game board sometimes sings songs from games

A large scale protest against Scientology also started on 4chan.

The negative stuff you hear about 4chan almost always stems from the boards that have little to no moderation. The boards with moderation aren't much different than Reddit or Twitter. Actually, Twitter might be worse nowadays.

I'm vegetarian. Western food is so focused on meat that people often have no idea how to make a meal that doesn't contain it. My mother once asked me how to make a vegetarian version of Chicken Parmesan. So keep the tomato sauce, cheese, and spices, but swap out the chicken with pasta. Congrats you've made vegetarian Chicken Parmesan. I like to call it Spaghetti.

I appreciated your wall of text! Lemmy, and social media in general, are pretty terrible places for nuanced discussion. The system is biased towards short and vauge posts. As you said though, they can be a good stepping stone.

There's been more than one time that I've seen people arguing in a thread and decided I'd look up the topic to see who is right. In the end it doesn't really matter what people in the thread were saying. It got me interested in the topic and I searched out more reputable sources of information and hopefully I learned a bit!

That being said, there are also threads where people post insane takes. You really need to have a litmus test for whether or not a post should even been considered.

Known as the Doorway Effect. Our short-term memory seems to be situational, so moving to a new location can "reset" it.

I once had a chemistry professor who used to work as a senior drug researcher at a major pharmaceutical company. He often joked about how the company treated the monkeys used for testing far better than the PhDs. If a monkey suffered a negative reaction there was a major investigation. I'm incredibly surprised Musk can be killing monkeys left and right and hasn't been thrown in jail.

How cool is it that both black and white people can be MJ impersonators?