Get the best of both worlds with a slide cornet! …basically a trumpet that you jack off instead pushing buttons.

In case you haven’t seen this gem:

https://youtu.be/ZXpETSoNWxY

Same way any other free game is free, even when they come with a financial requirement. Every single free game on Steam requires a computer - the game is still free even if the computer isn’t.

If you pay for Skyrim, you pay for Skyrim… you can then get Enderal for free.

Either way I’m sure it’s patched

It’s come a long way, but ultimately it’s built using Skyrim’s blocks, so stability is definitely not its strong point.

Advice is to save frequently - not just quicksave, but a hard save that won’t get overridden. Soft locks do happen if just right thing fucks up, like a quest item clipping through the floor.

Also command console is your best friend.

Full pitch in the linked comment.

Speaking of, @StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world, did you ever get to dive in?

Add “completely free” to the list and you’ve got Enderal.

Just dab it with some bacitracin, take some ibuprofen, and get some sleep. You’ll be fiiiiiine.

IIRC, someone did the math on something like a major surgery… in the US, if you have really good insurance, and don’t run into those nasty surprises like some out-of-network doctor poking his head into your operation and asking if the main doc needs his ass scratched (which appears as roughly $13,000.00 on your bill); but if everything goes without a hitch…

…it’d still be like a quarter of the cost to just fly to Europe, have the operation done there, hang out there for two weeks in a hotel while you recover, food, gas, etc, and then fly back to the US.

🎶 and the laaaaaaand of theee feeeeeeeeeeeeee 🎶

…no, that wasn’t a typo.

I seriously doubt it was broken if you thought it was “fine”.

Not common, but that can definitely happen, especially if it’s only a partial fracture. I’ve had a few broken bones myself, and I’m with you: completely debilitating pain, zero ability to do things like hold weight.

I worked with a nurse that got fer foot rolled over by a patient gurney near the end of her shift. A few f-bombs later, and she limped her way to the locker room, changed, and went home, saying she’d surely be fine after some ibuprofen and sleep.

Next day she limped her way through an entire shift.

Then another entire shift. All the while we were joking at her about like breaking her spine then continuing to carry the groceries inside, shit like that.

…day three she shows up on one of those kneeling-scooter-things and a bulky splint on her foot/lower leg. Looks down all sheepishly “It was still hurting, so I went to urgent care. They x-rayed it… y’all were right: it’s fucking broken!” …fucker worked two shifts with a spiral fracture on her 5th metatarsal. She said it just felt sore.

Either she’s a badass or I’m a little bitch (bit of both maybe), cuz I’d have rode an office chair or something all the way to the ER immediately after that first incident if that was me.

Can’t be that bad, can it? I mean, pasta + cheesy cream sauce is a pretty tried and true combo.

Points for experimenting at least.

I’d try it.

But in reality

In our reality. That god created, right? You don’t need to explain how things are now - I see it every day. The question is why god would have made it that way.

Your post basically amounts to “god isn’t all powerful” if he’s bound by those same constraints we are; or “god isn’t all good” if isn’t bound by those constraints, but chose a system in which freedom includes evil. So which is it?

That’s a good illustration of how free will could exist without evil. Neither pizza nor burger are evil: we can choose either without compromising our spirit.

Now imagine a third meal - your neighbor’s 2 year old kid strapped to a table next to a fork and knife, screaming for their life. You have the option for the prior two; or you shove a fork in that kid’s eye and dig in.

The absence of that third option does NOT equate to a lack of free will. Giving people that option is evil. Why would god give us that option?

So what’s his barrier? Does he lack the power to create free will without evil?

Guess they don’t fuck around with religious puns despite having two classes that are heavily religion inspired. 🤷‍♂️

I had a paladin on WoW named Buddychrist, way back in vanilla.

Iirc I only got to level 15 or so before someone reported the name. I got a 2 day ban and a mandatory name change on that character.

Giving random players a buff macro’d together with /thumbsup never got old!

The theological answer doesn’t hold up. We have a god that’s supposedly all knowing, all powerful, and all good (complete absence of evil), yet he turns around and creates a world full of evil. So he either isn’t aware that evil is happening, is powerless to stop it, or is himself evil.

If there is a god, the Christian presentation of it is at the very least dishonest about the core pillars of what that god is - and if it can’t even describe its own god honestly, I certainly don’t trust the rest of the mythology.

The theological answer, by its own text, a lie.

I always take call on Halloween so my coworkers who have kids can go out and have fun with their family… This bums me out on their behalf.

Are prices at places like Costco still decent? Or those restaurant supply type stores? Or some mythical product that isn’t candy and won’t be soul-crushing to a kid expecting candy?

Me to my family: waste money on a coffin for me and I swear to fuck I will haunt your dumb ass. Donate my corpse to science and move on.

Have a potluck in uncle J’s backyard in my honor if you really need some kind of ceremony. Fuck funerals.

Don’t panic; open fire.

I think it comes down more to understanding what the tech is potentially good at, and executing it in an ethical way. My personal use is one thing; but Speechify made an entire business out of it, and people aren’t calling for them to be burned to the ground.

As opposed to Google’s take of “OMG AI! RUB IT INTO EVERYONE’S NOSE, THEY’RE GONNA LOVE IT!” and just slapping it onto the internet, and then pretending to be surprised when people ask for a pizza recipe and it tells them to add Elmer’s Glue to it…

Two controlled inputs giving a predictable output; vs just letting it browse 4chan and see what happens. The tech industry definitely seems to lean toward the later, which is fucking tragic, but there are gems scattered throughout the otherwise pure pile of shit that LLMs are at the moment.