Well, there is an OpenSource client, and private servers with custom rules. That makes every modification possible.

Crazy talk, and you’re onto something… that’s been solved already.

First part: you hate that a 10+ years old game is only getting cosmetic changes instead of a rehaul of the whole character model. That’s crazy, nobody’s going to do that, not the ones expecting a profit, and not the modding community doing it for free. If you feel it’s a silly change, you’re right, but realize that it’s the only change they could do.

You’re onto something: body feature sliders. Male, female, giraffe, and turtle bodies, have some structural differences, that however mostly match to the same bones having different shapes. The solution is a body shape slider, or 50. It’s something that existed, in some games, since at least the 2000s. Others were lazy and didn’t do it.

For reference of how far this could go, the following all have the same bones, only change in shape, size, and muscle placemen:

Games could have multiple protagonists with different bodies, genders, personalities, etc… something like Overwatch did have that, you could even play as a hamster or a robot!

I get that, I’m just trying to understand the difference between /them and /it in that example. I feel like “them” is more generic than “it”, so I feel like “them” would be a better fit in a space where it’s nobody’s business, the same as in a professional setting.

Am I mistaken or missing something?

Question: I tend to use they/them both when I’m unsure of someone’s gender or pronouns, and when gender is irrelevant to a given conversation. Does that also feel like a misgender?

(Disclaimer: I might be biased, because I feel more like agender, which means I’m more comfortable not referencing gender at all)

Why “they/it” instead of also “they/them”?

I was under the impression that “they/them” were the already established pronouns when gender is irrelevant.

“All these birds have to go” — Musk, shortly after the sink stunt

Looks like photo-edited AI? 😜

Put it all into a matrix I would love to see the population distribution across this table.

That would be an interesting thing to see.

However, biology is still learning about human sex. IIRC last year there was a cancer study that put in question a large number of biology studies in general… because many only focused on XY cell lines, to save time, reasoning that “if it has an X, and it has a Y, then all variables are covered”. Well, turns out that XX cells don’t use both chromosomes at the same time; instead, the genes from one of the Xs get inhibited via epigenetics… but not always all of them, or in the same way, and not always on the same X. That means some genes that didn’t activate in XY cells, sometimes would in XX cells, causing different mutations and reactions to cancer medication.

Well, you mentioned they’re photo-taxic.

☝️😯… 🤦😂

You can try a zapper, but the “partially” means they do react to light, but don’t go towards bright sources. Instead, they seek damp shadow during the day, then start flying during twilight in the general direction of the sky, looking for CO2 traces, and mostly stay put during the night, but occasionally may fly towards warm damp places emitting CO2, which usually means some animal.

The problem with insect repellents, is that they just temporarily move the problem, they don’t fix it. A silent natural repellent would be a citronella plant, if you don’t mind the smell. The fan trick is also technically a repellent, with the benefit that eventually they end up flying in circles until they die of exhaustion. There are “ultrasonic” repellers, but if you have good hearing, they might drive you crazy (they operate at 18-24KHz, I used to hear past 20KHz).

Now that I also have some tinnitus at a perceived frequency above 20KHz, a fan generates enough noise to kind of mask it, and it’s either that or playing some pink noise… so fan it is.

My father used to catch mosquitoes by just waiting until they landed to bite, then slapping them quick. The trick is to pinpoint them by ear, then move your hand to catch them when they jump backwards. That was a useful solution when sharing a camping tent 😅

Another supposed way is to build a “water, sugar, and yeast” trap in a bottle. It’s supposed to emit CO2, attracting the mosquitoes, then trap them in the bottle. Some assembly required. I haven’t had luck with that, though.

Uhm… what? 🤨

2024 - World population: 8 Billion.
1974 - World population: 4 Billion.

So, it would take us back to 1974?

There is another video from an earlier fight of hers, where she seems to fake an injury to end a combat.

Some other data points:

• She was personally greeted at the Olympics by Georgia Meloni, the current Italy’s fascist populist far-right Prime Minister
• The day before the combat, she tweeted asking whether it is fair for a MAN to fight a WOMAN
• After the 46 second combat, she said to have dropped in the towel because she had “never been hit that hard”, but it “wasn’t for her to decide” whether that was fair
• Then she changed the story to say she realized she wouldn’t win the combat, so she’d rather stop it
• Then claimed she didn’t want to start any of the polemic

The next in the classification, a Hungarian boxer, said that she didn’t care whether the Algerian was a man or a woman, and it was better for her if it was a man because she’s going to feel prouder beating him… and shared this nice meme, which she later deleted:

Heh. I’m from Europe, each summer vacation we used to travel around and save on hotels by going camping.

At Venice, and Milan, they had a bunch of the huge zappers near the entrance, to lure mosquitoes away from the camping area. We’d usually get back from sightseeing after sunset, and had to go straight through the mosquito clouds at their strongest. First time, my mom was talking… then coughing, then cussing. We made sure to kept our mouths shut after that 😁

Other places, they’d have space heaters on cafeteria terraces, turned on for heat on cold days, and again on, to lure and kill mosquitoes in the summer after sunset.

I also live on the ground floor, with some plants on the terrace. While cats tend to catch most of the pests, there is always a mosquito or two that manage to get inside. Sleeping with a fan set on low, blowing across the bed and spreading the CO2 from your breath away, is a surefire way to keep them from biting.

Mosquitoes are slightly phototaxic, like most insects, but they mainly guide themselves towards CO2 sources for biting.

Unfortunately. It’s the private place of choice for people to conduct shady business… all the way to US Presidents like Lyndon Johnson:

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/lyndon-b-johnson-penis

Get a fan. For any number below 10 or 20 mosquitoes, it blows the CO2 around so they can’t pinpoint its source. Above 20, space heaters seem to work wonders… and above 200, large zappers… but once upon a time, my mom choked on a mosquito near one of those, do don’t discard the flamethrower option.

Could be a chat or email trail. People nowadays often forget the difference between talking something over at the urinal, and writing about it in an app.

A more recent wording: the optimal strategy is to initially be kind, then tit-for-tat.

Redundant, like the server staff who told Elon it would take 6 months to move the servers… so he decided to move them himself on a whim… and it took 6 months to finish making them operational again?

Or redundant like the content moderation staff, whose redundancy has turned X into an even bigger dumpster fire?

Moderating and serving the content from 300 million users, worldwide, in near real time and no downtime, might seem like a simple task, but it really is not.

Keyboard and mouse… but the Steam Controller is cool too.

Other than that, any PS clone. The long thin horns fit my hands better than others.