Nope, my current phone isn’t even water resistant. It loses resistance over time anyways, so IDC.

Well, if there’s one thing that should drive you, it should be getting some form of education or vocational training and forging your own path forward, ideally someplace chill. There’s many places on the west coast where being effeminate is totally normal, and people are totally fine with that. I like it when people get to really be themselves, and I LOVE men who wear cute things. We need more cute apparel!

I also think therapy would genuinely help you. If you put in your location, hit “all filters” and you can choose what type of therapy you want, and there’s also a separate section for Bisexual/Lesbian/LGBTQ+ (even if you are straight, filtering by these might get you a really thoughtful counselor.)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/oh/columbus

Just to make this post too long, I was in a similar boat coming out years ago. Not quite the same, I think girly stuff is cute, but I also don’t go out of my way to wear it. Anyways, I was really stuck in a rut over sexuality, conflicts with religion, and my confusion with cute women, but also cute men. My life really turned around when I started talking to close friends about what I was going through.

I went deep, no holds barred, we talked hard about everything and life. At the same time, I called my doctor’s office and got a referral for a therapist, who was excellent. That man really helped turn my life around, and recommended the site I linked above. Honestly, his help was all I needed. I’ve met someone I truly love, and everything all worked out in the end.

The hardest part for me was calling that clinic and telling them that I needed help, and why I needed help. It was hard, but life slowly got easier after that.

Smallpox is probably why we have contemporary anti-vaxxers. Without a lethal, Flood-like disease, people quickly think that it’s okay to just be fucking disgusting and let themselves and their kids get everyone sick.

People will learn why we vaccinate against the fucked up, biblical diseases of yestercentury.

All sane states and provinces should require vaccine records in order to cross state/provincial lines from fucked up states.

I don’t want people with filthy biblical diseases coming and getting us sick when herd immunity collapses.

Thank you!

It does, but it depends a bit on the cable’s quality too. One of my old mice had a braided cable that tended to stick on stuff. Wired mice are often significantly less expensive and weigh less. With Glorious mice, I think there’s a difference of $35 and about 10g, which is something I think about.

This listing is kind of nice since it’s easy to flip between the two

https://www.gloriousgaming.com/products/model-o-2-wired-mouse

I also have a standing desk, so my wireless receiver is pretty far from the actual PC (on the floor, weighs too much for the desk motors). Latency issues aside, I ditched wireless because I was constantly having to swap/charge batteries in the middle of something important. I’d consider going back, as I’m sure most mice have longer battery life these years. It had “30 day” battery life, but only if you turned it off whenever it wasn’t in use. It got annoying, haha.

Back in uni, I was using a 90s wooden desk with a pull-out mousepad for the g602. There was noticeable lag, which was a bit unfortunate. I only realized that after using someone’s corded no-name mouse from Amazon and was amazed at how responsive it was. Ooof. Even having the receiver close didn’t fix it!

I might look into this one, thanks!

Thank you! These both are very helpful.

Thank you!

I’ll be honest, I mainly keep the same DPI levels. Buuuut, every once in awhile, there’s a few indie titles with really weird sensitivity levels (eg, The Forest) that make having a DPI switch really nice. Some games and productivity programs also benefit from lower or higher DPI profiles on the fly. I’m the type of person that downloads the mouse bloatware once, configures things, then uninstalls it, haha.

I could be down to try wireless again. The latency on the 602 was pretty bad, but more than that, the mouse had a habit of needing to be charged during the middle of something important, which was really annoying. That’s really why I went back to corded mice. Haven’t charged this bad boy in about eight years. xD

The razers are really bad this year and I recommend avoiding them completely. Here’s an exhaustive list that just came out six days ago: https://youtu.be/KhfqhCxqpQ8

Generally, I recommend a desktop if he isn’t moving it around that much. They’re upgradable usually, which saves money over rebuying a laptop with new screens, keyboards, power supplies, etc each time.

But if he is moving it around, the Asus TUF laptops, particularly last years models, are pretty decent on the whole. Budget, but solid gaming laptops. Decent specs when I bought mine a few years ago.

Never buy anything that flies, fucks or floats. No planes, no boats, no horses. If you really want to try one of these, try renting or borrowing the thing for a whole summer. Maybe even two summers.

Sounds like they burned up the CPUs with an inadequate cooler. TDPs are pretty rough, but a 165w fan cooler on a 170w part doesn’t seem right. My 5800x runs hot AF despite coolers rated for significantly higher wattage parts. I have it running on custom water now, and it’s single CCX design means it still gets to 74c even on a 240x25mm and a 360x45mm rad equipped with T30 fans, which move assloads of air. Those hotspots are a killer.

We don’t have any measurements of what it was running at all day, so we can only speculate. But AMD runs a ton of volts out of the box if you don’t undervolt. You need good coolers.

Nature. Look around you. Like, seriously, stop what you are doing, and look around you for three, full minutes. You’ll start to notice new things. Bugs, plants, views, animals. There’s a lot going on, even if you just look at a 1x1 in square of grass up close. It’s pretty cool.

Even in human areas, just spending an hour in a space while not being on your phone is kinda cool. I’d be doing something like weeding a local bike path and start to notice way more people than I ever thought used it. It’s mostly asphalt, but even here, the plants are interesting, and you start to meet people in your community that do the same work.

Honestly, I’m not even going to see it. The book was so insanely good that I cannot entertain the possibility of a movie straying even one millimeter from the source material.

I want to someday switch to a 4k UW, but my current 1440p monitors are still so good that they don’t feel “outdated” yet. Coming up on 10 years with one of them! 1440p, 165hz, IPS. It’s been bombproof. And from Acer, of all companies.

It’s hard to say exactly. I wouldn’t put it past the dev(s) to have potentially put something like “The Egg” in, so potentially yes, though we’d have no way of testing for it.

Story by Andy Weir here: https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI

Those fake astroturf fields and yards people are installing are actually quite toxic. In addition to heating plastic to high temperatures and baking it under powerful UV light each summer, the plastics and rubbers used for them are usually from sources like car tires which are full of PFAS to resist fires, wear, UV, etc. Those leach into surrounding areas whenever it rains.