tabris

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[–] tabris 32 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This is a message to all straight guys: buy gay underwear!

Get yourself on Andrew Christian, Box, or Aussiebum, or any of the other underwear sites that cater to gay men. We have styles of underwear you wouldn't believe. Yes there'll be rainbows on a bunch of them, but there's plenty that are more "reserved".

BUT, what we do have is a wide range of styles that are comfortable and sexy. We have underwear that separates your cock from your balls, which are really comfortable. We have styles that allow you to show off, or act demure. We have boxer shorts that have freaking pockets!

And because the queer community largely (not always, but we're working on it) accepts all body types, we even cater to larger guys who need a little more room in their smalls.

Seriously boys, get yourself some sexy gay undies. Your junk, and your partners, will thank you.

[–] tabris 4 points 1 month ago

And the problem is further compounded by the Series S outselling the X by around 3:1, and the PS5 outselling the Xbox Series X And S combined by around 2:1. So the series X install base is 6 times smaller than the PS5.

So having to spend extra dev time to get it to work on the Series S if you want to release on Xbox at all, along with only a fraction of those players getting to experience the intended look and feel of the game, it's no wonder they're skipping it.

This all does indicate an issue for Sony though, with the price of the PS5 Pro. People were told that the Series S would play all the games the Series X can, and they flocked to the cheaper console. Now Sony are pushing a console for £800. I don't think it's going to do very well.

[–] tabris 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah, following in Wakefield's steps. Good to see the grifters and charlatans don't change, but it is sad that people keep falling for it.

[–] tabris 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Have you heard of "false friends?" Words that have come from one language into another, but due to use have completely changed meaning along the way, often to mean the exact opposite of their original meaning. This is common enough that, especially if you speak a Latin based language and learn English as a second language, you'll see them everywhere.

My point is, that this is not an internet phenomena and has been a feature of languages since there has been language. Some don't last long, others are so embedded in our lexicons that we don't even notice.

[–] tabris 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I used to work for a major telecoms compass until recently, working on their VMWare stack and to say they are a major customer of VMWare is to put it mildly. The cost for VMWare has skyrocketed after the Broadcom deal, so while the team were gearing up for the next gen system utilising more tools from the ESXi stack, now that's entirely abandoned and instead they're tooling up to replace it. That's over 500,000 VMs across a dozen or so datacenters. Broadcom's actions may make them a lot of money in the next few years as their customers are forced to pay this huge hike, but it won't last for long.

[–] tabris 3 points 1 month ago

I only ever saw one rear projection TV in my life, and it was owned by the biggest sci-fi and anime nerd I ever met. It was a fantastic looking screen though, compared to the CRTs of the time.

[–] tabris 43 points 1 month ago

This is why we say "the cruelty is the point" because this is where that cruelty leads.

[–] tabris 2 points 1 month ago

And Smart Tube Next for Android TV devices.

[–] tabris 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, 100 percent. There's much healthier ways to deal with that kind of grief.

[–] tabris 27 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I used to work in a shop that could easily be described as "New Age" and it has a tarot reader there. Having looked at the history of tarot but being a complete sceptic, I asked for a reading one time to see for myself how they go.

Afterwards I asked her "it's a light therapy session, isn't it?" She responded "mostly."

That's pretty much what it is, cheap, basic therapy to help you sort through your thoughts, and shares some similarities with CBT. I'd still recommend therapy if you need it, but I don't mind people going to a tarot reader if that's what helps them. But I still think the mysticism side of it can be a problem for a variety of reasons.

[–] tabris 29 points 1 month ago

It's one of the tactics of fascism, to get heavily involved in sex. Regulating it, controlling it, and using the overlap with shame to control people. There's tonnes written on the subject and it's fascinating, but also terrifying.

[–] tabris 4 points 1 month ago

Southern Italy doesn't really have cold weather, especially pre-industrial. It's very temperate.

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