wizardbeard

In downtown some establishments (especially if they're near warm air vents) will play the sounds of crying babies or screaming women.

That's just fucking evil. Better than using some barely audible tone that hooks into the primal parts of our brains to make us uncomfortable and anxious (those supposedly exist), but even what you've said is just literally psychological warfare tactics.

Seriously, the CIA (or the equivalent) during the Korean War used to fly over vietkong areas blasting that sort of shit to disrupt sleep and demoralize them.

Assuming SMAPI (the modloader) has updated for 1.6.9, this page is a pretty comprhensive list of mod compatibility with the latest SMAPI and Stardew updates.

It'll take a few seconds to load.

I also find that it can be helpful to check community news posts for the most popular mod packs (usually on their discord), as they do a pretty good job of announcing whether the mods they shove together work yet or not.

All that said, 1.6.x type updates, where they aren't incrementing the first or second number, usually don't break as many things. Personally, I'd just make a backup of your entire Stardew folder before you install the 1.6.9 update (and the latest SMAPI update, and any updates for your mods) and see how it goes. SMAPI will usually warn you in the console window at startup if it sees any mods it knows have broken. If shit's fucked, just restore your backup copy and try again in two weeks.

Looking forward to seeing what you have in store!

Eventually you might want to have some small explanation for why the Sorcerer doesn't have a spellbook though, or change the Paladin's to be a holy icon or holy relic instead to keep people from wondering why the sorceror doesn't have one.

"The people see that things are broken and want change. So what are we going to bring them? More of the same! Wait, why'd we lose?"

It's so fucking frustrating that the DNC keeps fucking doing this.

I highly doubt it. The custom ROM/OS projects have entire teams working on them, and they still can end up with bugs amd problems.

You're overlooking the chance that you missed something critical, or aren't aware of some weird driver interactions with your phone hardware that could end up bricking it (unlikely, but possible). At the very least I'd be kind of surprised if your "compile it yourself" works on the first try and doesn't need some adjustments to actually run on your specific phone hardware.

Compiling your own fork of a program is one thing. Doing that with the OS is an entirely different ball game with an order of magnitude more potential complications to consider.

Guess the Snowflake (third party data storage and processing company/service) breaches earlier this year taught us nothing.

Yes, but for every one like you, there's at least one that doesn't and just trusts it to be accurate, or doesn't proof read it well enough and misses errors. It may not be immediate, but that will have a downward effect over time on quality, which likely then becomes a feedback loop.

Maybe if you're going to have a username that implies you're an artist, you should learn to actually make art instead of just using the automatic plagiarism machine.

Damn, people really don't? I've always been a sucker for ever increasingly ridiculously large GUN.

Got a problem? Just yeet a fucking dog sized hunk of metal at it at as close to the speed of sound as we can get it. You don't have a problem anymore.

"I was a mess, quite honestly. This was the peak of Nine Inch Nails’ newfound rocket ship of fame. It distorted my personality and became overwhelming: to deal with having everyone treat you different, to going from not being able to afford a gas bill to show up to arenas full of people, who kind of think they know you. The line starts to blur between the guy onstage and the person you used to be. My way of dealing with life was to numb myself with drugs and alcohol, because it made me feel better and more equipped to deal with everything. My career was skyrocketing, but the scaffolding that was holding me up as a person was starting to collapse. I wasn’t fully aware of how bad it was getting, but I knew, in my heart, that I was on an unsustainable, reckless, self-destructive path.

When I met David, he had been through that. And he was content. He was at peace with himself, with an incredible wife, clearly in love. There were a number of times where the two of us were alone, and he said some things that weren’t scolding, but pieces of wisdom that stuck with me: “You know, there is a better way here, and it doesn’t have to end in despair or in death, in the bottom.” A full year later, I hit bottom. Once I got clean, I felt a tremendous amount of shame, of my actions and missed opportunities and the damage that I’ve caused in the past. And I thought back to the time when we were together a lot, and I wonder what that could have been like if I was at 100 percent. The “I’m Afraid of Americans” falls into that category of me at my worst — out of my mind and ashamed of who I was at that time. So when I see that, I have mixed feelings — grateful to be involved, and flattered to be a part of it, but disgusted at myself, at who I was at that time, and wishing I had been 100 percent me. And it nagged me.

A few years later, Bowie came through L.A. I’d been sober for a fair amount of time. I wanted to thank him in the way that he helped me. And I reluctantly went backstage, feeling weird and ashamed, like, “Hey, I’m the guy that puked on the rug.” And again, I was met with warmth, and grace, and love. And I started to say, “Hey listen, I’ve been clean for …” I don’t even think I finished the sentence; I got a big hug. And he said, “I knew. I knew you’d do that. I knew you’d come out of that.” I have goosebumps right now just thinking about it.

It was another very important moment in my life. I didn’t think we were done. It feels like the loss of a mentor, fatherly figure, someone looking out for you, reminding you that in a world where the bar keeps seeming to be lower, where stupidity has got a foothold, there is room for excellence and uncompromising vision."

-Trent Reznor

Yup. That's kind of the rub. It's not a pay gap on paper anywhere in the sense of pay scales, it's a bunch of societal biases that lead to overwhelmingly common "emergent" systemic behavior that skews women towards the lower end of the pay bands they coexist with men in while also often denying them promotions into higher positions and pay bands that are more frequently given to equal or lesser skilled men.

Very few of the individual cogs in the system are intentionally aiming for this outcome, but it's the combination of a shit ton of biases built up over generations about women and how they are expected to behave that all smashes together into the shitty end result of pay discrepancy along gender lines.

I think that's going to depend on the specific server you upload it to, and then the other servers it may go through to federate to whoever is viewing it, and the settings for the underlying pictrs service on each.