If you turn off your deck being online and then turn it on again somewhere with no internet access, sometimes it will not get past the “looking for updates” screen before loading steam. I’ve had that happen more than enough times. Only way to exit from that loop is connecting to internet, but that’s not always possible.

We’re living in a present where election officials of a democratic country need to prepare with bulletproof glass and panic buttons among the things to guarantee that election day goes smoothly. And somehow, the people responsible for this not only are free and doing their will, they are running for the government through that election.

And I am supposed to think that dystopian futures seen in the movies are somehow worse?

It’s a Pokémon. And so far, the only one with at least 4 types: water, poison, flying and electric. How the fuck can you even counter it?

Nonsense. The Cybertruck is absolutely trustworthy.

All you have to do is drive it on the roads, while it’s sunny, possibly not dusty. And avoid any amount of water. ANY.

I think the right question is why no one is succeeding?

The US “justice” system was never about justice, education and reinsertion.

It was about revenge, and it’s always been.

Batteries recharged with cancer-giving windmills!!

Now they will give Israhell bombs. Just not the one they gave to Afghanistan or Iraq.

This time, they’ll give them bombs to keep bombing Palestine.

Mostly separating them in smaller tasks that I can see as making progress.

That’s the only thing that helps me with them

Counterpoint: he might die throwing a tantrum after losing.

We can’t talk to the dead, how can we say for sure he’s not better that way?

They didn’t, when I’m 2020 he attempted (and failed) a coup. If that wasn’t your wake up call, I don’t know what would be.

So they created a monster and the monster is now out of control. What a surprise, huh?

Well, I’ve got something to tell you: fuck you and all your shitty GOP. If you didn’t see this coming, you only deserve an absolute defeat and disappearing into oblivion.

But what’s actually happening here is not that. No, what’s happening here is that your fucking party got so unhinged (by your own hands) that only the most deranged people are willing to vote for you, and that’s scary, right? That’s scary because there are not enough wackos to make you win an election, and now you’re really fearing the fact that you might be losing elections for generations thanks to all the damage your monster did to yourselves.

Well, you know what? I’m glad. I’m happy you’re so fucked right now that you prefer losing an election over winning it because of how much damage the win can do to yourselves.

I love writing “congratulations, you have survived another full orbit around the sun”.

As for the gifts… I suck at them

Yeah, of “normal” family values. To a rep dipshit, this kid is obviously not “normal” and I’ll bet an arm that there’s already been an idiot or hundred that asked if the kid is vaccinated.

I understand enough of my body to recognize when one can happen. And it’s not always easy but, I’ll give you an example.

Sirens in general, but specifically those from first responders are overwhelming for me so I always carry a pair of earplugs to soften their noise. They are one of my possible meltdown causes, and not long ago I was in my bike coming back from work and happened that in a very narrow street in which I was, an ambulance got trapped in the middle of the traffic. I realized my body was going into meltdown because I started hyperventilating so I quickly stopped, got down of the bike and sat down trying to breath and stim as I could. In the end it didn’t cause a meltdown (although I had a panic attack).

In my case, I start losing control of my body when a meltdown is happening so as soon as i notice a threat, I run a list of possible escape scenarios. And if there are non, I mitigate. But well, I always carry earplugs, some toys and a pair of ANC headphones with me with a playlist of soothing songs “just in case”.

I’m in the same boat. I was diagnosed late in my life and even then, being “highly functional” means that “I don’t look autistic”, so most people won’t even take it seriously.

I, involuntarily, learned control myself and put some safeties in place before a meltdown so it doesn’t happen. But sometimes it’s not that easy to avoid one, and almost 4 months ago, I had one (maybe the first in 6-7 years).

I did become almost non verbal, and only with a huge effort I was able to articulate some very few words to explain my SO what was happening to me (was a first time for them). After I explained, I went completely non verbal for the whole next day.

Only once I’ve been non verbal for a long period (around a month) after a meltdown.

Anon explained why he didn’t consider he was being creepy and (girl) didn’t counter it and didn’t mention it again. What does that mean?

Allistic people have issues saying what they truly think, so they do all kinds of shit to “say without saying”. And that doesn’t work with us, but they don’t understand because, apparently, we should learn how to understand them, but they don’t want (and neither think they need) to understand us.

So we’re trapped in a world where a good bunch of the allistics don’t care enough about us to learn how to communicate properly with us or to, at least, find a middle ground.

I don’t think you are in the wrong, she just wasn’t able to express clearly what she thought and you weren’t able to understand her message because of the lack of clarity on her end.

Haven’t tried it myself, but people report they are getting it running following some steps in its protonDB page

My main gaming device is now a steam deck. I’ve run on it mostly everything I’m interested in. I reckon I don’t like competitive games, so I never tried lol or Fortnite or CoD or anything of the likes, but the deck at home is running from Genshin impact to Final Fantasy 14. No man’s sky, assassin’s creed odyssey, ff16 demo, and every indie I wanted to play.

And except for games like Genshin impact or honkai star rail (not for me but for my SO) which needed a different launcher and some small tweaking, the rest of the games have been running “out of the box”, doing no tweaking at all.