yea precisely. Sound design is less about how it really sounds, but more about how you think it should sound + some flair to make it a show.

Fun fact! sometimes in movies when there’s a big fire sound designers will put animal roars into the fire sounds to add an extra layer of fear you don’t even realise your body is going to react to

I think this is more of a defence against scammers honestly, with a convincing enough scam you could make valve belive an account holder was dead and you’re a family member wanting to transfer their account to yours.

Hell, I saw my dead friend’s account message me in Russian, contacted support about it, and all they could do was remove the hacker’s access, not even lock or delete that account.

And how could they? Unless you have your full name, address, and other identifying information somewhere on your account (strongly ill-advised, obviously) Valve can’t cross check it with a death certificate and take action, for all they know you could be cooperating with the hacker or submitting fake information to “prank” your friend by getting their account removed.

Allowing account transfers would open a whole new can of worms.

Just write down the password and login if you know you’re going to go. I don’t think Valve under Gabe would have issues with that. Though I do worry for its future

I don’t know where I read it but the best defence to “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” is “I don’t have anything to hide but I don’t trust your judgment or intentions”

the sound design of the real world is rather boring and often unappealing. Sound designers on movies are gods of those audiotary universes, they will paint it however they want

miraculous survival? world’s first talking head? depends on the exact wording and if you got your intro from a benevolent fairy or a genie

coma would be the universe being nice to you. Imagine a full body paralysis where you’re aware of every second passing and the only thing you can do is rot, and maybe hope twitter’s head clown puts a dodgy chip in your brain so maybe you could feel the joy of playing solitaire again.

I think just the fact that the answer could be something like: “2 more years, suicide” is a no-go for me. I’m not a suicidal person so hearing something like this would absolutely fucking terrify me. I think the more time I’d have left the more freaked out I’d get, constantly wonder when will it start? When will the hell that pushes me to take my own life begin?

oh just because you know when you’ll die doesn’t mean you can go yolo on everything. Getting into a horrific accident and becoming bed ridden for the rest of your life doesn’t count as dying. Imagine laying in bed, body paralysed, knowing that this is the place you’ll spend 30 years in.

You’d still be need to be as careful as usual, just with a painful awareness of how many seconds you have left until the end, and with a curse of not being able to go on your own terms if something terrible happens.

and even if tomorrow cometh thine coin shan’t ever be as powerful as today

if it makes you feel any better you’d go to prison if you decided to run a ponzi scheme… unless you’re a bank, that is

how to tech your kid lying is good in two easy steps lmao

I’m doing it for the bit, a week ago i got high and thought how funny it’d be to stop smoking because drugs told me to. So i did lmao

despite being tech savvy and knowledgeable about various scamming methods I once nearly fell for an obvious scam.

I was expecting a package and when I woke up in the morning I saw on my phone that there was a delivery attempt. Clicked the link to redirect/retry delivery and only when it asked me for my banking details it hit me- what the hell was the postman doing at 5am trying to deliver packages?

anybody can get scammed, hell, the famous “i troll scammers” youtube guy once fell for a scam and nearly lost his youtube account! Getting cocky is the worst you can do

I’ve seen it in Poland in certain places too. Some residents of a multifamily block of flats have their heating turned off at all times, but the block owners still demand money of them because “they got passive heating from their neighbours heating”

ffs as if this wasn’t a service you buy but a privilage to use it

counterpoint: a disabled child is not a fascist

no need to even right click, on win10 you can click it, and then just above the volume slider you’ll see what device you’re using currently, if you click that you’ll get a menu where you can pick from all your available outputs

I’m sure Zelensky would agree in a heartbeat to defend Ukraine in a 1v1. But getting the coward Putin to do that? No way in hell that’d happen

oh i meant backdoors and vulnerabilities in the OS itself, hah, i’m pretty sure the system has all the permissions

we’ll never be a 100% safe, no matter what OS we use. We can’t defend ourselves against backdoors and newly abused vulnerabilities in any meaningful way

simple, don’t use an antivirus, stick to windows defender (before the linux crowd comes in yes I know there are basically no viruses threatening you chill), your own brain, and also not an admin account!

Don’t download shady shit, and if your PC asks you for some mysterious admin permission - the answer is “no”. If something does slip through windows defender will most likely handle it no problem!