Are you trying to reinstall from the store page? It should work if you search your library directly.

My account is “unverified” just like yours and I’m able to reinstall cyberpunk perfectly fine, even though the store page is locked down.

You should still be able to install and play previously purchased games, just not buy new 18+ ones

I’ve tested this myself with these results

• MA15 is ok
• Reinstallation of Witcher 3 is ok
• MasterCard and Visa both do not work.
• Visiting the Steam store page for Witcher 3 is blocked for me.

When I contacted Steam support they said specifically only “credit cards” being on file is supported. However, they indicated they would be adding additional verification methods in the future.

If people are finding success with specific debit banks and debit cards, I’m more likely to believe that is an unintended bug or something strange going on than an intended feature.

As a zebra patient… too many to list lol

But the one that stands out is my original POTS diagnostic test. They did something called a “tilt table test”. They strap you on a table like a torture film, literally head straps and everything, and then raise the table vertically. The idea is to see how well your body adapts to gravity.

Normally I have pretty good compensations for my condition. I’ve learnt specific ways to stand, lean, and hold my body so that my circulation works… not well, but decently. I can get up to make toast every now and then, stuff like that.

The table bypasses all that. Immediately I suffered extremely bad effects. I could feel all the blood draining from my brain and my body and pooling into my legs. Couldn’t breathe properly, vision going white, feeling absolutely horrible. I can’t accurately describe the feeling of all your blood leaving your vital organs. It felt extremely bad, I felt like I was dying. Like a cold shower on the inside, hollowness, pain.

Worst part was, I was too weak to even ask them to cancel the test, or move to remove the bindings myself. Turns out you need blood to do stuff like that. I was completely paralyzed.

The doctors were like “wow this is the worst POTS I’ve ever seen! Usually when people say they have POTS it turns out they don’t, but man… hey let’s show Larry” and they leave the room to go find Larry and show them the interesting POTS patient. I could barely see on the monitor my heart rate was 180bpm and my blood pressure was 80/40mmol, which is very bad. I eventually lost consciousness completely. As I passed out I accepted that I was going to die right there on the stupid table because nobody noticed the problem.

I didn’t die (obviously). I came to when I was horizontal on the table again and they were unstrapping me. No idea how long I was out for, but fuck that. Nobody told me it would be that bad. “A bit uncomfortable” my ass.

After all that, I got my diagnosis for severe POTS after 10 years of confusing symptoms. Now I have some medicine that helps it not be so severe, so I guess it was worth it in the end?

One of my exes was really into making clothing. I learnt second hand (via venting) how difficult it is to get a printer to print 1cm=1cm accurately when you buy a “pattern” (basically a tracing you follow to chop up the fabric).

They would check every printout, and half the time they had to print the same thing multiple times because the printer decided to be stupid and add a half centimetre here or there or subtly stretch it; which matters a lot for a good fit. It was a whole big thing, apparently. At least for cheap printers.

Makes sense to me, we already have systems similar to that with adrenaline and placebo. People are too quick to mix up “we can’t explain it (yet)” with “it doesn’t exist”.

The homeless situation in Paris is pretty extreme, at least it was when I visited in 2015

Oh shoot, was the “hmm” emoji real this whole time? 🤔 I think the people around me just got used to the blank thinking stare though.

Donkey Kong is set in an alternate universe where banana trees reign supreme. No living organisms can consume them, no mould nor bacteria can taint them. They are immortal, unaging. Except monkeys.

I dunno, I just felt like making up a rhyme

Theoretically yes, but this DM just didn’t bother with that stuff ever, even when I played different characters. There’s a difference between specifically saying something like “the ranger leads the party safely through the forest”, which would have at least felt helpful; and just not saying anything at all by fast-traveling to the destination

I take advice that seems like good advice, and makes sense to me. Your advice seems like good advice, but applied selectively

Wow that’s a really cool read. I guess I’ll try to find something else to do with my phone. Maybe hide it under a tissue box or something! Haha

Does face down phone hurt the convo? I do it as a deliberate statement (like “no phones right now”), otherwise it will vibrate in my pocket and disturb me. If it’s on the table it feels better than pocket

To me: Not in room > bag > face down on table > pocket > face up on table > in hand

One time I made a naïve ranger cartographer (basically a boy scout) and drew maps every session to keep my ADHD in check

The DM handwaved all travel and navigation rules making my character completely useless lol

I got a “CouchMaster” desk thing for working from home. Works pretty well. It’s hard to setup an ergonomic couch though. It was very expensive for what it is though

Mmm, carbon monoxide flavour

Bed no Breakfast

Gotta get creative with the power scaling. Next up, solar system! LLMs will destroy the galaxy! No; the whole universe! The multiverse! Or worse?!

In many fields and activities, years of training have traditionally served not only to produce a final answer or product, but also to develop understanding and the ability to formulate new questions and ideas.

I think this is a really important point. Even if A.I. “could” theoretically (big theoretically) solve all current problems, I don’t think it could solve future problems. Without humans, students, etc, asking new questions with curiosity and creativity; it would just be a hard cut off point where innovation ends.

LLMs were trained on stealing past data, what happens if they push out humans completely from an industry? There would be no more data to train on, and all possible skills in that area would die.