Jesus is a Mexican name. Check mate.

Apparently it might be what happens when they’re trying to extract every bit of wealth possible before crushing it into nothingness and then moving on to the next parasitized host.

If you got nuts, just one is enough to end your wild dreams prematurely.

For the edit, wouldn’t it be “noncel”?

And dragons fucking cars.

Pregnancy, giving birth, breastfeeding. The bonds formed during these times would mean mothers to be more likely to safeguard the child than assault an aggressor with reckless abandon.

Spanish hookups do have a history of exterminating large parts of a population.

The Xeno was inside you all along!

Most users complaining about this seem to have been using innoextract or Heroic.

I buy keepers on GOG and then place them on separate drives. On Steam i buy stuff I’m ok with losing. It’s one Gabe away from exploitation shenanigans.

Pull up in a white van with no or blackened windows and offer them candy. Oh and make sure “Free candy” is scratched in on the sides of the van. Wouldn’t want people getting the wrong idea…

Now for the serious advice, don’t do dumb jokes like the one above. Kids need honesty. Screwing around for shits and giggles is always a bad idea around them.

I’m of the belief that we’re all a little disturbed in some way, only that most people prefer the comfort of boring over the satisfaction of disturbing. And the most boring of people are simply better at hiding their quirks.

You’re talking of specific people then, not “People” in general.

Can you though? One has to take precedence eventually.

It’s a very nice set of replies. Quite pleasant to read. Thank you for the whole thing.

genuine answer: oh yeah, I’m fine. Thanks. I was going for that approach. Glad to see it worked.

Lies! It’s all lies! Don’t believe the magic-touting adbot! They’re just a freezer shill!

My mistake about nutrients in frozen fresh food. Everything else though, just your average adbot lies.

People like big buts.

thought must be influenced by some level of internal stimulation, as you can deprive your senses and still think. Likewise, before you have the capability of memory, you are not conscious, it is simply impossible. Consciousness is directly tied to the ability to remember. Thusly it must be some mix of the two, life experiences, and remembered experiences.

Isn’t the internal stimulation just the nervous system zapping things to get a response? And doesn’t that need a trigger to get it going?

Anyway, I feel like I’m heading into contested territory here, but I gotta ask. At which point can we consider babies as conscious?

Most people will claim their earliest memory is at the age of 4 or 5 years old. So that time is probably considered as the general start of conscious identity. Yet some have reported that simulating the conditions in a womb such as sleeping in a fetal position or floating aimlessly within a larger body of water will grant them an instinctual sense of serenity. So it can be argued that at some level, we remember our time in the womb, even though we are not able to recall it directly.

And I’ve seen babies aged around 1-2 years old trying (unsuccessfully) to hide from their parents in order to attempt an action that had been forbidden several times before.

How early does our capability to store memory actually start? And at which point will the amount of stored and remembered experience be enough to count as consciousness?

They are always open to enforce a form of bigotry. So your focus should be instead on that and prevent reaching this situation. Or what? You expect to stop a series of arsons with one bucket of water?