IIRC there's some evidence that cold temperatures weaken the immune system. Assuming it's valid, that does mean that cold could be the deciding factor between contracting a cold or fighting if off.
Now obviously germ theory is correct and it takes external infection to catch a cold, but it's a pretty safe bet you're being more or less constantly exposed to COVID and the flu whenever you're in an indoor public space.
Vietnam is just the US' version of the "stabbed in the back" myth. WE WOULD'VE WON IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE DAMN HIPPIES!
story-driven games
Disco Elysium is a great story, so long as you enjoy reading/listening to lots of dialogue because there's not much other gameplay. Baldur's Gate 3 is technically on sale, but it's only 10% so eh; maybe Divinity Original Sin 2?
Souls games
Both Sekiro and Elden Ring are fantastic, my only caveats would be that Sekiro doesn't really have character customization so if you love that part of soulsborne it might fall a bit flat, and Elden Ring can start to drag if you have a completionist mindset and go out of your way to complete every little side dungeon.
strategy games
I've heard decent things about Midnight Suns which is on a pretty deep sale. The Total War Warhammer games are good fun, though there is a fuckload of DLC, and the third game apparently has major issues.
GTA-like games
Mafia 3 is close, but 1 and 2 don't really have much to do in the open world IIRC. The Saints Row games are hella cheap (do note that 2 needs a mod to be stable and even then it'll crash occasionally) EDIT: Don't get the newest one, just called "Saint's Row", it's terrible. Cyberpunk 2077 maybe qualifies?
Doesn't fit any of those categories, but I will always recommend Outer Wilds, a fantastic exploration/puzzle game that I wish I could play again for the first time.
Lastly, piracy is always the correct thing to do, but if you insist on paying for games, at least consider using piracy as a demo.
on suicide watch
Checks COVID wastewater levels
And looks like we're going into 46 in a few weeks.
Meanwhile in my games PCs regularly never buy or upgrade equipment because nobody wants to waste time in session (good!) but also refuse to just do stuff through discord during the rest of the week (bad!).
Lol, this kind of means-tested garbage won't accomplish anything for young people on the fence about having kids. At most it'll let some older people go back to school for free.
If he's serious about it we'll see him suicide bomb COP29.
If this guy ever falls over for any reason he's taking 1d12 each of cutting, bludgeoning, and impaling.
Multiple times she made videos that were just word-for-word reading out the transcript of a documentary, even going so far as using the documentary footage as background imagery, without crediting the original at all. She also avoided youtube copyright detection by putting filters over such footage. Honestly I'm less upset about the plagiarism (which is bad, no doubt) and more just at the outright clownishness of literally copy-pasting somebody else's work.
Never, so long as people like them are writing the laws. Morally-speaking, always has been.
To be clear, I'm not just referring to UAE people, but also every member of congress/parliament in every country which has climate denial as state policy, which includes the US, Canada, etc.
Do you realize what comm you're in?
If pointing out that EVs aren't a real solution is enough to alienate those "allies" they weren't really allies at all. It's also less about individual choice to move to areas with better transit, and more about pressuring the government to install better transit everywhere instead of just funneling endless money to car manufacturers.