As a matter of "fact", I work with a bunch of people in the left half of the bell curve. We regularly complete psychological testing, and it's uncommon that clients are above 100 IQ, tho it's not surprising when it happens. I would be hesitant to call anyone under 100 IQ "dumb" though. There is a certain level of intent behind it, I think. "Willfully stupid" is a better description.

However, I have recently had a client who called out of work because he "had a horn growing out of his stomach".

It was a skin tag.

To give a little more nuanced answer, I don't think these are really mutually separate at this moment. They may not always be allies in the future but I think given current mechanisms, they're pretty intertwined with each other and will be for the foreseeable future.

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I mean I guess technically racing motorcycles. However it's more of a circumstance thing, getting back into it would take, pretty easily, almost $10k. So I'm getting into MTB and BMX instead now. I absolutely will be back into it the second I'm able to though, up until very recently, I'd spent more years on a motorcycle than off of one. Age 4 to probably 23 I raced. 0-4 and 23-35 I haven't. Miss it dearly every day, but I'm still very involved in it when I can watch it in-person.

Concord didn't last long enough for anyone to notice anything lol

One of the few games I enjoy buying on multiple platforms.

I'd say you'd be more likely to enjoy it than not. Obviously racing is a big part of it, but exploration is another, and it usually does a decent job of that. It's a little hamstrung because you have a GPS, so you know where all the roads are, but they usually tuck some stuff away and have some things to find and collect, if it isn't just a little over done (I think Horizon 5 had you breaking signs to get followers, and there were like almost 300 signs?). They've had some car unlocks hidden as well, but you get pointed to the area and it's pretty hard not to find them. But it gives you plenty of visuals to look at, usually some decent music, and a good variety of driving activities.

Story is usually a little rough, because the premise railroads you on every game. You're usually a festival goer in-universe with a "normal" car and you work your way into better cars by winning events and such. Not much else to it, and how else do you get the progression to better cars?

One of the aspects you may enjoy, especially if you're artistic, is designing car liveries and staging photo shoots and such. I haven't done in-depth liveries since Forza Motorsport 4, and I think people have found ways to basically import images to the car, but doesn't mean you have to.

Controls are going to be basically bog-standard car controls, and controller is perfectly fine for Horizon or any Forza game, really. I've put, pretty easily, probably 2k hours into various Forza games, all on controller.

I'd say it is not Sim racing. It's not Mario Kart, you do have to brake and understand a little bit about racing, but the AI is usually pretty forgiving and adjustable as you see fit, and also usually has some built in slow-downs to keep things close. Fits somewhere on the sim side of the scale, but it's definitely not difficult racing by any means; car damage I don't think exists outside cosmetically, and you can ram AI cars all day without much penalty.

What's the free music streaming service you use that has no ads? I'd like to try it, I'm obviously in the market.

Lmao buddy resorts to this and then blocks me. What a small human.

Reagan and Citizens United continue to be the largest umbrellas of resulting bad policy in American history, imo.

I have a reminder to cancel before the increase. It was, imo, a good deal for no ads, bolstered creator support in YT (Premium views were worth more than free, iirc), and to get YT Music, which I liked more than Spotify.

For $16/mo, I'll set up ad-free options for YT and I'll figure something out for music.

Yeah, the only issues I have are virtual mics to filter background noise on Discord. I have a program that does it, but I lose control over playing music as well (I have a solution through Helvum, but I have to do the specific audio paths every boot for Firefox -> Discord, and I can't individually control the volume. Plus the path dies every time I pause the music).

But it was equally as frustrating to get it set up on windows with virtual cables as it has been to try to get virtual cables to work on Linux, so it's a push there. Everything else has been basically as easy, give or take some of the learning curves of a new OS, and can be attributed to user error.

Dual boot has been nice. Both work how I want them to, 95% of the time, and if one is giving me issues in the moment, the other is likely to work. I do use Linux wayyy more rn tho.

So...I don't think the guy used prosthetics. I played a few video games online with him, and he did not use prosthetics to play. We played a racing game, which was kinda wild, cause he used controller. Would push it down into his thigh for gas/brake on the triggers, and use his nubs for the buttons/sticks. He was pretty well handy (lol) on his own, getting around and stuff. Idk what he did for driving specifically, but he also had a video of him shooting a gun without prosthetics as well.

All that to say....I don't think the man had prosthetics lol