I finally managed to break out of 3 months of Angine de Poitrine yesterday. Definitely a record for my musical obsessions.

A hinged vertical bike hanger can save a lot of room, particularly if you mount it in a corner.

Maybe someone’s finally solved it over the past few years, but he was telling me that automating apple harvests was still a massive challenge about 5 years ago - there are/were machines to pick up fallen apples and robots for picking them individually, but you can’t easily shake all the apples off a mature tree for collection and a human can pick them from the branch far more quickly than a robot. From what I can see online there’s one that does it for young trees, but most of them are still glorified cherry-pickers.

Afaik it’s mostly medium-large fruits that still get harvested by hand. I knew a Norwegian guy who developed the ideal bodybuilder physique just from picking apples for a few seasons.

You mean Tetsuya Nomura?

The only times I’ve had fun in pvp games/modes was when I was playing with a group of people I knew.

Thinking about it you’re sort of right, in that I enjoy playing stuff like Smash Bros and Mario Kart with my friends, but even then I have no interest in competing, I just find ways to annoy everyone else. I might win as a side effect of being annoying, but I’m just asking likely to be hoisted by my own petard, and I consider both good results.

"can you get pregnant,” then that leaves out important information, such as “I have ovaries and should be screened for ovarian cancer.”

They know you have ovaries if you can get pregnant. From an outside perspective it definitely looks like you’re just being argumentative rather than discussing it from a position of knowledge.

Not really, I always preferred stuff that involved a group. The closest I get is board and card games, but they have an element of randomness that takes away the individual competition and makes it more of a social activity.

I have a strong preference for co-operative games, so I don’t really understand the attraction of non-team based PvP games like battle royales, extraction shooters, or just straight death matches like in quake or CoD. Like why would you want to be cold and alone with everyone out to get you when you could have friends.

I found the timing really difficult too, so I found a mod that slightly increases the dodge/parry window (something like 0.2s to 0.3s for parries) and suddenly I could reliable dodge and parry most attacks. Still requires precise timing, but now it’s a precise timing I can actually hit.

It’s a lot easier to lose nukes when you have tens of thousands than it is if you have up to 60.

Avowed and Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon are the most Skyrim-like games I’ve seen recently, but I can’t speak for their quality. Dragon’s Dogma would be an ideal fit but it’s 3rd person.

Riku is definitely it for me. One of my friends brought me in as a ringer to get past that fight when she was playing the remake and it still took hours of retries despite being able to skip the cut scene.

Red Steel was a release title, meant to showcase the Wii as a serious console for adults as well as a family friendly console for kids, but I’m pretty sure it, MadWorld, and No More Heroes were the only remotely gorey games for it.

You aren’t entirely wrong… The comic character was named after milk toast, because it’s so plain and bland.

Red Steel or MadWorld?

Replaying Rogue Trader now half the DLC is out, occasionally with my best friend as they added a coop mode at some point. RPing a reformed crime lord who has seen the light of the Imperial Truth and dedicated himself to spreading the Emperor’s word while my friend goblins around with all the crim characters looting everything and occasionally triggering a fight when I’m halfway across the map.

This is what I mean about projecting, your lack of manners have gotten you banned, while mine have been beyond reproach.

You’re just an overdramatic American Exceptionalist that doesn’t want to confront your personal complicity in multiple genocides, so you point at a small cultural shift elsewhere in the world and pretend it’s the same thing. You try to hide your racism in progressive language but you really suck at it and your claims fall apart under the slightest scrutiny, so you have to attack the person, but you don’t know what their failings are so you screech out the ones you know; your own.

As with the genocide of native Americans, you’re now minimising the Indian genocides - there was far, far more to it than simply speaking English, and it’s gross that you would draw an equivalence between the 100’s of millions of dead Indians and speaking Chinese.

Reducing the reservations and residential schools to speaking English is minimising the genocide commited against Native Americans: might I suggest that you’re projecting when you throw around phrases like “doesn’t know” and “fucking idiot”?

Screaming Females’ cover of Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off it a much better, actually rebellious version, but the best cover will always be Reggie Watts’ version of Paradise City by Van Halen.