Lemmings rise up

Playing in VR made me realize how poorly pancake mode gives you a sense of scale. Everything is subnautica is absolutely massive. Peepers’ eyes are the size of dinner plates

House Biscuit. We do not preorder.

Journiv has got me to try journaling seriously for the first time. I’m a bit envious of those able to do so naturally, I’ve been forgetting to make daily entries more often than not

You’ve received a tonne of responses and I’m not even sure if this has been posted by someone else already, but there’s a YouTube video called “How to Radicalize a Normie” which goes over at length exactly how the alt right gets its hooks into young people and why it’s so hard for them to break out.

I was shocked to see no mention of Ori in any of the comments here before I realized you had already recommended it in the OP. I have no issues with seconding that, the Ori series is really good.

I’ve been using Actual for a while now, probably close to a year. Before that I was on YNAB, which isn’t FOSS but does have a huge library of material for how to make your budget work for you instead of the other way around.

I got off YNAB after they kept raising their subscription fees for seemingly no reason. Actual is not nearly as feature-rich but you can’t really argue with the price.

This is a big pet peeve of mine and it does such a disservice to socially anxious extroverts

Bejeweled Classic is the app you want, at least on Android. The app itself is free and then you can pay the $3.99 or whatever it is to remove ads permanently.

This is the way it should be done. Instead of spending millions of dollars on a multi-year feasibility study and building hundreds of stores, just build a few and see how it goes.

I dislike Boeing as much as the next guy, but they only took over manufacturing in 1997 so this plane would have been built by McDonnell Douglas. I’m also pretty sure it’s not Boeing’s responsibility to maintain aircraft that are no longer in production.

Never ceases to amaze me how any word on new GNOME improvements brings out all the Plasma users

I can mow my lawn with less than 150 watt-hours. The fact that a 60 second conversation with ChatGPT can surpass that is alarming.

Counterpoint: you could not have TPM and secure boot requirements that needlessly alienates a large player base of Linux users.

In fact Gareth Coker’s soundtracks for Ori are so good, they are one of the few video game OSTs that I’ve bought on vinyl. That and Signals from the Outer Wilds.

Pure magic and they definitely helped make the games.

I kinda wish I could go back to experience the game as a new player again.

I have fond noob memories of not understanding that supercruise was different from normal space and failing again and again to drop on a station. And running out of fuel after only a couple jumps in the sidewinder, and after googling what to do, opting not to bother the fuel rats and self destructing instead.

My home base for the first few hours was Sylvester City in Eravate, but everything that happened after that has all become a blur of experiences.

I adored Moss (mostly for its theme but also for the highly innovative gameplay) but I haven’t had a VR system in some time. This one might be first on my list to buy if I ever get into VR again.

Heyyy relax guy!

The idea behind a ransom is that all parties need to believe with certainty that as long as money is exchanged, then nobody gets hurt. As soon as there’s doubt about getting paid or about being released, then suddenly there’s turmoil for any other party to hold up their end.

If I’m told I need to pay a ransom to get somebody freed but I know they may not be released even after I pay, then I may not pay. So it’s in the captors best interest to always release them upon receiving payment.

Then again we’re dealing with desperate, possibly evil people with no sense of morality and who will never have considered game theory before. Real life is messy.

Speaking as a player that doesn’t use proxies, if the people I play with suddenly all started to compete with stronger and stronger decks using proxied cards, I’d feel more likely to quit playing with them than try to keep up. Not everyone is looking for power.