I am very grateful that my kids still fall in my sphere of influence. I’m passed to day that their favorite games are: Super Hexagon, Super Meat Boy, Ori and the Blind Forest, Super Mario 3D Land, etc. No mention of Roblox, Minecraft or Fortnite in this house.

Mutton goat is the best meat. I’ve always said that mutton is GOAT.

It’s all privatised land, no 3rd spaces, awful architecture used to stack tiny homes together and concrete hellscapes. They’ve enshitified outdoors too. Find some grass to touch while It’s still free.

Pagliacci

When I was a kid in the 90s, there used to small fringe groups talking about global warming and everyone else rolled their eyes. Now when it’s too late, people have started caring.

Privacy, security and anonymity are at that place now. Anyone talking about how fucked up it is that even your TV and fridge is mining all the data it can, is considered to be a fringe alarmist. People are going to wait till the world is on fire before taking this seriously. There was an uproar when WhatsApp changed its terms of service a couple of years ago and that died down and nothing changed. The uproar from this (and Discord) will also die down and nothing will change. Maybe one day people will see this as relevant to their lives and take it seriously.

You can talk to yourself all you want, just wear a Bluetooth earpiece (turned off). While you’re at it, you might as well put your favourite booze into a closed insulated coffee tumbler. Now wear a clean collared shirt and no one will question you talking to yourself or your day time drinking.

You: you’re inside it already my dude

Bob: o rly?

You: ya rly

Bob: thanks bro

Still haven’t achieved that goal? Good luck my dude.

Im not sure what to think as ive never been in love or had friends, im only 20 and this it somewhat uncommon i think?

That’s not uncommon. It’s not good if you’re not happy with your situation. Good luck and hope that gets better.

Valentines day is pushed in everyone’s face because it’s ultra-commercialised and there’s money to be made. “Buy her diamonds this Valentines day”… WTF. It’s overhyped. People can celebrate as they like. People can ignore it as they please.

Why?

Looks great. Love those kinds of days off.

You’re probably washing too often anyway.

Isn’t there a video on YouTube of a person trolling a scammer like this? The guy skinned Linux to look like Windows and then gave a phone scammer remote access to their PC and watched him get more and more frustrated and confused by why it wasn’t working properly

“Fuck you and your logic”

If you fart intentionally when you go to the toilet (or a place of your choosing), then you won’t have as much gas left inside to have accidental farts at other times.

No idea bro. Install and try them out. I don’t remember Niagara from when I trialled it.

Use this table and try a few. Find one you like. You can check the privacy report for trackers etc on the Exodus site.

I tried a whole bunch of launchers and settled on Pear launcher. I keep KISS launcher solely for the search (launch KISS search on double tapping the home button). Neo launcher was on its way to greatness, but then development was abandoned… So if anyone has the skills/time/interest in forking that, that would be great.

There was a time when all my shopping would be on Amazon with Prime. I was spending £200+ a month on Amazon. Over a year ago I decided I didn’t want to give Bezos my money anymore. It wasn’t difficult at all to switch. It’s not difficult to buy direct from seller’s websites. Amazon has made this easier by flooding their site with nonsense brands+sellers+nonsense reviews. Ditch Amazon today. You may be surprised with how easy it is.

Lemmy is the only social media I use and it has been great. It feels like this is the more appropriate meme:

I’m a huge fan of rogue-lites. I don’t think I’ve come across any meta-progression mechanic that has bothered me as much as you say.

Hades was probably the most jarring example for me. Mirror upgrades made the game significantly easier and there was little chance of a beginner rogue-lite player managing to complete a run without these. Then by the time the mirror upgrades were unlocked then it felt like I needed to rapidly turn up the “heat” to keep the game challenging at all. I can see why they’ve made such a drastic difficulty curve because they’re appealing to a wider audience than normal rogue-lite audiences (Binding of Isaac audiences would never tolerate such hand holding). I’m still fine with that.

I’ve got a bigger problem with abilities/items being locked behind impossible difficulty. Some items I will never unlock in Dead Cells, because I will never be able to do 5BC (got to 4BC max). Same with Enter the Gungeon and beating the final final boss and extra bosses. In those cases I wonder why the devs have made aspects of the game that the majority of the population will never get to engage with. I just download a 100% completed save file when I’ve made all the progress I could have. I think we should be given the option to access all unlocks after 100 or 150 hours of gameplay or some such option.

Overall, I’ve got no problem with the inclusion of meta-progression (or not). If they implement it well and make a fun game, that’s all that matters to me.