I suspect the population needs to see nothing happen if they vote in a blue wave, and u suspect it’s going to need to get worse… not that I don’t support voting, but right now there’s still too much faith that the system will correct itself. If you aren’t constantly consuming political news, you might think the lip service is actually doing something, and with the constant barrage of shit, people can honestly be forgiven too since extent for not knowing exactly how things are playing out with challenges and stuff.

It would be nice if it did correct course with voting, but I don’t think it will. At least not without a bigger shakeup (like actually progressives in place of dinos, flipping gerrymandered red districts, etc.) than 2026 midterms are likely to deliver…

Here’s hoping that because they have crammed this version of ai into everything it could possibly go into, and even a bunch of things it can’t, the hype wagon for the next one is a honey wagon and everyone rightly stays away from it…

3 seconds of mosquitoes buzz, like it just swooped near. That’d do it for me.

My physics prof wore white socks with soccer ball-patterned slide on sandals. Normal business casual other than that, unless you count hair that hadn’t been bruised in a decade. Year round even in snow. And rode his bike to campus like that daily. Very fun dude.

We got a huge downpour of rain back a week or two, flooding and everything. Today the high is like 10f. It’s crazy. And the swings are just crap to live through too. Today it’s 52, tomorrow it’s -52.

I’m not upset about not getting it as snow cuz I hate shoveling, but it’s very upsetting to have it come down as rain in January (should have been a blizzard).

Probably. Near the end of what I watched he’s repeatedly saying “deport the white liberal women” which… idk how else you can take that but as trying to start shit, since it doesn’t really fit the bigotry message very well… sexism for sure, but it just doesn’t sound like a normal thing for a nazi to say. I mean this is the first I’ve heard that one, yet the people around him thought nothing of it… very sus.

Imagine being the people who are expected to, like, deal with shit like this… like how do you take this seriously? At the same time you have to not only take it seriously but also deal with the threats and shit… I certainly don’t envy them.

So what I’m hearing is… put a bunch of random stickers for various things on your car to make them work really hard to figure out if you are worth it, instantly making you not worth it!😜

I’ve gotten a few double-yolks from my chickens, mostly when they don’t lay for a day or two and pop out a really big one.

I got one with a spiral pattern in the shell the other day, like a streak of the wrong material got laid down during development or something. I’m not going to eat it, because I’m pretty sure it’s no good, but it’s cool.

And one of my quail that normally lays brown spotted eggs laid a completely white one last month.

Eggs are weird.

Wakey wakey, hands off the snakey!

Democrats “we can’t do things right, only dictators do that!”

You think dictators are doing things right by moving fast and breaking things?

Hmmmmmmmm yeah I’m done with this conversation. Best of luck with that.

It’s certainly true that the indie market is better about that stuff, but the indie market also generally isn’t considered the driver or trend-setter of the overall games market the way AAA studios are. It would be amazing if that trend shifts, don’t get me wrong, but until or unless it does, I don’t see this going well overall. It does, though, mean that people who care will still have options, and that’s good, so solid point.

I figure the digital-only consoles are a stepping stone toward this. I’d never consider one myself because if I don’t own a copy of the game that I can sell, I’m not paying for it just in principle. But a ton of people wanted the convenience over the practicality of resale. Digital-only consoles have basically killed the physical game market going forward, since it’s been basically dead on PC for ages. I see the same thing happening with the consoles themselves. I mean ps+ already has a streaming option and a substantial portion of their catalogue is only available to play that way. I’m sure Xbox has the same thing, probably with a similar portion of content locked behind streaming from their servers. I don’t even really understand why they would do this since the bandwidth to stream is far higher than to download and play offline, so I have to assume there’s something behind it like a push toward that model. Get people used to it as an option, then make it the only option.

And there’s nothing indie studios can really do about those big trends led by big studios/companies, except to quietly keep doing what they were already doing, and make a huge fuss about it when they get their 15 minutes like larian has done. Wake up as many people as you can sort of thing.

I hope you are correct, but I don’t think you are.

I don’t think game devs (or web devs or any dev really) even remember what optimization means, at this point. They sure aren’t going to start prioritizing it now, especially if major companies continue to be out of touch about what gamers actually want.

I mean we have microtransactions, we have games as service, we have single player games with online connection requirements, we have games that need logins to other services, etc etc etc. no gamers want these things, but it doesn’t matter because companies do. And companies aren’t going to care if you can’t afford to play their game on your own equipment, they’ll offer you a subscription to stream it from theirs.

If you don’t already know this, you should look into used solar from solar power plants. They cycle out their equipment on a schedule, so it’s still got most of its life left, but for like half the price of new solar.

Downside is you have to figure out all the parts you need yourself, and get the whole shebang shipped, which can be expensive if you don’t live near where they originate (still less than new solar, ofc). You also need to arrange to install and hook them up. The install portion can easily be done by anyone if they are relatively handy, and then just have them professionally connected, which saves even more.

Yeah heaven forbid someone wants to do things right instead of doing things like Trump. Do what you like and who cares what you fuck up along the way, right?

So when you get a new job you go in within the first two weeks and make huge changes that impact everyone served by the company, without fully understanding the systems you are working with? That’s what you are asking for here.

Cuz he’s in transition. Training. Learning his job and how to do it. And running an entire city probably takes a bit more transition than some dumb corpo job where you can slot into many similar jobs.

I was told the first line repeatedly as a teenager, and stopped wearing makeup a few years later as a result. Then I’d hear intermittent comments about how I look tired because I have thin skin around my eyes. I look tired no matter what I do. But whatever because I save a bunch of time every morning and evening, not to mention money. Holy hell is makeup expensive!

Now as an adult nearing middle age who stopped even using hair dye, I’m starting to hear that I’d be prettier if I did my makeup/hair better… and I just go “yeah, probably.” And shrug. I’ve accepted there’s no winning, someone will always comment, so I just do what I like. Not my problem if that makes you feel insecure enough to try to change my behavior.

I also don’t recall if I ever did the stabby thing… probably.

But I did get my hands on one of those weird putty erasers that artists use for fine point erasure or whatever they are actually for (didn’t work very well, anyway). I used to use that stuff to make little sculptures in class. If it hadn’t been slightly elastic it would have worked very well for it.

I don’t think I’ve seen that, do you have a link? I’d really like to 😀

I feel like a lot of this is due entirely to the shift away from generational/communal living.

If you live with a bunch of other people, and those people actually contribute to the environment you all live in, the daily tasks get split up such that they are much easier to maintain, for everyone.

Say you’ve got a set of parents, 2 kids and their spouses, and whatever offspring under that. Sure you need a bit more space than your average single family starter home offers, but if only one house is needed, that frees up a lot of money elsewhere so I feel like that’s an OK trade.

But beyond the added space, you could have one person who cooks, one who cleans common areas, one who does dishes, one who does laundry, one who pays bills and manages appointments, and one who makes sure the kids are handled. Rotate those jobs as desired, or assign them to whomever likes doing them most of the time, and all the big major draining tasks are handled. EZ.

With individualized living, everything falls to one or two people, and yeah that’s an absolute ton. Especially if one of the two can’t or won’t pull their weight.