I agree, I didn’t like the new combat system.

But I really like turn based combat. I don’t like to have to run around, spam buttons, or time anything right. I like to read and have time to make a decision. It’s a personal preference, but one that made me not get very far in the remake.

I’ve been trying to fill in the data around me. It’s not there yet. But I’m trying.

And I’m not in some backwater area. I’m just outside Chicago and when I go into the city I’m still filling things out.

“maga are complaining DOGE engineered got fixed.”

Jesus fucking Christ, it’s the federal government. The public sector. We are fucking ENTITLED to know who runs our government.

Because no one wants to be the first to start a revolution. No one wants to be a martyr to get the cause going. No one is desperate enough yet to put their life and freedom on the line.

Sure, but we can’t ever stop talking about it either. We need more, too. But we need to keep making people aware. Keep it in the news, keep it in public discourse.

Saw a guy bragging on YouTube and didn’t even stop to consider that the dude was just full of bullshit?

God damn, we’ve lost all ability to think critically.

“Patriotism is in decline” so instead of addressing the root of the issue and stop moving the country to the fascist right let’s indoctrinate the kids. Maybe we can have an executive order to help do that. And call it the “stop indoctrinating our kids” or something like that. It’s not like anyone will see the irony of naming it literally the exact opposite of what it’s doing.

Fuck this dystopic administration.

They already do. CARB. California Air Resource Board.

A lot of auto makers already use carb standards because it’s such a huge state. It has its own issues like certain aftermarket parts need to be CARB approved such as intakes for whatever reason.

Maybe someday I’ll be a millionaire. Hopefully it won’t be at the same time a loaf of bread is $100 and a million dollars is poverty.

Except XX and XY aren’t the only combinations. There is just a single X, XXX. XXY, and XXY.

And then there are just plain intersex individuals who produce both or neither reproductive cells. Chromosomes may not express themselves properly.

Biology isn’t as simple and clear cut as you make it out to be.

And the only reason they used “at conception” is to signal that life begins at conception for the abortion argument. The executive order doesn’t actually have anything to do anything with science, it only tries to use it as an excuse for their anti-trans beliefs.

Let’s not forget XXY and intersex individuals. Lots of chromosomal disorders could make this even trickier.

Yea. I feel it’s a little underpowered. But I’ve got retroarch on it. It’s nice to be able to easily get psp and psvita games on it. Even if half are psx ports.

It’s become my main gaming machine at the moment. But I’m not much of gamer.

Or places that normally get snow are getting less and less.

I have an auto hotkey script that I always have running. It just takes my clipboard and sends the key presses to type it in when I press Ctrl + shift + v.

It gets me around most of this sort of bullshit.

I meant as in, I as a player don’t need to be able to make changes that dramatically alter the game world in which I am playing and alter the story beats that I’ll hit.

I don’t like having to make a decision that may lock off entire areas or missions in the game. I no longer have time to devote a replay of a 60 hour game so that I can experience a different story line.

Otherwise, yes. The stakes the character faces in the story don’t always need to be “save the world.”

Personally, I am playing the game to enjoy the story of the character I am playing as. Not to play as me and make my own personal decisions.

I want a corridor. It means they actually have to tell a story. Open worlds are too often mostly a large collection of lore for you to slowly read and tease out. But world building and lore doesn’t make a game. For many of us, it’s about the journey and story. I don’t need to make world changing decisions when I’m playing “hero.” I want to know heros story with all its cliches and tropes. Give me puzzles to solve, challenges to overcome, and entertaining gameplay instead “choose your own adventure.” It’s like the industry collectively decided that player agency, open worlds, and having options that changed how the story went somehow is what made a game good.

Att’s usage meter sucks.

I dunno. That sounds like a Sturgeon’s General Warning.

Unifi. I’ve got a box of APs as ewaste just sitting in the basement. Every so often I would get more ewaste from companies I work with.

I don’t need the most demanding of wifi systems. I hardwire most of my stuff whenever possible. And I have a fairly small home. A single AP on the main floor, 1 AP on the basement. 1 AP in the detached garage.

Most of my wifi devices are iot things on their own vlan.

Oh man. I’ve had this kind of thing. I started inviting people I knew wouldn’t come. I wouldn’t feel bad when they didn’t. But I’d occasionally get a couple that I didn’t expect and had a good time.

My girlfriend hates hearing no though so she only invites those she knows will say yes. It’s a bit of a bummer. Because I always enjoy the surprise of someone I didn’t expect.