

Dang it, this is why I can’t have nice things
Sometimes I make video games
Dang it, this is why I can’t have nice things
They’re coming to get you, Barbara!
I once got to do a tour of a historic fort, and when we visited the magazine the guide told us that garrisoned soldiers were issued wooden button fly trousers. They couldn’t use a zipper because a spark might set off the gunpowder, and also they hadn’t been invented yet.
I’m sure it probably varies geographically, but when the plastic ban came first came into effect for us you’d see a lot of reusable shopping bags that were made from plastic.
I remember reading a study that suggested the typical reusable plastic bag used as much plastic as two-thousand disposable bags. So if you had one of those bags, you’d have to use it once a week for forty years to offset your plastic karma burden.
But anyway, as they say, you should bring your own bag because otherwise they’ll make more disposable bags. It has to be legislated, otherwise corpos are going to corpo and we’ll continue drowning in plastic.
These shopping bag bans don’t go far enough imo. The amount of plastic in packaging, shipping, medicine, fishing, whatever industry you choose - it’s just mind boggling.
Here’s a funny plastic quibble I have: a store near me sells bread which comes in a plastic bag, but the little clip/tag to tie off the bag they recently switched to cardboard. A token gesture, but hey, it’s still nice to see. Now if you want to buy in bulk, you can buy a bag of bread with two bags of bread in it. The outer bag is tied off with a plastic tag.
Pluto is and will always be Hot Shit.
Actually, it’s very cold on Pluto. Which makes Pluto cooler than Fonzie
What doesn’t kill you might succeed on a second attempt.
Quack
My mouth hurts so that my heart doesn’t
3 hours of debugging can save you 30 minutes of reading the documentation
I suppose people will always do what they think is easiest
Hmm, I’d probably call it PG13.
The prologue has some fantasy violence / gore, and the main side plot is lesbian romance. Some sexual tension, and I think a fade to black, but I don’t remember anything explicit.
I don’t know if this would bother you, but the language was like fantasy blue-collar. The protaganist is an orc and curses a lot, but I feel they were fantasy swear words and I don’t remember seeing any F-bombs
The book’s main appeal is this wholesome, cozy vibe though. Even if some of the elements are for adults, it’s got good morals and a heartwarming message
This book is like a warm hug on a cold day. I can’t recommend it enough
When I was a teenager I felt this way. I didn’t ask to be here, and so far life has sucked pretty hard.
My stance has softened as I’ve aged. I still wish I’d never been born, mind you, but I don’t blame my parents for having kids. They just did what came naturally for them.
You can’t consent to being born, and that upset me a lot. But it’s not like they could have asked my permission anyway. Might as well make the most of the situation.
Just buy another book then, you’ll have only 12.5% of your problems left.
Hmmm, this is going to take forever…
So you’re saying it’s light on flash
It wouldn’t surprise me if reviewers have the budget for top of the line computers. Sadly, that does little to soothe my frustration that my computer - which meets the advertised recommended specs - falls short
Frickin Dead Space remake. I’m playing through it now and even on the lowest settings it was pretty bad. My computer crashed while the shuttle was crashing, which honestly felt kind of apt
I’ve never beat the original, but my wife wanted to see the game and has never played it. Even after tweaking things to get them running on my computer it’s still not super stable. We might have to switch to 2008
The game looks super tense, gross, and scary. Personally, I think it’d be scarier if it was buttery smooth, but I guess there’s a certain amount of anxiety to be had wondering if walking through a door is going to freeze the game while I’m being chased by xeno horrors
I use a thumbs up reaction as “I acknowledge I’ve read and understood this, but don’t think you require a push notification” so I guess your mileage may vary
I think the intention is that you would read it as “Everything is impossible” followed by “Nothing is impossible”
But then I looked at it again and got “Everything is impossible / Nothing is possible”
So all in all, I think it’s a poorly conceived sign
Several years ago, HotS went into “Maintenance Mode” which means it isn’t receiving further updates although the servers are still up for now.
Which is such a shame. I’m not big on MOBAs but that was my favorite
This looks really cool, but it’s way outside my price range.
I’ll have to keep an eye out when I’m hiking