"You don't need to run your A.I. locally. Pay us to supply the A.I. for you! Let us handle your personal data instead. It's safe with us. Promise. What? You want to use that graphics card for gaming?! Well, that's too bad!"

I gotta give that another try. I played it for a bit back when I had Game Pass, but it never really clicked for me

I put-off picking up and playing Fields of Mistria, and I'm sorry I did. I've invested a lot of time in it recently and I love it. I recently picked up and started playing News Tower, and it's been pretty addictive, too (sorry Fields!)

When I'm away from my PC, the last month it's been the original Octopath Traveler on my Switch 2 (but I can't justify full-price for the Sw2 upgrade.)

Part of me hopes so, part of me does not.

On the one hand, I'm finding that the turnover for new posts doesn't seem to be as great as on Reddit; once I go through my digest here: that's it. Of course, with an influx of new people come the riffraff.

Definitely toyed with doing the same when I joined

sigh I just wanna upgrade my video card, man

More and more, I'm finding that it isn't enough to just give one of my alias addresses. I'll make my account and then immediately end up locked out unless I give them my phone number (looking at you, Discord) or upload my ID/take some live selfies (looking at you, Slowly), or sometimes both (looking at you, LinkedIn).

I miss the days when I could just browse and use the internet anonymously

I cannot stand how they operate over there. I currently have six different Workday accounts, for six different companies. With each, I've had to upload my resume and re-create my profile, filling in my experience, education, etc... because their parser blows.