anakin78z

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Just feeling sad, really. Not going through any episodes right now, so it's just normal sadness. Playing a healthy amount of video games to distract myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Playing Dragon Age Veilguard. Just finished the first quest, and it's a lot of fun so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only read what you posted, not the longer article... I think that we should absolutely assess and evaluate the success of the program. The numbers on how many species are added, and how many are successfully removed, show that things aren't really working.

And the cross breeding example is an interesting one. To me that seems more like a symptom: the species is forced to cross breeding because the population is too low to sustain interbreeding. Killing off barred owls is probably the wrong move.

But that doesn't mean we should stop trying. Complaining about lost profits is such a slippery slope it's not even worth discussing, in my opinion. Once a species is gone, that's it, and no amount of profit can justify that.

So when a program doesn't work, we shouldn't say 'eh, survival of the fittest,' we should see what else we could do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I've been playing the Ballionaire demo, which is pretty damn fun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I miss good arcade racers. I don't remember the name of them, but I remember on the Xbox or 360 there were some really fun ones where you race around cities and nice landscapes. You could just jump in with friends and race. These days any racing game I try is like a job. Oh, you want to race? First drive to the garage, pick your car, talk to the mechanic, then spend 20 minutes driving to the race track. Mario Kart is about the only fun racing game I can think of, but I'd prefer something with real cars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Our DM, a dentist, so not in tech, used it to put together a D&D campaign, and so far it's been fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I always have to do custom. It's shitty, but I'm not going to lunch to subsidize someone's pay, I just want a sandwich.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I disagree. Paying $25 for a family of 4 and having the added bonus of not putting up with theater bullshit (e.g. ridiculous candy prices and asshole people) seems like a damn good deal.

 
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Flying cars and hover boards

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Posters like this always assume that their candidate is the other option if the person doesn't abstain or vote 3rd party.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Probably because there isn't a giant mini blind lobby, and people plastering stickers all over their pickup trucks yelling about their mini blind rights.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Strong 8 vibes today

 

I just noticed the pills changed a bit, and instead of a 20 printed on one side, it's now a 25. I called the pharmacist and they said that it was changed and they don't know why.

Much more worryingly, I seem to be experiencing increased side effects since I started taking it a few days ago.

I'm curious if anyone else is taking these pills, and if you're noticing anything different?

 

Day one I pretty much slept all day. Day 2 I'm just irrationally fucking angry.

What will day 3 bring?

 

OK, I finally took the plunge on Baldur's Gate 3, and, coming from playing several hundreds of hours of Solasta recently, the first thing I noticed is the lack of a combat grid.

Going back a bit further, my son and I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. We were super pumped for the sequel, but when it finally came out, it kind of fell flat for both of us. Whether or not it's down to this, I don't know, but they also removed the grid.

That game, of course, was an XCom-like. XCom used a grid, but a more recent Firaxis game, Marvel's Midnight Suns, got rid of the grid as well.

To me, all these gridless iterations of classic strategy games just aren't as engaging. I guess they're going for a more immersive rpg type of feel? But to me it seems to sacrifice the strategy aspect, and ultimately, judging based on my hours played, that always ends up being too great a sacrifice. My play time on Marvel's Midnight Suns is less than 10% of Xcom 2, and the same is true for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.

I'm sure BG3 is a great game, and I'm sure I'll enjoy the campaign, but so far it's not giving me the 'feels'.

Do you miss grids? Or did they only slow you down?

 

BP2. I've been in a depressive episode for almost 2 weeks now and I just can't fucking deal right now. I run my own business and I'm ready to fire one client and to tell another to take their project elsewhere. I know, I KNOW I should not be making decisions like this in this state, but I just can't handle it anymore. I basically quit in the middle of a meeting this morning because I couldn't handle another pedantic fucking conversation, and now everyone is messaging me asking if I'm OK, and I'm not. And there's really fun work that I should be focusing on, but I'm too preoccupied with the crap stuff, and I only have like 1/10th of the energy I should have, anyway, so I can barely muster the energy to just exist.

Thanks for reading. Maybe tell me to not screw up my life right now. Or tell me to go for it. I'm good either way.

 

He gets very excited when we feed him

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