You can have some of mine bro I don't need it

Sure, I'm having a good time with it. It's still on sale for 20-something € on steam (or you can just pirate it and it's on sale for 0€, wow!!)

I've only been playing in the free-build sandbox edit mode (Sandbox mode on the main menu and then Edit property instead of Play when you load a save, you have infinite everything and can noclip). I bought the game just for the free-build mode in the first place. I don't think they even had that in the first game. I haven't actually played the "real" game/campaign yet, where I guess you kind of earn cash money by cleaning and fixing up existing houses? idk, that just sounds like work.

Some observations I've had so far:

• Performance seems good. It's not very demanding on low settings, but can get pretty heavy if you turn on global illumination and stuff.
• The controls for moving stuff around can be a bit cumbersome. No keybind for swapping back and forth between move and rotate and toggling snap to grid so you have to click the buttons every god damn time.
• The selection of furniture isn't exactly enormous. Still good enough to get the general vibe right most of the time, but sometimes you have to stack two identical closets on top of each other and clip them together a bit to get the right height and stuff like that. There's an object called "Cube" that you can scale and rotate and paint however you want to kind of manually make stuff, I've used it a lot to make e.g. legs for a floor cabinet to give it some height and to make handrails for my staircases because there weren't any suitable ones in the game.
• It doesn't support any custom content like furniture and wallpaper yet, only custom pictures. Weird, since the first game had it. Apparently this is on the developers' roadmap for 2 as well.

I've been in a bit of a mood to do some home improvement shit lately, so I bought House Flipper 2 on the Steam sale and made an (almost) 1:1 build of my entire house. I've been brainstorming and reorganizing rooms and testing out wallpapers for days. Already found the perfect wallpaper for our living room in the game, so now I'm gonna try to find an IRL equivalent and go for it. It's good as hell. Games are apparently good for at least 1 thing.

Ah yeah obviously, thanks.

Finland news: Business lobby proposes cutting public holidays to fund defence spending

The bougies want to make the public holidays of Ephiphany day and Ascension day always be on a weekend, in order to leech more capital from the working class under the convenient guise of paying for NATO's defence demands. EK, the main finance ghoul lobby in finland, has also been pushing for fewer public holidays for ages, but literally no one has supported it. Now they finally have a crisis to exploit. Personally I think this is likely to go through with little resistance, because, you know, the russians. The unions and the left party might release a strongly worded letter or two, but likely do nothing about it, since they broadly support NATO's extortion.

For context, Epiphany and Ascension can fall on a weekday (which is obviously based), for example this year epiphany fell on a monday (3 day weekend lfg) and ascension on a thursday (take friday off = 4 day weekend lfg). Idk and idgaf what the original meaning of the holiday is, a free day is a free day.

How do you say finland in maoist standard english btw? I can't figure it out.

I'm guessing it's shorthand for "chinese owned vessel". they are broadcasting that they're "friendly", since Iran likely would only target western-aligned ships if they decided to lock down the strait.

Many ships used to do the same thing (maybe they still do?) in the red sea so the Houthis wouldn't blast them, with "NO ISRAEL SHIP" and such.

I found a ~meter long piece of rebar in the woods yesterday and swung it around like a sword for a while and it was DOPE

Huh, neat. They didn't even let him run in the municipal elections. I always respected the guy for his anti-NATO stance, even more so after he and another PM got into hot water after "behaving inappropriately towards the mayor" during some kind of city council meeting. They never officially commented on it, afaik they'd gotten into a rather heated argument about something with the ghoul mayor. Standing up for something and sticking to your beliefs is strictly not tolerated in the Left Alliance, so I'm actually kind of surprised they didn't expel him.

i dunno how to x cancel or anything

you can just add "cancel" to the url, so that it's xcancel.com instead of x.com.

e.g. https://x.com/typesfast/status/1909362292367802840 -> https://xcancel.com/typesfast/status/1909362292367802840

So I buckled and checked out what the Balatro hype is all about. It's so good. Somebody help, I'm seeing jokers and jack of hearts and mults in my sleep.

Today I'm angry at the word "innovation". Could there even be a contemporary word with less meaning? What does it even really mean? Capacity to hustle and funnel cash money into the pockets of shareholders? The ratio between use value and monetary value, i.e. the more useless bullshit something is compared to its price, the more innovative it is? I can't believe this shit.

fuck wrong mega