OED isn’t the only dictionary out there. Oh well.

Good luck with that, folks.

Thank you!

Oh, they are absolutely dedicated to each other, he adores my mom and she loves him fiercely but he is just not willing to consider a will and face his mortality. It’s common, honestly. I am going to be doing a full court press on the matter this coming year. Mom is in her 80’s and is in good health, they both are - but still.

My mom is in a similar boat.

She’s been in Hawaii for decades, living with a guy and they’re not married and she’s not on the will for the property that he owns - even though she’s paid the taxes for it on and off over the years…

I have asked her why he can’t set that up to take care of her if anything happens to him and it’s just that he’s lazy and thinks - like a lot of people do - that he’s going to last forever.

I worry about it, and mention it often but the answer is always the same.

Am like WTF mom, he’s no spring chicken - neither are you - what ARE you two thinking?

Holy cats, this guy is amazing! Thank you for the link, am going to do a dive into his music.

Think it’s the upload. Youtube strikes again.

If you go to a different Fresh upload, (I found this one) the music track is fine.

I watched the playthrough of Death Stranding, as it got too depressing for me about halfway through. Totally get it. I paid a lot for it though, so felt kinda bummed that I’d dropped that cash and couldn’t muster the energy to play it to the end.

On the other hand, I’ve got over 2,000 hours in on No Man’s Sky, (I’m playing in creative mode now and having a blast building cool bases in breathtaking locations) which I got on sale through GOG for 10 bucks, so I suppose it balances out.

The one that I’ve come to a complete stop in is The Talos Principle, and I love it but just can’t seem to finish it. Has been as frustrating to finish as Firmament, which was built for VR so playing it in 2D leaves a lot to be desired - there’s a ton of items that require exact placement and it’s hard as hell to see how to manipulate then w/o the 3D… Oyyyy.

I’ve gotten to the core in permadeath.

Before or after you figured out the game?

I think the play was 100% Mike Johnson going “Let’s not swear in the newest Democratic Representative from Arizona and prevent the Epstein Files from being released in full…” and him teling the Republican GOP congressmen to leave went further than he expected, and rolled into the ACA tax subsidy collapse and then the SNAP fiasco.

The congressmen are just as blind as the rest of conservative, middle-class America as to how large the demographc of white Americans on welfare really is.

You can access pages that are still actively behind any given site’s paywall.

Ah, may I introduce you to No Man’s Sky permadeath mode?

I wouldn’t say a difficult game is poor art, it just challenging and may be more than the user wanted.

This is part of why reviewing a game’s difficulty and it’s play options are critical.

I mostly play sandbox games because the online ones come with the constant strife and challenge which is the antithesis of what I want.

Will really enjoy a well thought out puzzle game however…

My introduction to that was Myst, way back in the early 90’s and my main love are games of that nature.

Oh, can totally relate to winning that final battle or overcoming that boss in a fight.

My best favorite was in Horizon: Zero Dawn when I worked out how to take down a Thunderjaw with just the bow and arrow. I’m too easily visually overwhelmed by fast motion and end up just mashing buttons in melee fights, so the long, tactical takedowns are the cat’s pyjamas for me.

(I’ve been told that I would love Skyrm based on my play style. Will have to check that out at some point.)

Right now I’m on an ultra hard playthrough using just the Banuk Powershot Adept bow, (which is a mean weapon) and if done in the right order, you can disassemble the machines you’re hunting, get all the parts off, kill it then make fat bank picking up the pieces.

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I think Kojima gets it. For a lot of players, esp. on the more cinematic games, the story is the main driver and the action is how it progresses. The games I’ve played that were ordeals are often the ones I’ve given up on. It’s the ones you can start on story mode with, enjoy the narrative and then re-play at the harder levels that I’ve stuck with.

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I’m in the States and know of no one else that listens to his music… UNTIL I introduce them to it.

From here in 'Murrica, yeah, he’s your country’s super musical secret.

And I love his music, it’s about exactly what you say… Human stories.

Musk stated not too long ago, he felt empathy was a weakness of western society.

So… too bad for Tesla. Oh well.

It is, blessedly so. Maybe this will take the electricity-gobbling AI data centers off line and my power bill will go down.

Oh man, is it. That is exactly what got me banned from Reddit after 14 years. I’m on old.lemmy.zip and starting to spread out and check other instances and am finding so much delightful stuff! All of it is drama-free and I love it.