And carting CDs and vinyl around used a lot more energy still.

We should focus on increasing renewable energy production, not degrowth.

Why not just leave it up to the users? Maybe put a warning?

Why does the government have to ban everything and treat us like children?

Thanks, I hadn’t heard of Frogun! So many frog games with Kero Quest 64 too!

I really enjoyed Azaran, Gravity Storm and Always With You in the NextFest.

I have it on my wishlist! But have to cut the spending somewhere haha. I’d also like to get Cyber Knights, A Hat In Time, Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, Skin Deep and Soulash 2 - but it’s just too much money with so little time for gaming now (especially with keyboard + mouse for the latter two).

Super Mario by far IMO, basically all of the games.

5yo is probably still too young to understand Zelda.

I’m planning to buy:

As I mainly play on the Steam Deck.

Any other recommendations?

American culture warriors have decided that their ideology is more important - you see this a lot where their ideology’s goal becomes the “greater cause” worth sacrificing the mission: e.g. in journalism.

Reminds me of Microsoft with the ActivePlatform / Blackbird stuff in the 90s.

Awful to see Google turn into that.

There’s just a lot of people, and few slots. It was rough before and then Covid came and broke it completely.

I think it’s a lot of Americans who don’t understand how it is in other countries, as it’s easier and cheaper in the US (I think some states don’t even have a practical test?).

Like even in Spain it is common for people to go and do it in a small town as in the main cities the failure rate is awful and you have to wait ~6 months between attempts. It’s not exactly outright bribery, but obviously in the small towns they kinda depend on that.

Learning to drive has nothing to do with the driving test though.

It’s a monopolistic scam as they know they can deny a lot of people who have no option but to pay again.

The Asus Vivobook is a good deal.

But as an American you might be able to afford the Framework.

If you can get away with it then do it for sure - the driving tests are mostly a scam anyway, where they fail you to try to make more money.

“Radicalises” how?

Just because they disagree with you?

It’s one of the few free forums, especially that is so large.

Just look at the Twitter files and Reveddit - they’re far worse if you don’t parrot the line of the US State Department.

Have you used TikTok? - it’s the only mainstream platform with freedom of speech and mostly free discussion.

Reddit was far, far worse with all the bots, shadow-banning, deleted comments, etc.

Only on Runescape, it taught me enough for life.

My ex-gf was almost victim to one of the Nintedo Switch selling sites when there was a shortage. They constantly changed domains and had it really professional looking, but buying anything from scalpers is risky especially when it looks too good to be true like that.

I’d just use https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html for an estimate of value / price, and then build a spreadsheet with the same results for good candidate components but the prices in your market.

For memory, hard drive and power supply just check you meet your requirements and check reviews (and buy an established brand).

I think the hardest decision right now is deciding between DDR4 and DDR5, as that’ll affect your motherboard options too.

But there is no universally best option as the prices and availability vary massively by market (and even moreso if you include second-hand too!). Even asking others isn’t that helpful if they aren’t in the same market as you.

Remember to always buy electrical tape, extra thermal paste and cleaning alcohol too. The anti-static band is worth it if you are somewhere dry / with a lot of static shocks, but most components have better protection these days. And always read the motherboard and case manuals first, so you don’t make it way harder for yourself to connect the front USB ports, etc. later on.

What is the CCCP? You mean Communist Party of China?

I live in Europe, even with more parties it’s still a matter of “least bad” usually - like here in Sweden I find it really hard to find a party that is anti-religion, anti-monarchy and pro-science and education but also not lenient on violent gang crime and open borders. I also disagree greatly with the current unfair rent control system and the high income taxes (with no property, land or inheritance taxes), but there is literally no party that covers even just those 3-4 issues in the same way (and there are like 5 or 6 viable parties!).

I think the bigger issue with Biden is that there’s just no change at all - no attempt to solve the biggest day-to-day issues of heatlhcare, housing and education. And from the point of view of Europe, Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has been terrible, directly subsidising industry to move to the US, right when Europe is struggling with the Russian gas crisis and the pipelines were bombed, etc.