I haven’t seen anything new and exciting on sale. Some stuff I already have is on sale, though. BG3 is great. Pillars of Eternity is also great.

I’ve been playing Guild Wars 2 a lot. It’s on sale. New expansion came out recently. It’s the only MMO that doesn’t piss me off. Feels like an actual video game.

I think the average person isn’t very bright. And that’s okay. Most of us don’t need to be discovering new maths or creating new works of art.

But anyone is going to perform worse when they’re stressed, distracted, afraid, hungry, or similar. A lot of people, that’s their daily life. Something like less than half of americans can afford a $1000 surprise bill. You’re not going to see anyone’s best showing when they’re worried about feeding themselves tomorrow.

Incidentally, republican policies suck and make more people scared, angry, and financially insecure.

+1

We have read only access.

Also transactions are good ideas.

Also my database tool (the one built into pycharm) warns and requires you to hit submit a second time if you try a delete or update without a where. Discovered this on local where I really did want to update every record, but it’s a good setting.

Always use feature flags for risky work! It would have been broken for a lot longer if I didn’t add one and they had to re-deploy the site. The site was continuously pushed all day, but building and deploying could take 45+ mins

This reminds me of the old saying: everyone has a test environment. Some people are lucky enough to have a separate production environment, too.

I’m still slightly mad that everyone wanted to use AIM instead of ICQ, even though icq was better. It had offline messaging and you could change your display name, neither of which aim supported.

Anyone younger than like 30 probably has no idea that those were noteworthy features at one time. You could only send someone a message if they were actively connected at the same time as you.

I have not seen it, but in some cases one might confuse effortless effort for visible effort.

Effortless effort is pretty universally appealing in most facets of life. The person who casually rides a bike up a hill generally looks better than someone who’s pumping and struggling.

In my mind, with appearance, someone who looks like they’re trying too hard often suffers that as a penalty to how they’re evaluated. But the person who did put effort in without it being obvious will probably come out ahead.

See also: men who say women look better without makeup. Woman comes in to work without makeup. Men respond with “oh my God are you ok? You look unwell”. The woman was wearing makeup, but it was subtle and men didn’t notice.

Though there’s also the halo effect and intimacy. Someone in sweatpants can ping as Hot because that signals intimacy. Different facet of the evaluation.

Someone who’s really good at guitar will ping Hot because of the halo effect. That is- when someone is good at one thing, we think they’re good at everything, where being hot is a thing.

I have a hypothesis I can’t really test because I’m not into men, but I feel like more men are unattractive than women. I’m going to guess it’s because a lot of men put zero effort in.

My time at sand rock is kind of like stardew, but 3d and I liked it better. I haven’t tried the multiplayer , but the single player was fun.

Baldur’s gate 3 is a huge game of the year smash hit. Good coop. Turn based combat. Local split screen. Probably turn the difficulty down if you don’t care for DND rules and just have fun.

Audio surf I believe has co-op. It’s a fun little toy of a game, but not very deep. You steer a car over a track generated from your music

That’s not really how this works in theory or practice, and many people will suffer needlessly in the interim.

Off topic but DND kind of sucks as a rule system, and you should probably look for something that’s a good fit for your group out of the box.

Fate is very fast and pretty free form. Also free.

The supreme Court swung to the right and roe v Wade was overturned, for one major thing. There have been rumblings of attacking same sex marriage, too.

Also there was a coup attempt.

What I have noticed are a lot of guys who think they’re nice to women, but really aren’t. I’ve also seen men who project a completely fabricated persona to women, acting polite and caring, but being the most vicious untrustworthy backstabbers in the room – e.g., being extremely polite and civil to the woman, but then telling me they can’t wait to get into her pants, etc., the moment she’s out of earshot.

This, especially the first part, seems relevant. Like “I tip the starbucks girl every time why won’t she go out with me?” is a sad, common, energy. (Because she’s at work my dude. She has to be nice to you.)

Glad you dodged this bullet.

I had a coworker-friend who was too into right wing Internet stuff, and trying to deprogram him was hard work. People spend hours soaking up glossy garbage and find communities of like minded people. I think I only made any progress at all with that guy because we were already friendly over work and video game shared experiences.

The guy from your post is probably on some “manosphere” website complaining about how his misfortune right now. Maybe one day he’ll realize he’s the primary architect of his poor outcomes.

I think I tried the demo or free weekend and it didn’t quite click for me, but I was playing alone. Thanks for the recommendation, though.

I almost also wrote that I wanted something like dark souls, but built for co-op from the ground up. The dark souls games typically have a fair amount of stuff each player has to do alone, and you’d have to do the game twice.

It’s still fun and I actually coop’d the franchise with a friend, but I don’t think I could get my “plays bejeweled” or even “plays Mario games” friends to do it happily.

(There is Remnant, but it didn’t really do it for me)

Some sort of magical game that people with radically different skill levels can enjoy together. I tried to get my friend to play nioh2, but she just doesn’t have the practice to be any good at it yet. If we put in 100 hours she’d get competent, but that’s a big investment. I want someone to figure out a way that I can play like Nioh2, and my friend can play like Bejeweled, but we’re doing it together and it’s fun for both of us.

Food waste and obesity are problems.

Probably the better solution is more granular serving sizes with corresponding prices. Like pay less to get less.

This is a plus for me. I don’t want them to recommend me anything. I don’t trust them not to recommend me stuff that’s going to piss me off.

I’ve long thought it absurd that you can go to jail for pissing in your neighbor’s well, but if you build a factory that dumps piss in everyone’s wells that’s just business.

Played slay the spire on the train this weekend. Also monster train. Played a lot of sandrock the past couple months, too. (Heidi is my love).

I do play a lot of guild wars 2 though. The old standby.