Stovetop

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Stovetop,

When those two stinkers are the only content they’ve put out in 10 years, there’s not a lot to really build a more optimistic outlook from.

Even then, Inquisition was iffy and Mass Effect 3 generates bad reactions to this day (though I still enjoyed Mass Effect 3 for what it was).

Stovetop,

No, Inquisition was an incredibly middling game. I dropped it after about 15 hours when I realized I was having no fun.

If you enjoyed it, great. I still enjoyed Mass Effect 3, too. But they weren’t great games.

Stovetop,

I got past the hinterlands. Skimmed through it, in fact, after hearing online that there was nothing there worth doing.

The rest of the game failed to grip me as much as the first one did, and I didn’t even like DA:O as much as other games in its genre. Granted, I also dropped Dragon Age 2 like a hot potato, so perhaps if I had enjoyed that game more, I wouldn’t have been so turned off of Inquisition for being marginally more tolerable.

Stovetop,

FWIW any state that has a reliable political majority will do the same. Massachusetts had ranked choice voting on the ballot and it ended up getting defeated at the polls by a sizable opposition campaign because it would only make it likelier that the democratic party might lose some elections, either to Republicans or (gasp) actual leftists.

Stovetop,

I’ve heard that if this sort of thing happens to you, you can call local beekeepers who can help remove them for a low rate, or sometimes even for free. They’re usually happy just to get more bees.

Stovetop,

I am in the same boat. One of my retainers is over 50% full of tokens and in-progress relics. I think I’m going to have to just decide what I am still pursuing and what I am giving up on and clean house accordingly.

Stovetop, (edited )

It doesn’t have quite as much “gloss”, but what puts it in that era for me is the beveled and 3d elements that disqualify it from being “flat”. Some of its design elements were also semi-skeuomorphic.

https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/media/22792/1/3.jpg

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You can’t do it at home because your neighbors will murder you if you are loud enough.

Doing that in a car just makes it everyone else’s problem, though. You’d think living in a city would have desensitized me by now, but I still get woken up some nights by people playing music in their cars loud enough to shake my window screens as they drive by.

If you need that just to stay awake, I don’t think you should be driving to be perfectly honest.

Stovetop,

This but for em dashes

Stovetop,

Not my copy of Microsoft Word I was given by work, I can say that much.

Stovetop,

Fuck everyone in Japan that defends the war atrocities the government committed. If this seems like a harsh take, it is only proportional to how abhorrent those atrocities were.

That shrine should be burned.

Stovetop,

From an end user perspective there’s not that much to think about, thankfully.

Basically, it’s like having two websites that mirror each other’s content. You can sign up for Forum A and be able to read and write posts that users on Forum B can also see. People’s names are tagged with the name of the forum they are registered at, but otherwise everything you do and see happens on your own site of choice and there’s no difference where it comes from.

If Forum A doesn’t like Forum C, but Forum B doesn’t mind, Forum A can choose to disconnect from Forum C and hide their users and posts, while Forum B can still see both. It only gets tricky when someone from Forum B makes a post that people from both Forums A and C are in, but all of the posts from C users are invisible to A users.

Stovetop,

Seldarine/surface-dwelling Drow are the Kiwis.

Stovetop,

Is there anything he can do right in their eyes???

Die, probably. But then that would result in President Kamala Harris and I think they’d hate that even more.

Stovetop, (edited )

Therapy is a good option just to get yourself back into a stable mental place. If you’re a university student, your school can likely help get you in contact with some options and other resources.

I made some friends in college essentially through shared suffering. I am not that close with them anymore, but they are good people and it was fun to commiserate about bullshit finals and hot gossip from around campus. After college, I still make new friends, even in my 30’s. Basically, the best way is to find a hobby. That can be video games even; start playing an MMO or other online game and see if you can find a group of decent people to play with regularly. At any age, you can always join some kind of hobbyist group. A painting circle, an improv group, a community band, volunteer, become a regular at the gym, etc. BUT! You’re at a university; there should be all sorts of clubs, teams, initiatives etc. that you can join to meet new people. Get to know people that like the things you like, find opportunities to hang out more outside of your normal circles, and then friendships develop. But don’t join things just to make friends and meet people. Try to genuinely enjoy what it is you’re doing, because the key is to actually have that common interest. And sometimes you may need to take time to figure out what that is. I once joined some clubs because they were for things I liked, but then it turned out I didn’t like those things in social situations. Sometimes going outside of your comfort zone to try something new is the ticket—something you’d never do on your own but could be fun with others.

As far as relationship, that’s something I can’t really offer advice on because everyone is looking for something different and some people feel that need for intimacy more. The tactic that worked for me was just to not really make it an active priority, and then eventually I found someone to be happy with for a while. But I never agonized during those years I was single because it was never as huge a priority for me as it is for others, so I can’t say that the “wait and see” approach works for everyone. But you’re still young, you’ve got a lot of time to figure out what you’re looking for in a partner. The trend is that younger generations today are starting relationships, getting married, having kids etc. a lot later than previous generations, just the nature of the economy today, so don’t buy into the outdated concept that you’ve gotta find the one in your early 20’s.

Stovetop,

Avez-vous la recette?

I firmly believe protestors have a right to shut down busy highways, freeways, places of business and higher education.

You identify a problem, you then call the attention of your family, friends and peers and really anyone who will listen to your rantings and ravings. After which if enough people support your claim to give confidence of legitimacy, you voice your concerns to authority. Or governing body or anyone that has been designated for the...

Stovetop,

It depends. Part of the reason for the bus protests and sit-ins was precisely because those were the segregated spaces that they were protesting. So if your protest doesn’t specifically have anything to do with buses or restaurants, you’ll probably end up confusing people.

In the absence of a modern day analog, might be better to just pick larger public spaces to protest in where you’ll attract more attention than random bus routes or restaurants.

Stovetop,

Millennials are in the “Oh fuck I’m ‘the Man’ now” phase.

Stovetop,

Most of us have sold our souls to corporate overlords to put scraps on the table and keep leaking rooves above our heads. We’re not the ruling class but we’re the drones who aren’t allowed to be fun anymore.

That, and to the youth of today, we’re now supposed to be the old people who don’t get them, like how our parents had no clue what was up with the Pokemans.

I used to teach in public schools in the area, but even outside of that environment I know enough about what the students are into and how they talk, because yeah, I spend a lot of time online and play video games and live and breathe memes. But you can never let kids think you’re trying to be hip by letting them know you like the same things they like, because in most cases that just ruins it for them. They obviously want their own circles, and we are by necessity outside of it.

Stovetop, (edited )

An excuse I’ve heard before is that God’s mysteries are not for man to understand. The ultra-religious would absolutely rather have followers live in ignorance. That way they stay followers and don’t think to question things that don’t make sense.

Stovetop, (edited )

Hopefully Sony follows through on the rumors that they’re making PSVR 2 compatible with PCs. The headset itself is amazing, and giving more ways to use it it makes it more appealing for VR fans who would be interested in PSVR but don’t want to lock themselves onto a single platform.

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It’s definitely easier to have that degree of support when you’ve got a common architecture now. There has never been a console generation before this where you had literal years of overlap with games releasing on previous and current gen, because it didn’t require much extra work to maintain additional versions. They were already doing that with the “Pro” consoles before anyways.

Hell, PS4 players are even still going to get the highly anticipated Shadow of the Erdtree DLC for Elden Ring in a few weeks.

Stovetop,

It’s the video game equivalent of Legos. I think it has staying power in a way few other games have, precisely in the same way that Legos have remained popular toys for generations.

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