Factorio!! This work week has been hell and I have a week PTO starting Monday. So time to put in some effort in an asynchronous multi-player game with a friend.

No Man’s Sky is doing a Halloween event, too, so I might play around in that to get some unique cosmetics. And the Expeditions usually have a tailored experience that’s always fun.

I’ve been playing Papers Please in the 30 min or so I have for gaming in the evenings lately. I might play more of that to see if I can get all the endings.

Unless the weather is nice. Then I’m going fishing.

No Man’s Sky or Elite: Dangerous might offer you a stellar exploration experience you would enjoy over Starfield.

No RPG elements in either, though.

Ah Paradox is finding their model of releasing unfinished games and getting around to solving it later less appealing!

That is a little disappointing, actually, as Paradox made some damn good games this way. Crusader Kings 2, Hearts of Iron 4 and Stellaris were all made like that.

AI job matching… what a stupid hellscape we are building for ourselves to be crushed under

I’ve gotten a few of these, but I just moved so it only included Google maps images of my old apartment, and I guess the data scrape didn’t get my phone number, so it included language like “I bet you wouldn’t like it if I called you at 0000000000, would you?”

I’m savvy enough to laugh and delete, but I’m sure this would be very effective against some older Americans.

Thank goodness the program told me I have value after Tyler stopped replying once I showed him my asshole.

Buddy if I buy Panther Marten lures off Ali Express or from Dicks they come from the same factory in the same packaging at the same quality, but one costs $1.12 and the other $7.99.

It’s being manufactured in China anyway, I’m just avoiding the beak wetting Dicks and Walmart do to pay their shareholders.

Plus it ain’t like the US actually has any qualms with slave labor, just look at all the industries that take advantage of prison labor in the States.

Bullshit! I wanna buy cheap fishing gear for a tenth of the cost at Dicks.

Better get some rods and reels en route before this goes into effect.

A whole new kind of low quality, unimaginative, worthless crap is headed our way. Hurrah!

Man, fuck Duolingo. The users came up with these jokes about the product because while it’s useful, it’s also annoying as hell, and they turned that into a marketing campaign.

Lazy ass mother fuckers oughta pay the users for writing their marketing plans

I want a Chinese phone so badly, but I live in the USA so I think I’m SOL.

My Note 20 5g Ultra is starting to break down in certain places and the economy isn’t what it used to be, so I’m not eager to spend another thousand plus dollars on a phone. There’s plenty of great looking Chinese phones that go for like £200 in the UK that I’d love to consider, but it’s just not an option here and the comparable Samsung device is a grand or more over that.

I’m looking at the line up of foldables and wondering

1. do I even really need one? I kinda want one, they look cool, but is it really that much better than a normal phone?

2. should I even consider the Galaxy when the Honor V3 looks like it’s comparable specs with better battery and a thousand dollars cheaper?

Tho the latter requires figuring it how to get and use one in the US.

Streaming is just cable

Hey Googoo, I ain’t gonna watch YouTube if it got ads

I think you should try it. I think an hour is appropriate for a lot of the story beats if you have a decent memory, though maybe an hour and a half would be better suited to some of the more involved parts. A lot of this is affected by your reading speed. There’s a lot of reading.

For what it’s worth, I also played it in bursts, but probably something like 2 hr sessions. There’s a lot of rough, serious material in that game and I found it a lot to process at once, so I took breaks between sessions fairly often.

I’m less concerned about how these are deployed against soldiers as I am about how they’re being provided to police departments as they are in the US.

I’m not so sure I’d call myself a “tankie”, but I’d like a $12k new car and if it were an EV, even better. I recently paid more for a used car! Cars, like everything else, have gotten so stupidly expensive. It would have been nice to see one thing actually become more affordable because I know wages ain’t gonna increase accordingly for a long time.

This is real surprising to hear, as I often see this kinda third inch wide ripple crease in non-marketing photos of em. Is it just not visible when it’s on? I could deal with it being visible when it’s off.

Once they figure out how to deal with that crease looking like ass, I’m deffo picking one of these up

Great game, 'cept for that last puzzle, though. I know how people feel about changes in remakes, but there’s gotta be a subtle way to make that one a lil mote obvious to find.