You want to hear about a game to play?

Clair Obscur. Made from former Ubisoft team members in what sounds like a healthy development culture and it’s a godamnned masterpiece at every level. Visuals, art direction, story, characters, mechanics, music - it’s all stellar.

Knowing how half-assed they’ve been deploying Grok a ZIP bomb would probably work on it if they allowed file uploads.

Not everyone can live in California wine country.

Most people live where it gets either dangerously hot or dangerously cold for large portions of the year.

Because I live in Texas and being outside in the summer for extended periods is dangerous.

Same thing happened to me recently. Super fun loop.

1. Have panic attack
2. Symptoms mimic heart attack
3. Panic more
4. Mimics heart attack harder
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until EKG, X-ray, and blood test come back clear, and doc gives benzos.

At least now I know it’s a panic attack so it doesn’t feed itself as aggressively.

Unless you have an older machine, probably the Coke guy.

Coke wants to control what drinks are in the machine and what percentage of the take Coke gets, so they refill the machines.

We used to have an older machine on an old contract, and since we didn’t really care about the income from it we let Coke swap it for a new one they’d service.

About 2 months later, they said we weren’t selling enough drinks and took the new machine away.

Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.

Buying studios wasn’t stupid.

Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.

They know they’ve destroyed the planet, so why bother planning for a future they’ve already prevented.

I live in Texas. I own like 2 shirts with long sleeves in case I have to go to a funeral or something.

Don’t forget the rolling view counter and the guestbook!

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.

Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.”

Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor…I am Pagliacci.”

Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum.

Curtains.

And you can turn off some of the survival elements that some people find annoying. For instance, having to spend half your time early on hunting a specific type of fish for freshwater.

I might pay extra for that.

https://youtu.be/R5fBO-Ua2rk

Those are some expensive pickles.

For those who weren’t around at the time: The PS2 had a huge shortage of memory cards the first year or so. So you could buy games, but had to keep the console powered up 24/7 because you couldn’t save your games.

I ended up buying a 3rd party card, but since Sony didn’t officially allow them it came with a disc that launched an application that installed a driver in the local memory that allowed the card to function until the next power cycle. So you’d put in the driver disc, turn on the PS2, load the drivers, then swap discs to the game you wanted to play and pray that the game you were playing didn’t make use of the same memory addresses as the 3rd-party drivers.

Yeah. If they come for me I’m gonna make sure that they’re not the only ones bringing guns to the fight. That doesn’t mean I’ll do any damage to them, but I’m screwed either way.

If enough people do that, enough of us will get lucky shots in before we get dropped. We have the numbers on our side.

Are people required to know how their car works?

Do people have to understand chemistry to buy gasoline or mercury thermometers?

That’s simply not true. People can’t be expected to know what’s going on under the hood of services designed specifically to simplify things for non-technical users and conceal what’s under the hood.