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  • Still Project Zomboid, it’s been like 10 years. The game have evolved, and current unstable version includes a lot of completely overhauled mechanics. I’ve seen some bugs, but those guys know their job, so even a “buggy” content works better than some “released” other games.
    Recently got Green Hell, and this is one of the best survival experiences I’ve seen. Basically you are dehydrated, starving, and infested by parasites in South American jungle, but on a good side, you have some meat to fry if you won’t die before you’ll manage to make fire.








  • Completely agree with the situational stuff. Imagine you’re sitting in a park, trying to kick off a “just chilling and having fun” for yourself, but actually being nervous or anxious. But just sitting on your ass in a nice place can do wonders (remember it doesn’t count if you doomscroll) - from personal experience, my brain frantically tries to find some job for itself for a while: entertainment! thrill! flying space cats! - but when nothing happens, it switches to “okay, wake me up is something happens” mode, and I suddenly don’t need to run somewhere and do stuff.



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    27 days ago

    Well, I once got a callback from a mobile operator support rep, and she was speaking so perfectly (tone, pauses, the way she built sentences, everything), that our conversation came out like:

    • Booooring! Give me human. Human operator. O-pe-ra-tor! Person!
    • I’m sorry, but you will have to deal with the fact I’m real lol
    • !!!
      I don’t know what she was doing at a call center, because that was a professional voiceover or advertisement level




  • Yeah, we know that he’s away (I’d assume he’s not fishing from his backyard, then he is definitely the asshole).
    I got heavily downvoted, but just to collect the facts and assumptions:

    1. The kid is not a child, it is an adult who is able to drive.
    2. He (she?) is saying that they’re okay, so they are not endangered anymore
    3. Dad is out fishing. And places where people fiah are usually not 5 minutes from home
    4. Mom’s car is wrecked - that’s the most probable reason to write dad, as he has an “non-wrecked” car
    5. As it’s Mom’s car that is wrecked, she probably needs to know that, arrive at the spot anyway, because insurance, police, stuff like that. The “child” probably doesn’t want to call her because she could be quite upset.
    6. There are taxis.
    7. If mom is at work, I think a wrecked car and a “child” at the roadside is a good enough reason to leave for the day.
      Summarizing all that, I don’t see how mom is out of the picture where she has one more reason to know about the situation, and how the adult offspring didn’t leave home in a taxi.




  • The market did change in the end of 90s-start of 2000s - before, games were mostly done for “nerds with PCs”, because usually only well-off adults had something decent at home. Then, mass adoption of PCs, PS3and XBox, led to age of an average gamer drop to a teenager, for the first time in history. So many games were, in general, “dumbed down”. Now we see a great picture of market coming back, and there is a shitton of everything engineering/economics.. I’m not saying that middle schoolers don’t deserve to play games - they do, and I did. It’s just, for example, WoW’s “account bound” and “char bound” stuff wasn’t a good thing, but it then became a standard, and started an age of microtransactions (will you argue itcs a bad thing?)