Silksong winning GOTY and BGYSA is great. Seeing Peak up there was nice too. I was a little surprised to see BG3- great game, but I thought it was EOLed in 2024 after native steam deck support.

Another martyr for democracy. She will be remembered as a hero someday soon, like Rosa Parks.

It feels like a bad game of D&D where the DM keeps heavily pushing the evil path, despite player choices not choosing that path.

Unfortunately, viruses don’t follow geopolitical boundaries. The extremely far right’s vaccine hesitancy will put the world in danger and cause a resurgence of various diseases, alongside emerging threats, such as fungal infections.

They’re referencing the contiguous United States. Otherwise, the Southwest would include Hawaii too :3

I loved plant ID books as a kid, and even ate some of the safer ones.

I decided “Why not get into mushroom foraging?” And bought a book on them. Reading it cover to cover, I swiftly realized that far too many look almost identical when young, when old, when wet, have imitators, etc. it’s been decades and I still don’t fuck with mushrooms. My mother independently came to the same conclusion when she took an interest in mushrooms, lmfao.

Honestly, if an indie game is promising, I’ll gladly pay full price. Pacific Drive, The Forest, and Inscryption (small sale) were all games that I picked up because of interesting trailers, premises, and very positive reviews :)

Solomons are really good, but their hoka styles have been terrible. I bought a pair, and they instantly started delaminating in weeks. The tread also wore away super quickly.

Their traditional running style shoes still offer historic durability and should last longer. I just wish that they were built better for the price.

Not just the old ones, many of them in the administration look super strange with even weirder views.

One looks like they fought a lawnmower at a barbershop and lost, another looks like a fanfic witch from The Matrix, several of them look like cast members from The Witch (movie), others have…odd features that make them look like WW2 villains or slightly methed out. And all of them are batshit insane.

You can’t even find people like that in a big city.

I think you probably hit the nail on the head here. I’ve been holding off on MGSV because it’s $20, and I’m waiting for that 50% off sale.

Buuut, that didn’t stop my from buying silksong at full price. Or Factorio. :)

What if you just didn’t go home at first? Hit a climbing gym with buddies, or buy an ebike and use that to commute home. Interrupting your normal schedule and psychologically making home only a place of rest might help you reset your life a bit.

You don’t have to spend money either. You could even just hit up a park, the library, or hang out with buddies. We tend to go swimming lots once standard time hits.

I usually use something bleach-based for toilet and sinks, as they can start to get funky, especially around tile. Sometimes a bleach powder for the tub bottom, if it gets dirty and is difficult to scrub with simple green. I sometimes swap between simple green and bleach-based, depending on what I’m wearing. I’ve destroyed multiple pieces of clothing with bleach, unfortunately. It does really clean dirty things easily, though.

Also, alcohol wipes can clean walls, if they start to get dirty (eg, bug droppings, pollen, etc. we keep our windows open in summer)

Don’t forget the steep tariffs!

Anecdotally, yes. I was able to go from dusting my PC every 3-6mo to every year.

The filters are completely fuzzy on the air filters every 6-12 mo. I still vacuum and dust, just way less frequently. I also don’t wear shoes in the house.

I run them 24/7 in my bedroom and office.

DHS has argued that agents still identify themselves while masked: “When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists,” assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a September statement.

If this were true, every judge, police officer and prosecutor would be dead. So no, they do not need to hide their faces. We all know why they are really hiding their faces.

Release the files.

Inscryption, 100%. Such a good game. Tons of post game content, too.

He reminds me of one of the Wild Things for some reason.

“deeply concerned about the impact this bill would have on the availability of affordable options in cooking products”

This is a terrible reason to veto it, haha. Cast iron can be cheaper and just as effective. I think my cast iron set was cheaper than my single nonstick pan.

In people’s defense, unless you are taking uni economics classes, you probably aren’t getting taught macro/micro + general economics, though it is interesting as hell imo.

Technically, our representatives should, in theory, be learning this stuff and protecting the average person so that civilians can focus on foresty/rocket science/ R&D/public health/business/infrastructure/etc.

That’s why representatives technically are supposed to exist. Nobody has time to learn the one and outs of everything needed to run an entire country smoothly. Especially complicated stuff, like public health, economics and trade, sewage systems, transit systems, and centralized grid planning. That shit is complicated AF.

Something was definitely broken in him, gives off huge Randall Flagg vibes. I bet he has quite a few skeletons tbh. It’s pretty rare to be that fucked up since you were little/born.