Awesome, thank you.

Explain?

I really, really tried to like Ancestors: The Humankind Oddysee.

Playing as an ape, swinging from trees, eating fruits and mating. It was a lot of fun.

But there are mandatory mechanics that drag it down. You have to discover everything to progress, and you have to bring your kids and tribe along manually. The cost of failing in combat is too high. You can grind for two hours to learn your area, and then lose your best ape and 2 kids to a panther with one second of quicktime events that you haven’t trained for.

Building fortifications is very laborious and I couldn’t find a good reason for it.

Training the clan to build weapons eluded me.

The exploration was amazing though, and if it was less grindy, more forgiving in combat (especially with more opportunities to practice, I mean, why not allow apes to initiate play fighting with each other where you could master the quicktime bullshit without such high risk) and a more independent tribe behaviour where they advance without having to be led manually, it could be a great game.

Same reason that shit on TV is five easy payments of 29.95.

I’m willing g to spend $29. I’ll even spend $29 five times. But not $150.

If the party says the pipes are smooth, the pipes are smooth.

To make DDR5 memory, you just tape a DDR2 module to a DDR3 module

Do you remember which ship class you mained?

Mine was the gladiator, with a minelayer loadout. Loved to drop in on my team during a fighting retreat and just be a bullet-sponge wall of firepower and mines so they could regroup, heal up, and counterattack.

Paladin was my secondary preferred class.

I’m surprised Lenovo haven’t been more competitive this year, they have always been my go to for monitors

Soon the game won’t need funding because it will be eligible for retirement pension

Losing the hardware constraints made devs less innovative too. The Crash Bandicoot devs had to hack the PlayStation’s system memory allocation to squeeze a bit more out of the machine so their game could be better.

Have they considered not spending half a billion dollars giving hair strands shadow effects, and instead developing interesting stories?

They want to innovate some more money out of your pockets.

Minecraft injury noise

Yes it runs on Microsoft excel

As someone who until recently had a Ulefone 27T pro with a 10600 mAh battery (that’s not a typo) the weight gets real boring real fast. Mine weighed over half a kilo.

I still have it and I’ll use it for camping and travel because it will go 5 days on idle without a charge but I bought a different phone for EDC

Ah, the upstate Michigan run.

Abandoned towns with no enemies except your own crushing poverty.

Oil is where Factorio becomes factoriohno

TF2 Had surf maps too, and I spent an embarrassing amount of time on those. Got super good at it too.

It’s a carrot on the end of the stick that’s tied to your back

Factorio here I come.

2026 all the games are playable as the Nazis.

Maybe they used AMD?

The battery in my old phone looks like the Goodyear blimp, should I still proceed?

ST is a Govt psyop designed to distract, debase, and demoralize the youth

CIV6 clearly radicalizes young people.

Momleash the beast

That’s an understandable take, I hope that when he drags himself out of the ashes of his failed company, dusts himself off, and starts a new company when his bankruptcy ban expires, it’s a scooch more ethical to start with.

Factorio

Tomb Raider 1.

I’m replaying the remastered trilogy for the first time since I was a teenager. The level design is outstanding. Very clever re-use of the same areas, just at different heights.

It’s inspiration from side-scroller prince of persia (also played this obsessively as a young child) is palpable. The movement system is revolutionary.

And the enemy progression is hilarious. First you fight some bats, then you fight some wolves, then you fight motherfucking Velociraptors, then a goddamned T-Rex. And thats not even close to the weirdest enemy you’ll fight. Boss battles are evenly spaced until they aren’t. when you have two boss battles immediately one after the other.

And then eventiually, you get to the pulsating flesh caves…

I also seem to have a fully housebroken windows 10. I know my PC has TPM, so it should be compatible with windows 11, but so far, it hasn’t shit inside

I sometimes use doors as well, or I get weird looks

You have no chance to survive, make your time.

Please add Fishing Barents sea to your megasim please. My Sjarken needs to sell its pollock in your fish market simulator

Do we get a refund when it fails prove secure?

Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I announce my alarm went off this morning and I arrived at work on time.

Unfortunately, with all the fiddling around, I’m not sure quite what I did to fix it. I think that maybe just uninstalling and reinstalling the clock app from Google play fixed the problem. Either that, or fully disabling my scheduled Do Not Disturb function.

EDIT: I spoke too soon. My alarms didn’t go off this morning. BUT I think I know why now.

It turns out that there were two apps called Clock. One that was cloned from my old phone, one that came with the new phone:

All my alarms were set up in my old clock. But when I’m giving permissions and exemptions in the battery manager, I reckon thats affecting the new app, which has no alarms. So the old clock app is still getting randomly killed in the night.

I’ve uninstalled the old clock app and set up alarms in the new clock app.

I reckon that will fix the problem tomorrow, but I’ll have to wait and see.

There was a fucky bloatwate app called Duraspeed which killed apps in the background to save battery which I suspected of making the issue, but removing it using adb didn’t make a difference.

There may yet be still more bloaty apps contributing to the problem though. I’ll keep working thru them

I’ll try this, but even if that were the case, the alarm should still have lit the screen up and maybe vibrated. The phone does nothing at all, doesn’t stir, screen just stays black while I lay awake watching it.

I have now uninstalled and reinstalled the clock app via the play store. And set up my alarms again. I didn’t think of that before. Maybe that will help. I’ll see if I get to work on time tomorrow.

I’m also trying out an alternative app.

Ulefone Armour 27T pro. Not exactly a very common unit.

It does, but not for a few hours.

And yeah, one of the screenshots above show that I have battery optimisation unrestricted for clock app.