BestBuy is generally overpriced. Sometimes good deals on peripherals and their returns policy is generous.

Odd that you have never heard of Canada Computers. If you are in Quebec, they are called Ordinateurs Canada.

Depending on where you live, you might have a Memory Express nearby.

Eeeeeeeeenter the Gungeon

Nuclear Throne’s low fps was off putting for me and I could never get into Binding of Isaac’s juvenile style, personally.

Crypt of the Necrodancer is an amazing game.

Dome Keeper and Runestone Keeper are also fun.

Me too. But I’ll wait for stable release.

Well, they still use internet Explorer, http sans s and fax machines.

When asked why, their response, roughly translated, was “we just want to play eroge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

Dragon Age 2 is a bit ooof. Excellent combat, but the story and especially the scenery… you revisit the same parts of town and the same dungeon over and over and over.

I used to. Not since 2012. I had a night shift job, getting paid to do nothing.

Also since 2020 I’ve been wfh. So technically yes, I play games at work.

Before this I used to play certain games exclusively, often for 10+ hours a day (beefy laptop at work and then home).

QuakeWorld - '98-2003

Ragnarok Online - 2003-2008

WoW - 2008-2012

EVE - 2012-2014

$150 for ultimate edition. And I don’t even understand what this game is actually supposed to be about.

If we are going down this path, I’d actually recommend touching grass first (proverbially), before a sinking time and money into a professional. It’s an easy, non-committal step, that may do wonders.

The EUR and GBP prices included VAT, import fees and whatever other fees levied by the local govt on electronics.

ASSUMING CONTROL

DIRECT INTERVENTION IS NECESSARY

Not to worry, discrete GPUs will likely go away completely within a few generations.

Out of stock everywhere, since they’ve stopped manufacturing it.

Q: how do you remain competitive against your competitors if those have the backing of an entire nation behind them?

A: you don’t.

Weird that it’d be random when they could just ask every user. Would give a more accurate breakdown on certain categories.

How do I take the survey? I never seem to get the popup.

Honestly, I’ve just switched (after 27 years of windows) like two months ago, and I don’t miss any of that old crap. Not once have I thought “damn, wish I could have this software under Linux”, because there was always an alternative.

Arch btw.

When I did this quitting thing from MMOs and FOMO inducing gachas that you describe, I suddenly

• got a non-dead-end job
• got a girlfriend
• got a promotion
• travelled around Europe
• girlfriend died
• travelled around Europe some more
• got another girlfriend
• ended up in Canada
• got married
• got kids
• stuck in dead-end job again without promotion for the past five years

I still think it was worth it to quit though. My mind just gets stimuli from the seemingly simplest things, like looking at a beautiful tree on the roadside, brutalist architecture, interesting conversations that I focus on instead of my mind wandering onto the next mount or raid boss I will have to tackle.

And when it comes to gaming, if I want to satisfy my itch for twitch and a bit of adrenaline, roguelites scratch it the best, without the long term commitment to playing them for days or even hours.

But what works best to keep sanity is exercise, and with riding a road bike at least twice a day I can combine elevated heart rate with zoning out and Zen for stress relief really well. It’s simply meditative.

I think of the twelve years I’ve spent playing MMOs fondly, lots of memories were made. But I would never do it again. And it has nothing to do with self-control, and willpower to not start it again, although quitting cold turkey definitely required both. But it had everything to do with the realization that it’s a trap that’s a poor substitute for real life, even if real life has dealt you shitty cards.

I can spot the hazy, reality-disconnected look of addicts from a mile away. The self-deluding statements when the topic somehow gets brought up. And I can do nothing but feel a bit sad for them, and hope that somewhere, someone manages to gently nudge them on a path that helps them escape from this trap.

You’ll be on linux by then.

I feel like a time traveller with timeshift.

You don’t need a lawyer in small claims. Can also go with a paralegal or just represent yourself.

But that’s not why the small claims is backlogged anyway. I have actually no idea why it’s backlogged. I’ve been a defendant in a small claims court case since 2021 and nothing has progressed except for an arbitration hearing in 2022.

Edit: 2020s, not early 2000s. Fuck, it hasn’t been twenty years yet.

Wizardry 7 comes to my mind. My party has been resting for days, trying to recover hp and sp from the last random encounter. And now as I’m jumped and half obliterated again because not everyone in the party woke up immediately to being attacked, it’s time to rest for another week.

Man, people are really allergic to sarcasm.

I usually don’t like sharing 2D games because they’re hard to make look presentable, but i also like sharing images that break out of my usual “Here’s a Landscape shot” and wanted to share this.

I’ve been following your posts daily, and this is probably the most interesting one yet.

A GTA 6.5 would be amazing. With self hosted server multiplayer.

It’s Sean Plott

• Bionic Commando Rearmed (by Simon Viklund)
• Crypt of the Necrodancer (VA)
• Katamari Fortissimo Damacy (VA)

The Eve Symphonic Orchestra is so good though.

OpenTTD Downtown Cab Ride is a masterpiece!

I wish they had USB C.

I don’t understand controllers. I can never get to use them properly. I grew up playing on computers all my life. My brain simply can’t grasp them and I always forget where all the buttons are.

Like the CEO of my company, who’s on the board of directors of other companies and shit. And LLM literally writes the shitty corporate talk scripts for him.

GSuite is well used in corporate settings as a cheaper alternative to O365 enterprise.

Gmail and Gsuite pretty safe too.

Sorry, you have been blocked

You are unable to access medium.com

Great website.

It’s a closed ecosystem. What else is there to say?Compare Contrast with IRC, Matrix or XMPP.

But can it run DOOM?

I end up resubbing every few years and just spin something cool endlessly, or get caught in WIS (RIP), or the ship map thing, or the exoplanet research project (RIP). I was really pissed the last time though at how expensive it has become. And I didn’t like the covid research minigame.

Protip: do not look at the sun to discern it’s shape.