I just checked this out but $10 a week just to find local groups is ridiculous! I’m not even looking for dates and now even the not-really-for-dating app is paid. No wonder people can’t meet anyone anymore.

Edit: I was duped by their subscription screen. I was wrong

At my work, I convinced my boss to let us use Linux on a couple machines and, you guessed it: Mint. Everyone pretty much knows where to find things and it’s stable as a rock.

The Last Caretaker

You play as the last functioning robot in a post-human flooded Earth with the goal to restart humanity by growing and sending them into orbit with a rocket.

You explore the entire world on a small barge going between massive abandoned platforms with the last remaining infrastructure that you need to utilize the send the rockets to orbit. You spend a lot of time recycling the leftover scrap into better equipment to protect and power you and your ship.

It subverts a lot of my least favorite tropes of factory and survival games and just has a great sense of discovery. My favorite game design choice is that almost all of your enemy interaction is offensive instead of defensive so you have the opportunity to prepare before going into a big fight and can easily retreat.

It admittedly has a long way to go in terms of performance and stability. One thing that was counterintuitive is that turning on all the raytracing options significantly improved performance for me. But the gameplay loop is like nothing else out there. There is also no multiplayer yet, although the developer has said it’s not off the table in the long run. They’ve also openly stated that there will never be paid DLC. All future content is included with the purchase of the game.

It has a demo and is definitely worth checking out.

They can print whatever size they want on it if you’re buying from AliExpress 🤪

I’m conflicted. It has the potential for some of the best visuals and comedy to ever come out of a video game movie, but part of me also struggles with how they’re going to not make the portals feel like too much of the focus.

Chell and Glados both find the portals relatively unremarkable in context, but if in the movie the whole time they’re like “😱PORTALS?! Look how cool they are!!!” I think it will ruin the vibe.

It has to acknowledge the portals and then immediately move past them to focus on the story. Otherwise it’s just going to be a bad visual treat with no substance.

This has been massively improved over the years with the introduction of Exobiology. Just about any new player can get into a ship worth a few mil and be collecting hundreds of millions of credits within a few hours without the need to consult a spreadsheet.

You certainly can min-max far beyond that point as you mentioned with external tools, but the feeling of ships or mission types being inaccessible is pretty much gone.

As an aside, I’m currently working on a guide to solve many of the issues you’re describing. Right now, it’s for my personal squadron, but I plan to expand this to a public sister site eventually.

https://oa.omnigon.network/

I’m also working on a video series to introduce the game. This is part 1 of 3: https://youtu.be/c9xS9tcn4sk

For anyone who wants to play an actually developed space game that has many (not all) of the features of SC, I recommend checking out Elite:Dangerous. It was a fully released game 10 years ago and is still receiving content updates regularly.

Yes, but you’d have to start with wanting to print something as dumb and ugly as this.

I was able to get 16GB of DDR3 SODIMM for $50 recently, so old laptops are still affordable to upgrade at least… 🥴

I don’t know that I’ve come across anything official for this case, but from my experience in audio engineering, you typically want to put the most “artistic” effects early in the stack and the most “utility” effects toward the end. So in this case, if I were you, I’d put the 7.1 effect at the end since it’s not likely to change often or be adjusted.

At the end of the day, test both and if one sounds better than the other to you, go with that one.

Just take away all those third spaces. Kids should be locked up unless they’re in school. Independence? Not in my neighborhood!

As someone with far less and fully satisfied, there is truly no standard. The idea of always wanting or needing more is something that is pushed upon us at a massive societal level. If you have the things you truly need, you can work towards things you want, and if you have the things you want, congrats. You’re there. It is an option to feel like you need more than what you have once your essentials are met. No one other than yourself actually cares if you’re ambitious and if you don’t get satisfaction from the ambition to pursue more, then don’t.

Make easy money for the low price of spending lots of money!

I’m currently self hosting Gitea and have had a great experience so far. Only took a day to setup and migrate all (6) of my repositories.

I’m usually on roughly a 5-6 year cycle. I typically aim for one or two notches below the best available and that tends to get me about 3 years on high-ultra, and another 3 on medium-high.

“Those leopards have got to run out of faces eventually. I’m sure they’ll be done before they make it to me though.”

It’s the same persons left and right hand.

Just mentioned this in another thread, but the XTEInk X4 is one of the most focused and portable e-readers I’ve come across. Less than $100 and isn’t locked down so you can load custom firmware on it. For anyone like me who finds most e-readers go unused because they don’t go with you, I’ve yet to find a better option.

I’ve heard the explanation being that it’s a defense against treating dead bodies as alive and spending resources on them at a primal level. Just imagining when we first developed empathy and tried at length to care for those who we lost and evolution needed us to focus on the live ones.

“Go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done, Tim.”