It really does cut both ways. I feel like it’s easy for both sides to get wrapped up in this just being another face in the sea of millions. Another person to deal with.
Especially when we have a lot going on. Where they might not know the shitshow playing out in the back of house, we can’t know the show going on back at theirs.
As someone currently stuck in a service gig, thank you. We might not always show it, but at the end of the day, a good customer interaction is a bright spot. Many of us are tired, in every way you can think of. I have watched my coworkers lose and find a religion in the back freezer, all within one 10 minute cry break.
You said you tried powdered drink mixes, have you tried the liquid? I cannot stand the powdered variety, either. I feel like you have more control over the flavor and the mix with the liquid varieties.
They’ve really helped me kick my soda habit.
ETA: Just some recommendations, avoid the Crystal Light brand, they taste like artificial sweetener. I personally go for generic store brands(Laura Lynn, Great Value), but Mio is a solid choice with a wide range of flavors. Just avoid their Iced Tea unless you really like canned tea. That’s exactly what it tastes like.
If that kills the vibe, you got the wrong crowd.
He has been found! The one true King of Stickland!
Surviving.
Right now, it feels like all I can do. Keep going, keep reaching out to other members of the local LGBT community to help be a wall to lean on, keep telling my partners that I love them. Keep sheltering whatever tiny spark is left.
And making sure that spark is fed, in whatever little ways I can. Letting myself be more open, letting my colors flash a bit more. Trying to smile in the face of hate.
As to my take on the situation, it’s fucked. There’s no nuance to it. We’re watching our siblings and ourselves being actively erased, waking up wondering when our actual existence will be a crime. Even if we make it through, things somehow get better, there’s so much trust that has been completely broken.
Our government has pissed on lines that, even with a total change of leadership, will take time to repair. Both within the country and on a global scale. Many people within the country have done the same, there will be no taking back things said and done while they thought it was “okay”. There’s no forgetting the hate that has been exposed.
Sadly we had to work the day of, and one of us had a client early the next morning, but we watched Mars Express together and then played a little Stardew Valley. It wasn’t much, kinda really just things we’d already do together, but it was actually really nice.
2 movies.
Lower Decks earned it’s place in the One Good, One Bad cycle(at least a tongue-in-cheek poke at it).
Given my experiences with kids, be prepared to be non-negotiable for awhile, but that’s not a bad thing. Says that the time with you makes the kid feel safe enough that whatever the problem might be aren’t bad enough to say no.
And if it is a trauma, you’re helping work through it, in a way. Maybe not the core experience, but at least helping disconnect part of the experience, reframe it as something not traumatic.
This is a really interesting question. In my opinion, absolutely yes. It’s a piece of someone’s hobby, a passion large or small. A time capsule of things that made someone happy.
Beyond that, in cases like the authors friends love of Sea of Thieves, it can show a bit of the community they sought, the people they interacted with. A small tendril of ourselves, reaching out and entwining with others.
And, for those who maybe only knew the person online, never had the chance or want for an in-person meetup, it’s a place to mourn. A digital marker of a life once lived, a finished book of memories. The games themselves may come and go, but the traces they left will be there, captured in achievements and screenshots, to be shared as long as a copy exists.
Good on them. Not that the last two DOOM titles have been short of excellent, in my opinion, but I’d rather lose the multiplayer if it means I get more of what makes DOOM, DOOM, an army of demons to slay and all the pretty toys to do it with.
I haven’t had any issues from anything I’ve gotten from them. Just the standard GOG offline install files.
It’s been 13 years. 3 released all the way back in the PS3/360 era.
Not complaining about more Ninja Gaiden. Just feels a bit weird to see 4 after what feels like the series was just left on hiatus. Kinda figure they’d take the chance to get a fresh start, though the plot seems like it’s more a soft reboot.
From the same series that has two volleyball games.
With a focus on “social” gifting including skimpier swimwear and suggestive posing.
With a story that revolves around a rich pervert wanting a bunch of young girls in bikinis running around.
I feel like Ordinary Sausage is a low hanging fruit. The man’s entire point is food crimes just above creating his own variant of Surströmming. He has given cat food sausage one of the highest scores in his channels history. He bit straight into a pure menthol sausage.
He does what we will not, not to commit crimes, but to perform science.
(Plus, if he sees this, it’ll be another mark against the lobster tail boiled in maple syrup and baked beans. We’re fighting a war here)
Also not the only one.
It’s weird to think about an MMO getting a remaster. They’ve kinda just been “living” things that one day die, and maybe come back on a new engine under a slightly different name or return more aggressively monetized.
An ongoing series of soft relaunches with some minor branding changes.
No nipple to tweak? No deal!
It’s about even in my heart between Ren and Stimpy and Rocko’s Modern Life.
If you put a spool of silk next to a harp, the fans would lose their absolute shit at this point.
We’ve been starving for awhile.