GooberEar @ GooberEar @lemmy.wtf

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I take the hot hairy ones quite seriously. Especially the ginger ones.

I know I can Kagi or duckduckgo it or whatever you people are using these days, but what is PixelFed and what's it an alternative to? News aggregators aside, I don't social media so I'm not sure if it's a tiktok or instagram or whatsapp or faceplace.

To be honest, most of the games I've played in the past 5+ years since I've started to get back into the hobby are stressful in various ways. That doesn't mean they aren't "quelling" stress and anxiety for me, just that when I'm playing them, they stress me out and give me anxiety.

Take for instance my current game du jour: Doom 2016. When battles are going, I'm for sure sweating and amped up, stressed, anxious, and what have you. It's anything but relaxing while playing. But still quite enjoyable.

So, perhaps the "quelling" comes after? A bit like a workout, where you're hyped up and exerting yourself, but after the fact you mellow out and relax?

It's a meme pic, so I'm just wildly gesticulating and making giant assumptions here: I doubt it's the "mushroom" fruiting body that's doing anything in this research. It's almost certainly the mycelium or we're dealing with something like slime molds or yeast which don't produce mushrooms at all.

Yes I made this comment without reading the rest of the thread or hunting down the story. Sue me.

So, looks like I've played 19 of these games. Although not all of them were my thing and some of them I've barely played more than once briefly, I'll agree that they were all pretty solidly good.

A few of the others are on my wish list (especially now that they're available on PC) so maybe one day I'll be able to agree or disagree.

I enjoy seeing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on these greatest games lists because back in the days when it was originally released, it seemed like it was practically ignored in my social circle. At the time, if a game wasn't using low fidelity, standard definition polygon-based graphics (aka 3D), it had to be a fighting game or it would be completely ignored. Yet, that particular game was one of my favorites of the era and I didn't get to enjoy it with anybody else at the time because they just saw it as a lame 2D game.

Doing the lawd's work, so I also thank you.

As I recently lamented in another thread, I've had to give up on Taco Bell. I've given it a couple of tries post-Covid and it's no longer good, no longer cheap, and no longer fast based on my recent-ish, terrible experiences. I don't eat at fast food places often, so I definitely don't claim to be an expert here, but of the fast food places I've eaten at in the past 5 or so years, Taco Bell has declined the worst, by far.

Also, I learned how to make my own crunch wraps at home with black jack and hookers. I mean with higher quality ingredients tailored to my and my family's preferences. It's not difficult, just a little time consuming. Still not something I'd eat regularly, but nice to have once in awhile now that Taco Bell fails so hard.

Look at the privilege showing through, able to afford eggs for more than one meal a day in the USA.

I've always wondered how accurate those tests are to begin with. I have to imagine, based on my experience, it's not great.

When I was young and dumb and hanging out with the wrong crowd, I was a regular drug user, including the most dangerous thing of all ... marijuana. GASP.

I worked several jobs that did regular "random" drugs tests during those years. And I passed each and every time. It makes me think the tests are heavily flawed and/or there's something unusual about my metabolism.

One time, my employer did a random test right after I got back from spring break. Let's just say, I probably wasn't sober more than 5 minutes for the past month at that point. Strangely, they let us go into a private bathroom that had a toilet and a sink to produce the sample. I literally just pissed a tiny bit into the cup, then filled it up the rest of the way with warm tap water. That was apparently good enough. I even knew they supposedly tested for things like creatine levels (to detect dilution) and chlorine/chloramine (to detect tap water), but I was hoping for the best. Apparently, it wasn't an issue.

On the flip side, a friend of mine who rarely smoked weed got busted. She'd literally smoked up the night before, for the first time in over 6 months.

Shit's fucked up.

My rescue pooch is sadly approaching end of life, as best I can tell. So, I'll be going through this process again some day in the not to distant future.

I'm not in New York, but I will say that when I was last looking to adopt, there were aspects of it that were definitely off putting and demoralizing. Some of the rescues had ridiculous requirements that made me wonder if they were actually trying to place their dogs in a home. One of the most egregious that I semi-recall: It was a breed-specific rescue (ex: Norwich terrier), but most of the dogs they were trying to adopt out were mixes. They required you to have owned that breed of dog before. You had to be in a long term relationship (i.e. no single people). You had to agree to let them make a home inspection every 6 months. They had to be added to the list of approved contacts at the pet's vet. They could take the dog back at any time and for any reason. Etc.

Here's the raw truth, as I understand it. I'm one of the people who has used this phrase. Typically I pull it out when I absolutely lack the ability to explain and verbalize something in a way that the intended audience can understand and accept. Yes, it's a failing on my part, but also, despite what everyone wants to believe, not everything can be distilled down to a simple easily understandable explanation without losing the message. You'll probably understand when you get older.

Realistically, it's not so much a guarantee that you'll understand the exact nature of what I'm saying when you're older. It's more that when you're older, you're probably going to be more willing to accept that I have my own perfectly valid reasons, even if I can't articulate them effectively, that the world is complicated, and sometimes it's those complicated and difficult to articulate threads that are actually the only things holding everything together. So, when I say you'll understand when you're older, I might not mean that in the most literal sense, it's very likely that I'm speaking more in a metaphorical way.

I do the vast majority of my gaming from November through February (i.e. "winter"). Outside of that window, I rarely have time to play, and even when I have time, I usually have other things I'd rather do. I probably have another month or so of my gaming season left. Things just didn't work out this year.

On the flip side, I managed to get about 45 minutes of down time this afternoon unexpectedly. So I fired up Doom (2016), which is the game I've focused on this season. I managed to make it to mission 12 out of 13, so I'm pretty close to the end as far as I can tell! It seems likely I'll be able to finish it in a matter of days, so long as I can find the time!

Software development. I certainly didn't coin the phrase, but it's well-known and I agree, pretty fitting even outside of the IT industry.

In my industry, there's a saying along the lines of "Good, fast, cheap. Pick two."

I think the fast food industry version is "Good, fast, cheap? No, no. And believe it or not, also no."

I don't eat fast food very often, so this is entirely anecdotal. Of the fast food chains I've eaten at in recent history, Taco Bell is by far the worst. Against my better judgment, I even broke down and gave them a second chance at a different location thinking maybe my first terrible experience was a fluke. Didn't work out. Makes me think it's bad everywhere. Wendy's has held up the best of the places I've eaten. It's definitely not cheap anymore, fast depends on the location as well as other factors, and good is relative, but overall it hasn't gone down hill as bad as the others.

I ain't playin' shit. I haven't had any gaming time in over a week. I'm very, very sad. Perhaps tonight will be the night? Probably not, but one can hope.

Yeah. Only thing is, the "affordable" American made stuff largely consists of crap quality. I made the mistake of insisting on American made stuff when I also didn't have the budget for premium furniture. I ended up with crappy seating that started breaking in less than a year. The stitching started coming apart in the second year. And by the third year the "genuine" leather was separating and flaking.

Top one is a Loaper.

Middle one is an Armored Mugfish.

Bottom one is a Badabong.

They have nothing better to do than store a decade's worth of password hashes so that every 90 days I have to come up with a completely new password that's somehow magically different enough from every other password I've come up with in the past 10 years and is at least 10 characters from each of the 4 holy categories.

Instead of Canada, we're going to rename it Canamerica. Instead of Mexico, we're going to name it Mexigoingtoamerica.

I was vising a family over the weekend. I mentioned that the only reason I had time to make it over to their house to help them with some work this weekend was because I was off on Monday for MLK day.

Their response was to scoff and roll their eyes while sarcastically saying "mLk daY".

It's stereotypical yet anecdotal, but they stopped working in their 50s and moved around the country shopping for states that would grant them disability. Other than a short-term odd job here and there, they haven't had a job since. But yes, they are exactly the same folks that complain how nobody wants to work anymore and it's everyone else who is lazy.