To be fair, that is exactly what I do some days after work because this shit is needlessly exhausting. I think I need like a year of sickly Victorian style bedrest because I have been so burned out for so long that I don't really have much of a sense of self at this point.
You know, the fucked up thing about it all is I was always told that the kind of delayed gratification that came from major accomplishments like a college degree, a steady career, a comfortable savings account, would all outweigh the fleeting pleasure of parties and stupid little trinkets and other such fun. I wish I had taken so much more time for myself because I burned out so hard achieving some of these things and failing to achieve others that I struggle deeply to imagine a future with me in it.
I hope whatever youth is left in the world spends their time having fun. I hope their lives are worth living now, and that mine will be someday too.
People could avoid paying $70 for bad games by not preordering. Like seriously, it takes maybe two hours after release for the criticism to start pouring in.
I mean, the major issue there is "toilet equipped with an automatic cleaning and recovery module." That is gonna be a huge expenditure for even one toilet in-home, and you're not always at home when nature calls.
I think it'd be more feasible for the health tracking device to embed itself in your stomach or intestines somewhere so that it just doesn't pass through, notwithstanding all the sanitation issues that arise from trying to implant something internally where all your food/waste passes through.
Like, okay - I don't think anyone's saying returning the cart to the corral automatically makes you a good person, it's just a green flag, right? Are you willing to do something that has no reward for compliance and no punishment for abandonment, simply because it's the thing you're expected to do in order to keep a system functioning?
If someone doesn't return the cart regularly, it seems more likely that they're inconsiderate. If they do, it seems more likely that they're decent. But it's one thing out of many that just happens to be publicly visible, so it becomes sort of a benchmark.
Man, there are a lot of articles this week that feel like they should be next to an onion symbol and they aren't. Getting real fuckin' tired of this shit.
For anyone wondering how to do this - on the first setup screen asking you to pick a language after you turn the laptop on, hit Shift + F10, which will bring up the console. Click on it and type:
oobe/bypassnro
This will restart the computer, and setup will appear unchanged. When you get to the step asking you to connect to a network, select "I don't have Internet." This will prompt the creation of a local account. Enjoy your Microsoft account free computer!
If you've already connected to the Internet but haven't created the account, open the console and type:
ipconfig /release
Which will force the computer to disconnect from the internet. From there you can use the oobe command from before to reset and set up without a Microsoft account.
Shockingly it's still alive, and even moreso there's still porn, albeit softcore and/or censored with links pointing to Bluesky and/or patreon. There are also pornbots that pop up and follow me every now and again.
Slightly better than usual, work is going well since the merger, they're about to take some duties off my plate since I'm taking on more in other areas. Notwithstanding that the next four plus years are going to be fraught with political turmoil, I'm cautiously optimistic about my personal life.
"Creating and Bringing value" = Maximizing our ability to squeeze productivity from the chattel without them knowing how badly we're fucking them over.
Yeah, the silver lining of the whole gaming industry fallout is that the indie game scene has never been better. I was lamenting the fact that we hadn't had a good top-down zeldalike in a long time, echoes of wisdom notwithstanding even though the formula is pretty altered. Someone pointed me in the direction of Master Key and it was an incredibly satisfying time. Almost like it would have fit in perfectly between LoZ 1 and Link's Awakening.
I kind of feel that - I think the issue for me is that there's a lot going on in each of these games that is tangential to the primary gameplay loop that on the surface isn't obligatory, so if you find it not to your liking you can choose not to engage, but avoiding the secondary activities locks you out of some rewards for the PGL often and severely enough that you do feel obligated to engage to the point you can get these rewards. Especially in the gambling minigames, I often feel relieved when the points you buy end up being the same points you exchange for said rewards because it means I can just engage in the fighting a little more instead of having to gamble.
Case in point, I'm playing Infinite wealth right now and it feels like a big step up from the first Like a Dragon, but I'm still finding myself pulled into the Sujimon quests even though I personally don't like monster tamer games. I don't even know what the rewards are but half of the map icons are raids and trainers, so I feel like I should at least be putting time into maintaining a team with the ones I can catch just from grinding out fights for Job XP.
Oh I know, I've been giving a lot lately to communities affected by climate change induced catastrophes. But money only does so much to alleviate it, and it's certainly not fixing root causes. Soon I will either have nothing left to give or more people are going to need it than not, myself included.
Honestly, the suffering was going to happen either way. We've been spewing carbon into the atmosphere for, what, five decades now? We were already further along on the worst case scenario than most models accounted for and it's been continuing to accelerate. I don't mean to sound defeatist but like, the Titanic has been sinking for a long time, all this one election decided is how much time we have to get to the lifeboats and wait for the ocean to swallow us.
I was already not planning on having kids or retirement in 2015, that sure hasn't changed with everything that's happened since. I feel for everyone who will be affected by climate catastrophe (i.e. everyone) but like, we have been sowing for that harvest since before I was born.
To be fair, that is exactly what I do some days after work because this shit is needlessly exhausting. I think I need like a year of sickly Victorian style bedrest because I have been so burned out for so long that I don't really have much of a sense of self at this point.