Cute idea, but disappointed that it's just a reskinned car racing game. I read the title and I imagine a "cat scale" racer, running around indoors having to jump sofa arms and climb cat towers or doing an obstacle course in someone's yard, going under bushes and through kids forts etc. Just realizing now a cat parkour game in the style of Mirror's Edge would be good silly fun.
Well, the nice thing is GW1 is still there. They decided to keep it going because the cost was minimal enough that it was worth it to them, so all of that content is still perfectly playable and there are still people running ATFH and Droks etc. It has a small dedicated following and is still a fun game in its own right. They're different games but I enjoy both.
I always enjoy the April Fools efforts from Guild Wars. They've done all sorts of things from making all players tiny, giving them bobbleheads, making them go into "airplane mode" (a reference to a t-pose animation glitch but with added "homemade" sound effects) to entire quest lines and even an entirely new game mode inspired by 8 bit platformers that spawned its own festival because it was awesome. This year you can relive some highlights from recent years, but the new addition is being able to open your own Cat Cafe in your homestead.
I find this funny because while reading this post I thought to myself "I don't see why I wouldn't date someone like that?" and I identify as demisexual. I'm already taken, unfortunately for OP, but I'm sure if he were to mention wanting someone to cuddle or being lonely to those friends who called him "cute" and "adorable" someone may step up and either find him a match or admit interest.
I really love tilapia in butter with a bit of lemon, salt and pepper. It's a mild and subtle tasting fish, and it's hard to mess it up when cooking. You can get frozen loins for cheap because they're plant fed and easily farmed.
Cook until flakey, don't burn it, serve with some pan fried or roasted veggies and rice or quinoa. I've only ever had it take on that "fishy" smell when I left it to thaw in the fridge too long.
There's a site called "goods unite us" that I'll check before making a big purchase or deciding to make a store a regular stop. It has the average donation history of the company and who they donated to. It sucks that we have a Home Depot in a really convenient location but they're especially egregious donators.
I actually love that everything he does sounds different. There are so many artists that have a specific "sound" and stick to it forever. He's experimental and adventurous and tries so many things, lot of stuff that's unique and interesting, and other stuff that's not for me, but it's clearly for him. I think it's a sign of creative joy.
OP: "my fear is the government disappearing me in the night"
You: "pff that doesn't happen, you're overreacting"
Me: "it does happen to x people"
You: "oh well don't be one of those people"
Brilliant. Yes, OP is the problem, not that the government is kidnapping people when they show political dissent.
However. I admit. This is not the best way to change diaper. A good diaper change is not fast. It's a time for bonding. It's not something I want to do in a public space with the rest of the family waiting for us, but at home, it's the perfect time to get some eye contact with the baby and confirming that, yes, your father is there for you to get you out of all the shit you get yourself into. It's perfectly fine if it takes half an hour in which most of the time is spent playing peak-a-boo. It's a chore, but it's also a much needed break from other chores. And this counts for both parents at the same time. Your partner would love nothing more than for you to disappear with the baby for half an hour.
I love this perspective. I've definitely become inured to diaper changes and I try to get them done as fast as possible, but this is sweet and you're right, it's a moment for some low key play, eye contact and for them to know you're taking good care of them. What a nice way of looking at cleaning up poop 😆
What do you think? Do you know any good examples of SciFi-Worldbuilding, that solve some common inconsistencies?
There's some good stuff in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series about non-human intelligence and societies that I found compelling and very thoughtfully composed. It comes from a grounded place, and especially the first two books do a great job of building up concepts of civilizations that feel truly foreign but make a lot of sense in the universe. The difficulties in cross-species communication are addressed and made to be a focus and feel realistic. I'm being deliberately vague because part of the fun of the books is seeing how far things go.
There are some really simple recipes and some cheap machines available though, the ones that use a drum you pre-freeze are like $60-80 new and really cheap used. You can make ice cream with milk, cream, sugar, a flavor of choice and a bit of something alcoholic and it's fantastic. I never buy ice cream anymore, and it's so much better (and cheaper) than store bought.
It's so hard to get a good texture too, to get a nice soft foldable one that is thin but tough enough not to rip is an art. My attempts, and I did give it a good damn few tries, were all sad failures and, well, I decided pre-packaged wraps/tortillas are worth the cost to save my sanity lol.
This, I love, LOVE croissants, and have basically baked and made every other thing I love that much at some point or another. Flattening a giant sheet of butter again and again into a dough sheet? Ain't nobody got time for that
I like to make up pasta dishes in sauce with veggies that reheat well. Pasta alfredo (made with butter and parmigiano reggiano) with spinach and pieces of chicken, or red sauce pasta with a bunch of veggies like zucchini, broccoli, onions and even beans, with some olive oil in the sauce. I buy the precut frozen veggie medleys and chuck them in. You can also make egg fried rice with veggies in it, with your choice of butters and oils. Cheese, nuts, dairy, eggs, I agree with other commenters that fat is not your enemy. Sugar and ultra-processed stuff should still be avoided but embrace the butter, haha.
Peanut butter is also fantastic for healthy calorie density and travels well.
Even cellulose and paper bags were tested and had plastics in the glues and binders in the material. Unfortunately you need to look for manufacturers that explicitly say they're plastic-free or buy loose leaf. I have a bunch of bagged tea I bought before I knew, and I've been ripping open the bags and dumping the tea in my infuser.
I was just thinking about this today. Any corporations big enough for us all to know have likely done more bad things than praiseworthy things. Patagonia is the closest I can think of to a good company we may all know.
Costco seems pretty solid. I'm in the northeast US and I feel good about supporting Market Basket. Valve isn't so bad. There ARE some ethical big corporations just trying to do their thing out there and understand that providing the services and products they're meant to is more important than "line go up", they're just few and far between.
Yes! It was such a pleasant surprise on my feed. Unfortunately they said they won't be continuing because of Youtube's enforcement policies around copyrighted material so those videos were meant to be a limited series.
Cute idea, but disappointed that it's just a reskinned car racing game. I read the title and I imagine a "cat scale" racer, running around indoors having to jump sofa arms and climb cat towers or doing an obstacle course in someone's yard, going under bushes and through kids forts etc. Just realizing now a cat parkour game in the style of Mirror's Edge would be good silly fun.