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At a bar I usually open a tab and don’t pay for drinks up front

And actual content or discussions I want to engage with. Plenty of memes here, but if I want to talk about any hobbies that aren’t Linux or video games, there just isn’t much here (yet).

So for better and worse, I also spend less time on lemmy than I did on reddit

This phenomenon has pushed me into more “railroaded” or “theme park ride” games recently. It Takes Two and Hi-Fi Rush really shepherd you along the story path. You can poke around the room you’re in, but compared to more open world games, it’s much easier to keep yourself pointed toward the next story point.

I can only think of two games in the last couple years where I’m glad I finished it—Outer Wilds and Hi-Fi Rush. Probably no coincidence they don’t have micro transactions or indefinite online play

I wonder how much of the “weak ending” stuff is almost by design, though. You look at the Steam stats (or console achievements, whatever) of any narrative game, and something like 5% of players finish it. I wonder if developers just intentionally spend more time on the earlier parts of the game since they know more people will see it.

From the Horrible Bathroom Hall of Fame, I present the Mathematical Sciences bathroom at the University of Central Florida:

https://imgur.io/gallery/FJvcZ

I quit real cigarettes like a decade ago by using vapes

I quit vapes about 7 years ago by using nicotine gum

I’ve gotten down to 2mg gum, the lowest they make, but just can’t stop that. At least nicotine by itself isn’t that harmful.

The Memmy app looks like this