specialseaweed @ specialseaweed @sh.itjust.works

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My first thought was Wells Fargo but they’d burn down a rainforest for an extra tenth of a percent.

Nice call on Jade Empire.

Exactly the same here. Loved one. Two was not great.

Who is WF?

I knew a very large company that was offered a hundred million dollars if they would build their factory in Louisiana. They didn’t do it because the workforce could not support the factory. Not enough engineers and higher education workers, but plenty of line workers.

Mets is going to take the money and run. They’ll meet minimum requirements then hollow it out.

My 13 and 15 year olds are PC first gamers, then consoles, then mobile. I raised them that way on purpose because I wanted to avoid tablet and phone screens. I could control access better that way.

And yea, also because I’m a pc and console gamer and wanted to play my favorite games with them.

The older one has started playing mobile games more often and yea, it’s Genshin and Honkai. That kid was always in love with Fire Emblem, so Honkai makes sense to me. The stories are all kind of the same.

A friend stayed with us for a few days and they have a 12 and 10 year old. I have every console imaginable, PCs on big screens, and they never left their tablets.

I think once kids get on the tablet/phone/mobile games, they don’t really leave. I don’t know that I would have either.

Joust. Easily understood game for little ones, and you can discourage player killing.

Man I loved my tiny flip phone I got in Korea in 2000. It was killer. I wish tiny phones made a comeback.

Aside from this being false, it’s kinda crazy that Steam has had no significant public leaks.

I had the same experience as many here. Great place to start out and if you don't need or want more control then it's perfect. I ended up on unraid and mostly use docker for apps.

How would you know it’s the green?

Just moved my Win10 machine to Pop OS. No issues at all. Haven’t tried Steam VR on it yet.

There’s no real art to it. It’s done the same way you grew up in a world where horrible shit had happened 20 years before you were born. You just sort of internalize it over time. Or not.

Hey siri what month is it

Jesus Christ fellas

All these kids are the exact same kids with the exact same problems as the ones I knew growing up, but the parents have more money and therefore more tools to help support their kids. The only real difference is the trauma of being broke as fuck isn't there but it's replaced with the pressure of expectations. When I was a kid if I had gotten a job as a mail delivery person, that would have been seen as a total success on my part. Life long stable job with a retirement at the end. I fucking won the game of life. For rich kids, that would be seen as an abject failure.

It's not that they don't have empathy. It's that their entire community is economically high performers. Everyone they meet in their lives fucking won the game of capitalism. The only "not wealthy' humans they run into wait on them or teach them. In their minds, how hard can it be? They know all these normal looking people and they're all rich as fuck so how hard can it be?

Because that's the mind fuck. Rich people aren't better than you. Some shit went their way and that's the difference. Elite earners don't work harder than janitors. And so rich kids grow up in that world and it's just normalized. It's not a lack of empathy, it's that they internalize it as "normal".

Then a middle class kid runs into them and sees them as lacking in empathy.

You're right though. It is more luxurious. They live in a world where they know the money ain't going away, but my trauma finds a way of breaking thru sometimes. My kids both know how to make beans and rice and can shop and cook for themselves for a week for under $20.

Thanks for writing this. Amazing post.

I upvoted your comment but man I wouldn’t even take a freebie from Oracle. Just an absolutely rotten company and Larry Ellison is one of the worst humans on the planet.

Rc Pro Am was pretty great.

I’m 3 time zones away from my server and it hasn’t crashed yet after being gone for 3 days. I’m very proud of it.

An acquaintance helped close a deal for a stadium naming rights. It had been a multi year process, the negotiations were crazy, the company deliberated forever trying to decide if this was the best way to increase brand recognition and man that shits expensive.

So like a shit head that thinks he’s funny I started calling the stadium by its sponsor like 3 sponsors ago when I was around them. You could see the anxiety spike when I did it.

Your comment made me think of that. It’s hilarious. They would have had a fucking breakdown if they had heard someone say that out loud.